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Reading Strategies
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Closed Q (open vragen)
Multiple choice Q
Steps:
Unknown word?
Steps:
Don't stress:
- Figure out if you even need the word!
- See if the same word appears somewhere else.
Finding specific information
- Try to find the word’s meaning in the context:
Specific text types
- Still no idea? Use dictionary.
- In dictionary: don’t use the first word, check context!
Scanning
Another tool to find specific information
Tips & Tricks
• An answer needs to be 100% correct!
• Two answers are often nonsense!
• Always read all of the answers!
• The right answer is usually the same thing, but in different words!
• The answer doesn’t have to be your opinion!
• There’s no system in the answers!
Gap fillers (invulvragen)
Steps:
One last tip
Don't take everything literally!
Mind the double meanings / figurative language!
Questions?
Finding information in a text
First step?
What's next?
Next step:
Step 1: scanning the text
Types of questions
- Multiple choice
- Gap fillers (invulvragen)
- Closed questions (open vragen)
Types of texts
- Columns
- Stories
- Nursery rhymes
- Manuals
and so on.....
- Articles
- newspaper
- facts/information
- opinion
- magazines
- Advertisements
Reading Texts
1. Scan the tekst (step 1), use ELZA.
2. Read the paragraph you need carefully. See if that’s enough!
3. Try to think of the Dutch word that would fit in.
4. Choose the best translation from the answers given.
5. Check if the other answers are actually wrong.
6. Cannot find the right translation? Cross out the incorrect English answers.
7. Time enough? Find the other answers in a dictionary.
8. Still time left? Reread the Q&A.
Reading the text?
Check the text's
- type
- title
- headings (subtitels)
- topic
- structure
- source
- audience
1. Scan the tekst (step 1)
2. Use your own knowledge.
3. Read the first and last lines of each paragraph (ELZA)
4. Read the paragraph mentioned in the question (use ELZA?)
5. Look at the linking words
6. Formulate your own answer
7. Find an answer that matches yours
8. Time left? Review the Q&A.
1. Read the Q carefully.
2. Look at how the sections are ordered.
3. Read headings etc., and decide which section you’ll read.
4. Write down the correct number of answers.
5. Check if you’ve fully answered the question.
1. Scan the tekst (step 1)
2. Find the paragraph that’s mentioned in the Q (if possible).
3. Always answer your question in Dutch, and keep them short!
4. Only answer the question. (Giving a reason = mention the first one!)
5. Stick to the word count.
6. Quoting: use the first and last two words of (the part of) the sentence.
longer article/information
ELZA
newspaper article (facts)
important - less important
type of text or question
- Type of word?
- Pre- or suffixes?
- Doe it look like a word in another language?
- Clues in the text?
NO!
Guess again!