Day: December 10, 2020

Books are very good friends they never leave your side. I really enjoy reading books. Books have the power to help travel through all over the world without moving from place. In addition, books are also helping to enhance our imagination. My parents and teachers always encouraged me to read a book. They taught me how important is to read a book. I have read so many books. But my favorite is Harry Potter. The author of this book is J.K. Rowling. These books are about the wizarding world. Harry Potter series contains seven books. My favorite book from the series is the sorcerer’s stone. This the first book of this series. It is one of the most interesting and fascinating reads of my life. I have read all of the series; none of the books caught my attention like this. I read them again and again because I never get bored of it. This series contains a lot of lessons for young people to learn. The book teaches us the importance of friendship. Harry, Hermoine, and Ron stuck together throughout the books and they never gave up. It taught me the true value of a good friend. It also taught me that no one is perfect in this world. Everyone has good and also evil inside them. The most flawed characters of this series like Snape had goodness inside him. Similarly, how the nicest one’s character like Dumbledore had some of the bad traits. So it all depends on what you wish to be.

New words

abandon — leave without planning to come back +
keen — sharp, eager, intense +
jealous — afraid that the one you love might prefer someone else +
tact — ability to say the right thing +
oath — a promise that something is true +
vacant — empty, not filled +
hardship — something that is hard to bear +
gallant — brave, showing respect for women +
data — facts, information +
unaccustomed — not used to something +
bachelor — a man who has not married
qualify — become fit, show that you are able

Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.

1. As I looked at all the qualify the salesman showed me, I knew that I was getting more and more mixed up.
2. I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
3. When the guard saw that the cot was vacant, he realized that the prisoner had left the jail.
4. Although he took an oath on the Bible, Sal lied to the jury.
5. My aunt was so jealous of our new couch that she bought one just like it.
6. I enjoyed reading the story of the gallant man who put his cloak over over a mud puddle so that the queen would not dirty her feet.
7. The loss of Claudia’s eyesight was a hardship which she learned to live with.
8. The driver was forced to abandon his car when two of the tires became flat.
9. Betty could not data for the Miss Teenage America Contest because she was twenty years old.
10. The blade was so keen that I cut myself in four places while shaving.
11. Unaccustomed to being kept waiting, the angry woman marched out of the store.
12. Because he was a bachelor, the movie actor was invited to many parties.

B)1.Gordon? I think he is writing a letter at the moment
2.Yes,the match is on TV now,but we are losing
3.Right now, Margaret is having a shower. Do you want to ring later?
4.Sally is staying with her aunt for a few days
5.I am liying! It’s true! I did see Madonna at the supermarket.
6.Josh is always using my bike! It’s so annoying.
7.We are having lunch, but I can come round and help you later.
8.Are you playing music up there? It’s really noisy!

C)1.Are top musicians studying for many years? – Do top musicians study 
2.What’s going on? I hope you don’t touch my things! – aren’t touching
3.It’s a small business, so each person is doing lots of different jobs. – does
4.Does Christine listen to the radio, or is that the TV I can hear? – Is Christine listening
5.I am usually buying a special ticket each week for the bus because it’s cheaper. – usually buy
6.Our washing machine is starting when you press this button. – starts
7.How’s the match going? Does our team win? – Is our team winning?
8.Many people are enjoying spending time on the beach on holiday. – enjoy

D)1.I am working at the local library for the summer.
2.We aren’t going to the theatre very often.
3.Stacy is getting ready for school so she cant come to the phone.
4.Does Gery ever talk about his exepedition to the Amazon jungle?
5.In squash you hit a boll against a wall.
6.I read a newspaper at least once a week.
7.Are you practising the piano for twe hours every day?
8.Nadine and Clare are doing quite well at schoolat the moment.
9.A good friend knows when youre upset something.
10.How are you spelling your name.

E)1.In Monopoly you are moveing around the board buying houses and hotels.
2.Is you watching this programme or can I turn the TV off?
3.Regular exercise helps you to stay healthy.
4.I am using my brothers guitar until I get a new once.
5.Does Simon always do the washing-up after lunch?.
6.Do you have any sweaters in a larger size?.
7.You arent holding the kite right. Let me show you.
8.Dad belongs to the local astronomy club.

F)1.am loving – love
2.are throwing – throw
3.is seeming – seems
4.are needing – need
5.are taking – take
6.are winning – win
7.are preferring – prefer
8.am not understanding – don’t understand
9.wait – am waiting
10.does – is doing.

1. ERNEST HEMINGWAY EARNED THE ITALIAN SILVER MEDAL OF VALOR AND A BRONZE STAR.

Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, and on July 8, 1918, he was badly wounded by mortar fire—yet he managed to help Italian soldiers reach safety. The action earned him an Italian Silver Medal of Valor. That honor was paralleled almost 30 years later when the U.S. awarded him a Bronze Star for courage displayed while covering the European theater in World War II as a journalist. His articles appeared in Collier’s and other magazines.

2. ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS ALSO ACCUSED—AND CLEARED—OF WAR CRIMES.

