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EXTENSIVE READING 2

Student:Marta Melgar Baldeon
Course:A09·    
   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 saw a video called " The don`t quite poem".While i was looking that video , i was thinking  on all the difficulties that everybody have during their life. I reaaly like the phrse which says :"If you have problems and these don`t have how to solve them ,why you are worried if don`t have solution!" and" If you have problems and it has solutions why don´t  use that solution to solve them!".When you have a problem , you need think if it`s so big that cause you to be worry, and think that other peolple have bigger than yours.Besides,all kind of problem has a solution ,and you always will have obstacles in your life, that is the escency of the life.You need tu take the advantages and don`t take care on the less details that make you unhappy.

     2.Pick out 5 lexical items (verbs,phrasal  verbs, expressions,fillers,etc) and write down examples of at least 2 different meaning 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  U.S nuclear  arsenal

1.     QUEER:
·        strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular

 We realized that he has a queer notion of justice because he           decided not to participate as a witness.

·        to put (a person) in a hopeless or disadvantageous situation as to success, favor, etc. to jeopardize.

As soon as we realized that we were in queer , we decided to run quickly.

2.     TRUDGE
·        verb (used without object)
        to walk, especially laboriously or wearily:

 to trudge up a long flight of  steps.

·        verb (used with object)
        to walk laboriously or wearily along or over.

He trudged the deserted road for hours.

3.     FUND
·        money immediately available; pecuniary resources:
He is momentarily without funds to help the people from the earthquacke
·        to provide a fund to pay the interest or principal of (a debt).
4.     BLOW
·        at one blow, with a single act:
 He became wealthy and famous at one blow.  
·        come to blows, to begin to fight, especially to engage in physical combat
 They came to blows over the referee's ruling.

5.     DEBT
·        a liability or obligation to pay or render something
My debt to her for advice is not to be discharged easily.  
·        the condition of being under such an obligation
 His gambling losses put him deeply in debt.




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