EXTENSIVE READING FORM - A08

EXTENSIVE READING FORM - A08

 

Student's name and course: Milagros Bravo Alvarez

Teacher's name: Mr. Antonio Rios                        Date: 09/12/2011

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.

·         Well, I read an interesting article on the internet whose title is THE GREATEST HOAXES OF ALL TIME. I decided to read it because its tittle drew my attention, and I really enjoyed reading that article, so it is about five hoaxes which became so well – known over the time between people who consider those stories as hilarious, questionable and unsolvable. The hoaxes that mention the article are Reattaching Manhattan, Dead Man's Float, The Loch Ness Monster, Eat Popcorn, and Fairy Tale.

However, I like the last one since it is hilarious for me. It is about two women who asserted that they had discovered and photographed "fairies" in the English Village Of Cottingley. The fairies photo which was taken in 1917 became a national fascination in the U. S., and several photography experts who examined the pictures declared them free of retouching, as consequence of that most people were so surprised and started believing in fairies. But it was all much simpler than that, so in the early 1980s, the women admitted they had posed with paper cutouts supported by hatpins.

Finally, what I can say is that hoaxes have always been and are part of the human history and don not change over time because people will go ahead telling stories like them. So it depends on each of us if we are going to believe or not in them, but in opinion they are stories to entertain us.

 

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.     Scheme.- A plan for achieving something, especially something illegal or dishonest. / noun/

-          It sounds like just another crazy money – making scheme.

ü  Scheme.- A system of organizing or arranging information. /noun/

-          Libraries organize books according to a subject classification scheme.

2.    Quiz. - A test of knowledge in the form of a short or rapid series of questions. /noun/

-          They were given a quickly quiz by their biology teacher.

ü  Quiz .- to ask somebody a lot questions, often in a urgent or angry way. /verb/

-          She was quizzed about the disappearance of the money.

3.    Stream.-A small narrow river. /noun/

-          A path runs alongside the stream.

ü  Stream of. - A continuous flow of people or things.

-          He was great company with his endless stream of stories.

4.    Pose.-To create a difficult or dangerous situation. /verb/

-          We are being told that the accident poses no threat to the environment.

ü  Pose.- to sit or stand somewhere so that someone can take a photograph or paint a picture of you.

-          The leaders posed briefly for photographs before returning to the conference hall.

5.  Swear. - To use words that are offensive for example because you are angry with someone. /I. verb/

-    That is the first time I have heard him swear.

ü  Swear.- to make a sincere statement that you are telling the truth. / t. verb/

-          She swears this man attacked her and stole her wallet.