Reading+practice

Read English texts as often as you can. This could be the news, short stories, novels, texts from your textbook, movie subtitles, graded readers, ILC packages, and the online ILC. Choose an interesting text that is not too difficult for you (otherwise it wouldn’t be fun). Don’t look up every word which is new to you – even without a dictionary you will understand a lot. Just concentrate on what you do understand and try to find out the rest by intelligent guessing. That works rather well, especially if you are interested in the topic. If you are a football fanatic for example, you probably won’t have problems understanding an English [|text about football]. On the other hand, someone who is better in English than you but not interested in football will have more problems understanding the same text.  //**!**//**//Learning Tip - don't try to understand every word. Try to understand the overall meaning of a sentence or text.//** //**!**//**//Learning Tip -//** **//don't translate - only use a dictionary if a word keeps appearing in a text and you still don't understand it.//** //**!**//**//Learning Tip -//** **//don't just read a text once and then forget about it - try to analyse it.//**

READING HOMEWORK ANSWERS (sorry for the delay!) SB p134/135 Brazilian Story

SB p147/148 Overcoming Stress

SB p152/153

The files are in "pdf" format, and can be opened using Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. I use a different program called "Foxit Reader", which you can download for free at: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

__BONUS reading__ [] Find the cause, effect and "solution" mentioned by Robert Doyle

WEBSITES FOR READING PRACTICE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/ activities for reading practice, skimming, scanning, facts & opinions, and summarising! http://breakingnewsenglish.com you can choose a story, read the text first, then answer the True/False questions lower down the page.

Do bicycle helmet laws lead to the low popularity of Melbourne's bike share scheme? This article from The Age compares the success of similar bike share schemes in cities around the world. (there are also some good examples of readers' opinions, below the main article.)

Here is the government's proposed solution! What do you think?

Read the following article: How cat has earned Japanese city millions 270 words


 * Can you find: ** An adjective which means “cat”
 * Guess the meaning of the vocabulary: **
 * stray
 * cash rolling in
 * In lieu of
 * Unmanned
 * To turn (a situation) around
 * Discussion: ** Do you know of any other animals who earn money?