Step 1: Looking at headlines
What do you know about the topic?
Which words go with the topic?
What do you want to know about the topic?
Step 2: Skimming
Which additional information have you found? Write it down in one key-word.
Which are the most important words of the article?
Underline the most important words or mark them with a highlighter.
How many different paragraphs has the article got?
Which contains the main ideas?
Step 3: Scanning
Read the article again and underlinethe following words as quickly as possible
i.e. key- words, synonyms, opposites, associated words...
What does "it", "they", "this" or "that", "which or who" relate to?
Step 4: Comprehending
Mark those groups of words that form phrases
and separate them by a pause with a sign like " | "
Find the correct sequence of lines. The computer has mixed them up.
Give a summary of the main ideas of the text.
Justify your summary by referring to the article.