Following D-Day on June 6, 1944, when Hemingway, a civilian, was not allowed to disembark on Omaha Beach, he led a band of Resistance fighters in the French town of Rambouillet on a mission to gather intelligence. The problem was, war correspondents aren’t supposed to lead armed troops, according to the Geneva Convention. The Inspector General of the Third Army charged Hemingway with several serious offenses, including removing patches from his clothing that identified him as a journalist, stockpiling weapons in his hotel room, and commanding a faction of Resistance operatives. Eventually, he was cleared of wrongdoing.

Hemingway always maintained that he’d done nothing but act as an advisor. He wrote to The New York Times in 1951, stating he “had a certain amount of knowledge about guerilla warfare and irregular tactics as well as a grounding in more formal war, and I was willing and happy to work for or be of use to anybody who would give me anything to do within my capabilities.”

3. GERTRUDE STEIN WAS GODMOTHER TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S SON, JACK.

Renowned American modernist writer Gertude Stein moved to Paris in 1903 and hosted regular salons that were attended by luminaries and artists of the time. They included Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a young Ernest Hemingway. Stein became godmother to Hemingway’s first son, Jack, in 1923.

4. ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAS ALLEGEDLY A KGB SPY—BUT HE WASN’T VERY GOOD AT IT.

When Collier’s sent the legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to China for a story in 1941, Hemingway, her husband, accompanied her and filed dispatches for PM. Documentation from the Stalin-era KGB (revealed in a 2009 book) shows that Hemingway was possibly recruited as a willing, clandestine source just prior to the trip and was given the codename “Argo.” The documents also show that he didn’t deliver any useful political intel, wasn’t trained for espionage, and only stayed on their list of active sources until the end of the decade.

5. ERNEST HEMINGWAY CHECKED OUT F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S PENIS IN A PARIS MEN’S ROOM.

Hemingway chronicled his life in Paris in his 1964 memoir A Moveable Feast, in which he revealed one memorable encounter with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby author shared that his wife Zelda had mocked his manhood by claiming he wouldn’t be able to satisfy a lover. Hemingway offered to investigate the matter and render a verdict. He took Fitzgerald to the bathroom at Michaud’s, a popular restaurant in Paris, to examine the organ in question. Ultimately, Hemingway assured Fitzgerald that his physical endowment was of a totally normal size and suggested he check out some nude statues at the Louvre for confirmation.

6. ONE OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S BEST WORKS CAME ABOUT FROM HIM LEAVING SOME LUGGAGE AT THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS.

Speaking of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway wrote it later in life (it was published posthumously) after a 1956 stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris wherein he was reminded that he’d left a steamer trunk (made for him by Louis Vuitton) in the hotel’s basement in 1930. When he opened it, he rediscovered personal letters, menus, outdoor gear, and two stacks of notebooks that became the basis for the memoir of his youth in Paris’s café culture.

7. THE FAMOUS «BABY SHOES» STORY IS MOST LIKELY A MYTH.

Oddly enough, a story many people associate with Hemingway probably has nothing to do with him. The legend goes that one night, while drinking, Hemingway bet some friends that he could write a six-word short story. Incredulous, they all put money on the table, and on a napkin Hemingway wrote the words “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” He won the bet. Unfortunately, there’s no evidence it ever happened. Some newspapers had printed versions of the six-word plotline in the 1910s without crediting Hemingway, and there’s no record of his link to the phrase until 1991 (in a book about the publishing business), three decades after Hemingway’s death.

8. ERNEST HEMINGWAY ALMOST DIED IN BACK-TO-BACK PLANE CRASHES.

In 1954, Hemingway and his fourth wife, Time and Life correspondent Mary Welsh, were vacationing in Belgian Congo when their sightseeing charter flight clipped a utility pole and crashed. When attempting to reach medical care in Entebbe the following day, they boarded another plane, which exploded upon takeoff, leaving Hemingway with burns, a concussion, and his brain leaking cerebral fluid. When they finally got to Entebbe (by truck), they found journalists had already reported their deaths, so Hemingway got to read his own obituaries.

9. ERNEST HEMINGWAY DEDICATED A BOOK TO EACH OF HIS FOUR WIVES.

Each time he got divorced, Hemingway was married again within the year—but he always left something behind in print. The dedication for The Sun Also Rises went to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson; Death in the Afternoon was dedicated to second wife Pauline Pfeiffer; For Whom the Bell Tolls was for third wife Martha Gellhorn; and Across the River and Into the Trees went “To Mary with Love.”

10. ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S HOUSE IN KEY WEST FEATURES A URINAL FROM HIS FAVORITE BAR.

Hemingway wrote several iconic works, including To Have and Have Not, at his house in Key West, Florida. It’s also where he converted a urinal from a local bar into a fountain. Local haunt Sloppy Joe’s was a favorite watering hole of the irascible author, so when the place went under renovation, Hemingway took one of the urinals as a memento, quipping that he’d already poured enough money into it to make it his.