Meeting 3
"SKIMMING and SCANING"
SKIMMING
Skimiming berfungsi untuk mengetahui isi keseluruhan teks.
Skimming is a reading technique that can help you to:
-read more quickly
 -decide if the text is interesting and whether you should read it in more detail.
Skimming is a fast reading technique.
Use it to obtain the gist of a piece of text
(i.e. to quickly identify the main ideas in the text).
Quickly identify main ideas of a text
Skimming is 3 to 4 times faster regular reading
Used when there is a lot of material and a short amount of time
How to Skim
Read the first and last paragraph
Read headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles, and illustrations
Read the first sentence of every paragraph
Skimming works well with dates, names and places
Don't read every word or every sentence
Let’s Practice
Find out the answer to the following question by skimming the passage below.
What were the names of Degas’s father and mother?
Degas’s background would never have suggested he was to become the revolutionary painter he was. He was born in Paris, on 19 July 1834. His father, Auguste de Gas, was a banker but his mother, Célestine, died before Degas reached his teens.


SCANNING
Scanning berfungsi untuk mencari informasi yang kita perlukan saja.
Scanning is a fast reading technique. It's a way of reading to look for specific information in a text.
Used to search for key terms
When you know what you are looking for you can through texts to find the information
Good to use when determining whether a source will have the answers you are looking for
Scanning can be used to read through the ads in a newspaper, or for browsing TV schedules, timetables, lists, catalogues or web pages for information. For these tasks you don't need to read or understand every word.
Scanning can be used to read through the ads in a newspaper, or for browsing TV schedules, timetables, lists, catalogues or web pages for information. For these tasks you don't need to read or understand every word.