C


Identifying a new skill (2)


1. Read Skills Check 2. How can a writer refer to graphs in the text?


2. Match the sentences below with the graphs on page 164. a. As the yellow line shows, the temperature rises quickly. b.


Figure 1 shows the initial results.


c. … (see the red line in Figure 6). d. Note the change in speed at 30 m. e. Note the pressure at 12 seconds (black line). f.


D Identifying a new skill (3)


1. Read Skills Check 3. What is the subject, verb and object/ complement of each example sentence?


2. Look back at the text in Lesson 1.6. Find all the subjects, verbs and objects/complements (SVOs) in paragraph 3.


E


Identifying SVO structure S


have retrieved V


Mark the subject (S), verb (V) and object (O) in these sentences. 1. You


that information O


2. You need a degree in Architecture. 3. Healthy people often eat low-fat snacks during the day.


4. China has an 18,000-kilometre-long coastline on the Yellow Sea and the China Sea.


5. The internet is changing the relationship between businesses and customers.


6. The Black Death of 1348 killed thousands of people. 7. A successful magazine attracts a demographic group. 8. New students will probably have an introductory talk.


F Identifying extra information


Circle the subject and object in the following sentences. Use arrows to show whether the extra information is about the subject or about the object.


1. American scientists at Cape Canaveral in the USA launched the first Space Shuttle. 2. The human body needs more than 40 different nutrients. 3. The Himalayas, a mountain range in Asia, contains the highest peaks on Earth. 4. Archaeologists have discovered an early form of draughts. 5. Young men from ten of the teams take part in each race, which lasts only 90 seconds. 6. College and university Media Studies courses look at communication in the mass media. 7. Some modern teen magazines reflect the readers’ self-image. 8. Websites for students do not always have complete or correct information.


Theme 1: Reading 23


Skills Check 3 Understanding SVO


hundreds of times.


English uses a basic Subject – Verb – Object/Complement structure. In academic sentences, there is often extra information about the S and the O/C.


Examples:


Revision (of the lecture notes) is the key (to successful learning).


The red line (on the graph) shows the loss (of information).


Find the S, V, O/C of a long sentence. Then find the extra information.


Skills Check 2 Reading line graphs


Many academic texts include line graphs.


The writer usually refers the reader to each graph.


Examples: This process continues (see Figure 3). The blue and orange lines in the graph are very similar.


The results are shown in the graph below.


The writer often describes features of the graph.


Examples: Note the level after five seconds.


As the blue line shows, …


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