HAPPINESS IS INSIDE US :)

 

Exercise 5.26

  Editing Activity

 

1. Because Grace is a vegetarian, she must pay special attention to the amount of protein in the food she eats. That's why, she eats a lot of beans and eggs.

2. When Grace became a vegetarian. She missed eating meat. She had always liked the foods she eats.However , she eats a lot of beans and eggs.

 

3. When Grace first became a vegetarian. She missed eating meat. She had always liked the taste of it. She can’t imagine eating meat because she has grown to appreciate the pure taste of meatless cuisine, and meat tastes very strange to her. She is happy to be vegetarian.

 

 

4. Sometimes, it is very difficult to eat out in restaurants due to the limited meatless choice on the menus ; however , that is changing now with the increase in vegetarian restaurants.

 

 

5. Grace is opposed to killing animals. She is a vegetarian and very disturbed by the use of animal fur for clothing.

 

 

6. She doesn’t eat meat anymore. She feels better, humane and healthier.

 

7. Being vegetarian and feeling that she is doing her share to protect animals. She becomes irritated when people questions her motive. Although she tries to be patient with such people and make them understand the value of saving animals , people often just don’t understand.

 

Barnabus Barney Stinson

 Barney Stinson is one of five main characters on How I Met Your Mother. He is a histrionic in his mid-thirties, wears a suit, likes women with "daddy issues" and is frequently willing to offer his opinion. Barney is a huge womanizer, and has been described as a "high functioning sociopath" by his best friend Ted Mosby. Stinson has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women, sleep with them, and discard them. Stinson is the only single character.

Barney likes to create crazy situations and then sit back and watch it all go down. He is also highly competitive and takes on "challenges" to complete outlandish tasks in order to prove his worth. He is proud and stubborn, and attempts to stand by his word no matter what. Barney is extremely naive at times, believing many lies his mother told him well into adulthood, such as believing that Bob Barker is his father.

Barney is an illusionist. His favorite types of magic tricks include fire. Barney uses them mostly to pick up women. His most common method of picking up women is telling them elaborate lies about himself, often using an alias. Many of his schemes for picking up women are in a book he has written called "The Playbook.

Barney is very well-connected and is the wealthiest member of the group. He frequently buys expensive items. However, he is also seen to have a gambling problem that he occasionally gets under control.

He speaks several languages. He has a thorough understanding of human behavior and uses this mainly to manipulate situations to his advantage (mostly to pick up women). Despite his eclectic and prodigious talents, Barney is lacking in several common skills, such as driving a car or using a screwdriver.

Barney lives by the "Bro Code", his own code of rules. He also has some nicknames; Mr. Awesome, The Barnacle, Barn Door, The Stinstonian, Swarley, Swarles (Barkley), B-Dawg, Stinson-natti, Barnman, Nestor Diaz, B-Nasty.

 

PARALLELISM ACTIVITY

#1:  Our beagle loves to hunt.  Someone opens the back door for her.  She barrels down porch, steps into the yard and runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.  Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells that are smells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection.  She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.  It spins clockwise first and then counterclockwise.  These two activities that are sniffing and spinning seem to propel her along and always occur together.

#2: The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., which is a source of much useful information that few people know about.  It is the official publishing house for the federal government.  The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms.  About 27,000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents.  Many of them are inexpensive and some of them are free at all.

#3: A man who was German immigrant John Jacob reaped America’s first fortune.  He made his initial money trading Indian furs.  He was lowborn, uneducated and never learned to speak English properly.  He carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

 

 

A DIFFERENT VERSION OF ''IMAGINE''

 

 

IMAGINE

Imagine there’s no school

It’s awesome if you dream

No punishment for us

For us only carnivals

Imagine all the people

Having fun all the time

Imagine there’s no exams

It isn’t impossible to do

Nothing to study or lucubrate

And no quizzes, too

Imagine all the people

Studying for midtermS

 
 

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll live like that

And the world will be more charming

 
 

Imagine no must courses

I’m curious if you can

No need for studying or stress

Imagine all the people

Looking for lecture noteS

 
 

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll live like that

And the world will be more charming…
 

 

9.10 EDITING ACTIVITY

1-     Thanks to a very good diet, Sandra is always healthy.

