Book name: Treading on Dreams : Stories of Ireland ( Retold by Clare West )
1.new words learnt:
(1) aubergine - a long vegetable with dark purple skin
(2) billiard room - a place where people plays billiards (using long sticks to hit the balls against each other and into pockets at the edge of a long table )
(3) blush - to become red in the face
(4) bollocks - someone of bad charactors; also, a rude word meaning 'nonsense!'
(5) breeches - short trousers fastened just below the knee
(6) buckles - pieces of metal used for fastening shoes
(7) dartboard - a round board with numbers on it, used in the game of darts; the bulls-eye is the centre of the dartboard
(8) drag - to pull something along with difficult
(9) eejit - Irish English, an idiot, a very stupid person
(10) exaggerate - to make something seem larger, better, worse, or more important that it really is
(11) eyelids - the pieces of skin that move to cover your eyes
(12) fiddle - a stringed musical instrument usually called a violin
(13) the Garden of Eden - (in the Bible) the beautiful garden where Adam and Eve lived; a place of happiness and innocence
(14) giggle - to laugh in a silly way
(15) gin - a strong, colourless alcoholic drink
(16) guilty party - (in a divorce) the person who takes the blame for breaking up the marriage
(17) interrupt - to say or do something that makes somebody stop what they are saying or doing
(18) missus - used when speaking to a women
(19) Oedipus complex - a boy's feeling of love for his mother and of jealousy towards his father
(20) pawn - to leave an object with a person who lends money because of this (the object is given back if the money is repaid)
(21) pillar - a stone column that supports a wall
(21) raffle - the sale of numbered tickets, one of which wins a price
(22) reel - a fast Irish, Scottish, or American dance, foe two or four couples
(23) sober - not drunk, not affected by alcohol
2.about this book:
On the windswept west coast of Ireland a boy and his grandmother welcome a stranger; in a Dublin bar two man dicuss a women. A mother struggles to live the pain of a child dead; a failed musician drowns his sorrows in whiskey in New York. Then there is the fisherman who caught no fish; a small boy who get cross with his father; and a girl with long black hair, cycling down the mountain road to her first party, with hope in her heart. And the wish in all their hearts might be, in the words of the poet W.B. Yeats, 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.
3.my comments:
This is a story from Ireland. Irish writter have long been famous for short stories and there is a rich variety in this volume. This book talks about treading on dreams, there are many people in this world that had dream, even though it is not important. I belive that every people in this world have dream. This is very important to have a dream on yourself. This is a very intresting and good book. People who have dream should read this book so you will know how to treading on yous and other peoples dream. There are also some exercise for us to do before and after reading. This will make us know and understant what the writter wanted to tell us trought the story more easilly.
4/29/2011
4/08/2011
Book name : The Red Pony (written by John Steinbeck , retold by Nancy Taylor)
1.new words learnt :
(1)bunk house
(2)poch
(3)edges
(4)saddle
(5)schoolhouse
(6)crypress
2.about this book....
The Red Pony tells the story of a young boy name Jody Tiflin, who growing up on a small ranch in California early in the twentieth century. Jody knows very little about the world outside his valley, but he dreams of something more something out there.
In four stories in The Red Pony, Steinback shows Jody as a thoughtful , lonely boy. He doesn't have any brothers or sisters, and there are no neighbors close to the family ranch. Jody is often alone.
Jody watches people and listens to their conversations, and he begins to grow up. He loves the people around him very much, but he doesn't always understand the things that they do. He thinks about what is right and wrong and learns some difficult lessons about life and death, about families and about getting old.
Jody also feels strongly about animals and the natural around him. His love for the red pony, Gabilan, changes his life completely. The grat mountains also excite and scare Jody. Ther are almost alive to him. He becomes wiser, but also sadder, as he tries to understand some of mysteries os life.
3.my comments & though:
This book are very intresting and easy to read. It also have very good introduce of this book and its auther. So, we can know what what the auther wanted to tell us and know the story more well. This book also have some excercise at the last of the book. This is another way to let us know the story book more well. T think I will introduce this book to my class becuse it is suitable to us!!!
1.new words learnt :
(1)bunk house
(2)poch
(3)edges
(4)saddle
(5)schoolhouse
(6)crypress
2.about this book....
The Red Pony tells the story of a young boy name Jody Tiflin, who growing up on a small ranch in California early in the twentieth century. Jody knows very little about the world outside his valley, but he dreams of something more something out there.
In four stories in The Red Pony, Steinback shows Jody as a thoughtful , lonely boy. He doesn't have any brothers or sisters, and there are no neighbors close to the family ranch. Jody is often alone.
