UHB20102:ESSENTIAL ACADEMIC ENGLISH

Title: Reading Work Sheet 2

Name: Muhammad Izzat Izdihar bin Ibrahim

Matric No. CE210096

WORKSHEET 2
PRE-READING

Can make basic inferences or predictions about text content from

headings, titles or headlines B1 L
Can identify unfamiliar words from the context on topics related to
his/her field and interests. B1 H

While-reading

Can find and understand relevant information in simple text such as articles
B1 L
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather
information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order
to fulfil a specific task.B1 H

Post-reading

Can understand the description of places, events, explicitly expressed

feelings and perspectives in narratives, guides and magazine articles that are
written in high frequency, everyday language. B1 L
Can read newspaper / magazine accounts of films, books, concerts etc.
written for a wider audience and understand the main points. B1 H

COMPREHENSION TEXT

Do you use any of the social networking websites which are so popular these days, the places where
you can connect with friends and relatives and meet people who share the same interests as you? If
you are younger, you may use Instagram, young adults are more likely to be found on Facebook and
busy professionals may prefer something like LinkedIn. But at least two of these sites have one thing
in common: apart from being social spaces where you can meet and chat to people, share photos
and other things, they have all added new verbs and nouns to the language in the past couple of
years. Let us take a look at some examples. You can Facebook your holiday photos (upload them to
your Facebook page), Facebook someone to see who they are (look him up in Facebook), Facebook
someone about a party (contact someone through their Facebook page) and ask permission to
Facebook someone (add them as a Facebook friend).

As you can see, ‘Facebook’ is a pretty versatile word, and you could say the same about ‘Instagram’,
which you will find being used in much the same way all over the Net. LinkedIn (being a more adult,
professional community) has not been used in the same way. While you’re ‘Facebooking’ or
‘Instagramming’, you may also find yourself ‘commenting’ (writing a comment on someone’s
Facebook or Instagram page), as in this example: ‘I commented Maria that she should come to the
café on Saturday and she commented me that she couldn’t because she was going away for the
weekend’.
PRE-READING
Section A

Activities (brainstorming)

1) What do you think the text discusses about?

- Social networking websites, more to facebook, Instagram and linkedin

2) Why do you think people love to use Facebook? Provide a mind map.

3) Give a suitable topic for the text.

- Trends of socializing style nowdays.

Section B
1) Using contextual cues, provide synonym for the following words :
i) social : Comunication, community.
ii) versatile : Flexible, all-around.

iii) ‘Facebooking’ : Using Facebook, Playing Facebook.

iv) interests : Concern, passion.

WHILE – READING (locating information)

Answer True or False for the following questions.

1. People who use Instagram are generally not as old as people who use Facebook. T/F

2. LinkedIn is for people with good jobs. T/F

3. Sites like these have given new words such as adverbs and adjectives to the language. T/F

4. Instagram has proven to be a less versatile word than Facebook. T/F

5. All three of the sites mentioned have provided some new words. T/F

6. In this Internet context, ‘to comment’ means to leave a message for someone on their site. T/F

7. You can use Facebook for different purposes. T/F

8. The new terms have been in use for ten years. T/F

9. The word ‘Facebook’ has various uses. T/F

10. You need someone’s authorisation to add their name to your Facebook page. T/F
POST-READING

Instructions

1) Ask your students to prepare 5 questions about the text that they have read, once they have

them ready, you can tell the students to make groups of 4 and then they can ask those questions

to each other.

For example :

i) Why do you decided to create a Facebook account?

ii) What are some ways to avoid cyber-crimes in social-networking sites?

iii) Do you think social-networking sites may encourage anti-social behaviour? Why?

- In your oppion with this 3 web, which one do you prefer and Why?

- Do you thinks facebook marketplace is a good feature or not. Why?

- From you side of view is Instagram is suitable for people under than 15years old?

- What is the banefit for us to have this social media account? Why?

- Do you thinks scams are based from this social media culture?

2) Ask your students to share their opinion about the topic of the article. You can also ask the

students to share which part of the text is the most important/interesting and which part is not

interesting or important.

Interesting

- You can socialize with other without meet them personally.

Not interesting

- Because of this lifestyle, people nowdays tend more to be keyboard worrior and spread

rumours
3) After students have finished reading, they can browse on the internet for new information related

to something they read,

for example: if they read something about Facebook, they can find information about other useful
learning applications and they are required to share that information with their classmates. Discuss
the questions below.

- Before this I have read the importance of having Linkedin account for us as a fresh graduated
student. Because all the employers out there tend to use more social media approach to find a
new employee