 

2-     The common cold can make you feel very miserable; therefore, staying in bed at home is advisable for you.

 

3-     Although I’ve been maintaining a very healthy diet, I’ve been sick.

 

4-     She exercises regularly; consequently, she is in a good shape.

 

5-     With excellent nutrition , a generous supply of vitamins , a lot of rest , and plenty of exercise , you can live longer.

 

6-     When you are sick not only medicine but also taking care of yourself is important.

 

7-     When you are sick not only medicine but also taking care of yourself is important.

 

8-     Many doctors charge very expensive rates, for example my doctor is one of them.

 

9-     The magazine that I read is about how to increase longevity through better health.

 

10- The sun shines on my window, so I have my plants in my window box.

 

11- I heard about an acupuncture clinic that has a specialist on herbal medicine.

CALCIFIED BIRDS, BATS FOUND AT AFRICAN LAKE

A "calcified" swallow sings  in stony silence along northern Tanzania's Lake Natron (map), which contains so much soda and salt that it would "strip the ink of my Kodak film boxes in a few seconds," according to photographer Nick Brandt.

Brandt unexpectedly found the dead animals that had washed up on the shore, preserved by the lake, and posed them as they had been in life. The photographs, taken between 2010 and 2012, appear in Brandt's new book Across the Ravaged Land.

Lake Natron's unusually harsh composition comes from a unique neighboring volcano, Ol Doinyo, which spews alkali-rich natrocarbonatites that end up in Lake Natron via rainwater runoff.

 

Thure Cerling, professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah, said by email that the animals in Brandt's photographs likely died of natural causes. Since there are few predators in the area, their bodies remain and become salt-encrusted when the lake's water level drops.

However, Brandt said that many people in the region have seen birds crash-land into the water. So he believes the birds and bats were confused by the sky's reflection in the lake and killed when they hit the water.

The animals probably aren't truly calcified, but are coated with sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate, said Cerling, who has researched the chemistry of Africa's Rift Valley lakes."There is almost no calcium in the lake, although the inflowing fresh waters have calcium, which precipitates as it mixes with the high-pH alkaline waters of the lake."

-Liz Langley

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/pictures/131003-calcified-birds-bats-africa-lake-natron-tanzania-animals-science/#close-modal

 

 

TRANSITIVE VERBS USED IN THE ARTICLE

1.   In paragraph 1, on line 2 ''contain'' : which contains so much soda and salt 

2.  In paragraph 2, on line 4 ''find'' : Brandt unexpectedly found the dead animals

3.  In paragraph 5, on line 14 ''say'' : However, Brandt said that many people in the region have seen birds crash-land into the water.

INTRANSITIVE VERBS USED IN THE ARTICLE

1.  In paragraph 2, on line 6 ''appear'': The photographs, taken between 2010 and 2012, appear  in Brandt's new book Across the Ravaged Land.

 

2.  In paragraph  4, on line 11 ''die'': the animals in Brandt's photographs likely died of natural causes

 

3.  In paragraph 4, on line 12 ''become'':  their bodies remain and become salt-encrusted 

VERBS BOTH TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE

1.  In paragraph 1, on line 1 ''sing'': A "calcified" swallow sings  in stony silence along northern Tanzania's Lake Natron

2.  In paragraph 4, on line 13 ''drop'': the lake's water level drops

3.  In paragraph 5, on line 15  ''believe'':  So he believes the birds and bats were confused by the sky's reflection in the lake

 

Verbs Both Transitive and Intransitive

 

 

 

 

Manage (transitive, to be in charge or control of sth.): He had been managing the business for six years before it made a profit.

Manage (intransitive, to deal with sth difficult): I can manage perfectly well on my own.


 

Grow (transitive, to produce food): He grows his own fruit and vegetables.

Grow (intransitive, to increase in size): My son is growing.

　

Ring (transitive, to call someone): I rang her yesterday.

 

Ring (intransitive, to sound, make a noise): The doorbell rang.