Scanning and Skimming

Would you use skimming or scanning in the following situation?

You've got a book on football in front of you and you want to know who won the Golden Shoe Award.

• skimming

• scanning

Would you use skimming or scanning in the following situation?

Your mum has asked you to find the phone number of your English teacher in the phone book.

• skimming

• scanning

Would you use skimming or scanning in the following situation?

You want to know what time your favorite coffee shop opens on Sunday so you are looking at their website to find out.

• skimming

• scanning

Skimming

• a way of reading quickly to find specific information

• a way of reading quickly to get the gist of a text

Getting the main idea of a text by glancing over it in a short time is called .....

• scanning

• skimming

• fast reading

• reading a text

People scan a text when they want to find ________ information

• specific

• general

• some

• many

People are NOT scanning a text effectively when they ________

• look for content words or visual clues

• read every word in a text

• know what they are looking for

• read blocks of words

Which reading technique would you use to quickly find the date of an event in a newspaper article?

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Detailed reading

• Summarizing

What is the primary purpose of skimming a text?

• To find specific information

• To understand the main idea

• To memorize details

• To analyze the text structure

When scanning a text, what should you focus on?

• Every single word

• The main idea

• Specific keywords or numbers

• The author's tone