Transcript English Reading Comprehension

English Reading Comprehension
Course
By
Blanca Judith Salazar
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Reasons to learn English (or another language)
Topics
Reading Materials
Classroom Policies
Grading
Final project
Questions and Answers
Reasons to Learn English
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Enhance your travel experiences
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Languages are beautiful
Join the global community
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It’s just plain sexy
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Competitive edge
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National security
Challenging yourself
Economic development
Cultural understanding
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Academic benefits
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Diversity
Enhanced career opportunities
To better understand the rest of humankind
• To express things that are difficult to express in your native language
To better understand your own language and culture
• Friendship
To find your future husband/wife
• To become someone else
Getting in touch with your roots
• Studying abroad
Theoric learning
• Grammar Structure: subject-verb-complement
• Verb Tenses
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension Skills: scanning, skimming,
topic, main idea, paragraphs, guessing, etc.
• Word Formation: preffixes, sufixes, roots.
• False Cognates
• Modal Verbs
• Pronouns
Formative learning
• Commitment
Pleasure
• Responsibility
Enjoyness
• Punctuality
• Ethic
Authonomy
Reading Materials
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Articles from:
books,
magazines,
news, internet
songs,
a movie
Policies classroom
• Turn off or silence your celphone
• Participation
• Punctuality
Requirements
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Have a goal
Hardworking
Responsibility
Commitment
Hapiness
Money for investment
Proverb
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn. [Futurist]