Reading Technique

Reading Technique

TGAT 1​

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​What's the best title?

• Students identify the ‘big idea’ in a passage.

• Students successfully recognize the differences between details and main ideas.

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​What's the best title?

• Read through the whole passage.

• Pay close attention to the opening and closing paragraphs to ensure you fully understand the ‘big idea’ of the text.

• Read through the possible titles and identify which are only relevant to certain parts or paragraphs in the text.

• Remember that all of the title options will be relevant to a part of the text – the skill needed is for you to pick the one that is representative of the whole passage, not just a part of it.

• Don’t waste time! This question is only worth one point so do not spend too long on it.

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Multiple Choice

What should be the title?

Refrigerator Cabinet Table Kitchen Chair Spoon Sink

• House

• Kitchen

• Room

• Equipment

Multiple Choice

What should be the title?

Geometry History Math Language Physics

• Classes

• Subject

• Education

• High School

Multiple Choice

Surgery is now the best method of treating Lung cancer, especially in the earliest stages. The operation is not a simple one. The chest must be opened very wide so that the surgeon can thoroughly examine all areas. If cancer is found in only one lobe of the lung, this portion may be removed completely. The remaining lung then expands and fills the area vacated by the diseased tissues.

• The stages of surgery

• The treatment of lung cancer

• Lung cancer is needed to open the chest.

• Difficulty in treating Lung cancer.

Multiple Choice

Alcohol shortens a person's life. Records from life insurance companies reveal that heavy drinkers are more subject to various forms of malnutrition. They often suffer from vitamin deficiencies and chronic liver damage. Miscarriages are more common among alcoholic women. Children born to such mothers are more subject to severe diseases during childhood. These facts are well known to medical science.

• Alcohol and medical science

• Relationship between heavy drinking and malnutrition

• Alcohol's effects on human beings

• Life of heavy drinkers

​Topic

• What is the conversation about?

• What is the story about?

• What is the passage about?

• What is the article about?​

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Multiple Choice

Bangkok is the capital of Thailand. There are a lot of interesting places, such as Wat Phra Kaew, JJ market, and Dusit Zoo. They are famous places in Thailand. People love to go there, especially to Dusit zoo. Children like to see animals. If you like shopping, you have to go to JJ market.

What is the best title for this story?

• Interesting places in Bangkok

• Interesting markets in Bangkok

• Interesting capitals in Bangkok

• Interesting animals in Bangkok

Multiple Choice

Many people are worried that television has caused a lot of effects on American children. For one thing, some teachers feel the television has taken away the children’s abilities to learn mental pictures. As a result, children cannot understand a simple story without seeing pictures. Secondly, too much TV tends to cause children to withdraw from real-life experiences. Thirdly, they cannot understand the frustration of learning. Finally, the most serious result is the impact of television violence; children think violence is an everyday thing.

What is the best title for this passage?

• American Children

• Educational Television

• The Effects of Television

• The Reasons for Watching Television

Multiple Choice

The Chinese New Year is celebrated between January and February. New Year’s Day food is usually made of vegetables because it is bad luck to kill or eat animals. Children get a red packet or an envelope. This normally contains money! Firework displays are all around the country and dragon dances take place in the streets

What is the topic of the passage?

• Chinese Customs

• Chinese way of living

• The Chinese New Year

• Food in New Year’s Day in China

Multiple Choice

Nobody knows exactly when the Olympics Games began, but historians think that the first games were in 776BC. Athletes from all over Greece came to compete in a town called Olympia. There was only one event. It was a running race called the ‘stade’. The first Olympic champion was Coroebus of Ellis. He was a cook.

What does the story tell us?

• The ancient Olympics

• The Olympia

• The Olympics

• The first Game

Multiple Choice

Air pollution is gathered in clouds and when it reacts with the oxygen and water in the atmosphere it becomes acid. The winds carry the polluted clouds long distances. When it rains, this pollution falls on trees, houses, buildings, cars, clothes, everywhere! This is called acid rain.

Which is the topic?

• The pollution

• The solutions

• The air pollution and acid rain

• The water and soil pollution

Multiple Choice

For many years, scientists knew that elephants could communicate with each other over long distances – sometimes further than 4 kilometers. Elephants live in small families of ten to twelve, sometimes spread out over large areas. Even when they are far apart, they can always find each other, or tell each other about food, water, and danger. But scientists couldn’t explain how they did it

What should be the best title?

• Elephant Family

• Elephant Talk

• The Amazing Discovery

• The American scientist