LEL #3:Reading Skills Diagnostic 1: Informational Text

1. Interest level: The questions were about three different texts. The first one was about the extinction of sea otter, the second was about bears and how they take root in some American neighborhood, and the last one was about archeology and paleotology.

2. Difficulty level: 4/5 the questions were long sentences which I had to read many times to get the real meaning. Especialy the first text, there was many statistics that took my concentration off the topic.

3. What I learned (3 points): I have learned different facts about the topics chosen for the text.

- I did not know very much about the existence of sea otters before. It was quite interesting to see many points of view toward their extinction like the fact that they are eaten by killer whales, or due of some toxic products thrown to the sea in Asia that can reach them even if they are far from there.

- The bear can have a great memory and remember places they have been where the food they found there was great, that they can return to their favourite houses.

- I never realized that what seems unimportant for us now, can be a real treasure for archeologists in the future, like when they find ancient plates or pottery creations from the past civilizations.

. My score: 17/30

5. Course rating:3/5 the first text was really hard and long so it did not motivated me to continue as concentrate as I was at the beginning. Furthermore, the questions were sometimes too picky to know the answer quickly, and the fact that the texts were quite long did not help me to find the answers without searching for a while. This would not be useful during a real exam.