CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SKIM-READ
PRESENT
Present
I skim-read
you skim-read
he/she/it skim-reads
we skim-read
you skim-read
they skim-read
Present continuous
I am skim-reading
you are skim-reading
he/she/it is skim-reading
we are skim-reading
you are skim-reading
they are skim-reading
Present perfect
I have skim-readed
you have skim-readed
he/she/it has skim-readed
we have skim-readed
you have skim-readed
they have skim-readed
Present perfect continuous
I have been skim-reading
you have been skim-reading
he/she/it has been skim-reading
we have been skim-reading
you have been skim-reading
they have been skim-reading
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I skim-readed
you skim-readed
he/she/it skim-readed
we skim-readed
you skim-readed
they skim-readed
Past continuous
I was skim-reading
you were skim-reading
he/she/it was skim-reading
we were skim-reading
you were skim-reading
they were skim-reading
Past perfect
I had skim-readed
you had skim-readed
he/she/it had skim-readed
we had skim-readed
you had skim-readed
they had skim-readed
Past perfect continuous
I had been skim-reading
you had been skim-reading
he/she/it had been skim-reading
we had been skim-reading
you had been skim-reading
they had been skim-reading
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will skim-read
you will skim-read
he/she/it will skim-read
we will skim-read
you will skim-read
they will skim-read
Future continuous
I will be skim-reading
you will be skim-reading
he/she/it will be skim-reading
we will be skim-reading
you will be skim-reading
they will be skim-reading
Future perfect
I will have skim-readed
you will have skim-readed
he/she/it will have skim-readed
we will have skim-readed
you will have skim-readed
they will have skim-readed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been skim-reading
you will have been skim-reading
he/she/it will have been skim-reading
we will have been skim-reading
you will have been skim-reading
they will have been skim-reading
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would skim-read
you would skim-read
he/she/it would skim-read
we would skim-read
you would skim-read
they would skim-read
Conditional continuous
I would be skim-reading
you would be skim-reading
he/she/it would be skim-reading
we would be skim-reading
you would be skim-reading
they would be skim-reading
Conditional perfect
I would have skim-read
you would have skim-read
he/she/it would have skim-read
we would have skim-read
you would have skim-read
they would have skim-read
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been skim-reading
you would have been skim-reading
he/she/it would have been skim-reading
we would have been skim-reading
you would have been skim-reading
they would have been skim-reading
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you skim-read
we let´s skim-read
you skim-read
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
skim-readed
Present Participle
skim-reading
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKIM-READ»
Discover the use of
skim-read in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
skim-read and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Then give the class a time limit to skim read the text in order to find out if any of
their ideas are contained in the text. Predicting the topic: As a pre-reading task,
give the students the title of the text and/or a picture or diagram that accompanies
it ...
International Maritime Organization, 2009
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Earth Work: Women and Environments
(Skim read and absorb the images.) Gilpin, Laura. 1949. The Rio Grande, River
of Destiny: An Interpretation of the River, the Land, and the People. New York:
Duell, Sloan, and Pearce. (Skim read and absorb the images.) "Refiguring Nature
...
Diane Hope, Vandana Shiva, 2001
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Teaching for Learning at University
When you are teaching them how to skim read, you should stress both functions
and emphasize that skim reading requires readers to work at understanding the
text. This takes more effort than just looking through the text and marking it with a
...
Denise Chalmers, Richard Fuller, 2012
For example, you can probably skim-read more than five books in the time it
would take to read one book in its entirety, and make notes on it. Most history
teachers will advise their students to skim-read all books and articles before
deciding ...
Jeremy Black, Donald M. MacRaild, 2007
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Adaptive Interaction: A Utility Maximization Approach to ...
From the perspective of Adaptive Interaction, if skim reading is widespread, we
assume it is optimal, given the reader's cognitive limitations and experience and
the utility of reading (Figure 1.1); people skim read because it is better than any ...
Stephen Payne, Stephen J. Payne, Andrew Howes, 2013
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Legal Method and Reasoning
The approach taken to this series of cases will be to ask you to: • skim read:
literally imagine that you have a pile of papers and are flicking them through your
hands. But skim read a little more slowly than this! Do not stop to read in detail.
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Pascal English Workbook 2: Stage 4
READING As you develop your reading skills, you will learn to skim read. This
means reading the 'surface' of the text for meaning. When you skim read, you
quickly read, view or listen to a text to look for the main points. Skim reading can
be ...
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Your Guide to College Success: Strategies for Achieving Your ...
The consequences of your review may return you to the reading to skim, read
actively, or read analytically. For any given assignment, review after your most
intense level of reading. Return to previous levels if review suggests that you
Preview ...
Jane Halonen, John Santrock, 2012
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Excel Senior High School Fundamentals of English
Skim. reading. First, learn to skim read. This will give you a general idea of what
the chapter or extract is about. It involves: 1 . reading the first paragraph of an
extract or chapter in full 2. reading the ...
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TOEFL Testbuster: REA's Testbuster for the Test of English ...
Reading efficiently on the TOEFL is a three-step process: / Strategically Skim /
Read Ideas / Answer Questions by Scanning for Key Words Step 1 - Strategically
Skim Imagine you're reading a newspaper. You don't have a lot of time to spare, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKIM-READ»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
skim-read is used in the context of the following news items.
Column: Retaliation is a matter of the 'leviathan'
For myself it was part of a philosophy study in college, and I had skim-read it in high school. Skim-read it because I disagreed with so much that it was hard to ... «The Daily Courier, Jul 15»
SatNad's purple haze could see Lumia 'killed'. Way to go, chief!
Employees are intelligent and can skim-read thousands of words of the meaningless tech strategy cliche that Kellaway highlighted, to get to the punchline ... «The Register, Jul 15»
Courtney Barnett Makes Ennui Vivid On Debut Album
COURTNEY BARNETT: (Singing) I lay awake at 4 staring at the wall, counting all the cracks backwards in my best French - reminds me of a book I skim-read in ... «WUNC, Mar 15»
Diplomacy and religion
IF YOU only skim-read the headlines of last weekend's newspapers, you might have got the impression that Pope Francis made a remarkable breakthrough in ... «The Economist, Dec 14»
8 ways to win 'generation Y' customers
Get to the point. Generation Y skim-read copy, listen in sound bites, and are highly image-aware. Capture their imagination with a pithy 140-character pitch for a ... «Practical Ecommerce, Sep 14»
'Skim-read, socialize, and don't be neurotic': The 1980s letter to MBA …
He also advised that rather than 'carefully reading an article,' students would do better to 'skim-read' three of them, and socialize a little with the time saved ... «Daily Mail, Aug 14»
4 Movie Mix-Ups That Would Have Been More Palatable Than 'Rise …
Clearly theater employees only care to skim-read the titles before putting them in the projector (unless robots do that now, in which case, blame the robots). «Zimbio, Aug 14»
Short library loans and our 'poverty of attention'
Rather than risk those 11am return deadlines (yes, that's early morning), instead we skim-read pages in search of a worthwhile quote. The introduction and ... «Impact Magazine, Jan 14»
FILM REVIEW: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (12A, 146 mins)
It's a handsomely crafted yet emotionally underwhelming skim-read of important historical footnotes. Mandela's 27-year incarceration, most of it on Robben ... «Bristol Post, Jan 14»
Money corrupts peer-review process
... at the other extreme, a referee may merely skim-read a paper, ignoring obvious mistakes in writing style or grammar, and make some general comments to the ... «Financial Post, Jun 12»
