Session A_Reading_Skimming for Main Ideas课件.ppt

Learning without reflection often ends up in a failure.;Skimming for Main Idea;Major Activities;I. Fast Reading;Check Your Comprehension;6) The parade of the athletes started with Greece and ended with the host, China. 7) Two hundred National Olympic Committee teams would compete in 2008 Olympic Games. 8) Each athlete walked over a paper scroll on the floor of the stadium. 9) The 29th Summer Olympic Games would last for 18 days. 10) The Opening Ceremony at Beijing National Stadium is widely praised in the Olympic world. ;II. Skimming for Main Idea;Basic Ideas On Skimming for Main Idea;Reading Tips;If the paragraph lacks the topic sentence, think about the topic of the paragraph and what the writer is trying to tell you about the topic; you may put the ideas of several sentences together to get the main idea or sum up the main idea on your own. To find the main idea of a passage, read its title, and its subtitles, if there is any; read the first and the last paragraph of the passage; read only the first and the last sentence of the rest of the paragraphs in the passage; try to recognize the words and phrases that are closely related to the title of the passage; try to piece together the bits of information gathered from the rapid reading. Don’t read every word of a passage, not even every sentence of it. Let your eyes skim over the passage, taking in key words.;Example; A further reason for football’s intensity is that the game is played like a war. The idea is to win by going through, around or over the opposing team and the battle lines, quite literally, are drawn on every play. Violence is somewhere at the heart of the game, and the combat quality is reflected in football’s army language (“blitz,” “trap,” “zone,” “bomb,” “trenches,” etc.) Coaches often sound like generals when they discuss their strategy. Woody Hayes of Ohio State, for instance, explains his quarterback option play as if it had been conceived in the Pentagon: “You know,” he sa