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Unit 1
About the Author:
1. Aristotle.
2. 620-560 B.C.
3. Sentenced to death – thrown from a cliff.
Reading:
1. He had to hunt for food, search for water and fight for a place to sleep.
2. He was made to wear a chain around his neck.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 2
About the Author:
1. Jacob and Wilhelm.
2. No, they were academics and researchers.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Because he wanted to eat with his family.
3. Because they recognized how badly they were treating the grandfather.
Unit 3
About the Author:
1.An Account of Ancient Matters and The Chronicles of Japan.
2. They used a bridge called ama-no-hashidate.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Looking for food.
2. He held on to the fox’s tail.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 4
About the Author:
1. No, you can read many different types of text.
2. Four: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Saint David’s uncle, his father was a prince called Sandde, and his mother, called Non, was the daughter of a powerful ruler.
2. He restored Paulinus of Wales’ sight and he raised the earth beneath him to make a hill.
3. Cawl, Welsh Cakes, Welsh Rarebit.
Unit 5
About the Author:
1. He did not, he simply wrote about it.
2. Because her beauty led to Paris taking her away from her powerful husband, Menelaus.
3. Paris, Menelaus, Hector, Achilles, Apollo, Ajax, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Sarpedon etc.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 6
About the Author:
1. The study of mushrooms.
2. 1902.
3. She left it to the National Trust.
Reading:
1. Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.
2. He was caught by Mr. McGregor and baked in a pie.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 7
About the Author:
1. 7 years old.
2. No it wasn’t, her first book was The Late Returning, which she published in 1902.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Because the boy was playing with him so much.
2. Because he did not have his rabbit.
3. Because the boy had called him real.
Unit 8
About the Author:
1.Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
2.Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
3.He always denied basing the characters on real people.
Reading:
1.Because the animals (flamingo and hedgehog) would not cooperate.
2.Your thoughts.
3.Your thoughts.
Unit 9
About the Author:
1.No he didn’t. He wanted to attend Oxford University.
2.He used to tell bedtime stories to his son.
3.Badger, Mole, Toad, Ratty etc.
Reading:
1.Pistols, truncheon, handcuffs, bandages, sticking plaster, flask and sandwich-case.
2.Badger.
3.Because he was clumsy and kept making noise.
Unit 10
About the Author:
1. W.W. Deslow.
2.Ruth Plumly Thompson.
3.Judy Garland.
Reading:
1.Outside, on the grass (with the stars shining in the sky).
2.The Woodman chopped at the trees.
3.The trees grabbed him and threw him back.
Unit 11
About the Author:
1. Science Fiction and Comedy.
2. 4 novels and over 50 short stories.
3. He was looking for a place to live before his pension ran out. A friend introduced him to Holmes.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 12
About the Author:
1. The idea that art should be beautiful (deep and meaningful is not necessary).
2. “Gross indecency.” He had homosexual relations, which was illegal at the time.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 13
About the Author:
1. 2 weeks old.
2. They were both writers. Father was a political writer. Mother wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
3. She spent time at Lord Byron’s estate and everyone was telling scary stories.
Reading:
1. He wants Dr. Frankenstein to make another monster like him (so he won’t be alone).
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 14
About the Author:
1. John Griffith London.
2. Paperboy, sailor, factory worker, saloon cleaner and seal hunter.
3. Inspiration for his stories.
Reading:
1. His father was a Saint Bernard and his mother was a Scotch shepherd dog.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 15
About the Author:
1. December 16th, 1775.
2. No, she did not.
3. 6 (4 when she was alive and 2 more after she died).
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 16
Brainstorm:
- That movie was so STUPID! Why did that character fly for no reason!?
- I never thought about life like that before. That film was so DEEP, it really made me think.
- Can you believe how FUNNY that was? I think everyone in the cinema was laughing the whole time.
- Why did our teacher recommend that film? It was so BORING!!! I fell asleep twice.
- That fight scene was incredible…with the boat and the helicopter…what an EXCITING movie.
- I don’t normally find clowns SCARY, but that character was so creepy. I don’t think I will be able to sleep tonight.
About the Author:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. A Dutch medical school in Nagasaki.
2. No, only one.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 17
About the Author:
1. The Yellow Kid.
2. Superman
3. The Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spider-man etc.
Reading:
1. How island nations are classified on official documents.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 18
About the Author:
1.Dionysus.
2. A woman called Izumo no Okuni.
3. Noh, Kyogen, Bunraku.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. They accuse each other of cheating.
3. Your thoughts.
Unit 19
Reading:
1. 1868.
2.Over sixty.
3. English and Japanese.
Unit 20
About the Author:
1. More relaxed English (using slang words or local phrases).
2. They can share their knowledge with the reader.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Sweden. An acquaintance told him about HDK Göteborg University Steneby in Sweden. He also liked Scandinavian design.
2. Swedish furniture company Ire Möbel has produced his design “Atta.”
3. He will go back to Japan to start his design business with his wife who is an architect.
Unit 21
About the Author:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.
Reading:
1. Your thoughts.
2. Your thoughts.
3. Your thoughts.