Reading comprehension has much in common with listening comprehend-sion, but also some differences. As is often the case in listening, we usually
start reading with certain expectations: for example, in a newspaper we
expect news, and on certain pages we expect financial news,
entertainment news, or sports news. As we read, we try to confirm or identify the precise topic, and each change of topic. This activates the ideas we have stored in our
mind related to that topic. And that helps us to make sense of what we then
read. On the basis of our expectations, our previous ideas about the topic,
and our knowledge of the language and of texts written in the language, to
some extent we predict what will come next. When you have read:
and our knowledge of the language and of texts written in the language, to
some extent we predict what will come next. When you have read: