2. They are like a fourth gear – or overdrive –
in reading, in which you read only enough of
the material to give you the ideas or
information you want or need.
There are four ways of reading. What are
they??
3. Careful reading - studying or reading complex material,
reading intensively and/or making decisions about the
material you’re reading
Usual reading, casual reading - reading newspapers,
magazines, or novel
Accelerated reading - because of lack of time and great
quantities of material to cover, to alert yourself, read
aggressively, to maintain a much higher rate than your usual
rate, demands a greater expenditure of energy than most
people can maintain for long periods of time, so you use this
third gear only occasionally, when the situation demand
Skimming and Scanning - you deliberately look for certain
parts, and you skip over a great deal of the material
4. Scanning rapidly covers a great deal of material in order to
locate fact or piece of information. It is to look for one thing in
particular.
Very useful in finding a specific name, date, statistics, or fact
without reading the entire article.
Skimming rapidly covers a great deal of material in order to
identify general overview of the content.
You may be interested in the “gist” of an article, or you may want
to sample a book in the library before deciding to take it out.
5. The Black Death
The Black Death, a terrible plague, reached England in 1348. It spread from
the port of Weymouth to Bristol and, in spite of closing the roads, quickly
spread to Gloucester. It then passed to Oxford and from there to London. By
the spring it was at its height. It seemed to attack men rather than women,
and the young and strong rather than the elderly.
The plague continued to ravage Europe for centuries. The Tudor period saw
repeated plagues. People carried sponges soaked in vinegar and posies of
flowers, called tussie-mussies, to ward off the plague fumes. They did not
realise that the plague was carried by the fleas on the rats they saw
everywhere.
When did the plague reach England?---------------------------------------
Who seemed the most likely to be infected by the plague?---------
How did people avoid the plague?-------------------------------------------
What was the plague really caused by?------------------------------------
Read through the following passage and answer the questions.
6. What would you scan when you are doing research for an oral
presentation?
7. Write a preview of any recent book that you have read.
8.
9.
10. 1. How often are members of the House of Representative
chosen?
2. How old must a Senator be to be elected?
3. To be a Senator, how long must he or she have been a citizen
of the United States?
4. How long must a Representative be a citizen of the United
States before he or she can be elected?
5. Who is the President of the Senate?
6. Originally, who chose the Senators?
11. Section 2
Clause 1:
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members
chosen every second Year by the People of the several States,
and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications
requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the
State Legislature.
Clause 2:
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have
attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years
a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when
elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be
chosen.
12. Section 3
Clause 1:
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from
each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each
Senator shall have one Vote.
Clause 2: (omitted)
Clause 3:
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of
thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who
shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall
be chosen.
Clause 4:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate,
but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
13. Making an inference is also known as reading between the
lines. The reader must put together the information the
author provides and the information that the reader already
knows to come up with the answer.
the text + previous knowledge = inference
You make an inference when you use clues from the story to
figure out something that the author doesn't tell you.
14. Consider the following statement:
The Senator admitted owning the gun that killed his wife.
On the face of it, we have a simple statement about what someone said. Our understanding,
however, includes much that is not stated. We find meaning embedded in the words and phrases.
Unpacking that meaning, we can see that the Senator was married and his wife is now dead—
although this is not actually stated as such. (In fact, the sentence is about an admission of gun
ownership.) It is as though the single sentence contains a number of assertions:
There is a Senator.
He owns a gun.
He is married.
His wife is dead.
That gun caused her death.
The Senator admitted owning that gun.
Clearly, the original sentence is a clearer and simpler way of conveying all of this information.
On a more subtle level, we recognize that a public figure confronts involvement in a major
crime. Our understanding need not stop there. We infer that the gun (or at least a bullet) has
probably been recovered and identified as the murder weapon.
15. Mrs. Green just finished college. She applied for a job at the
school in town to be a first grade teacher. She had wanted to be a
teacher since she was a little girl. She had heard that the school
was looking for someone who had experience as a teacher so when
she got a call from the principal to come in for an interview, she
was happy and excited! On the day of the interview, Mrs. Green
went to the school and saw four other people there. They were
also at the school for interviews. All of them were older than she
was and looked very confident. Mrs. Green’s heart “sunk”.
What do you know?
What can you infer?
What clues do you have?
16. Turner almost wished that he hadn’t listened to the radio. He
went to the closet and grabbed his umbrella. He would feel silly
carrying it to the bus stop on such a sunny morning.
Which probably happened?
a. Turner had promised himself to do something silly that
morning.
b. Turner had heard a weather forecast that predicted rain.
c. Turner planned to trade his umbrella for a bus ride.
17. “Larry, as your boss, I must say that it’s been very interesting
working with you,” Miss Valdez said. “However, it seems that
our company’s needs and your performance style are not well
matched. Therefore, it makes me very sad to have to ask you to
resign your position effective today.”
What was Miss Valdez telling Larry?
a. She would feel really bad if he decided to quit.
b. He was being fired.
c. He was getting a raise in pay.
d. She really enjoyed having him in the office.
18. A man and his son are driving in a car. The car crashes into a
tree, killing the father and seriously injuring his son. At the
hospital, the boy needs to have surgery. Upon looking at the
boy, the doctor says (telling the truth), "I cannot operate on
him. He is my son.“
How can this be?
20. Such questions need you to pay close attention to the exact
wordings of the questions.
Lateral thinking, is the ability to think creatively, or "outside
the box" as it is sometimes referred to in business, to use your
inspiration and imagination to solve problems by looking at
them from unexpected perspectives. Lateral thinking involves
discarding the obvious, leaving behind traditional modes of
thought, and throwing away preconceptions.
21. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in
another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined
them all in one field?
A truck driver went down a one-way street in the wrong
direction, but didn't break the law. The police man standing
nearby doesn’t stop him. How come?
Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children
are handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them
while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man
tries to stop the crying before the child is shot.
22. A traveler arrives in a small town and decides he wants to get
a haircut. According to the manager of the hotel where he's
staying, there are only two barbershops in town — one on East
Street and one on West Street. The traveler goes to check out
both shops. The East Street barbershop is a mess, and the
barber has the worst haircut the traveler has ever seen. The
West Street barbershop is neat and clean; its barber's hair
looks as good as a movie star's.
Which barbershop does the traveler go to for his haircut, and why?
23. A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes
the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to
go shopping. When he returns he takes the elevator to the
seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment
on the tenth floor. He hates walking so why does he do it?
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of
water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man.
The man says ‘Thank you’ and walks out.
A man pushed his car. He stopped when he reached a hotel at
which point he knew he was bankrupt. Why?
