ACTIVITY N° 1

READING

Go to page 105 read the text “A Short History of Tractors” and work on exercises 2
and 3. Write the answers on a file and send it by platform.

EXERCISES 2

Read and listen to an extract from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and answer
the questions.

1. What is the situation?

The situation is that the father gets a married again.
2. Which two adjectives in the box do you think best describe the narrator´s
feeling?
There are angry and astonished.

EXERCISES 3
Read the text again and answer the questions. Underline the part of the text which
gives you each answers.

1. What is Nadezhda’s first reaction to her father’s news?

a.- she hopes it´s not true.
2. Why is she angry at him?
c.- because her mother has been dead for only two years.
3. Does the father want his daughter to meet Valentina?
a.- no, he doesn´t.
4. What does Nadezhda say about his decision?
a. he is making it too quickly.
5. Is English her father’ first language?
b.- no
 ACTIVITY N° 2
READING
Go to page 107 and read the text “Room 101”. Make a glossary of 10 words. Work on
exercises 1, 2 and 3 on page 106, reading section.

GLOSSARY

1) Guard → Guardia
2) Wire → Cable
3) Further → Adicional
4) Burial →Entierro
5) Deaths → Muertes
6) Drowning → Ahogamiento
7) Impalement→ Empalamiento
8) Carrying →Que lleva
9) Happens → Sucede
10)Worst → Peor

EXERCISES 1

What is special about the room?

the police use this room to scare the prisoners and convert them into followers of the
regime.

EXERCISES 2

1. What does Winston hate most in the world?

It is happens to be rats
2. Where was the fiction Room 101?
I was in the ministry of love, a building belonging to the secret police of a future
society

3. What was Orwell´s inspiration for the fiction Room 101?

.The inspiration was the study of the principal at his childhood school.
4. Who chose to call his office Room 101?
Erick Mielke.
5. What happens in the radio and television show Room 101?
The guests are invited to suggest what they would put into Room 101
EXERCISES 3

Have you heard of this room before?

I never heard about Room 101.

What would you put in Room 101?

I would put a gym.

ACTIVITY N° 3
READING

Go to page 115, read the Text “Great Opening Lines” and work on exercises 4-7.

EXERCISES 4
Reading and listen to Great Opening Lines. Guess which novel each opening line
comes from

The first paragraph of the novel “CAPTAIN CORELLI´S MANDOLIN”

The second paragraph of the novel “TRACKS”
The third paragraph of the novel “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”
The fourth paragraph of the novel “THE GREAT GATSBY”
The fifth paragraph of the novel “MOBY DICK”
The sixth paragraph of the novel “REBECA”

EXERCISES 5

Work in pairs and discuss these questions.

1) Which opening do you like best?

I like opening best CAPTAIN CORELLI´S MANDOLIN.

 Which novel would you most like to read? Why?

I would like read MOBY DICK because it is a fascinating story of adventures that
mix good and evil.

 Which novel would you least like to read? Why?

I least like read “ PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”” because I don't like romantic
comedies.
EXERCISES N° 06

two of the opening were number 1 and 2 in American book review´s 100 best first
lines from novels. Which ones do you think they were? Why?

For me I think it was “THE GREAT GATSBY "and" PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ",
because its opening begins with mystery and romanticism.

EXERCISES N° 07

How important for you are the first pages of a book?

For me, the first pages are very important because they help attract the reader's
tendency and continue reading.

Do you always finish book that you start reading?

Yes ,I always finish the reading a book.