A Discourse Approach in Reading week11

On Tuesday, 15 March, 2016

 Cause and Effect (Continued...) 

We started class with discussing with partner about the lesson we studied last week in a minute. Then the teacher explained the text "The Effect of Stress" which was assigned to do as homework last week. 

And she checked and corrected answers. There are some mistakes about paraphrase. She gave some advises about how to conclude and paraphrase. She read and explained text carefully for us.

The text is about having too much stress results in physical, emotional, and mental health problems. 

The physical effects of stress can affect the heart, the heart miss beats, high blood pressure. It can affect the respiratory system caused asthma. In addition, it can affect the stomach aches and problems digesting food too.

The Emotional effects of stress can make people anxious, angry or moody. They may have panic attacks. They may feel tried all the time. When people are under stress, they often overreact to little problems too.

Long-term stress can lead to a variety of serious mental illnesses. Depression can be the result of continued and increasing stress. Alcoholism and other addictions often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drug to try to relieve stress. That is the wrong way to shop it.

After we finished reading, the teacher gave us to write graphic organizer diagram in order to check what we could understand in the text or not.

During the class, when we were studying, the electricity was cut. Hence, we could not study anymore. That was too bad for me because I would like to study this lesson so much and the weather was very hot. 

The electricity can be available since 11 am. Therefore, we had to present the recipe instead of studying.

I would like to show you about some photos of our presentation 

It's time to ask question 

 What did you learn today?
I started reading the text which is "The Effects of Stress"

 What did you find easy?
In my opinion, Finding the discourse markers is easy for me. Because I know these conjunction as well and I will learn as much as I can in order to understand and do in testing as well. 

 What did you find difficult?
In my opinion, thinking about what is causes and effects is quite hard for me. I need to analyze as much as by reading more in order to analyze as well.

 What did you solve the problem?
I tried to pay attention during the class and wrote my answers on the whiteboard in order to be advised by the teacher whether they are wrong.

 What are your attitudes towards the lesson?
I think that this lesson is important in reading. I have read the books and I see the text that require what is the causes and effects from the text. Hence, practice reading is the best way to understand this lesson as well.