Reading Aloud p6 2022

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INTRODUCTION :
By raising our student’s awareness of reading as a skill that requires
active engagement and by teaching explicable reading strategies, we help our
students to develop good pronunciation, articulation, rhythm, fluency and accuracy.

GOALS :
- good pronunciation
- use of appropriate rhythm and stress to achieve well-paced,
fluent reading
- to build important literacy skills such as comprehension

PROCESS :
Select topics which are related to students’ interests and experiences or
explore universal contemporary themes and issues.

DURING READING :
• read with a purpose in mind and give complete attention
to the reading task
• create visual images
• focus on unity and coherence, articulation, and good pronunciation
• identify with and develop an understanding of the characters (story)

AFTER READING :
• reread important words when necessary
• paraphrase and summarize major ideas
• recognize how particular elements create moods or tones
• seek additional information from other sources as needed or desired

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Honorary Advisor :
Bro. Dr. Monthol Prathumarach
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CONTENTS

Earthquakes 4

The Loch Ness Monster 6

A Murder Suicide 8

Nutrition Lesson 11

Cloning Pets 14

Stonehenge Monument 16

Atchoo! is it a Cold or the Flu? 18

Love &Time 20

Butterfly and Cocoon 22

American Flag 24

Election Choices 26

Testing for Gossip 29

Peace of Mind 31

Bad by Name; Bad by Nature? 33

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Earthquakes

Earthquakes are natural disasters that
humans cannot control. Sometimes earthquakes
can be very dangerous and people need to know
more about where earthquakes come from, and
how to protect themselves from them and any
other natural disasters.
Earthquakes are the shaking, rolling or
sudden shock of the earth’s surface. They are
the Earth’s natural means of releasing pressure.
More than a million occur in the world each

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year. Earthquakes can be felt over large areas
although they usually last less than a minute.
However, earthquakes cannot be predicted although
scientists are still working on the problem.
There are about 20 plates along the surface of
the earth that move continuously and slowly past
each other. When the plates squeeze or stretch,
huge rocks form at their edges and the rocks shift
with great force, causing an earthquake. As the
plates move, they put forces on themselves and
each other. When the force is large enough, the
crust is forced to break.
Shaking and ground breaking are the
main effects created by earthquakes, principally
resulting in more or less severe damage to
buildings and other structures. The severity of the
effect depends on the complex combination of the
earthquake magnitude. Ground break is a major
risk for large engineering structures such as dams,
bridges and nuclear power stations and requires
careful mapping of existing faults to identify any
likely to break the ground surface within the life
of the structure.

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The Loch Ness Monster

I have lived here beside the Loch Ness since
I retired last year. My house has a good clear
view of the loch. In fact, it’s only about a hundred
metres from the lake, and there is nothing but the
road in between. Now I’ve never been interested
in the Loch Ness monster, you understand. Until
last Tuesday, I thought it was just a good story to

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attract tourists. But I’ve had to change my mind
after last Tuesday’s experience.
I got up as usual at about 7 and went into
my garden. Something attracted my attention to
the loch. There was almost no mist that morning,
and I could see there was something moving quite
fast, going north, in the middle of the loch. It
looked like a giant snake, with its head and part of
its body above water. It was about thirty metres
long. I rushed into the house to get my camera,
but when I was back it had gone.
I waited and it appeared again, this time
nearer the road and my house. I could see it
clearly. I managed to take several photographs of
it. They haven’t come out very well, unfortunately,
but one or two of them show the creature quite
clearly. At one point it swam straight towards me,
but then a lorry passed on the road and perhaps it
heard the noise of the engine because it disappeared
again. I reckon the whole incident lasted for about
fifteen minutes, because I looked at my watch the
last time I saw it, and it said a quarter past seven.
I’ve never seen anything so strange in my life.

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A Murder -Suicide

A man and a woman died in an apparent
murder-suicide last night in Altadena. The man
was 74 year old Dominic Vittorio. The woman
was his 70 year old wife, Victoria. The couple
had been married for 50 years. In fact, their
50th anniversary occurred just a month ago,
according to their next-door neighbor, Mrs.
Allen. The couple was childless and had no close
friends. Mr. Vittorio was a retired carpenter who
had cancer and was blind in one eye. His wife
was a diabetic who had already had one foot

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amputated because of this disease. Her eyesight
was almost completely gone.
“They were such a nice couple,” said Mrs.
Allen. “I’ve lived next to them for the last 20
years or so. I’m widowed, and Dom always used
to help me with things like changing light bulbs
and xfi ing appliances. They had no kids, but they
were always friendly to the neighborhood kids.
Every Halloween they handed out tons of candy
and fresh fruit. But about eight years ago Vicky
came down with diabetes, and things just haven’t
been the same for her or Dom. They used to
be so friendly and full of life, and then they just
seemed to get quieter and quieter.
“She used to come over to my place once
or twice a week and we would talk about all
kinds of things and have the nicest time. But
that happened less and less as she got sicker. So
I would go over to her house about once a week
and we would talk. But the conversations steadily
got shorter, and she seemed to lose interest in
listening and in talking. She didn’t say it, but you
could tell she was in a lot of pain.”

