Reading Comprehension Project.

English V

Reading Comprehension Project. ENGLISH V Teacher Abigail Csar Augusto Prez Paz Recursamiento de ingles 5 5AVC Laboratorista Clinico

1: Topic recognizing word related to the topic and to the main idea 1

Reading Comprehension Project. English V Hansel and Gretel Once upon a time a very poor woodcutter lived in a tiny cottage in the forest with his two children, Hansel and Gretel. His second wife often ill-treated the children and was forever nagging the woodcutter. "There is not enough food in the house for us all. There are too many mouths to feed! We must get rid of the two brats," she declared. And she kept on trying to persuade her husband to abandon his children in the forest. "Take them miles from home, so far that they can never find their way back! Maybe someone will find them and give them a home." The downcast woodcutter didn't know what to do. Hansel who, one evening, had overheard his parents' conversation, comforted Gretel. "Don't worry! If they do leave us in the forest, we'll find the way home," he said. And slipping out of the house he filled his pockets with little white pebbles, then went back to bed. All night long, the woodcutter's wife harped on and on at her husband till, at dawn, he led Hansel and Gretel away into the forest. But as they went into the depths of the trees, Hansel dropped a little white pebble here and there on the mossy green ground. At a certain point, the two children found they really were alone: the woodcutter had plucked up enough courage to desert them, had mumbled an excuse and was gone. Night fell but the woodcutter did not return. Gretel began to sob bitterly. Hansel too felt scared but he tried to hide his feelings and comfort his sister. "Don't cry, trust me! I swear I'll take you home even if Father doesn't come back for us!" Luckily the moon was full that night and Hansel waited till its cold light filtered through the trees. "Now give me your hand!" he said. "We'll get home safely, you'll see!" The tiny white pebbles gleamed in the moonlight, and the children found their way home. They crept through a half open window, without wakening their parents. Cold, tired but thankful to be home again, they slipped into bed. Next day, when their stepmother discovered that Hansel and Gretel had returned, she went into a rage. Stifling her anger in front of the children, she locked 2

Reading Comprehension Project. English V her bedroom door, reproaching her husband for failing to carry out her orders. The weak woodcutter protested, torn as he was between shame and fear of disobeying his cruel wife. The wicked stepmother kept Hansel and Gretel under lock and key all day with nothing for supper but a sip of water and some hard bread. All night, husband and wife quarreled, and when dawn came, the woodcutter led the children out into the forest. Hansel, however, had not eaten his bread, and as he walked through the trees, he left a trail of crumbs behind him to mark the way. But the little boy had forgotten about the hungry birds that lived in the forest. When they saw him, they flew along behind and in no time at all, had eaten all the crumbs. Again, with a lame excuse, the woodcutter left his two children by themselves. "I've left a trail, like last time!" Hansel whispered to Gretel, consolingly. But when night fell, they saw to their horror, that all the crumbs had gone. "I'm frightened!" wept Gretel bitterly. "I'm cold and hungry and I want to go home!" "Don't be afraid. I'm here to look after you!" Hansel tried to encourage his sister, but he too shivered when he glimpsed frightening shadows and evil eyes around them in the darkness. All night the two children huddled together for warmth at the foot of a large tree. When dawn broke, they started to wander about the forest, seeking a path, but all hope soon faded. They were well and truly lost. On they walked and walked, till suddenly they came upon a strange cottage in the middle of a glade. "This is chocolate!" gasped Hansel as he broke a lump of plaster from the wall. "And this is icing!" exclaimed Gretel, putting another piece of wall in her mouth. Starving but delighted, the children began to eat pieces of candy broken off the cottage. "Isn't this delicious?" said Gretel, with her mouth full. She had never tasted anything so nice. "We'll stay here," Hansel declared, munching a bit of nougat. They were just about to try a piece of the biscuit door when it quietly swung open. 3

