3: 文章スキャン

学校では単語を１つ１つ読んでいくことを教わる。それはとてもゆっくりで、知らない単語をスキップする方法を学ぶことはない。そこでは単語の意味を推測することも学ばないので、恐らくあなたはリーディングが嫌になったはずだ。

このアクティビティはその悪い習慣を断ち切る。素早く文章をスキャンするのは、内容理解を助ける重要なスキルだ。また、これは一度に１つの単語を読む変わりに、ひとまとまりの単語をグループとして読むことをトレーニングする。

１０分間、すでに目を通した２０のフレーズを文章中に見つけて下線を引いていく。やることはそれだけだ。時間が余ったら、フレーズが文章中でどのようにつながっているかよく見てみよう。

 
At school you learned to read English. However, you did so very slowly. You didn’t learn how to read quickly by ignoring unknown words or by guessing. And so reading is probably painful for you.

This activity is designed to break those bad habits.

You won’t need to read for comprehension. All that you need do is to scan. And scanning is a very important skill.

Here’s what to do: Get out the phrases and the half sentences from the previous two activities. And then, during the 10-minute period, look over the text of the corresponding chapter and look for those 10 + 10 phrases. When you find them, underline them.

That’s all!

Unless, of course, you complete this activity in less than ten minutes, in which case you’ll need to keep yourself occupied until the bell rings. You could see how the pairs matched up and well you managed to guess. And you could see how the phrases fitted in with the text as a whole.

This activity is great training to be able to read groups of words instead of one at a time.