Power Blog: Exercise 1 Read The Passage Below and Answer The Questions That Follow
Power Blog: Exercise 1 Read The Passage Below and Answer The Questions That Follow
Power Blog: Exercise 1 Read The Passage Below and Answer The Questions That Follow
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Power Blog
Almost everyone has heard the word blog before. Blog is the combination of two words: web and blog. What
is a blog? It is a personal diary that is uploaded into the Internet and available for reading for everyone, or only certain
people that the blogger selects. A blogger is the person who writes the blog and has authority over what the blog
contains. Usually, a blog would contain pictures, videos, playlists, flash content, and sometimes, advertisements.
There are a couple of websites that enable you to start a blog page on your own, but the most common is
www.blogger.com.
How to start to your own blog? Firstly, you need to log in to www.blogger.com as this picture below shows.
You need to click on the link that says “Create a Blog”. There 3 steps to have your own blog:
You need to have an existing e-mail in which the administrator at www.blogger.com can get in touch
with you for anything concerning your blog. Enter your password, choose a display name, which is the name
that will be used everytime you post your entry online. And of course click on the terms and conditions.
Now, you need to think of a name as your blog title. The blog title will appear in you blog page and it
is the first thing that your readers will see when they open your blog. Then, you also need to come up with
the blog address, which will be the URL of your blog. When people want to find your blog on the Internet,
they will need to type this URL in the browser to go to your websites.
After you have done those two previous steps above, you have to choose a template. A template is
how your blog will look like when you open it. There are a variety of templates to choose from, many different
colours to settle on, depending on your likings and preferences.
You can start blogging anytime with these easy 1, 2, 3 steps above. Just remember to update your blog!
Now, let’s test your understanding!
Blog
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What is blog?
Who is a
blogger?
Secondly, think of suitable _________ for your blog. Other than that, you also have to
come up with the blog ____________as the website _______ which people will use to search for
Lastly, you can pick any ____________to determine how you blog will look like.
Remember to ____________your blog so that your readers will always read your blog!