Ingles Basico

TIPS FOR READING COMPREHENSION

1.-Observe the illustrations

2.- Check the title.

3.- Underline cognates.

4.- Circle known words.

5.- Box new words and look for then into the dictionary.

The Story of Valentine's Day

February 14th is Valentines Day - a worldwide celebration of love and romance, marked by giving red roses and chocolate hearts or by sending valentines.

Often derided as a "Hallmark holiday," Valentines Day - also known as Saint Valentines Day - is certainly a boom for greeting card companies, florists and chocolatiers. But long before the mass marketing, Valentine’s Day was still a high point for courtly love.

COGNATES

TRUE

FALSE

ACTOR

 actor

GERMAN

 Germán

 alemán

ATTRACTIVE

 atractiva

COME

 Comer

 Venir

COMPUTER

 computadora

PAN

 Pan

 sartén

COGNATES

(TRUE AND FALSE)

1.-Read carefully next text and underline all cognates you find in it.

TEN AMAZING FACTS ABOUTS ENGLISH TODAY

1.-One million people speak English. That’s 20% of the world’s population.

2.-400 million people speak English as their first language. For the other 600 million

is either a second language or a foreign language.

3.- The number Chinese people learning English today is bigger than the population

of the United States.

4.-There are more than 500,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Compare

that with the vocabulary of German about 200,00 and French about 100,000.

5.- 80% of all the information in the world’s computers is in English.

6.-Nearly 50% of all the companies in Europe communicate with each other in

English.

7.-English is just one of the over 27000 languages in the world today.

8.- 75% of all international letters and faxes are in English.

9.- 80% of all English vocabulary comes from other languages.

10.- When the American spaceship “Voyager” began its journey in l977, it carried a

gold disc. On the disc there were messages in 55 languages. The first one was a

message in English from the Secretary General of the United States.

COGNATES EXERCISE

I.-Underline cognates you find in the text.

II.- Enlist them and write the number line you found each one.

III.-Write the “meaning” in Spanish

IV.-Look at the dictionary the cognates and write the correct meaning of them.

V.- Select “True” if the meaning is correct or FALSE if it is incorrect.

COGNATES True False

ENGLISH LINE “MEANING” TRUE MEANING

THAT’S CURIOUS¡

FALSE FRIENDS OR FALSE COGNATES

FALSE COGNATE

FALSE MEANING

TRUE MEANING

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