1 00:00:02,150 --> 00:00:09,500 ‫We're now going to take a deeper look at what the skills of skimming, scanning and reading for detail 2 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:09,950 ‫are. 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:17,740 ‫By the end of the lesson, you'll understand what these key reading skills are and how they can help 4 00:00:17,740 --> 00:00:19,990 ‫us in the Alps reading test. 5 00:00:21,290 --> 00:00:31,070 ‫But first, let's take a look at the reading skills broken down into two groups we have locating information 6 00:00:31,070 --> 00:00:35,750 ‫and we can consider skimming and scanning the main skills for doing this. 7 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:42,860 ‫We also have comprehension, which is reading for detail and reading for full understanding. 8 00:00:43,970 --> 00:00:51,440 ‫First, let's take a look at skimming, which is reading a text very quickly to get the overall general 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,630 ‫idea when skimming. 10 00:00:53,630 --> 00:00:56,720 ‫We don't read every word carefully. 11 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:06,640 ‫Skimming is also a kind of speed reading, and we use it to locate key words, numbers and figures. 12 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:13,630 ‫In actual fact, when we are scanning, we hardly read any of the words in the text. 13 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:22,790 ‫Now, let's look at comprehension when reading for detail, we're reading to carefully understand the 14 00:01:22,790 --> 00:01:31,970 ‫full text, meaning you will only want to carefully read small parts of text in the Alps reading test 15 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:41,540 ‫that because of the ELT reading time limit, if you were to carefully read every single word in the 16 00:01:41,540 --> 00:01:50,540 ‫articles given to you during the test, you will not have enough time to complete all questions when 17 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:58,490 ‫answering questions in the Alps reading test, you will want to use all three skills and they do work 18 00:01:58,490 --> 00:02:00,680 ‫very nicely together. 19 00:02:01,190 --> 00:02:05,390 ‫They will help you to answer questions quickly and carefully. 20 00:02:06,670 --> 00:02:10,090 ‫So how do the core reading skills work together? 21 00:02:10,930 --> 00:02:16,760 ‫Well, first you will want to skim and scan over big pieces of text. 22 00:02:17,290 --> 00:02:25,510 ‫This will help you to locate the information that you want to get out of the text to answer questions. 23 00:02:27,820 --> 00:02:36,430 ‫Once we have located the passage or part of the text that we want to know more about, we can then read 24 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:42,100 ‫for detail, which means to get a full understanding of the texts. 25 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:42,700 ‫Meaning? 26 00:02:44,510 --> 00:02:52,130 ‫We can think of it as step one, being skimming and scanning and step two as reading for detail. 27 00:02:53,150 --> 00:03:00,950 ‫In terms of the Alps reading test, we can think of the steps like this, we are given a question that 28 00:03:00,950 --> 00:03:01,980 ‫we must answer. 29 00:03:02,390 --> 00:03:07,940 ‫So first we need to locate where the answer is to do so. 30 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:13,850 ‫We will skim and scan through the whole text instead of reading every single word. 31 00:03:14,690 --> 00:03:23,150 ‫Once we've located roundabouts where the answer should be, we can then use that to reading for detail 32 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,320 ‫to get our full answer to the question. 33 00:03:27,630 --> 00:03:35,790 ‫By using these three core skills, we can definitely answer all of the questions in the aisles reading 34 00:03:35,790 --> 00:03:38,250 ‫test and stick to the time limit. 35 00:03:38,850 --> 00:03:42,300 ‫Let's take a look at some examples of what skimming is. 36 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,690 ‫I'll show you a question where you'll need to use skimming and it will be similar to something you could 37 00:03:50,690 --> 00:03:54,790 ‫get in the aisles reading tests and then show you the text. 38 00:03:55,310 --> 00:03:59,030 ‫So choose the heading that best matches the paragraph. 39 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:05,390 ‫Children are addicted to work or parents are partly to blame for work addiction. 40 00:04:06,690 --> 00:04:15,000 ‫And here is the text, but to skim read, I only want you to read the first and last sentence in the 41 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:15,570 ‫text. 42 00:04:16,910 --> 00:04:20,270 ‫This is a very useful skim reading technique. 43 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:26,570 ‫So please only read the first and last sentence in the text to answer the question. 44 00:04:27,010 --> 00:04:27,700 ‫Here it is. 45 00:04:41,770 --> 00:04:44,650 ‫Let me read through these two sentences as well. 46 00:04:45,340 --> 00:04:52,900 ‫Work addiction may be caused in part by a person being pushed too hard by his or her parents in their 47 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:53,770 ‫earlier life. 48 00:04:54,460 --> 00:05:00,940 ‫Whatever the case may be, our families play a major role in developing an addiction to working. 49 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:09,500 ‫So which of the two headings matches best, either children are addicted to work or parents partly to 50 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:11,390 ‫blame for work addiction? 51 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:19,190 ‫Well, it's actually parents partly to blame for work addiction, as the two sentences highlight that 52 00:05:19,190 --> 00:05:23,780 ‫families and parents pushing children can cause work addiction. 53 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:33,140 ‫So here we can see how skim reading the first and last sentence can really speed up our understanding 54 00:05:33,140 --> 00:05:42,200 ‫of a text, meaning let's move on to scanning so much like skimming, I'll show you a question similar 55 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,920 ‫to something you might get in the alts reading test. 56 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:49,670 ‫Then I'll show you the text where you can find the answer. 