i scream
eyes
hi james from ingrid that was for eddie
murphy
and that line comes from the movie
delirious which is hilarious
in fact the reason why he used delirious
is because if you laugh so much it's
almost like you go crazy delirious
anyway so are you ready
i'm going to teach you a lesson today uh
actually it's in response response means
i'm doing this back to something that
was said about reading skills i did an
earlier video go check it on reading
comprehension that video was basically
to help you to understand it wasn't
about doing it for tests or anything
special it was for you at home by
yourself trying to understand and it's
valid and which means true and it's a
good video this is to help you it's in
it's a next not excess it's an addition
to okay this will help you in a
different way so for those of you people
who are wondering how can i do this on a
test without a dictionary this is crazy
method you missed the point that was to
help you just get better at reading this
one i'm going to try and help you do two
things number one go foster
number two improving reading skills and
number three
magically because like it's magically
delicious i want to actually have you
enjoy the experience of reading that's
right boys and girls i'm gonna do what
they couldn't do in school
yeah right anyway let's go to the board
first reading skills that work these
skills will work the only thing that the
only reason they won't work is if you
don't use them so i'm going to tell you
to use them now
now
part of this is for if you're in school
if you're at home studying by yourself
in our farm country where you can't get
to school don't worry you can still
apply this
and just use the word
test and for school for people who are
going to be taking ielts or toeic or
toefl that may be you in the future as
well so don't throw out the baby with
the bath water which is an english
expression for for saying don't get rid
of everything because
you're not happy about something okay so
just keep in mind that if you can't use
it now directly you will be able to
later okay
first for tests and class
what i want to teach you is active
reading skills
i was actually by the cornell they have
a website and i was checking out how
they were teaching university students
and i found this to be a very effective
way and i i believe will work for you
a lot of times people take information
impassively that means they sit there
and they hope that something magic
happens if i keep looking at the page
the page will start to actually speak
and i'll understand that's not going to
happen in order for you to get better at
reading we need to be active or activate
our brains and minds
first thing we're going to do that is
when you start reading something
it doesn't matter if it's a page
or if it's a book a magazine comic book
playboy
yes i said it what you want to do is ask
questions
asking questions informs your brain what
to look for what's important
right the title is on something about
history of man then it's about history
it also could be about science
it might be about psychology but it's
probably not about
cars
right
so ask yourself w5 questions and in this
case it might be why is this important
how has this affected the world
why did my teacher give this to me or
what do i have to learn from this what
am i expected to learn from this
these questions as i said will give you
the ability to inform your brain you
must look for this information and it
will actively look for it okay it'll
also save you time
because it will say you know this
information doesn't help me with what i
want so i can put it away or i'm not
going to read any of this information at
all i'll get another book
next
break down the introduction
the introduction
i actually have a video on that so if
you're not too sure please watch the
introduction video
the introduction usually has three parts
to it it has a topic or subject
what the actual book or essay is about
it has main ideas what the author or the
writer will actually talk about
and it also usually has a thesis i'm
going to say this basically a thesis is
an opinion or an action statement what
you should do or what the writer thinks
is true
you know what they agree with or don't
disagree with okay so you want to look
at this break these down and just write
a sentence for each the subject is this
the main ideas are this this and this
and the author's opinion or action
statement is this
okay once again this helps you skim what
you need because once you have the the
topic you know what you're talking about
you have the main ideas
and you know their opinion you don't
have to read what we call fluff or
filler a lot of times when somebody
wants to sell a book
for instance
the eye in the sky god only knows who
would read this 20 pages are excellent
then the author says i need to make 252
so they just add pages of nothing the
moon was red and glowing in the glorious
sky above it doesn't add to the story
but it does add to the cost of the book
okay so what we want to do is we want to
know because i don't have time i'm doing
a test or i'm in a class i don't have
time to read the filler i want to get to
it boom okay so this will help you once
again help your brain this tells you
what to look for by the questions for
what i'm supposed to learn then this
tells me what i can skim
there's a myth in reading that you have
to read everything and every word you
don't you have to get what's important
another word is pertinent pertinent
means important okay this will help you
with getting what's important and
