C2_books_ways of reading

If we are on the same page …

• someone is expecting the same from us

• we have similar ideas about something, agree on something

• both of us have to carry out the same duties

Which of these verbs does NOT mean 'to look quickly through the pages of a book, magazine, etc.'

• riffle

• leaf through

• peruse

If you to turn the pages of a book, magazine, or a document quickly and only read small parts of it, you … (choose 2 right answers)

• leaf through the book

• peruse a book

• thumb through the book

If you look through a text quickly in order to find a piece of information that you want or to get a general idea of what the text contains, you are…

• scanning the text

• skimming the text

• streamlining the text

if you read or look at something quickly to understand the main points, without studying it in detail, you are…

• scanning the text

• skimming the text

• streamlining the text