9. idiom, re 1 vocab and summarizing
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Transcript of 9. idiom, re 1 vocab and summarizing
Reading 3IECP
Fall 2014Nikki Mattson
PARTNERS
• Choose a partner who you don’t know well and/or someone who speaks a different 1st language.
Agenda
• idiom• RE 1 vocabulary, reading and
summarizing
Put in on a/the back burner• Postpone (wait on) thinking about an issue
or working on a project
Practice• What is something that you have put on the
backburner recently? What are you doing instead?
______• I don’t want to do any HW, so let’s put that on
the backburner and…• I don’t have to get a job yet, so I’m planning
to put my applications on the backburner and…
Reading Explorer: Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Pg. 11 - …and a few friends in a boat commenced their journey from Edo on May 16, 1689.
Pg. 11 – He has an open, friendly manner and a contagious intensity of spirit.
Pg. 11 – Early in the evening I hire a boat, which slowly navigates the Sumidagawa River almost to Tokyo Bay…
Pg. 12 – Many people arrive at Matsushima on ferries.
The ferries sail past Niwo Island, whose shape resembles a submarine…
Pg. 12 - …some are piled double on each other, or even triple, and some are divided at one end and overlapping at the
other.
Pg. 12 – Some bear others on their backs; some seem to embrace them, as if caressing their offspring…
Pg. 12 – Basically, about 800 years ago a woman tried to flee from a powerful official with her small child
along the cliffs.
Pg. 13 – Cormorants are birds that can be trained to dive and catch fish, which the fisherman retrieve by reaching into the
cormorant’s throats.
Pre-reading• What will you read about?
– A writer and photographer from National Geographic who followed the path that Matsuo Basho traveled in 1689.
• Who was Matsuo Basho?– A Japanese poet who walked for five months trough the villages and mountains of
Japan. During and after his journey, Basho produced his great work entitled Narrow Road to a Far Province.
– Today, thousands of people visit the village where Basho was born, the shrine where he is buried, and the path that he travelled through Japan.
• Questions to think about while you are reading…• 1) Where did Norman and Yamashita (the writer and photographer) travel to?
• 2) What are some similarities and differences between what the National Geographic travelers experienced and what Basho would have experienced over 300 years before their journey?
• Read 1 paragraph silently. Stop.• Orally summarize the paragraph with your
partner.• Repeat these steps until you have finished
the text
Reading and Oral Summarizing
Extra Time?
• Complete Reading Explorer pgs. 14-15
HW
• Complete VP 3 and check answers (no group work tasks)
• 3A = quiz on meanings Monday• 3B = quiz on meanings Tuesday