Activity 3.

BELIEFS
INVENTORY
 Agree Disagree Score Statement
_______ _______ *_____ 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.
_______ _______ *_____ 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’.

_______ _______ *_____ 10. I prefer Koreans as friends to other Asians.

 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 author’s 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 author’s
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 how the dictionary
defines every new 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 keep a
glossary at the back of each subject notebook, or a set 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
 Article 1 Coping Article 2 Technique Article 3 Dealing
with Difficult Words in Dealing with with Difficult Words
Difficult words

Most Striking
Technique/Tip

Easiest Technique/
Tip to do

Most Difficult
Technique/Tip to Do

Technique Than
Needs Further
Discussion

My Realizations/
Comments/ Insights
Gained
• 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