Scanning & Skimming

​Checking of Attendance

• Please say "present" if your number was called!​

​Do you like to read?

• If yes, what kind of book do you read?​

​What is reading?

​Reading is the most important skill in another language from other language skill is in acquiring language.

• It is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from text(as in reading a book or reading music.

​Why do we read?

​Information

Verify existing Knowledge

Pleasure

Have access to the literature

Interest

Enhance knowledge

Exam!!

​READING STRATEGIES

​What is strategy???

Strategy is an activity that is used to help students increase their reading abilities

​How can we improve our reading?

​How can we improve our reading?

​Two important techniques include:

• Skimming

• Scanning​

​Skimming

and

Scanning​

​Reading Strategies

​Skimming

​What is skimming?

​Skimming is a reading technique that can help you to:​

•  read more quickly ​

• decide if the text is interesting and whether you should read it in more detail.​​

Skimming is a fast reading technique. Use it to obtain the gist of a piece of text (i.e. to quickly identify the main ideas in the text).

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​How to skim:

• ​Read the title, subtitles, and subheadings to find out what the text is about.

• Look at the illustrations to give you further information about the topic.

• Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.

• Don't read every word or every sentence.

​Let’s skim the first and last sentences from the passage. In recent years, evidence has been collected which suggests that the proportion of British children and teenagers who are unhappy is higher than in many other developed countries around the world. For example, a recently published report set out to measure ‘ well-being’ among young people in nineteen European countries, found that the United Kingdom came bottom. The report was based on statistics and surveys in which young people answered questions on a wide range of subject. The United Kingdom is a relatively unequal country with a relatively high proportion of young people living in households. With less than half the national average income. This seems to have a negative effect on how they feel about themselves. So what’s our answer?

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Choose the heading that best matches the previous paragraph.

a. Parents are to blame for the state of children today

b. A report with many conclusions and worries about the United Kingdom

c. Growing up unhappy generation

d. There are so many social problems young people face today

​Scanning

​What is scanning?

​Scanning is a fast reading technique. It's a way of reading to look for specific information in a text.​

Scanning can be used to read through the ads in a newspaper, or for browsing TV schedules, timetables, lists, catalogs or web pages for information. For these tasks, you don't need to read or understand every word.​

Scanning is also useful when studying or looking to find specific information from a book or article quickly as there is not always time to read every word.

​How to scan:

• ​Don't try to read every word. Instead, let your eyes move quickly across the page until you find what you are looking for.

• Use clues on the page, such as headings and titles, to help you.

• If you are reading for study, start by thinking up or writing down some questions that you want to answer. Doing this can focus your mind and help you find the facts or information that you need more easily.

​How is 'skimming' different from 'scanning'?

​ ^{The term skimming is often confused with scanning. Remember:​}

^{Skimming is used, for example, to get the gist of a page of a textbook to decide whether it is useful and should therefore be read more slowly and in more detail.​}

^{Scanning is used to obtain specific information from a piece of text and can be used, for example, to find a particular number in a telephone directory.}

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​Difference between Skimming and Scanning

​Skimming

• Get main idea not all details​

• ​Fast reading

• Must leave out parts​

• ​Comprehension is lower

​Scanning

• Locate a single fact or specific bit of information.​

• ​Fast way to find info.

• A​accurate in finding info.

​Sometimes you can use both reading methods. After you have skimmed a piece of text to decide whether the text is of interest, you may wish to use scanning techniques to locate specific information.

​Detailed Reading

• ​Detailed reading is a technique that involves carefully reading and analyzing every word for a deeper understanding of the material.

• Detailed reading is used to extract accurate information from a material.

• Detailed reading usually starts with skimming. First, you skim the material to have an idea of what it is. Then you carefully read through it.

​Examples

​Are electric cars really eco-friendly?

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Electric-car drivers are saving the planet, right? Their vehicles produce none of the pollutants that dinosaur-burning, fossil-fuel-powered machines do. That is the standard view, and governments around the world provide incentives to encourage the uptake of this new technology.

That is why a Tesla owner got a rude shock when he went to import his vehicle into Singapore - the first person to do so. The Tesla Model S is a 100% electric vehicle. It does not have an exhaust to emit from. So what happened?

Instead of an expected rebate of around S$15,000 (US$10,800) he received a fine of the same amount for being a gross polluter. The company commented the incident, "The Model S that our customer imported into Singapore left our factory only two years ago with energy consumption rated at 181 Wh/km. This qualifies as the cleanest possible category of car in Singapore and entitles the owner to an incentive rather than a fine."

The Singapore authorities calculated the ‘carbon cost’ of generating the electricity that will be used to charge the car. This is the elephant in the trunk of electric vehicles. Where and how the power is produced is not often considered, but perhaps it should be. Let’s move the elephant up to the passenger seat and address it directly.

The authorities in Singapore apparently found the Tesla in question consumes 444 watt-hours of electricity per km (Wh/km) in tests. Without wanting to get too maths-heavy, the number of 444Wh/km does seem high. And as we still need power stations to produce such amount electric energy, the environmental impact is not so small as it seemed to be.

But what about the bigger picture - should we be factoring in the emissions of power stations when working out how green an electric car is? The logical answer is yes. Emissions shifted elsewhere are still emissions, and CO2 impacts the global atmosphere wherever it is released.

Multiple Choice

1. What is the aim of this text?

• To discourage people from visiting Singapore.

• To prove that electric cars are less eco-friendly than fossil-fuel-powered machines.

• To show that we need to count the emissions of power stations to see how green an electric car is.

Multiple Choice

2. When the owner of the electric car went to Singapore, he received

• a rebate of around US$10,800

• a fine of around US$10,800

• a fine of around US$15,000

Multiple Choice

When do these job start?

• Late November to End of December

• Late November

• End of December

• All are correct

Multiple Choice

The work will last for about a month?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What type of a work is an offer?

• Skillswise Delivery Services

• Skinwise Delivery Service

• Skinwhite Delivery Service

Multiple Choice

What kind of people is Skillswise Delivery Services looking for?

• enthusiastic and reliable

• trustworthy and reliable

• enthusiastic and kind

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

What kind of job is advertised?

• Director of a company

• Office manager

• Computer Programmer

Multiple Choice

What is the requirement for the job?

• a college degree

• less than 2 years experience

• two or more years of experience

Poll

What is not mentioned as a strength of Alfred Engels?

• . Trading experience

• Good at learning

• 3.Leadership exposure

• Student council chairman

Poll

What is the purpose of the letter?

• To recommend a person for a job

• To apply for a new position

• To explain a trading procedure

• To reprimand an employee

Multiple Choice

What kind of job is advertised?

• Director of a computer company.         

                     

• Computer Programmer

• Office Manager       

• Teacher

Multiple Choice

What is a requirement for this job?

• Less than two years’ experience                  

• Two or more years of experience      

                  r

• College Degree      

• None of the above

​Questions

Poll

The closest meaning of the word “sternly” is___________

• 1. seriously

• 2. flexibly

• 3. cheerful

• 4. kindly

• 5. gently

Poll

What is the tone of a story?

• 1. funny

• 2. tragic

• 3. serious

• 4. sarcastic

• 5. sympathetic

Multiple Choice

•                                       effect

   

•                                                

  afford          

• affect

Multiple Choice

•                                       proceed                                            

•                                                

  practice         

• follow

Multiple Choice

•                   brilliant                                                                                                          

•                                               llazy  

• distinct   

Multiple Choice

•                    

  definition                                                                                                        

• donation                       

• determination          

Multiple Choice

•                   

  respected                                          

                                             

                                                                                                                  

•                    recognize                     

• known