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Understand What You Read in English (Reading Comprehension)
In this English lesson, I explain in detail how you can understand what you read in English. Make sure you follow all the steps. If you have any questions, leave a comment for me. If you have questions not related to reading comprehension, ask me on the engVid Forum.
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Azifri
Thank you su much for the helpful tips =)
most welcome ,its my pleasure
dheeraj
chidem
Are you really married, James???
Just, you are so young! :) Cool :)
Anyway, thanks for the tactic! It is really smart! I will do it personally!
Thanks again for the help and such a beneficial site!
I wish the thing which will never miss on your face be your smile! :)
JamesESL
Azifri, thank you for the compliment!
Chidem, you are very kind… I look forward to smiling for you in the future, but don’t be shy — come out and chat with us on the forum as well.
— James
Hello james,
Your lesson about reading comprehension was very informative and i expect more lessons about the IELTS speaking section.
George
edgar lemus
james I need mor lessons thank you
MariaCaroH
Hi James,
It help me a lot, I am practicing for present the Toelf, I have practice with the toelf guide, but my score has not been as good as I want. I will appreciate your advice.
Kind regards
Hi Maria,
You did not tell me exactly what you are having problems with, so I can’t give you the precise advice you are looking for.
If you can let me know what you are having difficulty with, I can give you some advice.
Rebecca, who is also on the site, teaches TOEFL. She may be able to help you. Drop her a note!
JamesESL
mho1002000
Can you help me pls about how can i keep the words in my mind and its pronunciation? cause its seems hard to me.
freindship
Thank you James. I really enjoy your lesson. I’m studying english now but I have a trouble with english speaking . please tell me how can I improve my english speaking. I would like to chat with you on the forum but I don’t know how to chat with you
Hi Friendship,
Just go to the forum and leave your questions and I’ll be happy to get back to you and answer them.
James
JamesESL
Crystal
Cool! Im gonna try it out! Thank you so much ^^
Butt
Hi James
I am glad to find something good regarding writing in your video, i am preparing for IELTS exam, i would be really greatful to you if you please guide me or could suggest something practicing material for ‘Writing’ part of IELTS.
Thanks & Regards
Usman Butt
Hi Usman Butt,
Check back and watch the video on writing the five-paragraph essay.
James
JamesESL
abdullah
I am from yemen and I am studing english (begginer)and I have problem in speaking. What can I do to improve my speaking ?
haidar habib
Hi James
I am new student.I am preparing for IELTS exam.My exam will be next week,actually I have a big problem with reading I cann’t do it very well so what should I do?
Cisse Mouhamed
thank you very much James you are doing a great by helping people to understand English well . my question is, how you can help me for my reading skill ,because i can not read quickly.looking forward to getting your reply.
kimbod90
hi Rebecca, hi James
It’s my first in this website then I want to thanks you for good job. I sure that your advices will help a lot. Sorry for my bad English,… I’m sure that in this way I could improve my English.
Thank you so much
diego10.01
Hi James I´m Diego, I´m new in this web site…. thanks for your advice about the reading comprehension but I have another doubt and it is about may and might, please help me.
bye
sivarajan
Hi James.,
I am sivarajan.V from India, I am new to this forum, yesterday i saw some of your videos am very much impressed, i need your help to improve my speaking axcent, can you able to give some steps to improve my speaking axcent
Thank you.,
danphung
hi! this is the second time i visit this website. it’s very useful. thanks lot. however it’s just focus on some points in grammar. can u make deeper fields in speaking and listening?
i think it’s hot for any student who learn E as second language
vanessa
This place is awesome. I’m really impressed. I have laughed so much with the BATMAN lesson, I found it very interested and fun, no so many teachers dare to do it. Thanks very much for your dedication.
fowz
hi james how r u doin? 2 night
fowz
hi james its my firs time in here i have a problem in speaking can you tel me the easy way to know
marcos
Hi, thanks for the lesson
Should I do the same thing either reading an english book with more than 80 pages for example or just to small articles?
thejatanuja
Hi James,
I need some tips from you to improve my English as i am preparing for IELTS.
Here are my weakpoints..
1) While speaking i will be getting breaks & Gaps in the words….and it makes for the people wo are listening to me makes to understand a little bit difficult.
