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assalamualaikum,

INTERESTING AND BENIFICIAL GAMES

  

   I am really a game lover, so this is the most interesting assignment for me this semester. Except one thing, I have post this late, and I hope to be forgiven by my dearest lecturer, Datin Norizan. Ok… I have been working on Fowlsword 2, which is very fun to be played and of course, have learning influence in it.

  

   Through this game, we can learn to type faster and in the same time, improve our vocabulary. But it requires a lot of patient because we will have to compete with time given to type the words and in the same time, we need to think fast to type the right word because the letters given are scrambled.

 

   Nothing comes free in this world, right? If we are good and have enough patience to play this game, we will get all the benefits from it. So, do not skip to try it because, it is worthy.

   To try this game, try out this URL

 

www.miniclip.com/fowlwords2

www.primarygames.com/langarts/fowlwords2/start.htm

www.picgames.com/games/fowlwords2.php

sixth posting

Assalamualaikum and ola everyone…..

 

This is the last posting that Datin has assigned me for Language and Information Technology subject. I will answer the question that Datin have ask.

 

1. Do you think that blogging activity improves your writing skill?

 

To be honest, yes it helps a lot. After having my own blog I write a lot. I learn how to express my opinion and write it in my blog. Then I will ask my friends to read my blogs and leave some comments which will help my writings next time and I hope this way it will help them to improve their writing skills too.

 

2.  Do you think that blog is a useful learning experience for you?

 

The answer is simply yes. First time I hear about blog, I wonder what it is.

Is it like e-mail or friendster? Now I understand what is it and this means I learn something I never knew it exist before. It brings my life up to the whole new level and it as well improves my computer skills. I know this will add my advantage when I am graduate and looking for job after this.

 

1.   What do you think that you need to know before you can complete the blogging activity successfully?

I think I need to know lots of thing before I can complete the blogging activity successfully. First I need to have good writing skills because this blog I am creating is about language and ICT, so it requires me to write good sentences. If not, it will be embarrassing because I am a language student. So I try very hard to write better. The second one I need to know how to use sources around me to complete my assignment. For example, I need to use World Wide Web to find in formation, I need to use books in PTSL to find information and last but not least, my own experience while I am doing anything to write in this blog. Third one, I also need good friends because I have to do pair work and sometimes I need to ask my friends what I don’t know. But thank God I was surrounded by very good people around me which were always there when I need their help.

 

1.  What are your problems that you face using blog?

 

My very big problem is when I want to use wireless, I need to go to foyer or cafe. Because when I want to use blog, I need to have internet connection. But then I solve my problem by choosing one peace place to use internet for free that is PTSL. Quiet, surrounded by studying people, makes me more comfortable to use blog. The second one is I am lack of understanding about using blog. I did not know we have to publish after saving to view the content. I feel stupid when thinking my first mistake. That time I already save it and I check my blog but it does not appear, I keep wondering why it happen until my friend help me. Hahaha…

 

1. Will you tell your friends, recommend to others about blogging?

Well, good news because I already told all my friends, family and even chat friends about it. Most of then did not know what is it but I teach them what I know about it and some of them already create their own blog after I told them how interesting it is.

 

 

1. Now that you are able to blog online will you continue using it even after the SKBP is over?

 

Of course because after this I will make it as my corner so that people including friends and family and also my lecturer can see my activities and development even after in graduated. This will help me avoiding from losing connection between people I love.

 

Now that I have complete it all, I really want to thanks my lecturer for being so understanding nad helpful and to all my friends, continue the blogging spirit, ok…

 

 

fifth posting

Fifth posting

 

Assalamualaikum and ola to everybody. This is my fifth posting and in this posting I was assign to talk about my experience using online test which called Uji ICT for “asas level” and Electronic Malaysian Competency Test (EMEC). I took the test on last Monday, during my tutorial class.

 

This is my first time using computer in quiz, and I will write honestly about the test so that it can be improved next time. Ok, first of all, I can say it have good as well as bad impact too.

 

 Before I start the quiz, I was given my own password, so as my friend. Then we have to open many pages on the internet before we can start answering the question. The first problem I can see is 3 of my friends having difficulties to key in the password and many also have difficulties to open one by one pages before we can start answering. This can bother the concentration of the students.

