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READING: People and Their Leisure Activities

A. Scanning. Read the passage below and scan for some detailed information to answer the
following multiple questions correctly.

Scanning is very high-speed reading that you do when you are looking for a specific piece
of information. You do not read every word, only key words* that will answer your

question.

Follow these steps to find the specific details of a reading selection:
 Move your eyes quickly over the whole text.

 Look at just few keywords in each line, the ones that are mentioned on the question.

 Think about some specific details about the whole text:

name, number, place, time, & reasons.

Example:
Question number 1  What is the writer’s favorite leisure time activity?

Pay attention to the words “leisure time activity”. Look for the keywords in the text. After

you find the sentence, you need to pay attention to the question. Questions with “what”

usually requires noun as the answer, so you need to search for subjects or objects.

Sentence  My favorite leisure time activity is reading books.
Answer

*Key words are the words carrying most significance in a paragraph— the key words are

those words a writer wants the reader to focus on as the paragraph progresses.

Reading Books

My favorite leisure time activity is reading books. I like reading books
because books play a very important part in developing the minds of students.
They provide a valuable training in the art of self-expression and also provide an
opening for the student’s creative genius.
I read religious books because they have a deep effect on human minds.
They teach us how to live a life and how to treat other human beings with due
respect and dignity. I also read general books which contain articles based on
various topics, stories, poems, etc. by different writers. In this way, I am able to
increase my knowledge by these valuable books. In fact, I define the correlation
between books and the readers as teachers and pupils
I have become fully acquainted with the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell
and Allama lqbal; with the theories of Einstein, Newton and Darwin; with the poems of
William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Ghalib, Allama lqbal and Shah Abdul Latif Bhatti
by books. I sometimes have to go to the public libraries in order to quench my thirst for
knowledge by studying general books, and reference books and encyclopedias.
I really learn about many things by reading books on History, Geography, Literature
Islamic knowledge Science etc. As a matter of fact, I fully enjoy my favorite leisure time
activity by reading books on different subjects. Adapted from: http://educationsight.blogspot.co.id/2014/04
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