PAOLA GAMARRA ER2

EXTENSIVE READING FORM - ADVANCED

 

Student's name and course: JANETT PAOLA GAMARRA MUROYA - Ao 1
Teacher's name: ANTONIO RIOS

Date: SEPTEMBER 20th
Title of Article: RADIACTIVE HOT SPOTS IN TOKYO POINT TO WIDER PROBLEMS – THE NEW YORK TIMES

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1.       Write about an event, issue, or idea in the reading that strikes you as important, interesting, or surprising. Tell why it is so.

TITLE: Radioactive Hot Spots in Tokyo Point to Wider Problems.

 

SUMMARY:

 

The article show us that until the disaster produced at the Fushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant still no one can´t control the radiation, because wind and wáter are expanding the radiotion for all Japan. Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens' group to test for radiation near his son's baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Many zones have already been affected but the goverment don´t want to accept, for that problem each person tries to give any solution survive and not leave affected for this radiation.

 

The government has not ignored citizens' pleas entirely; it recently completed aerial testing in eastern Japan, including Tokyo. But several experts and activists say the tests are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be useful in finding micro hot spots such as those found by the citizens' group.

 

Mr. Hayashida, who discovered the high level at the baseball field, said that he was not waiting any longer for government assurances. He moved his family to Okayama, about 370 miles to the southwest.

 

This is a big problem in Tokyo and all Japan. I think that all the people look for a future with no radiation fears.

But finally, until now, anyone find way out and that disaster can continue until next year because it continues to expand.

2.      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.

 

-          FALLOUT /fawl – out/ n.

 

The settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions.

 

ü  This article discusses eight steps one can take to minimize the fallout from inevitable mistakes.

 

-          FALLING OUT /faw – ling – out/ n.

 

A quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one aother.

 

ü  Tom and Bill had a Little falling - out.

 

-          COVERAGE /kuhv – er – ij/ n.

 

Insurance.

 

ü  The World Series recieves international coverage.

 

-          STRICKEN /strik – uh´n/ v.

 

A part participle of strike.

 

ü  This answer, although stricken out, was gleefully received.

 

-          DENSE /dens/ adj.

 

Having the component parts slorely compacted together; crowded or compact.

 

ü  If your page is too dense, your reader will quito ut of it as son as their eyes begin to tear.