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"Well, well!" said an old woman, peering out with a crafty look. "And haven't you children a sweet tooth?" "Come in! Come in, you've nothing to fear!" went on the old woman. Unluckily for Hansel and Gretel, however, the sugar candy cottage belonged to an old witch, her trap for catching unwary victims. The two children had come to a really nasty place. "You're nothing but skin and bones!" said the witch, locking Hansel into a cage. I shall fatten you up and eat you!" "You can do the housework," she told Gretel grimly, "then I'll make a meal of you too!" As luck would have it, the witch had very bad eyesight, an when Gretel smeared butter on her glasses, she could see even less. "Let me feel your finger!" said the witch to Hansel every day to check if he was getting any fatter. Now, Gretel had brought her brother a chicken bone, and when the witch went to touch his finger, Hansel held out the bone. "You're still much too thin!" she complained. When will you become plump?" One day the witch grew tired of waiting. "Light the oven," she told Gretel. "We're going to have a tasty roasted boy today!" A little later, hungry and impatient, she went on: "Run and see if the oven is hot enough." Gretel returned, whimpering: "I can't tell if it is hot enough or not." Angrily, the witch screamed at the little girl: "Useless child! All right, I'll see for myself." But when the witch bent down to peer inside the oven and check the heat, Gretel gave her a tremendous push and slammed the oven door shut. The witch had come to a fit and proper end. Gretel ran to set her brother free and they made quite sure that the oven door was tightly shut behind the witch. Indeed, just to be on the safe side, they fastened it firmly with a large padlock. Then they stayed for several days to eat some more of the house, till they discovered amongst the witch's belongings, a huge chocolate egg. Inside lay a casket of gold coins. "The witch is now burnt to a cinder," said Hansel, "so we'll take this treasure with us." They filled a large basket with food and set off into the forest to search for the way home. This time, luck was with 4

Reading Comprehension Project. English V them, and on the second day, they saw their father come out of the house towards them, weeping. "Your stepmother is dead. Come home with me now, my dear children!" The two children hugged the woodcutter. "Promise you'll never ever desert us again," said Gretel, throwing her arms round her father's neck. Hansel opened the casket. "Look, Father! We're rich now . . . You'll never have to chop wood again." And they all lived happily together ever after. The End Complete the words with these words from text. Abandon ill-treated treasure cruel At home 1.- ill-treated 2.- woodcutter 3.- children 4.- wife 5.- cruel 6.- treasure 7.- happily together wife woodcutter alone children bread lost Witch candy

crumbs

happily together in the forest 1.- Abandon 2.- alone 3.- bread 4.- candy 5.- lost 6.- Witch 7.- crumbs

2: Topic prediction: Al hacer predicciones, formamos ideas sobre el futuro basadas en lo que ya hemos visto o hecho. Los dos primeros prrafos de una noticia articulo dar informacin bsica que, qu es, cundo y por qu. Cuando rozar los dos primeros prrafos, normalmente tenemos suficiente informacin para hacer predicciones, o conjeturas, acerca de cul va a ocurrir a continuacin. Podemos leer ms para confirmar la prediccin. Read the first two paragraphs. predict whats will happen to aron ralston. Youre hiking alone when you find a boulder blocking your path between two canyon walls. you climb across the large rock, but it rolls onto your arm. youre trapped. you cant get out. whats are you going to do? aron ralston found himself in this situation in april, 2002. nobody knew where he was since he didnt tell anyone where he was going. he was alone 5

Reading Comprehension Project. English V in a remote area, far from people. his only supplies were climbing ropes, food and water for one day, batteries, a video camera, an army knife, and a headlamp. they were not enough for long-term survival. Aron waited for five days, but no one came. his food and water ran out, and he struggled to stay alive. he tried very difficult thing. he tried cutting the rock whit his knife. that didn t work. then he tried moving the boulder with rope. this, too, imposible .he fought to survive, but knowing he might not, he said goodbye to his family on his video camera. whats aron did to escape was both heroic and horrifying. to free himself, he cut off his arm whit his knife he tied clothing around it to stop the blood. then he walked six miles and found help. aron says hes going to continue to hike, even with his artificial arm, but he s also going to change some of his habits. ill always tell people where im going, he explains. and ill always take plenty of food and water will he continue to hike alone? he looks at his human-made arm. i might, he admits. but ill be careful. 3.- skimming: lectura rpida de todo el texto sin detenerse en las palabras que no se conocen y poniendo en prctica las estrategias de lectura que se indican en el cuadro. skim the article to find the main idea a.- japan is an interesting country b.- japanese people live long lives. c.- dr. shibahara is a wonderful doctor. d.- older japanese people are happy read again scan the reading to answer these questions about detail. 1.-how old is dr. shibahara? is 92 old years 2.-how many people are over 100 years old in japan? 20,000 men and women 3.-why is life in japan sometime stressful? they usually work long hours and communte in crowded trains. 4.-what bad habits do some people in japan have? many people have bad habit - they drink alcohol and they smoke. they rarely take vitamins also many people dont get a lot of sleep, and they hardly ever take vacations 5.-how many time a day do people in japan usually drink green tea? people drink green tea two or three times a day. 6