 

After that, we can start answering the quiz. We have to read the text and then answer the questions given but the problem is, it is a long text and usually student will read the text and while reading the question they will read the text again to look for the right answer. Since the text and the question were located in different pages, it has become a problem to click here and there to read and to answer the text and questions.

 

Then, I heard rumors from my friend say that “we have to answer quickly, because the time will be counted. If we answer in short time, we will get a higher marks.” Then I can see everybody start answering nervously and cannot concentrate to answer the questions, I don’t know whether this rumors true or not but I also did the same mistake to listen to the rumors.

 

After that, the man which I can say, Datin’s assistant  told us there is another quiz that we have to answer after that 1 hour quiz, which make me more nervous and I start answering in rush. I know that Datin’s assistant try to do his best to help us, but there is one mistake he can avoid in order to help us. That is, while we answer the quiz, his phone kept ringing and the sound was so loud and it bothers our concentration. And maybe he can answer the phone outside the room, because in my case he answer it inside the room while we answering the question, talk in loud voice, and took some time talking on the phone.

 

The good thing about this quiz is we can get the result instantly, because after answer all the question, we submit and in no time we get out results. That means we do not have to wait for the lecturer to mark the answer. This also brings benefit to the lecturer because they do not have to mark our answer one by one, and it save their energy.

 

Plus, the questions which were given to us are different. This obviously can avoid students from cheating and I can say this is good or us.

 

This is my result for the quiz which I get instantly after I submit. So, take a look.

 

 

Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT Your Score : 22/30

 

Online Quiz Results Summary   Your #Attempts : 1 Total Class #Attempts : 567 Your Quiz Score : 22/30 Your Highest Score Ever : 22 Note: This may not be your final marks. Due to some of the subjective and semi-objective questions (short essay and fill in the blank).

 

 

 

 

 

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forth posting

This is the forth posting and I did this assignment with Siti Nurhartini. We were assign  to discuss about “Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordance to Investigate Language Development” by Arshad Abd Samad.This article  is about the language corpus has commonly been used as the basis of dictionaries and teaching materials (Woolard ,2000).The example of concordance software such as Wordsmith,MonoConc Pro and Microconcord.The benifit of the software is analyzing language data and language pedagogy.Corpora help us how to using words and grammatical constructions.Schmitt(2002:34)the benefits are help student to look at the systematically of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle. For example software, RANGE has provided an additional perspective to corpus studies (Nation ,2002)

 

   In Malaysian context, the use and analysis of language corpora is limited.Eventhough,there are earlier effort by Universiti  Teknologi Malaysia(UTM) and has been continued by Malaysian learner’s corpus collected by UNiversiti Malaya (UM) and the English of Malaysian  school students or EMAS corpus by reseachers from Universiti Putra Malaysia(UPM) .

 

   The EMAS corpus used in this study  was collected in 2002 and consists of close to half a million words (Arshard et sl.,2002).It is contain written data in the form of three essay written by amount 800 students. There are three age groups that were from year 5 of primary school and form 1 and form 4 of secondary school. There are three essays.1) fishing trips-describing events       2) the happiest day of my life 3) Third essay was selected by teacher from essays that respondents had completed as part of their regular schoolwork.

  

   Language productivity is referring to the number of sentences per essay and the words per sentence following each group. It is shows that form 4 produce longer essay and complex sentences than form I and year 5.So, the language productivity in older student more better and complete than younger student.

 

   Range of Vocabulary – the diversity of the vocabulary used in corpus is often determined by calculating the type to taken ratio (schmitt.2002)

Formula= (number of separate words (type)/number of words in a text) x 100

* A larger type to token ratio is interpreted as an indication of a wider range of language used.

-means the older respondents use a wider range of vocabulary in their essay.

EMAS corpus also is a learner corpus that retained the students’ spelling and grammatical errors.

 

Conclusion

 

   As a conclusion, this article has attempted to present the relevance of corpus data investigating language development without having to analyze concordance lines. In this research is to compare the level of age group in investigate language development.

 

Application of using concordance in translation.

