Friday, 14 October 2016

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









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