This document provides examples and instructions for various reading skills, including scanning, taking notes, previewing, using context clues, identifying main ideas and details, making inferences, and predicting. It includes sample texts and questions to help the reader practice and develop these important comprehension strategies.

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Reading Skills: Scanning
A. Scan this flight information to answer the questions below. Remember to look only for the answer to each
question. Try not to read every word.
Taken from https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/dps/arrivals
1. When did flight ID6412 land? __________
2. Which flight landed at 2.50 PM? __________
3. Where is flight VA33 arriving from? __________
B. Scan these dictionary definitions to find the answers to the questions below. Remember: don’t read the
definitions. Instead move your eyes quickly over the definitions to find the answers to the questions.
1. How many definitions does the dictionary give
for the word football? __________
2. Is the word footballer a noun or a verb?
__________
Taken from Merriam-Webster
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Reading Skills: Taking Notes
Taking notes helps you organise and remember important ideas and information. When you take notes, you
write only the most important words and ideas. It’s not necessary to write complete sentences.
Sometimes you may want to take notes on the main topics and details in a text.
Example:
Sometimes you take notes on the order of events in a text.
Example:
Bali is an island and a province in Indonesia. The province includes the island of Bali and a few other islands.
The island is known as an island of a thousand temples. There are about 3,100,000 people in Bali. Bali’s most
important city is Denpasar. Hinduism is Bali’s largest religion. More than 90% of its people are Hindus.
Textiles and garments are 45% of their exports. The currency in Bali is the Indonesian rupiah (IDR).
Taken from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali
Topic Details
Bali is an island and part of Indonesia
has thousand temples
has 3.1 million people
>90% are Hindus
Joko Widodo (born 21 June 1961) is an Indonesian politician and former businessman. He is a member of the
Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). He started his career as Mayor of Surakarta from 28 July
2005 until 1 October 2012. Then, he was Governor of Jakarta from 15 October 2012 until 16 October 2014.
He has been President of Indonesia since 20 October 2014. His Vice President is Jusuf Kalla. He is re-elected
in the 2019 presidential election. Joko Widodo was born in Surakarta, Central Java. He is a Muslim. He has
been married to Iriana since 1986. They have three children. He is also a Heavy metal music fan. He
graduated from the Faculty of Forestry at the Gadjah Mada University.
Taken from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko_Widodo
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1961
Born
1986
Married to
Iriana
2005—2012
Mayor of
Surakarta
Governor of
Jakarta
2012—2014
President of
Indonesia
2014—2019
Re-elected
2019

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A. Read the paragraph below and take notes on this chart.
B. Read the paragraph below and take notes on this timeline.
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS devices (iPhone). A
version for Android devices was released a year and half later, in April 2012. The app allows users to upload
photos and videos to the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organised with tags and location
information. An account’s posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse
other users’ content by tags and locations, and view trending content. Users can like photos, and follow other
users to add their content to a feed.
Taken from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
Topic Details
Choi Jin-ri (최진리) is born on March 29, 1994. She is better known by her stage name Sulli. She was a
South Korean singer-songwriter, actress and model. She played the young Princess Seonhwa of Silla in the
SBS drama “Ballad of Seodong” (2005). In 2009, Sulli became a member of the South Korean girl group
f(x). She left the group in 2015 to focus on her acting career. She made her solo debut album in June 2019
with the single album “Goblin”. Sulli was found dead at her Seongnam apartment by her manager on
October 14, 2019 at the age of 25. She suffered from depression and police are investigating her death as a
"possible suicide".
Taken from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulli
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Reading Skills: Previewing
A. Read the title of the article below. What questions does the title raise for you? Write two questions in the
following chart. Then, guess the answer to your questions.
