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Reading skills
Skills necessary for international exams like PET, FCE, etc.
Term | Definition |
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Gist reading or Skimming: | to get the general idea of a reading, such in reading articles to see which one is interesting to you. |
Inference or inferring meaning: | to understand the author’s attitude or mood behind the actual words, such in the review of a movie to see if the author recommends it or not. |
Understanding attitude or opinion: | reading a text to find the real meaning behind a writer’s words. |
Detailed reading: | reading a text carefully to understand almost every word of it, such in to find out the difference between two DVD players functionality. |
Scanning reading: | to get specific pieces of information, such in when you want to know the timetable of a train to London. |
Understanding the purpose in other sources of reading: | route signs, text messages, signs in a window. The idea is to know the purpose of such sources of reading. |
Prediction: | saying what you think about the context of the text before reading. |