Reading

• Guessing Meaning from Context
• Learn How to Work Out the Meanings of New Words from Context
• Practice Working Out the Meanings of New Words from Context
• Reading Skills1 – Understanding words from context
• Lonely Planet2 The Language of Photography
• Degrees of Certainty
• Reading Skills2 – Differentiating Fact from Opinion
• Lonely Planet3 How to Take a Broke Ass Roadtrip

Making Inferences and Predictions

• Learn About Inference
• Practice Inference Skills
• Enhancing Inference Skills Practice 2
• Reading Skills3 – Inferring meaning
• Inference- Reading Articles
• Lonely Planet4 Gay London A Pick Tour of Britains Capital
• Prediction
• Reading the world in 196 books

Main Ideas in Text

• Learn How to Locate the Main Ideas in a Text
• Practice Locating the Main Ideas in a Text
• Practice in Understanding Main Ideas
• Reading Skills4 – Identifying genres
• Lonely Planet1 One Day in Toronto’s Coolest Neighborhood
• Lonely Planet5 Eyes Bigger Than Your Stomach

Types of Texts

• Understanding Text Types
• Understanding Academic Texts – Structure and Purpose

Quick Reviews and Mini Lessons

• Text Cohesion-Conjunctions
• Text Cohesion-Reference
• Text Cohesion (Reference) Pronouns, Lexical Variation, Ellipsis
• Testing your understanding of metaphors
• Understanding Adverbs
• Understanding Figures and Trends

Tips to Improve Reading Speed

• Learn About Skimming and Scanning
• Learn About Speed Reading

Grammar for Specific Purposes

• CRIME and PUNISHMENT with practice activities
• Reading and Vocabulary building – Interstate 80
• Reading academic writing

Grammar for Academic Purposes

• Connotation ICOSA
• Attitude ICOSA
• Reading research articles
• Using Questionnaires in Research
• Doing Reseach Using Surveys and Questionnaires
• Reading and Collecting Research Through Good Survey Questions
• Using Figures in Survey Reports and Explaining Research Graphs
• Reading and Choosing Best Survey Report Discussions