Daily Archive for September 14th, 2008
This posting looks at reading skills. When we read a text there are often words we don’t know. If that happens it is better not to stop for very long.
Keep reading and you will be able to guess the meaning from the context. We are going to practice this skills with the text below.
Procedure: Read it quickly and try to get the general meaning.
You will be surprised how many words you can guess. Then read it again quite quickly. Now you will have a good idea about
what the missing words are. Then look at the list of words below and you should be able to see the correct word.
Fill in the blanks
I __1__ by Grammar Girl in a cafe one day where she was teaching a small class. This was where I saw a rather dignifed, grey-haired student.
This was a bit of a surprise to me because he looked much older than rest of the students. He was a gentle-looking person who __2__ his nose as
he moved towards me to welcome me to the class.
“What’s your __3__?” I asked.
“I’m called ‘Big Old Ted,’” replied the old __4__.
“If you don’t mind me _5_ , why are you in the class?” I inquired.
“Isn’t it obvious?” asked Big Old Ted.
“Not really.”
Big Old Ted looked surreptitiously at Grammar Girl and said . “I want to improve my English and learn a bit more and if you __6__ at just the right angle,
you can see that Grammar Girl seems to be a teacher,” he __7__.
“But she is a __8__!” I said.
“Shhhh!” Ted responded with the loudest whisper I have ever __9__. “Don’t let her hear you say that!”
I said __10__, because I didn’t know what to say.
- stopped ran into went carried
- chased bit wriggled lost
- breed problem age name
- dog cow lady gentleman
- asking saying speaking wondering
- listen look call wonder
- explained asked smelled knew
- person female teacher potato
- spoken seen found heard
- here yes words nothing
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| Answers: 1. ran into; 2. wriggled; 3. age; 4. gentleman; 5. asking; 6. look; 7. explained; 8. teacher; 9. heard; 10. nothing |