 

Translation is the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the “source text,” and the language it is to be translated into is called the “target language”; the final product is sometimes called the “target text.”

Translation must take into account constraints that include context, the rules of grammar of the two languages, their writing conventions, and their idioms. A common misconception is that there exists a simple “word-for-word” correspondence between any two languages, and that translation is a straightforward mechanical process. A word-for-word translation does not take into account context, grammar, conventions, and idioms.

Translation is fraught with the potential for “spilling over” of idioms and usages from one language into the other, since both languages repose within the single brain of the translator. Such spilling-over easily produces linguistic hybrids such as “Franglais” (French-English), “Spanglish” (Spanish-English), “Poglish” (Polish-English) and “Portuñol” (Portuguese-Spanish).

Corpora, Serendipity & Advanced Search TechniquesMichael Wilkinson, University of Joensuu, Savonlinna Campus, Finland

 

Exploring corpora with concordancers can help translators to improve the quality of their translations by, for example, providing them with information about collocates; by helping them to choose between terms; or by enabling them to confirm intuitive decisions. But corpora also allow unpredictable, incidental learning: the user may notice unfamiliar uses in a concordance and follow them up by exploratory browsing. The article discusses the potential of corpora to throw up previously unknown information that may be relevant to a translation assignment, and illustrates how advanced search strategies can increase the likelihood of “accidentally” finding relevant information.

According to article “Using a specialized corpus to Improve Translation Quality “ by (Michael Wilkinson)

 

Corpora and corpus analysis tools

 

In the context of Computer Aided Translation Technology (CATT), a corpus can be described as a large collection of texts in electronic format. Electronic corpora can be “enriched” by, for example, annotating them with part-of-speech (POS) tagging, and this is especially useful in order to enable researchers to carry out sophisticated linguistic investigations. But, as I hope to show in the following, even an untagged corpus of texts (so-called “raw” text) can be a useful performance-enhancing tool in translating; for example it can be of great help in confirming intuitive decisions, in verifying or rejecting decisions based on other tools such as dictionaries, in obtaining information about collocates (words that typically co-occur), in reinforcing knowledge of normal target language patterns, and in learning how to use new expressions.Corpus analysis tools enable users to investigate and manipulate the information contained within a corpus in a variety of ways. For example, most corpus analysis packages comprise a “concordancer”, which will find all the occurrences of a search word, or search pattern, and display them in the centre of your screen, together with a span of co-text to the left and right. 

 

Corpora in Translator Education

 

In recent years there have been frequent recommendations by researchers and trainers in the field of translation studies to integrate the analysis of corpora into translator education. For example:“The methodology involved in making corpora and extracting terminology should be part of the teaching curriculum–not an optional extra–particularly given the pressure on translators to use computer-assisted tools.” (Maia, 2003, p 52).“The knowledge of how to compile and use corpora is an essential part of modern translational competence, and should therefore be dealt with in the training of prospective professional translators.” (Varantola, 2003, p 56).However, although corpus analysis tools have been extensively used for research purposes, it seems that, at least in translator education in Finland, the systematic use of such tools as actual translation aids has until now been rather neglected.

 

    It also seems that electronic corpora are not used widely by practising translators either, probably because they have not been exposed to the potential of corpus analysis tools during their own education and probably because of the unavailability of ready-made special-field corpora. Thus Jääskeläinen and Mauranen (2004, p 53) propose that courses on how to compile and use corpora should not only be integrated into translator training at the undergraduate level but also be offered as continuing education to practising translators.

 

   With this in mind, I began compiling a corpus of English-language tourism brochures in spring 2004, with the aim of using it to teach students how the competent use of electronic text corpora in conjunction with corpus analysis tools can help both the trainee translator and the professional translator to become better language service providers by enhancing both the quality of their work and their productivity, particularly when translating special field texts into a foreign language. (Many translators of non-literary texts in Finland frequently translate into their L2)

 

 Reference:

http://www.jostrans.org/issue07/art_wilkinson.php

http://www.accurapid.com/journal/33corpus.htm

 

 

 

 

third posting

Third Posting

 

The environmental impact of information and communications technologies (ICT) is generally insufficient, but usually information technologies have a positive environmental impact. However, ICT equipment contains toxic and hazardous substances and is energy consuming. In this regard, the study outlines three categories of environmental impact for ICT:

 

 

Environmental impact of business creation and development:  Manufacturing  ICT equipment uses resources and generates carbon emissions. The disposal of ICT equipment also raises environmental concerns;

 

Environmental impact of ICT use in business applications: The use of ICT  has a generally positive impact on the environment, for example, the switch from travel to video conferences;

 

Environmental impact of mass use of ICT over the medium to long term: For example, if more and more people work at home due to increased use of ICT, they are more likely to take leisure drives.

