reading skill

1. Reading skill
Learning to Look for The Topic

2. What is a topic?
A topic is a world or phrase ( a few words) that tells
what something is about. You will learn to look for
the topic when you read. The key to
understanding what you read. It also helps you
remember.

3. Finding the topic
in the groups of words in the following examples,
one of the words is the topic for all the other
words. You will choose which word is the topic.
You may not know the meaning of all the words,
but do not use a dictionary when you work on
these exercises. Work with another students and
try to guess the meaning of any new words. After
you finish each exercise, you may look in the
dictionary to get the meaning of words you could
not guess.

4. Example:
 the topic is ( the other words are name of
sport.)
a. Football
b. Baseball
c. Tennis
d. Sports
e. Skiing
The answer is d (sports)

5. Thinking of the topic
In the following exercise, the topic is not included in
the group of words. You must think of a for the
words.

6. Example:
 Topic : …………………………………………
Knife
Spoon
Cup
Bowl
Fork
Chopsticks
(the answer is things for eating and dringking)

7. Thank you