新视野大学英语第一册第一课Section B.pptVIP

* Unit Section B Key to Successful Online Learning Reading Skill Understanding of the Text For fun Test yourself Content Post-reading Activity Reading Skill Finding Out Word Meanings The section deals with Reading Skills. In this section, we will introduce the important reading skills one by one. You should take care to read the explanation of each specific skill, which has been written in clear, easy-to-understand language. And we’ll use Reading Passages B and C to let you see each skill applied to a particular passage. Reading Skill The particular reading skill introduced in this unit will help you to find word meanings through many different ways. In the text we list as many as 9 different ways of finding out a word’s meaning which you may not be familiar with. Reading Skill 1）Some sentences set off(mark off) the definition for a difficult word by using punctuation (标点符号). Example : The period of adolescence, the period between childhood and adulthood, may be long or short, depending on the social and on society’s definition. Reading Skill Example Still other people are not avoiding work; strictly speaking, they are merely procrastinating — delaying their work. 2）Sometimes helping words, along with punctuation, provide important clues. Reading Skill 3）Some sentences tell the opposite of what a new word means. From its opposite, you can figure out the meaning of the word. Example If we desire to get rid of the slovenliness of our English we can think carefully and clearly before expressing ourselves in it. Reading Skill 4）Sometimes you can use your own experiences to figure out the definition of a word. Example They were puzzled to see that the tractor(拖拉机) was followed by about 200,000 women in a parading procession that took more than three hours to snake through central Rome. Explanation According to your own experience, “snake”means “move in a long winding line through central Rome（像蛇那样蜿蜒前进） Reading Skill 5）Sentences