 

Traditional environmental assessment approaches are “insufficient to accommodate the digital technology revolution” and “cannot accommodate the challenge of measuring the impact of ICT on environmental sustainability”, concludes the paper.

 

A more predictive and empirical model of assessing the impact of ICT on the environment would be more beneficial in the long term.

 

 

 

This is one of the journal in found in the PTSL database

 

 

Economic And Social Evolution During 1.I-28.Ii.2007 Period

 

Abstract

 

This material is analyzing, on the basis of the computer indicators, the macroeconomic outcomes recorded by Romania within the first two month of the year 2007. this period means actually the first segment after the adhesion moment and might be evaluated as a sign for the trend which our country going to follow during the post-adhesion period. Under the circumstances, the analysis covers the data concerning the evolution of prices, resources of prime energy, constructions, domestic trade, services, foreign trade, tourism, wage gains, labor market etc. The available data are analyzed in comparison with both the situation being recorded for the similar period of 2006 year and the previous month. In general terms, there is a positive trend of the evolution of the main macroeconomic indicators which can be noted out this analysis.

 

URL: http://www.asociatiaconomistilor.ro/documents/simpozion_AGER_2007_engleza.pdf

 

In the 21st century transparency cannot be disconnected from information and communication technologies (ICT). ICT is now so much a part of business that it seems reasonable to say that firms don’t just use and provide information, they are their information technology (Johnson, 2005). ICT makes possible a level of transparency that was never before possible. Using ICT, corporations can make huge quantities of information available to all their stakeholders. And, because of ICT, consumers, contractors, shareholders, and other stakeholders can access this information at their fingertips. In principle, ICT could allow firms to become naked corporations (Tapscott and Ricoll, 2003) or completely transparent institutions, i.e. organizations that share all kinds of information concerning their business activities requested by the society (Vaccaro and Madsen, 2006). In other words, ICT can support firms to become open systems that interact in multiple ways with the external environment (Kling and Jewett, 1994). The Conference seeks submissions that focus on any aspect of the nexus of transparency in business, social responsibility, and the role of ICT. However, two main streams will be emphasized: the first is related to the concept of “transparency” as it applies to social organizations of various kinds including governmental, as well as business, profit and non-profit; the second is related to the impact of ICT on organizational transparency the impact of information and

communication technology (ICT) on individual firms, industry sectors, and the economy. It draws implications for policymakers and business leaders, focusing especially on recommendations for leveraging ICT more effectively. The chapter also builds on the findings of a study on productivity growth completed in 2001 by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). It is also supported by research that has followed the first MGI report and that extends the findings to the rest of the world. Finally, supporting case studies and insights are based on extensive McKinsey experience serving corporations to help leverage ICT to create value.In summary, this chapter has five key messages:

1. In the aggregate, ICT is not a “silver bullet” to increase productivity. ICT cannot by itself promote economic growth. It is, however, an essential element of any holistic strategy to improve productivity at the economy, sector, or

company level.

2. The main driver of productivity growth is managerial innovation. Structural changes in market regulation and competition act as triggers to stimulate innovation and facilitate the widespread adoption of new processes and products. Cyclical factors, such as short-term market pressure or demand fl uctuation, also play a role.

3. ICT has played a key role in facilitating managerial innovation. Evidence from sectoral case studies suggests that ICT has enabled many of the most important process and product innovations of the last decade.

4. Managing e-execution at a detailed level is critical. Successful implementation of ICT at the company level remains one of the major challenges faced by CEOs. Even within the same industry some companies seem to do exceedingly well leveraging ICT while others fail to realize value, despite signifi cant investment.

