Reading Skills For Academic Study 3

Reading skills for academic study: Scanning for specific information.
Exercise 1
1. What do you think the title means? Ask three questions that you would
like the text to answer.
The Voices of time. Its means time can talk like a human. Time talk
without word, the time talk with another way. It speaks more plainly than
words. The message it conveys comes through loud and clear
a. What is the effect of time on us?
b. What the American thought of time?
c. What time do to our history?
2. Read the first and last paragraphs. What do you expect the passage to be
about?
On the first and last paragraph discusses a conversation. It's time to
speak more clearly than words. and time is important in life, time can not
be repeated so we must use the time as best as possible. human ways to
use their time differently - different and people deal with the way each
time. in which people deal with time might seem, they become
incomprehensible when analyzed correctly. To do this simply requires
adequate theory of culture. And we expect people can manage his time
more and understand more about time.
3. Read the first paragraph of the second section: AMERICAN TIME, and
the first paragraph of the third section: SOME OTHER CONCEPTS OF
TIME. What do you now expect the passage to be about?
Americans think of time as a way to reach the future,People of the
Western world, particularly Americans, tend to think of time as something
fixed in nature, something around us from which we cannot escape; an
ever present part of the environment, just like the air we breathe. However,
the way in regulating the timing of each person is different. The Pueblo
Indians, for example, who live in the Southwest, have a sense of time
which is at complete variance with the clock-bound habits of the ordinary
American citizen. For the Pueblos events begin when the time is ripe and
no sooner.
4. Fill in the following table about the ways in which time communicates.
Example Situation Problems Implications/Conclusions

given by
Author Mayor's Try to estimate chances What people do is more

committee's on of city department important than what they say
human relations in adopting non-
large American discriminatory
city. practices.
John Useem South Pacific Natives having Different parts of day have
difficulty working out different significance.
schedules with white
supervisors.
American Embassy in Latin Trying to organise time Different ideas about how
agriculturalist country to visit minister. long a wait is acceptable.
5. Which of the following views of time are associated with American

people?
Views of time American Not American
a. time is like a museum X
b. it is pointless to make appointments too far in advance X
c. future oriented A
d. handled like a material A
e. divided into discrete segments A
f. many things happening at the same time X
g. scheduled A
h. don't value promptness X
i. time is like space X
j. time does not heal X
k. components must add up A
l. early morning calls signal urgency A
m. treated cavalierly X
n. tradition plays an important role X
o. a five-minute delay interval is not significant X
p. fixed in nature A
q. like a ribbon along which one progresses A
6. Fill in the following table giving information about the different ways in
which some non-American groups of people see time and the problems
that this can cause.
Group of Problem/difference Examples(s)

people
Pueblo Not clock bound The Christmas dance began when things were
Indians ready
Navajo Only here and now is Would rather have an old horse now than a better
Indians real one in future.
Sioux Indians No word for late or Taught meaning of time by running buses and
waiting starting classes on time.
Truk Time does not heal Murder had been committed 17 years before.
Dispute lasted from 1896 to 1946.
Tiv Time like a capsule Days named after things being sold in market in
particular town.
Thonga Components of time 70 yrs = 800 yrs.

need not add up.
Iran Appointments treated The people made arrangements to pick each other
cavalierly. up but did not stick to the plans
Afghanistan Further from American Arranged to meet brother but did not know which
idea. year.

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Reading skills for academic study: Scanning for specific information.

Example Situation Problems Implications/Conclusions

Author Mayor's Try to estimate chances What people do is more

5. Which of the following views of time are associated with American

Views of time American Not American

a. time is like a museum X

b. it is pointless to make appointments too far in advance X

e. divided into discrete segments A

f. many things happening at the same time X

h. don't value promptness X

i. time is like space X

j. time does not heal X

k. components must add up A

l. early morning calls signal urgency A

n. tradition plays an important role X

o. a five-minute delay interval is not significant X

q. like a ribbon along which one progresses A

Group of Problem/difference Examples(s)

Thonga Components of time 70 yrs = 800 yrs.

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