Students learning teams

Reading skill: skimming and scanning

1. Skim: we skim a text to get a general idea about a text or identify the main ideas in a text.
- Don’t read every word(move your eyes quickly over the text)
- Read the title and subheadings
- Read the introduction or the first paragraph
- Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph
- Read the last paragraph
2. Scan: we scan a text to find specific information(specific fact, specific word, answer to a specific question)
- Think about the form of the answer to the question
- Ask yourself the question repeatedly
- Move your eyes over several lines

Vocabulary skill: learning collocations

A collocation is a group of words that are often used together.
Examples: get sick, look at/ for, go fishing, interested in, tired of, close friend, make mistake, have a cold
Learning team: a group of student who study together
Academic success: success in teaching or learning process
Peers: someone who is in the same position with sb else
Textbook: a book that you study in the class about one subject
Achievement: a big success, accomplishment
Satisfaction: the feeling of pleasure after achieving something
Reveal: to show something that was covered
Senior: a person with a high position
Crucial: extremely important and necessary
Collaborate: to work together with the other people
Team up with: get together with
Vice versa: the opposite of what has been said
Assigned: given to you as job
Margin notes: the notes at the sides a text
Anxiety: a feeling of worry that something bad will happen
Locate: to find the location or address of someone or something
Maximum: having the highest possible level, amount, number
Subsequent: coming or happening next
Full potential: complete effectiveness
Insufficient: ineffective
Contribute: to help someone by giving something
Diversity: the quality of having different potentials
Motivated: having a lot of interest in doing something
Attentive: doing something carefully/ with a lot of attention
Variety: a group of ppl or things that are all different
Versatility: having different good qualities
Get off track: become distracted or lose focus
Interactions: the act of being and talking to others
Shirk: to avoid doing something difficult
Accountable for: responsible for
In advance: before something happens
Proper preparation: good readiness
Assume: to consider something to be true
Mastering: to become expert at doing something
Consistently: continuously, without any stop
Valued skills: important skills

Unassertive: not confident