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SECOND EXTENSIVE READING

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 decided to read an outline story that has no author and title. This amazing story was about a woman who decided to help a poor boy giving him food and clothes for a short time. Many years later the woman was detected of cancer, so she had to take a treatment with the doctor. However, it was a surprise when she saw the doctor because he was the poor and hungry boy that she had met some years before. The doctor recognized the woman, and he decided to put all his effort to cure her. Finally, after a hard struggled the cancer had disappeared. This story taught me that when you do a good action you will be rewarded in the future we also have to think that the world is like a river always moving and changing that's why we don’t know when we are going to need of the others help, so it is important to remember that a good action can change your life in the future.


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


Baffle: /v/ To confuse, bewilder or perplex
H e was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.


Hall: /noun/. A passage way or area onto which rooms open .
The elevators were at the end of the hall.


Struggle: / noun/. An energetic attempt to achieve something.
After a long struggle, the battle was won.


Edge:/noun/. The boundary of a surface.
She put the book on the edge of the table.


Tear: /noun/. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
His story brought tears to her eyes.


Faith: /noun/. A strong belief in a supernatural power that controls human destiny.
He lost his faith but not his morality.


Drenched. /adj/ Wet.
She stayed there drenched by the rain.

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