noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a compass bearing/reading (= a direction shown by a compass )
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We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.
a poetry reading (= when poems are read to people, usually by the writer )
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I used to like giving poetry readings.
a spelling/reading/listening test
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I didn’t do very well in the listening test.
compulsive reading/viewing
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‘Gardening World’ is compulsive viewing for gardeners.
essential reading
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The journal is essential reading for doctors.
light reading
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It’s a really good book if you want a bit of light reading .
reading glasses (= for reading )
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She looked at him over the frames of her reading glasses.
reading/writing etc material(s)
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Videos often make good teaching material.
reading/writing skills
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Their reading skills are poor.
speed reading
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible, and especially of Paul.
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Each side claims a closer reading than the other.
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This again is relevant to school tasks since it is near vision that is used for close work such as reading and writing.
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But a closer reading tells a different story.
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But a closer reading of the Gospels reveals a much more complex drama being enacted.
essential
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It's time to get Britain working again - essential reading for every voter.
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We think it's essential reading but then we would say that wouldn't we.
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Everyone knows that a Street Directory of Dublin is essential to the reading of joyce.
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Many thanks for a thoroughly useful newspaper which is essential reading .
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They are essential reading for child care lawyers who wish to represent their clients effectively in court.
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The latter half of the book should be essential reading for all chemists and engineers working on chemical plants.
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I have no hesitation in recommending this book as essential reading for all who are legitimately involved in this field.
further
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The book also has a useful appendix on further reading .
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However, one thing which the book lacks is any guide to further reading .
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The further reading in this area is enormous.
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Several good references are listed in the further reading , but you need not worry about them now.
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Teacher training colleges are also listed, as are books for further reading .
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A further set of readings come from chemically analysing soil samples collected from streams.
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Admittedly, after graduation, many students go no further in their reading and thinking.
interesting
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In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading .
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The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading .
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A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading .
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There was further very interesting reading in the U.S. golfing magazine.
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But here it is, all five foolscap pages, and it makes quite interesting reading .
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This, unlike the first one, makes interesting reading , and is referred to continually.
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His observations may make interesting reading .
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The guidance, when it appears, should make interesting reading .
light
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I heave an armchair into the kitchen, lay out some light reading , and prepare a flask of coffee.
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He appears to enjoy light reading .
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The cameraman is taking light readings and setting his lenses.
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They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us, even though they are not particularly light reading .
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This book, however, seems firmly aimed at that omniscient 10 percent. Light reading , it is not.
open
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In each case the splices result in appropriate splice junctions and a single open reading frame.
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The three-letter abbreviations for the 659 amino acids encoded in the open reading frame beginning at nucleotide position 133 are also shown.
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This is based unashamedly on a system which will be familiar to students of Open University reading courses.
■ NOUN
books
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Grade a number of reading books .
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Leapor in many places feels compelled to defend the pleasure she takes in writing poetry and reading books .
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She sits in her bed-sitting-room-study reading books .
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They learn about disability by doing courses and reading books .
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The Secretary of State for Education and Science is keen on people reading books .
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In some traditional reading books there was a clear assumption that boys were leaders and girls were followers.
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She was always very quiet - reading books and pre-occupied by her kids.
frame
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In each case the splices result in appropriate splice junctions and a single open reading frame .
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The three-letter abbreviations for the 659 amino acids encoded in the open reading frame beginning at nucleotide position 133 are also shown.
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The reading frame is closed 15 codons upstream of this start site.
glass
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Theodora remained standing, polishing her reading glasses vigorously.
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He looked up, removed his reading glasses , then got to his feet and indicated the second sofa.
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You are well advised, when the Whitney Biennial comes along, to be sure to remember your reading glasses .
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Fifteen, if he needed to find his reading glasses .
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Then he put on his reading glasses again and this time it made some sense.
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He sent me there the other day to pick up his reading glasses .
map
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There were three tests on map reading .
