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 1. Looking at headlines

• Write out the headline in  a complete sentence
• Explain the headlines: Dear reader, you'll find interesting / new / amusing
• information / facts / ideas / events about ..
• What do you know about the topic?
• Which words go with the topic?
• What do you want to know about the topic?
• Write down the questions the text may answer.
• Ask your teacher: Will the text say anything about ....?

• There are ten titles for the paragraphs, but we need only 6. Which would you choose?
• Choose the most important points from the list and put them in the right order.
• Compare your previewing questions or predicting statements with the text.
• Which additional information have you found? Write it down in one key-word.
• Which are the most important words of the text? Write them down and compare your list with your neighbour's.
• Underline the most important words or mark them with a highlighter.
• How many different paragraphs has the text got?
• Which are the main ideas?
• Do the comprehension test.

• Read the text again and underline the following words as quickly as possible:(key- words, synonyms, opposites, associated words...)
• Where does the text say that ....(paraphrase)?
• What does "it", "they", "this" or "that", "which or who" (rel. pronouns) relate to?
• Try to find evidence for the correctness of one or two of your comprehension test answers.

• Find evidence for the following statements:.....
• Mark those groups of words that form phrases and are separated by a pause with this sign: |
• Find the correct sequence of lines. The computer has mixed them up.
• You are an expert now: Give a summary of the main ideas of the text. Justify your summary by referring to the text.

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