Foundation year
WEEK TWO
English Language
Reading - ENGL 102
Lecturer: Ola Ahmed Refaat
Academic year 2015 / 2016
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Points to be covered this week:
What is Nonfiction? (p. 12)
Reading “I’ll Think of It”.
New Vocabulary in your reading. (Ex. 1 p. 4 + Ex. 3 p.
6)
Word Parts. (Ex. 1 p. 62 + Ex. 3 p. 65)
Synonyms. (Ex. 9 p.93)
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What is Nonfiction?
• Nonfiction is about real people, places, or things, for
example, history, science, psychology, travel, nature, a
person’s biography, or other real-life subjects. In
nonfiction
books,
the
writer
gives
facts
and
information that he or she says are true.
3
Word Parts:
Word parts are often made of different parts. If you know
the meaning of some of the parts, you can easily
understand the meaning of the whole word.
The ROOT is the most important part of a word.
e.g.:
Helpless (help + less)
The root of the previous word is (HELP) and we add the
suffix (LESS) to be part of the word.
4
Prefixes and Suffixes:
A Prefix is a part added before the root. A prefix before the
root changes the meaning of the word.
e.g.: Unpleasant (un + pleasant)
Prefix
Root
There are many prefixes that mean NOT. Such as, dis-,
im-, non-, un-, ir-, in-.
Sometimes a hyphen (-) is put between the prefix and the
root.
5
A Suffix is a part added after the root. A suffix after the
root usually changes the part of speech of a word, and it
sometimes changes the meaning.
e.g.: Pleasantly (pleasant + ly)
Root
Suffix
Sometimes the spelling of the root changes when you add
a suffix.
e.g.: Happy + ness
Happiness (y
i)
Some suffixes don’t change the part of speech. They
change the meaning.
e.g.: Small + er
smaller (both are adjectives but
smaller = more small)
6
Synonyms:
A synonym is a word or phrase that has the same or
similar meaning as another word or phrase. Writers often
use synonyms in order not to repeat words.
Sometimes the synonymous word or phrase is very similar
in meaning.
e.g.: little = small
enjoy = like
Writers can also use words or phrases that have a similar
meaning but are more specific or more general.
e.g.: animal = cat
business = store
7
Assignment:
Ex. 3 p.48.
Ex. 2 p.63 + Ex. 4 p.66.
Ex. 10 p.94.
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References:
1. Reading Power 2 [Fourth Edition].
2. Some internet sites, such as ISL collective.com, K12
Reader (Reading Instruction Resources), Cambridge
University Press, and English For Everyone.org.
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