CAE group started: Summary 5. September 06

A very motivated and sympathetic group startet CAE studies with teacher Illya Arnet-Clark.
We started immediatly, speaking to each other, presenting ourselves and asking al lot of questions to get more informations about the group. The result of our research: An average group member gets up at 6 o'clock in the morning, likes going back to nature in his spare time, is still dreaming of wunderful holidays and has never done crazy things.
Illya gave us a lot of informatin about CAE exams and explained the structure of the training during the CAE course.
After a break, we collected several types of texts we can use to get information. Then we got to know two techniques that help to extract imporant information out of a text in a short time:
Scanning is a method, to find a specific word or text: For example I am looking for a name in a telephone book.
Skimming is a method we learned and trained: You are skimming a text, when you want to find out quickly, what ist the most important informaion in this text.
At last, we trained a technique, to understand words we didnt kwow before. "Reading clues" is an ability, to find out the meaning of a unknown word with the help of the context in which this word is placed. It works pretty good and it's a lot of fun!
This first evening was interesting, I already learned a lot. I'm looking forward to go on learning in this group!
See you on tuesday ! Titus