HOLES

Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.

And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a bizarre, almost otherworldly place that has no lake and nothing that is green. Nor is it a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids look forward to in the summertime. It is a place that once held "the largest lake in Texas," but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp.

The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.

At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth.

Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict.

Question always apper in literature

1. How is the mood of the poem?
2. What does the writer want to tell us through this poem?
3. Identify the literay device used in the poem? ( and quote two examoles of the test)

Test Scope

1. future tenses - going to
2. gerunds and infinitives
3. Literature: Holes - 1 to 28: Write a summary for each chapters
   
4. Listening
5. Comprehension

Tenses Exercise
A. Fill in the right forms of the verb in the blanks.

1. He ___washes______ (wash) his bike by himself.
2. My friend sometimes ___plays____ (play) with his uncle.
3. I like to _____talk_____ ( talk ) with the actor.
4. My friend often __goes________ (go) shopping.
5. My mother ____cooked_______ (cook) the dinner last weekend.
6. My coaches _______swim__________ (swim) in the sea.
7. We ___finish___(finish) doing our homework before dinner everyday.
8. My younger brother ____ate_____ (eat) three apples yesterday.
9. One of my friends _______likes____ (like ) to play the guitar.
10. Can you ____run______ (run) two miles ?
11. The teacher ____had_______ (have) a headache.
12. They ____watch________ (watch) a movie every week.
13. Does it _______snow_______ (snow) outside?
14. He often ____takes_____ (take) his umbrella with him.
15. My good friends __stayed____ (stay) in a good hotel last week.
16. I was very happy to _____play_____ ( play ) in the park yesterday.
17. My friends often _____bring_____ (bring) their books to read.
18. The workers ____washed_______ (wash) his car last weekend.
19. Tom and Jerry ________climbed_________ (climb) the hill.
20. I __finish____(finish) practice playing piano before dinner everyday.
21. My aunt _cooked________ ( cook) lunch with me yesterday.
22. One of my uncles ______does not like_____ (not like ) to play the guitar.
23. Did you ______fly____ (fly) by plane last week ?
24. The teacher _____did not have______ (not have) a headache.
25. They ____do not watch________ ( not watch) a movie every week.
26. Did it _____rain_________ ( rain) outside?
27. He often ______rides___ (ride) bike by myself.
28. My best friends ____live______ (live) with his uncle.
29. I like to ___travel_______ ( travel ) to USA.
30. My friends often _go_________ (go) shopping.






Put the verb into the correct form, present simple tense, active or passive.

1. The problems __are_caused__ (cause) by the careless staff.
2. The staff __causes___ (cause) the problems.
3. The company is not independent. It _is_owned__(own) by a much larger company.
4. The goods _are_delivered__ (deliver) by the transportation company.
5. The school _cancels__ (cancel) the outdoor games because of the bad weather.
6. The park gates _are_locked__ (lock) at 6:30 p.m. every evening.
7. The house _is surrounded___ (surround) by trees.
8. The company _employs___ (employ) two hundred people.
9. Two hundred people_are_employed__ (employ) by the company.
10. Usually, some goods __are_destroyed__ (destroy) during the transportation

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.

Homonym 同字異義

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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.

The Comic Club

Ella walked into her storeroom. She is carrying a comic book she had bought from a comic bookshop. And she was putting her comic book into the storeroom.

"Cool!" siad Ella's friend, Charles who was visiting her this summer. "We can read comic books this summer.

"It's going to be a clubhouse for my comics fans! Ella said, thinking about the comic she had just read.

"What does the club do?"
"You'll see when you come inside," Ella replied, picking up the comic and walking into the storeroom. Charles followed.

Suddenly the room began to shake and shake and shake. When it stopped, they tumbled out.

A mini Doraemon walked towards them. It was red in colour. It has two short legs, but it was smiling at them.

The comic book flew into the sky and it dropped onto Doraemon's head. Then Doraemon lay down and fell asleep.

"It's taking a nap," Ella said with amazement.

"Let's leave the room!" Charles whispered. They stepped out of the room....

Simile: An indirect relationship where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another. Similes usually contain the words “like” or “as,” but not always. The simile in line 10 describes the lunar eclipse: “The moon appeared crimson, like a drop of blood hanging in the sky.”

The character’s gait is described in the simile: “She hunched and struggled her way down the path, the way an old beggar woman might wander about.”

Repetition: Where a specific word, phrase, or structure is repeated several times, usually in close proximity, to emphasize a particular idea.

The repetition of the words “What if…” at the beginning of each line reinforces the speaker’s confusion and fear.

Rhyme
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The following stanza of "Richard Cory" employs alternate rhyme, with the third line rhyming with the first and the fourth with the second:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.

Metaphor: A direct relationship where one thing or idea substitutes for another. Shakespeare often uses light as a metaphor for Juliet; Romeo refers to her as the sun, as “a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear,” and as a solitary dove among crows.

Personification (II) Where an abstract concept, such as a particular human behavior or a force of nature, is represented as a person.

The Greeks personified natural forces as gods; for example, the god Poseidon was the personification of the sea and its power over man.