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Nama : Dwi Tantri Amalia

NIM : 06620210041
Class : C2
Mid test reading

Part 1 :
Unit 1
1. extensive reading
answer : extensive reading is an approach to second language reading when learners
read extensively they read very early, enjoyable books to burd their reading speech
and fivency
2. benefit most from extensive reading
answer : burid reading and reading fivency
3. extensive reading is enjoyable, you will read faster and more, which makes it more
enjoyable?
Answer : yes, it’s true that reading makes you enjoy
4. What the experts say about extensive reading?
Answer : according to henry Guntur tarigan in a book entitled reading as a
language skill (2008), extensive reading as much reading text as possible in the
shortest possible time.
5. How to Choose a Book interest you?
Answer :
 Read your favorite autor works
 Create a personal reading list
 Go to a bookstore and pick up a book that sparks an interest in you
 Don’t buy book in buil
 Don’t finish the books you don’t file lite
 Don’t be obsessed with the number or books you hour I should read
Unit 2
1. Write any unfamiliar words that made comprehension difficult and write their dictionary
definitions.
Answer :
 Bay
 Pitney bowey-yes
 Fedex
 pitney
2. What do you already know about this article?
Answer : I don’t know much about this article but & maybe it’s an online move
service via internet Netflix but the model is not as usual but it uses block boster, the
point is this is an internet based business
3. Why does the writer believe that the Internet is not the death of the Post Office?
Answer : first a transaction service that is carried out on the internet maybe easy
secondly is that it involve the advantage that people with always make payments via
the internet online
4. What evidence does the writer give to support his ideas?
Answer :
 Transaction service
 Involves the advantage
 Increasing technological saphistication

5. How do you use the post office?


Answer : maybe wearing when sading goods or important letters only

Unit 3
1. Write any unfamiliar words that made comprehension difficult and write their dictionary
definitions?
Answer :
 Intermixed
 Stackened
 Tatting
 faded
2. Did you enjoy reading the story? Explain your answer.
Answer : not too much but still can enjoy a tittle maybe for reasons of genre
3. Were there any parts of the story that you did not understand? Which ones?
Answer : there are several but maybe this part is the third paragraph “something at
night to dreams where gone”
4. Were there any unfamiliar words that you need to look up in order to understand the
story?
Answer : maybe there are some because it’s a little unfamiliar to hear
5. Why do you think the author decided to call this story "All Summer in a Day"?
Answer : because the story tells thst on venus which is close the sun and after a few
years new rain can fall to earth again
Unit 4
Book title: alaska
Author: nisaafatm
Publisher: bintang media
Date published: september 2018
Number of pages: 400
Genre (Type of book)—Circle one: novel, fiction, romance.

1) Why did you decide to read that book?


Answer : maybe it’s because I’m a fan this genre of teen and fiction
2) Were you glad that you decided to read it? Explain.
Answer : happy, because maybe the genre surts my interest and a good story time,
of course, a good way of warding
3) What did you like best about that book? What did you like least?
Answer : what I like the most is about a very harmonious family about strangle and
of course friendship. And what I don’t like is the exitence of divorced families who
don’t care about their children and the resection
4) Would you recommend that book to a friend? Explain.
Answer : maybe yes because most kids my age don’t all but maybe there are those
who line me like genre books like this.
5) On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was this book for you? (1 = easy, 10 = difficult) Why?
Answer : this book is still standard, so maybe only 5 because it’s not that easy to
gues the storytime orther.

Part 2
Unit 1
I. How many important strategies are there in your text book for building your vocabulary?
Explain!
Answer :
 Check your knowledge of the words used most frequently in English
 Focus on the words used in academic texts
 Use the dictionary effectively
 Keep a vocabulary notebook
 Use study cards

Unit 2
A. Mark each statement T (true) or F (false).
1. People think about different things depending on where they live. ( T )
2. People all think in the same way. ( F )
3. A social psychologist has come up with a new idea about how we think. ( T )
4. Logic is the same in every culture. ( F )

B. Read the article again and underline the words that are new to you.
Answer : maybe only depending

Unit 3
A.
 Dark clouds appread and ten minute later everyone at the football match was
completely dranched.

when he pulled her out the swimming pool, her dres was drenched and bung close to
her body.

Seymoor screamed and sat up suddenly in bed, drenched in cold sweat.


