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Nama Buku: Advanced Stories for Comprehension
Nama Pengarang: L. A. HILL
Penerbit: P.T Pustaka Ilmu
Tahun Terbit: 1986
Tentang Buku:
In his earlier series of prakties books, Dr.
Hill has used three levels, his elementary (1000-headword), intermadiate
(1500-headword) and advanced (2075-hedaword) levels. Inthis new series, there
is also another level, the introductory (750-headword) level. This book is at
the 2075-headword level.
Each story is about 150 words long, and some of
the stories contain one or two words outside the grading. These are listed on
the pages on which they appear, and can be looked up in adictionary before work
is begun. All the level are very carefully graded, and this covers not only
vocabulary, but olso idioms and grammar.
These four book are intended chiefly to help
student read english more easily and which more comprehension, but they can
olso be used:
(i)
For praktis in understanding
spoken english (with the student listening to the teacher or to the cassette)
(ii)
For practice in writing
english (by answering the questions in member, and by doing the exercises)
(iii)
For improving the student’s
command of vocabulary, idioms, and grammar (again by doing certain of the
exercises)
If the student wishes to uses the books only
for practice in reading comprehension, he/she should read a story and the than
answer quetion in his/her mother-tongue.
He/she can olso try reading some (or all) of
the quetion first, and then reading the story to find the answers to the
quetions before answering them. To increase speed of reading, the student can
time himself/herself with a watch and clock, and try to read as fast as
possible, provided that he/she can still understand.
If the students wants to used this book for
practice for understanding spoken english, he/she can used the cassette in the
following ways:
(i)
He/she can listen to the
cassette one or more times (with his/her book open or closed, as he/she wishes)
and then read the story aloud himself/herself, at first in chorus with the
voice in the cassette, and then alone. After his/her own reading alone, he/she
can check his/her performance by listening to the cassette again
(ii)
He/she can listen to the
cassette one or more time, with his/her book closed, and then write down as
much of the story as he/she can remember, and/or answer the quetions and do the
exercises ( all without looking at the story). If he/she writes as much of the
story as he/she can remember. He/she can then look at the story in the book, or
listen to it again on the cassette, to compare wat he/she has written with the
original
Method (i) give practise in speaking with a good
pronunciation, including stress, rhythm, and intonation
Method (ii) gives practise in aural
comprehension (Listening and understanding)
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