Idiom of the day:
"Can't see the wood for the trees" (U.K.)
"Can't see the forest for the trees." (U.S.)
This means that you are unable to the see the whole situation clearly because you are looking too closely at the details. It is also used to describe people who can not understand a situation because they are too involved in it.
I think that this is a good metaphor for the problems of reading in a foreign language. Sometimes we are so confused by words we don't know that we forget to look at the information that the structure of the text gives us to help us work out the meaning. Consider this when you are next reading in English.
Reading Skills
Understanding structure - text-paragraph-sentence-linking
BEC Masterclass pp. 32 - 33
Vocabulary
To crack a market = to enter a new market successfully.
Competition (uncountable noun), competitor (countable noun), competitive (adjective)
Highly - extremely, intensely
Major - principal, main
Fierce - strong, tough
Pronunciation
Tough /tʌf/
Homework
Practice your listening strategies with a scene from a film you have already seen. See procedure below:
A Quick Exercise to Try at Home
Choose a film you know and have already seen. Choose a five minute scene which has some dialogue.
Watch it first without subtitles – what can you understand? Is there anything you don’t understand?
Watch it again with the subtitles. Was the problem due to vocabulary or fast connected speech? If you find a new word, look it up in your dictionary. If the problem was fast connected speech, listen to the phrase again and repeat it.
Now watch the scene again, this time without subtitles and see how much more you understand.
This exercise takes only 15 to 30 minutes and is a really useful way of developing your listening skills and improving your vocabulary.
If the film does not have subtitles available in English, you can always look at the script to check your understanding. You can find film scripts to most films on the following sites: The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) http://www.imsdb.com or Drew's Script-O-Rama http://www.script-o-rama.com
Taken from:
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442630/Film%20Lessons
Homework
Practice your listening strategies with a scene from a film you have already seen. See procedure below:
A Quick Exercise to Try at Home
Choose a film you know and have already seen. Choose a five minute scene which has some dialogue.
Watch it first without subtitles – what can you understand? Is there anything you don’t understand?
Watch it again with the subtitles. Was the problem due to vocabulary or fast connected speech? If you find a new word, look it up in your dictionary. If the problem was fast connected speech, listen to the phrase again and repeat it.
Now watch the scene again, this time without subtitles and see how much more you understand.
This exercise takes only 15 to 30 minutes and is a really useful way of developing your listening skills and improving your vocabulary.
If the film does not have subtitles available in English, you can always look at the script to check your understanding. You can find film scripts to most films on the following sites: The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) http://www.imsdb.com or Drew's Script-O-Rama http://www.script-o-rama.com
Taken from:
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442630/Film%20Lessons
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