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1 Course Introduction
- 1.1 Course Introduction
- 1.2 Classwork Activities
- 1.3 Short Stories: The Empty Pot
- 1.4 Homework
2 Unit 1 - University Life
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Word Pretest
- 2.3 Reading Skill 1
- 2.4 Text 2
- 2.5 Conclusion
3 Unit 2 - Culture Shock
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Word Pretest
- 3.3 Text 1: Making a Cultural Change
- 3.4 Review: Reading Skill 1
- 3.5 Short Story 2
4 Unit 3 - Movies
- 4.1 Unit Introduction
- 4.2 Word Pretest
- 4.3 Vocabulary Building
- 4.4 Text 2: How to Watch a Movie
- 4.5 Short Films
- 4.6 Homework
5 Unit 5 - Food
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Word Pretest
- 5.3 Vocabulary
- 5.4 Text 1: A Food Tour of the United States
- 5.5 Reading Skill 2
- 5.6 Conclusion
6 Textbook
- 6.1 PDF
7 Unit 6 - Shyness
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Word Pretest
- 7.3 Text 1: Overcoming Shyness
- 7.4 Conclusion
8 Unit 7 - Physical Fitness
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Word Pretest
- 8.3 Text 1: Eight Myths About Physical Fitness
- 8.4 Conclusion
9 Midterm Review
- 9.1 Review
- 9.2 Word Pretest
- 9.3 Reading Skills
- 9.4 Exam Information and Rules
10 Unit 8 - Sports
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Word Pretest
- 10.3 Text
- 10.4 Conclusion
11 Unit 10 - Psychology
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Word Pretest
- 11.3 Reading Skill 3
- 11.4 Text 1: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- 11.5 Conclusion
12 Unit 9 - Festivals & Holidays
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Word Pretest
- 12.3 Reading Skill 3 More Practice
- 12.4 Text
- 12.5 Conclusion
13 Final Review
- 13.1 Review
- 13.2 Word Pretest
- 13.3 Reading Skills
- 13.4 Practice 1
- 13.5 Practice 2
- 13.6 Textbook
- 13.7 Final Words
14 FINAL EXAM
- 14.1 Information
15 Holiday English
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Books
- 15.3 Documents
- 15.4 Websites
- 15.5 Movies / TV

Reading Skills

1 RS
2 RS 1
3 RS 2
4 RS 3

Reading Skills:

Knowing the reading skills is one of the most important parts of this course. They give us skills for understanding what we read. In this course we have studied three reading skills. First, to help us guess or infer word meaning from context. And second, to find the meaning of complex sentences through finding the main clause (SVO). And third, how to find the topic and main idea in a paragraph or passage.

Context Clues to Word Meaning

Pages 1-2

Understanding Sentences

Pages 95-96

Distinguishing Topic from Main Idea

Pages 173-174

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Reading Skills

The reading skills will be the primary skills that we study this semester. It is very important you learn these skills well. They will be very important through our course and on the final exam. We will study three reading skills throughout this semester. Today, we will begin with the first one.

Context Clues to Word Meaning

Open your textbook to Pages 1-2, and read the entire article.

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Now that you have finished reading the article, go ahead and watch this video about the first reading skills: Context Clues to Word Meaning.

Teacher Gordan will help us look at the reading skill.

Reading Skill #2: Understanding Sentences

Turn to pages 95-96. This article is called "Understanding Sentences".

You are going to read this article, but before you do, just be aware that this skill (like all the reading skills) is very important for you. And these will be an important part of your exam as well.

Now, go ahead and read Understanding Sentences. After you have read the article, you can go on to the instructional video.

Please note that this is on pages 95-96 of your textbook. Ignore the page numbers given in the video.

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Reading Skill #3: Distinguishing Topic from Main Idea

We are going to look at our third and final reading skill now. It is called "Distinguishing Topic from Main Idea". What is a topic? What is the main idea? We will look at both of those. We will look at how they relate to each other, and how they are different.

Do you remember our first reading skill?

It was Context Clues to Word Meaning. We were looking at how to find the meaning of individual words we do not know.

What about our second reading skill?

It was Understanding Sentences. We were looking at decoding difficult sentences.

Now with the third reading skill we will be looking at paragraphs and articles.

Can you see the progression from small to larger parts?

words > sentences > paragraphs

Reading skill number 3 can be found on pages 173-174.

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