with J‚ and his friends harris and George‚ deciding to take a boat trip up the Thames from Kingston to oxford‚ and then back again (the book was written in 1888‚ when boating on the Thames was enormously popular). They are unanimous in agreeing that this is a good idea (except for J’s dog‚ Montmorency‚ who doesn’t care for boating). They have trouble getting packed‚ and in the morning Harris and J take a train to Kingston‚ where the boat is waiting for them. George is joining them later when he has
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the Sunken Boat!: Cole Andrade Hello there I am Cole the crazy one. And my grandpa Johnny “YAY! He’s coming‚ he’s coming”as I yelped racing around the living room. CRASH BANG! Ouch as I laughed my big brother came in with my little sister my big brother questions “what in the world happened here?” “I crashed into the wall but does it matter?” With booming laughter. When the sun went down night rises unable to sleep to much of a crazy one. Finally I heard a knock I was so excited that I sprinted
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) Summary The novel‚ narrated by the Englishman J.‚ tells of a boat trip J. takes up with Thames River with his friends George and William Samuel Harris. His prose is rambling‚ and often digresses into anecdotes or long observational passages. One night‚ the three men smoke together in J.’s London apartment‚ discussing their anxiety over their sicknesses. The reader can discern that they are actually hypochondriacs. After researching diseases at the British
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Officially on falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month‚ the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Double Fifth Day. While many stories regarding its origin abound‚ the most popular and widely accepted version regards Qu Yuan‚ a minister during the Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC) Legend of the Dragon Boat Festival’s Origin At the end of the Zhou Dynasty‚ the area we now know as China had fallen into a state of fragmentation and conflict. While the Zhou dynasty had ruled for several
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FORMALIST FUNCTIONALIS T OF LINGUISTICS Siti Rabiatul Noorjan bt M. Saadom Aida Zukrina bt Zulkefly FORMALIST Also known as generative linguistics “Language as a system of rules” Language is a set of sentences Description shows which sentences are in the set and which out REF ; martin 1992‚3 NOAM CHOMSKY Chomsky Linguistic Theory Structure of language formalism concentrates on the set of rules a language has (competence)‚ and not on the usage of this set when producing phrases
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Sloths—the adorable and lethargic animals living in treetops—depend on the health and survival of Central and South American tropical forests. They spend much of their lives in the canopy‚ snoozing and remaining hidden from predators. The animals live solitary lives and travel from tree to tree using canopy vines. Located in places such as Brazil and Panama‚ the six species of this strange and wonderful animal need healthy forests to survive. But tropical forests are some of the most vulnerable
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Comprehension Test Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences. A 1 The people in the maze were angry with Harris ... 2 George said it was most exciting to let girls tow your boat ... 3 The three men decided to go home early ... 4 Five different men said that they caught the fish ... 5 One morning George got up very early ... B a ... because his watch stopped the night before.
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i never saw a man’s face change from lively to severe so suddenly in all my life before..... I was very cold when I got back into the boat‚ and‚ in my hurry to get my shirt on‚ I accidentally jerked it into the water. It made me awfully wild‚ especially as George burst out laughing. I could not see anything to laugh at‚ and I told George so‚ and he only laughed the more. I never saw a man laugh so much. I quite lost my temper with him at last‚ and I pointed out to him what a drivelling maniac of
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A Boat to the New World And I saw then‚ that summer‚ many things that I had seen all my life as if for the first time and I thought that perhaps my father had never been intended for a fisherman physically or mentally. At least not in the manner of my uncles; he had never really loved it. And I remembered that‚ one evening in his room when we were talking about David Copperfield‚ he had said that he had always wanted to go to the university and I had dismissed it then in the
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