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TKT Unit 5 - Reading

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    What is reading?
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  • What are the four language skills?
    Reading, writing, listening and speaking.
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  • What do listening and reading have in common?
    They are receptive skills.
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  • To make sense of the written text, we need to understand the language of the text at word level, sentence level or whole-text level. TRUE or FALSE?
    True
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  • A text is usually longer than just a word or sentence. It often contains a series of sentences. Connected text is referred to as ...
    discourse.
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  • What do we call the sense of connection between two sentences?
    Coherence
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  • What do we call the grammatical links between sentences?
    Cohesion
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  • It involves glancing through a text to get a general idea of what it is about.
    Reading for gist or skimming
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  • It involves getting the meaning out of every word and out of the links or relationships between words or sentences.
    Reading for detail / Intensive reading
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  • This is a skill readers sometimes use to get meaning from a text. They work out what the writer's opinion on a topic is or what his/her feeling is.
    Inferring
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  • It involves reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation the unknown word is used in to try and work out its meaning.
    Deducing meaning from context
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  • Using clues before reading, to guess what a text may be about.
    Predicting
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  • It is sometimes called reading for pleasure and involves reading long pieces of text, for example, a story or an article.
    Extensive reading
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  • Name four different text types.
    letters, articles, postcards, stories, information brochures, leaflets, poems, etc.
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  • How can we help learners transfer their reading skills to reading in English?
    Pre-teaching vocabulary, encouraging them to predict text structure, doing lead-in activities, brainstorming, etc.
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  • Embarrassing question: What's the first thing you would do if you woke up one day as the opposite sex?
    Your answer
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  • Embarrassing question: Have you ever waved at someone thinking they saw you when really they didn't? What did you do when you realized it?
    Your answer
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