FOCUS ON READING COMPREHENSION

Remember that reading comprehension is a skill you should use and improve as much as you can. I have already mentioned this in several previous articles. The importance of reading, and reading everything and anything cannot be underestimated! The more you read, the more vocabulary you will absorb. You may not realise all the new words you are learning, but you are... all the time. Read all sorts of texts: short and longer stories, magazine articles, newspapers, commercials, advertisements, brochures, leaflets, the dictionary, textbooks, children's books, the Internet, labels on bottles, boxes and jars, medicine containers, etc...

Below I include several useful links, some with exercises for you to do to test your comprehension, others just to read through. Make a firm proposal to read something in English every day, apart from what you may do at school. One day, what you read now, may be enormously useful in some situation you cannot even imagine!

http://beewebhead.net/exos/endiva.html

http://school.discovery.com/quizzes/cc_bdieu/time.html

http://beewebhead.net/exos/mong.html

What was school like in Shakespeare's time?

http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome.htm

http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/reading/pepper.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/reading/hiker.htm

http://www.seussville.com/main.php?section=home&isbn=&catalogID=&eventID=

http://www.shelsilverstein.com/play.asp