LESSON 3

PREVIEWING AND PREDICTING

WHAT IS PREVIEWING AND PREDICTING???
When you gather information about a book by
examining its cover, you are previewing.
The aim of previewing is to help you to predict or
make some “educated guess” about what is in the
book.
Take a look a picture below!
What can you say about this picture?
That picture probably will tell about
A child who hates veggie
Some Guidelines : previewing & predicti ng

1. Read the title: What is the passage about? Do you know anything about
this subject?
2. Decide what kind of text it is; is it an essay, an argument, a story, an
explanation? Does it seem difficult?
3. Look at the way the text is organized; is it divided into parts? Are there
sub-titles? If so, what do they tell you about the way the subject is
presented?
4. Read very quickly the first line of each paragraph or sub-division; can you
tell what the passage is about? Do you already know something about it?
5. Notice names, numbers, dates, and words that are repeated; do you
recognize any of them?
6. Read quickly the last few sentences in the final paragraph; what is the
author’s final point? Is it a conclusion or a summary?
 LESSON 4

VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE FOR

EFFECTIVE READING
 What do you usually do when you come to a word
you do not know in your reading???
Look it up in the dictionary?
Ask your teacher?
Ask another students or a friend?
Try to guess what it is mean?
Using a dictionary
In alphabetical order: A, B, etc
Phonetic transcription:
Prefixes and suffixes: help you expand your vocabulary.
familiar – unfamiliar; defective-defectively. Etc.
Part of speech; noun, adjective, verb, etc.
Synonym
Extra, extra important!!!
The meaning of the word depends
on the context in which it is used.

Let’s take a look the sample of

dictionary
WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU DO NOT HAVE
DICTIONARY???
 Guessing meaning from context
When you try to guess unknown word you use the text
surrounding the text-the context.
example: do you know what misogynist mean??
let’s take a look some sentences below!!!
1. She realized that her boss was a misogynist soon
after she started working for him.
2. It is difficult for woman to work for a misogynist. She
is never sure of the reason for his critisism.
3. She knew that no woman would ever get a top level job
in a company owned by a misogynist.

So, a misogynist is a man who hates woman or believes

that men are much better than women.

Exercise 1
1. What does ravenous mean??
could I have a piece of bread. I miss breakfast and
I’m simply ravenous.
2. What does “flippers” mean??
we were all surprised to see how fast Johnny was
swimming. Then we saw that he was wearing flippers.
3. What does “sallow” mean???
the poor child had sallow skin and very thin, bony
arms and legs.
Be continue….