1. READING 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM FALL 2014 Unit 1: Sport & Fitness

2. Discussion What sports are popular in your country?  Are these sports popular in other countries too? Do men and women play sports? Are they the same sports or different spots? Which types of athletes are the most fit?

3. Pre-Reading Skills Before reading, always do these things: Check background knowledge Predict what you are going to read about Look at charts Read titles and subtitles

4. Title Information

5. Pre-Reading Skills After predicting, read your questions before looking at the reading. 1. Gist: main idea (use titles, subtitles, first paragraph) 2. Detail: read all the choices and look for key words 3. Main idea: (look for topic sentences) 4. Inference: not directly stated – use overall idea 5. Vocabulary/Reference: read entire sentence with key word

6. Vocabulary in Context Go back and read more completely to determine vocabulary words Check with a partner

7. 1A Vocabulary aWARD- v. to give something like a prize to someone DAta- n. information; facts DECade- n. a period of ten years eNORmous- adj. –very large, huge EnTHUsiasm- n. create eagerness; excitement

8. 1A Vocabulary eVOLve- v. to change over time inTENse- adj. very great in strength or degree PROSpect- n. the possibility or chance VERsion-n. a different form of something

9. 1B Vocabulary adJUST- v. to change something so it fits properly atTRIBute- v. to credit or say that something is responsible for a situation AutoMATic- adj. working by itself CHAMPion- n. a winner of a contest or a competition, such as the Olympics DIFferentiate- v. to show dissimilarities between two things

10. 1B Vocabulary EnHANCE- v. to make something better GENerate- v. to produce something; to begin GeNETics- n. the study of how characteristics are inherited through genes MOtion- n. a body movement PsychoLOGical- adj. related to the human mind

11. Homework: Reading Journal #1 Type one paragraph (4-5 sentences) on the following topic:  Do you think soccer can be used to improve international relations?