This reading discusses the origins of the Pizza Margherita. In 1889, Queen Margherita of Italy visited Naples and asked the chef from the best pizzeria to make her a pizza. The chef, Rafaele Esposito, created a new pizza for the queen using the colors of the Italian flag - tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and herbs. The queen loved this pizza, and it became known as the Pizza Margherita. It then became the most popular pizza style in Naples and served as the basic model for modern pizza.

2. WHAT IS PREVIEWING?
Previewing means surveying a text quickly
before you read it carefully. You preview when
you want to get information.
Previewing can help you with your reading.
When you preview a passage, you get some ideas
about it. This way, your brain is already thinking
about the topic when you start reading. You can
understand better and read faster. Previewing can
help you with all of your reading.

3. You can preview of kinds
reading material.
For example, you might
preview :
 The newspaper by
reading headlines
 A letter by looking at the
envelope
 A new book by reading
the front and back cover
Preview can help you make
decisions.
It can help you decide:
 Which articles to read in
the newspaper
 Whether to open the
letter (it might be junk
mail you would throw
out)
 If the book is interesting,
and if you want to read it

4.  Look at the photo and the tittle of the
reading. What will this reading be about?
This reading is about housekeeper robot.
 This reading is about robots that are
designed to do housework. What is
housework? Do you think robots will ever
able to do this kind of work?
Housework is dashing, cleaning, vacuum, etc. Yes,
I do.

5.  Skimming is a method of rapidly moving the
eyes over text with the purpose of getting
only the main ideas and a general overview
of the content.
 Skimming can usually be accomplished at
about 1000 words per minute.
 You can skim a paragraph, an article, a
dictionary, a web page, a textbook chapter,
or a whole book.

6.  People often skim when they are in hurry,
have a lot to read, or need to review
something you read previously.
 Skimming is used when you want to see if an
article may be of interest in your research,
find dates, names, and places or review
graphs, tables, and charts.

7. There are four basic rules
for skimming :
 Read about three to four
times faster than your
normal reading speed.
 Don’t try to understand
more than about 50% of
the material.
 Don’t worry about
vocabulary that you don’t
need understand.
 Don’t pay attentiom the
details.
There are some strategies
that can be used when
skimming:
 Skimming to get an
overall impression.
 Skimming a text using
first lines of paragraphs.
 Skimming a text using
first and last paragraphs.
 Skimming a text, using
section headings.

8. Here is the basic method of skimming which
almost do by people :
 Read the title. It is the shortest possible summary
of the content.
 Read headings, subheadings to find out what the
text is about.
 Read the whole first paragraph (introduction).
 Read the first and last sentence of each
paragraph.
 Look at the illustrations (pictures, charts, or
graphs) to give you more information about the
topic.
 Look out the keywords (italicized or boldface
words or phrases).
 Read the whole last paragraph (conclusion).

9. EXAMPLE OF SKIMMING
There are robots that can do housework.
Several vacuum cleaning robots are available.
However, not many people buy these products.
Why not? The main reason is cost. These robots
are expensive. Another reason is that robot
cleaners don’t always do a good job. A third
reason is power. Most of these robots use
batteries for power, and batteries do not last long
without recharging.
(From World Class Readings 1, by Bruce Roger, 2005)
The main idea of the text above is Why
households robots are not popular today.

10.  Previewing
Discuss these questions in pairs or groups. Share
your ideas with the class.
› Do you enjoy pizza? Why or why not?
› Does everyone like the same kind of pizza?
What do you think?

11.  Skimming
Skim the reading below in three to four minutes. Then answer the question that
follows. Mark your beginning time and ending time.
Beginning time:______________
In 1889, Umberto I, king of Italy, and his wife Margherita, queen of Savoy,
visited Naples. They stayed at a palace that belonged to the queen’s family. Queen
Margherita had heard of the wonderful pizza that was made in Naples. She asked
Rafaele Esposito to come to the palace. Esposito was the chef at the best pizza
restaurant in Naples, Pizzeria Brandi. She asked him to make a pizza for her and
her husband.
Esposito prepared a new type of pizza just for the queen. To make it
patriotic, he used the colors of the Italian flag: tomatoes(red), mozzarella
cheese(white), and herbs(green). He brought it to the palace. This was probably
the world’s first home delivery of pizza.
The queen loved this new type of pizza. She sent thank you letter to the
chef. This letter can still be seen on the wall in the Pizzeria Brandi. To honor the
queen, Esposito named this type of pizza “Pizza Margherita.” It became the most
popular style of pizza in Naples. Pizza Margherita also became the basic model for
the modern pizza.
Ending time:______________

12. What is this reading mainly about?
a. The design of the Italian flag
b. The story of King Umberto and Queen
Margherita
c. The creation of the basic model for modern
pizza.
d. The history of Pizzeria Brandi
The answer is

13. THANK YOU
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