Academic reading

September 29


Objective: To study some strategies to improve our ability to read academic texts and explore the topic of our projects.

Academic Reading  Workshop 1


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Reading Strategies:



Project Homework

Look for an academic article in English about the problem you will be addressing with your project proposal.

You may find an academic paper in this database:


The university also counts on databases available for the academic community using the username and password:http://sinab.unal.edu.co/index.php/recursos-bibliograficos/bases-de-datos



October 4

ANALYSIS OF TERMINOLOGY: The purpose of this reading strategy is to increase your vocabulary on the topic by building a glossary of terms or words from the text

Prefixes and Suffixes

Watch and read the explanation about prefixes and suffixes and take notes in your notebook:

Prefixes and Suffixes Video
Prefixes and Suffixes Explanation



https://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Vocab_PrefixSuffix_L3_V1_T3a.swf


http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/prefixes-suffixes/ps005-adjective-suffixes.htm

Jeopardy: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/adjectives-prefixes-suffixes-extreme-adjectives-opposites-jeopardy-game/

TIP

Nouns often end: -ment, -ion, -ness, -ity.
People nouns often end: -er, -or, -ist, -ian.
Adjectives often end: -able, -ible, -ive, -al, -ic, -ed, -ing.
Some verbs end: -ise, -ate, -en.
Adverbs often end: -ly.


Parts of speech

Watch and read the explanation about parts of speech and take notes in your notebook:





Reading Homework

Choose one of the texts below, read it by using the studied reading strategies, and take the quiz to check your knowledge:

Project homework:

A. ANALYSIS OF CONTEXT, PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE OF TEXTS:
In order to analyze a text we should take into account the following aspects:

To recognize the context of a text you should ask questions such as:
Who wrote the text?
When was the text written?
Where was the text written?
Where was the text published?

To recognize the purpose of the text you should consider the following intentions:

Does the text intend to Inform, narrate, recount, describe or illustrate a fact? 

To recognize the audience of a text you should ask the following questions?

According to the level of difficulty of the language used, the topics or ideas complexity, the organization of the text, or the level of formality, is the text written for... (children, adults, students, researchers, etc.)

B.  Analysis of terminology and parts of speech:

Build a glossary with unknown words from the text. Write the definition of the word in English and the part of speech of it. You should use a monolingual dictionary to define the words:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

If the word is a specific term of a field of knowledge you can use Technical Dictionaries:http://www.engineering-dictionary.org/Materials-Science-and-Engineering-Dictionary/


October 6
The ocean cleanup




What is the video about?
What is the problem described in the video?
What were his motivations to solve this problem?
How is he going to tackle this problem?



Academic Reading  Workshop 2





October 11 

 Reading strategy 

 C. Graphic Organizers: 

 They organize, classify and summarize the information of the text using an appropriate graphic organizer. Remember that the purpose of a graphic organizer is to represent graphically the main themes or ideas of a text and the logical relations existing among them. 

 You can use the following graphic organizers according to the text you chose:
 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/ http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/spanish/ http://edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm 

  You can also design your own graphic with an online tool:

SpiderScribe
https://bubbl.us/ 

Choose the most appropriate graphic organizer for your project. 
Take a look at the following graphic organizer: 

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