泛读3-17.pptVIP

Key to the Exercise of Unit 12 Vocabulary Building reaction mass polluting planetary suspicious alarming emitted emerged warned threatened spread spread sprayed emergency emergence Cloze solve communities creative prevention disposal resources recycling waste increase place measures amount Review of Reading Skills: Skimming What is it? is a process of speed reading used to quickly identify the main ideas of a text, the gist (the overall sense) of a piece of text. What are the tips of skimming? Read the title, subtitles and subheading to find out what the text is about. Consider reading the first and last sentence of each paragraph. Let your eyes skim over the surface of the text with a sharp eye on key words such as dates, names, and places, graphs, tables, and charts and other illustrations to give you further information about the topic. Review of Reading Skills: Scanning What is scanning? is a technique used to obtain specific information from a piece of text. What are the tips of scanning? moving your eyes quickly down the page seeking specific words and phrases such as numbers, letters, steps, or the words, first, second, or next. Look for words that are bold faced, italics, or in a different font size, style, or color. Another Skill of Reading: Drawing Inferences Inference: an idea that the speakers or writers do not state openly, but intend you to understand anyway When the writers have not clearly stated their main idea and you have to find a single overall topic for the great numbers of details, you have to look through the surface facts, that is look behind, under, or ahead of the simple facts. In a word, we have to read between the lines. drawing inferences needs: close, careful reading and examination of all the evidence, a correct literal comprehension of the words, the careful interpretation of the literal meaning; to know and determine what is the authors intention to infer. When you read,