2009年9月18日 星期五

Holes

Part 1: Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 Summary

Camp Green Lake is described (written as )and it's anything but what its name suggests (tells). There's no water, no green, and it's filled with rattlesnakes, scorpions, and the dreaded (horrible), deadly, yellow-spotted lizards. Stanley Yelnats, whose name is spelled the same forwards as it is backwards, arrives by bus to this camp for boys who've committed a crime (convicted to be guilty), only he is truly innocent (not guilty). Unfortunately, his family is just too poor to defend (save) him. Stanley's family is used to the bad luck which follows them, due to (because of) the curse his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" caused. Stanley, however, tries to have a good attitude (behavior) and pretend (think) that this will be like a summer camp for rich kids.

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Write the paragraph into a passage using the verbs of past tenses.

Camp Green Lake was described and it's anything but what its name suggested . There was no water, no green, and it's filled with rattlesnakes, scorpions, and the dreaded , deadly, yellow-spotted lizards. Stanley Yelnats, whose name was spelled the same forwards as it is backwards, arrives by bus to this camp for boys who had committed a crime , only he is truly innocent . Unfortunately, his family was just too poor to defend him. Stanley's family was used to the bad luck which follows them, due to (because of) the curse his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" caused. Stanley, however, tries to have a good attitude and pretend that this will be like a summer camp for rich kids.



2009年9月11日 星期五

Homonym 同字異義

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-11-voa8.cfm?renderforprint=1

charge, charge
I charge (Verb) my students $100 per lesson.
The Taiwan ex-president was convicted of a total of sixes charges.

fine, fined
I am fine, thank you.
The ex-president was fined $6 millions.

demonstrate, demonstrate
I demonstrate my project results using the power point at school.
The supporters of Mr Chen demonstrated near the court.

frequent, frequent
He likes to frequent the bar.
Mr Chen frequently clashed with Chinese leaders by asserting Taiwan's independence.