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1、Contents,Reading Skills,Text B,Test Yourself,Reading Skills,Like the other skills for your use, the skill introduced in this unit does render you better ability in reading.,This practice is designed to help you get a deeper insight into the skill for this unit.,随 笔,Practice,Reading for the Main Idea
2、s in Paragraphs,A paragraph is a group of sentences about related ideas or subjects. As you read a paragraph, you look for the key idea that each sentence presents. Adding up these key ideas, you see that each sentence helps build the main idea of the paragraph, the basic subject that all the senten
3、ces are related to. In order to understand the information you are reading, you must know what the main idea of the paragraph is.,To be continued,Practice,随 笔,Often one sentence in a paragraph tells the reader what the rest of the paragraph deals with and, therefore, gives the main idea. This senten
4、ce may appear at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the paragraph.,To be continued,Practice,随 笔,The trick is to be consistently you, at your best. The most effective people never change from one situation to another. Theyre the same whether theyre having a conversation, addressing their
5、garden club or being interviewed for a job. They communicate with their whole being; the tones of their voices and their gestures match their words. (Para. 7),Example 1,Here are two examples from Passage A:,Main Idea: ?,Be consistent in whatever you do.,Practice,随 笔,Others will want to be with you a
6、nd help you if you use your good qualities. They include: physical appearance, energy, rate of speech, pitch and tone of voice, gestures, expression through the eyes, and the ability to hold the interest of others. Others form an impression about you based on these. (Para. 4),Example 2,Make a good i
7、mpression on others with your good qualities.,Main Idea: ?,Practice,随 笔,The main idea of a paragraph might be stated clearly in a sentence in a paragraph. However, it is also possible for the main idea to be expressed in more than one simple sentence or even to be implied or suggested.,Practice,Intr
8、oduction,随 笔,Directions:Write down the main idea in your own words for each of the following paragraphs.,Introduction,随 笔,1. As behavioral sciences develop, however, researchers find the importance of speech has been overestimated. Although speech is the most obvious form of communication, we do use
9、 other forms of which we may be only partially aware or, in some cases, completely unaware. It is possible we are unconsciously sending messages with every action, messages that are unconsciously picked up by others and used in forming opinions. These unconscious actions and reactions to them may in
10、 part account for our “feelings” and “snap judgments”.,Main Idea:,Besides speech, people use other forms to communicate.,Introduction,随 笔,2. We communicate a great deal, researchers have found, with our bodiesby the way we move, sit, stand and what we do with our hands and heads. Imagine a few peopl
11、e sitting in a waiting room: One is tapping his fingers on his briefcase, another keeps rubbing his hands together, another is biting his fingernails, still another grabs the arms of his chair tightly and one keeps running his fingers through his hair. These people arent talking but theyre “saying”
12、a lot if you know the “body language” theyre using.,Main Idea:,We communicate a great deal with our body movements.,Introduction,随 笔,3. While clothing serves a purely practical function, how you dress also communicates many things about your social status, state of mind and even your aspirations and
13、 dreams. The eleven-year-old girl who dresses like a college student and the forty-year-old woman who dresses like a teenager are saying something through what they wear. What you communicate through your kind of dress definitely influences others to accept the picture of yourself you are projecting
14、: In the business world, the person who dresses like a successful manager is most likely to be promoted into a managing position. (Para. 7),Main Idea:,The clothes you wear also communicate many things.,Introduction,随 笔,4. Also important are the ornaments a person wears: buttons, medals, jewels, etc.
15、 Such ornaments are often the means by which a person announces a variety of things about himself: his convictions (campaign buttons), his beliefs (religious tokens), his membership in certain groups (club pins or badges), his past achievements (college ring or Phi Beta Kappa key) and his economic s
16、tatus (diamonds). (Para. 8),Main Idea:,Small ornaments you wear communicate many things, too.,Introduction,随 笔,5. When you see a person for the first time, even though he doesnt speak to you, you begin watching himhis actions, his attitude, his clothing and many other things. Theres a wealth of information there if you know how to “read” it. Perhaps snap judgments arent so unsound after all. (Para. 10),Main Idea:,A wealth of information from body language makes snap judgments seem sound.,
