Text III

Different ways of reading include:

● ______________ […]: rapidly reading a text in order to get the gist, or the main ideas or sense of a text. For example, a reader might use this strategy when reading a film review in order to see if the reviewer liked the film or not.

● ______________: reading a text in search of specific information, and ignoring everything else, such as when consulting a bus timetable for a particular time and destination.

[…]

A teaching approach, […], aims to help learners to become more effective readers by training them in the sub-skills of reading, and by teaching them reading strategies. Some of the sub-skills of reading are:

● using contextual and extra-linguistic information (such as pictures, layout, headlines) to make ______________ regarding what the text is about

● understanding words and identifying their grammatical function

● guessing the meaning of words from context

● recognizing grammar features, such as ______________, and ‘unpacking’ the syntax of sentences

● identifying the topic of the text, recognizing topic changes

●identifying text-type, text purpose, and text organization, and identifying and understanding ______________ and other cohesive devices (…)

● identifying key information from less important information

● inferring the writer’s attitude

● identifying what ______________ in a text refer to.

(THORNBURY, S. An A-Z of ELT – A dictionary of terms and concepts used in English Language Teaching. Oxford: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2006. pp. 190-191.)

Identify the correct sequence of the missing words in the text:

( 1 ) word endings

( 2 ) predictions

( 3 ) skimming

( 4 ) discourse markers

( 5 ) scanning

( 6 ) pronouns