TOEFL-Reading Skill (1) tips and trick.ppt

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1. TOEFL Reading Skills

2. Purposes of academic reading in
TOEFL iBT:
•Reading to find information
•Basic comprehension
•Reading to learn

3. Read in English regularly.
Focus on academic texts from university
textbooks or other materials. DO NOT stick
to one or two topics that you are
interested in.
Read from variety of subjects.
How to succeed in the READING section?

4. Structure your reading

5. Most passages in TOEFL iBT try to:

6.  Increase vocabulary
 Read wide variety of texts on different subjects & make a word
list.
 Organize your list in topics
Make flashcards
 Use the words learned in your writings and speaking.
Take notes
During all sections of TOEFL iBT note taking is allowed. It is a crucial
component for success as it is difficult to remember all facts and
details from a reading text in order to answer the questions. You also
don't have enough time to search for those again in the text.
Learn how to skim and scan the text
Find the purpose of the passage.
To Do List

7. Read after skimming. Only skimming is not enough. Read the passage
again. This time read it more carefully, but don't forget that you have
limited time. Take notes. Identify the passage type - classification,
cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, etc.
Try to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words in the passages, the
context can help to do that. After that, check those words in the
dictionary. Guessing the words from the context brings great advantages
- you save time and it doesn't disturb your comprehension of the texts.
Highlight some of the pronouns (he, him, they, them, etc.) in the
texts. Identify to which nouns in the particular text the highlighted
pronouns refer.
Practice making general inferences and conclusions based on what
is implied in the text.
Learn to organize the data presented in the passage in charts and
tables.

8.  Relax!
You don't have to be familiar with the topic of the TOEFL iBT Reading
passage. All the information needed to provide correct answers is in
the text.
 Be fast but try to avoid thinking about the clock.
 Concentrate on what you read and what exactly the questions ask for.
 Take a guess.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer in TOEFL iBT. Do not
leave blank answers. In each case they don't bring you points. If you
see you are running out of time, just take a guess and mark answers
for all remaining questions. There is 25 % chances to guess the right
answer.
 Stop thinking about Reading.
When your section time is over, just stop thinking about the Reading
section. Prepare for the Listening section. If you have not done well in
the Reading, you may compensate it with the next components. So,
stop thinking about the Reading.

9. SQ3R is a useful technique that helps readers to:
extract the maximum amount of benefit from the reading time
organize the structure of a subject in mind
separate important information from irrelevant data.
SQ3R is a 5 stage active reading technique. The stages are:
General Reading Strategies: SQ3R
Question
Review
Recite

10. Skimming
We skim or “Speed Read” to get the gist.
Skimming is reading selectively to get a general idea of
what an article is about.
Read the first and last paragraphs.
Read :
the title,
subtitles,
subheadings, and
illustrations.

11. Cover everything
Check entire page
Notice visual clues
Notice graphs, charts, titles, captions
While skimming

12. In scanning we look for particular words or phrases that are
relevant to the task we're doing.

Scanning is searching for a specific piece of
information; your only purpose is to locate that
information.

13. Summarizing
To re-iterate the information in the text
To pulls together information in order to highlight the important points
To shows what the original authors wrote
is a strategy that allows us to categorize and
classify the information gathered as readers,
sorting out significant ideas, events, and other
pieces of information.
It enables us: