Week 1

Assignement 3 Scanning
1. Monday, June 21 - 9.30 AM
2. Hotel California
3. Friday, July 16 at 8.00 PM on Veteran's Park stages
4. The admission is free
5. The Golden Dragon Acrobats

Assignement 4: Skimming
1. It's a rating text, rating the top 5 books regarding the Us president
2. Most likely in a magazine, probably in a book sector
3. - 4. The Big Book of U.S. Presidents
- Presidential Trivia Book Every Household Should Have
4. Presidential Trivia Book Every Household Should Have

Assignement 5: Predicting
1. I think the text is about how drugs can make you (seem) smarter of gain knowledge
2. Coffee
3. I think the writer is for the use of these new drugs, since she doesn't seem to have a problem with coffee.
4. the 5th and 6th paragraph will be about why strict controls would be useless and wrong.
5. My prediction was right. The benefits could be huge for people whose jobs require them to concentrate for long periods and for people who have a naturally low attention span.
6. whether future drugs will be as tolerated as coffee is nowadays.
7. The text didn't lived up to my expectations. The author never mentioned any new drugs that can help you gain more knowledge. The author talked a lot about existing drugs, but failed to mention something new and also didn't talked about the acceptance of these drugs.

Assignement 6
Informative
When the British Journal asked its readers earlier this year, one in five of those who answered said they used such drugs non-medically to help them concentrate or learn.
Persuasive
If chemical assistance can help increase the useful human lifespan, the benefits could be huge.
Entertaining
The first paragraph is entertaining for it deliberately gives the reader the idea the text about hard drugs, while it really is about coffee.