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e) Deducing meaning from context

Comprehension Practice
Are these statements true or false? Give the correct statement if it is false.
1 The number of people who attempt suicide is greater than the number of people who completed the act of suicide.   T__     F__
2 Depression is a treatable mental disorder.   T__    F__
3 Depression is not a very serious problem.   T__     F__
4 Depression is only a biological problem.   T__    F__
5 The only way to treat depression is to give the depressive person some certain medicine.   T__    F__
6 In America, over 1 in 5 people are likely to experience some sort of depression every year.   T__    F__
7 Over in 1 in 20 Americans commit suicide every year.   T__     F__
8 Depression is a genetic disorder.   T__    F__
9 When a person has suicidal thoughts or behaviors, s/he can turn back. T__   F__
10 Depressive people are likely to have problems in their social life.   T__    F__

f) Recognizing function and discourse patterns and markers
Context Questions
Read the text again to answer these questions.
1 What does ‘even a higher proportion’ mean in line 2?
2 What does ‘their’ refer to in line 4?
3 What does ‘their’ refer to in line 5?
4 What does ‘it’ refer to in line 10?
5 What does ‘this mental health problem’ mean in line 12?

Esra Altunkol

“Deducing meany from context and recognising function and discourse pottems and markers"

Choose the alternative that best explains the following vocabulary from the text.

1- The act of suicide (line-2)
a. to perform to kill himself
b. want to kill the other people
c. a kinds of role play

2- Depression is
a. the period in which there is no many jobs
b. a kind of mental illness
c. a kinds of feeling that makes you happy.

3- Diagnosed
a. recognize the character of a disease or problem
b. to feel bad
c. to be under stress.

4- reach
a. to arrive to
b. to run
c. to follow something

5- mispoception
a. miscommunication
b. misunderstanding
c. mistakes

6- Read the text again and write down what those words refer to.
1. It (line-2): ___________
2. their (line-4): ___________
3. this point (line-8) ___________
4. which affects a person’s dailing (line-10): ___________
5. this mental health problem (line-12): ___________
6. It (line-14): ___________

Hilal YERLİ

" type-2 skills deducing meaning from context and Recognizing function and discourse markers"
Choose the alternative that best explains the following vocabulary from the text.
1- “suffer” means
a. pain
b. feel
c. to show the effects of something bad

2- “diagnosed” means (in line-3)
a. pressure
b. the exact character of a disease
c. being ill

3- “reach” means
a. to arrive at or come to
b. to feel good
c. to catch something

4- “carry” means
a. to have something as a part, quality or result
b. to eat something
c. to run

5- “treatment” means
a. make exercises
b. get over
c. examined

Activity 2
Answer the following questions
CONTEXT QUESTIONS

a) What does it refer to in line-2?
b) What are “this point” in line-8 and what does “much more” in line-11?
c) Who or what “it” in line-9?
d) What is it that suicidal thought or behaviours in line-7?

Neslihan AVAN

C-Getting the general picture
*Read the text and find the answers to these questions
-How many people commit suicide in America?
-what are the reasons of suicide?
-What is the proportion of Americans who have a depressive disorder?
-What is depression?
-What is the best treatment of depression?
-What are the components of depression?

D-Inferring opinion
*Try to find out the main idea of text and answer the questions
-What does the message that the writer try to give to the reader in this text?
-Is the writer’s discussing point valid in Turkey?

Sonay Hizyeter

C-Getting general picture
*Read the text again and answer these questions.
*How many people in America commit suicide?
*What is the basic reason of suicide?
*What is the proportion of Americans who have depression every year?
*Is depression himself/herself fault?
*How does suicide affect people/soc?al life?
*What are the elements of depression?
*What is the best treatment of depression?

D-Inferring opinion and attitude
*Read the text carefully and answer the questions below
*What is the main idea of text?
*Do you support writer's main idea?

Zeynep Özer

Answer the questions:

1)What is the percentage of people who complete the act of suicide?
2)What is the depression?
3)What is the best treatment for depression?
4)How many American can expect to get some form of depression?

TRUE / FALSE QUESTIONS:

1)Over 1 in 20 Americans have a depressive disorder every year.T/F
2)Depression is your fault.T/F
3)At least 15% of people with depression complete the act of suicide.T/F
4)Depression is a character flaw.T/F

Kenan Turhan

Read the text to answer the following questions
1)How many people take their own lives in suicide in America?
2)How many Americans have a deppressive disorder every year?Over 1 in 20?
3)What is the best treatment of depression?
4)Why people think of suicide?What is the main reason?

Answer these true/false questions:

1)Depression is one of the most serious mental problem.T/F
2)The best treatment of depression is jogging.T/F
3)There are three components of depression.T/F
4)Depression is the fault of the people's own.T/F
5)People commit suicide because of depression.T/F

Mazhar Colak

   A) Answer these Questions.
      1-What's suicide?
      2)What can be the reasons of commiting suicide?
      3)According to you how does the person who commits a suicide become regretfull when s/he turns to life?

    B) Answer these Questions.
     1-How many American do they take their lives in suicide?
     2-What is the persentage of people with depression complate the act of suicide?
     3-What is the treatment of suicide?

Hasibe Dönmez