The task can be a race between four teams in the class. The first person to find it gets a point for the team. Then ask them to find a word which is above 'film', then three below another word and on the same line in another column. Then ask them to look at the map at the beginning of the book and to find a Unit about 'Poems', for example, or other titles of Themes or Units. Before the students read a text, ask them whether they think the task requires them to skim or to scan the text.
Students often like having races.
Occasionally ask students to see who can find the information in a text first. Allow time for students to read the texts quietly to themselves in class to practise their own technique. Texts do not need to be read out loud round the class. Encourage students to practise skimming and scanning when they read in their mother tongue. Students can write 'skim' and 'scan' questions for other students at the beginning of each Theme or Topic and Language Unit.