PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 1 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE INTRODUCTION : By raising our students’ 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
READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 2 Honorary Advisor : Bro. Surakit Srisrankulwong, Ph.D. Committee : Bro.Achin Tengtrakul, Ph.D. Bro.Bhuvarindhara Khemrachanon, M.A. Bro.Pathanant Chaiyara Bro.Siriroj Viriyasirimongkol, Ph.D. Board of Director Mrs.Krongjit Vanichawan, M.a. Mr.Avirut Wisetchart, M.A. Mrs.Chonticha Nuamphummarin, M.MOD. Mr.Khemmatat Nakpan, M.A. Ms.Yaowaluck Yoochareon, M.A. Editorial Team : Members of the Foreign Language Department Design & Layout : Mr. Wutichart Chatarupacheewin, M.FA. Mr. Sarayut Jorjaroenpanich Mr. Peerawit Arjloi Audio Recorders : Mr. Chart Peeratee Produced by : Saint Gabriel’s College BANGKOK, THAILAND Copyright @ 2024 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 3 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE CONTENTS 1. It’s A Dog’s Life by Shawna Telman 4 2. Michael Jordan 7 3. World Water Day 9 4. Women’s World Cup 11 5. True Wealth 13 6. Under the Sea 16 7. The Fence Story 19 8. What is Common Sense? 21 9. The Teacup Story 23 10. The Problem of Rubbish 27 11. What Colors Mean 30
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 4 1. It’s A Dog’s Life by Shawna Telman My name is Sparky and I work for Ms. Toni Graham. I am her in-home companion. My trainer calls what I do “work” but I think my job is fun! I especially enjoy the variety in my job: I do many different things for Ms. Toni every day. She says I have transformed her life. I have changed things, so her daily routine is easier. Ms. Toni suffers from an illness that makes her hands shake and causes her muscles to stiffen up. She has a hard time bending over. On a bad day, Ms. Toni can lose her balance and fall. Whenever she drops something, I pick it up for her. It’s part of my job. Another part of my job is to help Ms. Toni with her work. She has an office in her home. Last week she was preparing to mail invitations for some major celebration that will raise money for a charity. How did I help? I learned how to lick the flaps
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 5 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE of envelopes. They needed to be moistened so that they could seal shut. For once my slimy doggy tongue came in handy! Every afternoon I accompany Ms. Toni on a walk around town. Exercise is important for her health, so we never miss a day. We often see a new sight or smell a new fragrance along our route. Ms. Toni rests when we get back. She needs my cooperation during this time. I
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 6 help her by being very quiet. I stay by the front door and keep my eye on things. If Ms. Toni needs me, she rings a bell. Every so often Ms. Toni can’t sleep, so naptime is canceled. At these times she likes me to hang out and relax with her. The theory behind this is that petting me makes her feel calm. The idea makes sense. She talks to me and brushes me. This is one of the best parts of my job. I am very lucky to be a part of Ms. Toni’s life. People who have a hard time with day-to-day chores can become sad and lonely. Dogs like me help them feel happy.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 7 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 2. Michael Jordan Michael Jordan was born on 17th February 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. Having won a total of six NBA (National Basketball Association) championships with his team (the Chicago Bulls), Michael is often referred to as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Michael was introduced to basketball at a young age by his father, James Jordan. Attending university in North Carolina, Michael joined the basketball team and helped lead them to win the championship in 1982. In 1984, Michael joined the Chicago Bulls. Although
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 8 this meant that he left school before he could complete his degree, Michael continued studying while playing basketball; this led him to earn a degree in geography in 1985. At a height of 1.98 metres tall, Michael is well known for his ability to score slam dunks during a game. Incredibly, he can perform a vertical jump of just over 1 metre. In total, Michael played in 1,072 NBA games before retiring from basketball in 2003.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 9 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 3. World Water Day World Water Day is on the 22nd March and the theme changes every year. The theme for World Water Day 2019 is ‘Leave No One Behind’. This is based on the Sustainable Development Goal 6, set out by the United Nations, which aims to ensure that everyone in the world will have accessed clean water by 2030. In the western world, clean water and good sanitation is often taken for granted. Most taps provide safe drinking water and the
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 10 majority of private bathrooms and public toilets have hand washing facilities available for use. However, billions of people around the world still live without access to safe water or sanitation facilities. Vulnerable groups such as refugees, disabled people and indigenous people often face challenges and even discrimination when trying to reach safe, clean water. This is unacceptable as access to drinking water is a human right and is crucial in maintaining and promoting human health. Interesting Fact : Around 60% of the human body is made up of water and every cell and organ needs it to function properly.