Developing reading for meaning skills

Beschreibung

a 10 question quiz based on an extract from a Sunday Times article about our reliance on modern technology. The questions in the quiz test the reading for meaning skills learners have been taught in the video lesson.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

Frage
What is the FAP of this extract?
Antworten
  • Newspaper article for middle-class adults to examine, explore and entertain
  • Magazine article for young adults to argue, persuade advise
  • Webpage for parents to explain, inform and advise
  • Newspaper article for parents to inform, explain and describe

Frage 2

Frage
The article is written in the first person, past tense.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 3

Frage
Provide three examples of colloquial language from the extract. Choose from the drop-down menus. Example 1: [blank_start]gadgets and gizmos[blank_end] Example 2: [blank_start]the zero-tolerance stance[blank_end] Example 3: [blank_start]let's give it a go[blank_end]
Antworten
  • gadgets and gizmos
  • mobiles and laptops
  • iPads and PS3s
  • the zero-tolerance stance
  • exercised restraint
  • followed the standard
  • let's give it a go
  • any effort to preserve family life
  • surprisingly little fus

Frage 4

Frage
What language feature is being used in this quotation? Like a horse doing showjumping that, at each successive fence, goes "Nah. Thanks all the same. I'd rather not bother"
Antworten
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Juxtaposition

Frage 5

Frage
Which of these phrases indicate that use of technology becomes like an addiction?
Antworten
  • It's not as if we'd become addicted.
  • inability to abstain
  • becoming slaves to technology
  • we relaxed our vigil
  • we could forsake them all
  • we had exercised restraint

Frage 6

Frage
What do we learn about the writer and his family from these two paragraphs?
Antworten
  • Aware of danger of relying on technology
  • Tried to live traditionally
  • impose sensible rules
  • Trying to achieve balance
  • Felt they had won
  • Parents left behind by tech
  • kids more tech-savvy
  • Use of tech is inevitable
  • Appeal to the reader

Frage 7

Frage
Which of the following techniques are used to interest us in the issue of modern technology. Tick all that apply
Antworten
  • Colloquial language
  • Informal tone
  • Humour
  • cliches
  • similes
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Emotive language
  • Juxtapositions
  • Sensory language

Frage 8

Frage
Choose three examples of language used for humourous effect from the drop-down menus . Example 1: [blank_start]It wasn't fine. It was a farce.[blank_end] Example 2: [blank_start]A degree of respect (sort of) for[blank_end] the age certificates on films and games Example 3: The [blank_start]blighters could watch telly[blank_end] after lights out!
Antworten
  • It wasn't fine. It was a farce.
  • Nicola and I are educated people
  • It'd be fine
  • A degree of respect (sort of) for
  • An awareness of
  • A strict adherence to
  • blighters could watch telly
  • children could watch television
  • kids could watch the TV

Frage 9

Frage
Which of the following quotes from the extract sums up what the writer was trying to achieve?
Antworten
  • equipping our children (and ourselves) with the requisite electronic tools, while not allowing them to take over.
  • We made any effort to preserve family life
  • Fresh air, exercise, reading, chores, all-round general wholesomeness
  • A firm stance on TVs in bedrooms

Frage 10

Frage
The writer comes to the conclusion that you just have to give in and allow technology to control you.
Antworten
  • True
  • False
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