Reading comprehension exercise
using PowerPoint
Question Slides
1. Start a new PowerPoint presentation with 4 slides on
it.
2. On Slides 2, insert the provided article (at the end of
this document) and a Text box with the caption
“Question 1”
3. On Slides 2 insert 4 Active Option Buttons.
4. On Slide 2, insert 3 Active buttons with the captions
“Submit,” “Previous” and “Clear”
5. With the “Submit” button selected, go to “View code”
and insert the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
If OptionButton1.Value = True Then
Slide3.Label1.Caption = "Correct"
Slide3.Label1.ForeColor = vbGreen
Slide4.Label1.Caption = 10
Else:
Slide3.Label1.Caption = "Incorrect"
Slide3.Label1.ForeColor = vbRed
Slide4.Label1.Caption = -5
End If
If OptionButton1.Value = False And OptionButton2.Value = False And OptionButton3.Value =
False And OptionButton4.Value = False Then
Slide3.Label1.Caption = "Incomplete"
Slide3.Label1.ForeColor = vbBlack
Slide4.Label1.Caption = 0
End If
If MsgBox("Are you sure you want to continue?", vbYesNo) <> vbYes Then
Exit Sub
Else
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End If
End Sub
*The answers are set to the first Active Option Button. To change it, just change the
Option Button number (OptionButton#).
6. With the “Previous” button selected, go to “View code” and insert
the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Previous
End Sub
7. With the “Clear” button selected, go to “View code” and insert
the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
OptionButton1.Value = False
OptionButton2.Value = False
OptionButton3.Value = False
OptionButton4.Value = False
End Sub
8. If you want to, change colors, properties, backgrounds, etc.
on the slide and its elements
9. Duplicate slide #2 four times (so you end up with 5 question
slides) and change the number of the question.
10. With the “Submit” button selected, open the code and
change the Label’s number (for the second question slide all
should be Label2, for the third question slide Label3 and so
on).
Results slide
1. Go to the last slide (Slide 8) and insert 5 Active labels.
2. Go to slide 7 and insert 5 text boxes and change their captions to
Question 1, Question 2, Question 3, Question 4 and Question 5.
3. Add an Active Label next to each Text box.
4. Add 2 Active labels for the results and the percentage.
5. Add an Active button, change its caption to “Results” and insert
the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
If Val(Slide4.Label1.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label2.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label3.Caption) +
Val(Slide4.Label4.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label5.Caption) < 0 Then
Label6.Caption = Val(Slide4.Label1.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label2.Caption) +
Val(Slide4.Label3.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label4.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label5.Caption)
Label7.Caption = 0
Else
Label6.Caption = "You got " & Val(Slide4.Label1.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label2.Caption) +
Val(Slide4.Label3.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label4.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label5.Caption) & " points"
Label7.Caption = (Val(Slide4.Label1.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label2.Caption) +
Val(Slide4.Label3.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label4.Caption) + Val(Slide4.Label5.Caption)) * 2 & "%"
End If
End Sub
6. Insert one more Active button with the caption “Exit” and
input the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Do While SlideShowWindows.Count > 0
SlideShowWindows(1).View.Exit
Loop
End Sub
Home screen
7. Go back to the first Slide, Insert an Active Button and
change its caption to “Start.” Then open the code and
insert the following: (next slide)
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Slide2.OptionButton1.Value = False
Slide2.OptionButton2.Value = False
Slide2.OptionButton3.Value = False
Slide2.OptionButton4.Value = False
Slide5.OptionButton1.Value = False
Slide5.OptionButton2.Value = False
Slide5.OptionButton3.Value = False
Slide5.OptionButton4.Value = False
Slide6.OptionButton1.Value = False
Slide6.OptionButton2.Value = False
Slide6.OptionButton3.Value = False
Slide6.OptionButton4.Value = False
Slide7.OptionButton1.Value = False
Slide7.OptionButton2.Value = False
Slide7.OptionButton3.Value = False
Slide7.OptionButton4.Value = False
Slide8.OptionButton1.Value = False
Slide8.OptionButton2.Value = False
Slide8.OptionButton3.Value = False
Slide8.OptionButton4.Value = False
Slide3.Label1.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label2.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label3.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label4.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label5.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label6.Caption = ""
Slide3.Label7.Caption = ""
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End Sub
Final touches
1. On the first slide, insert a text box with the exercise’s instructions
2. On each question slide, insert a question and change the answers using
properties for each Active Option Button.
3. For each slide, go to the top menu. Select “transitions” and on the right side,
deselect “advance slide on mouse click.”
4. Erase the “Previous” button from the second slide (First question).
Assignment
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Complete the assignment using 5 types of reading comprehension questions
from the theory. The material will be available on the class’s website.
Send it to me by email (luna.ej@outlook.com) no later than Monday December
1st.