1 What are the three important elements of a successful party ?

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2 What kind of people should you invite ?
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3 What are some good conversation starters mentioned in the essay ?
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4 Why is organizing a successful party satisfying ?
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5 Can you add some other ideas for a successful party ?
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ESL worksheet
Reading Comprehension
Learning Goals:

1. This course will expose students to basic written texts, new vocabulary, and introduce to
the skimming and scanning a text in intermediate level
2. This course will expose students to multi-paragraph reading that develop a central idea
and increase students’ reading strategies for comprehension
3. This course will increase students’ identifying skill and are able to employ reading
strategies to analyze text

Activities
Time
Teacher Student
Allocation
Teacher divides students into a group Students count number from 1-5 2’
by counting number from 1-5
Teacher asks students to sit with their Students move and sit with their 2’
group member group member
Teacher distributes the paper which has Each student from all groups 2’
a multi-paragraph text along with 5 receive the paper
questions related to the text
Teacher asks students to read and Students read and analyze each 7’
understand the questions beforehand question
Teacher asks the student to divide Each student get and understand 3’
group role; who’s answer number 1, their role in group
who’s answer number 2 and so on
Teacher explains the rule of the Students listen carefully 7’
task/activity. The rules are:
- Who get number 1 can go first,
and continue to person who get
number 2, and so on (works like
relay race/estafet)
- Do not forget to put name on
the question they have answered
- No cheating.
Teacher asks all students to read the Students read the text carefully and 10’
text and translate the difficult words open dictionary
found in the text within 10 minutes (the
translated words can be written near the
target words)
Teacher asks students to stop reading Students do the task 7’
and let students do the task (must
follow the rule) within 7 minutes
Teacher stops the task/activity due to Students stop their activity
the limit of time
Teacher asks 1 member of the group to 1 member of each group collects
collect the paper the paper
Total 40’

Assessment

Scoring Rubric :
Learning Outcomes:

1. Students are able to identify and demonstrate comprehension of the main ideas and
supporting details on the text of intermediate level
2. Students are able to scan the text for specific information in a text
3. Students are able to increase knowledge of key vocabulary used when writing about
cause/effect and compare/contrast relationships

References

http://www.eli.ufl.edu/academics/RW.pdf

Depdikbud.2005. GBPP Pengajaran Bahasa Inggris SLTP. Jakarta: Direktorat Jenderal

Pendidikan Pusat

Latief Hasnawati, Khaerunnisa, Hamid Radiah.2017.

Interactive Strategy Trainer For Active Reading And Thinking (Istart) For The Students’
Reading Comprehension. Makassar:Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar