英语阅读能力提升21Prediction.pptVIP

Prediction Encouraging Expressions There is no friend so faithful as a good book. 最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书。 Art?is?long,?but?life?is?short. 人生有限，学问无涯。 A?friend?in?need?is?a?friend?indeed. 患难见真交。 Diligence?is?the?mother?of?success. 勤奋是成功之母。 What is the first thing you do when you get a reading material? Prediction When and what do you predict? Before your reading While you’re reading After your reading Prediction One way to read effectively is to predict. Although we can’t predict every detail, we can often anticipate the general direction the author is going. Making predictions while you read keeps you alert and involved with the passage. Exercise 1 A Son to Be Proud of Last week, Rahman’s wife had an accident. Rahman’s youngest child, Yusof, was at home when it happened. He was playing with his new toy car. Rahman had given it to him the week before, for his third birthday. Suddenly, Yusof heard his mother calling “Help! Help!” He ran to the kitchen. His mother had burned herself with some hot cooking oil. Exercise 2 One at a Time What do you think of after you read this topic? One at a Time by Jack Canfield and Mark V. Hansen A friend of ours was walking down deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean. As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, “Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing.” “I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it’s low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die up