OK, welcome to this video where we'll be looking at speed reading basically techniques that people
use to increase the speed at which they read.
And the techniques that I'm talking about here are applicable not only in English, obviously, but
in your own language as well.
So you should be able to use this to your advantage, not just in the aisles, but in everyday scenarios.
Now, I would not recommend you use some of these techniques in the exam itself.
This is more about practicing before the exam, especially in terms of this one with vocalisation.
These sort of things are not suitable for the exam itself, but as I said, useful as practice before
the exam.
So let's start with this vocalization.
And this is something that many people do when they are reading.
They actually vocalize the words.
And that vocalization means you actually say the words not necessarily out loud, but they in your mind,
they're in your head as you read, and this slows down the speed at which you can read.
And so there are three ways that we can stop this from happening.
The most common way that Speed readers do this is by humming and humming is just like this.
So making a sort of vocalised noise as you read and this will prevent you from vocalizing the words.
And this allows your eyes to to read, to move across the page a lot quicker.
And a lot of research shows that we are actually capable of reading a lot quicker if we stop the vocalization
process.
That happens as we as we read.
Some people do this.
A lot of people do this.
Most people do this.
And I do this.
I know unless I'm applying this technique in myself.
So humming is the most common.
Some people say the counting to 10 in your own language is a great way to stop this from happening.
So you read, but count to ten you've been doing since you were very young and you should this will
stop the vocalisation process.
So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
As you're reading something.
And this will force your eyes to look, to read a lot quicker.
And because your brain is not really thinking the numbers, one, two, three, four are so easy, especially
in your own language, that you don't need to think about what comes after, for what comes after five,
what comes after six.
And you can focus your attention on the text on the page and still read quickly.
And then some people who who do in fact move their mouths or their lips when they're reading it can
help if you simply just place a finger on your lip like that.
And this will stop you from vocalizing the text and help you to read quicker.
OK, and as I said, these are techniques that I do not recommend you use in the exam itself, but just
when you're practising to read faster.
OK, so let's go on to the second one.
You this is about eye movement.
Now, a lot of the problem with a reading is that people's eyes are not they're not paying attention
to where their eyes are.
Some people who have been diagnosed with reading problems, it's been shown that, in fact, it's just
a muscle problem.
It's not that they can't understand the words.
It's not that the words are inverted or that the letters are upside down, but the fact that they just
simply can't control their eye movements and their eye muscles.
And we're going to be looking at some techniques to solve this problem later on in this in this video.
OK, but one thing that can help people who do have overactive eyes, eyes that tend to move around
a lot is that if you've got a piece of paper, you just cover the area, the portion of the text you've
already read.
This will force your eyes to not look up and not to get confused with words above it, but just focusing
on the line itself.
So in the exam, this is something you could do if you if you find it easier, if it helps you to read,
is to to take some a piece of paper, a spare piece of paper and just hold it over the text you've already
read.
And that will force your eyes to focus on that line that you're reading and therefore make you read
quicker.
Another thing that some people do is to follow a pen or pencil as they read.
And the key thing here is to not stop the pen or pencil when you get to a difficult word.
But just to keep the word sorry, keep the pencil or keep the pen flowing at a constant speed so that
you are forcing your eyes just to simply follow where the pencil is.
And this will help you to get used to reading quicker and allowing your brain to process more difficult
words as you read, not stopping to process difficult words.
The idea that you would use a skimming and scanning technique with the pencil or pen technique together
will help you to read a lot quicker.
Now, research has shown that the average reader is able to identify eight letters to the right of the
where they're looking at and four letters to the left, which basically means that your eyes should,
in practice be able to read two or three words simultaneously.
And there are online
tools that, well, will help you to to practice doing this.
And I'll show you that later on.
OK, so here we are.
We're getting to it now.
The R.S.V.P. technique, which stands for rapid serial visual representation.
So basically spreader dot com, for example, this app has a.
An option for you to to paste in a piece of text that you want to read and then it will provide you
with a.
Chungking of that text, forcing you to read it at that speed.
So let's let's have an example.
Let's have a look at it.
So that's what it looks like.
Speedo dot com forward slash app, dot p.
And we can take let's take this piece of text here.
This is from New Scientist talking about the new golden rice that has been developed and approved in
the Philippines.
So we can just copy some of this here, for example.
Copy that and then we'll put it into the spree that will take away that and pasted in.
And there it is here we can get rid of Creedmore.
We just leave that there and then we press spred.
OK, and basically you press play and that is running at 300 words per minute.
You could decide to change the settings so that you have two words at a time and you can make this bigger
if you wanted to.
300 will keep it at three hundred and then we press play.
Oops, we have to save that.
And then
two words per minute, save them again.
Modify to prevent that know.
OK, this forces you to read at that speed.
OK now.
OK, so let's go back a bit here.
So that's Spirito, and that will force you to use this rapid series of visual representation.
However, somebody pointed out to me that as as great as the spider is, there is a chrome extension
that will do the same thing.
