Reading Periode 4 L3

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1,2

 Periode 4 L3

What reading
strategies and techniques
do you know?

Goals of today

Reading strategies:

• You know different features of two reading strategies - Skimming and scanning.
• You learn how to use skimming and scanning techniques in two reading exercises 

Skimming is

1. Reading titles, headers, subheaders
2. look for specific information.
3. Read the first and last sentence of the paragraph,
4. read intensively.

Scanning is

1. Detailed reading.
2. Looking for italised and bold words.
3. reading the summary.
4. Looking for specific information.

How to Skim

1. Gist (=kern) reading

2. General idea(s), key words

3. Specific points.

4. Heading & subheadings

5. Italic (=Cursief) Bold (=vetgedrukt)

6.  First/last sentence paragraph

Scanning

1. Looking for specific information/facts (in guidebook)

2. Read quickly.

3. Skip detailed information.

4. Look at illustrations.

I understand the reading strategies we reviewed today

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Skate Plaza

Read the sign and answer the questions.

See the handout.  

Which of the statements are true?

1. Pets are allowed in only between 9 a.m. and sunset
2. Skating is prohibited during or after rainfall.

1. Only 1 is true
2. Only 2 is true
3. Neither 1 and 2 are true

What will happen if you break the rules.

1. Nothing because you enter at your own risk.
2. You will be fined
3. You will be forced to leave.
4. You will be fined and forced to leave.

Which of these sports is not allowed in the skate plaza.

1. in-line skates
2. longboard
3. basketball
4. bicycle

Are you allowed in to watch the skaters?

1. yes
2. no
3. Is not mentioned

Can you bring your own coffee to the skate plaza?

1. Yes
2. No

Lets get to work?

Reading

Doel:  Je kunt lange, ingewikkelde instructies begrijpen over dingen die je dagelijks kunt tegenkomen, prive en op je werk.

Task: Understanding short messages.

What does this sign tell you?
People....

1. don't mind spending a lot of money.
2. don't care about the poor.
3. Hate wars a such as poverty.
4. Keep fighting poverty.

What does the sign warn you against.

1. Uninspected disconnected lines
2. The force of liquid pressure.
3. Fluids in Hydraulics
4. a disease

Task: Understanding a text about a personal problem.

Read the text - Are you afraid of making phone calls?

Use the handout.

Par. 1. Which two things are presented as oppositions?

1. Business calls and private calls
2. Forgetting calls and putting off calls.
3. Using phones and making phone calls
4. Young people and older people.

Par.2. What point is made about phone fear?

1. It is a personality disorder.
2. It is caused by other problems.
3. It is not related to other problems
4. Other problems are the result of it.

Par.3. Which of these five tips is not a suggestion?

Par.3. Which of the 5 tips is about external factors that you cannot influence?

Tip 3: Why are "unimportant calls" a help?

1. They are neither personal, nor important.
2. They can be short
3. You are allowed to fail.
4. This is not to be concluded from the text.

Tip 4: What is perfect?

1. Thinking about hiding less and less
2. You cannot find this in the text.
3. You can "run and hide"at the same time
4. Your friends won't let you down.

What is the key to end your phone fear?

1. Changing your attitude
2. Make others call you
3. Thinking they can be cured
4. There is no definitive way to end phone fear.

Can Do Online

1. Please finish the grammar exercises in Can Do Online from Week 1.

 2. Make the exercises about Verleden tijd toen en precies 1 - 2 (past simple)  Let op:  onregelmatige werkworden.