Lightroom - How to multi select photos to import on a Mac

I have been using Lightroom for a couple of years now and the other day I needed to import some photos from my camera, but I did not want to import all of them. I started clicking through each photo I wanted and quickly realised this cannot be the way to do it and what I wanted was a way to multi-select a load of photos. The way to do it is as follows:

1. In the import screen uncheck all the photos.
2. Select the first photo in the range, this is not clicking on the checkbox, just click on the photo and it will turn a light grey.
3. Hold down the 'Shift' key.
4. Select the last photo in the range, this will turn all the photos between light grey.
5. Now click on a check box of the last photo, this will check the tick boxes of all the selected photos.