Reading Skill 3
What is reading skill 3?
Recognize Paraphrases
What is reading skill 4?
Insert Sentences
What are the 3 sentence structures that were learned during these last two weeks?
1. Compound-Complex Sentences
2. Prepositional Phrases
3. Transitional Adverbs
What are the two aspect of speaking organization we have learned so far?
Topic Sentences (TS)
and
Supporting Details (SD)
What are reading skills 1 and 2?
R1. Understand Vocab from Context
R2. Recognize Referents
What is the purpose and question key phrase reading skill 3?
Identify the same ideas in different words, organization, and/or length.
...best expresses the essential info...
What is the purpose and question key phrase reading skill 4?
Add missing information.
Look at the four squares....
What are the definitions and POS of the following words:
1. assiduous
2. atrophy
3. apathy
1. assiduous (ADJ): characterized by careful attention (to a task)
2. atrophy (V): waste away
3. apathy (N): lack of concern
***300 additional points if you can use all the words in ONE sentence.***
What are the jobs, location, and amount of the topic sentences supporting details for speaking?
Jobs:
TS - intro main idea
SD - provide reason for TS
Location:
TS - first sentence
SD - after TS and before connected E
Amount:
TS - ONE
SD - 3
What are the purposes and question key phrases of R1 and R2?
R1: determine the mean of the word using surrounding information.
- closest in meaning to
- could best be replaced by
R2: ID the original word
- refers to
What are the strategies for reading skill 3?
1. Break the sentence
2. ID connection words
3. ID key info in sentence sections
4. No new info will be added to paraphrases
What are the strategies for reading skill 4?
1. Read the question sentence and determine if general or specific.
2. Apply R2 (ID original word to referents)
3. Match numbers.
4. ID connection words
5. Replace and check
***100 extra points: What is different about this skill when you take the TOEFL?***
Make a compound-complex sentence that contains all of the following words:
- assuage
- attribute (N)
- avert
- articulate (V)
Answers may vary.
EX:
I assuaged his shy attribute so that he could articulate confidently, and I could avoid embarrassment.
***200 additional points if you can provide the POS and definition of each word***
What are the elements of the topic sentence and supporting details?
Provide one example of each.
Elements:
TS: topic (main idea) + focus (opinion)
- EX: I like pie.
SD: rephrase TS + reason
- EX: I really enjoy pie as it is full of sugar.
What are the strategies of R1 and R2?
R1:
1. Familiar?
2. Break word
3. POS
4. ID connection words
5. Small Context
6. Big Context
----------------------------
R2:
1. ID the word type
2. match numbers
3. Read the context
4. Replace and check
5. No answer will appear after the question word***500 additional points if you can name all 9 word types and their strategies***
Skiplagging is the practice of hopping off in your layover city instead of boarding the connecting flight to your ticket’s final destination.
Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the first highlighted sentence in paragraph 2? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
a. Hopping off in your layover city allows you to skiplag your ticket price.
b. Skipping the last location of the ticket and going to a layover city is skiplagging.
c. Layover cities are the connecting flight for skiplagging tickets.
d. Skiplagging is having multiple layover cities before reaching your ticket's final destination.
B
A____ Sleep is, as ancient maps once labeled uncharted territories, where dragons be. B____ You can board a plane that’s really a car that flies to Russia, except it’s the moon and your mom is there—until she’s your dad. Dreams can be prosaic or repetitive (exactly how many times can you show up at the same party in your underwear before you remember to put something on?), but whatever they are, they remain mysterious. C____. The sleeping brains runs its absurdist-movie loop all night long, always concealing the processes going on behind the camera. D____.
Look at the four spaces that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the paragraph above.
To go to sleep is to enter a world entirely like our own and entirely unlike it, too.
B
Provide the correct punctuation, ID the sentence types, and find the vocab words of the following story:
This will be more of a mess of assertions than a story since I really can't articulate my thoughts in an articulate way at this moment and I attribute it entirely to my procrastinating personality I always do everything last minute but since I can finish all my projects on time the attribute is often well belied moreover I can assuage any frustration others might have towards me through arbitrary compliments that make them feel good however I really hate how this characteristic appropriates a lot of my time and peace of mind it is a major form of antagonism in my life
This will be more of a mess of assertions than a story since I really can't articulate my thoughts in an articulate way at this moment, and I attribute it entirely to my procrastinating personality. I always do everything last minute, but since I can finish all my projects on time, the attribute is often well belied. Moreover, I can assuage any frustration others might have towards me through arbitrary compliments that make them feel good. However, I really hate how this characteristic appropriates a lot of my time and peace of mind. It is a major form of antagonism in my life.
SS:3
TA: 2
CDCX: 2
Answer the following question with a TS and several SD:
What is your favorite band?
Answers will vary.
EX:
My favorite band is Linkin Park.
Firstly, I adore the band Linkin Park as they sing very angry music.
Additionally, Linkin Park is an amazing band because they use a variety of styles.
Finally, I really enjoy the band Linkin Park because they have amazing style.
***50 extra points for each Linkin Park song you can name***
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
What word could best replace "halls" in the context above?
a mansion
***50 points if you can name the reading skill, and 200 additional points if you can name the story it comes from.***
Best express the essential information in the provided sentence below. Incorrect paraphrases change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave; And bid me stand aloof, and so I did: Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb; And by and by my master drew on him; And then I ran away to call the watch.
He came to put flowers on his lady love's grave and told me to stand further away, so I did; then, another person came by light to open the tomb, and my master attacked the visiter, which caused me to run and call the watch.
***500 additional points if you can name the author and the title of the story this comes from***
A____. Arts Council England and the council for Stoke-on-Trent (a city in the landlocked county of Staffordshire) proposed that Morling could create a collection inspired by the archaeological marvel known as the Staffordshire Hoard.
Discovered in Staffordshire in 2009, the Hoard is the largest-ever found repository of Anglo-Saxon metalwork artefacts. It unearthed the three thousand five hundred pieces of engraved gold and silver that are rife with depiction of deities, heroes and monsters carved in brilliant relief against the gleaming, precious metals. B____. Morling, however, nearly passed on the opportunity.
“I just didn’t know if I could do it,” she says. “My art is completely personal. It was a very difficult decision. But, I went ahead and accepted the project, and couldn’t be happier with the result. C____. Everyone was so supportive, and I really enjoyed the experience. Still, It was very different from how I usually work.”
Look at the four spaces that indicate where the following sentences could be added to the paragraph above.
1. The project offered no shortage of inspirational fodder, as well as an international stage.
2. In the build-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Katharine Morling was one of some seventy artists that the British government commissioned for pieces that visualized the spirit of municipalities around the realm.
3. I made what I wanted to make, and the pieces had my touch on them.
A-2
B-1
C-3
Write a story with the following vocab words. Make sure to punctuate correctly as any errors will prevent you from earning the points for this question.
- appropriate
- animosity
- analogous
- anarchy
Answers will vary.
Answer the following question completely and state what type of question it is:
If you were able to stop the Holocaust or World War 1, which one would you ever prevent from happening?
Answers will vary.
***100 extra points if you can state who cause the Holocaust and who was the cause of WW1.***
OFF THERE to the right--somewhere--is a large island," said Whitney." It's rather a mystery--"
"What island is it?" Rainsford asked.
"The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied." A suggestive name, isn't it?
The word "it" in the passage above refers to what original word in the context?
Ship-trap Island
***50 additional points if you can name the reading skill and 200 additional points if you can name the story it comes from.***