"Last year I studied abroad in Goettingen, Germany, which was definetly the best college experience a student could ever ask for. Not only are you learing about yourself, and the country you are visiting, but at the same time learning significantly about your home country. You learn about how other countries around the world view your country and you get the chance to act as a laison for the US and tell others how Americans and America really is. Studying abroad is the best experience ever and everyone should take advantage of it!!" - Dahlia Krausse 2. Reading aloud the text and doing the exercises

Now go to page 38 to read aloud the text again. By reading aloud students can:

● continue to associate reading with warm, pleasant feelings;

● learn about words and language; build listening skills; expand vocabularies;

● talk about the characters, settings, and plot and relate them to their own lives;

● gain knowledge about a variety of topics;

● explore social and moral issues and behaviors;

● become more skilled independent readers;

● be motivated to read on their own;

● discover which authors and writing styles they like.

● establish a lifelong commitment to reading.

　　Now go on to do exercises on page 40, one by one. Just do them on the page.

3. Learning about non-restrictive clauses and doing related exercises

A non-essential clause or phrase adds additional, probably important, information, about an already specified person or thing, or about an entire class of people or things (ALL).

A non-essential or non-restrictive clause is separated from the noun