2) While reading i am not aware of the meanings for many of the words ( I will your video on this as u said to do read the before & after words and try to understand the meaning of the word which is not known,) Any other ways u have to improve.
Please suggest your advice for my 2 points.
ok then Thanks ….. for the Videos…bye for now.
thuan
hi Jame ! my name is Thuan I’m frome Vietnam , this is second time in this website. I want too say thank you . You are good teacher and how I get another lesson
thank you so much for helpful
weer
You are so nice
vandna3j
hi Jame.. Thanks for providing such a information to all the needed people including me. I want to share my problem with you. I am not good in reading, writing, listing as well as in speaking. But I want to improve myself in all fields that why I have seen few of your vedios today. I am not able to understand about pause that are required during , . ? ! etc. & donot know anything about this during reading & speaking. I don’t know difference between high tone & low tone that is required to express your feeling in more natural way. I don’t know which word need to speak slowly & which one more loudly. I believe these all are not only my problems some other persons may be also facing the same problem. Can you give me some suggestions to improve myself. And can you help me in any way.
Thanks once again Jame.
Juju91
Hi James
I already took the TOEFL test and my score is not so good, I thing is not difficult but it is so long text and you don’t have time to understand everything or summarize. Now I saw your class and I will make what you said , read more than one time and after you understand better and with pratice after I will read quicky .
Thanks for the leasson .
dolly
thanks sir james its so nice to this site
lolly
I already took the TOEFL test and my score is not so good, I thing is not difficult but it is so long text and you don’t have time to understand everything or summarize. Now I saw your class and I will make what you said , read more than one time and after you understand better and with pratice after I will read quicky .
Thanks for the leasson thanks sir james its so nice to this site
007maxy
James,
I am trying to find out how to leave a comment for you in your box when is not related to the lesson, please help me out.
Thank you
Maxy
007maxy
Hi again james,
It would be much practical if you had an example for us. People learn through examples. You should had a small article to demonstrate your lesson.
Thank you
Maxy
nagxi
Your videos are really helping…thank you so much!!!
hendra
Thank you James, I do believe your video will make me more understand reading comprehension.
Leonardo
Hi!
Let me say that your videos are great. I have been trying learning English from 14 years ago, jajaja!
I can read or understand something like 70% (I think!) of English language, but when I have to write or speack in English, I am a disaster.
Bye.
Cheryl
Hi, I’ve been out of school for 6 year and now I just stated taking a Master’s degree class. Its a lot of reading and some in boring. How can I read the boring books and make the knowlege stay with me?
leila
thank you so much james for this lesson i’m new in this forum my native language is not english. and i need realy to improve my english,my english pronunciation,vocabulary and all things about english, i hope that i dont made any mistakes in this paragraph, please correct it to me.
think you very much
Jin
Thanx so much James!
baktash amini
hello mr james this is baktash i realy like to be your student i like your teaching and i have aproblem in my listening will you help me thank you
Jase-so
Hey James
That was an interesting video but i don’t think it fits my real comperhension problem. I hesitate to read huge text because im afraid that i won’t understand it. Then when i start reading it it makes no sense to me. But smaller text with similar words im fine with. I’ve had this annoying habit since i started school. Any solutions to this??
mstfaglr
thanks you james!
you re surely making good job!
i m in turkey and trying to pass toefl paper based,but i did not find any information about structure part of it.
can you help me,
see you,thanks a lot!
Ser
thanks James! I like this website…
But, Please…can u give me some ideas to do Toeic…
I have to do more than 600 and I have some problems about listening.
Toeic has many traps and I always fall down…Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…..help me!
sara
hi james,
i have a seriose problem. i have to do ilts exam the next month,but i haven’t got any idea how to do it. i’m good at grammer and listening,but not so good at reading and speaking.i’d like to ask you for giving us more lessons about speaking skills and how i can answer reading questions when i can’t understand the whole articl.finally you’re the best
You can speak while listening your audio or video, It help you to improve your speaking in english.
nguyendacnhut
maninder kaur
hello james .
i m from california and i am preparing for Gmat.i visited this site via youtube and i find it very useful in preparing for my test .but can u plzzzzzzzz provide me some more lessons on reading comprehension with the help of some examples.
anyways ur way of teaching is fantastic.i appreciate u .
