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Reading Comprehension Exercise: Internet Addiction News Article
This is an article taken from the AP in September 2009 about a new treatment facility for internet addicts in the US. Exercises are designed for students to practice their skim reading, scan reading, and reading-for-detail skills. The text is also useful to help Ss recognize variations in register and deduce the meaning of new words/ expressions in context. I teach this by numbering the lines of the text by hand (69 lines total), and whiting out all identifying information about the text (title & author at beginning, URL & copyright info at end). Ss are then forced to guess what type of text it is (Ex. 1). Subsequent exercises check different sub-skills as outlined above. A follow-up activity to this could be a roleplay in which Ss, in groups of 3, play either a concerned mother/father, internet-addicted child, or doctor at the center.
Level:intermediate
Age: 14-17
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