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4. Which technique of reading is used to get a quick overview of the content?
5. Which technique of reading is used to find specific facts in the content?
6. What is an excellent technique to develop your thinking?
7. What gives you synonyms of a particular word?
8. What increases reading speed?
9. What helps us improve our reading speed and identify important ideas?
10. What introduce a passage and provide an idea of what follows?
11. What are used to mark connections between ideas in writing?
12. What helps you find the important parts of a text?

Answers

1. Reading and listening
2. Vocabulary
3. Skimming and Scanning
4. Skimming
5. Scanning
6. Focused reading
7. Thesaurus
8. Regular reading
9. Speed-reading
10. Topic sentences
11. Linking words
12. Signposts

Assignments

1. Take an English newspaper and choose an article from it. Try to read it aloud.
Copy it and underline the unfamiliar words. Find out their meaning and note it
down. Try reading it again and notice the difference.
2. Pick up a paragraph from any of the books that you are reading. Underline the
difficult words. Take the help of the dictionary and write down all the five de-
tails that the dictionary provides about all the unfamiliar words.
3. Take a long passage from a text of your choice and divide it into small para-
graphs. Write down the sign-posts that you can find in the text and also identify
what those signposts suggest.

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