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READING FORM - A08

Student's name and course: Adriana Matos Mucha  A08Teacher’s name: Mr. Rios

1. - Express opinions, doubts, confusions, and convictions that come to your mind as you think about what you have read. Watch and write about how these things change over time. Include title of book, article, magazine, etc. that you are reading

I have read a book called “Paula” and its author is Isabel Allende. I really liked this book because shows the love that one mother can have to her daughter and all the effort she can do to make her daughter survive. Also it shows the courage that Isabel has to surpass the pain and all problems that were coming with Paula’s disease.
It has a message of fortress, courage, love, etc.
At the same time, Allende tells the story of Chile, when they were in politic problems and then there was the dictatorship. It was a terrible time because a lot of people died and there was a great crisis in that country.

2.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.

1) Acute: (adj) subtle, penetrating// Everybody left the room because the sound was really acute.
   Actuate: (v) animate// The children actuated his drawings.

2) Remain: (v) stay// Isabel remained almost one year in the hospital taking care of her daughter.
   Remains: (n) Very old things// There is a great museum where we can find a lot of Incas’ remains.

3) Encompass: (v) Enclose, protect// In hospitals, doctors should encompass patients with death risk into especial rooms.
   Encounter: (n) Meeting// Next week, that girl is going to have an encounter with my cousin.

4) Helmet: (n) The tool one should use to protect his head// A lot of civil workers died because they didn’t use helmets.
  Helmsman: (n) Pilot// The helmsman got a prize because of his great labor.

5) merry-andrew: (n) A clown, jester// There was a merry-andrew in my classroom who always was gotten out of it.
 Merrymake: (n) spree, fun // When my father was 50 years he made a great merrymake.
 

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