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Angela Requena - ER1
EXTENSIVE READING FORM – ADVANCED
Student´s name and course: Ángela Andrea Requena Sotomayor.
Teacher´s name: Antonio Rios Date: September 11th
Title of article: "Giving dogs and Love to Kids with Cancer"
Source (book, e-book, online publication, etc.): Reader´s Digest
1. Write about an event, issue, or idea in the reading that strikes you as important, interesting, or surprising. Tell why it is so.
The event and idea that strikes me as important is the way that the girl found to feel better despite her disease. However, she was in a treatment of a brain tumor, when she and her family adopted "Coco", an indescribable tie joined them.
I wondered if a pet could make me to feel better despite a huge problem I could have. I think the answer is yes. I can´t imagine what a little girl can feel being in a treatment of a brain tumor, but I also think that her family have achieved to protect their girl with love and patience.
The peace that the girl found with her pet made that she wanted to transmit this idea to children who are suffering in the same way, children with cancer. So she encouraged them to adopt a dog in order to feel better because a dog could give the children some kind of peace, calmness and happiness.
She figured out how to help the others in a way that anyone else did, and her mother hopes to extend this program of pet-adoption around the world, because they started in the U.S. Also they expect that it program can help to fund a pediatric cancer research.
2. Pick out 5 lexical items (verbs, phrasal verbs, expressions, fillers, etc.9 and write down examples of at least 2 different meanings of the lexical item.
1. Cuddle // v. if you cuddle someone, you put your arms round them and hold them close to show that you like or love them:
My mother always cuddles me before I go to the bed.
Cuddly // adj. a cuddly person or animal is attractive and makes you want to cuddle them, especially because they look soft or round:
That dog seems so cuddly. I love its fur.
2. Spay // v. to perform a medical operation on a female animal so that she cannot have babies:
My cousin´s dog was spayed when it was two years.
3. Gather // v. if people gather, or if someone gathers them, they come together in one place to see or do something:
There were more than 40,000 of people gathered in the stadium to see Peru soccer team.
Gather up // ph. v. to pick up things from several different places and put them together:
He gathered up her staff and left his house.
4. Leash // n. a long thin piece of material attached to a dog´s collar so that it can be controlled in a public place:
The local government lay down that all dogs must use a leash while they are on the parks.
Strain at the leash // phrase. to try and scape from someone´s control so that you can do what you want:
Teenagers want to strain at their parental leash.
5. Leftover // adj. remaining after you have finished using the amount that you want or need:
With the leftover fund, she wants to buy a new cell phone.
Leftovers // n. the food that remains at the end of a meal after you have finished eating:
When he arrived to his house, he only found the leftovers in the kitchen.
Andreita
LilianaYacolca Pérez ER1
EXTENSIVE READING FORM - ADVANCED
Student's name and course: Liliana Beatriz Yacolca Perez
Teacher's name: Mr. Antonio Rios Date:September 11th.
Title of Article: Hometown Heroes: Saving a Neighbor's Life
Source (book, e-book, online publication, etc.): Readers Digest
- Write about an event, issue, or idea in the reading that strikes you as important, interesting, or surprising. Tell why it is so.
Well this is the story of a man who unfortunately burned his house but the man was inside the house, a neighbor who lived very near there that helped out of the house as it would burn to death. What surprised me was that the neighbor came to see that it is firefighters went into the house to save his neighbor. They eventually became very good friends helped each other to rebuild the house of both.
- Pick out 5 lexical items (verbs, phrasal verbs, expressions, fillers, etc.) and write down examples of at least 2 different meanings of the lexical item.
Stagger / / v. to walk or move in an unsteady way, almost falling over:I got out of bed and staggered to the window.
Staggering / / adj. very surprising, shocking, and hard to believe:A staggering $ 3 million was spent in building the US nuclear arsenal.
- .beeping.- [beep] verb. (used with object) to sound (a horn, warning signal, etc.)
impatient drivers beeping their horns.
2. doorway.-[dawr-wey, dohr-] n. the passage or opening into a building, room, etc., commonly closed and opened by a door; portal.
Required a lot of thought to get this silhouette of the ancient building in the doorway of an ancient building.
3. fuse .- [fyooz] verb. (used with object) to unite or blend into a whole, as if by melting together.
The author skillfully fuses these fragments into a cohesive whole.
4. balcony .- [bal-kuh-nee] a balustraded or railed elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building.
Upstairs, in the newly renovated balcony, guests drooped against the rails and fanned themselves.
5.chokes up .-[chohk] verb. to become or cause to become speechless, as from the effect of emotion or stress.
She choked up over the sadness of the tale.
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