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It reminds me of those half-houses which according to normal criteria of map reading shouldn't exist.
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Some knowledge of map reading is useful.
material
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It will need to have a ledge to support the reading material and strong clamps to hold pages in place are useful.
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By level 8, the reading material is as demanding as it can be.
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To list background reading material . 5.
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The Lawyers' Library in Appendix 4 gives details of these publications and other useful reading material .
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A spontaneous way to effect magnification is to bring reading material close to the eye.
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It provides a variety of reading material from newspapers and other authentic sources, which parallel and reinforce each story.
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Like the Prince, she requests and gathers together information and reading material on all of the subjects she has taken on.
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There is a hunger for reading material , for books of all kinds, educational and recreational.
matter
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I was grateful for the information you conveyed regarding Heather's reading matter on Rhodes.
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Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter .
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There were also other changes, such as in available reading matter .
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Armed with the knowledge gleaned from reading matter and known computer buffs I travelled far and wide.
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The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter .
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An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter .
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Appropriately, it is the garbage people who bring me my reading matter .
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Before getting off the bed, Mungo scanned the books to see what reading matter Vic preferred.
poetry
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As audience he used occasionally to come to my poetry readings in the seventies and eighties.
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The commercial streets are filled with upscale shops, art galleries, outdoor cafes and bookstores where poetry readings are held.
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It was the internationalism of the 1965 poetry reading , cultural, post-Beat, off-beat, and art-oriented.
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Reception, Saturday, 6 to 9 p. m., with music, hosted bar and poetry readings .
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At the many poetry readings we set up for Andrei Voznesensky there were no protest interruptions.
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There were films to see and poetry readings to attend in small, smoky bars, all affordable for impoverished artists.
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The poetry reading at the institute.
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It's summer 1992, a poetry reading evening in a working men's club.
process
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For psychologists and educators concerned with the reading process or with the teaching of literacy, these insights marked a new beginning.
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Studies of eye movement during the reading process provide further evidence of the role of higher level knowledge.
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Textermination examines the fictionality of the novel from the point of view of the reading process .
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For this distinction to take place higher level knowledge must be affecting the reading process .
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Eye movement studies have also been used to demonstrate the role of syntactic knowledge in the reading process .
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This is largely because human readers use an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process .
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The reading process can however be conceptualized in other ways without necessarily abandoning a language-based position.
public
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And it became apparent that the general reading public was not only prepared, but positively eager, to listen.
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But the stories never swept the reading public off its feet the way the Sherlock Holmes tales did.
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Topics covered include news and feature writing, fiction, writing for children and for the new reading public .
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But would a publisher - or the reading public for that matter?
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Thus Ben Jonson on the simple-minded reading public of 1625.
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Popular literature appealing to the semi-educated proliferated, reflecting the growth of a reading public not unlike that of the contemporary West.
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Duncombe's poem was reprinted a number of times and thus kept Leapor's name before the reading public for several decades.
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He was fortunate in that his choice of subjects and his robust story-telling were perfectly in tune with his reading public .
skill
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The work will examine groups of children and adults differing in reading skill .
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The word-games reinforce spelling and reading skills , and encourage accuracy.
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This may also indicate preparatory drill in reading skills and the handling of information sources. 2.
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They shed much fresh light on the nature and development of reading skill .
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It is particularly useful at a stage when pupils have very limited reading skills .
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Develops intensive reading skills and reading for gist, gives practice in business vocabulary and revises grammatical structures.
speed
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As their reading speed increases, so does the excitement!
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Do you vary your reading speed and method accordingly? 2.
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One of these is that there will inevitably be widely different reading speeds .
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All students, however, can learn how to use their reading speed strategically.
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Adjust your reading speed and method accordingly. 7.
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Each of these has specific purposes, may require different reading speeds and demands a purposeful, critical attitude on your part.
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Count the number of words on those two pages and you will be able to calculate your reading speed .
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Flexibility in your reading speeds . 3.
