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Reading strategy — diagram interpretation & paragraphing ideas

What the arrows and the paragraphs are really telling you

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Interpreting a diagram; paragraphing ideas

The method

  1. Read the diagram's labels/arrows first, then match each to a sentence in the passage

The common mistakes

  • Ignoring the diagram and answering from the running text alone

From the lesson

Look at this diagram before you read anything else. It shows five stages of a process, connected by arrows.

The vocabulary

  • diagram (مخطط)

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