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Extensive reading A09 Andrea Calderon

EXTENSIVE READING FORM - A08

Student's name and course: Andrea Calderon Sanchez
Teacher's name: Antonio Rios Date:

  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.

Years ago I have read an article titled food for soul from Reader's Digest magazine. In this article relates the story of a woman who lost her daughter in a car accident; the like any mother she depressed and stressed because she shared many moments with her daughter, but one day she decided to overcome that pain, she created an organization which name is her daughter's name, this organization help children which do not have parents, it provides them education, food and medical care. This woman teach u show important is to continue with our life even something bad happened.


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.

SHYNESS/n/.- bashful; retiring
She paid for the mashrmallow box with shyness.
LANGUAGE/n/.- communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.
She had some language problems because of a deficient in her brain region.
DOUBT/n/.- uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
I have some doubts about your essay because it doesn't have quotations
RUN AWAY/pv/.-to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
She ran away when the parrto confesed her feelings to the boy.
REALIZE/v/.- notice
She didn't realize that the boy have the same feelings as she felt.

1 comment:

  1. Andrea,
    This report has to be done about a reading you are doing currently.
    Best,
    AR

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