Leidsid 33 sarnast õppematerjali, mis on seotud failiga "A Storm at Sea". Need materjalid aitavad sul teemat sügavamalt mõista.
boat, tony, storm, them, holiday, raft, cloudy, afternoon, sailing, summer, took, place, calm, deck, black, clouds, gathering, minute, later, found, middle, thunder, rolled, across, scared, danger, lightning, struck, burst, flames, lives, jumped, swam, sink, sound, waving, hoping, guards, lucky, alive, feltA storm at sea Once upon a time Tony, Paul and Jason decided to go on a sailing holiday on an unexpectedly stormy day. As Jason was standing on the deck of the boat, black clouds were gathering. There were huges wavews that were crashing the boat. It was a clear sign of an approaching storm. The boat was rocking from side to side. They noticed a thunder that rolled across the sky. They were almost scared to death. Lightning flashed numerous times when suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the boat.They were in danger. The bolt hit the mast, which burst into flames. After that, Tony radioed for help. They threw the life raft into the water and jumped into it. The boat was sinking slowly. The three men heard the sound of a boat that was quite close to them. Seeing it approaching,
water surface. The water gave no sign of that deadly rock and the low, calm waves did not move, or sound the Inchcape Bell - the warning bell, put there to alert the sailors of a nearby peril. Southey creates tension by describing the location of the bell "Without either sign or sound of their shock / The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock;" - the ships are left clueless about the Rock that awaits, to tear them apart, under the clam surface. The mood immediately changes with this stanza. The word "shock" has an ominous under-tone, which gives the reader a hint of the future horrors, which are going to happen near the rock. In the third stanza we are explained how the Bell came to be there, where it now stands. The Abbot of Aberbrothok put it there, on a buoy near the Rock to warn ships of the hidden danger.
eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka. In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. It was in this town that I'd been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. That was the year I finally put my foot down; these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, vacationed with me in California for two weeks instead. It was to Forks that I now exiled myself-- an action that I took with great horror. I detested Forks. I loved Phoenix. I loved the sun and the blistering heat. I loved the vigorous, sprawling city. "Bella," my mom said to me -- the last of a thousand times -- before I got on the plane. "You don't have to do this."
A NEW BEGINNING It was a dark and a silent night, when two young riders dressed within black rushed across the Devil`s Field. Suddenly one of them stopped and glanced at the moonless sky. His horse felt nervous, imitating the feelings of his rider. The other man seized his horse as well and looked at his companion in a curious way. After a minute or two spent in abnormal silence the first rider cried out as loud as he could: "Run!" The second man jumped off his horse and rushed to the forest that was waiting some meters ahead. But then he remembered about the other rider, but when he turned the Devil`s Field was empty
Inuit Culture, Traditions, and History Traditional Inuit way of life was influenced by the harsh climate and stark landscapes of the Arctic tundra from beliefs inspired by stories of the aurora to practicalities like homes made of snow. Inuit invented tools, gear, and methods to help them survive in this environment. Read on to learn more about traditional Inuit ways of life, and how Inuit culture has been changed over the past century. Geography Inuit communities are found in the Arctic, in the Northwest Territories, Labrador and Quebec in Canada, above tree line in Alaska (where people are called the Inupiat and Yupik), and in Russia (where people are called the Yupik people). In some areas, Inuit people are called "Eskimos" however many Inuit find this term offensive
Brooklyn, but being a dutiful daughter, I found myself on the Upper West Side instead. If not for Cary living with me, I would've been miserably lonely in the sprawling apartment that cost more per month than most people made in a year. The doorman tipped his hat to me. "Good evening, Miss Tramell. Will you need a cab this evening?" "No thanks, Paul." I rocked onto the rounded heels of my fitness shoes. "I'll be walking." He smiled. "It's cooled down from this afternoon. Should be nice." "I've been told I should enjoy the June weather before it gets wicked hot." "Very good advice, Miss Tramell." Stepping out from under the modern glass entrance overhang that somehow meshed with the age of the building and its neighbors, I enjoyed the relative quiet of my tree-lined street before I reached the bustle and flow of traffic on Broadway. One day soon, I hoped to blend right in, but for now I still felt like a fraudulent New Yorker
10 Which book did you enjoying most? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Marks: /10 Words, words, words 4 Write the words which mean the following. The first letter of each word has been provided. 1 Children wear this to school to make them look the same. u______________________ 2 A jacket and trousers made from the same material. s ______________________ 3 A man wears this round his neck and over his shirt to make him look smart. t _______________________ 4 We wear these to protect our clothing. o ______________________
