8 Reading Training - Teachers’ License by Yousef Alshorbaji

1- To look quickly through a reading passage to find something is called :

• A)- skimming

• B)- scanning

• C)- silent reading

• D) visualizing

• E) synthesizing

2-An activity that best helps practice skimming is.....

• A ) summarizing

• B ) comparing two text

• C ) overviewing a chapter

• D ) reporting on an article

3- (Teacher to students: I need you to take a quick look at the text and provide me with the main idea of the passage.

The previous instruction is an example of a reading strategy known as.......

• A)Scanning

• B)Skimming

• C)Analyzing

• D)Evaluation

4- (Teacher (to students):I need you to quickly look through this travel brochure and tell me: how many islands are there in New Zealand?

The previous instruction is an example of a reading strategy known as:

• A) Scanning

• B) Guessing

• C) Skimming

• D) inferencing

5- (To increase reading comprehension and retention for learners, it is best to:

• B) read aloud for the students

• C) provide a text with very simple language

• D) identify the purpose of reading the chosen text

• A) give very short passages

6- When a teacher requires students to read a text quickly and then give it an appropriate title, this is known as reading……………….

• A) for details

• B) for the gist

• C) for knowledge

• D) for comprehension

7- An intensive reading text should be :

• A) long and easy

• B) long and detailed

• C) short and simple

• D) short and complicated

8- ‏An extensive reading text should be .................

• A- ‏long and detailed

• B- ‏long and simple

• C- short and simple

• D- ‏short and complicated

9- Providing students with an example of a well-structured essay and then analyzing it with them is an example of :

• A) outlining

• B) modeling

• C) summarizing

• D) paraphrasing

10- An activity that best helps practice skimming is:

• A) summarizing

• B) comparing two text

• C) overviewing a chapter

• D) reporting on an article