Good morning mu dear student today you are going to solve the exam and color a worksheet.
Review:
- Main ideas and supporting
ideas
- Identify what the text is mainly about.
- Distinguish between the author’s central
argument and secondary details.
- Types of texts
- Argumentative texts: Present opinions with
reasons or evidence.
- Informative texts: Provide facts and
explanations.
- Be able to recognize the type of text and its
purpose.
- Author’s tone and intention
- Neutral, critical,
persuasive, informative, etc.
- Pay attention to the vocabulary and style the
author uses.
- Inference
- Some answers are not stated directly in the
text. You must deduce them from the information provided.
- Details and vocabulary in
context
- Read carefully to answer questions about
specific causes, consequences, or examples mentioned in the text.
Strategies
for the exam:
- Read the text carefully before looking at the
questions.
- Eliminate options that clearly do not fit.
- Be careful with distractors: some options may look correct but do not fully answer the question.
Key Vocabulary
General skills
- Main idea → idea principal
- Supporting details →
detalles de apoyo
- Topic → tema
- Purpose → propósito
- Audience → audiencia
- Tone → tono
- Inference → inferencia
- Evidence → evidencia
- Argument → argumento
- Point of view → punto de
vista
Types of
texts
- Narrative → narrativo
- Argumentative →
argumentativo
- Informative / expository →
informativo / expositivo
- Descriptive → descriptivo
- Persuasive → persuasivo
Question
words
- According to the text → según el texto
- What is implied? → ¿qué se
implica?
- What can be inferred? → ¿qué
se puede inferir?
- The author suggests that… → el autor sugiere
que…
- The passage states that… →
el pasaje afirma que…
Common
verbs in texts
- To claim → afirmar
- To argue → argumentar
- To suggest → sugerir
- To warn → advertir
- To describe → describir
- To highlight → resaltar
- To state → declarar /
señalar
- To explain → explicar
Useful
nouns and concepts
- Misinformation →
desinformación
- Interaction → interacción
- Relationship → relación
- Communication → comunicación
- Biodiversity → biodiversidad
- Deforestation →
deforestación
- Climate change → cambio
climático
- Consequence → consecuencia
- Challenge → desafío
- Benefit → beneficio
