Question

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Concentration and focus

•Identify your purpose in reading

•Be selective – use table of contents / chapter titles / subheadings / key words to find out what you need.

•Use the ‘find’ function to read online + your mouse as a pacer to mark position

•Don’t read for long periods of time!

•Make your reading active

Active reading & noticing

•Highlight key ideas (not words you don’t know)

•Interact with the text – what do you think about it?

•? √ x

•Make a diagram / take notes

•Make notes in the margin

•Postits

•Imagine

•Mindmap the text

Mindmapping

Obstacles to reading

•Unknown vocabulary

•Overly long, complex “academic” sentences

Guessing words from context

•Annikal storms yinged across Sumati nanning teros of rain, and roosing billions of dollars of damage to ullas, hemaras and houses.

•The storms lubaed at 9pm and sumited until midnight, hilking 200mm of rain. Houses were edibed, roofs were xiwenned, and cars were yukaed. Several people had to be vladkaed from rivers by police and taken to gisela.

Decoding long

• sentences

Due to an increase in price per barrel costs of crude oil in Singapore, which is an important market in South-East Asia, not to mention the downward trend of the Australian dollar over the last two months attributed to the trade deficit figures released over the corresponding period and a recovering U.S. economy, the pump price of unleaded fuel at many suburban retail stations has soared and finally broken through the $2 per litre barrier, with prices expected to continue trending upwards; especially if unrest continues in many of the middle-east oil producing countries and OPEC remain unchanging in their views on barrel production quotas.