SESSION 22: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 22: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES.

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.

2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):

a. The man who created Facebook has won a magazine’s award.

b. Mark Zuckerberg, at 26, is the youngest ever winner of this award.
c. Over 20 per cent of the world population use Facebook.
d. Zuckerberg has a huge team helping him keep Facebook going.
e. There was a possibility Julian Assange could win the award.
f. Time chose Zuckerberg because he was more positive than Assange.
g. Time’s editor said our trust in authority increases year by year.
h. Zuckerberg believes we could have more friends in the future.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. founder ........... a. survey
2. accolade .......... b. linked
3. statistic ........... c. mark
4. impression ........ d. award
5. connected ......... e. possibility
6. uncertain .......... f. creator
7. poll ................. g. eating away
8. erosion ............. h. belief
9. faith ............... i. figure
10. potential ......... j. unsure

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. the second-youngest winner ...... a. of the planet
2. connecting 12 percent ............. b. authority
3. an impressive ....................... c. that
4. the site has yet to make .......... d. online poll
5. I'm happy to be a part of ......... e. positive figure
6. voting in the ....................... f. our lives
7. he was a more ..................... g. of the accolade
8. how we all live .................... h. statistic
9. trust in .............................. i. himself knows
10. only the Facebook creator ..... j. any impression in China

1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:

STATISTIC - QUARTER - ACCOLADE - RECOGNITION - NAMED - NATURALLY - CONNECTED - PLANET

Time magazine has ____________ Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, as their Person of the Year 2010. Zuckerberg, 26, is the second-youngest winner of the ____________. He won the award for connecting 12 percent of the ____________ on his social networking site. This is an impressive ____________ considering the site has yet to make any impression in China. Mr Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, ____________ on his Facebook page: "Being named as Time Person of the Year is a real honor and ____________ of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and ____________. I'm happy to be a part of that." The young entrepreneur owns a ____________ of the shares of Facebook and is a multi-billionaire.

POSITIVE - AUTHORITY - FOUNDER - POTENTIAL - EXPLAINED - UNCERTAIN - FAITH - INNOVATIVE

It was ____________ for a while who would win Time’s annual honour. Readers voting in the online poll chose the Wikileaks ____________ Julian Assange as the winner. However, Time panelists chose Mark Zuckerberg. Time’s editor Richard Stengel ____________ they chose Zuckerberg because he was a more ____________ figure than Assange and because he changed “how we all live our lives in ways that are ____________ and even optimistic”. He wrote on Time’s website: "There is an erosion of trust in ____________, a decentralizing of power and at the same time, perhaps, a greater ____________ in one another.” Mr another…” he said. Mr Stengel continued: “Zuckerberg sees the world as filled with ____________ friends.” Perhaps only the Facebook creator himself knows how much more he can do.