Calicut Times

Reading English Newspaper can help us improve our reading ability, learn more vocabulary and let us know what has happened in the world. We can read newspaper via the methods below: a. Turn to the front page. Read the headlines to know what has happened, because the most important things are put on the front page. b. Choose the first five articles that attract you. Then read the first two to three of them. c. If you want to read more, you can turn to other columns, such as sport. Then choose the top five articles, read their title and the first paragraph. We can use these methods to reduce the time we read the newspapers meanwhile keep us informed of important events. 　　 　 　　 A: Reading English Newspaper can improve EFL students’ ability of vocabulary and the skill of reading. But it doesn’t mean that you need to look over the all content in the newspapers. First, you can find the topics you interest. Then, just read these topics you scan. You also don’t finish every paragraph of them. If the content is really interesting for you, read it thoroughly. So you may get good mood to read what you interest. Gradually, you are able to absorb many kinds of new information and have good storage of vocabulary. 　　 　 　　 A: Because reading newspaper can improve our reading and writing skill as well as increasing vocabulary, it benefits us to study English. English newspaper contains many useful and common words. Moreover, one can acquire international news from reading English newspaper. How do we read it to achieve reading efficiency? a. First, we should choose the right newspaper to read and not choose some tabloid newspaper which contains gossips and poor language. b. Then, choose some articles to read but skip articles which are not interesting and less important to your interest or need. c. Before reading the articles, read the headline of each article first to choose five articles which interest you. d. Just read each article its first and second paragraph which will provide you general ideas about the event you’re reading. 　　 　 　　 A: Reading English newspapers can improve reading skills, increase English vocabulary and learn more things to write. But we need to know how to read newspaper well if it’s going to turn out an advantage to us. First, make the newspaper thinner. This means just read the headline, the topic of the article, then find the interesting sections that you like. Second, browse every article you like just one or two paragraphs. Read no more than five articles. You can understand what it is talking about and you don’t want to waste your time, right? Third, read more about the article you like by reading the information containing “when”, “where”, “what”, “who”, and “how”. That will help you read quickly. The last one, don’t be afraid of new words. You can understand what it means in the context.A: Everyday read five articles. Don’t be demanding. It’s enough. Besides, you heed to read every title about the article and choose five articles which you are interested in. Constantly read newspapers everyday. That will help you increase your vocabulary. Remember words through context and frequently expose yourself to these words. Once they appear several times, you will remember them easily. You read more, you can write better essays because your knowledge is adequate to provide interesting ideas to talk about. Shortly, reading English newspaper will not only upgrade your language ability but also become more knowledgeable.