The document discusses reading strategies for university-level study. It emphasizes that reading at university requires actively engaging with texts through techniques like skimming, scanning, and questioning. Skimming involves getting a quick overview of a text without understanding every word, scanning means finding specific words or information quickly, and questioning means critically analyzing a text as you read. The document provides examples of applying these strategies to sample texts and emphasizes the importance of reading to gather evidence for university-level essays.

1. Unit 2: What are the
SDGs?
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2. BUILDING KNOWLEDGE

3. A way of working
• At university your
ideas matter.
• You need to be
able to express
those ideas
clearly.
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4. What words do you think of?
Home• Post your ideas to Answergarden.
• Discuss the Answergarden with your partner.
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5. UN’s Video
• Watch this video.
• http://www.un.org/sustain
abledevelopment/blog/20
15/09/home/
• Do you have similar ideas
about home?
• Do you agree with the
ideas about home?
• What does the UN’s
concept of home mean to
you?
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6. Understanding more
• A high school essay is
about your opinion, what
you think and what you
believe.
• A university essay is based
on evidence, what you can
prove.
• So you need information.
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7. Reading Reading Reading
• This means you will have to do a lot of reading.
• But you are going to have to read smart.
• You can’t
Read
everything
Read every
article in the
same detail
Try to
understand
every word
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8. Strategy I - Skimming
• When you first read a text don’t try to understand
every word.
• Read it quickly to get a general idea about the text.
• What is it about?
• Is it worth reading in
detail?
• Where is the most
important
information?
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9. ‘Explainer’ Article
• Skim the article on pg 16-18 (7 minutes).
• Don’t make notes.
• Don’t check vocabulary.
• Discuss the article and answer the three questions.
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10. Strategy II - Unknown vocabulary
• When you read there will be vocabulary you don’t
understand.
• In some cases it’s not important to understand the
specific meaning of a word.
• Is it important to know these words? Why?
ambitious prosperity culmination
dimensions Inclusive premature
non-communicable sustainable transport sanitation
plummeted tuberculosis deforestation
pledged benchmarks
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11. Understanding Vocabulary
Explained in
text
Guess from
context
Word form
English-
English
dictionary
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12. Homework - Independent Study
• Complete the two short exercises (p. 9)
http://www.prepareforsuccess.org.uk/studying_indepe
ndently.html
• Set up a new Gmail account with a clear, professional
name and sign up for a Stormboard account using your
new Gmail
• Moodle: Sustainable Development Input Videos block –
‘If 100 people lived on earth’ discussion forum
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13. Strategy III – Scanning
• When you use a dictionary you don’t read every
word.
• You scan to find the word you are looking for.
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14. Scanning the article – p.21
1. 2030
2. 193
3. 9
4. Not broad enough. Didn’t connect economic,
social and environmental development. Only
focused on developing countries.
5. 50%
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15. Importance of Reading
• Reading isn’t the end.
• It is the beginning.
• You need to use what you read in your
assignments.
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16. Strategy IV – Questioning a text
• Once you decide
something is important
to read you need to
Read it more
carefully
Read it more
critically
The text
You
???
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17. Strategy IV – Questioning a text (p.22)
Really? What makes it
the biggest challenge?
How likely is this?
Nice quote
That’s a lot!!
What didn’t they
achieve? Why not?
Find a clear definition of
these.
Preamble
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and
prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in
larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all
its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the
greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement
for sustainable development. All countries and all
stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will
implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human
race from the tyranny of poverty and want to heal and
secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and
transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the
world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark
on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left
behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169
targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the
scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek
to build on the Millennium Development Goals and
complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize
the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls. They are
integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions
of sustainable development: the economic, social and
environmental.
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