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Mrs. Allen said she hadn’t even talked to
either of the Vittorios in almost a year. They
never came out. Even food was delivered to
them by a local agency. She said she heard two
gunshots last night “It scared me half to death!”
She immediately called the police. “Such a sad
ending for such nice people,” she said. “Together
in sickness, but alone in the world.”

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Nutrition Lesson

People say, you need to eat protein, but
what is it? Many foods contain protein. The
best sources are beef, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy
products, nuts, seeds, and legumes like black beans
and lentils. Your muscles, your organs, and your
immune system are made up mostly of protein.
Your body uses the protein you eat to make
lots of specialized protein molecules that have
specific jobs. For instance, your body uses protein
to make hemoglobin. That is the part of red blood

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cells that carries oxygen to every part of your
body. Other proteins are used to build cardiac
muscle. What’s that? Your heart! In fact, whether
you’re running or just hanging out, protein is doing
important work like moving your legs, moving
your lungs, and protecting you from disease.
Food from animals, such as meat and milk,
is called complete. Most vegetable protein is
incomplete. It does not give you as much protein
as the animal foods. People who eat a vegetarian
diet can still get what they need, they just need to
eat a wide variety of protein-rich vegetable foods.
For instance, if you have peanut butter on
whole-grain bread you’re set. Likewise, red beans
won’t give you everything you need, but red beans
and rice will do the trick. The good news is that
you don’t have to eat all you need in every meal.
As long as you have a variety of protein sources
throughout the day, your body will grab what it
needs from each meal.
You can figure out how much protein you
need if you know how much you weigh. Each
day, kids need to eat about 0.5 grams of protein

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for every pound they weigh. That’s a gram for
every 2 pounds you weigh. Your protein needs
will grow as you get bigger, but then they will
level off when you reach adult size. Adults, for
instance, need about 60 grams per day.
You can look at a food label to find out
how many protein grams are in a serving. But
if you’re eating a balanced diet, you don’t need
to keep track of it. It’s pretty easy to get enough
protein.

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Cloning Pets

A company in Phoenix, Arizona says that it
can now clone your cat. “Actually,” said Felix
Lee, President of Twice Is Nice, Inc., “you don’t
even have to wait until your beloved cat dies. We
already have clients whose clone lives with its
donor.”
The price is steep. A clone of your cat
will cost $ 50,000. First, your veterinarian must
do a biopsy of your cat. This is sent to TWIN,
Inc., where it is cultured to grow fresh new cells.
These new cells are stored in liquid nitrogen
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the clone. At this time, you pay half the amount
($25,000). A cultured cell is implanted into a
female cat that is in estrus, and if all goes well,
a kitten is born about 60 days later. The new
kitten is weaned in about eight weeks. TWIN,
Inc., delivers the kitten to you after it receives the
remaining $25,000.
“We are a growing company,” said Lee.
“Our facility can handle about a dozen births a
year now, but our goal is to produce about 50
kittens and 50 puppies a year.” The company is
currently experimenting with stray dogs. Some
canine clones seem to be perfect, but some have
been bizarre. Nevertheless, Lee believes that they
will be successfully cloning dogs in about a year.

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Stonehenge Monument

Stonehenge is an ancient monument situated
about ten miles north of Salisbury in England. It
was built about 4500 years ago, but by whom and
for what purpose remains a mystery. The builders
must have known of geometry. They may have
been influenced by the Mycenaeans, whose
architecture was similar. Some of the stones
must have been brought from West Wales, over

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135 miles away. These stones weigh more than
fifty tons. They may have been brought on rafts
and rollers. Experts say that it must have taken
1500 men more than five years to transport them.
Stonehenge was probably built in three stages.
First, settlers from continental Europe built a
temple for sun worship. Later, the “Beaker”
people added the stone circles. Finally, people of
the Wesse Culture transformed Stonehenge into
an observatory. They could calculate the exact
time of Midsummer, Midwinter and of equinoxes.

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Atchoo! is it a Cold or the Flu?