Jody watches people and listens to their conversations, and he begins to grow up. He loves the people around him very much, but he doesn't always understand the things that they do. He thinks about what is right and wrong and learns some difficult lessons about life and death, about families and about getting old.
Jody also feels strongly about animals and the natural around him. His love for the red pony, Gabilan, changes his life completely. The grat mountains also excite and scare Jody. Ther are almost alive to him. He becomes wiser, but also sadder, as he tries to understand some of mysteries os life.
3.my comments & though:
This book are very intresting and easy to read. It also have very good introduce of this book and its auther. So, we can know what what the auther wanted to tell us and know the story more well. This book also have some excercise at the last of the book. This is another way to let us know the story book more well. T think I will introduce this book to my class becuse it is suitable to us!!!
4/01/2011
Book name: The Meaning of Gifts : Stories from Turkey (written byTricia Hedge ,retold b Jennifer Bassett )
1.new words learnt :
(1) blond - a very light yellow colour
(2) bury - to put a dead person in the ground
(3) chador - a long garment worn onver the head and body by muslim women when they go outside
(4) colourless - without colour or (in this story) showing no feeling
(5) Efendi - a polite Turkish word when you speak to a man
(6) grave - a hole in the ground for a dead person
(7) hose - somebody who has guest in their house
(8) imambayildi - a cooked vegetable dish of aubergine ,onions ,and tomatoes
(9) mate - an animal or bird that is the 'husband' or 'wife' of another
(10)measles - an illness with small red sports on the skin
(11)parchment - a special kind of 'paper' made from animal skins
(12)raki - a strong alcoholicin Turkey
(13)religious - believing in God and doing the right things for your religion
(14)symbol - something which is a sign or mark for another thing
(15)strange - unusual or suprising ;that you don't know
(16)heart - your heart pushes the blood round your body
(17)imagine - to have some picture in your head
(18)government - th e people who control a country or a city
(19)frozen - (adj) : very , very cold and hard like ice
(20)forgive - to show that you are not angry with someone any more
2.about this book....
Life is full of things that make you smile ,and things to make you cry. And they are all here in these stories. In the first story, we see how difficult it is, in a small house, to have guests who stay a long time.......
Then we meet Guldiken, who is telling his mother about his day at school, but how can she understand? City life is very different from life in village......In the next story, Unal must stay in bed because he has meales, but across the road is a wonderful toy shop.....And when the little hunters at the lake shoot their first bird, they are very excited - until they learn what kind of bird it is........
3.my comment & thought.....
This is a very good and meaningful book. It tells us the meaning of gifts and let us know that, how the other people they treat their life. There are also some excercise at the back of the book. This could let us understand and know what the writter wanted to tell us through the story more easily. The vocabulary that used in this book is also very easy, we can study and understand it easily.
1.new words learnt :
(1) blond - a very light yellow colour
(2) bury - to put a dead person in the ground
(3) chador - a long garment worn onver the head and body by muslim women when they go outside
(4) colourless - without colour or (in this story) showing no feeling
(5) Efendi - a polite Turkish word when you speak to a man
(6) grave - a hole in the ground for a dead person
(7) hose - somebody who has guest in their house
(8) imambayildi - a cooked vegetable dish of aubergine ,onions ,and tomatoes
(9) mate - an animal or bird that is the 'husband' or 'wife' of another
(10)measles - an illness with small red sports on the skin
(11)parchment - a special kind of 'paper' made from animal skins
(12)raki - a strong alcoholicin Turkey
(13)religious - believing in God and doing the right things for your religion
(14)symbol - something which is a sign or mark for another thing
(15)strange - unusual or suprising ;that you don't know
(16)heart - your heart pushes the blood round your body
(17)imagine - to have some picture in your head
(18)government - th e people who control a country or a city
(19)frozen - (adj) : very , very cold and hard like ice
(20)forgive - to show that you are not angry with someone any more
2.about this book....
Life is full of things that make you smile ,and things to make you cry. And they are all here in these stories. In the first story, we see how difficult it is, in a small house, to have guests who stay a long time.......
Then we meet Guldiken, who is telling his mother about his day at school, but how can she understand? City life is very different from life in village......In the next story, Unal must stay in bed because he has meales, but across the road is a wonderful toy shop.....And when the little hunters at the lake shoot their first bird, they are very excited - until they learn what kind of bird it is........
3.my comment & thought.....
This is a very good and meaningful book. It tells us the meaning of gifts and let us know that, how the other people they treat their life. There are also some excercise at the back of the book. This could let us understand and know what the writter wanted to tell us through the story more easily. The vocabulary that used in this book is also very easy, we can study and understand it easily.
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