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Reading Strategies for the Referent Skill

Reading Strategies for the Referent Skill. Samar Aal. Try to identify the referent of the following words. 1. A large group of prey may be easier for a predator to find at any given time than is a small one.

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Reading Strategies for the Referent Skill

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  1. Reading Strategies for the Referent Skill Samar Aal

  2. Try to identify the referent of the following words 1. A large group of prey may be easier for a predator to find at any given time than is a small one. 2. The other called the binder is the liquid into which the pigment is applied.

  3. 3. Arctic people must not only defend themselves from the environment and wild animals, but they must also protect these natural resources. 4. Amnesty international consists of over 900 groups of individuals who work for the release of political prisoners incarcerated for their believes.

  4. 5. In 1863, when a Hungarian count recognized the potentials of Californian soil and sun for growing wine grapes, he planted the first European varietythere near the town of Sonoma. 6. The first complete American dictionary was compiled in 1828 Noah Webster, the lawyer who was eager to show at this time that the English spoken in America was distinct form that spoken in Britain.

  5. 7 . Horatio Alger wrote in many of his books about the poor and homeless children of the slums of NYC seeing them as unfortunate pawns of society who if given the opportunity could improve their lot. 8. The acute schizophrenia, unlike the simple one, shows a sudden onset of the disease rather than a slow progression from one stage of it to the other.

  6. A TOEFL paragraph Exxon Valdez Decades before this disaster , environmentalists had predicated just such an enormous oil spill in this area because of the treacherous nature of the waters due to the submerged reefs, icebergs ,and violent storms there. They had urged that oil be transported to the continental United States by land-based lines rather than by oil tankers. • The word “they” in the paragraph refers to : a. Decades b. Waters c. Environmentalists d. Icebergs

  7. Guidelines to answer the question 1. Read only one sentence if the referent is in the middle of the sentence. Read two sentences if the referent is in the beginning of the sentence. 2. Take into account the grammar aspect of the referent and what it refers to. 3. Eliminate 4. Replace and read the sentence

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