Textuality » 3LSCA InteractingSNardella - WEEK II- CONNECTORS 1-2 - Listening and Reading Activities
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Up to 3LSCA - 3 WEEK: 16 - 22nd March, 2020 - Online Study for Prolonged School Closure.
CONNECTORS EXERCISE 1 Complete following sentences using an appropriate connecting word.
whereas otherwise nonetheless
In addition beside moreover
Although however in spite of
even as although even so
However even as moreover
Despite Although besides
Although In spite of However
EXERCISE 2 Wherever; finally; however; in spite of; although; as if; unless; since; despite; so as not to 1. The dog eats the food hungrily AS IF it has been starved for months. 2. FINALLY all good things must come to an end. 3. All the students have been miserable SO AS NOT TO Mrs. Tan left the school. 4. Always stand up for yourself IN SPITE OF lose your integrity. 5. Her baby remains as skinny as ever DESPITE the vitamins and expensive food. 6. Agatha won't go out with you UNLESS you promise to pay for the lunch. 7. Do remember to keep in contact WHEREVER you are. 8. ALTHOUGHhe is sick, he still continues working. 9. SINCE tough he appears to be, he still loses to the short man. 10. The plane managed to land HOWEVER the heavy rain, thunder and lightning.
READING ACTIVITY Task 1 90% Paragraph Headings A LEADING THE WAY ..3 B A TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION …2 C THE ORIGINS OF THE UNDERGROUND – EXAMPLE D OVERCOMING PHYSICAL OBSTACLES ….4 E SERVING LONDON’S NEEDS F STILL THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST TODAY G PASSENGER SAFETY…6 H LATER EXPANSION …5 I EARLY SUCCESS AND GROWTH…1
Task 2 90% 7 says you may find love with an old friend B 8 says someone close to the reader has been ill recently. A 9 has good news regarding money. D 10 says old arguments will return. A 11 recommends not making any changes right now. C 12 recommends buying something new. D 13 recommends an easy-going approach to a relationship. A
Task 3 80% 14. In the first paragraph the author suggests that … D some foreigners might not take the trouble to understand the game.
15. Concerning the start of cricket… C it was already in existence by 1300.
16. England and Australia… A were the first nations to play official matches. 17. The writer doesn’t explain all of the rules of cricket because... A there isn’t enough space in the article.
18. The writer says that the current Australian cricket team… B are the best team in the world at the moment.
19. The process of professionalism… C has raised the standard of the sport.
20. Whom is the text aimed at? D People who don’t like cricket.
LISTENING ACTIVITIES -task one 90%
A. A pair of pillows X B. Headphones X C. A sleeping bag D. A dish washer X E. Scissors X F. A laptop G. A washing machine X H. A CD X
-task two 100%
Hi , Nora phoned and left you a message. She’s still in Kintekunta. • She’s been burgled – they took everything except some cash and her CAMERA. • She needs you to do a few things for her. Family • Parents know nothing. Please phone her SISTER. • Her Gran is coming TOMORROW. Take her to Nora’s place as she’s never been. • She gets here at 11:30 on a flight from GLOSGOW. Miscellaneous • She (Nora) has enough money to GET HOME. • No rush about the bills, except the ELECTRICITY which you need to pay by tomorrow at the latest. • While you’re there please water the plants. University • Contact Professor Philips about my ASSIGNEMENT, ask for an extension until NEXT FRIDAY. • THE PARTY is postponed. I’ll make up for it!
-Task three 90% 16. Before being a singer Mike was… C a tour guide.
17. How long did he work for the record company? A He doesn’t remember.
18. When he was at home, Mike wrote… B music. 19. Concerning his latest album, Mike... A wrote more than half of it. 20. What did Mike think about the experience of working with other people? C He enjoyed it and benefited from it.
21. How successful has his new album been? A It’s sold extremely well.
22. What’s Kelly’s opinion of the new album? C Mike’s singing is the best part of this record.
23. On Mike’s next tour of the country, he will be… C in Barnsley for ten nights.
24. Overall, Mike’s career… C has been mixed.
25. The presenter’s attitude towards Mike is… A enthusiastic.
“The Faithful Swallow” TITLE EXPECTATION The title and its meaning is not clear immediatly. But we expect might be about a “faithful” animal. Infact, reading the poem, we can associate this animal to a bird. The poem tells about the life and the decisions of this bird and the author (Thomas Hardy) express the bird’s though as if it were speaking. Infact the author uses the direct speech in almost all the poem. As we said, the poem tells about the decision of this bird to stay where it is, even if summer is ending and the cold season is arriving. It chooses to stay in the same frickle and not to move to another But when December arrives it says it didn’t expect exactly it would serve frost, hunger and snow. But at this poit it was too late to go, so it had to stay there. LAYOUT As we can see, the poem consists of two stanzas of eight lines each. The meaning of the stanzas is contrary. Infact in the first stanza the bird thinks to have made the right choice: besides it calls who choose to go away from there “fickle”. In the second stanza its thought is changed instead. It didn’t expect the cold, the hunger it is taking on and we can understan that the decision it has made was wrong, even if it doesn’t say in a directly way. What strikes attention more is the twelfth line: it consists of only one word. The word “fedelity” play a key-role in the poem and may it is connected to the title reinforcing its meaning. CONNOTATION It is through the assonance “ei” expresses by the words “said”, “stay”,”they”, the poet rappresent the contest of the first stanza, meanwhile the second one is characterize by the repetiotion of the sound “me” expressed by the words “came”,”same”,”me” and the sound “no” expressed by words “not”,”know”,”snow”. This convey another contest, contrary to the first one. In the first stanza the words “summer” and “August” belong to the same semantic field. They communicate me hot, the sun, the sea, and the yellow color of the sun. In the second stanza instead, the words “December”,”not”,”frost”,”snow” communicate me something grey, sadness, unhappiness and something empty.
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