Reading Comprehension Project. English V 6.-who do older people in japan usually live with? Dr. shibahara and wife A long and healthy life Do you want to live to be 100 years old? you can learn from the japanese. there are more that 20,000men and women Oover 100 years old in japan. you may ask, "why do they live so long? they have a lot of strees yes, japanese people often get stressed out. they usually work long hours and communte in crowded trains. just like in other countries, many people have bad habit - they drink alcohol and they smoke. they rarely take vitamins also many people dont get a lot of sleep, and they hardly ever take vacations. so, what is the secret? dr. shibahara is 92 and has some ideas. he says, its she diet. the japanese diet is very healthy. people drink green tea two or three times a day. they usually eat low-fat meals. they eat fish two or three times a week and occasionally eat meat. exercise is very active. he gets exercise every day . he always take the stairs, not the elevator. dr. shibahara also spends time with other people. he takes nigth classes. he goes to the movies with his grandchildren, and he often goes on picnic with his wife. she is 89! older people in japan usually live with their children. lonely people die young, dr. shibahara says. eat well get a lot of exercise, and spend time with family and friends, he advises. 4.- scanning: la interpretacion de esta palabra en espaol es busqueda de informacion, y se lleva a cabo cuando se indaga sobre un dato preciso. Read the following text quickly and answer the questions. 1.-When were X-rays discovered? in 1895 2. Who discovered them? by Roentgen 3. What are the four characteristics of X-rays? (1) they travel in straight lines, and that (2) they are uncharged, because they are not deflected by electric or magnetic fields. (3) Xrays are a wave motion phenomenon, and, from the size of the diffraction pattern, their wavelength could be estimated to be 10-8 cm. In 1906 Barkla proved that (4) the waves are transverse by showing that they can be polarized by scattering from many materials. The Discovery of X-rays Except for a brief description of the Compton effect, and a few other remarks, we have postponed the discussion of X-rays until the present chapter because it is particularly convenient to treat X-ray spectra after treating optical spectra. 7

Reading Comprehension Project. English V Although this ordering may have given the reader a distorted impression of the historical importance of X-rays, this impression will be corrected shortly as we describe the crucial role played by X-rays in the development of modern physics. X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Roentgen while studying the phenomena of gaseous discharge. Using a cathode ray tube with a high voltage of several tens of kilovolts, he noticed that salts of barium would fluoresce when brought near the tube, although nothing visible was emitted by the tube. This effect persisted when the tube was wrapped with a layer of black cardboard. Roentgen soon established that the agency responsible for the fluorescence originated at the point at which the stream of energetic electrons struck the glass wall of the tube. Because of its unknown nature, he gave this agency the name X-rays. He found that X-rays could manifest themselves by darkening wrapped photographic plates, discharging charged electroscopes, as well as by causing fluorescence in a number of different substances. He also found that X-rays can penetrate considerable thicknesses of materials of low atomic number, whereas substances of high atomic number are relatively opaque. Roentgen took the first steps in identifying the nature of X-rays by using a system of slits to show that (1) they travel in straight lines, and that (2) they are uncharged, because they are not deflected by electric or magnetic fields. The discovery of X-rays aroused the interest of all physicists, and many joined in the investigation of their properties. In 1899 Haga and Wind performed a single slit diffraction experiment with X-rays which showed that (3) X-rays are a wave motion phenomenon, and, from the size of the diffraction pattern, their wavelength could be estimated to be 10-8 cm. In 1906 Barkla proved that (4) the waves are transverse by showing that they can be polarized by scattering from many materials. There is, of course, no longer anything unknown about the nature of X-rays. They are electromagnetic radiation of exactly the same nature as visible light, except that their wavelength is several orders of magnitude shorter. This conclusion follows from comparing properties 1 through 4 with the similar 8

Reading Comprehension Project. English V properties of visible light, but it was actually postulated by Thomson several years before all these properties were known. Thomson argued that X-rays are electromagnetic radiation because such radiation would be expected to be emitted from the point at which the electrons strike the wall of a cathode ray tube. At this point, the electrons suffer very violent accelerations in coming to a stop and, according to classical electromagnetic theory, all accelerated charged particles emit electromagnetic radiations. We shall see later that this explanation of the production of X-rays is at least partially correct. In common with other electromagnetic radiations, X-rays exhibit particle-like aspects as well as wave-like aspects. The reader will recall that the Compton effect, which is one of the most convincing demonstrations of the existence of quanta, was originally observed with electromagnetic radiation in the X-ray region of wavelengths. 5.- topic prefixes / suffixes: muchas palabras en ingles se componen por una palabra base y una particular que puede estar al principio o al final. Cuando la partcula esta al principio se llama prefijo y cuando esta al final se denomina sufijo. Use a prefixes to find the opposite of these verbs: 1- wrap 2- use 3- agree 4- engage 5- behave 6- understand 7- fold 8- connect unwrap misuse disagree disengage misbehave misunderstand unfold disconnect

