‫In this lesson, I'll be answering a very common question that students often ask me, and that is,
‫do I read the questions or passages first in this lesson, we'll be covering a few strategies, such
‫as underlining that will help you answer ELT's reading questions and you'll learn two different strategies
‫for reading and answering questions.
‫So let's move on firstly to underlining key words.
‫And this is a very commonly used strategy that helps a lot of students.
‫In Eilts reading, I highly recommend that you practice it and use it in your child's reading test.
‫So for both questions and passages, it's important to underline key words.
‫What exactly are key words?
‫In questions and passages?
‫They are often verbs, adjectives, nouns or names.
‫The key words give meaning to the language in the passage or question.
‫And why is underlining key words such an important strategy for your child's reading?
‫Well, underlining can very much help speed up the time it takes to finish your child's reading test.
‫It will also help you to not get lost when trying to relocate key information or key words.
‫And these will usually help you answer the questions.
‫I also believe that underlining key words in questions and procedures will give you a quicker and better
‫understanding of the text.
‫So it's a very important thing to do.
‫Let's take a look at the two leading strategies that I very much recommend.
‫Simply speaking, both of these strategies work.
‫So finding which one works for you will be very helpful in your test taking skills.
‫First, we have read the questions first, then skim and scan through the text to find answers.
‫Then we have read the passage carefully but quickly and then return to the questions.
‫Let's take a look at questions first.
‫Read through the group of questions and underline key words and phrases.
‫Remember, these will usually be proper nouns or verbs.
‫Then skim and scan the text again, underline key words here.
‫These may be synonyms to the key words in the questions.
‫Return to the questions and work through answering them.
‫So some key information, this is a great strategy for completing most else, reading questions when
‫answers to questions are not in order in the text.
‫It does mean that you will have to jump around in the aisles passage to find your key information and
‫answers.
‫Let's take a look at reading the text or passage first, carefully but quickly.
‫Read the entire passage first, then go to the questions and try and answer what you can.
‫Return back to the passage and skim and scan through the text for more answers.
‫And here's some key information about this strategy.
‫So for some people, this can work very well.
‫If you are a fast reader who can retain and remember specific information easily, try their strategy
‫and see if it works for you.
‫One of the problems with reading the text carefully first is that you're going to have to spend more
‫time reading the entire passage.
‫But for some people, it does work.
‫And again, I do recommend trying both strategies and seeing what you prefer.
‫So once again, here are the two strategies.
‫Either read the questions first or carefully and quickly read through the passage once again to see
‫which strategy works best for you and then practice it as much as you can.
‫See you in the next lesson.