[ مذاكرة جماعية ] : Non-Fictional Prose Lecture 3

[Heidi-turkistan]

Hey dear fellow students :) ... Congratulations on the beginning of this semester

Now regarding the mentioned above subject , the reason of me writing this is discussing some points in lecture 3 because i believe that discussing lectures could improve our English communication skills and knowledge.

In lecture 3 the main theme of the lecture is reading strategies among other points , one of them is "The main Idea of a paragraph" . Concerning this point we have taken an exercise on how to extract the main idea of a paragraph on page 18 & 19. On page 19 section 3 Paragraph C there is a paragraph " Traditionally the stranger has though of Canada as a mountainous snow-swept land. Certainly it can get very cold in Canada . Few non-Canadians understand that it can also get very hot . The eastern cities suffer in the humidity of July and August , and people actually die each year from the heat"

now the author gave us 3 choices for this paragraph

A- it can get very cold in Canada
B-It can get very hot in Canada
C- Eastern cities suffer more than western cities

Mr. Fraidan gave us the answer which is C and he mentioned that the 3 choices can be all correct and that this is a misleading type of questions that he will not follow it's pattern in the final exam. Now my opinion is B is the correct answer and i will prove why..

first of all what is the main idea of a paragraph?? , it's why the author wrote this paragraph and it's certainly not to tell us that Canada is very cold , because it's a common knowledge everybody knows that Canada is cold, so A is not a correct answer. I believe that the whole paragraph is to explain how Non-Canadians always thought of Canada as a cold country and for this reason he tried to explain how it can get very hot in Canada that it actually killed people!!!! now Choice C is to tell us that Eastren cities suffer more than western cities , now I believe that this line is not correct because the author didn't mention anything about western cities as a matter of fact we can not prove that this line is right from the paragraph!!!!

In conclusion the whole passage is all about HEAT, people die from heat and Non-Canadians don't know that Canada can get hot, so B is the correct choice..


of course this is my own opinion and i am all open to your opinions ,as a matter of fact that main purpose of this whole participation is to see what you guys have to say about it...


Awaiting for your kind opinions and interpretations

[*LEXUS*]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Heidi-turkistan

Hey dear fellow students :) ... Congratulations on the beginning of this semester

Now regarding the mentioned above subject , the reason of me writing this is discussing some points in lecture 3 because i believe that discussing lectures could improve our English communication skills and knowledge.

In lecture 3 the main theme of the lecture is reading strategies among other points , one of them is "The main Idea of a paragraph" . Concerning this point we have taken an exercise on how to extract the main idea of a paragraph on page 18 & 19. On page 19 section 3 Paragraph C there is a paragraph " Traditionally the stranger has though of Canada as a mountainous snow-swept land. Certainly it can get very cold in Canada . Few non-Canadians understand that it can also get very hot . The eastern cities suffer in the humidity of July and August , and people actually die each year from the heat"

now the author gave us 3 choices for this paragraph

A- it can get very cold in Canada
B-It can get very hot in Canada
C- Eastern cities suffer more than western cities

Mr. Fraidan gave us the answer which is C and he mentioned that the 3 choices can be all correct and that this is a misleading type of questions that he will not follow it's pattern in the final exam. Now my opinion is B is the correct answer and i will prove why..

first of all what is the main idea of a paragraph?? , it's why the author wrote this paragraph and it's certainly not to tell us that Canada is very cold , because it's a common knowledge everybody knows that Canada is cold, so A is not a correct answer. I believe that the whole paragraph is to explain how Non-Canadians always thought of Canada as a cold country and for this reason he tried to explain how it can get very hot in Canada that it actually killed people!!!! now Choice C is to tell us that Eastren cities suffer more than western cities , now I believe that this line is not correct because the author didn't mention anything about western cities as a matter of fact we can not prove that this line is right from the paragraph!!!!

In conclusion the whole passage is all about HEAT, people die from heat and Non-Canadians don't know that Canada can get hot, so B is the correct choice..


of course this is my own opinion and i am all open to your opinions ,as a matter of fact that main purpose of this whole participation is to see what you guys have to say about it...


Awaiting for your kind opinions and interpretations

Look for what i specified red to make sure

and regarding the choices I see that correct choice is C

Thank you sis for your interest and review.

[Amy!]

السلام عليكم،

I agree with you regarding discussing can help us improve our English. However, I haven't started studying non-fictional prose because I haven't bought the book for this course yet.

So, I'll wait until I buy the book and I'll come back and discusses it with you.

[Heidi-turkistan]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة *LEXUS*

Look for what i specified red to make sure

and regarding the choices I see that correct choice is C

Thank you sis for your interest and review.

thanks for your reply brother :)

and i have seen the marked in red but still not convinced because you marked the whole sentence without the word FEW please go back to the paragraph and read it one more time adding FEW :) .... and you will understand my point of view :)

[Heidi-turkistan]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Amy!

السلام عليكم،

I agree with you regarding discussing can help us improve our English. However, I haven't started studying non-fictional prose because I haven't bought the book for this course yet.

So, I'll wait until I buy the book and I'll come back and discusses it with you.

Thank you for your reply and by he way i haven't bought the book and I won't buy it i got the scanned pages from the forum, they provide it here and i believe it's enough... but i will wait for your participation
...

[Amy!]

Ye i know, but i prefer to study with the book because if I wanted to read more about something I can read it in the book