What I Know Instructions: Read each item carefully and answer. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Getting the main idea of a text by glancing over it in a short time is called A. Listening B. Reading C. Scanning D. Skimming 2. When you want to find something quickly in a text, how do you do it? A. Listening B. Reading C. Scanning D. Skimming 3. Which of the following is a step in scanning a text? A. Look for definitions. C. Look for the answer to a particular B. Look for key words related to your topic. D. All of the above As the tourist paid his restaurant bill, he turned and yelled to the waiter, "Quick boy, run up to the table and see if I left my wallet there. Hurry up because I've got only fifteen minutes to catch the plane." Five minutes later, the waiter was back and out of breath. "Yes sir," he reported, "it is there." 1
