1.	Choosing text

2.

Reading

3.	Exercise 1

4.	Exercise 2

5.	Exercise 3

6.	Exercise 4

7.	Exercise 5

8.	Answer Key

9.	Grading the Test

10.	Conclusion

11.

Sources

„- CHOOSING TEXT -

As a topic of my seminar paper I chose reading of an English text. From my point of view, the material should be used after passing basic English grammar structures. Both grammar and vocabulary were chosen not to be too difficult. I would use this text and exercises when teaching the last form of a primary school, pupils of a grammar school till the age of 15 or at a language school. My presupposition is based on the idea that such pupils and learners have some knowledge of English which they have already studied for some time. Reading and following testing may improve pupils’ abilities to think of English as of a source of knowledge and can motivate them to develop their language skills.
When searching for an appropriate text, I thought about its language level, subject and length. Finally, I chose an article about chocoholics which seemed suitable to me. Its extent is not time-consuming; the topic is interesting and may motivate the reader. The only important change I made with the text was transferring words written in American English into their British forms.

- READING -
Read the following text carefully.

PARAGRAPH 1
Resistance is futile. The more we fight the urge, the more we want chocolate. The more we try to fight off a craving for chocolate, the more our desire for it grows. But chocoholics can take heart that such sweets are not addictive despite the fact many people consider themselves as having no control over their urges to eat the sweets, said Peter Rogers, a psychologist at the University of Bristol.

PARAGRAPH 2
“Food behaviour can look like addictive behaviour in extreme situations but chocolate does not fit these criteria,” Rogers told a meeting sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Many people point to certain compounds found in chocolate that produce a buzz when they reach the brain as evidence chocolate is addictive, Rogers said.

PARAGRAPH 3
But many of these compounds also exist in higher concentrations in other foods with less appeal, such as avocados or cheese, and do not cause addiction despite what many chocoholics believe, he said.

PARAGRAPH 4
Instead, a social attitude that chocolate is “naughty but nice” may actually drive people to see chocolate as a forbidden pleasure and desire it even more, Rogers said. “In other words, chocolate is a highly desirable food, but which according to social norms should be eaten with restraint,” he said. “However, attempting to resist the desire to eat chocolate only causes thoughts about chocolate to become more prominent, consequently heightening the desire.”

PARAGRAPH 5
Other studies have suggested that dark chocolate contains more of the beneficial compounds linked with heart health, though experts note that the high sugar and fat content of most chocolate candy might cancel out some of the benefits. But even health benefits do not make dark chocolate as popular as milk chocolate and chocolate covered confectionery, Rogers said further research has shown. And the fact these favoured choices contain lower amounts of the so-called psychoactive compounds found in dark chocolate provides more evidence chocolate is not addictive, he said.

EXERCISE 1. Choose the most appropriate title for the previous article: (2 points)
a) Dangerous Food and its Effects
b) Chocoholics Are Not Really Addicted
c) Health Problems Caused by Chocolate
d) Environmental Issues
Choosing the most suitable title for a text tests the ability of the students to skim. Such a type of exercise examines the ability to understand the general sense of the given text. The multiple choice exercise allows the teacher to evaluate the answers more objectively than the exercise with instructions that tell students to make up the best title on their own.“