The document discusses strategies for reading comprehension, including using prior knowledge, pre-reading, reading, scanning, and making inferences. It also discusses using nonverbal information like pictures, figures and graphics to understand texts. The document provides examples and exercises to help readers practice these comprehension strategies.

1. The Environment
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2. What do you know about
this topic?

3. Previous Knowledge
This strategy consists of using
our previous knowledge about
the text in order to make
predictions about the
information we’re going to read
about. It can help us
understand new information
more easily.

4. PRE-READING
Look at the format of the text.
How is the text divided?
What will the text be about?
What do you know about it?

5. READING
Read the first and second parts of
the text and underline cognates.
Now, talk to your partner. What did
you understand about those parts?

6. Write down a sentence to summarize
YOUR idea. Begin like this:
The objective of this conference is
to...

7. Read the third and forth parts of the
text and underline cognates.
Now, talk to your partner. What did you
understand about those parts?
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8. SCANNING:
We use this strategy when we
need to find specific pieces of
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information. That means that we
concentrate on the parts of the
text that we need, ignoring the
others.

9. Now let’s see how well you’ve
understood the text!
The conference will have 2 main
themes:
1–
2–

10. 2c – What are the seven areas
identified as priority by Rio+20?
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11. Now, based on the contexts given, choose
the best alternative for the words in bold.
• Making Inferences
It’s possible to deduce the meaning of
many words we don’t know by analyzing
the context where they are used.
The context + our previous
knowledge will usually help us
make good, consistent predictions!

12. Examples:
2. Many people want to lose WEIGHT. To
reduce WEIGHT, they eat less, eliminate
carbohydrates from their diet, exercise
to burn calories, etc.
3. I’ve just bought a MAZDA so I drive to
work now.
4. Rachel wants to become a doctor so she
studies very HARD to pass Vestibular
and start University.

13. Nonverbal information
• Nonverbal information is the information brought by
pictures, figures, graphics, etc. It’s important to observe
it carefully in the texts, because it may bring extra
information or simplify the ideas of the text, like the
Institutional framework for sustainable development:

14. DISCUSSION...

15. What have you learned
today?
• Write your answer on a sheet of
paper and give it to your teacher.
Don’t forget to add your name.