* Is great fun, and it benefits our growth as readers and learners.

* Nurtures our love of both the written and spoken word.

* Gives us a chance to rediscover favorite stories and find new ones.

* Helps us develop important language skills that will help us learn to read on our own.

So open your book to page 23 and read the text aloud while listening to the recording. Watch your pauses between the thought groups.

2. Reading for forms

Read the text again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

3. Finding collocations and making sentences

There are several different types of collocation made from combinations of verb, noun, adjective etc. Some of the most common types are:

• Adverb + Adjective: completely satisfied (NOT downright satisfied)

• Adjective + Noun: excruciating pain (NOT excruciating joy)

• Noun + Noun: a surge of anger (NOT a rush of anger)

• Noun + Verb: lions roar (NOT lions shout)

• Verb + Noun: commit suicide (NOT undertake suicide)