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If you want to find the football game results in a paper, what would you do?
Read carefully
Scan
Skim
What sort of reading technique do you use to find a word in a dictionary?
Careful reading
Skimming
Scanning
What sort of reading technique do you use to find out what's on TV today?
Skimming
Scanning
What reading technique will you use if you want to find out the falling action in a short story?
Skimming
Scanning
What are you doing if you are skimming a newspaper?
Reading the front page
Seeing what's in the paper
If you want to know the main idea in the paragraph that you're reading, what would you do?
Skim the paragraph
Scan the paragraph
If you're holding a magazine and you want to discover which articles you would like to read in more detail, what would you do?
Skim
Scan
If you're travelling and holding a brochure, what would you do to quickly get informed about the city you're visiting?
Skim the travel brochure
Scan the travel brochure
You want to know the bus schedule for the next day.
Skim
Scan
What will you do if you want to use a google search list on the internet?
Skim
Scan
Your teacher has given you written feedback. Which of these things should you do?
Read your teacher's feedback in detail
Skim your teacher's feedback
Scan your teacher's feedback
You need to find someone's telephone number. What should you do?
Scan the phone book
Skim the phone book
What are you doing if you are scanning a dictionary?
Finding a story
Finding a word
Is it good to scan a story if you want to read it quickly?
TRUE
FALSE
What sort of reading is skimming?
Slow reading
Fast reading
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