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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Listening Activity - Hortatory Exposition

Hello, my dearest students :)

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you to all of you who have opened this website. Since I've told you that you'll have assignment to do. In this page you will find 3 steps of learning process. There are pre-listening, whilst listening, and post-listening. Now, let's take a look at part 1.

  • PART 1 PRE-LISTENING
Let's have some warming up. Does anyone know what Hortatory Exposition is ?
Well, here is the explanation:


That's short explanation about hortatory exposition.

  • PART 2 WHILST LISTENING
Now, Let's go to the listening section. Here, I've put a listening audio in a form of mp3 entitled Smoking is A Bad Habit. You can listen to it directly by clicking the play button.



For those who'd like to download the audio, simply you can click this link,
smoking is a bad habit.mp3

  • PART 3 POST LISTENING
Now, if you have listened to the audio, pay attention to some important words below:

Cigarette
A small paper tube filled with cut pieces of tobacco, which people smoke.


Smoking
When someone smokes a cigarette, pipe, etc., or when someone regularly does this.


Lung Cancer
A serious disease in lung that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death.


Stroke
A sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, which can cause a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body.


Okay, I believe that all of you have understood about the listening material. So, here is some exercises to check your understanding.

Simply just click this link.

LISTENING TEST-HORTATORY EXPOSITION



Please write down:
  1. Full Name
  2. Do the exercise
The due date for this assignment is : 27 March 2011 @ 10.00 am.
Those who are late, I consider they don't submit the assignments.

After doing the Quiz, do not worry about your score because your data and score have been directly reported to my email. Remember, you only have one chance to do the quiz.



Please feel free if you have any question, leave a comment.
Good Luck :)





2 comments:

  1. focus: listening
    reviewer: Muhsiyana Nurul Aisyiyah
    blog owner: Wahyu Annuriza
    URL:http://thesweetcherish.blogspot.com/2011/03/listening-activity-hortatory-exposition.html#comments

    STRENGTH:
    can't say anything but this blog is really complete and err...attractive. Riza put not only the text but also put the generic structure of hortatory text. she also provides key vocabularies.

    WEAKNESS:
    Err...I cant find the weakness of this blog.

    SUGGESTION:
    provide more text

    rating: 9

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  2. focus: listening
    reviewer: maulina
    blog owner: wahyu annuriza
    URL :http://thesweetcherish.blogspot.com/2011/03/listening-activity-hortatory-exposition.html#comments

    strengths:
    1. the explanation is very complete and attractive
    2. the quiz also so well prepared


    weakness:
    1. some questions seems need pschycological answers which the right answers between smokers and non-smokers can be different

    suggestions:
    1. give more non-pschycological questions

    overall rate:
    8

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