And I'm going to show you that now.
OK, so we'll go on to to practice.
And what we'll do here is this is taken as a Texas from New Scientist.
Let's just have a look at what they've got here, frankincense, a type of of.
Type of spice, I think that was used in biblical times and it used to be a lot, used to be very expensive.
In fact, apparently it still is OK.
And this is just an example of a New Scientist article that may well end up in an exam.
You'll see it's not the whole thing.
It's just the first part.
In fact, when I first started reading this, it was the whole article.
And something I've just noticed now is perhaps that New Scientist articles, when they first come out,
maybe the first day or two are completely free.
And then if they're two or three days older, then they start asking you to pay for that.
That's something I've just noticed now anyway.
So what will do now, that's the text source and then.
It is OK, so there's the text source, OK, and what we'll do now is have a look at ways of ways that
we can practice this.
These are just screenshots from that same text that I've made.
But we're going to do this with a different text that I've just found and we'll do it live.
OK, so the Sprint reader I've already spoken about, basically what I did is copied and pasted that
text from the about frankincense.
And I posted it here and I did exactly the same thing that you've just seen.
But I'd like you to have a look at this new option here, which is called the Sprint Reader Chrome app.
This text here is actually related to the one above it.
So if you've got Google Chrome, what you can do is go onto Google and just type in Sprint reader Chrome.
It's the first one of the top.
You click on that and it will give you an option to install it.
It looks like this little hamster running on a wheel.
I've got it installed already.
So it's giving me the option to remove from Chrome, should it?
But it should say something like install on Chrome for yourself.
So let's see how it works.
What we'll go and do is have a look at this GM crop again, talking about this golden rice, genetically
modified golden rice that's got approval in the Philippines.
And now that I've installed the sprint reader, it now sits over here.
Up here, it's got that little icon that's actually the hamster running in the wheel.
And because that's now installed, I can click on it and double check.
How do I use Sprint?
OK, there it is.
I can now right.
Click on this text and it says Sprint read selected text says the this one here with a little hamster
running and it comes up pops up with a new window and then you can pressplay.
And that forces me that speed forces me not to.
The vocalisation is not possible because I have to read at that speed now if I click on this and I not
this one, if I click on sitting's something I prefer to do is to have at least two words per per slide,
two words, because remember, we can see on average eight letters to the right hand side of the where
the word where the eye is looking and four letters to the left.
So in total, 12.
And so that's that would cover any long words.
Two words per slide would cover any long words if I went to three words, starts getting a bit too long.
But you can try with three words and start with something a bit lower, say 250 words per minute.
That's very impressive even.
By ILD standards, if you can do it at 250 words per minute, because you are.
You need to read slightly slower than than most native speaking English people can simply because you've
got to answer questions.
OK, so let's put it to that press save.
And now we go back to home and now let's see.
We'll move this back to the beginning, OK?
And now what I'd like you to do is just see if you can follow this.
We will do this as a practice one second, but we will just press play, Nancy.
OK, will stop there because we're going to practice a little bit more.
OK, so hopefully you managed to get this first part about the Philippines being approving the use of
this genetically modified food.
Now, going back here, you can see that these are very similar.
But now we're looking at this thing called Quynh Quillin.
Wellins Williams is a brand new website that's just popped up.
I've been trying to find something like this for a long time, and it's it's only recently been invented
to basically what it does is it's the world's first a high powered question generator.
I mean, artificial intelligence.
So basically, you put in some text and then it creates questions for you.
So let's have a look at how it could work.
And I've already created an account for myself, so I'm just going to log in.
A
group of.
OK, now you see here that there are three things we need to do.
First, you need to add a title, then you need to decide what domain this text is in and then paste
in the text, which is over here.
So what we're going to do is take in this text as to the whole thing.
Sometimes it says there's not enough.
No number of words is not enough, but we'll just see if this is enough, so copy that, we'll get rid
of this red because that's something you don't need.
And let's just put GM rice, GM rice, the Philippines.
OK, and the domain is, let's say, technology.
OK, and we'll get rid of that because we don't need it.
OK, and we don't need that either.
Now, sometimes it says that, oh, just good enough.
Look at that word must be between 300 and three thousand.
So I just got over it.
All right.
So we're going to proceed now, OK, and see what it does.
Technology, yes, processing, OK, so it's processing the text and it says, help quickly and generate
better questions by selecting important words and deselecting others.
So I don't think I need to know who Sharon is.
We can deselect whoever these people are.
They're not that important.
But we might say carotene is important.
Deficiency is important.
Lacassine, can we proceed?
And then some of the things that asks you to do is decide what do the pronouns refer to?
It is safe.
Now, this is a it's called a dummy it in English dummy.
It means it doesn't refer to anything.
It's just for grammatical reasons.
It needs to be there.
So I'm not going to it does not mean Philippine's.
I'm just going to dismiss that.
In fact, most of the time, this just needs to be removed as dismissed.
But it says it could reduce deaths among children by a third.