5. ICT’s enabling role means that ICT strategy must be subsumed within broader goals. ICT is effectively a tool to achieve broader performance improvements, be it at the fi rm, industry, or economy level. Therefore, policymakers must pursue broader strategies to encourage structural

reform and increase the likelihood that triggers will drive managerial innovation at the firm level. These strategies often include facilitating industrywide restructuring and increasing competition. At the firm level, successful ICT must support a business’s strategic imperatives and be driven by senior management to support clear internal innovation to improve performance.

Chapter 4

The Business Dimension

ICT: A Critical Enabler of Managerial Innovation

Scott Beardsley, Ingo Beyer von Morgenstern, Luis Enriquez,

Stefan Mytilineos, and Jürgen Wunram McKinsey & Co.

Chapter 4

The Business Dimension ICT: A Critical Enabler of Managerial Innovation 59 ICT can have a proportionally larger impact in third world countries, as it can become a catalyst for the transfer of best practice innovations from advanced economies. However, as is the case in advanced economies, ICT by itself will not deliver these benefi ts unless combined with structural reform. Introduction “[Y]ou can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics.”

Robert Solow, 1987

Between 1973 and the late-1980s, productivity growth in the United States dropped below the historic average.This occurred despite major increases in ICT investments throughout the economy, with major waves of computer

innovation and adoption taking place throughout the country’s businesses. This apparent paradox led Robert Solow, a distinguished economist, to make his famous statement. From 1995 to 2000, however, the U.S. experienced a reversal of fortunes. Measured labor productivity grew at 2.5 percent per year during that period. This was a dramatic improvement from the 1.4 percent rate achieved between 1972 and 1995. Labor productivity growth was accompanied by rapid economic growth, unemployment declines to 3.9

percent (the lowest levels in three decades), and inflation rates that hovered at around 2 percent. This acceleration in productivity was accompanied by a 20 percent annual surge in real business investment in ICT, almost double the rate

from 1987 to 1995 (Figure 1). Were these phenomena connected? Had investments in ICT raised the “speed limit”1 of the U.S. economy? Four decades after General Electric fi rst took delivery of a UNIVAC and

less than a decade after Solow made his famous statement, it seemed that the computer age might fi nally have showed up in productivity statistics. Although U.S. observations have prompted discussion around this “paradox,” the wider question of the true impact of ICT on an economy is relevant across the world. Indeed, a study performed by the McKinsey Global Institute on the impact of

ICT on productivity in Europe confi rms that patterns similar to the U.S. are also found in Europe. Given the importance of allocating resources and government effort in developing countries, the “paradox” question is at least as pertinent to the developing world.

second posting

Second posting

 

Computer Assistant Language Learning

 

   This week, Datin Norizan has given me several tasks, but unfortunately, I could not finish it in time. I hope dear Datin could forgive me for sending my assignment late. But still, I’m trying very hard to finish my assignment.

 

   I have set up my blog, now I am submitting my assignment. I have choose to work on writing and reading comprehension. I found a few exercises which I found out quite interesting. I hope Datin will read it and leaves few comments on my work, whether it is good enough or not, and what should I do to improve my assignment next time. 

 

 

 

Online Learning Method: writing

 

For me, computerized writing will benefit a lot to a person that knows how to use it correctly. As I am a student, computerized writing helps me a lot because in most of my assignment, I have to use computer to type as well as to find information. Here, I would like to divide computerized writing into 2 based on my own understanding.

 

Computerized writing provided in computer itself.

 

This one means software in the computer which was provided when we format the computer. The usual software provided is Microsoft word. I myself own it and it really proves it is helpful software to me. It contains advantages like spelling and grammar check which will help me to correct my error in grammar and spelling when I am writing something. It can also set and translate language. This one, I didn’t use it much, but I’ll try after this. Other than that it can also help to calculate the word we have written. There are so many other advantages in the software that you should try out yourself, ok.

 

Computerized writing online.

 

This one means we have to connect to the internet to use this kind of computerized writing. But it certainly makes our life easier. For example if we want to find information about anything, we just type the key word in the search engine and all the information will pop out. There is a lot of search engine that have been created but the most common been used by people around the world are Yahoo and Google.

