Reading Comprehension Skills (First Certificate)

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Departamento de Idiomas

Sub sector Ingls

Profesor: Viviana Paz / Jaume Vizcarro

4 Ao Medio

1.1 Dealing with difficult words:

When you are reading a text without the help of a dictionary and thereis a word which you dont know, you may carry out the followingtechniques:

look at the function of the word in the sentence

look at the context of the word in the sentence and the text.

Lets put into practice these suggestions.

What function does the word have in the sentences what work

is it doing?

Is it a noun, an adjective, a verb or an adverb? Identify the nouns,

adjectives, verbs and adverbs.

Daniel quickly put the old sepia photograph in the drawer

Exercises A 1- 4: to practice identifying some different sort ofnouns,adjectives, verbs and adverbs.

Exercise A 1

a. Put each of these NOUNS into two correct columns in the table below. First decide if

you can orcantsee each on and then decide if you can orcantcount each one.

Luggage suitcase happiness problem firefighter furniture

finger plastic love family flower water

Cow blackbird back factory beef advice

Pencil wool musician Marxism steel beetle

Oxygen

1 Can see 2 Cant see 3 Can count 4 Cant count

1. READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS

Fi rst C er tif icate in Engl is h

Objective: to start practicing techniques that help students develop

reading comprehension skills.Skills: Analyze Classify - Replace


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b. Now put each NOUN into one of the categories below.

Collective word

Person

Thing

Animal/Insect/Bird

Plant

Part of person

Building

Liquid/gas

Other material

Food

Abstract idea

Exercise A 2

a. Put the ADJECTIVESbelow into one of these different categories.

new round attractive green generous Chinese glass

careless long stupid last dark

lovely little square wooden exciting elderly

Impatient clever satisfied destructive silk

cream artificial former oval priceless wide

unimaginative

Age/ Time

Colour

Material

Positive

Shape

Origin

Size

Negative


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Exercise A 3

Verbs can work:

- with a direct object James cuts the bread

- without a direct object Please sit down- with or without a direct object Can you sing this song?

I cantsing very well

a. Put the VERBS in one correct column in the table below. If youre not sure, try

adding itafter the verb and decide it it sounds right.

Cut sit sing know smile hit sleep

carry fly find eat eat laugh

Read ring discuss surprise lie talk

1 Usually with direct

object

2 Usually without direct

object

3 With or without direct

object

Exercise A 4

a. Put the ADVERBS below into one of these different groups.

tidily forwards often away late carefully backwards

fortunately soon here well fast recently

yesterday outside badly finally upstairs

HOW? WHERE? WHEN?

Exercises A 1- 4: Decide the function of words in sentences.

Exercise A 5

a. Look at these sentences, and decide whether the words in boldare working as

nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs.

1. Who is going to head the government enquiry? Verb

2. You can buy souvenirwalking sticks in the village shop. _______

3. A lot of factory workers will probably lose their jobs. _______

4. As a child Tanya had so many dislikes that I never knew what to give her to eat. _____

5. I love that bit in the film where Kevin hands the teacher a dead a rat. ______

6. When Camila left him to return to Finland, Spencer felt very lonely. ______

7. If were going there on Saturday, wed betterbookfirst. ________

8. Clive originally met his wife in a shoe shop. ______

9. Although it was very cold, we stood on the platform as the waiting room was so dirty.

_______.


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Key Answers

Exercise A 1

A:Can see : luggage suitcase firefighter furniture finger plastic family flower watercow blackbird back factory beef pencil wool musician steel beetle

Cant see: happiness problem love advice Marxism oxygen

Can count:suitcase problem firefighter finger family flower cow blackbird back factory

pencil musician beetle

Cant count: luggage happiness furniture plastic love water beef advice wool Marxism

steel oxygen

B:Collective word: luggage family furniture

Person: musician

Thing:suitcase pencil

Animal/Insect/Bird: blackbird beetle cow

Plant:flower

Part of person: back finger

Building:factory

Liquid/gas: oxygen water

Other material: plastic wool steel

Food: beef

Abstract idea: happiness love problem advice Marxism

Exercise A 2

A:Age/ Time: newlast elderly former

Colour: green dark cream

Material:glass wooden silk

Positive: attractive generous lovely exciting clever satisfied priceless

Shape: round long square oval

Origin: Chinese artificial

Negative: careless stupid impatient destructive unimaginative

Size: little wide

Exercise A 3

A:Usually with direct object: cut know hit carry find discuss surprise

Usually without direct object:smile sleep laugh lie talk

With or without direct object:fly eat read ring


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Exercise A 4

A:HOW: carefully fortunately well fast badly

WHERE: away backwards here outside upstairs

WHEN: late son recently yesterday finally

Exercise A 5

A:2 adjective

3 noun

4 noun

5 verb

6 adverb

7 verb

8 adjective

9 adjective


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