SESSION 28: 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 CIA said it would only release photos of Bin Laden before he died.
b. The White House will let the CIA to decide when to release the photo.
c. The White House has no doubts the photo will be released.
d. A White House spokesman suggested the photo may be too graphic.
e. Special forces measured Bin Laden’s face before burying him.
f. The writer is not sure if a photo of Bin Laden was real or not.
g. The CIA thinks a photo of Bin Laden’s death will help end speculation.
h. No one has put forward suggestions that the U.S. didn’t kill Bin Laden.
1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. release ............... a. appeared
2. chief ................. b. attack
3. reveal ................ c. grisly
4. obviously ............ d. show
5. gruesome ............ e. disbelieve
6. raid ................... f. issue
7. announcing ........... g. boss
8. emerged ............. h. declaring
9. convince ............. i. clearly
10. doubt ................ j. persuade
1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. a postmortem ...................... a. rest of the world
2. The bottom ........................ b. measurements
3. we have to reveal to the ........ c. "gruesome" to release
4. I don't think there's ............... d. photo
5. the photograph may be too ..... e. theories
6. Biometric .......................... f. in the world’s press
7. America’s most .................... g. any question
8. a fake photo emerged ............ h. doubt his death
9. convince those who ............... i. line is …
10. conspiracy ......................... j. wanted man
1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:
DECIDE - ABLE - ANNOUNCED - PHOTO - ULTIMATELY - BEST - LINE - GRUESOME
America’s Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) has (1) ____________ it will release a photo of the dead body of Osama Bin Laden. CIA chief Leon Panetta told reporters a postmortem (2) ____________ of the Al Qaeda leader would be released at some time in the future, but said the date would be for the White House to (3) ____________. He told NBC News: "The bottom (4) ____________ is that, you know, we got Bin Laden and I think we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were (5) ____________ to get him and kill him.” He added: "The [U.S.] government obviously has been talking about how (6) ____________ to do this, but I don't think there's any question that (7) ____________ a photograph would be presented to the public." A White House spokesman said the photograph may be too "(8) ____________ " to release.
BELIEVING - CLEARLY - TAKEN - POPPING - WANTED - RAID - CONVINCE - FAKE
Bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. special forces in a (9) ____________ on his hideout mansion north of Islamabad, Pakistan. Biometric measurements were (10) ____________ of his face and DNA tests were done to make sure it was America’s most (11) ____________ man. His body was buried at sea soon after he was shot. Within hours of U.S. President Barack Obama announcing Bin Laden’s death, a (12) ____________ photo emerged in the world’s press of his face. Even though it was (13) ____________ created in a photo editing programme, many newspapers put it on their front cover, (14) ____________ it to be real. The CIA wants the real image of Bin Laden's body to be published to help (15) ____________ those who doubt his death. There are already many conspiracy theories (16) ____________ up that say Bin Laden isn’t really dead.
