🆒 Context (reading) 🆙

Benefits➕:
📓 Master new words and expand your vocabulary ;
🔍 Use context cues to identify the meaning of new words ;
🗨 Become more articulate in your speech and writing .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the word that best fits the sentence.

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🔎 Extraction (reading) 🔍

Benefits➕:
⌛️ Learn time-saving techniques for skimming long pieces of writing ;
🔍 Find critical information quickly using scanning techniques .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Skim the article within the allotted time. Choose the correct answer in the skimming review. ➡️ Next, find and choose the passage in the article that answers the question.

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BEFORE WE BEGIN. This game is split into two portions: skimming and scanning. Improving these skills allows you to evaluate and consume information more effectively in real-world situations.

SKIMMING. Quickly look across the text and identify important words or ideas. It's fine to skip lines if they don't seem important.

SCANNING. Keep the information you're looking for in the front of your mind and move rapidly through the text to identify where it's likely to occur.

TIP: The type of content generally important in skimming is bolded.

❗️ Heads-up: To make most of this game, try setting a timer and reading the text in skimming within 45 seconds. Same for scanning part of the game. After having read the text, you can move on to the questions in skimming. In scanning, only 15 seconds are given to find the answer to the question from the text.

SKIMMING

FROM VODUN TO HOODOO

THE TRANSATLANTIC HISTORY OF VOODOO

When people hear the term Voodoo, they often think of dolls or black magic. However, Voodoo is the Caribbean version of the West African religion Vodun. Vodun is based on a belief in loas, or spirits, which are thought to control nature and take possession of humans. During Voodoo ceremonies, led by a priest (houngan) or priestess (mambo), the loas are appeased through ritual offerings.

Voodoo is a syncretic religion, meaning it commonly incorporates aspects of other religions; it thrived among African slaves in the Americas. Voodoo first appeared in Haiti during the 18th century, when slaves blended African beliefs with Catholicism. Legend has it that the slave revolt that led to the Haitian Revolution in 1791 began with a Voodoo ceremony.

Other versions of Vodun developed throughout the region, like Brazilian Umbanda and Cuban Santería. Among African Americans, Voodoo became known as Hoodoo and flourished in New Orleans during the 19th century. Dances and ceremonies were held in Congo Square and at Lake Pontchartrain. Today, a diluted form of Hoodoo survives thoughout the American South in folk religion, art, and herbal medicine.

SCAN THE ARTICLE
ONE of THREE

❓ Where does Hoodoo survive today?

✅ Answer: Last paragraph, last sentence: Today, a diluted form of Hoodoo survives thoughout the American South in folk religion, art, and herbal medicine.

TIP: Keep the information you're looking for in mind as you scan.