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ABOUT MOVERS Pages 177-178 Ex. 1 1) The speaker is an Indian man, who emigrated from India to Pakistan and then to England. 2) He has a theory according to which all the resentments caused by migrant people have something in common with the conquest of the force of gravity. 3) He compares gravity to the sense of belonging. 4) He thinks that roots are a conservative myth, designed to keep people in their places. 5) The two ways of looking for freedom are: to fly and to flee. 6) He supposes NASA creates an anti-gravity pill. 7) Its consequences are the failure of the main airlines and people leave the ground and start to float in the air. 8) It would be necessary to devise water-proof flying clothes. 9) The connection between gravity and roots is that the pill would make migrants of us all. 10) The best thing about migrant people is their hopefulness, while the worst thing is the emptiness of their luggage. Ex. 2 The speaker experiences the double condition of emigrant from Pakistan and newcomer in India and in England. Ex. 3 The metaphor upon which the whole text is built is the connection between emigration (sense of belonging) to anti-gravitation. Ex. 4 The connection between gravity and belonging is the main metaphor of the text. Gravity is linked with the people’s attachment to their birthplaces. This is explained clearly with the simile between people and trees. Indeed people’s attachment is compared to the roots of a tree. According to the author, this is a conservative myth, created to keep people in their places. If gravity does not exist, roots will not keep people on the ground (their birthplaces) and people will begin to float, becoming migrant people. Ex. 5 In the third paragraph the speaker plays with words and concepts taken from the scientific world, especially physics and astronomy, and also from the semantic field of journey. Ex. 7 Reading the extract I get the impression the narrator is in favour of migration, because he describes the hopefulness of migrant people, who hope to find a better place to live in the country they are going to. Ex. 8 Some rules can be:
Ex. 9 The traveller and writer Bruce Chatwin thinks that all human activities are linked to the idea of journey. He believes that also thoughts are a particular kind of journey. According to him all people have in the brain a sort of information system that gives them all the orders. Here can be found also the human sense of restlessness. At an early stage man found he could receive all the information in one go by using some substances like the vine, hashish or mushrooms, altering our system. This is a sort of illusory journey. The narrator says also that in the past drugs were vehicles for all the people who have forgotten to walk. He concludes saying that actually journeys are usually economic and instructive and no more faked ones (journeys made by our mind).
OVERVIEW Page 179 Ex. 1 1) Custom duties 2) Raw materials 3) Smuggling 4) Bribery 5) To mock / to ridicule 6) Coffeehouse 7) Common sense 8) Morals 9) Wrong behaviour 10) Correct behaviour Ex. 2
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Ex. 4 In Britain people do not chose their Prime Minister, who is elected within their political party. After a general election, the leader of the political party with the most Member of Parliament in the House of Commons is asked by the King/ Queen to became Prime Minister and to form a government. The PM leads the government and appoints ministers. The most important ministers forms the Cabinet. Ex. 5 1) F. Walpole was a Whig landowner. 2) T 3) T 4) F. His government did not end when George II came to the throne. 5) T 6) F. Pitt was a Whig. 7) T Ex. 6 1) Materialistic 2) Hierarchical 3) The local landowners 4) Bribery 5) Individualism
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