Reading 1 (of 2)
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the description that best matches the text-type and the reason for reading.
Following the instructions for an examination question.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading a short story in a magazine.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading the text of an insurance claim.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading the first two paragraphs of a newspaper article quite quickly to see if it's worth reading the rest.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Finding Mozart's birth date in an encyclopaedia.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Checking that a product contains no nuts.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading a history of Rome for pleasure.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading through an email to see if it's spam.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Reading the rules of a game of cards.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading
Looking for the final score in a sports report.
- scanning
- skimming
- intensive reading
- extensive reading