He was acting in a very childish way. (child) She looked unhappy .She started to cry. (happy) He passed his exam. He was successful for the second time. (succeed) The team that he supported were able to win the championship . (champion) I couldn't find any weakness in his theory. (weak) He wants to be a mathematician when he grows up. (mathematics) There were only a handful of people at the match. (hand) The road was too narrow, so they had to widen it. (wide) I think that you should reconsider your decision. It may not be the best thing to do. (consider) 9

Reading Comprehension Project. English V 6.- topic synonyms and antonyms: Las Sinnimos y Antnimos forman parte integrante del Idioma Ingls. Familiarizarse con el vocabulario del idioma Ingls es una necesidad para la expresin eficaz tanto en la escrita o en el oral. Sinnimo no es sino el mismo significado de una palabra en particular o su relacin semntica. Por lo tanto, es una palabra o una frase que significa lo mismo que una palabra o una frase en el mismo idioma. Antnimos son la connotacin negativa de una palabra en particular. Un antnimo es una palabra o frase que se encuentra frente al significado de una palabra o una frase en el mismo idioma. 1. war (syn) conflict (ant) peace 2. difference (syn) disparity (ant) similarity 3. believe (syn) trust (ant) doubt 4. slack (syn) loose (ant) tight 5. warp (syn) buckle (ant) straighten 6. overwrought (syn) agitated (ant) calm 7. hare-brained (syn) foolish (ant) sensible 8. mucky (syn) dirty (ant) clean 9. awesome (syn) magnificent (ant) unimpressive 10. zeal (syn) fervour (ant) apathy 11. banal (syn) hackneyed (ant) original 12. young (syn) juvenile (ant) old 13. contemptuous (syn) disdainful (ant) respectful 14. waxen (syn) pallid (ant) ruddy 15. droll (syn) humorous (ant) serious 16. vilify (syn) disparage (ant) praise 17. exultant (syn) jubilant (ant) sorrowful 18. ugly (syn) unsightly (ant) beautiful 19. fat (syn) corpulent (ant) thin 20. tacit (syn) implicit (ant) explicit 7.- Topic Connectors: Los conectores son las palabras que se combinan dos palabras, frases y oraciones juntos. Ellos tienen el mismo significado de un conjunto differnts pero en su funcin. Diferencia entre la conjuncin y Conectores: Conjunciones se utilizan para conectar un sustantivo con otro sustantivo, dos clusulas independientes; frases distintas, un grupo de palabras. Los conectores se utilizan para conectar a grandes grupos de palabras, frases, oraciones. Por ejemplo: Lisa y Ria son amigos. Aqu "y" une dos sustantivos. Es una conjuncin. Me romp la pierna. Sin embargo, todava me siento muy bien. Aqu ", sin embargo" conecta dos grupos de palabras que se relacionan entre s. connectors with examples: 1. 2. 3. There is no more food left. However there is plenty of drinks. The Interact Club has done well to help the poor. Similarly the Welfare Club has done well too. The documents will be scrutinized by the police. Then they will be sent back tot he relevant authority. 10

Reading Comprehension Project. English V 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The retailer has been making losses. Therefore he intends to wind up his business. Wash the potatoes first. Afterwards you can boil them. We have been trying to contact Michael for the past few days. Eventually we managed to trace him to a hotel in town. Life in the country may not be as exciting as life in the city. Nevertheless you are close to nature which provides peace and quietness. The dog will bark without fail every time the ice-cream man passes by. After sometime it will start howling. Let us not be complacent with ourselves. Otherwise we may lose out in the final round. Lopez has experienced poverty and hardship before. Therefore he has a sympathetic heart towards the poor and needy.

8.- topic cognates: El error ms comn que cometen cuando habla es el uso de una palabra espaola que se ve o suena similar a una palabra en Ingls, pero tiene un significado totalmente diferente. Esto puede resultar en confusin y vergenza!. Una palabra en espaol que es similar a una palabra en Ingls, pero tiene un significado diferente, que se conoce como un cognado falso. Spanish Word abandonar absoluto English Translation to quit absolute Confused Spanish With Translation to remove quitar absolutamente , absolutely completament e absolutely totalmente actual verdadero ticket billete

en absoluto not at all actual current acuartelamie billet nto advertencia agona aguacate alcalde alfombra anunciar apoyar a warning dying moments avocado mayor carpet to advertise to support

advertisem anuncio ent agony lawyer bigger folder to warn to put up with empire attention pregnant to attend bench basement 11 dolor fuerte abogado mayor carpeta advertir soportar imperio atencin embarazada asistir a un lugar banco de plaza el stano

rbitro umpire asistencia attendance avergonzado embarrassed ayudar banco basamento to assist bank base of a column

Reading Comprehension Project. English V campo en general librera

base militar biblioteca

camp library

field bookshop

9.- topic transcodification

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