· Hereditary · Naturalists tried to apply in fiction the processes of natural sciences · Writers task is to record facts, systems of behaviour, living conditions, never revealing any natural unbiased (completely natural) · Point of view: amoral-outside the category of morality, neither good or bad · Naturalist find it absurd to blame the wicked. These criminals are doing what nature, environment, their unconscious tells them to do. Naturalists do not judge their characters, they simply report. Try to describe facts like they are. Naturalists depict the lower, coarser forms of life. · Drab, squallid set of scene. Revolting, disgusting · Characters are people with strong animal desires · Neurotic characters unable to understand the forces that control them · By the end of the 18th century the naturalism depicts in europe, but stars to become
throwing (throw) paper aeroplanes around the classroom. 2.Eve ............................ (live) in Athens when she ............................ (meet) the man who was to become her husband. 3............................. you ............................ (not work) at Mcllroy's when they ............................ (have) that terrible fire? 4.As it ............................ (get) foggier it ............................ (become) almost impossible to steer the boat along the narrow canal. 5.I ............................ (hear) a strange noise just as I ............................ (go) to sleep. 6.When the fire alarm ............................ (go) off, we ............................ (leave) the building as quickly as possible. 7.At the place where we ............................ (live) before, our neighbours ............................ (always/have) violent arguments late at night. 8.I ...........................
invention of secondary cipher systems, and miscellaneous uses of various systems. I had no space for new material, but I did correct the errors reported to me and updated a few items. The chapters have been slightly rearranged. Readers wanting to know more about a specific point should consult the text and notes of the original. If any reader wishes to offer any corrections or to tell me of his own experiences in this field, I would be very grateful if he would send them to me. —D.K. Windsor Gate Great Neck, New York Preface CODEBREAKING is the most important form of secret intelligence in the world today. It produces much more and much more trustworthy information than spies, and this intelligence exerts great influence upon the policies of governments. Yet it has never had a chronicler. It badly needs one
century festival in China and the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. However, there is a link and that is that they both relied on the use of rockets. The Chinese first developed rockets by filling bamboo tubes with an explosive made from saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur. The sealed tubes would be thrown onto fires during celebrations because it was thought that the loud explosions would protect them. It was not long before the ancient Chinese realised the military potential of these devices and primitive rockets were used to repel a Mongol invasion in 1232 AD. Word of these new amazing weapons quickly spread around the world and soon rockets were being used in military operations in North Africa and Europe. During the 15 th and 16th centuries they were widely used in naval battles to set fire on enemy ships. Around this time they also started being used for more peaceful purposes again
Metathesis present in many languages, a universal phenomenon. For Instance, Proto-Indo-European had tworoots *spek- and the metathetical *skep-, both with the basic meaning of "look, observe, examine". The first is behind Latin words that produced such English loans as spectacle, spectator, expect, inspect, perspective, etc. The second is behind the Greek word for "examine" with the derivatives sceptic, sceptical, scepticism (one who examines things inevitably becomes sceptical about them!). Metathesis, essentially in the same sense, is also a term used in psycholinguistics. People assemble whole words in the brain,before actually uttering them. Thus, it is not unusual for slips of the tongue to happen in which sounds of the same word change places e.g. "brake fluid" turns into "blake fruid" ,"past fashion" > "fast passion" The same principle applies to whole phrasesand even sentences, which shows that they, too, are largely preassembled in the mind before being uttered
and supplies for the journey. After that Hamilton has a little argument with Heffner. They use plane and a hoovercraft and fly to the first location in the jungle and they spend their first night in there. In the morning when they are on their way to the Lost city, Heffner tries to kill Hamilton in helicopter. Hamilton kills Heffner but helicopter got damaged and crashes. Luckily everyone are alive. They are threathen by 2 alligators but Navarro and Ramon kill them. Suddenly a loud scream and everyone notice that Maria is being attacked by anaconda. Luckily Hamiltons bullet kills the anaconda. So Hamilton steals a boat from indians who have seen the crew and are ready to attack them. Crew gets away from there alive and they are moving along the river. They see the second indian tribe but they past this tribe wothout getting noticed. Soon they will get to the shore and hide because of the third tribe of indians. Hamilton
d) There was a large demonstration/manifestation against nuclear power in Manchester yesterday. e) Everyone agrees that the environment/nature must be protected. f) There has been another increase/rising in the level of crime. g) There are few jobs here and many people are away from work/unemployed. h) The train was in a/an accident/collision with a bus on a level crossing. i) The driver of the bus admitted that he had done/made an error. j) No ships are sailing today because of the high/storm winds. 2 Complete each sentence with a word from the box. Use each word once only. disaster emergency hooliganism living disease injuries rubbish earthquake floods invasion slums a) Food has been sent to areas in Africa suffering from …........................... b) Many people live in overcrowded…........................... on the edge of the city. c) The cost of….
