Home Random Page


CATEGORIES:

BiologyChemistryConstructionCultureEcologyEconomyElectronicsFinanceGeographyHistoryInformaticsLawMathematicsMechanicsMedicineOtherPedagogyPhilosophyPhysicsPolicyPsychologySociologySportTourism






Places that change lives

AWhen Lucy Hopkins took a gap year between school and university, she could never have imagined how it would change her life. She decided to go travelling with a couple of her classmates. After hours of research on the internet, they finally bought round-the-world tickets and started their adventure in Australia. First stop Ayers Rock (in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory) and a five-day camping trip exploring the gigantic sandstone monoliths of the area. But it wasn’t the natural wonders that captured Lucy’s imagination, it was the history of the Aboriginal people who had lived there long before European settlers arrived. She decided to stay on after her friends left. She wanted to find work at the resort so she could learn more about the Dreamtime, the myths and legends of these extraordinary people. Much to her parents’ concern, she has given up her college place and will reapply next year for a course in anthropology.

B‘It’s never too late to follow your dreams,’ so said fifty-year-old yachtsman, Daniel Laws, when we caught up with him recently. He’d just returned from a six-month trip sailing around the Caribbean and was looking forward to some creature comforts in his own home. When asked what had made him give up his job to take to the seas, he said that he’d fallen in love with the Indonesian island of Bali. He’d stepped off the plane one October afternoon, straight into a wall of steaming tropical heat. One hair-raising taxi ride later, he found himself in a beach-side ‘bed and breakfast’ looking out over seas of the deepest blue. He was hooked. From that moment on, he spent all his time either in or on the water and he promised himself that he would return when he had his own boat.

CMarek Lendl has always been passionate about history, particularly the history of his city, Prague. As a child, he was taken out every Sunday by his grandfather who taught him about all the buildings, castles, churches and ruins. They would spend hours visiting galleries and museums until Marek knew almost as much as his granddad. He is now a city guide, taking round groups of foreign tourists and it is thanks to this passion that he met Emma, an English journalist who was on holiday in Prague. They both joke about their first meeting as Emma kept asking questions about all the buildings they were visiting. She says that it was because she wanted him to notice her and he just remembers being amazed that anyone could ask so much.

 

1 Lucy wanted to spend a year travelling around the world. T

2 She has started to study anthropology.

3 She has just gone back to England.

4 Her parents are worried about her studies.

5 Daniel Laws has always enjoyed sailing.

6 He doesn’t miss anything when he’s away.

7 He started sailing after he’d left his job.

8 He has bought a boat.

9 Marek wasn’t interested in history as a boy.

10 Emma was visiting Prague as a tourist.

11 Emma immediately liked Marek.



 

   

 

Writing

11 Underline the correct alternative.

1 Skilfully / Highly directed by Stephen Frears, the film captures the mood perfectly.

2 The composer was harshly / highly praised for his film score.

3 The lead roles were sensitively / overwhelmingly acted by the young stars.

4 The film was convincingly / heavily criticised for its special effects.

5 Widely / Poignantly praised, the film went on to win eight Oscars.

6 In my opinion, the closing moments were poignantly / highly acted.

 

   

 

12 Write a film review and include the information below. Write 140–180 words on a separate sheet of paper.

• Setting

• Plot summary

• Recommendation

 

   

 

  Total:

 


Date: 2016-03-03; view: 949


<== previous page | next page ==>
Divide the next principles into aims and objectives of Lexicology. a) to investigate the problems of word structure, word-formation -obj | 
doclecture.net - lectures - 2014-2024 year. Copyright infringement or personal data (0.007 sec.)