英语阅读能力提升Chapter 1 Speed Reading-2.pptVIP

Chapter 1 Speed Reading Ⅱ. Eyes exercises What actually happens when we read? Improve your reading speed? 1 Enlarge our eye span 2 Shorten the time of each pause Enlarge our eye span Every time the eye pauses it sees a phrase or even a sentence, then jump to the next part of the line, you can try to look at one word, ad extend your eyesight to the words beside it. Exercise 1 There is no better way to test fishing boats than under actual fishing conditions Actual conditions 1: Question: According to the short passage, which is the best way to test fishing boats? Exercise 2 The purpose of life insurance is to prevent financial difficulty for someone else in the event of your death With that in mind, you can determine if you need life insurance 2: Question: According to the short passage, how to determine whether you need life insurance or not? Phrase reading Eg.: Do you want a cup of tea? Exercises 1 When you phrase read, it should fell like this. Your eye should move and stop, move and stop. Each time 1. what kind of movement dose your eye do when reading something? 2. what’ s the advantage of phrase reading? A. it can help you read faster and comprehend more. B. it tells you more things. C. it makes the passage more interesting. D. you can see more phrases by using it. Exercises 2 In this exercise, the clusters have been divided by the oblique lines. Try to understand the passage. On April 15/, 1912/, the Titanic/, the largest ship /in the world/, struck an iceberg/ off Newfoundland/ and sank /in the early morning darkness/, taking over/1500 lives. The luxury liner /was making/her first Atlantic voyage/ from England to New York/ when the tragedy occurred/. Of the 2,223 aboard/, only about 700 people/ were saved/. Millions of dollars/ in jewelry and furs/ went down with the ship/. The Titanic was thought/ to be unsinkable. Earlier in the night/ the captain of the ship/ had been warned/ that there were iceberg