Here, I will teach you how to self-study a reading passage. This passage has been chosen from Select Readings Elementary, Lesson 8, Denmark Loves Bicycles.
Sections I cover:
New vocabulary items
Prepositions
Prefix (bi)
Collocations
Denmark loves bicycles chapter8 select readings Elementary select readings elementen COG Eagen okay here we can see a picture that we we have um smokes from factories we have some questions before we get to the reading comprehension what are some things that pollute the air or make it dirty smokes from factories smokes from Cars Denmark is one of the most bicycle
Friendly countries in the world roughly 40% of the people in its capital Copenhagen commute to school or work by bicycle bicycle friendly roughly means almost almost good guys please read this text the unit eight of Select readings Elementary read the text we work on the vocabulary items grammar and other
Sections the first section we cover will be the vocabulary items then we get to proposition then we have prefix we work on by bi and then we will have some collocations Let’s Get It Started vocabulary items the first item here is pollute which is a verb pollute means
Make dirty to add dirty or harmful substances to land air water Etc so that it is no longer Pleasant or safe to use we have two examples here the river has been polluted with toxic waste from local factories here waste toxic waste we have toxic means poisonous the factory pollutes the air
And water so pollute means to make something dirty uh in Iran for example in tyan and some other big cities we have polluted air good the next word here is worry worry to keep thinking about unpleasant things that might happen or about problems that you have
Don’t worry we have plenty of time means we have a lot of time don’t worry about me I’ll be all right here the preposition we use after worry is about worry about he’s always worrying about his weight again you can see that the preposition I used after worry is about
He’s always worrying about his weight then we have the word commute commute to travel regularly by bus train car Etc between your place of work and your home so simply commute means to go and come back she commutes from teron to carage every day means she goes to teron and comes
Back so we have from to she commutes from teron to karage you can use it in another way you can say he spent that year commuting between New York and Chicago above you had from to here we had between and between New York and Chicago between is fahan and shiras for
Example you can also use two staff can work from home instead of commuting two offices commuting to offices staff means Personnel it means the Personnel can work from home instead of going to offices and come back we just have commute but it means go to
Offices and come back good so we had for commute we had from to we had B between and we also had two the next word is ride right to sit on and control a bicycle motorcycle Etc the boys were riding their bikes around the streets bike means bicycle another name for
Bicycle it’s like riding a bicycle one day you can’t and the next day you can so simple this sentence is good and meaningful means if you can’t do something don’t worry it’s like like riding a bicycle you try you fail next day you try and you pass it you become
Successful the next word here is flat which is an adjective flat having a level surface not covered or sloping and without holes or any bits sticking outat Plateau a large area of flat land that is higher than the land around it good I need a flat surface to write on flat
Surface people used to think the Earth was flat flat flat surface the Earth was flat the next word is lane lane a section of a white row that is marked by painted white lines to keep lines of traffic separate she signaled and pulled over into the slow lane
Signaled R pulled over Z into the slow Lane l foree that idiot changed lanes without signaling cars in the fast lane were traveling at over 18 miles an hour fast lane slow lane cyclist cyclist a person who rides a bicycle they are both very keen cyclists very keen cyclists cyclists are demanding more and safer Cy paths in the City Cycle
Cyclist and here we have the word double which is a verb here double verb it means to become or make something become twice as much or twice as many for example membership almost doubled into years into years in two years dou double the amount of sugar if you want a sweeter cake
Sugar Sugar the town has a o imately doubled in size since 1960 approximately almost almost the material I was buying suddenly doubled in price doubled in price doubled in size this is the preposition we use after Double good so far so far so good we’ve worked on most important vocabulary
Items now let’s move to the next section for this lesson’s proposition part we have two words tax and bike tax uh is the money that you have to pay the government so that it can pay for public services means the government can pay for the Public Services many people feel that they are
Paying too much tax well you have the word tax here as a noun and it has no preposition he claimed the left party would raise taxes again you have tax here without preposition but if you want to to use a proposition that is on a 20% tax on income is
Logical he already pays 40% tax on his income income income they’ll be coming by Bike by bike I usually go to work by bike or after you also have another preposition when you’re on it you use on she got on her bike and rote off she got on her bike
And rote off ride Road ridden rote is the past form of ride they went out for a country ride on their mountain bikes on here refers to this word bikes on bikes so the two prepositions we had for this lesson were on tax on and on
Bike good the next section we are going to work on is related to a prefix called by by the prefix by most commonly means to do twice do or double doar it comes from the Latin word by or B and is used widely in English to create words
Related to these meanings here are some examples bicycle bicycle cycle bicycle bicycle the bike binoculars binocular British binoculars binocular binocular having two lenses two bilingual bilingual in Ling langu biling language speaks two languages bilingual child speaks two languages biling maani par gani par paruch L par bilateral bilateral lalal
Bilateral involving two groups of people or two countries bilateral talks Lal negotiations okay that was by meaning two twice or double here we have collocation collocation we have bicycle we have motorbike or motorcycle and then we have car now let’s work on the first one ride a bike
Bicycle riding a bicycle is a very is a very good exercise so guys pay attention it didn’t say driving a bicycle it said riding a bicycle I used to ride my bike around the neighborhood for hours let’s go for a bike ride bike ver could uh ride a motorcycle or
Motorbike the above we had bike or bicycle here we have motorcycle or motorbike both are the same he never learned to ride a motorcycle or to drive a car so we have ride a motorcycle yeah he was arrested while riding a motorcycle without a license without a license license license me certificate Certificate uh now we have drive a car we have ride a bike we had ride a bike we had ride a motorcycle now we have drive a car this is the last item here I’m planning to drive to shiras next year next year he isn’t old enough to drive a
Car drive a car good when you say I’m planning to drive to shiras next year the meaning is clear it means you’re planning to drive your car to shiras you’re not going to take a TA taxi you’re not going to take a bus you’re going to drive your car to shiras good
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