■ VERB
develop
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Perhaps it sharpens and develops reading , decoding, and comprehension skills.
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Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
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In addition, the Activity Book provides a stimulating range of tasks designed to develop reading , writing, and speaking skills.
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Teacher's notes give practical hints on developing reading skills, together with ideas for implementing play-reading in class.
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Beech's idea of consistent rules could be developed for even easier reading and learning.
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Objects are often excellent material to use with very young children, who have not yet developed reading and writing skills.
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Connections in Reading A &038; B encourage pre-intermediate students to read for pleasure and develop their reading skills.
enjoy
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Most students enjoy reading , but dislike having to write.
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Find enclosed the member's card for the Cool cats club and two newsletters! hope you enjoy reading !
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He enjoys reading and his main sporting interests are rugby and gaelic football.
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He appears to enjoy light reading .
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I do hope you enjoy reading them and have lots of fun trying out new ideas.
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Emma Lee lives in Liverpool and enjoys reading , handicraft and playing the keyboard.
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Lottie Crumbleholme is eight and enjoys reading and playing the piano.
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Most students say they enjoy reading .
give
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My brother was now traveling to several towns in Galicia, where he gave talks and readings from his work.
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Look, if you can't do sharing sums, give your readings to my assistant.
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However, that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading .
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Mr Bisset, assistant teacher at Port Ellen gave readings .
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He continued to give lectures, readings and radio talks.
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The pulses received are counted by the driving software and give a direct reading of the cursor's position on the screen.
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A problem was that most of the radiometer measurements gave low readings on the instrument's most sensitive scale.
make
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The bottom of the league makes worrying reading .
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The results so far make somewhat bemusing reading .
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In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading .
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The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading .
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A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading .
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Young Bruce's flirtation with Padstow lifeboat didn't make good reading .
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If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading , then it was soon to become even more so.
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The one thing Roy will definitely make a point of reading is innovations catalogues.
write
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Because of educational difficulties, many deaf people, though intelligent, have poor reading and writing skills.
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He often stopped reading or writing to stare into the distance, dreaming perhaps of some ambitious plan.
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He discusses the benefits for all learners of listening to, reading and writing poetry.
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It contains further reading , writing and listening exercises.
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In addition, the Activity Book provides a stimulating range of tasks designed to develop reading , writing , and speaking skills.
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The four key skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking will be tested at first and Second Level.
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Objects are often excellent material to use with very young children, who have not yet developed reading and writing skills.
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Time is passed by reading , writing , listening to music, playing cards, doing jigsaws, etc.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reading/printed etc matter
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Armed with the knowledge gleaned from reading matter and known computer buffs I travelled far and wide.
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But they also noted whether there was reading matter in the house.
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I was grateful for the information you conveyed regarding Heather's reading matter on Rhodes.
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The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter .
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There were also other changes, such as in available reading matter .
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Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter .
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Typographer a specialist in the design of printed matter , and in particular the art of typography.
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Typography the design and planning of printed matter using type.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a poetry reading
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an energetic reading of Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"
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Even a casual reading of the text gives you an idea of the theme.
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Handouts and additional reading will be provided in class.
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His hobbies include reading and hiking.
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My reading of the situation is that this conflict is likely to get worse over the next few months.
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Temperature readings were as cold as -2°.
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The children are separated into groups for reading .
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The electricity meter reading was much higher than I'd expected.
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We use atmospheric pressure readings from barometers to forecast the weather.
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What's George's reading of the situation at work?
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What's your reading of the latest trade figures?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Complicity between the two personae is betrayed by using the reading performed to justify the choice made.
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I fancy it comes from over reading , so I do as little as I can.
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It has crucial importance for the accommodative phase of reading progress.
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It was no good; reading at this moment in time was the last thing she felt like.
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Our reading today is about sharing.
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Sometimes the second reading , usually made from the Apostolic writings, had the same theme especially in Lent or Advent.