Understand What You Read in English (Reading Comprehension)

Thank you su much for the helpful tips =)

Cool! Im gonna try it out! Thank you so much ^^

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

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.

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.,

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

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.

hi james how r u doin? 2 night

hi james its my firs time in here i have a problem in speaking can you tel me the easy way to know

Hello james,

Your lesson about reading comprehension was very informative and i expect more lessons about the IELTS speaking section.

You are so nice

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

Your videos are really helping…thank you so much!!!

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.

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?

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Really good job james

you are really good teacher . your teaching it was so useful to me thanks alot

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..

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…

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

Hi ! James
i like study english so much but my english very bad…please help me!
Thanks you for your lesson

i am vietnamese.

THANKS A LOT!
This is what english lessons should be.

hi,hope u f9.Very helpful video i wl apply ur methood of undrstanding coprehension.Thank U Kindly

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/??

thank you so much james

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 :)

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.

Hi I am Abdullah from Yemen

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.

Hi Sir How are you, Sir tell me one think i want prepration IELTS PAPER EASY WAY TOO SUCCES MY PAPER.

excelentes videos , excelente profesor i love it

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.

James You are the best :) I really like Your lessons :)

Hi james sir,
I wanna score more in speaking section of toefl , wat to do.Pls tel tips

thank u i wouid like to ask about how can i make a story short one thanks u are great byyyyyyyeeeeeeeee

hi sir i am new student. i am poor in speaking english any tips tell to me.

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

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 !

i’m from Azerbaijan

I really like your lesson. Thank so much!

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

thanks a lot, your jop is graet

hello , i really want to thank all who’s behind this great helpfull web site .

Hello James Why you so serious in this lesson???? Thank You

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

very useful

nothing now

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

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!

Hi James! Your lessons are very helpful!Today, I have an exam of reading comprehension. The tips helped me a lot, while improving my reading, but sometimes the text you read is easy to understand but questions for it are so much confusing and it’s hard to answer it especially on advanced level.
Bye bye

hello teacher i really feel good because im improving my inglish as navite speaker and i thank you very much for your help…

hi james…can u prepare me for ielts online? though skype or phone…?

hi james,

i wil try ur advse on d reading comprehension.,o hope u may discus also on how to attack questions
thank you!

Hi James
Thakns a lot for your lessons. This site is really very useful for me especially. But I have a big problem with my listening and score is too little, can you advise me anything for that.
Thanks in advance.

Great tip! Thank you very much, James. I’ve tried a little bit, I could remember more though I omitted to summarize.

i ia reading english books but sometimes its ard to understand the meanig so that time i am loosing the interest to read can you give me some valuable tips please

I’m so glad that i finally found what i’ve been looking for in a long time by accidentally dropped on this site.actually , i really enjoy reading and i’ve read heaps of books but unfortunately not remember anything after , at all.I attended to this english course in my place a year ago but it didn’t really work out on me.:(

The method you teach seems little longer for comprehension. How can we get proper score in IELTS since we have limited time to perform multitask in specifed time in Reading section?

thank you soــــــــــــ much

hi James
I need help in Reading test in IELTS. The time run out before I finish the answer Q.I dont know what is better read the Q first or read the text?
How to read faster during the test it is only 20minute? please help me

This is vid awesome.It’s make me like read long book=no problem!And can i ask you a question.How can i remember the new world?Thanks alot
Alvan

Hi, Sir James,

Thank you so much for helping us to improve our english through this site. I study very hard to improve my english speaking coz I believe that if we are fluent in english there are so many opportunities for us.

God bless! More power to all the staff of this site……….

thank you james

Ur The best xDeey

ALL THE TEATCHERS ARE FROM CANADA RIGHT ??

great but it’s not clear.

Dear James,
In one of your videos about reading comprehension, which actually is one of my favor, you haven’t provided us with any examples. would you mind showing us what do you exactly mean besides just telling us.
Please provide me (us) with an example….
Thank you so much

Thank you very much, but I have to tell u something,u talk to fast! gee!!!
by the way.. u are very handsome!!(rsrsrs)

that was great.many thanks

thanks james you really helped me.

hi James

can you help me to improve more on speaking English…
i want to be a good English speaker… thanks

Hi, James
Thank you for the lessons. It really Helpfull.
I’m from Holland and I do bilingual education. I’m in second year now. But I standing insufficient now on averaging. Which means I cann’t go to third year. I have got an upcoming test. And it is really important I get a good mark for that. So pleas, if you have any tips…
Thanks

We really love this webpage. Wewish we could come here everyday\all day.

Thanks alot James, How can I know my level in English?
Some time I feel good & some times I feel weak
Please help me.

dear sir,
can you help me in preparing for ielts writing improvement,&reading.

