In this course you will learn a lot of useful vocabulary and
reading strategies. Your reading speed and comprehension will improve and you
will become a better reader.
Reading Strategies
Reading strategies are ways to help you understand a story
or article. Reading in a second language is different than reading in your first
language. You need to know a lot of vocabulary and you need some help to
understand the structure and form of the text. To understand the whole reading
you will learn to preview, predict, and look for main ideas and details. These
reading strategies will help you read faster and understand the text easier.
Vocabulary
The vocabulary you will learn in this class is useful because
you will come across these words many times in your readings. Learning high
frequency vocabulary is the best way to improve your reading
comprehension. To understand a reading
and to use the words correctly in writing or speaking you will need to know
more than just a word’s translation. You will also need to know the spelling of
each word.
Knowing a word’s translation is a very good start, but
you will need to know a few other things about a word. The vocabulary sheets will
have a words’ translation, synonyms, words family, and collocations.
How the classes will work
I will present the vocabulary you need to know each week in
class. You will have to print out the vocabulary sheets from the DROPBOX FOLDER
at the following address https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c3qrl81dxmflfff/HckL-BgbZs.
Translate the words and fill in the
translation box. Bring the sheets to class. I will talk about each word and
expect you to write notes.
When we finish the vocabulary, we will learn a reading
comprehension strategy, read a story and
do some comprehension questions. You will probably have to do a writing or
speaking assignment after each reading unit.
When we finish the week’s work you will be given a review.
You can get the review from the DROPBOX FOLDER, complete it and bring it to
class where I will give you the answers. Next you will have a test (
assessment) in class. The assessment will cover the vocabulary words from the
week’s list and information from the story you read. Sometimes doing the
homework will help you on your assessments.
In week 4 we will read a book called The Wrong Man. This
book is easy and most students find it interesting. We will read the book in
class, you will read it at home, you will listen to the book on CD, you will do
some comprehension exercises and then you will get tested on this book.
In weeks 4 and 8 you will also have a midterm and final
exam. We will review what we learned in weeks 1-4 before you take the midterm
exam, and what we learned in weeks 5-8 for the final exam. I will also explain
the instructions on the exam. Also, the questions on your weekly assessments
will be almost the same as the questions from the exam.
In week five you will be introduced to the Extensive Reading
Library. I will expect you to read at least two more books from the library. I
will explain more about this later.
One final note
In this session I
will be trying out a new book called 4000 Essential Words. We will try out 3
chapters from this book, and I will give you copies of each chapter. You will
be tested on this book in the weekly assessments, but not on the midterm and
final exams.
Let's have fun and learn some new words!
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