Cultivating Reading skills
Cultivating Reading skills
A Very Important Reading Skill:Reading for the Main Idea and Supporting Details- familiarizing yourself with the paragraph structure Distinguishing between main idea and supporting details Remember that each paragraph usually contains one topic sentence and one main idea.It also contains supporting sentences that have details to support the main idea.In this reading lesson you will practice reading for the main idea and practice finding the supporting details
A Very Important Reading Skill: Reading for the Main Idea and Supporting Details- familiarizing yourselfwiththeparagraph structure • Distinguishing between main idea and supporting details • Remember that each paragraph usually contains one topic sentence and one main idea. It also contains supporting sentences that have details to support the main idea. In this reading lesson you will practice reading for the main idea and practice finding the supporting details
Read and select the main idea listed below. Getting around Jakarta can be quite difficult, especially at lunch hour.Traffic often comes to a complete stop and it can take up an hour to travel just a few kilometers.There are lots of buses,but many of these can become overcrowded.A faster option is riding a motorbike around town,but this is not recommended for a tourist unused to the traffic rules. Q.which sentence is the topic sentence?
• Read and select the main idea listed below. • Q. which sentence is the topic sentence? Getting around Jakarta can be quite difficult, especially at lunch hour. Traffic often comes to a complete stop and it can take up an hour to travel just a few kilometers. There are lots of buses, but many of these can become overcrowded. A faster option is riding a motorbike around town, but this is not recommended for a tourist unused to the traffic rules
1.difficulties of travelling around Jakarta 2.tourists should not use motorbikes in Jakarta. 3.the rush hour traffic problems 4.the problem of overcrowding an hour. The structure of paragraph 1 above was quite a simple one.However,not all paragraphs will follow a simple pattern. Paragraph topic sentences are not easy to identify,and they are not always at the beginning of the paragraph
• 1. difficulties of travelling around Jakarta • 2. tourists should not use motorbikes in Jakarta. • 3. the rush hour traffic problems • 4. the problem of overcrowding an hour. The structure of paragraph 1 above was quite a simple one. However, not all paragraphs will follow a simple pattern. Paragraph topic sentences are not easy to identify, and they are not always at the beginning of the paragraph
Read this paragraph and select the main idea from the list below Virgin Galactic,British billionaire Richard Branson's spaceship travel company,is planning a weekly space flight carrying six tourists.Each person will pay $200,000 to travel on spaceship VSS Enterprise,and participate in at least three days' pre-departure training.The spaceship has its first test flight in March 2010,with commercial flights set to begin in 2012.About 80,000 people have alreacompefcpopkesaceatfavel in the 21#century 2.the invention of commercial spaceships 3.space travel that thousands of people can afford. 4.commercial space travel soon to become a reality
Read this paragraph and select the main idea from the list below • 1. commercial space travel in the 21# century • 2. the invention of commercial spaceships • 3. space travel that thousands of people can afford. • 4. commercial space travel soon to become a reality. Virgin Galactic, British billionaire Richard Branson’s spaceship travel company, is planning a weekly space flight carrying six tourists. Each person will pay $200,000 to travel on spaceship VSS Enterprise, and participate in at least three days’ pre-departure training. The spaceship has its first test flight in March 2010, with commercial flights set to begin in 2012. About 80,000 people have already pre-booked seats