This document provides information on the reading skills and subskills that students will be tested on for their mid-semester test and final examination. For the mid-semester test, students will be tested on skills like skimming, scanning, distinguishing main ideas from details, and deriving meaning from context. For the final exam, additional skills tested will include drawing conclusions, making inferences, summarizing, and identifying an author's purpose, tone, and attitude. The document also discusses how to analyze non-linear diagrams and the multiple choice question format for section B of the final exam.

1. ELC080
READING SKILL

2. Reading Sub Skills
• Go through the sub skills on Page 94 - 98
• For Mid semester Test, students are tested on:
 skimming
 scanning
 distinguishing main ideas from supporting details
(Topic sentence)
 deriving meaning from context (contextual clues)
 referencing

3. For Final Examination, students are also
tested on:
Drawing conclusions
Making inferences
Summarizing
Facts vs Opinions
Predicting outcomes
Organization of passage – Page 98

4. For Final Examination, students are also tested
on (cont.):
Writer’s Purpose, tone, attitude
 Writer’s Purpose – TO inform; TO criticize;
TO persuade/encourage/motivate; TO
entertain;
 Writer’s Tone – objective; critical;
persuasive; humorous; melancholy;
concerned
 Writer’s Attitude – agrees or disagrees
with topic / issue discussed

5. Non-linear to linear
•Study the diagram
• Table
• Flow chart
•WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET
• DO NOT assume / imagine / feel

6. FINAL EXAMINATION
•Section B
•5 MCQs
•Options:
 A. True – Information in the diagram is the same
as information in the question. Eg. Page 113 No.
7
 B. False – Information in the question is found in
the diagram but they do not match. Eg. Page 113
No. 6
 C. Not Stated – Information in the question is
not found in the diagram. Eg. Page 130 No. 7

7. QUESTIONS?