READING STRATEGIES AND SKILLS

　　This course will give you the opportunity to develop and practice reading strategies and skills which can be applied to all forms of IELTS tests. The strategies and skills you will practice are as follows:

　　1.Predicting

　　2.Skimming

　　3.Scanning

　　4.Detailed reading

　　5.Guessing unknown words

　　6.Understanding main ideas

　　7.Inferring

　　8.Understanding text organization

　　9.Assessing a writer’s purpose

　　10.Evaluating a writer’s attitude.

　　1 Predicting

　　Before you read a text in detail, it is possible to predict what information you may find in it. You will probably have some knowledge of the subject already, and you can use this knowledge to help you anticipate what a reading text contains. After looking at the title, for example, you can ask yourself what you know and do not know about the subject before you read the text. Or you can formulate questions that you would like to have answered by reading the text. These exercises will help you focus more effectively on the ideas in a text when you actually start reading.

　　To help you predict, you may also use skimming and scanning strategies as described below.