Reading and writing

Pre – reading stage:

Aims:
 Interpreting a picture.
 Introducing the new vocabulary of the reading passage.
 Preparing the sts for the passage.

Task 01: look at the picture on page 129 and answer the set of questions.
1- How does the region seem to be? and why?
2- What are the women holding in their hands?
3- Where are they and where are they going?
4- What does the symbol in the front woman’s clothes represent?
Key:
1- The region seem to be completely destroyed = damaged because of an earthquake.
2- The women are holding food.
3-They are outside and they are maybe going to their neighbours.
4-The symbol represents the Red Crescent.
While reading stage:
Aims:
 Reading for general idea and supporting details.
Task 01: Read the text silently and say if the statements are true or false.
a- people don’t show solidarity in disasters.
b- The earthquake took place in Boumerdess.
c- The youth were the heroes in this disaster.
d- Disasters are both grace and indignation.
Key:
a b c d
F T T T

Task 02: Read the text again and answer the following questions.
1- What are the women carrying? for what purpose?
2- Is the reporter Algerian? Justify.
3- How many kids were saved by the young man?
Key:
1- The women were carrying plates of Couscous for their neighbours who have lost their
homes.
2-No, he is not because He said: I asked Rafik; my Algeria friend and translator. This shows
that he is a foreigner.
3- The young man saved two children from certain death.
Task 03: Read the first paragraph and correct the punctuation mistakes.
Key:
“Where are they going all together like that?” I asked Rafik, my Algerian friend and
translator. “They are taking food to their neighbours who have lost their homes,” he
replied. After a few minutes, he added, “People have always helped each other over here.”
But this earthquake has considerably increased that sense of neighbouliness.”

Post reading stage:

Write a short summary of the reading passage.
Key:
The text talks about the role of solidarity between people in natural disasters and
Boumerdess’s earthquake is the best example of the Algerian unity along with the
organization of the Red Crescent.