Reading skill

Name : Sarah FahadID : 10120089

For intermediate learners

Objectives • Many students want to be able to read texts in English

either for study purposes or for simple pleasure.

• Doing comprehension work, Role-play , asking students to read, making discussion in pairs , sharing their opinions with whole class are activities that supposed to do in class.

• It is useful for language acquisition and provides students knowledge of vocabularies. It also has a positive effect on spelling and writing.

Oprah Gail Winfrey

Introduction :

Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.

She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard.

Winfrey was born January 29, 1954. She is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and

philanthropies .

She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, saying she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local

evening news at the age of 19 .

Her emotional adlib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study says broke 20th-century taboos

and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream .

By the mid-1990s, she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self-help ideas, and an emotion-centered approach, she is often praised for overcoming adversity to become a

benefactor to others .

From 2006 to 2008, her support of Barack Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race.

Choose correct meaning : Assessment is : • The act of judging or forming an opinion

about something.• A group of people.• To have a strong desire.

she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President:

• John Kerry.• Barack Obama.• Jack C.Richard.

Taboo is • Kind of newspaper.• Religious or social custom that forbids certain

action or words.• To understand something.

Oprah show focus on :

• Literature• self-improvement• All of above.

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