WorksheetsReading Skills EAP
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Annotation is.....
Skimming is....
Scanning is....
Summary is....
Paraphrasing is....
Inferences are...
Title of the reading is important because:
it can tell us about the main idea of the text
it has the main idea of the text in it
it is not important
what is a title???
Why are sub-headings important?
what is a heading?
are they like subtitles?
they are names of sections
they can tell us about the supporting points of a text
First sentence of a summary must have:
author's name
author's name, text title, and main idea
title
main idea
What is the significance of transition words/phrases in a text?
What are the two groups of comprehension questions?
WH and Yes/No
Open-ended and closed-ended
simple present and simple past
skimming and scanning
What does a summary NOT contain?
specific/superfluous details
your opinion
title of reading
author's name
What text types do you think are read in academic subjects?
What is NOT paraphrasing?
changing grammar structure, deleting unnecessary pronouns, joining ideas together, changing idea order
copy-pasting from original
changing two words
changing one word
