Making meaning of English through Reading: A Graduate Education Reading Workshop Slideshow

What meaning do you make of the following aphorisms?  How do you make meaning?

You are probably familiar with The early bird gets the worm.

What does The second mouse gets the cheese mean? 

          

How does your brain process these ideas?      Do you translate each word and then try to make sense of the sentence?      Do you try to think of the same aphorism in your own language?    What connections do you make?     Do you get the hidden parts of these aphorisms? 

A large part of reading is about this getting.   Unfortunately,  if English is not your first language,  this is more of a challenge.     

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