B. Look at the picture with article and complete this sentence.
C. I think this reading is about _______________________________
C. Read the introduction and the first sentence in each paragraph. What do you expect to learn from the
reading? Check your ☑ answer.
what do you do at a meal in a foreign country
what sports are popular in those three countries
how people greet each other n those three countries
how to drive in foreign countries
how friends greet each other
D. Set a purpose for reading. Think about what you want to learn from the text and write two more questions.
Then, compare ideas with your classmates.
How do friends greet each other in Turkey?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
What questions does the title raise for you? What are some possible answers to your questions?
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Reading Skills: Using Context Clues
A. Use the underlined context clues to guess the meaning of each boldfaced word. Circle the correct answer.
1. From the top of the building you can see the Arabian Sea. It's a great view. A view is _____.
A. what you can see from a place
B. what you can do in the water
C. what you hear outdoors
2. The bread comes in many different shapes; hearts are the most popular. Shapes are _____.
A. the way things taste
B. the outer form
C. ways to cook food
3. The venue of the meeting was very important to him. He wanted to meet his clients in a hotel near the
city centre. Venue is _____.
A. the way something looks
B. where something is
C. how much something cost
B. Using context clues to choose the correct dictionary definition for the boldfaced word in each sentence.
Write the number of the definition.
1. ____ My brother works hard. He almost never takes a vacation.
2. ____ When I fell, I hit the ground hard and broke my arm.
3. ____ I spent three weeks in Mecca.
4. ____ I spent thirteen million Rupiahs for this brand new iPhone.
5. ____ If you play football roughly, you might get hurt.
6. ____ There are roughly three thousand students signed up for the activity.
7. ____ We live in a one story house.
8. ____ I just heard a shameful story about your ex-girlfriend.
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Reading Skills: Identifying Main Ideas & Details
A. One sentence in each group below states a main idea. Label it MI for main idea. The other sentences in
each group give details. Label these sentences D for details.
1. ____ The size of a football field and a hockey field are about the same.
2. ____ Both field hockey and football players need to be good runners.
3. ____ Football and field hockey are similar in some ways.
4. ____ You can’t play football or field hockey without a ball.
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2. ____ In formal situations, I usually shake hands with people.
3. ____ I say, “Hi,” to my friends when I see them.
4. ____ I always greet my grandparents with a big hug.
5. ____ I greet people differently depending on the situations.
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3. ____ It’s very hot during the day in the Sahara Desert.
4. ____ The Sahara Desert is unfriendly environment.
5. ____ There isn’t much water there.
6. ____ At night, it sometimes gets very cool.
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Reading Skills: Making Inferences
A. What can you infer from the statements below? (More than one idea is possible.)
1. Four hundred million people—40 percent of India’s population—watch important cricket games on
TV.
2. What can you infer about cricket in India?
3. ________________________________________________________________________________
2. The longest tennis game lasted eleven hours and five minutes.
3. What can you infer about the two tennis players in the longest tennis game?
4. ________________________________________________________________________________
3. Barcelona pays Lionel Messi over 80 million US Dollars annually or it’s roughly 132 billion Rupiahs per
month.
4. What can you infer about Lionel Messi?
5. ________________________________________________________________________________
4. According to the South Korean government report, the South Korea’s total fertility rate dropped to
0.98—or less than one baby per woman.
5. What can you infer about South Korea?
6. ________________________________________________________________________________
5. The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking
cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050,
say researchers.
6. What can you infer about Jakarta?
7. ________________________________________________________________________________
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Reading Skills: Predicting
A. Read the titles of four articles below. What do you expect to learn about in each article? Write your ideas as
questions. Then, predict answers to your questions.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.sg/best-countries-to-live-in-2017-3/?r=US&IR=T
1. Title: The 15 best countries to live in around the world
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/world-best-food-dishes/index.html
2. Title: …
Questions My Predictions
What are the countries? …
Why are they best? …
Questions My Predictions
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Source: https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/best-budget-phone-3473395/
3. Title: …
Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/asia/116377303/umbul-ponggok-indonesia-from-polluted-pond-to-instagram-hit
4. Title: …
Questions My Predictions
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