Table of contents Table of contents ................................................................................................... 1 Inglés científico y técnico: Objetivos ................................................................ 4 Descripción del curso ............................................................................................ 4 Objetivo general de ID1111 .................................................................................. 4 Objetivos específicos de ID1111 ........................................................................... 5 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 6 Focus on reading ................................................................................................... 7 Focus on reading strategies ................................................................................ 9 How many of these reading strategies do you use? ........................................... 12 Exercise 1: Steps to faster reading ................................................................. 13 Focus on skimming and scanning ................................................................... 16 Exercise 2: Skimming ..................................................................................... 16 Exercise 3: Scanning ....................................................................................... 18 Focus on the topic, main idea and text organization .................................. 20 Recognizing the topic and main idea ................................................................. 22 Exercise 4: Identifying the topic ..................................................................... 23 Exercise 5: Identifying the topic sentence ..................................................... 23 Exercise 6: Identifying the main idea ............................................................ 24 Exercise 7: Identifying the details ................................................................. 26 Exercise 8: Distinguishing major and minor details ..................................... 27 Text organization ................................................................................................ 28 Exercise 9: Text organization, topic, main idea ............................................. 29 Focus on reference words ................................................................................. 32 Exercise 10: Understanding personal pronoun references ............................ 33 Exercise 11: Understanding other references ................................................ 35 Focus on inferences ............................................................................................ 37 Exercise 12: Identifying inferable information .............................................. 38 Exercise 13: Justifying the logic behind your inference ................................ 39 Exercise 14: Identifying the correct inference ............................................... 40 Focus on lexical items ........................................................................................ 43 Becoming aware of cognate words ..................................................................... 43 Exercise 15: Identifying cognate words .......................................................... 44 Exercise 16: Would you recognize what type of cognate it is? ....................... 47 Exercise 17: Recognizing false cognates or ‘false friends’ .............................. 49 Exercise 18: Some Latin words and their irregular plurals .......................... 52 Becoming aware of word function ...................................................................... 53 Exercise 19: Identifying parts of speech ........................................................ 54 Exercise 20: Using parts of speech to guess meaning from context .............. 55 Becoming aware of word structure .................................................................... 56 Understanding word form .................................................................................. 56 Affixation ............................................................................................................ 56 Prefixes ............................................................................................................... 56 Suffixes ............................................................................................................... 58 Exercise 21: Choosing the right prefix and suffix .......................................... 60 Recognizing word families .................................................................................. 61 Compound words ................................................................................................ 62 Phrasal verbs ...................................................................................................... 63 Words and their meanings ................................................................................. 64 Exercise 22: One word, several meanings ...................................................... 65 Exercise 23: One word, two meanings ........................................................... 67 Guessing meaning from context ......................................................................... 68 Using context clues ............................................................................................. 68 Exercise 24: Identifying context clues ............................................................ 69 Exercise 25: Using context clues to infer meaning ........................................ 70 Using synonyms and antonyms in context ........................................................ 72 Exercise 26: Using synonyms ......................................................................... 72 Exercise 27: Using antonyms ......................................................................... 72 Using definitions, restatements, examples, and explanations .......................... 74 Exercise 28: Using definitions ........................................................................ 74 Exercise 29: Using examples, explanations and restatements ..................... 74 Using the dictionary ........................................................................................... 76 Exercise 30: Putting words in alphabetical order .......................................... 76 Exercise 31: Using guide words...................................................................... 76 Exercise 32: Using phonemic transcription ................................................... 77 Exercise 33: Separating English words into syllables ................................... 77 Focus on compound nouns ............................................................................... 81 Exercise 34: Identifying the head noun ......................................................... 82 Exercise 35: Understanding the form of compound nouns ............................ 83 Exercise 36: Understanding the meaning of compound nouns ..................... 84 Exercise 37: Making and using compound nouns .......................................... 86 Exercise 38: Interpreting –ing and –ed in compound nouns ......................... 87 Focus on linking words ..................................................................................... 89 Emphasis words .................................................................................................. 89 Exercise 39: Recognizing emphasis words ..................................................... 89 Addition words .................................................................................................... 90 Exercise 40: Recognizing addition words ....................................................... 90 Change-of-direction words .................................................................................. 90 Exercise 41: Recognizing change-of-direction words ..................................... 91 Illustration words ............................................................................................... 91 Exercise 42: Recognizing illustration words .................................................. 91 Conclusion words ................................................................................................ 92 Exercise 43: Recognizing conclusion words.................................................... 92 Exercise 44: Identifying linking words .......................................................... 92 Exercise 45: Thinking about linking word role .............................................. 93 Exercise 46: Choosing time and sequence linking words .............................. 94 Exercise 47: Choosing addition and contrast linking words.......................... 94 Exercise 48: Choosing the correct linking word ............................................. 95 Final tips ............................................................................................................... 96 References ............................................................................................................ 97 Apéndices ............................................................................................................. 98 Cuestionario sobre estrategias de lectura en inglés (CELI) ...................... 99 “¡No entiendo lo que leo en inglés!”............................................................... 103 Aprender vocabulario en ingles .......................................................................