Colloquial Expressions + Skim + General references | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

This enables you to extract detailed information, to note the sequence of events, and be aware of patterns, similarities, comparisons, and contrast.

Close Reading

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banana

Go to last place!

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star

Double points!

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gift

Win 20 points!

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baam

Lose 25 points!

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This is a reading skill you use when you want to locate a single fact or a specific bit of information without reading every part of story, article, list,or document.

Scanning

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This is used when reading all types of documents.

Skimming and Scanning

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This general reference gives information about words. It's main part consists of pages listing A to Z vocabulary.

Dictionary

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an example of FORMAL LANGUAGE which means: to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats or violence

interrogate

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This is published by year, and they list up-to-date facts, statistics, charts and some unusual information.

Almanacs and yearbooks

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thief

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gold

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rocket

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banana

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This is the informal/familiar or popular English. This is also used in everyday spoken English.

Colloquial Language

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This is a collection of detailed maps published as a book.

Atlas

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monster

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gift

Win 5 points!

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shark

Other team loses 10 points!

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banana

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These are called "slices of life"

Anecdote

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This is very fast reading. This is where you read to get the main ideas and a few, but not all, of the details. To do this, you must leave out parts of an article or story.

Skimming

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