2. Revision: Speed Reading

The rescue system you read about in Unit 1a is part of the international Cospas-Sarsat system, which helps save people´s lives. Read more about this system in this task.  The task is designed to practise scanning, which is one of the speed-reading methods. When you scan, you do not read texts in detail. Instead, you should first read the questions and then try to look up the answers in the text as quickly as possible while ignoring information which is not relevant. This technique of quick reading is very useful in some stressful situations, for example, in testing scenarios. Usually, it follows a method called skimming, in which you just read a text quickly to get a general idea on what it is about.