IB Questions for article on the internet

These question types are the kind of questions you can expect in your IB paper 1 exam and also what you will be tested on in your reading comprehension.

Read the text and then answer the following questions:

EXTRA READING PRACTICE - to be completed whilst people do their orals / at home

Google Glass - Internet Addiction

Internet Dangers : Should we censor the internet?

BBC documentary: Cyberbullying 

Web Junkies - China´s Addicted Teenagers

Cyberchondriac-internet-ill-self-diagnose-symptoms

Web Debate - Internet Censorship

Web Debate - Internet Censorship


The links found above are excellent. If you read them, you will be even more prepared for your READING exam(33%) in TERM 1!


Please complete a vocabulary list with words that you do know or that you think are useful for our discussions on the internet. (Minimum: 5 words from each article)

BLACK MIRROR

Whilst / After watching the Black Mirror video, answer the following questions in your notebook or in a word document.

The video can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw3GIR70HAY

•Black mirror questions

•1)    What does Liam have implanted in his neck? What does it do?

•2)     Why does Liam replay the work meeting? What is he worried about?

•3)     What are the disadvantages of the memory grain?

•4)    Why does one woman at the dinner party not have a grain?

•5)    How do the people at the dinner party react to this woman having no grain?

•6)    In what ways does the grain affect Liam and his wife´s relationship?

•7)    What does Liam discover thanks to his wife´s grain?

•8)    What are the advantages and disadvantages of a grain?

•9)    How does the episode end? What does the end of the episode suggest about the effects of the grain?

•10) Do you think this type of technological development will happen in your life time?

Work for Tuesday and Wednesday.

1. Complete the vocabulary list and the comprehension questions we started on Friday. (See blog post below Reading techniques)

 Please send your completed questions and answers to: banwellsfp@gmail.com

I must receive these on or before Thursday 20th October by 9am

2. Complete the following exercises in your blue Cambridge Objective Advanced STUDENT´S BOOK:

- Read pages 40-41 and complete exercise 3
- Read pages 42-43 and complete exercises 1-5

These must be completed for our lesson on Friday 21st October. - I will be checking that they are complete.

Optional Extension: If you finish, please complete the exercises on pages 44-45 of your Student´s book.

If you finish the above, please spend the time doing more practise with the quizlet list on internet vocabulary we saw on Friday.

Reading techniques

1. Read the following articles:

Google Glass - Internet Addiction

Internet Dangers : Should we censor the internet?


From each you should identify at least ten words that:

a) You do not know

or b) That you think are important for the topic of the ´internet and the modern world.´

Copy the words into a word document and define them using your own words.



2. Choose one of the articles and design five IB-style reading comprehension questions. Look at the texts we studied when we were looking at language learning to get an idea of the types of questions you could write. You should write the questions AND the answers. Do this in a word document.

 I have included some other examples below, which you can model your questions on.

Read lines 1-20 Find the word which could meaningfully replace the following in the extract.

Ex. the lot of us  - 1

1.       Everyone 2.       Issue 3.       Attempt 4.       Worry 5.       Permitted 6.       Possess 7.       Falling onto 8.       Must 9.       Exempt 10.   Wait 11.   used

a. allowed

b. landing on

c. problem

d. expect

e. you’ve got to

f. employed

Answer the following questions

2. How does Miss Lucy justify her revelation to the students?

3. Between lines 1 and 20, which phrase could be replaced by ‘It is important to bear that in mind.’

4. What makes the narrator think that Ms Lucy has not fully disclosed her point of view?

Read the second part of the extract.

5. Which phrase does the narrator use in lines 23-30 to indicate to us the feeling that Ms Lucy may have cracked with what she had been hearing?

Decide if the following statements are true or false. Justify your opinion by finding the evidence in the text. Btoh of these criteria must be met for a mark.

Example:

The impact of Ms Lucy’s words was immediately apparent

FALSE: ‘It’s hard to say clearly what sort of impact Miss Lucy’s impact made’

6. The news of Miss Lucy’s revelation spread hastily around the school.

7. Some students believed that Miss Lucy was speaking on the orders of another guardian

NEW TOPIC: Internet VOCAB; ON the Internet...

Spend 20 minutes doing the Quizlet list. 

You must start with flashcards, spell (only if you have headphones!),  learn and test. 
I will tell you when you can have a go at the games!

Click here for the Quizlet list:

Internet Vocab

Grammar work during debate

We will have a quiz at some stage over these grammar points.

These are to be completed whilst I am conducting the oral assessments. 

1) Verbs and prepositions Quizlet list perfect-english-grammar Practice

2) Prepositions of time  1 2 3 4 5

Search for my tongue

First activity

•I don’t like it when I hear people 

living in Spain speaking a foreign 

language. When they’re in Spain 

they should speak Spanish.

•It must be a real advantage to slip 

between different languages

•It must be really confusing to have

 to use two different languages.

If you live in Spain and you speak 

Spanish but your first language is 

something else, then you should do

all you can to keep your first

language rather than forgetting about

it.



Questions to consider...


These might be useful for your 

monologue on Tuesday...

Speaking Assessment *NEW INFORMATION AT BOTTOM OF POST*

Remember - our assessment will take place on TUESDAY 11TH OCTOBER. 

Your address to the class should last around 5 minutes. 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual/multilingual?

Deliver a speech considering the advantages and disadvantages of being multilingual/bilingual. YOU MUST refer to texts and sources when making your points, for example:

• Your personal ideas on bilingualism and multilingualism
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Multilingual Identity
• TEDTalks
• Search for my Tongue
• Pocket articles collected for homework
• Language learning vocabulary
• Make/Do/Get 
• Cambridge: Objective English, Page 102-103
• Speech etiquette/techniques

Remember that the highest marks are for an interesting, well-thought out argument but also for referring to articles and sources that we have not looked at together (but that you have found yourself).

Q: "Are you allowed to have notes in the exam?"

This is a judgement call. The best monologues are those where speakers have no notes.

Reading the entire thing from a piece of paper will result in a poor mark.

The ideal middle ground is to have some cue cards with key words/ phrases which will jog your memory. Students should not have more than 2 cue cards. 5 minutes will pass very quickly!