There are 3 things that chiefly determine the climate of the United Kingdom: the position of the islands in the temperate belt; the fact that the prevailing winds blow from the west and south-west and the warm current -- the Gulf Stream that flows from the Gulf of Mexico along the western shores of England. All these features make the climate more moderate, without striking difference between seasons. It is not very cold in winter and never very hot in summer. So, the British ports are ice-free and its rivers are not frozen throughout the year. The weather on the British Isles has a bad reputation. It is very changeable and fickle. The British say that there is a climate in other countries, but we have just weather. If you don't like the weather in England, just wait a few minutes. It rains very often in all seasons in Great Britain. Autumn and winter are the wettest. The sky is usually grey and cold winds blow
would be staying. Mr. Dawkins told Oliver he could come with him and with his patronage stay with a gentleman he knew. So Oliver went with Jack and saw the filth of London for the first time in the middle of the night. Jack took Oliver into the house of the gentleman and he met the old Jew, Fagin. Fagin fed him and introduced him to the other boys sitting him in the room who, like Mr. Dawkins, were dressed like little adults. They were drinking spirits and smoking pipes and Oliver joined them. Fagin gave him a bed to sleep in and he went to sleep. Chapter 9: Oliver awoke the next morning to see Fagin examining several watches and rings in a wooden box. When he discovered Oliver was awake he questioned him on what he had seen, and admired him for his bravery. Jack, or Dodger, then came in with another boy from the previous evening, Charles Bates, and they showed the old Jew the things they collected from the execution they attended that morning
at home on the radio in the park at work on television in the car at the university on page 5 in the drawer at the lecture on both sides of the street in a chair at an office on top in the picture at a party on leave in the water at the top of the page on holiday in the sky at the bottom of the page on my right in a coffee bar at the end of the street on my way to college in the middle of the room at my left side in the corner of the room 1 KUHU? WHERE TO? KUS? WHERE? KUST? WHERE FROM? When do you go to work? Father is at work now
to everything she talked about. Matrix finished all the preparations and went to Daemon, whom was drinking soda behind the stage and watching the crowd. "Lots of people, Daemon?" The questioned one smiled and said," Your sister has gotten quite grow-up, Mat." "Alice? Yea, even thought her character hasn't changed at all!" "Well, I first saw her nine years ago..." "Right, I remember! We were in form six then! It was the first afternoon you decided to create a bend!" "Can you believe it? I've known you for nine years...geez, how fast time flies..." And they started laughing. "Sorry to interrupt, but the competition is about to start now. Will you take your places, please?" said one of the stuff members. "Sure!" answered Matrix and they left the stage. In the meanwhile Alice had made a new friend Sheila. That was the woman's name she'd met earlier. When the lights went off, Alice and Sheila went to the performers hall
so extraordinary... That is something you just must see! But neither the trees nor flowers could be as wonderful as the owner himself! Sir Thom treated us tea and sandwiches, not forgetting to show us way back to the village. He was so kind, don't you think? In the end, when we had nearly reached our home, he suddenly stopped and called us to a ball! Can you imagine?! A ball with Sir Thom! What an honour... I bet Emily Woodcut will be envious. What about you, Mary? Have you made plans for the summer? I'd really like to introduce you to him after all, you are the governor's daughter. Then his opinion of me will raise even higher, right? So what do you think? Would you like to pay a visit to Cherry village this summer? Can't wait to your letter! Best wishes, Anne C. Questions: a) Under what branch of literacy the given text goes to? ...................................................................................................... ......................................