 

 Other than that we have blogging which I am using write now. It is a fun writing to be done as I can ask my friends to write their opinions and comments. Plus I can use my creativity to decorate my own blog which makes me feel  like, “this is my corner”. Thanks Datin for teaching me this, haha.

 

Moreover, we have e-mail,online diary, friendster,  yahoo messenger and other fun computerized writing. I have been using yahoo messenger and this way I have met many friends from all around the world.but I need to be careful as his is a virtual communication and this means people can lie a lot to us.

 

 For those people who have read my blog, don’t forget to try it out yourself. Then you will feel the benefit yourself. Here I have some URL which you guys can try out yourself..

 

Blogging:

 

http://www.blogger.com

http://www.wordpress.com

 

Online Diary

 

http://www.edailydiary.com

http://www.124diary.com

 

 

Bulletin board

 

http://www.friendster.com

 

 

Online Learning Method: reading comprehension

 

 

 

 Exercise 1

 

Reading Comprehension, Vol. 8, No. 1, November 15, 2002 http://rhlschool.com Copyright

 

Thankful to know when the landscape is shining,

 

When warm winds are blowing And nature is fair,

 

Thankful to find that your smile is still glowing,

 

Thankful to know that your music is there.

 

Thankful to know when the night sky is gleaming

 

And breezes are colder

 

But sweeten the air,

 

Thankful to feel your strong hand on my shoulder,

 

Thankful to know that you always will care.

 

Thankful to know when the morning comes calling,

 

The world reemerges

 

 And moves everywhere,

 

As I am driven by all of its surges,

 

Thankful you steady the life that we share

 

Thankful to know as the years lie before us

 

 Love is a fabric

 

That nothing can tear.

 

As you transform ordinary to magic,

 

Thankful to know that you’ll always be there.

 

 

For Discussion:

 

1. Who might the poet be addressing?

 

2. Perhaps we can’t be sure about the future. In this poem, what does the word “know” actually mean? Explain.

 

3. Do you think this is a Thanksgiving Day poem? Why?

 

 

Exercise 2

 

Reading Comprehension, Vol. 7, No. 3, November 19, 2001 http://rhlschool.com Copyright Mr. El and the Princess

 

 

“You should try one of these sundaes,” said Mr. Smitty. Miss Joan nodded in agreement.

 “I’ll get around to it,” Mr. El replied as he looked across the large Dairy Center tent. The three teachers were at their school’s Back to School Fair. It had grown into a major annual event, sort of a mini county fair. “What are you staring at, Mr. El?” asked Miss

Joan. “I think I’ll stroll over there and talk to the County Dairy Princess,” Mr. El replied.