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 11 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 4. Women’s World Cup Women’s football has been attracting crowds of fans for over 100 years. Many popular women’s football teams provided much-loved entertainment throughout the World Wars. However, in 1921, the Football Association said that football as a sport was ‘quite unsuitable for females’. They said that it ought not to be encouraged and banned women from playing matches in the grounds of Football Association clubs. This ban was finally lifted in 1971. In this year, the first unofficial Women’s World Cup was held in Mexico. This competition saw six national teams competing against each other in three groups. Although Mexico, Argentina, England, Denmark, France and Italy all competed for the prize, only the game between France and Denmark was officially recognized as an international women’s football match.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 12 Finally, in 1988, a women’s football competition was held in China. This competition was a test to see if a Women’s World Cup would be a success. Twelve international teams competed for the prize and after a tense penalty shootout to decide third place, the competition was called a huge success. The first official Women’s World Cup was held in China three years later.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 13 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 5. True Wealth Once upon a time, there lived a very rich and wealthy man in a big town. He led a luxurious life. He always boasted about his wealth to his friends and relatives. His son was studying in a distant city and he returned home for vacation. The rich man wanted to show off to his son how rich he was. But his son wasn’t fond of any luxurious lifestyle. However, the rich man wanted to make his son realize that his lifestyle was extremely rich and that poor people suffered a lot. He planned a day’s visit to the entire town to show him the life of the poor people. The father and the son visited the entire town. The father was happy that his son was very quiet after seeing the poor people honouring the rich man and after witnessing the sufferings of the poor. The rich man asked his son, “Dear boy, how was the trip? Have you enjoyed it?”
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 14 “Yes my dad, it was a great trip with you,” the son replied. “So, what did you learn from the trip?” the father asked. The son was silent. “Finally you have realized how the poor suffer and how they actually live,” said the father.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 15 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE “No father,” replied the son. He added, “We have only two dogs, they have 10 dogs. We have a big pool in our garden, but they have a massive bay without any end! We have luxurious and expensive lights, but they have countless stars lighting their nights. We have a house on a small piece of land, but they have abundant fields that go beyond the horizon. We are protected by huge and strong walls around our property, but they bond with each other and surround themselves with their fellow beings. We have to buy food from them, but they are so rich that they can cultivate their own food.” The rich father was stunned and speechless, on hearing his son’s words. Finally, the son added, “Dad, thank you so much for showing me who is rich and who is poor. Thank you for letting me understand how poor we really are!”
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 16 6. Under the Sea Have you ever swum in the sea? There's so much to see below its surface. You can find some quite unusual creatures. The seahorse has a head like a horse's, eyes like a lizard's, skin like a dinosaur's and a tail like a monkey's! It also uses camouflage to protect itself from enemies. Under the sea you can find some very dangerous animals, too. The hammerhead shark
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 17 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE has a T-shaped head and can grow to over 4 meters long. It is quite at home in the warm waters around the world and may attack the creatures it comes across, even humans. The jellyfish seems its opposite. Tiny in comparison, the jellyfish has an umbrella-shaped, seethrough body with long arms called tentacles. There are about 200 different kinds of jellyfishvarying in shape, size and colour and 70 of them have sting cells in their tentacles. These can hurt and even kill you if you touch their tentacles. The stingray is another creature that can kill with its sting. It has a flattened body and eyes on the top of its head. The body ends in a long tail with a spike which can inject venom into enemies. However, not all sea creatures are venomous. Dolphins are not fish but, like whales, are warm-blooded mammals. They communicate with each other using different
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 18 sounds. They are very intelligent and can learn many tricks in captivity. The same cannot be said of sea turtles. They seem creatures of instinct. When it is time for the female to lay her eggs, she swims to the shore, digs a hole, lays the eggs and covers them with sand. Under the sea, where fish swim so free, that's the place you might want to be!
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 19 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 7. The Fence Story There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. He had problems controlling his anger. When he got angry, he would say the first thing that came to mind, even if it affected people. The boy's father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence. On the first day of this lesson, the little boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad! Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his anger, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased. It wasn't long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn't lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn't wait
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 20 to tell his father. Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper. The day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. "You have done very well, my son," he smiled, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same." The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak. "When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still be there."
