SECOND READING

EXTENSIVE READING FORM - A08

Student's name and course: KARINA CALDERON MENDOZA

Teacher's name: ANTONIO RIOS                Date: January 24th

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.

                                                       THE TALE OF TWO BRAINS

              I really surprised about men's brains and women's brains are very different from each other  because men's brains are made up with little boxes, and each box is for one thing, there is a box for the car, for the family, they have boxes everywhere , and the principal role is that the boxes do not touch. However, women's brains are very different because their brains are like wires, so everything is connected to everything  that is why they are able to remember everything. I think that this article help people to understand that men and women are very different in their point of view, so in their brains they have different things women have wires and men have boxes.

 

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.

 

1wire (wire):Pronunciation: /wʌɪə/noun 1 [mass noun] metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread or rod:

 a coil of copper wire [as modifier]: a wire coat hanger

wire: Pronunciation: /wʌɪə/ verb [with object] 1install electric circuits or wires in:

wiring a plug electricians wired up searchlights

2.-tale (tale)Pronunciation: /teɪl/noun 1a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted:

 a delightful children's tale tales of witches and warlocks she enjoyed hearing others tell their tales

3.-leisure (leis|ure)Pronunciation: /ˈlɛʒə/noun [mass noun] time when one is not working or occupied; free time:

 people with too much enforced leisure

4.-average (aver|age)Pronunciation: /ˈav(ə)rɪdʒ/noun 1the result obtained by adding several amounts together and then dividing this total by the number of amounts; the mean:

the proportion of over-60s is above the EU average of 19 per cent

5.-average.: Pronunciation: /ˈav(ə)rɪdʒ/adjective constituting the result obtained by adding together several amounts and then dividing this total by the number of amounts:

 the average temperature in May was 4°C below normal