To practise reading for gist, you can give 3 summaries of a text, only one of which is
correct. Students read the text and say which summary is the most accurate. If you
choose this option, make sure the summary focuses on generalities and not on
specifics.
You can quite simply set a time limit – two minutes will be enough – ask students to
read the text and to tell you what it is about.
Here students read to understand certain aspects of the text thoroughly. For example,
when reading the manual that accompanies your new mobile phone you might focus
on the use of the answering machine and endeavour to understand it in detail and not
read about Internet connection.
This involves passing over a text to gather specific information. We look over a text to
get the information that interests us, for example the departure time of a train. In such
cases we usually ignore the remaining information.
Questions that practise reading for specific and detailed information include:
A list of statements about the text that students note as being true or false (or don’t
know from the text).
Questions starting with how many…? When…? What did…? Who did what? What
time did…? Why did they…?
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