The document outlines a lesson design for teaching reading skills that involves three parts: pre-reading, while reading, and post-reading activities. In the pre-reading section, students will view pictures of pills/capsules and a video to engage them in the topic. While reading, students will extract the main ideas from an article individually using graphic organizers. After reading, students will watch a sample interview video, conduct interview sessions in groups related to the article, and complete a worksheet summarizing the article using a graphic organizer. The lesson aims to teach informational reading through interactive visuals and activities requiring comprehension and group work.

1. BIK3023 – READING SKILLS
ASSIGNMENT 3 – LESSON DESIGN
LECTURER
PUAN LEELA CHAKRABARTY
NAME MATRIK CONTACT NUMBER
NUMBER/GROUP
NURHAFIZAH BINTI D20102040807 019 -7166070
AJLAN 019 - 5173776
GROUP UPSI 03

2. SUBJECT – ENGLISH LANGUAGE
STUDENTS – FORM 5
LEARNING OUTCOMES
2.0 LANGUAGE FOR
INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
2.1 Obtain information for different
purposes by
b. interviewing and using questionnaires;
Specifications
Level 3
iii. Interviewing people to get more
information on topics under study.
LANGUAGE CONTENT
a) Grammatical Items
5. Verbs
c. Present Continuous Tense
ACTIVITIES (Describe the activities in detail and provide the rationale)
1. Pre reading
A) PICTURES OF PILLS/CAPSULES
- Describing the picture of pills/capsules shown

3. Rationale of showing the pictures
- More attractive/attract their willingness to have the lesson
- To encourage them questioning for purposes to get the ideas
B) WATCHING A VIDEO
- Talking briefly about the content of the video being displayed.
- Response to the video shown ( share the ideas with the teacher and friends )
Rationale of displaying the video
- To attract the students’ attention
- Relate the video to the article read
- To get a better understanding towards the article.
C) READING THE ARTICLE 1
- To get to know the connection between the pictures and video to the article.
2. While reading
EXTRACTING OUT THE MAIN POINTS ( INDIVIDUAL )
- Listing out the points in graphic organizers
3. After reading
WATCHING THE INTERVIEWING SESSION ( AS A SAMPLE )
- Teacher explains briefly about creating an interview session.
- Notes will be given to each group as additional information
( Notes about samples of interviewing questions )
- Students sit in their groups.
- Each group is required to act out an interview session related to the article read.
- Group discussion
- Present their group work ( interview session ).
References
http://youtu.be/c4gWshr7qss
http://www.collegegrad.com/jobsearch/Mastering-the-Interview/The-Eight-Types-of-
Interview-Questions/

4. Appendices
Appendix A ( PICTURES OF PILLS / CAPSULES ) – PRE READING
APPENDIX B AND C ( VIDEO ) – ATTACHED IN THE 3RD URL COLOUMN IN
MYGURU 3
APPENDIX B ( VIDEO ABOUT USING PILLS / CAPSULES )
APPENDIX C ( VIDEO OF INTERVIEW SESSION AS A SAMPLE )

5. APPENDIX D ( ARTICLE 1 ) -
Reading Selection 1 The Star Sunday January 9, 2011
A pill for every ill?
By DR KHOR SWEE KHENG
Who needs stars when we can wish upon a pill?
THE trouble with us these days is that when we’re faced with some real or imagined
suffering, we reach for the bottle of pills. Our current approach to healthcare is to firstly
attach a disproportional significance to our often trivial complaints. Then we refuse to
tolerate even the slightest discomfort. Finally, we demonstrate an unhealthy willingness
to take a pill for anything and everything, in the name of immediate relief.
We may have evolved as a species, but we have definitely changed from a society that
understands and accepts hardship, to one that doesn’t and can’t. It was a nasty world
as recently as 50 years ago, when you could expect to suffer death or disability from a
whole host of ailments, even one as simple as an allergy. Doctors battled real killers like
smallpox and polio, and performed heroic surgery in the battlefield.
We want to get ‘better’ without an effort, and we want to get ‘better’ right now!
They discovered penicillin, insulin, and vaccines. They developed treatments, surgeries,
and intensive care for life-threatening diseases like asthma and cancer. Advances in
epidemiology and public health improved sanitation, vector control, and workplace