Satish Kumar Gande
HI JAMES IT IS SO GOOD TO SEE YOU EXPLAINING THIS TACTICS FOR US……AND I AM FOND OF YOUR TEACHING….I HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF LISTENING CLASSES TAUGHT BY YOU…..
THANKS AND REGARDS,
Satish..
Bhavya
Hi james
I saw your so many videos. They all are really awesome. Your explanation is really funtastic, but in this video you didn’t explain with putting any example, so I didn’t understand properly. Actually I am preparing for TOEFL. I think there is no more time of reading so many paragraphs many times because of the time limit, so in this situation what should I do for understanding axactly? Please reply me. Thanks
I’m Brasilian and when I saw James explain how to do to understand what we read, I realise that we have to find a logic, it is the way to understand a text
actually, werever you are, or language you speak, you have to think in the logic way.
Did you undertand me?
see you.
Odmar Spada
hamidj
hi james
can you please tell how do to do quiz on this website
thanks
can’t find it
and your a good teacher
Hi hamidj, James hasn’t added quizzes for his lessons yet, but you will find them for most of the lessons of the other teachers on the site. You should see the quiz just below each of the lessons, above the comments.
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Tayyib
Dear james,
Thanks a lot sir Actually the big problem for me in ielts preparation is reading. and now i am following this method i hope it will improve my skill or reading.if u james any other best tips for me so please post it me.
Best wishes
Muhammad Tayyib
AhmedKhairy
hi james i’d like u to upload some samples on ielts exams it’s really gonna be helpful thank u
u’re really doing something
kalyan
This site is really helpful for the poor people. I have problem reading paragraphs as I dont know to follow the punctuation . Can you people please send some to my mail id kalyanf1@gmail.com. I am indian and I liked the tutors in this engvid.com
kalyan
Hi James,
This site is really helpful for the poor people. I have problem reading paragraphs as I dont know to follow the punctuation . Can you people please send some to my mail id kalyanf1@gmail.com. I am indian and I liked the tutors in this engvid.com
Neto from Brazil
Hi James, I am Neto from Brazil and I need your help, please. I am here in Canada (Vancouver) studying english…I can write, I can understand all your classes, but why I need to think in Portuguese before to speak in English??? I am afraid, because I will start working in October here in Canada and I am not comfortable about my speaking skills….help me please.
Love your classes, thank you very much my friend.
Alena20
Bugagaga
Majid
Wow it’s really helpfull
thanks my teacher I really haven’t seen a lesson like your lesson before
it’s not a compliment I’m honest I understand them easily
I have a suggestion
I think it better to allow students downloading the lessons
I would like to download them but I’m not allowed to
thanks teacher again
waiting for more
Raddy
My 9yo son has difficulty reading and comprehension, so thank-you so much for this – we are going to try the technique out.
A teacher many years ago gave me this tip :
Most of what a paragraph is trying to say is in the opening sentence. The closing sentence usually summarises what the paragraph has said. So, for the purposes of getting through (a lot of) reading he advised
1. read the first sentence
2. read the last sentence
3. If you need more information or understanding then read the whole of the paragraph. Doing 1 and 2 has given you the context and a pointer as to what the writer is trying to get across and usually contains supporting arguments or facts.
Eric
i have a seriose problem in my life i have been out of school for 6 years now , i want go back to school becose without school your are finish please i need your help my problem is i cant read perfect some prounciation is very hard for me to read and understand. how can i improve my english speaking, read and understanding without education your finish in this world where can i start please i need your help. thank you very much.
chicolondon69
hey; the guys got very good questions here… why you don’t answer them? I’d like to read some answers from you… paz…
thankyou
altaf
thanks
sahmerend
afreen veerani
hi im afreen just joined it i wanted to iknw if u could send some test of toefl reding on my id it would b a gr8 help
Arshad
Really good job james
alessandramedeiros
Thanks it’s going to help me a lot!!!!
edgar lemus
thank you james for your lessons
sorour
you are really good teacher . your teaching it was so useful to me thanks alot
morrys1508
thanks james
i came across with this page today and it`s really cool
keep this fantastic work on
have a good one..
rubysaphire07
Thanks for your useful lesson…Now I’m learning IELTS course…I think my reading skill is not good. I suppose I can’t using your lesson to apply my reading test, so can you give me some advices for reading skill of IELTS?
