reading practice

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Reading practice

Layout

- Questions, answers and tips reading

Do you start by reading the questions or by reading the text?

1. Questions
2. Text

Where do you start?

Starting by reading the questions is faster.

Looking at the questions first tells you what to look for in a text.

(The questions are usually asked in the order of the text.) 

Do you read the answer possibilities with a multiple choice question?

1. No
2. Never
3. Nope
4. Nooooo

Don't read the answers with a mc question!

1. Read the question and summarise the question using your own words. Make sure you understand what is asked.
2. Then read the text and find the answer in the text. Summarise the answer using your own words.
3. Finally read the answer possibilities and compare your own answer to the possibilities. What answers fits your own answer best?

What do you do if you don't know the definition of a word?

What if you don't know a word?

First > decide if the word is really that important? Do I need to know it to understand the text?

Strategy 1: decide what the word means by looking at the context. Is it a verb or a noun? Is it positive or negative? Does it contain parts of words you know?

Strategy 2: if you are allowed to have a dictionary, look up the word. Watch out, this takes quite a lot of time!

Pay attention!

There's a short text on the next slide. You can only look at it for 10 seconds :) 

What is this text about? How do you know?

How do you know what a text is about?

• Look at the title. What does it tell you?
  
• Look at the pictures (if there are any).
  
• Are there any headers (tussenkopjes), or words in bold or italics? Those might help you!
  
• Look at the layout of the text. This can help you predict what kind of text it is.
• Look at the questions. Do they have any information about the text?

Short texts

1. Read the text and stay quiet. 
2. If you're done with reading, you stay quiet and you wait.
3. You get a multiple choice question

Why was the old man mad at Megan?

Why was the old man mad at Megan?

1. Because she had taken groceries from his shopping cart.
2. Because she accidentally ran off with his shopping cart.
3. Because she bumped into him with her shopping cart.
4. Because she was racing through the store with the shopping cart.

How did Sophie feel after taking the cupcake?

How did Sophie feel after taking the cupcake?

1. Sad
2. Angry at herself
3. Disappointed
4. Ashamed

What do you get when you subscribe to Bliss magazine?

What do you get when you subscribe to Bliss magazine?

1. A free beauty treatment
2. Discount coupons for makeup
3. Various beauty products
4. A huge bunch of goodies for $10.

What do you do when you have to answer questions based on a text?

Tips for reading

1. Practice makes perfect. The more you'll practice, the better you'll get. 

2. Read the question + summarise it, read text and summarise answer, check official answers.

3. What sentences proves the answer you want to give? Make sure you know what sentence has the answer.

Tips for listening

1. Practice makes perfect. The more you'll practice, the better you'll get.

2. Read the first questions, then listen to the audio.

3. You can pause the audio anytime you want. 

4. The questions are (almost) always in the order of the audio. 

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