6. safety. These achievements preserved human dignity in the face of terrible suffering.
I want it, and I want it now
As a result of that dramatic improvement in modern medicine, societal attitudes to
healthcare changed irrevocably. Having conquered death, we were now afraid of
hardship. But truly, do we know what hardship really is? We imagine our own ills as the
end of the world, refuse to use common sense/our own body/Father Time as a cure,
and demand instant relief – we have become hypochondriacs with a sense of urgency.
These days, we insist on being called healthcare customers or clients. We don’t like the
idea of being a Patient, because we’ve become Impatient. Doctor shopping abounds,
with demands for the strongest painkillers (regardless of side effects or a logical step-up
approach) or antibiotics (regardless of antibiotic resistance, and even for viral, not
bacterial infection), and the latest blood test or MRI.
Petty complaints are now the cornerstones of our selfish existence – like constipation
from a poor diet, or cough from too many cigarettes. We want to get “better” without an
effort, and we want to get “better” right now! How did this happen? Firstly, the focus on
the preservation of life transformed into a focus on the quality of life. More importantly,
there began to be a demand for Botox for wrinkles, Viagra for ED, Prozac for depression
– science motivated by a client-consumer, and not necessarily a patient.
Once wars stopped and living standards improved, we stopped fretting about death and
started luxuriously fulfilling our needs of food, shelter, clothing and safety. Then we
began to worry about our “health”. It’s a relative thing – those days it was asbestos from
a mine, and now it’s repetitive stress injury. That we do not seem to advance along
Maslow’s hierarchy, is because self-actualisation means having a perfect nose?
Instant gratification
Unfortunately also, modern medicine’s great abilities bred a belief that science will cure
anything, and instantly too. Added to a culture of modern speed and convenience like
instant messaging and fast food, we see a doctor only when it’s convenient for us (even
if the sore has been festering for three weeks), refuse to wait in line, and refuse to wait
to get better.
Everything is set up in modern society for instant gratification, to the extent that we do
not know how to delay happiness for a greater gain in future, and do not know how to
tolerate small amounts of physical/emotional/mental suffering. It’s not healthcare-on-
demand we want, it’s cure-on-demand, just like a 10-minute haircut or drive-through
banking.

7. Worse, society, media, and corporations compound the problem by telling us that we’re
all unique and amazing individuals who should be happy all the time and never suffer
from anything. As consumers, we can have Utopia. You can live in a Mc Mansion and
go on holiday in Paris with a supermodel when you never shed a hair again, after buying
this special product, while stocks last!
Everyone CAN and MUST achieve physical perfection – this is a lie perpetrated by a
society obsessed with “health” and happiness. America didn’t get an annual $1.6 trillion
(RM4.8 trillion) “health” care bill for nothing – we want to lose weight, but must we
exercise? If there’s an app for everything, isn’t there a pill for this? More controversially,
healthcare has come to be owned by the rich. They can afford the premiums for
insurance, have met all their basic health needs, are also more likely to be educated
and to demand often unnecessary and expensive tests and treatment.
The poorer has a higher threshold, often ignoring slight fevers or minor aches, and
going only when there is substantial discomfort (because of money constraints, and
because they have other things to worry about, like adequate food, shelter and
clothing). Of course the rich doesn’t have less right to healthcare, or the poor more, but
this virtual monopoly by the rich skews priorities in research and funding. There’s simply
more money to be made researching and specializing in hip surgery, than there ever will
be for malaria.
Lastly, as families become smaller throughout the world (look at China’s one-child policy
or the women who marry later if at all), we focus much more on the only child. China’s
Little Emperors and Empresses are doted on by two parents and four grandparents –
which child is growing up thinking that he/she isn’t the centre of the universe, and
therefore shouldn’t have everything they want, and right away too? As we teach them to
be conspicuous consumers from an early age, why shouldn’t they treat healthcare as
their own birthright, much as video games and new trainers?
It’s a hard life
That’s why we think we know what “hardship” is, and why we’re not willing to accept
even the slightest bit of it. We want instant physical perfection for our very important
selves, without having to tolerate any form of discomfort to achieve it. We no longer take
fever as our body’s hint to rest for two days, or raid the larder for some honey for the
sore throat, or clean and bandage a small wound ourselves – we will see the doctor,
who will give a pill, and all will be immediately right.
So we clog up the emergency departments hoping for a cure for our muscle aches from
too much carrying boxes at work, see a third doctor in two days because the flu just
won’t go away, and demand an MRI just because there’s an occasional headache. We

