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Reading Comprehension
Beginner Personal Development

Reading Comprehension

Read any text with confidence and understand what it really says. Starting from zero, you learn to find the main idea and the details that support it, to work out unknown words from the context, to read between the lines, to recognize the author's purpose and point of view, and to handle the texts of everyday life: news, notices, instructions, receipts and contracts. Short passages, plenty of practice and no school jargon.

5 modules 10 lessons 4 h 250 questions
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Course content

1 Main Idea and Details 2 lessons · 12 min
1 Find the Main Idea 6:05 2 Details and Summaries 6:03
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2 Vocabulary in Context 2 lessons · 14 min
3 Unknown Words: Use the Clues 6:57 4 Words With More Than One Meaning 7:17
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3 Inferences 2 lessons · 13 min
5 Reading Between the Lines 6:05 6 Predictions and Hidden Causes 6:25
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4 Author's Purpose and Point of View 2 lessons · 13 min
7 Why Was This Written? Facts and Opinions 6:40 8 Tone, Ads and Critical Reading 6:32
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5 Everyday Texts 2 lessons · 13 min
9 News, Instructions and Notices 6:38 10 Bills, Contracts and Suspicious Messages 6:41
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Tips

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Main Idea Say the main idea in one sentence If you cannot, you have not found it yet Main Idea Look first at the first and last sentences The key sentence often hides there Main Idea Ask of each detail: what is this proving? Details are there to support something Main Idea Summarize with your own words Keep the main idea, drop the small stuff