Skills and Strategies Quiz unit 4
A Skills and Strategies 7: Collocations Answer the following questions about Skills and Strategies 7. R2 points each for questions 1-3,4 paints for question 4 ]
1. Being aware of collocations helps you speed faster because you sec groups of words instead of individual words. True or False?
2. The phrase a big crime is
a. grammatically incorrect
b. grammatically correct but not natural
c. a noun + noun combination
d. not natural or grammatically correct
3. When a collocation is a noun + noun combination, the second noun acts as an adjective. True or False?
4. Match a word from the column on the left to a word from the column on the right to form the most natural collocations.
1. powerful
a. economy
2. global
b. support
3. strong
c. news
4. world
d. influence
B Skills and Strategies 8: Scanning for Specific Information Answer the following questions about Skills and Strategies 8 , 12 points each)
1. Scanning is a reading techunique that involves reading through a whole text from beginning to eat very quickly. True or False?
2. Which of the following would you not scan for?
a. a number
b. the name of an important person in a reading
c. a date
d. the main idea of the reading
3. When scanning for specific information, you should not
a. say the words to yourself
b. move your eyes quickly
c. slow down when you find the information you are looking for
d. keep your eyes on the page all the time
4. If you were scanning a text to read about why women in South Korea are getting married later today and having fewer babies than 20 years ago, which of the following would you 5can for?
a. South Korea
c. a year in the 1990
b. the word marriage
d. all of the above
5. When scanning, focus on the left side of each line of the reading, and move your eyes down the page, looking quickly from left to right. True or False?