8. grumble if we have to wait for the doctor (the author had to handle a complaint where a
one-month-old rash wasn’t seen immediately at 3am, because there was a horrible road
accident victim at the same time), and complain if we don’t get a cure immediately, and
find another doctor who will give us our slimming, sleeping and stimulant pills.
We are kings: The Customer is Always Right, and I deserve happiness and perfect
health because I am A Special Individual, and I must not have any pain or discomfort.
Modern society has created selfish, individualistic creatures with a distorted world-view.
Is it any wonder that the most commonly used word in the English language is the
pronoun “I”?
Fifty years ago, an aesthetic physician did not exist, and there was never a disease
called chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia (and here I await angry letters from their
sufferers and support groups) that qualifies a patient for months off work with disability
benefits, and money poured into research and experimental cures. When I told my
grandmother that if I claimed I was tired and in pain all the time and the doctors can’t
find anything really wrong with me, I could still qualify for CFS and get disability benefits,
she laughed.
In my time, she said, it was called laziness and the treatment was a tight slap delivered
daily until a cure was achieved. And proceeded to tell me stories about how her friends
routinely worked in the farms and fields throughout pregnancy, delivered under a tree
aided by their mothers-in-law, and went back to work immediately after delivery. These
days, we get to choose the date and time of our Caesarian sections.
Hardship and suffering are relative for sure, but think how far we have come, from a
species that fought and beat Nazism, the Great Depression, illiteracy and death. We
think we are suffering in anguish from a small bruise or a fat tummy and we need
immediate relief from a pill or liposuction instead of ice and exercise – but try telling that
to the half of the world that is truly, genuinely, and sadly, dying from unsafe water,
tuberculosis, and low birth weight.

9. APPENDIX E ( NOTES ) – TYPES OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
The Eight Types of Interview Questions
Interviewing is not a science. Nor is it an art form. It is simply an imperfect
form of human communication designed to increase the predictive validity of
potential employer-employee relationships. And it is very imperfect.
There are basically eight types of questions you may face during the course of
an interview:
1. Credential verification questions
This type of question includes What was your GPA? and How long were
you at . . . Its purpose is to place objective measurements on features of
your background.
2. Experience verification questions
This type of question includes What did you learn in that class? and What
were your responsibilities in that position? Its purpose is to subjectively
evaluate features of your background.
3. Opinion questions
This type of question includes What would you do in this situation? and
What are your strengths and weaknesses? Their purpose is to subjectively
analyze how you would respond in a series of scenarios. The reality is that
Tape #143 in your brain typically kicks in (I know the answer to that one!)
and plays back the pre-programmed answer.
4. Dumb questions
This type of question includes What kind of animal would you like to be?
and What color best describes you? Their purpose is to get past your pre-
programmed answers to find out if you are capable of an original thought.
There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer, since it is used primarily
to test your ability to think on your feet.

10. 5. Math questions
This type of question includes "What is 1000 divided by 73?" to "How
many ping pong balls could fit in a Volkswagen?" Its purpose is to evaluate
not only your mental math calculation skills, but also your creative ability
in formulating the mathematical formula for providing an answer (or
estimate, as can often be the case).
6. Case questions
This type of question includes problem-solving questions ranging from:
"How many gas stations are there in Europe?" to "What is your estimate of
the global online retail market for books?" Its purpose is to evaluate your
problem-solving abilities and how you would analyze and work through
potential case situations.
7. Behavioral questions
This type of question includes Can you give me a specific example of how
you did that? and What were the steps you followed to accomplish that
task? Its purpose is to anticipate future behaviors based upon past
behaviors.
8. Competency questions
This type of question includes "Can you give me a specific example of your
leadership skills?" or "Explain a way in which you sought a creative
solution to a problem." Its purpose is to align your past behaviors with
specific competencies which are required for the position.
APENDIX F – WORKSHEET ( POST READING )
Based on the interview have been shown by you and your friends, create a graphic
organizer about the article read as a summary.
Example :

11. REASONS
Use of pills
and capsules
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES

12. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS OF MY LESSON DESIGN OF READING
LESSON DESIGN
OF READING
WHILE
PRE READING READING
- Pictures of pills - Extracting the
and capsules main ideas
when reading
- Watching a video the article.
of eating
pills/capsules - Using graphic
organizers to
get the ideas
POST READING
Watching a video of interview
session
Present/act out their group work
( interview session )
Worksheet