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 21 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 8. What is Common Sense? If you ask someone to name the senses, they'll probably say: 'Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.' But are these all? Isn't there another sense that people are supposed to have? Different people have different ideas about this other sense. Usually we call it 'common sense'. It isn't like the other senses because it isn't linked to a part of the body, such as seeing with the eyes, smelling with the nose and hearing with the ears. It could have something to do with the brain, but it isn't something we can learn at school. Common sense is what we use when we decide what to do in certain situations. For example, what do we do when we have locked ourselves out of the house? Or, how do we drive when the road is wet and dangerous. Common sense doesn't always seem to work when it comes to personal matters or
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 22 feelings. People sometimes say things about other people like: 'Why is he giving her more money? Doesn't he have the common sense to stop? She'll only spend the money on useless things!' So it seems not everyone has common sense or uses it properly. The French writer Voltaire once said: 'Common sense is not so common.'
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 23 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 9. The Teacup Story There was a couple who liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. It was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, so they went into a shop. One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful cup. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the cup spoke. "You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted me over
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 24 and over and I yelled out, 'let me alone,' but he only smiled, 'Not yet.' "Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the cup said, "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy! I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.' "Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat!" the teacup said. "I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head, 'Not yet.' "Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There, that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. 'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded, 'Not yet.' "Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 25 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening, nodding his head saying, 'Not yet.' "Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.' And I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful.'
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 26 "'I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.'"
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 27 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 10. The Problem of Rubbish Every one of us produces rubbish of some kind. Dealing with the rubbish is big business. In some cities, millions of dollars may be spent each year just to have rubbish collected from homes and disposed of. In the past, the rubbish was usually thrown into the sea or dumped on vacant land. Nowadays, some of it is recycled, some burnt and the rest buried in the ground.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 28 Every year, for one city alone, about 800,000 cubic meters of land is set aside for burying rubbish. That is the same as filling a football stadium with rubbish up to 20 meters high, or as high as a seven-storey building! Rubbish is not only costly to dispose of, it also harms the environment in many ways. One, when it is not properly buried, some of it gets blown about in the wind. Two, it stinks. Three, rats and flies, among many scavengers, look for food in the landfills and carry away germs, usually to our homes. Four, when rubbish is burnt, poisonous gases are given off, causing air pollution. Last but not least, when rubbish is dumped in the sea, the water becomes polluted. Although we may not see the results of all this pollution, we know the environment is harmed. What can we do about these problems? Well, we can produce less rubbish. We can recycle things made of glass and paper as well as tin cans. When we buy things from shops
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 29 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE and supermarkets, instead of using their plastic bags, we could use our own shopping bags. The reason is that plastics, unlike wood, for example, are not biodegradable. So, plastic bags stay around as rubbish for a very long time. And, besides being unsightly as litter, they are known to have caused the death of creatures that swallowed them! Governments should inform their people about the problems that rubbish can cause. Education may be the most important factor in keeping the environment healthy for everyone.
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 30 11. What Colors Mean In Western culture, colours do not just show how objects look; they also have feelings and meanings attached to them. Take, for example, the colour red. As well as being the colour of blood, it makes people think of heat, anger or danger and that they must be cautious. This is why signs that warn us of danger are usually red. To the whole world blue is the colour of the sea and the sky. To Westerners, however, it has the added meaning of sadness. If someone is having the 'blues', it means the person is feeling sad. 'Blues' is therefore the name of a style of music that is quite slow and sad. Green is the colour of plants, especially young, growing ones. Over time, it has come to mean freshness and life. For this reason, some people in England who want to protect the environment call themselves the Green Party. However, green also has an unpleasant meaning. If someone is described as 'being
PRIMARY 5 READING ALOUD 31 ST. GABRIEL’S COLLEGE green with envy, he or she wishes very much to have something another person has and is very unhappy about it! Yellow also has a bad meaning. It is used to describe a coward', who may also be called 'chicken'. Well, chickens were yellow chicks once, weren't they? The colours black and white have opposite meanings. White means 'good' and 'clean', and a bride usually wears a white dress. Black stands for 'bad' or 'evil'; so why do some bridegrooms wear black?
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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. SAINT GABRIEL’S COLLEGE 565 Samsen Rd., Dusit, Bangkok 10300. THAILAND Tel. 0-2243-7002, 0-2243-2153, 0-2243-0065 Fax: 0-2243-2150 http://www.sg.ac.th