ABOUT CAREER PLANNING
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volunteer firefighter
Language Expansion: Participial adjectives
A. Read the article, Think about what or whom the words in blue describe.
AJ. Coston isn't waiting to start his dream job. At age 18, hes @ weekend
volunteer firefighter in the United States, During the week he lives at home
with his mom, dad, and sister, and does his main job: going to high school.
I always wanted ta get into firefighting since | was a little kid watching fire
rucks go by’ he says."One day | was bored and on the Internet, and | found
out that Loudoun County offered a junior firefighter program:
Some of A. friends are surprised by his decision to spend weekends at th
firehouse, but to A.J, helping people is more satisfying than anything else. The
job is never boring, either, since freighters get called to all sorts of emergencies.
He recounts one terrifying 91 1 cal after four children were struck by lightning.
A.J. will be off to college next fall, and plans to study what he’ most
interested in: emergency medical care."| want to be a ight rm:
nelicopter eventually’ he says
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B, Answer the questions, State the noun that experiences the feeling.
1. 1am bgfed Whois bbted]
2. Last waek, she vas surprised VNB wasSurakised?
3. Jack is always pleased. Who is pleased?
CC. Answer tha quéstidnseState tHE npuh gr nbuf Bhrase that causes an experiens
1. Forme, learning is very satisfying,
What is very satisfying?
2. I don't like watch
What is boring?
3, Rebecca thinks that snakes are absolutely terrifying,
What is terrifying?
becaus
Grammar: Indefinite pronouns
Indefinite pronouns
-one -body thing
someone everyone + somebody everybody something everything
anyone noone anybody nobody anything nothing
Everyone in the audience was laughing.
I'm going even if nobody wants to go with me.
Something is bothering her, but | don’t know what iis,
‘We use indefinite pranauns to talk about unknown or indefinite people or things.
“singular verbs ae used with all indefinite pronouns,
‘The indefinite pronouns that end in -one and -body refer to peopl.
*Al indefinite pronouns except for no one ae written as ane word,