second extensive reading

SECOND EXTENSIVE READING - A08

Student's name and course: Vivian Capcha Romero – A08

Teacher’s name: Mr Rios.        Date: December 16th

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 read an interesting article about the real meaning of Christmas, its title is “Was Jesus born on December 25?” This article caught my attention for its title because I always thought that Jesus Christ had born On December 25th; although the author of the article is anonymous it’s obvious that he says the true because he uses many historical sources, recently researches and facts that are well known by people around the world. He says that the Catholic Church trying to evangelize some countries found a strong wall of idolatry. That’s why they decided to celebrate their most important holiday “June birth” with Christian figures as Jesus, Maria, etc.  Actually this is a pagan holiday which just tries to raise the materialism in children and alcoholism and gluttony in adults. However, Christian families celebrate this holyday because they feel that Jesus Christ was born in their hearts.

 
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.   GLUTTONY: /n/ When people eat and drink more than they need to

They treat Christmas as just another excuse for gluttony.

GLUTTONOUS: /adj./ eating and drinking more than you need

2.   CALVE: /n/ when a cow calves, it gives birth to a young cow

Four cows calved overnight.

CALVES: /n/ plural of calf

Have you seen the calves from the zoo? They are cute.

3.   WORSHIP /n/ to have a strong feeling of respect and admiration for God

In the various regions of India, Hindus worship different gods and observe different religious festivals.

WORSHIPPER: /n/ someone who goes to a religious ceremony to worship God

4.   OFFERING: /n/something that you give or offer to someone

In some countries people gives sacrificial offerings.

5.    DISGUISE: /v/ to give a new appearance to a person or thing, especially in order to hide its true form

He disguised himself by shaving his head and wearing a false beard.

DISGUISED: /adj./ having an appearance that hides the true form

In Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night', Duke Orsino falls in love with the disguised Viola.