英语阅读能力提升Chapter 1 Speed Reading-4.ppt

Chapter 1 Speed Reading Ⅳ. Skimming Skimming Quick reading for general ideas. Do not need to read everything in details. Just look at the important parts of the text, e.g. the title, the beginning, the end, the conclusion, the summary, the first sentence in each paragraph, etc. It’s not a careless reading but a careful reading of selected parts. Exercise: skim the passage with the help of signal words. College differs from high school in several important ways. In the first place, the college student generally does not attend classes in a course every day of the week but rather two or three times a week. Night courses might meet only once a week. In the second place, in college more information is presented in a shorter length of time. For example, a high school English course may be a year-long course whereas a college English course may be only one semester long. Finally, the college English student is expected to do most of his learning on his own outside of class; he is expected to be an independent learner. When skim longer passages Read the title and the 1st paragraph or 1st two paragraphs to look for the subject or the author’s viewpoint; Read the 1st sentence of each following paragraph, looking for ideas related to the author’s point; Read the last paragraph or the last two paragraphs to see if there is a summary or conclusion. Language Learning in the U.S. Most people in the US speak only one language: English. They do not learn to speak a second language. High schools teach foreign languages. But very few students learn to speak well. Why don’t Americans speak other languages? First, most Americans never travel to other countries. The US is a very large country. Americans can travel a long distance and not leave the US. They do not need to learn a second language. Second, one of the countries next to the US is Canada. Most people in Canada speak English. Some Americans live near Canada. They travel there often. But they do not have to learn a new