Reading Questionnaire

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Reading Questionnaire

• YYes
• NNo

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Reading QuestionnaireDivide your piece of paper
into two parts.

• Reading in Chinese
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
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• 12.

• Reading in English
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• .
• .
• .
• 12.

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Reading QuestionnaireYYes NNo

1. I always read every word of a passage.
2. Reading aloud helps me improve my reading
   comprehension.
3. I say the word aloud when I read.

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Reading QuestionnaireYYes NNo

• 4. I use different reading methods in my native
  language and in English.
• 5. When I read, I understand more when I read
  slowly.
• 6. If I dont know the meaning of a word, I
  always look it up in the dictionary.

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Reading QuestionnaireYYes NNo

• 7. The best way to improve my reading is by
  learning as much grammar as possible.
• 8. The best way to improve my reading is by
  learning as much new vocabulary as possible.

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Reading QuestionnaireYYes NNo

• 9. When I am reading, I need to know every word
  in order to understand.
• 10. To understand well, I must be able to
  pronounce every word.

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Reading QuestionnaireYYes NNo

• 11. I cant understand a paragraph if it has
  several new words in it.
• 12. I use the same reading methods for all kinds
  of texts (books, newspapers, etc.).
• 
  

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NO NEED to read every word.SKIP unnecessary
words!

• Last week was Henrys birthday. He was
  21 _____ old. His girlfriend bought him a new
  _____. His brother and sister ____ him a party.
  Henrys mother made a special chocolate birthday
  ____, and all of Henrys good friends came to his
  _____. They danced all _____. Henry really
  enjoyed his birthday.

• years
• watch
• gave
• cake
• party
• night

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• DO NOT read aloud.
• Read SILENTLY!
• Take each word as a PICTURE.

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DO NOT read word by word.Read UNITS of IDEAS!

• Typhoon Damage in Philippines
• The Philippine National Red
  Cross reported that 90 percent
  of the 86,000 houses in
  Capiz Province on Panay were
  destroyed. Many of the dead
  were children who drowned as
  30-foot waves smashed into
  coastal villages.

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DO NOT read word by word.Read UNITS of IDEAS!

• Typhoon Damage in Philippines
• An Air Force spokesman said
• more than 163 tons
• of food, medicine and clothing
• had been sent
• to the Visayan region,
• 300 miles south of Manila,
• and more aid was on the way.

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DO NOT read word by word.Read UNITS of IDEAS!

• Fog is a major cause of accidents on highways
  in some areas. Every year many thousands of
  people lose their lives because fog can
  dangerously reduce visibility. The drivers
  cannot see very far ahead so they do not have
  time to avoid accidents.

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DO NOT rely on the dictionary.

• Use CONTEXT CLUES to aid comprehension!

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Clue 1 Knowledge

• ravenous
• Could I have a piece of bread? I missed
  breakfast and Im simply ravenous.
• gush
• The blood gushed out of his wound until the
  doctor put on a tight bandage.

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Clue 2 Cause Effect relation

• gaudy
• She was wearing such gaudy clothes that it was
  easy to find her in the crowd.
• pitch
• The singer was so terribly off pitch that it hurt
  my ears to listen.

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Clue 3 this these that those

• this
• An orange can be a delicious snack. This citrus
  fruit is also very healthy for you because it is
  a good source of vitamin C.

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Clue 3 this these that those

• tyrannosaurus rex velociraptors triceratops
  brachiosaurus
• Bones of tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptors,
  triceratops, and brachiosaurus have been dug out
  in different parts of the world. Scientists
  study these long-dead dinosaurs to understand
  them.

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Clue 4 verbs to be

• peccary
• Peccaries are dangerous wild pigs that can cause
  deep wounds with their razor-sharp tusks and
  hoofs.
• epidemic
• An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease.

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Clue 5 conjunctions

• triple
• During the nineteenth century, the population of
  some American cities doubled and even tripled.
• monastery
• At the start of the Middle ages in Europe, the
  only schools were in churches or monasteries.

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Clue 6 clause markers

• relay
• At the early Olympic Games in Greece, there was a
  relay race between two teams in which a lighted
  torch was passed from runner to runner.

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Clue 7 appositive

• stethoscope
• The modern age of medicine began with the
  stethoscope, an instrument for listening to a
  patients heartbeat and breathing.
• iris
• Some doctors look for signs of sickness by
  examining a patients iris, the colored part of
  the eye.

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Clue 8 examples

• punctuation mark
• There is a good exercise in this book on using
  punctuation marks, such as commas, dashes,
  periods, quotation marks, and question marks.

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Clue 9 parentheses ( )

• synonym
• The teacher asks us to find the synonyms (words
  that have similar meanings) of several new words
  we just learned today.

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Clue 10 word structureprefix-root-suffix

• ab- in- un-
• abnormal inconvenient uncommon
• -ist -ness -ology
• scientist illness psychology

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Men in Skirts

• In Europe men do not usually wear skirts,
  but the Scottish national costume for men is a
  kind of skirt. It is called a kilt. ___
  Scottish like to be different. ____ are also
  proud of _____ country and its history, ___ they
  feel that the kilt __ part of that history. ____
  is why the men _____ wear kilts at traditional
  dances ___ on national holidays. They believe
  they are wearing the same clothes that Scottish
  men always used to wear.

• The
• They
• their
• and
• is
• That
• still
• and

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Men in Skirts

• That is what they believe.
• However,
• kilts are not really so old.
• In the early days,
• Scottish men
• wore a kind of long shirt
• that went below their knees.

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Men in Skirts

• They wore long socks
• and a big wool blanket
• around their shoulders.
• These clothes were warm and comfortable
• for working outside on a farm,
• but they were not so good
• when men started to work
• in factories in modern times.

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Men in Skirts

• Therefore,
• in 1730
• a factory owner changed the blanket
• into a skirt
• the kilt.
• Thats how the first kilt was made,
• according to one historian.

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Men in Skirts

• These kilts had colorful stripes
• going up and down and across.
• In Scotland,
• this pattern __ called a tartan.
• Tartan _____ was used
• many centuries ___.
• In fact,
• Scottish literature talked about tartan
• in the 1200s.

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Men in Skirts

• These kilts had colorful stripes
• going up and down and across.
• In Scotland,
• this pattern __ called a tartan.
• Tartan _____ was used
• many centuries ___.
• In fact,
• Scottish literature talked about tartan
• in the 1200s.

• is
• cloth
• ago

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Using Context Clues

• In Europe men do not usually wear skirts, but
  the Scottish national costume for men is a kind
  of skirt. It is called a kilt.
• costume
• CLUE is (verb to be)
• kilt
• CLUES Itskirt is called

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Using Context Clues

• These kilts had colorful stripes going up and
  down and across. In Scotland, this pattern is
  called a tartan.
• stripes
• CLUES knowledge explanation after the word
• tartan
• CLUES this is called