Reading skill Scanning What is scanning How to

Reading skill Scanning 华南师范大学外文学院 郑丹洪

What is scanning? How to scan? Practice

What? A reading technique used when you want to locate specific information quickly—a fact, a date, a name, a statistic.

What? Read Question Search

How? Organization Purpose Key words Clue ip k s d n a d a re ly e v ti Selec

How? 1. Organization Organizers: numbers, letters, steps, etc. Words: first, second, next, last, and so on. chronological

How? 2 Purpose Pre-determine the specific information you are looking for.

How? 3 Key words Why did Elias need Mandela’s help? key

How? 4 Clue Who What/which Where When how 5 “W” How many 2 “ H” How much When did Elias meet Mandela? Time!

How? 5 ip k s d n a d a re ly e v ti c Selectively read and skip through sections of the passage.

Read paragraph 1 -2 and finish the questions. Practice (1) Who is Nelson Mandela？ Key (2) Why did Elias go to Nelson Mandela? words (3) Why did Elias have to drop out? (4) Why didn’t Elias have a passbook to live in Johannesburg? Clue words

Key words clue

Are you correct? (1) Who is Nelson Mandela？ Nelson Mandela was the black lawyer who offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. (2) Why did Elias go to Nelson Mandela? Elias needed Nelson Mandela’s help and went to him for advice. (3) Why did Elias have to drop out? His family could not continue to pay his school fees and the bus fare. (4) Why didn’t Elias have a passbook to live in Johannesburg? He was not born there.

True or false? Practice Read Paragraph 3 -5 and finish the questions. (1) Black people can vote their leader. ( ) (2) Nelson Mandela thought violence was a good way to help black people. ( ) (3) Elias was happy blowing up government buildings. ( ) (4) Nelson Mandela believed that black people were not being treated as well as white people in South Africa. ( )

Read Paragraph 3 -5 and finish the questions. Practice (1) Black people can vote their leader. ( F ) (2) Nelson Mandela thought violence was a good way to help black people. ( F ) (3) Elias was happy blowing up government buildings. ( F ) (4) Nelson Mandela believed that black people were not being treated as well as white people in South Africa. ( T ) Are you correct?

3. Read the text carefully again，prepare and fill in the blanks： 1) In _______, Elias was 12 years old and it’s the first time _______. 2) Nelson Mandela offered _______ to poor black people on their _______. 3) In_______, Elias left school. 4) In 1963, Elias helped Mandela _______. 5) The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws _______.

3. Read the text carefully again，prepare and fill in the blanks： Practice 1) In 1952 , Elias was 12 years old and it’s the first time he had met Mandela. 2) Nelson Mandela offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. 3) In 1948, Elias left school. 4) In 1963, Elias helped Mandela blow up some government buildings. 5) The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping black people’s rights and progress.

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