标题: ace : READING STRATEGIES AND SKILLS FOR IELTS [打印本页] 作者: ace雅思专家 时间: 2011-1-5 19:15 标题: ace : READING STRATEGIES AND SKILLS FOR IELTS 1 Predicting
Before you read a text in detail, it is possible to predict what information you may find in it. You will probably have some knowledge of the subject already, and you can use this knowledge to help you anticipate what a reading text contains. After looking at the title, for example, you can ask yourself what you know and do not know about the subject before you read the text. Or you can formulate questions that you would like to have answered by reading the text. These exercises will help you focus more effectively on the ideas in a text when you actually start reading.
To help you predict, you may also use skimming and scanning strategies as described below.
2 Skimming
Skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. Features of the text that can help you include the following:
(a) Title
(b) Sub-title(s)
(c) Details about the author
(d) Abstract
(e) Introductory paragraph
(f) First, second and last sentences of following paragraphs
(g) Concluding paragraph
A text may not contain all of these features - there may be no abstract, for example, and no sub-titles - but you can usually expect to find at least (a), (e), (f) and (g). Focusing on these will give you an understanding of the overall idea or gist of the text you are reading - in other words, a general understanding as opposed to a detailed reading.