Read Your Text, Please!!!!

i face this kind of problem with some students of mind. they are from various grade (from elementary school up to senior high school). they don't like to read a text and answer some questions base on the text, either in multiple choice or filling blanks. personally i like to read text ( i mean any text) so, i don't understand why students have difficulties with this. these are what i share to my students:

1. read the whole text. for the first time, it seems wasting your time, but believe me, by read the whole text first, you'll familiar with the words and the grammatical pattern. you'll also recognize the type of the text.

2. while scanning your text, you'll find some difficult words. underline them and find the meaning. some of my students said, "miss, all words of the text are difficult for me. what should i do?" usually I'll answer "so, underline all of them and translate them!" :P well, believe me, you'll have more than ten difficult words for the first time, later it will reduce until what you find are only that real difficult words. in fact i still do it up to now. :P

3. in english text, there are always the word "it"; "them", and other pronoun. try to find what those pronoun refers to. what subjects they replace. it helps you understand more about the text and helps you to be familiar with "it refers to ...." type of questions.

hopefully this post could help you
have a nice try

Make Your Own Card

yup, guys. lets be creative today.
this time i wanna share a little creativity that is to make your own word card.
what you need are paper (a good one or a thick one), list of words, marker, scissors.
what you need to do?
just cut your paper in size 4 x 7 (or 10) but i usually use the size of poker card
then write the word on your list. a card for a word
i usually make word list with large font so i can cut it and put them together with paper glue
now, you have your own word card.

ok, maybe some of you will be wondering why i should take myself to do such children creativity :P
its because i tried to find such card but i couldn't find it. :P so i decided to make it by myself

have a nice try