ignoring what's not important for you
next finally summarize each chapter in
two parts i'm missing something here
because it's so important instead of
putting it in a box i want to actually
talk to you and i want you to listen and
i want you to get it
this is
the piece resistance this is what makes
everything work the gas in the car
you know the singing my voice
and that sparkle in my eye when we
summarize it's not enough to write out
the words you've done that kind of
already i need you to do it in two parts
have you ever talked to a girlfriend and
boyfriend and they say certain words and
you realize there's what they're saying
and there's what they mean
when we're writing there's what it says
and that's the information you need
because you need to give it to someone
else
and there's what it does what is the
function of that chapter what is the
function of that paragraph
is it giving you evidence for something
saying this is why it's true or is it
giving you information
or is it introducing a new idea that's
one of the parts what does this
paragraph what does this chapter do is
it presenting an idea or is it giving me
evidence i need to know that okay
so i need to summarize not only what it
says but what it does
that's so important because when you
know what it does you can know what fits
in the whole structure and know what you
need to know faster
okay
now this is finally summarized i lied to
you
i had to learn this
i studied it and now i'm teaching you
i know it's right because in teaching
you in my brain i'm going i know this
and i don't know that this is the big
key
if you really want to do well now of
course this isn't for a test because on
the test you can't turn to the person
beside you and say dude do you know what
the teacher's asking do you know what
this means they'll kick you out
but in the classroom a good way of
testing how much you've learned engage
someone else teach
if you're teaching them something and
you're all of a sudden going oh
oh man it was out and i don't remember
it's because you have to read it again
remember i told you about the other
video about comprehension check it out
please okay
but if you can explain everything and
get the person to understand it means
you've understood what you've read this
is a great skill to do in a classroom
for a test all the other ones the first
ones i've written on the board are
extremely important okay so follow them
you'll get a great benefit from it
now
all this is great you're saying but
james i need to improve this is cool
i'll do another test but i need to go
fast now what can i do i'm going to tell
you right now
to generally improve your reading here
are the points i'm going to give you
do these points every day 15 minutes is
always required
you're going to do fantastically and
then this will be even better
you ready let's go
you almost caught me
mystery
okay
dude loves being in the picture and he
wants you to improve so he showed up
just for you
okay first of all get a book that's easy
to read
okay you see what i'm saying get this
book
mystery is not happy that i'm making fun
of this book but i'm just saying get
something easy don't get something
complicated or something you don't want
to read you cannot improve by doing this
get something you like okay
next get a timer a timer is a clock that
will go ding ding ding ding when a
certain amount of time is finished and
specifically we need one for 15 minutes
an egg timer or a clock watch i don't
have mine on they usually have timers on
them for running so you can time it what
i want you to do
is then when you're doing this read
so
when you're reading
you're going to use what i call the
finger method you're going to take your
two fingers put them on the outside of a
sentence
like so and read down
try not
to
go same speed try and see the whole
sentence
if that's too difficult try this one
it's easy just go like this get a timer
follow your finger do not follow your
eyes follow your finger make the finger
move and follow it as fast as you can
okay
now
next close the book that wasn't so hard
right
15 minutes move your finger close the
book
to really improve reading fast without
understanding is not very smart so what
i want you to do is i want you to
understand and here's what we do
paraphrase
paraphrase means to take something and
make it simpler find another way of
saying it so it's easier to understand
it's similar to what i said to you over
here teach someone else
but you're going to actually teach
yourself
what you cannot paraphrase or say out
loud is information you don't have so
what we want to do is make sure we
understand it and i can say it because
if i say and i go yeah that's right i
got it right
then i understand it so not only did i
read quickly but i understood the
information
and now this is sort of like taking a
shower or a bus or deodorant
repeat every day this is not something
you do once a week every day 15 minutes
you'll start noticing improvement
try and go for one sentence improvement
to a paragraph each day after a while
you'll find that you're not doing just
one page but two pages you're doing five
when i said use the finger method i
forgot to mention count your pages so
when you cut that book or you finish the
book
you have five pages today get five pages
in one sentence tomorrow the most
important part is follow these steps and
do it every day okay now look i've got
to go you do this and leave a message in
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see mr e again and improve your skills
like reading thank you very much see you
soon