Objectives: The document discusses objectives for language acquisition activities in class, including reading comprehension, role-playing, discussion, and sharing opinions.
Introduction: The document then introduces Oprah Winfrey, describing her as the highest rated talk show host in history and one of the most influential women. It notes she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama and an honorary degree from Harvard.
Background: The document provides background on Oprah Winfrey, stating she was born in 1954, experienced hardship as a child, and began a career in media before launching a highly successful talk show and production company.
Focus and Impact: The document explains Oprah's show focused on literature, self-improvement
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Reading Comprehension and Oprah Winfrey's Life and Career
1.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Winfrey was born January 29, 1954. She is an American media
actress, producer, and proprietor, talk show host,
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.
5. 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.
6. Choose correct meaning :
Assessment is :
• The act of judging or forming an opinion
about something.
• A group of people.
• To have a strong desire.
7. she was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom by President:
• John Kerry.
• Barack Obama.
• Jack C.Richard.
8. Taboo is
• Kind of newspaper.
• Religious or social custom that forbids certain
action or words.
• To understand something.
9. Oprah show focus on :
• Literature
• self-improvement
• All of above.