Wednesday 18 February 2015

Reading: pdf readers, different levels and tips

I found this for my low-resources. Thanks whoever posted the books on their website.
http://english-4u.net/online/Biblioteca-virtual.php
Imma and Martin have read the three easy elem ... not the one in past tense Rich Man Poor Man.

books all levels +audios! excellent
http://minhateca.com.br/pamqueiroz/audiobooks+in+english/starters

book ideas: http://english-phonics.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/rich-man-poor-man-by-tc-jupp.html
elementary: http://vk.com/doc-55395457_244503319   The New Yorkers
elementaryies: http://vk.com/pages?oid=-55395457&p=Elementary_7


Easy for beginners
http://www.bestofthereader.ca/Ebooks/EasyStories-People.pdf

 For those of you with with the audio and the book, I recommend:
1- Listening to the audio of a chapter, three times (if your level or above). Focus on understanding more on every go.
2. Read and listen at the same time. Notice words that you had not understood earlier, words or expressions that you had misunderstood. Is what hear what you see? Pay close attention to pronunciation of little words, of longer words, the weak forms of be and have, for example. Look up words you don't know.
3. Try to translate a paragraph and make it sound natural in your language. You many have to make considerable changes in sentence order! You can get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you.
4. Listen again, a couple of times. This will help you retain vocabulary and you'll be able to understand all the text without written help!

It's a lot work and discipline but students who do that really report improving in their overall learning process.


Alternatively if you don't have the audio:
1. REad each chapter once,
2. look up words, using a dictionary and google images (can help!)
3.  re read text a couple of time to make sure the translation of words makes sense and
4. translate a few paragrpahs (get it corrected by the teacher or someone who can help you).

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