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

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