Pre-reading questions:
- Do you like using the Internet? Why or why not?
- What do you do on the Internet?
Vocabulary:
- Algeria /al-JEER-ee-uh/
- suspend /suh-SPEND/
- exam /ig-ZAM/
- minister /MIN-uh-ster/
- decision /dih-SIZH-uhn/
[noun] a country in North Africa
She didn’t want to go to Algeria with me.
[verb] to stop something from happening
Our English teacher was suspended for one week.
[noun] short for examination; a test
The math exam we took was very hard.
[noun] a leader in a government department
The health minister will visit our city tomorrow.
[noun] a choice that you make about something
She had to make some very hard decisions.
The Internet in Algeria and Iraq was suspended to stop students from cheating during exams. This is because high school test papers were shared on Facebook. The Algerian Education Minister said that the Internet cannot be used for two hours every morning from June 20 to 25, 2018. Iraq had the same rule when high school students took the final tests in June. The Education Minister said she was not comfortable with the decision. However, she did not want students to cheat again.
True or False:
- The Internet cannot be used for three hours every morning.
- The Internet was suspended in Algeria and Iraq.
- Japan had the same rule during the final tests of high school students.
- The test papers were shared on Skype.
- The Education Minister was not comfortable with the decision.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| suspend | decision | Algeria | minister | exam |
- I was late for the _______ yesterday.
- John was _______ from the basketball team.
- The _______ you made is not good.
- I want to be an education _______ someday.
- The new student in our class is from _______.