57 00:05:50,390 --> 00:05:56,930 ‫Now, I want you to do this as quickly as possible, so try and find that answer in as short a time 58 00:05:56,930 --> 00:05:57,560 ‫as you can. 59 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:58,940 ‫Here's the question. 60 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,650 ‫What is the name of the tech expert in the article? 61 00:06:04,370 --> 00:06:05,540 ‫So there's a clue here. 62 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:06,980 ‫We're looking for a name. 63 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:10,340 ‫And of course, a name requires capital letters. 64 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,890 ‫This might help you find your answer. 65 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:14,390 ‫So here it is. 66 00:06:31,510 --> 00:06:37,960 ‫So did you manage to find the name of the technology or tech expert in this article? 67 00:06:38,380 --> 00:06:42,070 ‫Well, Don, if you did and the answer is Ben would. 68 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:51,220 ‫We can see from this example of scanning for information that we hardly need to look at any of the words 69 00:06:51,220 --> 00:06:58,190 ‫in the text, and we simply run our eyes quickly over the text to find the key information we need. 70 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,040 ‫So let's take a look at reading for detail. 71 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:11,760 ‫The main goal of this short paragraph is to agree that crime is sometimes justified or OK or suggest 72 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,540 ‫businesses can learn from illegal organizations. 73 00:07:16,910 --> 00:07:20,940 ‫OK, here is your text and please read it very carefully. 74 00:07:20,990 --> 00:07:22,820 ‫I'll give you some time to do so. 75 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:06,010 ‫OK, let's move on to see what the answer to this question is, is the main goal either to agree that 76 00:08:06,010 --> 00:08:11,050 ‫crime is sometimes justified or that businesses can learn from illegal organizations? 77 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,010 ‫If you need more time, please do pause the video. 78 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:20,770 ‫So the answer is that businesses can learn from illegal organizations. 79 00:08:22,010 --> 00:08:29,390 ‫For this question time, it would be hard to answer by only skimming and scanning because we wouldn't 80 00:08:29,390 --> 00:08:33,710 ‫really get a full understanding of the whole text. 81 00:08:33,950 --> 00:08:38,900 ‫So we need to carefully read all the words in the paragraph we can see. 82 00:08:40,630 --> 00:08:48,570 ‫OK, so let's quickly go over these three core reading skills and I will say will be practicing them 83 00:08:48,570 --> 00:08:51,060 ‫throughout the remainder of this course. 84 00:08:51,690 --> 00:08:54,630 ‫So, OK, first we have skimming. 85 00:08:55,590 --> 00:08:58,350 ‫Here is an overview of what skimming is. 86 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:01,590 ‫Skimming is very fast reading. 87 00:09:02,010 --> 00:09:06,600 ‫We're reading only to understand what the overall idea of the text is. 88 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:12,960 ‫And this can be done by running your eyes fairly quickly over a text. 89 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:19,170 ‫And this will help us to internalize or understand what the key words in the text are. 90 00:09:20,010 --> 00:09:27,260 ‫You can also quickly read the first or last sentence in the paragraph, just as we did previously. 91 00:09:27,690 --> 00:09:35,940 ‫And you can also look at the first sentence only as this will sometimes give you some indication of 92 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:40,050 ‫what the text, the paragraph or the passage is about. 93 00:09:40,740 --> 00:09:48,000 ‫The first sentence is often called the topic sentence, which you may remember from the alts writing 94 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,700 ‫section of this course. 95 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,380 ‫So that is skimming and a few ways that you can skim read. 96 00:09:55,650 --> 00:09:57,780 ‫Now let's move on to scanning. 97 00:09:58,770 --> 00:10:07,620 ‫Scouting is also a kind of fast reading, and in actual fact, we can consider it rapid reading, you're 98 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:15,960 ‫hardly going to read any of the words in the text, if any at all, read the question and search for 99 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,650 ‫keywords or synonyms associated with the question. 100 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:27,000 ‫For example, if the question is asking you about sports, you may want to look out for the name of 101 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,690 ‫certain sports like basketball or football. 102 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,370 ‫You may find that the answer to the question is hidden in that part of the text. 103 00:10:36,450 --> 00:10:41,880 ‫Remember that if you're looking out for dates or figures, you need to look for numbers. 104 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:47,460 ‫And if you're looking for the names of things, you need to remember to look for capital letters, just 105 00:10:47,460 --> 00:10:49,200 ‫like in our example. 106 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,070 ‫And here is reading for detail. 107 00:10:52,980 --> 00:10:58,180 ‫Reading for detail is often the final stage of reading comprehension. 108 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:05,190 ‫First, you may want to skim and scan to find out where the information you want to learn about is. 109 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,950 ‫We read text to fully understand its meaning. 110 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:17,730 ‫When we read for detail, we read every word carefully and think about what its meaning is. 111 00:11:18,820 --> 00:11:27,100 ‫Again, I will say you will not want to read every single word in the aisles reading test as quite simply, 112 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:29,130 ‫you will run out of time. 113 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:34,570 ‫So that brings us to the end of our lesson on skimming, scanning and reading for detail. 114 00:11:34,580 --> 00:11:40,030 ‫But we will be practicing the skills again later in this section of the course. 115 00:11:40,540 --> 00:11:44,400 ‫So that brings us to the end of the lesson, and I will see you again soon.