- don’t understand a word?
- Is this word a verb, an adjective, a noun, etc.?
- Does this word have a positive/negative/neutral meaning?
- Do I know a part of this word?
- don’t understand a structure?
- Divide the sentence into smaller pieces
- use the context: what's happening? who's speaking? where and when? does my interpretation make any sense in that context?
- you can often disregard adjectives
- look for word pairs: confident and imperturbable
Resources for practising reading comprehension
- Lingro: type in any website in English and you will be able to click on unknown words and get a dictionary definition in English! Super useful for building new vocabulary!
- Englishpage.com Reading Room: lots of free online newspapers, magazines and books.
- Abitreenit: all the matriculation exams, along with the correct answers, from the past eight years.
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