1. Entertainment and the Media

2. Recognizing Reading Structure: Using an Outline An outline 3. The main ideas and subtopics of the reading can appear after numbers (I, II, III, IV) 2. The topic is usually the title of the outline 4. The supporting details or examples are written under the main ideas after capital letters(A, B, C) 1. It shows the relationship of the topics, main ideas, supporting details or examples. 5. Sometimes the supporting details have more details. Those can be written after numbers(1,2,3)

3. Title(Topic) I.Main Idea (introduction) A.Supporting Details 1.Details 2.Details II.Main Idea(body) A.Supporting Details 1.Details 2.Details B.Supporting Details 1.Details 2.Details C.Supporting Details 1.Details 2.Details III.Main Idea (conclusion) A.Supporting Details 1.Details 2.Details

4. Summarizing a Story: A story has a plot. What is a plot? A plot is a sequence of events in a story? A reading selection or paragraph that describes a plot is most often organized in time order (one event follows another)

5. How to summarize a story? 1. To prepare to summarize a plot, you might number the main events in the reading material. 2. Write an introduction to set the scene, and tell the most important things that happened.

6. Understanding Word Families: Word families are groups of related words of various pats of speech. Within a word family of related forms, some words can be used as more than one part of speech. For example, increase can be used both as a noun and a verb. Two or more nouns with different suffixes 1. Names an idea: psychology (a field of study) 2. A related noun with a different ending is a word for a person: psychologist (a specialist in psychology)

7. Word Families: There may be related words of the same part of speech with meanings that are a little different from each other. Example: Vision: noun/mental picture Visionary: noun/ a person with clear ideas of the future

8. Word Families: Example: Classic: (adjective) / long important and popular Classical: (adjective) / based on traditional ideas