Inferred meaning : unexpected incident

 The stranger neversald aa word, but thrust a folded piece of paper into pillars hand.
He thrust his hands into his pockets and walked slowly away. As the straightened
up, she felt a sudden pain like a being thrust into her lowerback.
Inferred meaning : crime on purpose
 Never tamper with electrical fittings without first switching of the main power
supply it is illegal to add take away or other wise with the content of these vidios
several.
Inferred meaning : error or damage occurred

B.
 When the train pulled out and crowed had thinned, he could see a small, fortorn
figure sitting on a surfcase. Held on to a fortorn hope that someshow at the and of
the way they would all be together again. Two fortorn strees stood out, back and
naked against the snow convered feelds
Inferred meaning : farewell and end

 The financial woes of fiat and other big italion comparies could lead to same
important changes in the italion economy. Take a vocation in the south pacific and
leave behind all your winter worries and woes. It did not take long for him to
discover the source of all his friends, woes but there was little he could do to help.
Inferred meaning : misery and help

 Recend surveys have that many parents are very worried about the possibility of
their child being abducted. In 1976 a school bus driver and twenty-six children were
abducted at gunpoint in California. The young woman admitted in tears that she
had made up the story of how she was abducted and held by the men dour thirty-six
hourse.
Inferred meaning : fear and lies

Unit 4 : words parts


1. Manual workers with no secret training are unlikely to find a job that pays well.
Word : manual root : manus
 your definition : operated by hand
 dictionary definition : involving the use of your hand
2. if you reverse the flow of water in the experiment, you write get the opposite result s
well.
word : reverse root : versum
 your definition : to put in opposite position
 dictionary definition : to change a process or as tuation to the opposite to what it
was
3. tistorycally, the eariest churches in this regien were the located outside the city
walls.
Word : located root : locatum
 your definition : to put in opposite position
 dictionary definition : to find a point where the location
4. it was difficult to predeict whether the insury would result in death
word : predict root : dictus
 your definition : to say that will happen in the future
 dictionary definition : to say what you think happen in the future
5. the bank’s annual report gave details of the growth of it actualies over the past
twelve the month
word : annual root : annus
 your definition : happening or done once a year
 dictionary definition : happening once a year

6. the dictator ruled his country with an hand


word : dictator root : dictus
 your definition : a ruler who rules the country by force
 dictionary definition : someone who uses force to take and keep power in a country

C.
Word form part A Related word Definition of related
vision visibility The distance it is possible to
see
reverse revert To return to a pevious state
or way of bebauring
Visual vizualize To farm a picture of
someone or in your mind
manual manipulate To influence someone or
control in achiever or
dishand
annual anniversery A date when you celebrate
Predict dictation The art of saying that
someone else then writes
located local A particular place or
position

Unit 5: Collocations
 What are the collocations? Give examples.
Answer : collocation is a predictable combination of words. For example “ we can
say heavy ran but not strong rein “

Part 3
Unit 1: Previewing
Previewing is a rapid kind of reading that allows you to get a general self of what a
passage, article, or book is about and how it is organized.

 Read the main heading


 Chek to see it the pessage in devided into parts
 Read the first few sentence
 Read the first sentence of each paragraph after that
 Read the final sentence of the pessage

Unit 2: Making Inferences


That is addition to reading the words, they use their imagination and their knowledge
about the world to fill in reacts and idea that are not stated in the text.writes leave out
information that they think reading readers will know already or will be able to guees.

Unit 3: Understanding Paragraphs


Identifying the topic of paragraph :
The topic is the word or phrase that best describes what all of the sentence in the
paragraph are about, paragraph in English usually contain a topic sentence that lets the
reader know what the paragraph is about. In addition to stating the topic, most topic
sentence also tell the writers main idea, or in other words, the idea that the writers wants to
express about the topic. In some paragraph, the topic sentence many not state the complete
main idea.

Unit 4: Patterns of Organization


 Listing
 Sequence
 Comparison / contrast
 Cause / effect
 Problem / solution
 Extended definition

 In this listing pattern, the writer states the main idea in the form of
generalization and gives a list of detail or example to support that general
statement
 In the sequence pattern, the writer explains the main idea with a series of
events or steps in a process that follow one after the other in time order
 Comparison / contrast pattern, the writers main idea is a general statement
about two things and how they are similar and / or different
 Cause / effect in this pattern, the writer’s main idea is that one event or
action caused another event or action
 Problem / solution, in this pattern the main idea names a problem and
indicate that one or more solutions
 Extended definition, in this pattern the writer names a concept of
complicated process that the paragraph will define and explain

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