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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions below
Can you think of a classroom where there is no blackboard or desks? Do you believe that you can be a student without a printed book or a writing pad or even pen/ pencil? Are you not thrilled to imagine that you have asked a question and your tutor is answering it while flying in a Boeing from Dubai to Dhaka? These are all possible in a 'virtual campus' in the system of e-learning. No kidding! For quite a long time, educationists have been utilizing the advantages of computer technology. The social networking services have a huge potential to help educationists in this sector. They have access to millions of people worldwide. Educationists have noticed that a large number of social network users come from young generation who especially belong to student community. So side by side with computer assisted teaching-learning software, online education programmes are evolving fairly rapidly to assist conventional education system. Is that e-learning?
We may confuse distant education or computer-based learning or computer-assisted training or even online education programmes with e-learning. But we should be cautious about the mix-up. What happens in an online education programme? Maybe you get some materials online from your tutor. Maybe you submit your assignment through e-mail. Or even you may take your test online. But there must be some conventional campus, a department/institute from where your certificate will come. But in e-learning, as said by global e-learning guru Dr Badrul H Khan*, every step, such as, registration, admission, classroom entry and exit, class wo, attendance, discussion with course mates, feedback, exams and finally certification must take place electronically through computer and the Internet technology in a virtual campus.
Everything is digitized and conducted by a system called Learning Management System (LMS). So online education programmes blend various components of e-learning.
The revolutionary concept of e-learning is already in its practice phase in many parts of the world. Professor Khan has developed a framework and important literatures on e-learning which have been praised by pundits worldwide. Professor Khan is especially enthusiastic about the prospect of e-learning in Bangladesh.
How would you feel if Bangladesh contemplates establishing South Asia's first virtual university? Won't it be a pioneering step for us in the world of e-learning? Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Answer the following questions in your own words:
C. Read the text and answer the questions that follow.
Let's imagine a citizen's ordinary day at work. The morning probably starts with a cup of coffee/tea, followed by greeting the colleagues. Then comes the inevitable, which is log in the computer. For many of us the third step has become an automatic behavior and it dominates the rest of our work day, receiving and sending dozens of emails.
An e-mail is an electronic mail. It is a computer-aided way of exchanging digital text messages from a sender to one or multiple recipient/s. E-mails operate through a network of computers linked by the Internet. There are commercial server agencies such as Yahoo, Gmail, Ymail, Hotmail, etc. that accept the text message from the sender, forward it and deliver instantly to the digital mailbox of the recipient. If the recipient is not online, the message is stored and delivered later when the recipient is online. It works instantly just with the click of your mouse. It has been a powerful communication tool in modern life.
Questions
1. What is an e-mail?
2. How do e-mails operate?
3. How do the commercial servers serve in the process of an e-mail?
4. 'It has been a powerful communication tool in modern life.' Explain the statement.
5. How do e-mails affect our daily work schedule?
D. Work in pairs and discuss the steps of your normal days, weekends, etc.
E. Pairwork. Read the following e-mail exchanged between two friends. Like an informal letter, an e-mail to a close one is casually written. Identify the mistakes in the main body of the message, discuss with your partner, and correct them.
Subject: Details of Dhaka Tour
FROM: Alexa Dowson
TO: Moutushi Laboni
Monday, 21 May 2012 6:20 AM
Hi Moutushi!
Thanks for your mail. I'll fly from Ottawa on 7:36 hours local time on 13 July with Qatar Airlines via London-Doha and land Dhaka on 15 July around 13:41 hours local time. Wish to stay 2 days in the Cox's Bazar and 1 day in Khulna. Return flight on 21 July at 3:04 hours local time.
Keep in touch and stay fine. Hope to see you soon!
Alexa
F. Pairwork. The e-mail in section E is a reply by Alexa to Moutushi's previous e-mail. Imagine what Moutushi might have written to Alexa. Write that e-mail.
Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
Today is haat bar, and Ameen prepares to go there with items to sell. He wears a short-sleeved floral shirt over his (a) _____ Sonabhan notices how much he has grown while walking along the (b) _____ . She realizes that Ameen now resembles his (c) _____ He has a long neck and (d) _____ shoulders, just like his father. For the first time, she sees her son as a (e) _____ .
Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
The text is about a mother giving (a) _____ to her daughter. She teaches tasks like (b)____ clothes and cooking. The mother warns her daughter not to act like a (c) ______ . She also emphasizes proper behaviour in (d) _____ The story shows the impact of (e) _____ roles on women.
Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
Air pollution (a) _____ the ways in which the air is polluted. Air is the most important element of human environment. Man cannot (b) _____ a single moment without air. But we do not think that it is we who (c) ______ this most vital element. Clean air is essential for life. Air is polluted in many ways. For example, smoke pollutes air. Man makes fires to (d) _______ his food, to make bricks, burn refuse, melt pitch for road construction and burn wood. All these things produce heavy (e) _____ and this smoke pollutes air.
Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
The weather suddenly took a (a) ______ turn that afternoon, and dark clouds began to gather. As the author was walking towards his room, he decided to change (b) ______ . to a friend's place. The sound of (c) _____ above made him stop and look up, where he saw a strange funnel cloud (d) _____ from the sky. In a hurry to find shelter, he found a (e) ______ and crouched there as the storm intensified.
Complete the table below with information from the passage.
Nelson Mandela | |||||
| Profession | Politician and President | ||||
| Aim | (i) _____ | ||||
| Who/What | Event | Place | Time | Contribution | Award |
| Nelson Mandela | birth | (ii) ______ | 1918 | ||
| He | (iii) ______ | Robben Island Prison | 1964-1982 | ||
| He | was president | South Africa | (iv) _____ | ||
| He | was awarded | 1993 | guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a multiracial democracy | (v) ______ | |
Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.
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