- •In close-up
- •In close-up
- •II d II
- •1. Analyzing a Song
- •2. Interview Practice
- •3. Writing a Resume
- •4. Comprehension Check
- •7. Essay Writing
- •8. Debate
- •1. Previewing and Anticipation
- •2. Scanning
- •3. Comprehension
- •6. Comprehension Survey
- •8. Cloze Summary
- •9. Summary
- •10. Discussion
- •7. Comprehension questions
- •11. Structural Analysis
- •12. Style
- •13. Comment and Discussion
- •1. Text Analysis
- •4. Discussion
- •6. Comprehension
- •7. Comprehension
- •8. Discussion
- •3.Continued
- •9 The Forgotten
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Anticipation
- •3. Organization of the Text
- •4. Style
- •5. Producing a Filmscript
- •6. Structuring an Article
- •7. Discussion
- •8. Comprehension
- •9. Text Production
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Text Reproduction
- •3.Discussion
- •4. Text Analysis
- •5. Comprehension Check
- •6. Cloze Comprehension Test
- •7. Guided Letter Writing
- •8. Interpretation of Photos
- •1987 License Laws for Passenger Cars
- •1. Text Analysis
- •2. Global Comprehension
- •3. Discussion
- •1975 1980 1981 1983 1986
- •8 30
- •I 4/86-1
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Debate
- •6. Modified Cloze Test
- •7. Preparing an Interview
- •I Am The Redman
- •United States
- •1. Interpreting Poems
- •2. Previewing
- •3. Text Analysis
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Dialogue Practice
- •7. Comprehension
- •8. Discussion
- •9. Interpreting a Cartoon
- •1985 86.8 Million Households:
- •1970 63.4 Million
- •1. Scanning
- •2. Comprehension
- •3. Comprehension
- •I л li II
- •7. Comprehension
- •Independent
- •1. Continued
- •2. Continued
- •9 "If Conservatives Cannot Do It Now..."
- •Inflation
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Analysis of a Speech
- •3. Questionnaire
- •4. Scanning
- •5. Simulation of a Debate
- •6. Writing Newspaper Articles
- •7. Global Comprehension
- •8. Text Analysis
- •9. Writing a Newspaper Article
- •10. Comprehension
- •11. Comparative Study
- •1981:128 1987:139
- •In the nuclear age, power politics, the struggle
- •9 American Policy in Vietnam:
- •2. Continued
- •It actually played to an American strength. American popular culture,
- •In fact, may be an emissary as important as Ambassador Burt himself—
- •Itself—and its major competitor, Pepsi.
- •1. Text Analysis
- •2. Text Analysis
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Visual Comprehension
- •6. Interviewing
- •5. Discussion
- •Innovations at Glenbrook South make classes stimulating.
- •0: What are the subjects required in your four years of high school?
- •198 America in close-up
- •0: Is there a strict code of conduct at your school? 0:
- •1. Global Comprehension
- •2. Text Analysis
- •3. Discussion and Comment
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Interpretation and Discussion
- •6. Dialogue Writing and Interview Practice
- •7. Text Production
- •8. Discussion and Comment
- •9. Comprehension
- •10. Comment and Discussion
- •11. Text Production
- •12. Comprehension
- •13. Text Analysis
- •14. Discussion
- •Religious Information
- •Religious preference
- •Based on national surveys and approximately 29,000 interviews
- •Impoverished within American society. Halfway through his speech, he was
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Discussion
- •3. Analysis of a Speech
- •4. Note Taking
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Scanning
- •7. Text Analysis
- •8. Letter Writing
- •It's been said that you gave yourself 10 years to become a star. Is that true?
- •1. Structural Outline
- •2. Scanning
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Interview Practice
- •5. Comparative Study
- •5. Continued
- •1. Comprehension
- •2. Text Analysis and Comment
- •3. Comprehension
- •4. Comprehension
- •5. Letter Writing
- •6.Preparing an Interview
- •Television
- •3. Global Comprehension
- •4. Choosing a tv Program
- •5. Comparative Study
- •6. Text Analysis
- •7. Letter Writing
- •8. Analysis and Discussion
- •9. Comment
1. Comprehension
Small-Town Life
Which way of completing each of the following sentences agrees with the original text?
Some sentences may be completed in more than one way.
1. The Rundens moved to Corydon because
Linda was born there.
Ed had been offered a job at the local newspaper.
they had been attracted by the reports in the local newspaper.
2. Professionally, Edward Runden
had always wanted to become a teacher.
used to work as a correspondent for different press agencies.
failed to make a career in the Foreign Service.
3. Ed Runden met Linda in Chicago when
he reported on a demonstration for a news agency.
he protected her from demonstrators.
she took part in a demonstration.
4. Ed Runden left the Foreign Service because
they sent all newspapermen back to Chicago.
he tried in vain to get to Teheran.
he did not agree with the U.S. foreign policy.
5. When comparing small-town life and life in the big cities
both Ed and Linda were equally glad to have left big city life.
Ed is happier about small-town life than Linda.
Linda is happier about small-town life than Ed.
6. Linda Runden likes living in Corydon because
everybody knows and is involved with everybody else.
the people there are very conservative.
she hates the crowds in big cities.
7. According to Ed Runden, one of the disadvantages of small-town life is, for example, that
private life is rather restricted.
people look at each other from a distance.
he does not want other people to know about his Swiss bank account.
8. In Ed's opinion, however, the advantages of small-town life outweigh the disadvantages because
there is not so much theft in small communities.
people take less interest in their neighbors' affairs.
the individual plays a more important role than in the big cities.
2. Text Reproduction
Revival of a City's Virtues
The diagram below renders the structure and organization of the article, which falls into three parts:
The visit
Life in the city
The development of inner city neighborhoods On the basis of the diagram, use your own words to reconstruct the argument and organization of this text.
purpose of the visit
the outside of the house
the inside of the house
THE URBANIZATION OF AMERICA 95
racial problems in inner city neighborhoods
first experience of living in an inner city neighborhood
frequent misconceptions of city life
attractiveness of city life
the original neighborhood60 or 70 years ago
change of the social structure of thecommunity
deterioration of the neighborhood
recent renewal of neighborhoods
the diversity of neighborhoods
3.Discussion
List and discuss the arguments for and against small town or city life mentioned in the texts "Small-Town Life" and "Revival of a City's Virtues."
Is there a similar difference between small town life and city life in your country?
3. Where would you prefer to live, in a small town or in a big city a) in America? b) in your own country? Give reasons.