MODULE 3- Activity 3

READING STRATEGIES II

 2h 30 m

Introduction

“Expert readers use strategies conciously and uncounciosly to enhance
their understanding and monitor comprensión”. (Janzen y Stoller, 1998:258)

READING STRATEGIES II

Other strategies that you can use especially when reading long or difficult texts are:

Read the first and the last paragraph.

Read the first sentence of each paragraph.

Create a map of related ideas to understand the relationships between words and ideas in the text.

Write short summaries of the reading texts.

Use strategies to understand the meaning of unknown words

 

Task A

Revise these vocabulary strategies, then watch the following Power Point presentation and try to guess the meaning of the words you do not understand. Take a note of them and check the meaning in a dictionary before reading the presentation a second time.


Vocabulary strategies
Presentation about "Computer/ internet addiction"

Go to this link and complete the list with the words you are learning. Don't forget to go down on the page and click on "save" when you finish. This is a collaborative page that we will complete all together.

Task B Complete the following task on the assignment 2 of module 3.

You only have to read:

1. The first and the last paragraph of text 1
2. The first sentence of each paragraph of text 2

Use the writing strategies on the left menu