Week 11 : Extensive reading

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• What is extensive reading?
        Extensive reading is reading as much as possible, for your own pleasure, at a difficulty level at which you can read smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating to English as you go. In other words, instead of spending a half hour decoding a tiny part of one book (also known as intensive reading), you read many simpler books that are at or slightly below the level at which you read fluently. This lets you get used to reading more complex sentences with ease, reinforces the words you already know and helps you learn new words from context.
(Liana Kerr ; http://joechip.net/extensivereading/what-is-extensive-reading/)

         The teacher gave a handouts and assigned to read a very long text about extensive reading, reading and writing and understand it. This lesson is about "Extensive Reading" it's one of technique in reading and it can help for TOEFL/TOEIC tests and make more skills such as Reading skills ,writing skills ,speaking skills ,listening skill grammar and vocabulary.
We were asked to write a summary of each paragraph. After that we did exercises. Extensive reading helps students improve reading skills and it also allows students to improve reading speed much more quickly than by reading difficult texts.