When your nose is blocked, your eyes are
watery, your throat is sore, you are coughing and
sneezing constantly, and you are shivering, then
you most likely have influenza, or the flu. Or, is
it just a common cold? The symptoms of both the
cold and the flu are very similar, and very often
the two illnesses are confused.
People get both illnesses in more or less
the same way. A person sneezing or coughing
transmits the infection through the air. Sometimes,
people with the virus wipe their noses or eyes

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with their fingers. Then they touch objects around
them, such as a doorknob, a telephone, a keyboard,
or any other everyday object. Other people come
into contact with these items carrying the virus
and pick up the virus that way.
Colds usually last for five to seven days
and are caused by viruses. The body’s own
defense mechanisms need to fight the viruses.
Unfortunately, there are more than 80 different
constantly mutating rhinoviruses. So, vaccination
against colds is impossible. Medicines provide
temporary relief from symptoms, but they cannot
cure the cold. The flu has the same symptoms
as the traditional cold. Additional symptoms are
a high fever and severe muscle aches and pains.
The effects of the flu can also be far more serious.
It can cause pneumonia and kill its victims. In
the past, the flu killed more people than any
other viral disease. For example, 20 million people
of all ages died in the 1919 flu epidemic. It
actually affected younger people more than the
older because their bodies didn’t have defenses
against the virus.

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Love & Time

Once upon a time,
in an island there lived
all the feelings and
emotions: Happiness,
Sadness, Knowledge,
and all of the others,
including Love. One
day it was announced
to them that the island
would sink! So all
constructed boats and left. Except for Love.
Love wanted to hold out until the last
possible moment. When the island had almost
sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a boat.
Love said, “Richness, can you take me with you?”
Richness answered, “Sorry Love, I can’t.
There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat and
so there is no place here for you.”
Love next asked Vanity who was also sailing

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by. Vanity was also ready with the same answer.
“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and
might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by, so Love asked,
“Sadness, take me along with you.”
“Oh…Love, I am so sad that I need to be by
myself”, sadness said in a sullen voice.
Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was
so preoccupied with her happiness that she did not
even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love,
I will take you.” It was an elder. An overjoyed
Love jumped up into the boat and in the process
forgot to ask where they were going. When they
arrived at a dry land, the elder went her own way.
Realizing how much was owed to the
elder, Love asked Knowledge another elder, “Who
Helped me?
“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.
“Time?” thought Love. Then, as if reading
the face of Love, Knowledge smiled and answered,
“Because only Time is capable of understanding
how valuable Love is.”

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Butterfly and Cocoon

A man found a
cocoon of a butterfly.
One day a small opening
appeared; he sat and
watched the butterfly
for several hours as it
struggled to force its
body through that little
hole. Then it seemed
to stop making any
progress. It appeared as
if it had gotten as far as
it could and it could go
no farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly,
so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the
remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then
emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and
small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly
because he expected that, at any moment, the

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wings would enlarge and expand to be able to
support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! in fact, the butterfly spent
the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen
body and shriveled wings. It was never able to
fly.
What this man in his kindness and haste did
not understand was that the restricting cocoon
and the struggle required for the butterfly to get
through the tiny opening were nature’s way of
forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into
its wings so that it would be ready for flight once
it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

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American Flag

The American flag is red, white, and blue.
It has 13 stripes and 50 stars. The stars are white
and are located in a field of blue. The stripes
are horizontal and are red and white. Seven of
them are red and six of them are white. The flag
is displayed daily from sunrise to sunset in front
of schools and government buildings like post
offices and libraries. It is displayed with the blue
field of stars nearest the staff. The staff is the
pole that the flag hangs on. When the flag is
displayed on a pole, it should be raised quickly
and lowered slowly.

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On special holidays and occasions the flag
is flown at half staff. Half staff means the flag is
halfway up the pole. When the flag is flown half
staff, it is first raised quickly to the top of the pole
and then slowly lowered to the halfway mark. At
the end of the day, it is raised all the way to the
top of the pole and then lowered slowly. The
American flag was adopted in 1777 during the
American War of Independence. The American
War of Independence was from 1775 - 1783.

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Election Choices

A convention is a very big meeting. Many
organizations have conventions. Every four
years there is a national election in the United
States. The summer before the election, there
are two conventions. One convention is for the
Democrats. The other is for the Republicans.
They choose leaders for the next four years. They
hope the people they choose will win the election.
At the 2008 Democratic convention, there was

