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DISKUSIT V Reading III BING 4206 In terms of using "skimming" ond “scanning” in reading, how do you find these techniques helping you in finding the information thot you want when you hove limited time? Please explain this and give examples when necessory. ‘After reading the materials given: | hove a conclusion that we can use both technics depending on our needs. If we need to find out the main ideo for « paragroph/story then we can use skimming ‘technics. On the other side, we use scanning when we need to find some impartont/specific information out of 0 story/a paragraph. By looking for some importent/specific information we can firstly write some questions regarding our needs for the story/orticles/paragraph. Scanning examples: Arignno Gronde is on American singer who wos born June 26, 1993. She was born in Florida. She began her career in 2008 and had her first UK number one hit in 2014, with a song called Problem. Ariana has on older half-brother called Frankie and owns six dogs. From the short paragraph above we can find some specificinformations ‘Ariana Grande is an American Ariana Grande was born on June 26, 1993. Ariana Grande wos born in Floride. Her song Problem was UK Number one hit in 2014. Ariana has o half-brother named Fronkie ‘Ariana hos six dogs. Skimming exomples The Caribbean Monk Seal did not have good quolity fur or tasty meat, and was therefore not hunted. However, 0s the Coribbean became a popular holiday destination, many hotels were built close to the se0 and the seol lost places to look after its young. It become extinct midway through the 20” century. Humans have caused an onimal to become extinct just so they could build Fancy hotels. The main ideo of the poragraph above is humonsis ane of the reasons of the extinction of on animal Sources BMP BING3305 Module | and Module 2, Enrichment Material 2, www.isleollective.com/english-es!-worksheets/vocabulary/environment/extincanimals- reading/52889

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