Thanks you so much! best wishes for you! :)
wha?
so if i want to read a 600 page book i have to read it 3 times to understand it? i think this is wrong..
Mc2
Hi all,
First of all thx for the web page,i just wonder why do u use youtube for videos,i see u dont take money from members,bbut as soon as u built a web page like this,video adding shouldnt be a big problem.Kindly requesting you to use another video share platform as youtube is banned in turkey for about 2 years.I can watch lessons as i use university based internet,But other people can’t.
best regards…
It’s really too bad that Turkey and other places like China and Iran have banned YouTube, since there are so many great, educational videos on the site. Unfortunately, we would have to charge money to access engVid if we hosted the videos ourselves. As for other platforms, they don’t have nearly as many users. We need the most possible people to see the lessons, so right now YouTube is the best option, though that may change in the future.
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vianh
Hi sir,
thank you so much for your lesson, it’s really useful for me!!!
and now, I have a small question..that I don’t know when we use ” may have” or just “might have”, and when we just use “may” and “might” to suitable witth? and could you please lecture exactly the mean of them when we use?
thanks and regards,
Ánh
Madhu
Hi James,
I find very difficult to read english. you see, If there is any complex or compound sentence to be read I can’t understand, when I read 1st time. Another thing is while we are talking we use conjunction to speak so I have some problem in conjunction part too . How to resolve this problem? If you could help me I would be happy.
Thanks
Madhu
Nguyen Quang Anh
Hi James, I got problems with cloze in EILTS, how can i improve this skill, any advice for me?
Liam
nice video James ;)
Hau Trung
Hi ! James
i like study english so much but my english very bad…please help me!
Thanks you for your lesson
Hau Trung
i am vietnamese.
raouf
hi James thank you for the lessons im from algeria..my problem is i understand english very well while listenning and i want to express my self in a very good way(pronunciation and vocabulary)….and is it possible to speak as a native??
gull
i want to see vedio classes of sir james. But its not be open pleaz tell me other sit or methed of open the vedio clips of clsses of sir james.thanks.my mail id is
cute_gull@hotmail.com
iwanjkkek
hello, thanks for the tips
i have a question
…is it better to read books improve my reading
or is it better to read many news articles.. ….
be waiting for response
dimka
THANKS A LOT!
This is what english lessons should be.
nargis
hi,hope u f9.Very helpful video i wl apply ur methood of undrstanding coprehension.Thank U Kindly
mark
hi! I’ve been studying English for about 8 years….i am at the proficiency level…i always had and i still have a difficulty to read passages and then answer the following questions although i past my lower examination with high pass…..what can i do to improve it/??
Aslam
thank you so much james
thanhvan
thanks James, this leson is very useful for me!
volken
thanks for your lesson. the steps what you said are very useful for me to practice Reading part for my next TOEFL iBT exam. But, my problem is that I don’t know how to summarize each paragraph effectively. May you help me to solve it?
once again, thank you very much ^^
Yuriy_k
Hi James,
your lessons are really helpful and fun, but there is no lesson about listing, speaking and most important sub-test as for me writing.
Hope you’ll make more video about IELTS.
Thank you so much, from Ukraine :)
uyquan
thanks so much
Poor ronald
Dear sir,
Hello, my name is Ronald Hsu, I am 20 who r studying in Hong Kong City University associate degree. I do not know the reasons why I join the Ielts examination two times, but I still cannot obtain a score over 6.5. the highest one only got band 6.0. After watched your English video teaching, I got to learn a lots, but may I got to know and learn more about others’ part of the Ielts examination. Because my mother language is Cantonese rather than English. And I think that my grammar is my main difficulty for coping with the Ielts examination. Perhaps I wanna ask you one question rite here, how could I read the whole article as soon as possible during the Ielts examination. Because I think that it is impossible to read three times in 1 part during the Ielts reading test.