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a big change. Never before had the Democrats
chosen an African-American as their candidate for
President. They did. It was not a surprise, though
Barack Obama had been running for President all
year. He had won primaries. A primary is an
election in a state. The people of the state vote
for the person they want to be President. Then at
the convention their representatives vote for that
person.
At the convention, there was a problem.
Many people had voted in primaries for Hillary
Clinton. They wanted her to be the first woman
President. It was not because she was a woman
that people voted for her. They thought she
would do a good job. She was a Senator. She
had met many world leaders. She was a leader,
herself. More Democrats thought that Barack
Obama would be a great President. So they chose
him. She was disappointed, but Hillary Clinton
helped him. She gave many speeches telling
people why they should vote for him. She said,
“He is the person who can change our country.”
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people could change what was happening in the
United States.
At the Republican convention, they had to
make a choice. They chose John McCain. Then
they surprised everyone. They chose a woman as
Vice President. People wondered if they did this
to get more votes. The woman was Sarah Palin.
She made many speeches. She got some people
to vote for the Republican party. Some people
thought she was the opposite of Barack Obama.
Some people thought it was a good idea for the
Republicans to choose her. Other people thought
it wasn’t. They said that she would only get votes
from one group of people.
Barack Obama won the national election.
He got votes from many different groups.
More people voted than in the last election. It
was important to them. After the election, he
met with Hillary Clinton. He asked her to be
Secretary of State. That is a very important job.
The Secretary of State meets with world leaders.
The Secretary of State helps solve problems with
other countries.

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Testing for Gossip

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed
to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an
acquaintance met the great philosopher and said,
“Do you know what I just heard about you friend?”
“Hold on a minute”, Socrates replied. “Before
telling me anything I’d like you to pass a little
test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
“Triple filter?”
“That’s right”. Socrates continued. “Before
you talk to me about my friend, it might be a

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good idea to take a moment and filter what you’re
going to say. That’s why I call it the triple filter
test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made
absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me
is true?”
“No”, the man said, “Actually I just heard
about it and…”
“All right”, said Socrates. “So you don’t
really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the
second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you
are about to tell me about my friend something
good?”
“No, on the contrary.”
“So”, Socrates continued, “you want to tell
me something bad about him, but you’re not
certain it’s true. You may still pass the test
though, because there’s one filter left: the filter of
Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my
friend going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well”, concluded Socrates, “if what you
want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even
useful, why tell it to me at all?”

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Peace of Mind

Once Buddha was walking from one town to
another town with a few of his followers. This
was in the initial days. While they were travelling,
they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there
and Buddha told one of his disciples, I am thirsty.
Do get me some water from that lake there.
The disciple walked up to the lake. When
he reached it, he noticed that some people were
washing clothes in the water and, right at that
moment, a bullock cart started crossing through
the lake. As a result, the water became very
muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, how
can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!
So he came back and told Buddha, the water in
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After about half an hour, again Buddha asked
the same disciple to go back to the lake and get
him some water to drink. The disciple obediently
went back to the lake. This time he found that
the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud
had settled down and the water above it looked fit
to be had. So he collected some water in a pot
and brought it to Buddha. Buddha looked at the
water, and then he looked up at the disciple and
said, see what you did to make the water clean.
You let it be … and the mud settled down on
its own and you got clear water … Your mind
is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it
be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its
own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm
it down. It will happen. It is effortless.
What did Buddha emphasize here? He said,
it is effortless. Having ‘peace of mind’ is not a
strenuous job; it is an effortless process. When
there is peace inside you, that peace permeates
to the outside. It spreads around you and in the
environment, such that people around start feeling
that peace and grace.

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Bad by Name; Bad by Nature?

During Nelson Mandela’s 19 years
imprisoned on Robben Island, one particular
commanding officer was the most brutal of them
all:
“A few days before Badenhorst’s departure,
I was called to the main office. General Steyn
was visiting the island and wanted to know if
we had any complaints. Badenhorst was there as
I went through a list of demands. When I had
finished, Badenhorst spoke to me directly. He
told me he would be leaving the island and
added: ‘I just want to wish you people good luck’.
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was amazed. He spoke these words like a human
being and showed a side of himself we had never
seen before. I thanked him for his good wishes
and wished him luck in his endeavors.
I thought about this moment for a long time
afterwards. Badenhorst had perhaps been the most
callous and barbaric commanding officer we had
had on Robben Island. But that day in the office,
he had revealed that that there was another side to
his nature, a side that had been obscured but still
existed.
It was a useful reminder that all men, even
the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core
of decency and that, if their hearts are touched,
they are capable of changing. Ultimately,
Badenhorst was not
evil; his inhumanity had
been foisted upon him
by an inhuman system.
He behaved like a
brute because he was
rewarded for brutish
behavior.”

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Reading aloud has proved its importance as an essential component
of our curriculum and education; hence, we need to find ways to promote and
enhance it at all levels. Reading aloud is a vital aspect of key competencies
and contributes to the personal and social well - being of our students. The
importance of reading aloud can’t be underestimated. The more our students
practice, the better they become fluent, exquisite readers.

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