Alice, Tom, James, Kim, Snow White 4Use a capital letter for the names of places: National Museum, Bronx Zoo, London, Sacramento 4Use a capital letter for festivals, holidays, days of the week, months of the year: New Year's Day, Christmas, Labor Day, Mother's Day, Sunday, Monday, Friday, January, May, July, October Exercise 1 Circle the letters that should be CAPITALS. Then write the correct letter in the space above them. 1 peter and i are good friends. we are going to chicago during our summer 2 vacation. 3 there is an interesting football game on sunday. 4 jason lives on thomson avenue. 5 january is the first month of the year. Exercise 2 Look at the signs on the left. Can you find the mistakes? Write the names correctly. hopkins hotel lincoln school orchard street newton road botanic gardens national library shea stadium
The Cataclysmic Death of Stars Republished from the pages of National Geographic magazine Written by Ron Cowen March 2007 Ever since he was a teenager, Stan Woosley has had a love for chemical elements and a fondness for blowing things up. Growing up in the late 1950s in Texas, "I did everything you could do with potassium nitrate, perchlorate, and permanganate, mixed with a lot of other things," he says. "If you mixed potassium nitrate with sulfur and charcoal, you got gunpowder. If you mixed it with sugar, you got a lot of smoke and a nice pink fire." He tested his explosive concoctions on a Fort Worth golf course: "I screwed the jar down tight and ran like hell." "kaboomWoosley", now an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has graduated to bigger explosions--much bigger. Woosley studies some of the most powerful explosions since the birth of the universe: supernovae, the violent deaths of stars. The universe twinkles with these cataclysms. They happen every sec
A few minutes later she got up and went to the phone. She know the number of the police station, and when the man at the other end answered, she cried to him, "Quick! Come quick! Patrick's dead!" "Who's speaking?" "Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney." "You mean Patrick Maloney's dead?" "I think so," she sobbed. "He's lying on the floor and I think he's dead." "Be right over," the man said. The car came very quickly, and when she opened the front door, two policeman walked in. She know them both - she know nearly all the man at that precinct - and she fell right into a chair, then went over to join the other one, who was called O'Malley, kneeling by the body. "Is he dead?" she cried. "I'm afraid he is. What happened?" Briefly, she told her story about going out to the grocer and coming back to find him on the floor. While she was talking, crying and talking, Noonan discovered a small patch of congealed blood on the dead man's head
4 eye-catching 6 over 12 why 3 1 been seeing 5 opening 4 1 Because the planes they were 2 have gone 6 shoe-string flying had faulty parts which 3 looked 7 heart-throb caused them to crash. 4 forgotten 8 blockbusters 2 He says he did it for his family 5 was taking Challenge! Students' own answers and for Chris's future. 6 been waiting, forgotten 3 Because although the pilots are prepared to give their lives in 4 There was once a wolf who used to 2B What's on the box
Ermo Altmäe 011PK Time Prepositions Multiple Choice Exercise Correct! Well done. Your score is 60%. 1. Jane is arriving on January 26 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. 2. It snows here every year in December. We always go outside and play in the snow on Christmas day. 3. Michael is leaving on Friday at noon. 4. Frankie started working for her law firm in 1995. 5. Franklin began working on the project NO PREP yesterday. 6. Normally, on New Year's Eve, it's tradition to kiss the one you love at midnight. 7 Don't be ridiculous; there were no telephones in the seventeenth century! The telephone was invented in the 1870s. 8
Australia's name means "southland."It is south of the equator. Sometimes it is also called the island continent because it is an island. There are about twenty million people in Australia.It is 1,800 miles from the mainland of Asia and almost half way round the world from Europe. More than 600 miles of ocean separate it from Americas. Since Australia is south of the equator, its seasons are just the opposite of ours. It has summer while we have winter, and the other way round. States and Territories. Australia consists of six states, two territories and eight external territories. The six states are: Western Australia (capital Perth), South Australia (capital Adelaide), Queenslnd (capital Brisbane), New South Wales (capital Sydney), Victoria (capital Melbourne) and Tasmania (capital Hobert). The two territories are the Northern territory (capital Darwin) and the Capital territory (capital Canberra). Politics
speakers of Siouan languages. Some of the first Indians in America settled in the southeast. Last of all to arrive, apparently, were the Eskimo. Most recent arrivals though they are, however, they were living in their present homeland in what is now Alaska and Artic Canada more than 2,500 years ago. Coastal route theory = New research and studies have prompted some anthropologists and archaelogists to present the theory that people from Southeast Asia traveled by boat along the coastline and settled in the Western portion of North America and the Northwestern portion of South America. The theory also helps to explain how certain artifacts have been found so far from the Bering Strait region dating before and around the supposed time that humans first came into contact with the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge. Atlantic maritime theory = One radical theory claims it is possible that the first
