SESSION 26: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 26: 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. A Chinese write is going to have a face transplant.

b. The writer will have an operation a month for ten months.
c. The writer hopes his new face will allow people to mourn Shakespeare.
d. He said life is a process in which you try to make your face better.
e. The writer is no stranger to controversy in China.
f. Chinese people are divided in their opinion on the writer’s plan.
g. A surgeon said the writer’s face is a good shape to copy Shakespeare’s.
h. The Chinese believe he will write like Shakespeare after the surgeries.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1.well-known ............. a. making an effort
2. go under the knife .... b. stimulate
3. mourn ................... c. hot
4. figures .................. d. grieve for
5. striving ................. e. carry out
6. controversial ........... f. famous
7. philosopher ............ g. personalities
8. perform ................ h. have surgery
9. surgeries ............... i. thinker
10. prompt ................ j. operations

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. become a .................. a. ten operations
2. undergo .................... b. write as well as Shakespeare
3. the spitting ................ c. to become a better person
4. playwrights ................ d. image of
5. striving ..................... e. point
6. a talking .................... f. seeker
7. He is already ............... g. on everyone’s lips
8. an attention ................ h. William Shakespeare look-alike
9. The big question .......... i. a controversial figure
10. prompt him to ........... j. and literary figures

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

EARNED - LITERARY - ALIKE - UNDERGO - WORTH - PROCESS - SPITTING

A well-known Chinese writer is planning to go (1) ____________ the knife to become a William Shakespeare look-(2) ____________. The Shanghai Daily newspaper reports that best-selling author Zhang Yiyi will (3) ____________ ten operations in the next ten months. After the surgeries he will be the (4) ____________ image of Britain’s most famous writer. Mr Zhang said he wants to “let the people across the world mourn” one of the world's greatest ever playwrights and (5) ____________ figures. The cost of the plastic surgery will be around $150,000 – the same as the royalties he (6) ____________ for his last book. Zhang justified the surgery and cost, saying: "Life is a (7) ____________ of striving to become a better person. I think the surgeries are (8) ____________ the money."

SEEKER - PERFORM - UPCOMING - PROMPT - COMPARED - LIPS - RIGHT - PATIENT

Zhang Yiyi’s (9) ____________ surgeries have become a talking point in China. He is already a controversial figure after he (10) ____________ himself to China’s great philosopher Confucius. Many Chinese believe he is simply an attention (11) ____________ while others believe he has the (12) ____________ to spend his money the way he wants. He is set to become the most famous cosmetic surgery (13) ____________ since Michael Jackson. Zheng Churong, the head of the team of surgeons who will (14) ____________ the operations, told reporters that the surgeries would not be so difficult. He said Zhang’s face is the right shape, with a “sharp nose” and “deep eyes”. The big question on everyone’s (15) ____________ is whether Zhang’s new look will (16) ____________ him to write as well as Shakespeare.