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Which of the following should you NOT do when facilitating a decision-making meeting?

• Bring up arguments against someone’s idea.

• Evaluate each idea as it comes up.

• Give everyone a chance to express their ideas.

• Allow people to bring up new information.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which of the following are given as reasons to check back at different points throughout the discussion? [Select all that apply]

• To test for disagreement.

• To confirm agreement.

• To introduce the purpose of the meeting.

• To clarify ideas or statements.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which of the following is NOT something you should do in the early stages of a meeting?

• Make sure everyone understands how a final decision will be made.

• Summarize the discussion.

• Make the purpose of the meeting clear.

• Share information.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A decision is a “good” decision if ____ [Select all that apply]

• it has good reasons or explanation behind it.

• it is supported by leadership.

• people support it.

• it doesn’t cost a lot of money.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is Group Discussion?

• It is interpersonal communication that involves three or more people with a common purpose.

• A Group Discussion (GD) is a technique used by corporate companies, educational institutes, and other organizations to judge the communication skills of the participant.

Everywhere you go nowadays, you see people using mobile phones. From school children to the people, you see them talking in the supermarket, on trains, in the street, everywhere!

So what are the advantages of mobile phones?

First of all, they are very convenient because you can phone from nearly everywhere. Another advantage is that they are really useful in emergency situations.

For example, if you are alone in your car and it breaks down, you can get help quickly. In addition, you can also use mobile to text your friends or connect to the net.

However, there are disadvantages such as the cost. Mobile phone calls cost more than normal calls. Furthermore, it can be annoying if you are on the train or a bus, and you have to listen to someone else’s boring conversation. It happens because people can contact you anywhere, at anytime, unless you switch your phone off!

In conclusion, there are both advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I feel mobile phones are a good thing because they give us more freedom and make communication easier.

Why do people prefer using mobile phones to home based telephones?

• They can afford it

• Mobile phones are cheap

• They can use it almost everywhere

• It has cheaper call costs than the normal ones

• Mobile phones let them free to talk in public places

Some students are motivated to study in a study group because the other members likely …

• Give them better ideas.

• Come up with important ideas.

• Are clever than them.

• Solve the problem.

• encourage them to study.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

“...a pandemic would occur once or it would repeat.” (paragraph 3)

Which word which DOES NOT have the same meaning as the underlined word?

• Spread

• Save

• Hit

• Strike

• Take place

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The writer influences the readers by repeatedly saying that ....

• The ads are only garbage

• The ads contain unimportant business information

• The ads promote unnecessary service products

• The ads inform us tips of easy shopping

• The ads become the source of information

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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There are many reasons for both sides of the question, "Should we have printed advertisement'?" Many people have strong views and feel that ads are nothing more than useless junk mail, while other people feel it is important source information.

There are some reasons why we should have advertisement in newspaper and magazines. One reason is ads give us information about what is available. Looking at ads we can find out what is on sale and what is new in the market. This is an easy way of shopping. Another reason is that advertisement promotes business. When shop owners compete against each other the buyer saves money, more people come to their shops and they sell more goods.

On the other hand, some people argue that ads should not be put in newspapers and magazines for these various reasons. Firstly, ads cost the shopkeepers a lot of money to print onto paper. Also some people don't like finding junk mail in their letter boxes. Ads also influence people to buy items they don't need and can't really afford. Ads use up a lot of space and a lot of effort has to be made the ads eye-catching.

After looking at both sides of issue, I think we should not have advertisements because they cost a lot of money and take up a lot of room in the papers. I don't think I find some of them interesting. I mainly disagree because it's junk mail.

Why does the writer present two sides of opinions of advertisements?

• She/he wants to take side

• She/he wants to be in the affirmative side

• She/he uses the opinions to emphasize her own stance

• She/he wants the readers know the opinion about the issue

• She/he wants the readers to understand her stance