English Comprehension (ENG101)

Fall 2015

Assignment No. 2                

Total Marks: 20

Objective:

• To improve students' awareness of the course and to assess their logical reasoning skills
• To enhance and evaluate students' English writing and speaking skills

Instructions:

Late assignments will not be accepted.

If the file is corrupt or problematic, it will be marked zero.

• Plagiarism will NOT be tolerated. Plagiarism means taking credit for someone else's work by presenting it as your own; however, taking the ideas from different sources and to express it in your own words will be accepted.
• No assignment will be accepted via e-mail.
• The file should be in Word doc form; the font color should be preferably black and font size: 12 Times New Roman.

1. Read the following paragraph carefully and respond to the following questions. Each question asks you to make a logical inference based on the details provided in the text.

Each day after work Ali took his mucky boots off on the steps of the front entrance. Aliya would lose her temper if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then removed his dusty overalls and dropped them into a plastic garbage bag; Aliya left a new garbage bag tied to the entrance railing for him every morning. On his way towards home, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went straight upstairs to the shower as he was directed. He would have dinner with her after he was "presentable" as Aliya had frequently said.

1. (a) What type of job does Ali perform?

(b) How do you know this? Explain with textual reference.

2. Describe Aliya.

3. (a) What relationship do Ali and Aliya have?

(b) What makes you feel this way? Explain with textual reference.

2. Speaking Activity

Perform a role play with your friend using the provided situation, key words and picture. Then share your experience in the form of a dialogue you did with your friend. Your dialogue must use these key words correctly according to this situation and should have at least ten turns for each character.

Key words:    Industrious      Waste              Obsess             Conscious        Immature   Irresponsible  

Situation:

In this picture, Alice is the mother and Lisby is the daughter. Lisby is the student of F.Sc. Alice is advising her daughter to study hard as her exams are approaching and not to waste time in fun activities such as using Facebook, chatting or watching television shows. But Lisby is not ready to listen as she thinks that she has studied her subjects well and will manage to get through exam in good grades.