4 min
While
reading
15 min
Post
reading
10 min
certain topic is discussed. Every participant can
engage in the discussion. A forum on the Internet is
similar. However, the participants do not meet in a
person. They post their ideas through a main website
or a mailing list.
3. Reading:
- Now read three responses in a forum about the
Internet. You scan the text and match the following
main ideas and the responses.
a) Students in the countryside can not access to the
Internet.
b) Internet is a wonderful invention.
c) The Internet can be limited in some ways.
- Call on Ss to read their results aloud. Correct and
give the correct answers:
a) Response # 2
b) Response # 1
c) Response # 3
- Now read the text again and answer the questions.
- Ask Ss to compare with a friend.
- Call on some pairs to practice in front of class.
- Correct mistakes if any.Then give the correct
answers:
1. Sandra uses the Internet to get information and to
communicate with her friends and relatives.
2. Because she lives in the countryside, where the
Internet is unavailable.
3. People use the Internet for education ,
communication, entertainment and commerce.
4. The benefits of Internet: It is used for multi –
purposes: for getting information, for education,
communication, entertainment and commerce.
5. Yes. There are some disadvantages. It is time –
consuming, costly, dangerous because of viruses and
bad programs.
6/7. Depend on their knowledge of students.
- Call on some Ss to read each passage aloud.
- Ask Ss to write the complete sentences about the
benefits of the Internet.
Example:
- The Internet is a very fast and convenient way to gat
information. It is very cheap. You can communicate
with friends. The Internet makes the world a small
- Read the text
and do the
matching.
- Report their
answers
- Read the text
and answer the
questions.
- Practice in
pairs in front of
class.
- Read each
passage aloud.
- Work
individually.
- Read the