1. Extensive Reading in a foreign language asks learners to read a lot of easy, interesting books.

2. Easy books so they can read quickly. Why?

3. The need for speed

4. When

5. you

6. read

7. slowly,

8. one

9. word

10. at

11. a

12. time,

13. as

14. you

15. are

16. doing

17. now,

18. it

19. is

20. easy

21. to

22. understand

23. the

24. meaning

25. of

26. each

27. word,

28. but

29. it

30. is

31. very

32. difficult

33. to

34. understand

35. the

36. real

37. meaning

38. of

39. the

40. text.

42. When you read slowly, one word at a time, as you are doing now, it is easy to understand the meaning of each word, but it is very difficult to understand the real meaning of the text.

43. The need for speed Don’t enjoy reading Read slowly Don’t read much Don’t understand much

44. Read faster Enjoy reading Read more Understand more

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