China and was used principally for the illustration of Buddhist texts.[2] From the 17th century the technique began to be used for the illustration of poems and romances.[2] It was this period that really saw the rise of the style known as ukiyo-e. Description This impression is of the yoko-e type, in landscape, and was produced to the ban size, 25 centimetres high by 37 wide . The landscape consists of three elements: the sea whipped up by a storm, three boats and a mountain. The composition is complemented by the signature which stands out in the upper left-hand corner. The mountain The mountain that is seen at the bottom is Mount Fuji, with a snowcapped peak. Fuji is the central figure in the work (representation of famous places) Thirty six views of Mount Fuji, which give a portrait of the mountain seen from various angles. In Japan Mt. Fuji is considered sacred and is a symbol of national identity, [19]
and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week." "What is his name?" "Bingley." "Is he married or single?" "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" "How so? How can it affect them?" "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them." "Is that his design in settling here?" "Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by
24. It is impossible to .............................. everybody. (PLEASURE) 25. There was no ............................. on her side so he proceeded with his work.(RESIST) 26. If you need anything I am at your ......................., madam. (SERVE) 27. ............................... in the wardrobe he waited for her husband to fall asleep. (HIDE) 28. "Will you ............................... your theory?" a curious student asked his professor.(CLEAR) 29. We can't go together anywhere as my holiday doesn't ..................................with yours. (COINCIDENCE) 30. Boozing and clubbing- my two favourite Saturday night .............................. . (ACTIVE) 31. On the Valentine's day I got a cordless electric drill with .......................... batteries. (RECHARGE) 32. His eyes .......................... with surprise when I told him I was pregnant.(WIDE) 33. That was my hubby, the same man who mopped my floors , who won this year's Mr Universe ..........................
shoulders, long black wisps, a little stoutish, keen eyes, a red nose. • French Joe aka Josep de Paoli – 93Y, Corsican, a lietutenant of artillery, French army in 1851, later communist, started new life many times, black shining eyes, really thin and old. • Boswell Johnson – really famous author, the ancestor of Joe. • Napoleon Bonaparte – a relative of French Joe, lietutenant of artillery • Russians + Prussians – Joe fougth against them in French army • Hospital Nurse PLACES: • Thursday Island in Torres Straits – where he went + Joe's final destination • Sydney – where he came from • Shika Maru – last stop before Thursday Island • New Caledonia – prison, where Joe was. • Melbourne – where he fleed the boat • New Guinea – where he went to live after Melbourne STORY: Thursday Island is the last place God ever made
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collecting money from the rich, I can't help you! This is the end, Heartless! Go to the dorms, pack your things and leave my orphanage at once! You are no longer welcome here!" Heartless tried to protest, but the man hit her, so there she was now lying helplessly on the floor. Suddenly, someone else knocked on the door and two other girls and an older boy came in. They saw Heartless, yet knew that they had no allowance to help her. The man asked them what had they brought and after taking all the money they showed away, he said, "Well, Heartless, you should've done as well as Loveless' s team. Then you'd still be one of us!" But the little girl grinned and said proudly, "I prefer keeping my honor rather than stealing from the old and sick like all your puppets do!" 1 The man got irritated and shouted her out of his house. The girl turned and
There were a lot of problems discussed at the meeting. Finally, after a few hours, we were able to prioritize the problems in the order we want to solve the problems. Many parents and students have been complaining about the program. For example, scores on the end-of-grade tests have gone down from last year; teachers are not very motivated; and everyone is frustrated. To sum up, some improvements in the middle school program need to be made. To conclude, I want to wish you all a very happy holiday season. There was a malfunction in the smoke machines and lights, the curtains would not open and close properly, and one of the actors was sick with no stand-in. In conclusion, the play was a disaster. Words that REPEAT information · in fact · in other words · once again · to put it another way · to repeat That area is very dangerous for you to bike in. To repeat, I warn you not to go there. Lisa decided not to go to King Islands. In fact she told me, "No, way."
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