A Obstacles to faster effective reading 1 You are going to read some sections of a textbook called Practical Faster Reading. This book has been written for non-native speakers who are studying in English. Read the paragraph below and decide which of the following choices sums up the ideas of the paragraph. Tick / one of the boxes. increase your reading speed (] Be advantages of a generally high it prevents you from achie speed 1] Faster effective reading A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English, and the general principles apply to any langu; Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more rapidly than a textbook ~ but ‘you can raise your average reading speed over the ‘whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gain will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concemed with. i 60 @ Work and Study 2 Skim the passage on the opposite page. Which of the topics in Exercise 1 does it mention? Did you know ...? cope don't have just one reading rate Although, werage high-school the United States reads at an average really good readers Imow be flexible They leam to ‘0 800 words per minute, propriate speed after considering: ity of the text; their purpose in . a Learning tip When you are reading try not to let your eyes 1egress = do not stop and re-read words you have just ead: Keep on going forwards rather than going back tye are unsure of something, the meaning may become 5 clear ftom the rest of the sentence/paragraph/text the meaning is still unclear when you have finished reading, you can always retum to this part of the you think that itis vital to comprehension. 4‘ ~ or older people - Je; tect inp ch gi ra Ree ee enca, Tiss called ‘vocalizing’. Sometimes the lean 28 the Word or to form the words, sometimes there is not even any perceptible movement ont eth epi activating is throat musciee slight word to himself Heioy at ‘you’, the second word of this passage, Even if, : if you look straight atthe ‘o' of that w our exe at ans ‘you can clearly see ‘perhaps’ and ‘have’ on either side tir caine eae Bor foOk ihe word “word online 2. With avery light movement ofthc eyes yourcar take inthe phrase... saying the word or letters." inthe same glance. mn the same way, you can probably take in {one online 3, at one glance. None ofthe lines of print on a page ld perhaps break up i tay move fo form the words. 2)... sometimes there iot een Gy ea ie ==, (@)... ofthe mouth at all, bt the ... When you are reading wel, your eyes wll be one or tac ann ‘ahead of the one your mind is taking in. -on something easy and interesting ents trying to increase their effective reading speed become discouraged when they find tha if they through a passage faster, they fail to take in what they have read. The problem here is thatthe material ;Practising on is either too difficult for them in vocabulary or content, or not sufficiently interesting. Read Tike reading. Go to the subject catalogue in the library. Biography, sport, the cinema... there is bound ne area that interests you and in which you can find books of about your level of ability or just below. ;want a quick check on how easy a book is, read through three or four pages at random. If there are, on ‘more than five or six words on each page that are completely new to you, then the book is not suitable fing-speed improvement. d the passage from beginning to end. Do 4 Check your own answers to Exercise 3 by Bera de not ue ‘over what you scanning for the specific information in the read. Then decide whether the following passage which is related to the true/false ts are true (T) or false (F) according to _sentences. Underline the information. information given in the passage. ; cy yg ren av rend 5 Look at the statements in Get ready to read mation is given for three of them ‘much the same way. again. Information seem i der i con these pages. Whi aryerectsciotmmeeones Slate Soantaantre Rissometimes possible to see three words at once false according to what you have read. Without moving the eyes. Toead well, your eyes should be one or two word ups ahead of your mind. ..... 5 Ba when they first start faster. tis more important to read fast than to understand stead. ie racic materia shod be interesting nd ot impossible to check quickly how dificult a book U should never read a book that has fve or sx new