Hi. I’m kern George. And I’m from Trinidad and Tobago not to sure if u know about there. But I must let u know your english tips are very helpful. I do not have any passes from school but I’m

Sorry I pressed submit comment by accident. I was saying. I don’t have any passes from school but i am really willing to learn. I am 25 years old live alone, renting, and have 1 son. I’m starting class on the 3rd of January 2011. So I’m askin u for ANY HELP OR TIPS in starting over will be most appreciated.(Thank you)

Ronnie I like very much your teaching style. you are a great teacher. love you take care

hi. HOW ARE YOU TEACHER?
I cant read correct
how i read is good?

I’m taking the TOEFL test this Friday, and i have some reading problems, i usually get lost. Can you please give me some advices ?

I Need your help I can read but i can’t contain it and the words get me to…. I need to understand what i read. from memphis tn but I’m in to college at murfeesboro tn mtsu. you taught me something James. I want my reading to increase better.

hi james , ur tips on reading really works . now i am getting 6 bands in each part of ielts but i need seven in each module. how can i get them . advice me . looking forward in anticipation.

i m gonna follow ur method,james….

Hi James,
I am planning to take up the IELTS test in about three weeks, I have just started to prepare, I am confident about getting a good score. James, is there something that you would like me to do? Please let me know!!

thank you james

Hi I watching your english learning vedio a lot of it’s great. I have problem with verb + the way. I couldn’t understand so I hope you will help me. I waiting your masagge thank you. I’m from Kazakhstan

good

Hi James!
I like your lessons and your teaching method. I want know more about reading ways: over viewing,scanning, skimming and inference, etc.
Could you teach us some lessons including these topics?
I hope hear from you soon
Thank you
Ura

You know I’m work and study and try to have time for reading some English articles , any helpfull website have a small articles? :( , and you are doing such an amazing work here and FREE , really how can I thank you all.

i love your teaching

How can i download this to mp3 so i can listen to your lessons repeatedly?

Thank you so much.

hi James;
thanks alot ,when I watching this video,I feel good(lesson and join)

hello dear James!
thanks for your lessons. they are very useful.how can we chat with you?

Can You tell how to use without dictonary, for example: In Star test.

Thank you so much James :)

Nice style … be continue …

Hi James, I would be very grateful if you told me how to make a text analysis?

Thanks James, you’re a good man!

Hi Good Afternoon
I really like how you teach because you make it simple and clear to understand. I do have this problem but i will practice what you mentioned on the video. What advice can you give me when reading a book and i cannot pronounce a word should i wait until i finished reading the chapter of the book to look over the dictionary and find the proper way to pronounce the word.

Thanks

Hello Sir,
I really liked the video and would definitely follow these tips.
Second thing is , can you help me with the fluency? i mean i can speak well but i am not fluent.
Please help me Sir…..

actually i use dictionary when i encountering such an unfamiliar words…is that makes my comprehension improve or not…?
i usually do this thing…and i thought this is right thnx james…

thank-you but if your in an exam and if you have about an hour to do it. Will you not run out of time by the time you read it 3 times?

Thank you james
In fact,I have to take a test tomorrow.
when I learned about your class, I don’t have to be nervous.

thank u…very helpful

Hi Jame,
I am vietnamese. Thank you very much for your guide.My English is untill poor so I look forward receiving more about this topic for your example. Thanks.

Hello James,

I have one main question, how I need to read it? Loudly or mentally (I don’t know how this word translate)?

waw.. terrific.. thanks before

Dear Teacher James,
I want to score good marks in my composition for my Second Exam so i would appreciate if you give me some tips on it!
Thank you!
Victoria Aye

hi James, what a useful Video..I’m from Vietnam I’m quite well at Listening but I have problem with Speaking Skill?? I can’t say anything when I’m in public, althought I have ideas (in Vietnamese). How can I improve it, I want to speak better, better and better…….

Hi James
i really like the way you teach and i expect more videos from your teaching reading comprehension . Especially the way in the test thank you

Thank You Mr James

From:Spanish▼To:English▼

hi…

I love your style of teaching

Hi,
I realy like to learn more english,because i want to get IELTS for applicant the university.
This way for learing is very good.
Thanks.

It gives me a lot of improvement Thanks Sir

mr.james,you are cool, your way of teaching is too cool…

uhm, im very bad at English, so i cant understand what you said clearly!

thank you

Hello
Mr. James
It is my pleasure to tell you that you are very instructed on teaching english.
Thanks for be there on ENGVID.COM.
greaT GREAT.
THANKS
GREAT GREAT LESSON TO ME.
CHAO

my name is yacine i am student english esl, and i have a problem with comprenhension in reading, i do not how to answer the question, and understand the text.Please i need you help.

Hi! Sir James
I’m so grateful, thanks for the tips, you are a really great teacher. honestly I’m not good in English, I can’t speak fluently and i can’t understand what I’ve read.

Hi! Sir James
its really great, thanks for the tips, now I know, what I’m going to do, to understand what I’ve read.

Hi! sir James!
I’m so grateful, thanks for the tips, now i know what I’m going to do to understand what I’ve read. you’re a great teacher, honestly I’m not good in English, i can’t speak fluently and i want to learn more in English.

Thank you so much for the great effort

Thank you so much! I am really into english and i want to improve my english skills.
You have a good teaching.

i feel my listening skill improve more than before. thank your lesson so much. I hope that you give more lessons for everybody can learn.

hi sir james,,,
..i really want to learn so much more about english..everything-writing, reading, listening and speaking..but of course with the correct usage of tenses and good grammar…..i hope i can do it…
by the way,,, thanks for your presentation..it helps a lot!!!

hello

Hi James. I’m a student from Manila, Philippines. This topic is very helpful to me.

hi james
how can i emprove my english.

hello Mr. James,

Your lesson is really helpfull for me. I want to know more about english. thanks for ur presentation.

Hi James,
I really like your style of teaching English. Please keep doing it and make the study fun for the student.Thank you.

you are my favourite teacher.please I HAVE a proplem with used to and what comes after it .

Thanx a lot for helping us out, Sir.But if you proof your thesis with the relevant examples, it will be more comprehendible to all of us.
Reading a very long passage-containing three to four paragraphs- is a tedious work.A big trap! in which about everyone falls into it.Thanking you in advance for replying me with a satisfactory answer, which we all people can understand.

hi james ,my mame’s prisca.I am from cameroon but now I live in canada specifique in Edmonton,Ab with my family. I have been living there for a year, I am a student still learning english and i plan to be a nurse in the future but i need good english first.I have been wacthing your site and you might be a good advisor for everyone who wants to speak english, sound good for.I have a dream and i wish to realise my dream ,so i am ready to be your student now and follow everyhing you should tell me.I want to speak like British and American people i mean to understand what they’re talking about and have a perfect conversation with them. my probleme now is i write as i speak, so i want to improve my written again, my speaking and my listening.I am new on your site and i wish to get a god result from you. Take care James

what is the minimum score of IELTS for Australia and Canada?

i have lots of problems to complete it in time. i want to know easy way to do comperhenions thanks

sir james!you are good teacher, i like learning english with you. but my english so bad, how to improving ? thank you very much for give me this website, i kind regards.

that was really helpful. Thanks James

i thank you teacher but do you think it will take time and i am no so patient

GREAT JOB SIR!!

I am trying to take IELTS exam ,and i want to get around band 7 .what do I need to get high score .Please help me.

Hi James,
Awesome video as always.Could you perhaps make a video on how to comprehend Shakespearean literature?It would be really helpful if you could do that because I have a hard time reading those books.

Regards,

Tony

it was really gud. BEING A ENGLISH TEACHER I WILL TRY THIS METHOD IN MY CLASS.

Nice blog!! keep up the nice style, it’s nice to see writer’s like you these days

hey thanx for ur useful tips bt i need more help.
sometimes i can’t even understand the sentence formation and the other thing is i wanna improve my listening skills

I like your teaching meathod very much.thak you sir for doing this job.

I love engvid.com hahaha

hi my name is zainab can u please write it becuse if peple are looking for the answe on the phone the chid or adult won t understand it.

Hi thanks for your information, i hope u always share your knowledge for everyone and god will bless you

James!!!! Your video is amazing, and really helped me with my reading and writing skills.
You are a Baws!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!but…..
I HATE YOU

Hi James
Thanks for this great simple explanation.
I have a problem with memory,I learn a massive number of new words every day but four to seven days later

Hey James! Thank you for your teaching video. I really like your teaching style. You are such a great teacher! :)

it’s such a good lessons & learning s to us.. thanks you so much again for the nice tips.

hi how r u plz help me i cant speak in english ihave studied in many institutes of english plz help me how i can speak english fluently and writing skills

I are working the same problem before. It is quite a bit less easy an solution as you believe that it is, its something that you’ll have to write out for you over time.

hi james,
this method is really helpful,
so thanks.

dear james.thanks alot for your vid. i have a question. how do i teach students a story. every student has the same copy. what can we do to comprehend it and study it proberly.

Hi! Your tips are very helpful. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for your video. I have seen your video and I will try to do the three steps that you mention in the video. I hope it will help me. Thanks!

Hello,
could you please advise me how can i orgnize my time with IELTS reading . my time run out and i still did not finish .which one i have to read first questions or an essay ?
thanks a lot

Hi,
I enjoyed the way you explained the reading comprehension method,but what about in a proficiency test that you are not allowed to use dictionarries?
Thanks

hi James:
thanks so much for this video know i have a guide of how to understand every things i read but i don’t know how to summarize i mean i want to know is i should delete every words that i don’t know or find meaning

had a social studies and science test miss both by 20 pt. because i did,nt understand some of what i read i need healp ,I would like to get my GED i read well some time i don,t understand what i read

sorry that word is help