Course Title: INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH

Course Code: 22 UC 1101

ALM 1
Student Names: J. THARUN KOUNDINYA, GNANA SAI (Marks: 25 Marks)

University ID:2200032693, 2200032697

Section: CSE-33

Faculty: Dr.K.K.SUNALINI

Instructions:

1. Select a passage or article or text taken from Newspaper/ Web Source. The article needs to
have a minimum of 300 words.
2. Provide Source details of the article clearly. If you have taken it from online you need to
mention the URL link.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.
Paste the article/text Below:
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has
been characterized by critical and most popular success in his youth, followed by a period
of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of commercial success later in his
career. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people in
the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor.
At the age of 5, he made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s film Pound in 1970. He
subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than
Zero (1987). In 1992, Downey portrayed the title character in the biopic Chaplin, for which he was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following a stint at
the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series Ally
McBeal, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He was fired from the show in the wake of drug
charges in 2000 and 2001. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has
maintained his sobriety since 2003.
Initially, completion bond companies would not insure Downey, until Mel Gibson paid the insurance
bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective. He went on to star in the black comedy Kiss Kiss
Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007), and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008); for the
latter, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Downey gained global
recognition for starring as Tony Stark in ten films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning
with Iron Man (2008), and leading up to Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has also played the title
character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe,
and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011).
Downey was born in Manhattan, New York City, the younger of two children. His father, Robert
Downey Sr., was an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress
who appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. Downey's father was of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-
quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irish descent, while Downey's mother had Scottish,
German, and Swiss ancestry. Robert's original family name was Elias which was changed by his
father to enlist in the Army. Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village.
As a child, Downey was "surrounded by drugs." His father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to
use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father later said he regretted. Downey later stated
that drug use became an emotional bond between him and his father: "When my dad and I would
do drugs together, it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how."
Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and "making a thousand phone
calls in pursuit of drugs".
During his childhood, Downey had minor roles in his father's films. He made his acting debut at the
age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound (1970), and then at seven
appeared in the surrealist Western Greaser's Palace (1972). At the age of 10, he was living in
England and studied classical ballet as part of a larger curriculum. He attended the Stagedoor
Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents
divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, but in 1982, he dropped out of Santa
Monica High School, and moved back to New York to pursue an acting career full-time.
Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the 1988 drama 1969, were roommates
for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting.
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S. No Topic From the article

1 Countable Nouns 1. ACTOR
2. PRODUCER
3. DEBUT
4. ACADEMY
5. CAREER
2 Uncountable Nouns 1. COMPLETION
2. ABUSE
3. ZODIAC
4. SOBRIETY
5. FACILITY
3 Tenses Used (Simple Present) 1. TROUBLES
2. ADDICT
3. LIVING
4. WERE ROOMMATES
5. EMOTIONAL
4 Tenses Used (Present Continuous) 1. BEEN CHARACTERIZED
2. SPENDING
3. ABUSING
4. MAKING
5 Tenses Used (Simple Past) 1. NOMINATED
2. JOINED
3. FIRED
4. STAYED
5. MAINTAINED
6 Tenses Used (Past Continuous) 1. PURSUE
2. MOVED
3. WAS NAMED
4. APPEARED
7 Regular Verbs 1. BORN
2. FOLLOWED
3. LISTED
4. PLAYED
8 Irregular Verbs 1. WON
2. EARNED
3. PAID
4. GAINED
9 Modal Verbs 1. WOULD NOT INSURE
2. UNTIL PAID
3. WHILE SCOTTISH
4. WOULD DO TOGETHER
10 Adjectives 1. POPULAR
2. INFLUENTIAL
3. COMMERCIAL
4. CINEMATIC
5. GLOBAL
11 Adverbs 1. SUBSEQUENTLY
2. INITIALLY
3. LATER
4. LESS
12 Phrases 1. CRITICAL
2. HIGHEST-PAID
3. PORTRAYED
4. STINT
5. MINOR
13 Clauses 1. RESURGENCE
2. HIGHEST PAID ACTOR
3. MAINTAINED
SOBRIETY
4. GLOBAL RECOGNITION
14 Conditionals 1. CHANGED TO ENLIST
2. DROPPED OUT TO
PURSUE AN ACTING
CAREER FULL-TIME
3. STUDIED CLASSICAL
BALLET AS A PART OF
CURRICULUM
15 Comparative / Superlative Adjectives 1. YOUNGER
2. MOST POPULAR
3. OLDER
4. MOST INFLUENTIAL