Qadri
Hello James! Its a good lesson. Thank you. It helps me. Anyway James, I don’t know how to differenciate between:-
1) I watched it
2) I was watching it
3) I have watched it
4) i have been watching it
5) I had been watching it
6) I had watched it
Can you help me with this. Im malay.
alsaif
Thanks a lot. Really, you are amazing.
dpk_crazy
Hey james thank you very much for your teaching skill. And most of the time i use to read the newspapers without understanding the meaning and after that i use the dictionary to find the meaning for those words. You and this website is more helpful for us thanks
aamaya
Ah ok, I’ll follow your advice, because when I read something I always stop when I find a word that I don´t know its meaning, you can imagine how much time I take the readings.
Thank, Friend.
abdullah
Hi I am Abdullah from Yemen
Elnara
Hi James it’s very usefull thanks. I’m preparing fom my TOEFL eaxms and I have problems with reading comprehension. I think it’s the most difficult than other sections.
wendyp
I lov your lesson ,,,,,,,and advice ths.
Mashael
Hi
thank you so much its very important things to improve my skills in reading .
i will try to do it and start from today.
im not good in reading and in a
IELTS exame im Always get 3.5 im so sad about that my score high in all parts except reading part =(
i need ur help pless ..
and thanx again
khairy
Hi James , you produced really awesome vid .
I think you mentioned something about forum when you replied Azifri ,can you tell which forum you talking about ?
hodawa
wow, it’s so interesting. Thanks so much for your tips.
Oanh
How could I go to the forum. Please help me if you don’t mind.
Thanks a lot
ATIF
Hi Sir How are you, Sir tell me one think i want prepration IELTS PAPER EASY WAY TOO SUCCES MY PAPER.
ATIFJALALI
HI THNKX
Marry
Thank you teacher. Hi I’m Marry from Korea. Teacher! I have some problem. For example, 1. I read many paper and book every day. But i can’t memorry all that words.
2. I can’t speak an English well. Because don’t have any practice, haven’t native speak Friend. Sorry made mistake some grammer. Good luck for your job. :-) Marry
Mohammed Alderei
thank you very much James <
Massiel
excelentes videos , excelente profesor i love it
Giwantha
Hey Mr, James,
I’m Giwantha from Sri Lanka, But i live in UK. End of this month I’m going to do IELTS & I must get more then 6.5 to do ICT in a uni.I’m working hard on my reading part, But still I can’t score more then 25 out of 40
Can U please tell me what should I do….???
mine
Hi James!
I have a little wonder.
For long passage( about 3 pages), if I read it, read again, and read again. It take time to finish all i want to read from a part of a book. So, would you mind giving me advice for reading book, especially some academic books.
Thank you so much.
Angelika
James You are the best :) I really like Your lessons :)
AKSHAY KUMAR
Hi james sir,
I wanna score more in speaking section of toefl , wat to do.Pls tel tips
dody
thank u i wouid like to ask about how can i make a story short one thanks u are great byyyyyyyeeeeeeeee
ramana
hi sir i am new student. i am poor in speaking english any tips tell to me.
Moe
Hey James, I am going into the police academy and I need help reading, writing, and grammar, what books or were can i start..I would like some info…thanks so much
Le Tuan Anh
Thank a lot! your leasson very useful for me.
Can you give me some advice about speaking skill and writing skill?
Are you ok?
Thank you for anwsering !
ilkin
i’m from Azerbaijan
Thuy
I really like your lesson. Thank so much!
salvador
Ijames I really enjoy the class and at this time I’m study very hard for my new carrer and this tips really helps a lot.
Regards
Sal
mohammed
thanks a lot, your jop is graet
walid
hello , i really want to thank all who’s behind this great helpfull web site .
Robert Estrada
Hello James Why you so serious in this lesson???? Thank You
andie12eidna
cool steps. :D
deeqa
can u help me pleas becasue i have problem with english words plz help me if u can all the teacher in this website thankz all of u
Sohorab Hossain
very useful
Sohorab Hossain
nothing now
debbie
you guys are great ! I am really glad i found this site. Comprehension is very hard for me so i am going to use your skills. I hope i can find other skills in the future. Your great !!!!!!!!!!!!n
farouk
You ain’t answering most of the questions been asked you…try to give a general answer to prevent duplication on questions…you’re doing a great job keep it up!