Activity 3.

BELIEFS
INVENTORY

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7. I usually admire modern Koreans more than the

traditional Koreans.
8. Every Korean has the capacity to embrace
modernity.
9. A Korean is deeply rooted to her / his own past.

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10. I prefer Koreans as friends to other Asians.

1. It is important for me to think that Koreans are

also Asians.
2. I hate to think that Koreans are superior to
Filipinos.
3. Koreans who have learned to overcome
challenges of modernity are admirable.
4. I usually consider Koreans as our brothers and
sisters.
5. If Koreans can overcome the challenges of
modernity, so can the Filipinos.
6. I have biases against Koreans.

ARTICLE 1
Coping with Difficult Words

 Pre-read before a lecture so you can anticipate some of the

new words.
Use a glossary or specialist dictionary, e.g. a nursing
dictionary.
Use an advanced learner's dictionary. These dictionaries use
the most frequent words in English in their definitions so
they are easier to understand than most other dictionaries.
Make your own dictionary of new words. Put them in a
sentence or give an example.
Use your own words for definitions.
Try to break the word up into parts.
Guess from parts of the word, e.g. anti is against, ante is
before.
Leave the word out and read the rest of the sentence to see
if you can guess its meaning from the context.
Think about your subject. How could the word relate to
something you are expected to know about?
Ask a tutor/friend/native speaker to explain words.

ARTICLE 2
Techniques for Dealing
with Difficult Words

 Techniques for Dealing with Difficult Words

When you are looking for meaning, you often get it
despite an unfamiliar word. Sometimes however, a
strange word makes you slow down or even stop
because you have lost the authors meaning. Such a
word deserves attention. How much attention it
deserves depends mostly on your reading purpose.
The first step is to note the word mentally, or make a
pencil mark in the margin, and read on.
Going on prevents further interruption of the authors
thought. It also gives you a chance to find out
whether the rest of passage makes the meaning clear
enough for your purposes. It is more important to go
on enjoying the book than to find out howthe
dictionary defines everynew word. The second step is
to return to troublesome words after completing a
passage, and try to workout what each one means.

 Saying the word aloud may help you to recognize it as

one you have heard and then to recall how it was used.
If this fails, you can often make an intelligent guess
based what you have learned from reading the whole
passage. The third step, using the dictionary, is
important for two kinds of words. The first group
consists of words which must be understood to
understand the whole passage adequately and second
group consists of words you know you have met before
but still do not fully understand. If you come across a
word three times, then clearly it is a word you should
master.
Finally, record important words and terms, with sample
phrases or sentences using each one correctly.You can
keepa glossary at theback of eachsubject notebook,
or aset of cards/slips. Improving your vocabulary and
word attack skills in these ways should bring significant
improvement also in reading speed and comprehension.

ARTICLE 3
Learning vocabulary:
Working out the meaning
of unknown words

 It is unlikely that you will know every word in a text and

even if you think you have seen every word before, it is
unlikely that you will have seen a particular word in its
present context. It is therefore necessary to work out the
meaning of unfamiliar words in context and, perhaps,
familiar words in new contexts. This is necessary even if
you have a dictionary as your dictionary does not know
the exact context in which the word is being used.
A. Is it necessary to know the exact meaning of a
particular word? Often a rough meaning is enough (does
the word have a positive or negative meaning?). First,
though, you need to decide how important the word is
for you and your subject. For some words it is enough to
know just enough about a word so you can understand it
when you hear or see it used in context. For other words,
though, that you will need to use productively you will
need as much information as possible about the words.

 B. Look for definitions. The author may know a

particular word may be new so explains. The author
may also be using the word in a new, or unusual way
so will need to explain how it is being used. This will be
done by using a definition, an explanation, an example
or by using a synonym (a word with the same
meaning). The phrases "called", "known as", "is the
name applied to", "in other words", "that is", "is said to
be" are often used.
2. You can use the context. You can make use of the
other words, phrases, sentences and information
around the problematic word. Using this information
you can find information about the meaning of the
word as well as grammatical information. (a)
Grammatical information can be obtained from the
place of the word in the sentence. (b) Information
about the meaning of the word can come from the
meanings of the other words in the context.

Comparing
and
Contrasting
Activity 2.2

Most Striking
Technique/Tip
Easiest
Technique/ Tip
to do
Most Difficult
Technique/Tip
to Do
Technique
Than Needs
Further
Discussion
My
Realizations/
Comments/
Insights

Article 1
Article 2
Coping with
Technique in
Difficult Words Dealing with
Difficult words

Article 3
Dealing with
Difficult Words

 Answer the following questions:

How will this activity help you in
dealing with difficult words?
Choose five difficult words from the
summary of tale. Can you try
defining the difficult words?

Build Me
Up!
Activity 2.3

Word
Definition

Part of
Speech
Synonym

Assignment
Define the following difficult words
using the tips you learned.
Magistrate
Maiden
Yangban
Token
courtesans