English reading is an important part of English learning. Whether it is the senior high school entrance examination or the English college entrance examination, English reading is the highlight. The following are my collected English reading skills and methods. Let's get to know them together!

The method of fast reading

In the face of complicated English, there must be some ways to improve efficiency. I think it is an effective and good method to cultivate fast reading on the basis of extensive reading. Specifically, to find useful information for you, you need to master the following methods:

1. Prediction; Forecast; preview; trailer

Before reading the text, make a reasonable guess about the data content on the title (if there is a title), or predict the content of the next paragraph after reading two or three paragraphs. This is of positive significance to quickly understand and grasp the content of the article as a whole and infer the meaning range of new words. Because the polysemy of English words is so common, a word often has different meanings in different professional fields, and even some words have subtle differences in grasping their meanings in the same professional field.

2. Keywords (keywords and topic sentences)

On the basis of a basic understanding of the overall content of the article, learn to grasp the main words and find out the topic sentences in the paragraph, so as to correctly understand the main content of the article and pay attention to whether it is of use value to yourself.

3. Skimming or skimming

Skim means skimming and skimming milk and other liquids. Quickly degrease and extract the most easily obtained essence from it? . Used for reading, or translated into skimming, or translated into extensive reading, it seems that no subtle meaning has been translated. However, this pronunciation contains all the meanings of the original word. Read quickly and take out the key things in reading. So we can understand this reading as a quick browse of the text and grasp the main idea of the article. Generally speaking, you can know the theme of an article by its title. Pay more attention to the first and last paragraphs of the article in order to find the author's point of view.

Step 4 scan

Scanning is browsing or consulting, which is a kind of fast reading or fast reading. Scanning is what you usually say? Scanning? . Its characteristic is fast, but it needs to be scanned all over. The meaning of the word scanning seems to be contradictory, which can be understood as? Check it carefully? , can also be understood as? A cursory glance? . This situation has become an excellent proof of scanning. Formally speaking, scanning is a rough scan, and ten lines are clear at a glance, but from the point of view of readers' attention, it is also highly concentrated, and important information is carefully selected in fast reading. Therefore, consultation can be understood as quickly finding out the relevant facts or specific information in the article; Sometimes you need to find a word or phrase, such as a person's name, place name, date, price, etc. Sometimes it is necessary to find a special event mentioned in the article, which may be explained by a word or phrase. If you don't have certain abilities, such details may not be easy to find.

5. Reading speed

We should realize that the reading speed is unbalanced. That is to say, even if the same person reads the same material, because reading is a kind of mental work with considerable psychological load, the speed of starting, midway and ending cannot be the same. The reading speed varies with the genre and difficulty of reading materials. Don't worry too much about your reading speed, so as not to cause unnecessary psychological pressure. The faster the speed, the lower the understanding, so we should realize that the speed of reading articles can be adjusted, and only the right speed can achieve fast and accurate reading efficiency.

6. Reading habits

Subjectively, we should be able to overcome the so-called distraction. Distracted? Problems, high concentration; Objectively overcome all kinds of unintentional or long-standing bad habits, such as shaking your head, shaking your legs, playing with paper and pens, memorizing words, etc. These? Little tricks? It will also distract attention, affect thinking and slow down reading.

How to Cultivate the Skills of Fast Reading

What should I do when reading foreign documents? Ten lines at a glance? .

1. Wide view.

It means as many words as possible at a glance. On the surface, we read with our eyes, but in fact we read with our brains. Our eyes just act as camera lenses. Trying to make your eyes become? Can a wide-angle lens read as many words as possible? Panorama? .

2. Watch for a short time.

It means that the pause between the first and second eyes should be as short as possible. When we read, if we agree, whoever has a short pause will be able to read quickly.

3. The meaning group should be long

In other words, in each video, you are not allowed to put many words in your head, but you should be good at absorbing meaningful phrases from it. This meaningful phrase is the meaning group. Very slow readers read word for word, so the visual range is very narrow, and there are many pauses in the middle of sentences. Frequent pauses will inevitably hinder normal understanding. Fast readers read half sentences or sentence by sentence. The visual range is greatly broadened, the pauses are few and short, and all meaningful phrases are obtained, which can be achieved naturally by understanding the whole sentence or paragraph.

4. Use the context to guess new words

Make full use of the clues given by the context, and the meanings of some new words can be guessed. Here are some basic methods:

(1) Use the defined clue

Sometimes we can find the definition or explanation of a new word before or after it appears, so as to judge its definition.

(2) Using synonymous clues

In the context of a new word, words that are synonymous or similar to it sometimes appear, which often reveals or explains the meaning of the new word.

(3) Using antisense clues

Sometimes antonyms or words commonly used for comparison appear before or after new words, from which the meaning of new words can be inferred.

(4) use common sense to guess the meaning of words

Sometimes, although there are new words in a sentence, we can use the existing knowledge to judge the meaning of new words.

(5) Guess new words with equations or symbols.

Sometimes some equations or symbols are given after a paragraph. If there are new words in the previous paragraph, you can suspiciously guess the meaning of the new words from the following equations or symbols.

In short, guessing the meaning of new words in various ways is helpful to improve reading speed and interest in learning, and it is a good method that English learners should master.

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