江苏省常州高级中学 Dong Yan
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Name: Dong Yan
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 1985.2 Height: 176.5cm Current Occupation: Teacher Life Motto: Tomorrow is another day!
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KGB Putin
President Putin
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Bad boy in Queens
Pop musician
Promising basketballer
A story to share…
Life values
Language help Information
Beyond reading (more active mental activites involved) Intensive reading
Title: Gist: Qualities:
Artest vs Bryant? The newcomer of Lakers, Artest, is believed to have conflicts with Kobe due to his bad temper and high basketball skills. Emotional, talented, self-centered… Equivalent, punch, nominate, pull off, have a fit (at), dramatic, swallow one‟s pride, insult… “And basketball like drama, is all about conflict.”
Comprehensive reading
Pioneer aviator recalled Life story of Amelia Earhart, the first woman pilot. Confident, curious, brave, independent Like nothing better than…, dramatize, occasionally, thereby
Confident, curious,
brave, independent…
Talented, next-door girl, ambitious, brave, aspiring…
Modest, independent and brainy…
Emotional, talented, self-centered…
tough

talented
ambitious/ aspiring

“I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but it‟s not all I want to do.”
Tough, decisive, strong in both mind and body…
Idol: ?
Gist (main idea) Qualities of your idol
(supportive information from thFra bibliotek article)
Language difficulties
(expressions that you find difficult to digest)
Language difficulties: Language appreciation:
“Before Ostrom, the accepted view was that commons are poorly managed and need to be either managed centrally or privatized.”
Language difficulties:
Language “Ten years on, Putin is still attracting appreciation: attention, not just for his political
achievements, but (also for) his physical strength.”
Language difficulties:
Language fear that Artest will poison the appreciation: “Many good thing they have going the goo
thing they have going in LA. ”
Title: Gist: Qualities: Language difficulties:
Target
• What you want to search
Locate
• Where you can find it
Conclusion
• If you cannot get what you want directly

People in China and across the world still remember his tough guy image from … At age 8, an agent discovered here after watching her perform in a school play. She started with small roles, and left school after 7th grade to continue acting fulltime.
“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—thereby establishing themselves Language as persons, and perhaps encouraging appreciation: other women toward greater independence of thought and action.”
Language appreciation
(expressions that you find instructive to your language use)
Title: Gist: Qualities:
Star Returns 19-year-old Kristen Stewart comes to fame and is still growing in the entertainment field. Talented, next-door girl, ambitious, brave, aspiring… rise to fame, hit, star with…, portray, depression, legend “…nothing compares to Twilight, which made her a star beyond her wildest expectations.” “Lucily, Stewart will be turning to happier projects in the future.”
Title: Gist: Qualities:
„Commons‟ prof wins economics Nobel Elinor Ostrom wins economics Nobel for his study o commons management.
Modest, independent and brainy… enter a new era, capability of doing…, privatize, be better run “Ostrom said it was „a great thrill and a very big surprise‟ to win the Nobel.”
Read for gist
Headline
Topic paragraph /sentence
Other info
Lead / hook
Who? what? where? when? why?
Detail 1,2,3…
Inverted pyramid of a news article
Read for specific details
Language difficulties: Language appreciation:
Title: Gist: Qualities:
Putin‟s decade at top From an unknown person to one of the most famous politician—Putin‟s great achievement in the past decade Tough, decisive, strong in both mind and body… run for (presidency), respondent, approve of…, approach “Ten years ago, an unknown Vladimir Putin stepped onto the world stage.”