Lecture in the Senate Room.

We had a presentation last week of how to improve your speed in reading. I am not a native speaker, but my reading skills are good. Sometimes if I read something that hard to understand I use dictionary a lot and that slows me down. First, the teacher that presented the lecture, told us to read a novel for one minute and then count how many lines and the average of how many words in each line, and then multiply the number of lines on the number of words. When I multiply all that my score was around 300 hundred. After that he shows us a chart where I saw that 300 hundred words is an average score for a reader. Then he shows us how to improve your reading speed at least for 100 words. It was called “Push Drill.” In that exercise we have to push ourselves to read as fast as you can. He told us to read a page in ten seconds, after that 8 seconds, then 6 seconds, then 4 seconds and 2 seconds. Also we have to make a discussion with our partner about what we remembered from reading. That was fun and “Push Drill” helps everybody because after the drill he told us to read a novel for one minute again and everybody increased their score in reading for almost 100 words.