《大学英语》课程教学资源（讲稿）Cultivating Reading Skills

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 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

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

Notes:the difficulty with this paragraph is that there is not one clear topic sentence,so the main idea of this paragraph can only be determined by reading the whole paragraph

• ￾￾ Notes: the difficulty with this paragraph is that there is not one clear topic sentence, so the main idea of this paragraph can only be determined by reading the whole paragraph

Deciding between main idea and supporting details Read and select the main idea 。Para.1 At the start of the 20th century travelling by ship across the ocean was still slow and dangerous.A transatlantic voyage between New York and London took several days and conditions were terrible.Not all ships were as luxurious as the Titanic,which sank on April 15,1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. 1.a terrible transatlantic voyage between New York and London. .2.the sinking of the Titanic. 3.early 20th century transatlantic travel was time -consuming and risky

Deciding between main idea and supporting details • Read and select the main idea • Para. 1 • At the start of the 20th century , travelling by ship across the ocean was still slow and dangerous. A transatlantic voyage between New York and London took several days and conditions were terrible. Not all ships were as luxurious as the Titanic, which sank on April 15,1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. • 1. a terrible transatlantic voyage between New York and London. • 2. the sinking of the Titanic. • 3. early 20th century transatlantic travel was time -consuming and risky

Write down two supporting details Supporting details At the start of the 20th century travelling by ship across the ocean was still slow and dangerous.A Supporting details 2transatlantic voyage between New York and London took several days and conditions were terrible.Not all ships were as luxurious as the Titanic,which sank on April 15,1912 with the loss of more

• Write￾down￾￾two￾supporting￾details • Supporting￾details￾1 • Supporting￾details￾2 At the start of the 20th century , travelling by ship across the ocean was still slow and dangerous. A transatlantic voyage between New York and London took several days and conditions were terrible. Not all ships were as luxurious as the Titanic, which sank on April 15,1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives

Para.2 Travelling conditions on ships were poor.Most travellers on ships had to live in crowded berths on the upper deck,which they often shared with chickens, cows,horses and other animals.The very poor had to stay in "steerage",which was a dirty and smelly crowded area below deck.These compartments were infested with rats lice and other insects,and most people did not have enough food to eat.Many passengers were constantly sick,wet,cold,hungry and mierabobdemMaiy theeaminginfeot decww ihhtriahsnekastandodied. in the 20th century. 2.Why people often became sick on transatlantic voyage. 3.The poor travelling conditions on transatlantic boats in the 20th century

1.The problems of travelling below deck on transatlantic boats in the 20th century. 2. Why people often became sick on transatlantic voyage. 3. The poor travelling conditions on transatlantic boats in the 20th century. Para. 2 Travelling conditions on ships were poor. Most travellers on ships had to live in crowded berths on the upper deck, which they often shared with chickens, cows, horses and other animals. The very poor had to stay in “steerage”, which was a dirty and smelly crowded area below deck. These compartments were infested with rats lice and other insects, and most people did not have enough food to eat. Many passengers were constantly sick, wet, cold, hungry and miserable. Many became infected with illness and died

Write down supporting details Supporting details 1.2.3.4.5

• Write￾down￾supporting￾details • Supporting￾details￾1.￾2.3.4.5