Reading Strategy
Visualization
Creating visual images of the scenes or concepts described in the text helps you better understand it, get engaged in it, and remember details from it.
Read and underline the sentences whose images you can
visualize.
visualize.
One of the most characteristic things about Portugal is the Azulejo
tiles.
tiles.
These are ceramic tiles usually colored in white and blue.
They cover the walls of train stations, restaurants, shops, and houses all over the city.
From a distance, it might look like a wall painting, but up close, you will
see that it is, in fact, comprised of thousands of ceramic tiles.
see that it is, in fact, comprised of thousands of ceramic tiles.
In the past, tiles would depict images of Portuguese navigators and their travels around the world, while more modern ones depict images of animals or abstract patterns.