About phrasal verbs

Hi, everyone:
There is a website that teach phrasal verbs: www.eflnet.com/pverbs

or you can just type PHRASAL VERBS in Google, you will find thousands

of them, but I compared a little bit, I feel the website that I recommend seems

better.

By this chance I would like to say thank you to our teacher Alyssa and wish

my best to all of you! We have a very good time, I will keep this memory in my

heart for ever!

I love all of you!

xiaojun

the last one...

one more...

one more picture

I friend of mine sent me. Funny, all of them, should not to be, but it is.
Maíra

CHAPTER 6 QUESTIONS

Choose a question and answer it in the "COMMENTS" section.
-Does the narrator miss his parents? Is he happy at the farm?
-Describe the narrator's personality. How is he changing?
-P. 38: What does the phrasal verb “cut out” mean?
-What did the boys trap in the winter? Why did they trap animals?
-What was the first story Hans told? What was the surprise ending?

root carving

The root carving is a very old art in china. In 1982 people found a 3500

years ago's root carving in a tomb.The artist use the very strong root of tree

and according to the shape of the root to carve it,something like the narrator

and Carl make skis.

-xiaojun

xiaojun's poetry

The night
getting deep
so quiet
perhaps the birds are resting too
the moonlight projecting the shadow of the tree on the curtain
I get up and open the curtain
inviting the moonlight come into the room
dripping on the bed
washing and comforting the dusted and the tired me softly
Oh!
I'm sleeping in mom's arms again

Chapter 5's Summary

The new farm's life has started, from this he realizes that there are some differences
between Carl and him. Like they are almost the same age,but Carl has a lots more life
expperiences than the narrator.So this makes him thinking about the real life and
himself, seems like he is getting mature.
-xiaojun

Foxman Chapters 1-5

The Foxman: Comprehension Questions Chapters 1-5

Consider this paragraph from pages 18-19:
Sometimes we’d ditch Don, and Carl and I would go riding on Jim and Digger—which wasn’t like riding on horses but more like sitting on two big tables that could move—off down the country roads. That sounds good, and looks good in those pictures that you see on calendars all the time where the kids are riding the horse under the big trees.
But the truth is the blackflies follow the horses, and so do deerflies. Clouds of them. And the bite like the very devil….

1. What does the narrator think about riding on the horses?
He didn't like it, there were a lots of flies.

2. What did it mean when Carl and the narrator would “ditch” Don?
"ditch" means get rid of.


3. Why do you think the first word of the second paragraph starts with “but”?
He really does'nt like riding horse because so many blackflies biting, hurting and itching at same time.
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4. Who is Sharon Emerson (p. 13, p. 19, p. 31)?
She is a mature girl who lives in a farm next Harold's farm. She will get married to an old guy and drop out of school. Once she kissed Carl and the narrator.

5. Where is “the old country” and why do they call it that (top of p. 30)?
"the old country" is Norway. He came from Norway.

6. On page 33 and 34 the narrator realizes that though they are the same age, Carl acts like he is older than the narrator. What evidence do you have that Carl acts more mature? What explanation does Carl give for this?
He is awared about the safe of the farm. He is much more responsible than the narrator even they are the same age.
You have to take care of yourself in the farm. You don't have time to be a kid, you have to grow up. It just happens.

7. What does this sentence from page 35 mean? List some words that describe the feeling of the sentence. But that’s what I did, and when I finally got to sleep, there was a moon coming out across the snow, white and open, so the inside of the room was a pale white-yellow and not at all ugly, but soft, and like home.
Because now he feels like home. He feels comfortable.

Questions

1- Do you think is a correct decition of the jugde to send him to his uncle's house?
( Daniela and Yajaira )

Unfortunately,the narrator's parents were not responsible, so he was sent to his
uncle's home to stay with them by the judge.He was sad.His uncle picked him up
and he started a farmer's life.
How do you guys think about the narrator? Is he lucky?
Y.S & Xiaojun

foxman

When narrator was 15 years old, a court gave him an order to live with his uncle in northern Minnesota. Because of his parents had drinking problem and threatened him by butcher knife. He was't happy to move to his uncle 's farm and about his situstion, till he met the Foxman.
The narrator was seventeen years old, he is able to understand that Harlod's family really tried to fit him in his thier family.
(E.S / X.)

One
The boy who was 15 years old and living in Minnesota. His parents had drunk problem, so he was sent to his uncle's firm by the judge. His uncle picked him up from the court to the firm. There were six peple in the uncle's house. cousins-Carl and Don, and Aunt Mildred, old Hans and Agile.

Two
When he was looking back on the past two years with his uncle's family, he felt that the family tried to make him fit at the Harold's place.

The narrator was sent uncle Harold's farm.

chapter1.
When the narrator was fifteen, he was sent uncle's farm to grow safely because there was an accident to his parent about booze.
And he explained his new environment and his feeling about new village.

chapter2

The narrator describes the room which was shown by Carl.
Also the narrator describes dinner with uncle's family.



Minjeong and Juyeon

The Foxman Summary

Chapter1
When I was fifteen I had to go to uncle Harold's farm because my parents had alchol problem and they couldn't quit drinking. So the judge made him go to uncle's house.
On the way to go Harold's house, they stop by Holt's store.The uncle told why Holt was died. The reason was calf attacked him.

Chapter2
When they arrived the house, everybody of Harold's family welcomed him. His cousin Carl introduced his room which was very good. The dinner was very nice. Carl and he spent a lot of times together.

Question
What do you think about the narrator's personality?


Y.W. & J.M.

A new life.

This history is about a guy who had to move to his uncle's farm because his parents were judged in a court and they were not allowed to take care of him.

The guy, who is the history narrator, describes how is the Harold's farm and how got it there. He describes about the view, the woods, the old uncle's car and the new life.

The narrator has two cousins, Carl and Don, an Aunt named Mildred and there are two more people living there, they are Hans and Agile, Harold's father and uncle.
He was given a separated new painted yellow room.

In the chapter two the narrator describes the meals. He notted that there are some many kinds of food and none of it came from a store, all came from the farm.

He and his cousins started conversations about girls and they laughed when they shared the personal histories about kisses.

Everybody in the farm has to work, even the little boys. The are going to buck the land.

Who is the Widow Holt?

What is going to happen with the young boys?

This book is very funny ,when I was reading I couldn't help laughing.

we can use this book to make a movie,and it 'll be a very good movie!


xiaojun

We have our books! The blogging plan:

The book we decided to read is called The Foxman by Gary Paulsen. It just came in the mail this weekend, so we can finally start to read it. Here's what's going to happen:

1. Each group must make one posting every week that summarizes the chapters we read for that day. (For example, on Tuesday, Group 1 will post for chapters 1-3, on Wednesday Group 2 will post for chapters 4-5, and on Thursday Group 3 will post for chapters 6-7).

Each post must include:

• A short summary of the chapters


• A reading question so that people can respond.

2. For the last 40 minutes of class on every Thursday, the class can go down to the computer room and write comments for each of the posts from the week. This can be done together in groups.

It's Book Decision Day!

Our A2 Adult English class is working on a project: we're going to read a short American novel and do the true American thing: BLOG ABOUT IT! The books we're debating between are: Scott O'Dell's The Black Pearl, Patricia McLaughlan's Sarah, Plain and Tall, Gary Paulsen's The Foxman, Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince and Jean Craighead George's Julie of the Wolves.

Feel free to give us advice or comment on any of our choices; we'd like to hear your opinions!

We'll let you know which one we decided to read and our progress along the way.

-A.F.