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Extensive Reading( July, 2006 for students of 2006): College English Reading Course Book I—Nov. 2002, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press Extensive Reading—Units 12,Book 1 Unit 1 Text 1: Goodbye School (15 minutes) 1. General Comprehension of the text How did the author spend his time between leaving school and starting work? What priority should a businessman have according to the author? What is the author’s plan after graduation and why? What is your comment on his decision? Extensive Reading—Units 12,Book 1 Reading Skills: Using Word Part clues to guess word meanings (part Ⅰ) Recognizing Prefixes: in- (inhospitable), un- (uninhabitable), out- (outfit), … Recognizing Suffixes: -worthy (trustworthy), -ity (responsibility), -less (hopeless),… Reading for the main idea: recognizing topics Extensive Reading—Units 12,Book 1 Reading for the Main Idea Main idea questions test your understanding of the entire passage. They don’t include specific quotations from the passage. Instead, they ask broad questions that focus on the passage’s primary purpose. Unlike themes and arguments questions (question type 5), main idea questions do not concern the author’s opinions on the subject—they just focus on the subject or idea itself. Main idea questions cover things such as: . Extensive Reading—Units 12,Book 1 What’s the primary purpose of the passage? What main idea is the author trying to convey? Why did the author write it? The best way to deal with main idea questions is to come up with a one-sentence summary of the passage Extensive Reading—Units 12,Book 1 Grasping the Main Idea: A paragraph is a group of sentences related to a particular topic, or central theme. Every paragraph has a key concept or main idea. The main idea is the most important piece of information the author wants you to know about the concept of that paragraph. When authors write they have an idea in mind that they are trying to get across. This is especially true as authors compose par