“She is beautiful,” Mr. Smitty remarked. “I hadn’t noticed,” said Mr. El, trying not to smile. Miss Joan rolled her eyes. “Actually, my interest in her is purely professional,” Mr. El stated. “I might learn something about the dairy industry that I can share with my fourth graders.” Mr. Smitty broke in, “Besides, he likes that new resource teacher, Miss Cheryl.” “Miss Cheryl is kind of cute,” Mr. El admitted. “I like the way her eyes cross when she’s annoyed.” “Why is it that you know how everyone looks when they’re annoyed?” Miss Joan asked. Mr. El chose to ignore the question. “I’ll be right back,” he said as he walked toward the dairy princess. Miss Joan and Mr. Smitty relaxed on a bench as they enjoyed their sundaes and watched Mr. El approach the princess. Mr. El and the young lady seemed to be having a pleasant conversation when suddenly the princess walked away with a much less than pleasant expression on her face. When Mr. El rejoined his friends, Miss Joan could not contain herself. “I’d give a million dollars to know what you said to her!” she exclaimed. “You don’t have a million dollars,” Mr. El responded. “I’ll buy you one of these giant hot fudge sundaes for the story,” Mr. Smitty proposed. “Deal!” said Mr. El. “I was asking her what qualities the judges look for in choosing a dairy princess.” “And?” Miss Joan demanded. “Well it just goes to prove that a sense of humor isn’t one of the requirements,” Mr. El replied. “What did you say?” Miss Joan asked with that “What terrible thing have you done?” look that she did so well. “Just to add a little levity to the conversation,” Mr. El went on, “I asked her if looking like a cow was one consideration.” “You did what?!” Miss Joan practically screamed. “I think this is worth a double hot fudge sundae!” Mr. Smitty announced. “I thought she’d know I was kidding,” Mr. El stated. “I say stuff like that to my students all the time and they know I’m kidding.” “That’s because they’ve learned not to take you seriously,” Miss Joan said. “Well this girl, who’s at least twice the age of my fourth graders, ought to know that she doesn’t look anything like a cow. You can’t win a competition to be a princess of any kind without knowing that you’re smart and good looking.” “Maybe she thinks that you think that she looks like a cow,” Mr. Smitty offered. “Why would she care?” Mr. El countered. “Good question,”said Miss Joan. “But don’t you see the damage you’ve done?” she added. “Damage, what damage?” asked Mr. El. “Up until today she was a self-confident young woman, destined for greatness. She might have become a scientist whose inventions would have saved millions of lives. She might have gone on to be a great leader who would bring peace and prosperity to the whole world!” Miss Joan paused to catch her breath. “But now,” she continued, “she’ll spend the rest of her miserable existence hiding her face. She’ll live her entire life wearing a character costume at some amusement park so that no one will ever gaze upon her cowlike features! And needless to say, she’ll never save the world!” “You could just go over there and apologize,” Mr. Smitty suggested. “That might just make things worse,” said Mr. El

“In a few minutes she’ll forget I exist; she’ll forget what I said, and she can go on to save the world.” “I’ll have my sundae now,” Mr. El reminded Mr. Smitty. “Didn’t I hear‘double hot fudge’?” As Mr. Smitty walked off to buy the sundae, Mr. Kay, the principal, came by. “Mr. El,” he said, “I have a nice surprise for you. I’ve lined up your student teacher for this fall. Her name is Miss Lee. She’s already a very accomplished young lady. In fact, you may have noticed her at the fair.” “She’s here? I’d like to meet her,” said Mr. El. “That’s her over there,” Mr. Kay said. “She’s wearing that shiny little crown.” “You mean that Dairy Princess crown?” asked Mr. El. “That’s her,” said Mr Kay. Miss Joan, who couldn’t help hearing the conversation, had a broad smile on her face. Mr. El was not smiling. “Excuse me,” said Mr. El, “I have to rush to my room and prepare a lesson plan!” “A lesson plan?” asked the principal. “Yes,” sighed Mr. El, “A lesson about thinking before speaking.”

 

 

For Discussion:

 

1. What lesson did Mr. El learn from his experience?

 

2. Can you think of any examples of someone making a similar mistake?

 

3. Do you think that it’s always possible to know how someone will react to something

 

you say?  

 

 

Exercise 3

 

Reading Comprehension, Vol. 8, No. 4, September 15, 2003 http://rhlschool.com Copyright

 

Half-Truths

 

Beware of those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can create a false impression. For example, someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!” This guy’s a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred tickets, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser! He didn’t say anything that was false, but he deliberately omitted important information. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest. Untrustworthy candidates in political campaigns often use this tactic. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents runs an ad saying, “During Governor Smith’s term, the sate lost one million jobs!” That’s true. However an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.” Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s against the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the truth. An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation. This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

 

1. Which statement is true according to the article?

 

a. Whenever people tell the truth, they are really lying.

b. You can’t trust gamblers.

c. All governors help their states.

d. The truth can be used in dishonest ways.

 

2. What does “deceive” mean?

 

a. removing one’s teeth in public

b. ignore warnings c. fool d. repair

 

3. What does “omitted” mean?

a. spent money

b. left out

c. told about

d. exposed

 

4. The author clearly wants people to _________.

a. think carefully about what they read and hear

b. wear mismatched socks during political campaigns

c. never trust anyone

d. vote for female candidates

 

5. Another appropriate title for this selection would be:

a. Natural Cat Food

b. Everyone Lies

 c. Lying With the Truth

d. Nose Pimples

 

 

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