DARING TO BREAKDANCE

1. DARING TO BREAKDANCE New Password 2-Chapter 1-prereading-vocabulary-TF-reading skills

2. Pre-reading

3. talk about these questions. • Do you like to dance? • 2. Do you like to watch people dance?

4. talk about these questions. • 4. What kind of music or dancing do you like? • 3. Do you like to listen to music?

5. talk about these questions. • 5. What do you see in these photos?

6. talk about these questions. • 6. Can you breakdance? • 7. Did you watch somebody breakdance before?

7. Fast reading • Before you read, Let’s look at the words next to the reading.

8. Martial arts • Fighting sports like • karate and judo.

9. gymnastics

10. online

11. thought • Simple past tense of THINK

12. I’m hearing impaired • = • I can’t hear as well as most people can.

13. Fast Reading • Read the text as fast as you can. • Do not use dictionary. • Do not ask your teacher about the vocabulary. • Do not follow with a pen or your finger. It slows you down. • After fast reading, you just need to find the topic & main idea. You don’t have to understand every word or sentence. • You have 3 minutes.

14. Topic & Main idea • Topic: What is the reading about? • Main idea: What does the reading say about the topic?

15. wHAT is the topic? • How to learn to dance • Breakdancers • John Ying

16. wHAT is the topic? • How to learn to dance • Breakdancers • John Ying

17. What is the main idea? • a. Learning to dance is fun and easy. • b. Breakdancers have to find their own style. • c. John Ying worked hard to learn to breakdance.

18. What is the main idea? • a. Learning to dance is fun and easy. • b. Breakdancers have to find their own style. • c. John Ying worked hard to learn to breakdance.

19. Guessing meaning from context?

20. Why didn’t you use dictionary during the first reading?

21. Why didn’t you use dictionary during the first reading? • Because you need to learn guessing meaning from context. You will always have words that you don’t know in your tests, so it is very important to learn guessing.

22. What does context mean?

23. What does context mean? • The words and sentences before and after the word. • Context helps you guess the meaning. • For example, look at the context of describe. “It is not easy to describe breakdancing. John calls it part dance, part martial arts, and part gymnastics.” • In the second sentence, John is giving information about breakdancing. • Describe=tell what something is like

24. vocabulary • Now, we can talk about the vocabulary before careful reading.

25. Describe (v.) • Can you describe your best friend? • Tell what a person or thing looks like, or is like.

26. Basic (adj.) • Girls generally don’t like soccer because they don’t know the basic soccer rules. • Forming the main part of something

27. Add (v.) • I need to add more sugar to my coffee. • Put things together to get more

28. Own (adj) • This is my own car. It is not my husband’s. • Related to a person, another way to say my, your etc.

29. Style (n.) • I always use powerpoints. This is my teaching style. • a way of doing something

30. Respect (n./v.) • My students show respect for me as a teacher. • = • My students respect me as a teacher. • have a feeling about someone that he/she is a good person and does something very well

31. EACH OTHER (PRONOUN) • In class, you should talk to each other in English. • from one person to a second person and from the second person to the first

32. Myself (pronoun) • I sometimes talk to myself. • My sister lives by herself. • Another way to say me • By myself/himself/themselves = alone.

33. Shy (adj.) • She doesn’t dance because she is very shy. She doesn’t want other people to watch her. • Quiet with other people, maybe a little afraid

34. Alone (adj./adv.) • I live alone. I don’t live with my parents. • Not with any other people

35. Get interested in (v.) • In the university, I got interested in Spanish and started to learn Spanish. • Starting to like something

36. Practice (V.) • I am learning to drive, so I practice everyday. • Do something again and again to get better at it

37. Careful reading

38. CAREFUL READING • Read the text carefully. • You can ask your teacher if you don’t understand words and sentences. • After careful reading, you need to answer questions about details.

39. True/false • You need to show the reason for your answer. • (for example, paragraph 2, sentence 1.)

40. True? False? • 1. In the beginning, John was afraid to breakdance.

41. True • 1. In the beginning, John was afraid to breakdance.

42. True? False? • 2. He doesn’t like to dance with other people.

43. False • 2. He doesn’t like to dance with other people.

44. True? False? • 3. John is a high school student.

45. False • 3. John is a high school student.

46. True? False? • 4. Breakdancers do not all dance the same way.

47. True • 4. Breakdancers do not all dance the same way.

48. True? False? • 5. He learned from watching videos of breakdancers.

49. True • 5. He learned from watching videos of breakdancers.

50. True? False? • 6. John started learning to breakdance at his university.