day, he set out to run across Canada. He wanted to raise money for the Canadian CancerSociety, but on September 1st, he was forced to give up. He had raised more than 23 million dollars ana had become a national hero. He died the following June. Steve Fonyo lost a leg during his childhood due to cancer. He never completed high school. But at 19, Steve Fonyo still managed to complete a run all the way across Canada, passing through all the major cities [10, p.197]. br/>
3.3 After-reading
questions are just one form of activity appropriate for post-reading. Consider vocabulary study, identifying the authors purpose, discussing the authors line of reasoning, examining grammatical structure, or steering students toward a follow-up writting activity. The activities which are given to students after reading the text are generated by the text and extend its potential for meaningful language work. The tasks can not be performed without the text, that is, they cannot replace the text. Frequently, they involve the students in detailed revision of the text, which will help them to understand the text better [8, p.99]. Reading the text students may do the following activities:. Do the multiple-choice exercise, and choose the answers which better confirm the statements, explain them or support the ideas .. Summarize the text and make a conclusion. Discuss in pairs the main idea of ​​the text .. Guess the meaning of new words from the context in the sentence. Match the words with the meanings. Then make your own sentences with this new words .. Write your own ending of the story, or write your own composition on the same topic. br/>
4. Testing reading
are numerous ways of testing reading comprehension, ranging from multiple-choice items to opend-ended questions. Although the multiple-choice items are sometimes the most suitable instrument for testing reading comprehension, they should not be overused. Frequently other item are more interesting and useful. The text itself should always determine the types of questions which are constructed. Certain texts may lead themselves to multiple-choice items, others to true or false items, others to matching items, others to rearranged items, other to open-ended questions. Indeed, sometimes the same text will demand at least two or three different types of items [12, p.107]. As mentioned Burgess S. Each of the parts in typical reading test is design to measure a different combination of reading skills (Burgess 2005:29). choice teststask is likely to be the most familiar to the students. It consists of a text, which can be of almost any type and gener, accompined by one or more multiple-choice items. These may be in the form of a series of statements, a question plus answer, or an incomplete statement with a choice of phrases or words with which to complete in.must be four options...
