ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

Group 1 (Shift B)

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Diah Siti F.
Shella Widiyastuti
Dede Jihan O.
Quinzheilla P.A.

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Fakultas Farmasi Universitas Padjadjaran

2016

Reading skills for academic study: Scanning for specific information.

Exercise 1
Read the following text quickly and fill in the table. What do the numbers given in
the table refer to?
1%

had engaged in role-play

2%

had experienced field trips

6%

felt competent at writing essays

13%

felt a level course had prepared them very well for work at
university

16%

had used video or audio

30%

had made significant use of primary sources

3/4

felt their a level course had prepared them fairly well for work at
university
reported that their teachers had been more influential in their

86%

development as historians than the students' own reading and

thinking

Reading skills for academic study: Scanning for specific information.

Exercise 2
Read the following text quickly and answer the questions.
1. When were X-rays discovered?
2. Who discovered them?
3. What are the four characteristics of X-rays?

Answers:
1. X-Rays were discovered in 1895.
2. X-Rays discovered by Roentgen.
3. They travel in the stright, they are uncharged, X-Rays are a wave motion
phenomenon, and the waves are transverse.
Reading skills for academic study: Scanning for specific information.
Exercise 3
1. What do you think the title means? Ask three questions that you would like the
text to answer.
The title means time is meshed with many other aspects of society can
make the different ways in which some non-American and American groups of
people see time and the problems that this can cause.
Question 1 : How can time mesh with many other aspects of society?
Question 2 : What makes The American attitude toward appointments different
from non- American?
Question 3 : Why do people in United States have a sense of time which is at
complete variance with the clock-bound habits of the ordinary
American citizen?
2. Read the first and last paragraphs. What do you expect the passage to be about?
In our opinion, the text is telling us about tim that speaks more plainly
than words because it is manipulated less consciously, tt can shout the truth where
words and meshed with many other aspects of society. We can learn the ways in
people in another country handle time and make sure the ways in which time
communicates not having any problem in many situations.

3. Read the first paragraph of the second section: AMERICAN TIME, and the first
paragraph of the third section: SOME OTHER CONCEPTS OF TIME. What do
you now expect the passage to be about?
In our opinion, time as something fixed in nature, something around us
from which we cannot escape; an ever present part of the environment that there
are people who handle time in a way which is almost incomprehensible to those
who have not made a major effort to understand it and might be experienced in
any other way seems unnatural and strange, a feeling which is rarely modified
even when we begin to discover how really different it is handled by some other
people.

4. Fill in the following table about the ways in which time communicates.
Example

Situation

Problems

Implications/Conclusions

given by
Author

John Useem

Mayor's

Try to estimate

What people do is more

committee's on

chances of city

important than what they say

human relations

department adopting

in large American

non-discriminatory

city.

practices.

South Pacific

Natives having

Different parts of day have

difficulty working out

different significance.

schedules with white

supervisors.
American

Embassy in Latin

Trying to organise time

Different ideas about how

agriculturalist

country

to visit minister.

long a wait is acceptable.

5. Which of the following views of time are associated with American people?

Views of time

American

Not American

a.

time is like a museum

b.

it is pointless to make appointments too far in advance

c.

future oriented

d.

handled like a material

e.

divided into discrete segments

f.

many things happening at the same time

g.

Scheduled

h.

don't value promptness

i.

time is like space

j.

time does not heal

k.

components must add up

l.

early morning calls signal urgency

m.

treated cavalierly

n.

tradition plays an important role

o.

a five-minute delay interval is not significant

p.

fixed in nature

q.

like a ribbon along which one progresses

X
A

6. Fill in the following table giving information about the different ways in which
some non-American groups of people see time and the problems that this can
cause.
Group of

Problem/difference

Examples(s)

people
Pueblo

Not clock bound

The Christmas dance began when things were

Indians

ready

Navajo

Only here and now is

Would rather have an old horse now than a better

Indians

real

one in future.

Sioux

No word for late or

Taught meaning of time by running buses and

Indians

waiting

starting classes on time.

Truk

Time does not heal

Murder had been committed 17 years before.

Dispute lasted from 1896 to 1946.

Tiv

Time like a capsule

Days named after things being sold in market in

particular town.

Thonga

Components of time

70 yrs = 800 yrs.

need not add up.

Iran

Afghanistan

Appointments treated

The people made arrangements to pick each other

cavalierly.

up but did not stick to the plans

Further from American

Arranged to meet brother but did not know which

idea.

year.

Reading skills for academic study: Skimming for gist

Exercise 1
THE PERSONAL QUALITIES OF A TEACHER
Pharagraph 1: The teacher's personality should be pleasantly live and attractive.
Pharagraph 2 : It essential for a teacher to have a genuine capacity for sympathy in the literal meaning of that word; a capacity to tune in to the
minds and feelings of other people.
Pharagraph 3 : It essential for a teacher to be both intellectually and morally
honest.
Pharagraph 4 : A teacher must remain mentally alert.

Pharagraph 5 : A teacher must be capable of infinite patience.

Pharagraph 6 : A teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go
on learning.
Exercise 2
What Is Anthropology?
First pharagraph :
Anthropology is the study of humankind, how culture evolved and
diversified, and how culture, people, and nature Interact wherever human beings
are found.
Last pharagraph :
The Importance of General Anthropology
Because of it's multidisciplinary, comparative, and diachronic perspective,
anthropology holds the key to many fundamental questions of recurrent and
contemporary relevance, such as to explicate our species' animal heritage, to
define what is distinctively human about human nature, and to differentiate the
natural and the cultural conditions responsible for competition, conflict, and war;
and also strategically equipped to probe the significance of racial factors in the
evolution of culture and in the conduct of contemporary human affairs
Exercise 3
The Origin of the Earth
The earth is one of nine planets which revolve about the sun and rotate in
the same direction as the sun.The origin of the earth is explained by the 4
theories.Nebular

hypothesis,

hypothesis, and Origin of matter.

Main idea for each pharagraph :
Pharagraph 1 :

Planetesimal

hypothesis,

Tidal-Disruption

The origin of the earth has puzzled man since ancient times such
astronomical as well as geological.
Pharagraph 2 :
Nebular hypothesis,According to this hypothesis our solar system was
originally a vast nebula of highly heated gas, extending beyond the orbit of the
outermost planet and rotating in the same direction as the planets now revolve.
According to the hypothesis the earth was first a globe of highly heated gas, then
it became liquid and with further cooling a crust formed over the liquid interior.
Pharagraph 3 :
Planetesimal hypothesis, which our solar system is considered to have
originated from a spiral nebula. It was assumed that these particles revolved about
the center of the nebula in elliptical orbits like planets
Pharagraph 4 :
Tidal-Disruption hypothesis, assumed that the passing star causing our
solar system approached nearer to our ancestral sun than Chamberlin
postulated.According to this hypothesis the earth was first a highly heated gas. As
it cooled and became liquid the heavy constituents were drawn toward the center
forming shells that decreased in specific gravity outward.The first atmosphere was
dense and hot because the temperatures were so and then the temperature
decreased so that water vapor could condense and fill the ocean basins.
Pharagraph 5 :
Origin of matter, it represents the work of an eternal God, who knows no
beginning or end and who controls the orderly arrangement of the Universe.