Reading 3IECP, Spring 2013, Nikki Mattson

Agenda

• Idiom

• VP 3 check + review game

• Novel group work

• Newspaper presentation

Beat around the bush

Practice

• What is something that you always beat around the bush about?

• What is something that you never beat around the bush about?

• If you were the boss and had to fire someone, would you beat around the bush or say it directly?

Vocabulary Power – Ch. 3• Pronounce and discuss • Check answers with a partner

– Compare answers– If there is disagreement, try to reach

consensus– Let Nikki know if you have questions– Complete “Words in Discussion”

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- Quiz your partner on the words in preparation for the quiz next class

– Practice spelling the words

Review game

• Describe the target word without – Saying the word– Spelling the word– Rhyming with the word

• 1 minute + 3 passes

Novel Discussion Groups

• 1) Take turns orally summarizing what happened in the section you read.

• 2) Let Nikki know you are ready for the questions.

• 3) Take notes about/answer the questions – the quiz will have the same questions (but fewer), and you can use your notes.

3A Book Groups

A Tangled Web A Tangled Web Oliver Great Expectations

Ali Stas Rawan NasserJasper Bi Hanan VenJacob Mohammed Maria SeungjunYazeed Khalid

A Tangled Web Oliver Oliver Great Expectations

Zach Abdulrahman Ammar KyongheeAbdullah Al H Abdullah Al

MutlaqBayan Fahad

Sul Ki Oliver Dhekra MahdiMohammed Ghazy Ghofran Seung Un

Goals

• Read a text in English from the news

• Discuss the major ideas of the article

• Have a productive class discussion about the article

• Practice summarizing skills

Procedure

• Take turns reading the article aloud in groups

• Spend about 5 minutes silently skimming/reviewing what you read

• Let Nikki/Ruth know you are ready for the questions

• Prepare answers for the questions

Twitter: Hackers target 250,000 users

• BBC News

Discussion Questions• 1-What is the main idea of the article?

• 2- What points does Mr. Lord make about the cyber attacks?

• 3- What is the link between that Twitter attacks and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal?

• 4- Why does Mr. Lord feel that it [is] important to publicize this attack ?

• 5- In your opinion, why would hackers attack Twitter accounts? What can they achieve through doing this?

• 6 – How has China’s People daily responded to the U.S.’s claims?

• 7 - How are the statements from the Chinese newspaper and US newspapers different? Why do you think this is the case? What do you think about this situation?

E-Readers Track How We Read, But Is The Data Useful To Authors? (NPR News)

1) Do you think it is positive or negative for companies like Amazon or Barnes & Noble to collect data from readers by E-Readers?

2) Will this invasion of privacy affect your use of E-Readers or your reading habits?

 

3) If you were the writer, would you utilize collected data about your reader’s reading habits?

 

4) One’s reading habits are not the only personal information being collected and disseminated; other companies also sell information about their costumers. What do you think of that?

 

5) Will you continue using E-Readers in spite of the fact that your information is being collected?

HW

• VP 3 quiz

• Novel quiz

• Optional summary (Mohammed’s article)