Reading strategy: difficult words

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Reading strategy: difficult words

Today's lesson:

- Explanation: finding difficult words

- Reading / Studying 

Reading strategy: difficult words

Today's lesson:

- Explanation: finding difficult words

- Questionnaire

- Quiet reading / studying

What do you do when you encounter (=find) a difficult word?

Strategies

1. Check if the translation is at the bottom of the text.
2. See if you can guess, using the context or other languages.
3.  Look for a part of the word you might understand.
4. Use a dictionary.

When I find a word I don't know yet, I most often...

Guess using the context

Guess using other languages (Dutch, French, German, etc.)

Look for a part of the word I might understand

Look in the dictionary

Continue without knowing the word

Using a dictionary

1. Bring your dictionary to the exam (no borrowing!)
2.  Werkwoordsvormen staan niet in je woorden boek - zoek op het hele werkwoord (niet dying maar die)
3. Woorden staan altijd in het enkelvoud
4. Woorden hebben vaak meerdere betekenissen, lees deze door en kies welke er in de context past
5. Zoek strategisch: je hebt geen tijd om alles te vertalen

Which strategy was not in these slides?

1. Spend your time carefully
2. Use other languages
3. Bring your dictionary
4. Quickly skim the text

With captain Graham Kavanagh out through injury Tony Vidmar took the skipper's armband in his place for Cardiff.
What word is similar to a Dutch word?

1. through
2. injury
3. skipper
4. armband

What strategy is described?

I heard the word “luminaries” used to describe certain Silicon Valley investors. I immediately thought of the “Harry Potter” flashlight spell “lumos,” a word whose bright connotations were startling to me when used in a dark podcast episode about fraud and dishonesty. I learned that a “luminary” is a figure who inspires and guides other people, much like the lumos spell itself.

What strategy is described?

What 3 tips can you give a friend who finds reading difficult?