And none of those are correct to dismiss that and these claims are rejected.
Again, dismiss it, so sometimes it's it's good grammatical practice to try and work out what the pronouns
are.
So it's not a waste of time putting this in here, but oftentimes it's it's not possible to relate to
anything.
And then here that says lengthy sentences needs to be removed.
OK, I'm not removed, but edited.
So it could reduce deaths among children by a third, says Adrian, debacle, OK, and he's on.
He's a.
He's on the board of.
And because I've just mentioned it, the.
OK, that's so fixed everything.
OK, now we get to see what questions it generates and this might take a few minutes since the creation
of the.
OK, now let's see what it can produce for us here.
So.
These are the questions that you need to have a line you pay nine point ninety nine a month, but you
can still see them behind the whites.
I'm not really sure why they do that.
And sometimes they're a bit strange.
What is the first country with a deficiency problem, the Philippines?
What is the major part of.
The Philippines, Russia?
OK, so those are correct.
And then.
Again, this is the case of subscription related questions, but here are the possible questions right
now.
What I'm what I would do is without looking too hard at the answers, so just use this page by itself
here.
I would then.
So not save I would export that as just a text file.
Take away the answers hopes, take away the answers.
Without looking at the questions too much.
Take that away, take that away, you get the idea right and.
Then what you're going to do now is read the questions, maybe the first seven.
Let's do these ones here together.
According to who it is safe.
It is as safe as conventional rice varieties.
That's your first question.
Number two, because Rice is a major part of the diet in Taiwan.
If children eat golden rice instead, it should be it should substantially reduce.
Retirement age, a deficiency, this is talking about Taiwan now.
So this is a true or false question.
According to the Philippine star, Greenpeace has said that the approval is unwarranted due to a lack
of transparency.
So due to what and number four, this is also true or false.
In the Philippines, many children under five years old are severely vitamin deficient, according to
the World Organization, even though most of them are given.
True or false, Bangladesh, which also.
Has a vitamin E, something that's two words here describe rice and something which has a long campaign
against golden Rice has US agriculture to overturn its decision.
OK, so let's let's just imagine you've got those seven questions and now with these questions here,
what are we going to try and do is answer them by just going as quickly as possible using this sprint
reader?
OK, so I'll have those questions up on the video.
So you should be able to see them.
And we're going to try and answer these questions just by reading this book.
So.
Right, click Sprunt.
So it's.
Yeah, that's right.
I just want to double check that I've got the right settings, so you have two words per minute, two
words for a minute, OK, save that home and hear the questions up here.
And let's go see if you can find the answers.
OK.
And did you manage to get the answers?
We just double check them here, so according to a government report, there's the answer is as safe
as conventional rice varieties because Rice is a major part of the entire one, true or false?
Well, that's obviously false because they're talking about.
Philippines here, Taiwan is not mentioned at all, and number three, according to the Philippine star,
Greenpeace has said their approval is unwarranted due to what and lack of transparency.
OK, so we know that it's done here.
And incomplete data is the answer here.
Lack of transparency and before in the Philippines, many children under five years old are severely
limited, so deficient in vitamin A.
Even though most of them are given a vitamin A supplements, yes, that's true, some.
Here it is, even though they are given supplements, Bangladesh, which also has a vitamin A deficiency
problem, I assume.
Deficiency problem.
There it is, yeah, it's expected to make a decision soon.
You have to describe rice, which is not so easy to do.
I will come back to number six, number seven, you have to choose between these four has long campaigned
against God and asked the Agriculture Department to overturn the decisions.
The answer there is Greenpeace.
Ever hear the word Greenpeace?
So it's not the best way.
I mean, it's not the most difficult questions, but it does seem to identify where a good question
might be hiding.
Remember, this is really about practicing speed reading.
So working in conjunction with this rudimentary question format with a text that you found yourself
that you found interesting, you are able to copy and paste it using the sprint reader technique, and
then you get to test yourself and see if you can improve your reading skills and speed.
OK, so
I hope that's useful for you.
And it would be great if you could remove those, wouldn't that?
With the answers and sort of manually doing it, but
maybe if you play around with this sign up, see if you can work it out, and then if you've worked
out a way to remove the question, sorry, the answer from the question, please share that with us
in the comments section of this video so that you can share or you can help others as well as me to
improve on this speed reading techniques.
OK, so let's just recap what we were looking at.
So vocalisation is bad.
It doesn't.
It slows us down.
So do as much practice as you can before the Eilts exam and reducing the amount of vocalization you
use in when you're when you're reading.
Be aware of your eye movement.
Use those techniques from, for example, from the piece of paper to the pen and pencil technique to
help you to prevent your eyes moving too far or too much away from the words that you're supposed to
be focusing on.
And then we've spent a lot of time on this, having a look at ways to improve the speed at which you
read by forcing your eyes to only focus on two or maybe three words at a time.
OK, so let me know if you have any questions, and I hope that was useful for you.
And I'll see you in the next video.