It’s unlikely that you will need to read more than a few paragraphs in this style. Most of the time, you will be skimming or scanning first. Once you have found the information you want, then you will need to switch to reading for detail. Here’s how to do it. 1. Read the whole paragraph …
Continuing with our Improve your English reading skills series, this week let’s look at scan-reading. When do we ‘scan’? We scan-read when we already know what information we are looking for. For example: when we are reading a train timetable when we are looking for an entry in a dictionary when we are looking for …
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Last week, we had a look at different types of English reading skills. This week, let’s focus on skim reading in more detail. Skim reading is a useful skill to develop and it’s easy to learn. The most common uses of skim reading are: browsing the news reading a magazine looking through long e-mails looking …
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Before you can start to improve your English reading skills, you need to decide on which which styles of reading you will use most and where your strengths and weaknesses are. Let’s have a look at the four main styles of reading and work out which aspects you need to work on in order to …
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