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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

First posting : Computer Assisted Reading

READING COMPREHENSION

The activity of this subject on this week is regarding to reading. According to the Longman dictionary reading is explained as the act or practise of reading and an opinion about the meaning of a statement, set of events. There are certain types of reading were given in this activity. Reading comprehension, Restructuring of texts and matching or jigsaw reading.
In this activity I have to choose one type of reading among the three were given and choose a topic or paragraph regarding to that reading type. Then I have to explain about it according to my own point of view. The type of reading was I have chosen is reading comprehension. Reading comprehension means that act or practises of reading for knowledge in the form of facts, news and answer the questions were given. In this reading type, questions are given to make sure whether we can understand the passage or not. By this we can improve our language ad a part from that it will help us in grammar and vocabulary development. It also can be categorized as a way to improve our knowledge or getting more information about something. So I have choose a passage were contain some questions were four of the questions are objective and the three others are in subjective. The topic were I choose is Treasure, Part I. This particular type of article allows the viewers to understand the message thoroughly and clearly. After getting the gist of it, they are required to answer the questions that are related to the article.

Treasure, Part I is a passage about two best friends and a girl in class. The boys name is Trogmire Troll and Tremor Troll. Both of them are best friends. There is a new girl were enter in to the class and her name is Treasure Troll. She so cute and her face look sweet. Tremor Troll is interested on her but the girl is interested on Trogmire Troll. So he is quite disappointed and not happy about it. Trogmire Troll knows about that and tries to comfort him. Trogmire Troll is not interest in having a girlfriend in his life. As a way to help his friend Tremor Troll, he decides to keep away himself from that girl. Apart from that he is also trying his self to avoid from fall in love. Some of the ways were he planned to do is to be mean and rude to her and call her names and make ugly faces at her.

In short, It is really a simple passage but who is reading this passage will get quite confuse with the names in this passage. But its depends to the reader how and the way they are reading.


EXAMPLE OF A READING COMPREHENSION ARTICLE :


Treasure, Part I


Trogmire Troll was dealing with a crisis. The new girl in class really liked him a lot. Trogmire was not happy about it.Trogmire’s good friend, Tremor Troll, tried to comfort him. “What’s the big deal? I think Treasure Troll is kind of cute. And she seems to be nice enough.”Trogmire swallowed his last bite of poison sumac salad and glared at Tremor. “Then why don’t you ask her to be your girlfriend? There she is, sitting all by herself at the other end of the cafeteria. March over there and ask her to be your sweetie-poo!”“She’s crazy about you, not me,” Tremor replied.“Well, I don’t want any girlfriend, especially not a weird pesky one like her!” Trogmire growled.Tremor wouldn’t give up. “The only thing pesky about her is that she keeps writing you those notes and she stares -”“Yucky love notes!” Trogmire interrupted. He took another sip of mole milk. “Did you notice those strange brown eyes? Why aren’t they normal red or pink?”Tremor took another look at Treasure. “I think her face is a lovely shade of green. And her dark green curly hair is quite pretty. Besides, she’s very sweet and that’s what really matters.”Trogmire stuck out his tongue. “I think I’m going to be sick! I’d better save my dessert for later.” He crammed a small bag of Maggot Munchies into his even smaller shirt pocket. “The fact is, I have a problem. That girl is getting on my nerves!”Tremor followed Trogmire's example and decided to save his dessert for later. However, he carefully placed the bag into his lunch box. “Do you have any ideas about how to solve your problem?” Tremor asked.“I’m going to be mean and rude to her,” Trogmire announced. “I’ll call her names and make ugly faces at her.”“That’s how you treat everyone,” Tremor reminded his friend.Trogmire nodded. “It’s time that Treasure got to know the real Trogmire Troll!”



1. How did Treasure Troll feel about Trogmire Troll?
a. She didn’t like him because he was rude.
b. She was annoyed by his strange appearance.
c. She didn’t have any strong feelings about him.
d. She liked him a lot.

2. How did Trogmire feel about Treasure?
a. He felt annoyed.
b. He enjoyed the attention.
c. He wasn’t aware that she existed.
d. He was crazy about her.

3. Who did Trogmire want for a girlfriend?
a. No one
b. Tremor’s sister
c. Treasure Troll
d. A weird girl from another class

4. Which statement is true?
a. Trogmire pretended to be rude in order to make Treasure stop liking him.
b. Tremor thought that looks were more important than personality.
c. Tremor thought that Treasure was cute.
d. Trogmire offered his dessert to Treasure to make her sick.

For Discussion:
Has someone ever liked you a lot more than you liked him or her?
What did you do about it?
What’s the right thing to do?

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1 comments:

norizan said...

Dear Saraswathi,
Hope i get your name spelling correct. THis is your first posting and congrats that you have succeeded in publishing online and become part of the cyber community. Now if you could rearrange your posting so that the viewers know first what the posting is all about and second add in the text as an example.