Comprehension

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 586.

Word study

Play Politics

1. Match the words to make combinations from the text:

2. Find synonyms to the following words in the text:

contract

shortage

hinder

obligation, responsibility

keeper, protector

3. Fill in the gaps:

Play__ your strengths.

The deeper you go __ one thing, the more it connects you __ other things.

Learn to write well. Most incoming college students, even the bright ones, do not do it and it hampers them__ courses and __ later life.

Lack __ clarity, coherence or shape will leap __ __ you.

Seek __the most intellectual adventurous __ your fellow students

I was once __ an event where a student asked Jimmy Carter how he, formerly the guardian __ American law, felt years earlier when his freshman daughter was arrested __ a protest against apartheid.

1. Answer the questions:

- What does the author`s advise “play to your strengths” mean?

- What are the methods to learn to write well?

- Do you have your favorite author? Do you think you have love for words?

- Try to describe the most intellectual adventurous of your friends.

- What do you know about Jimmy Carter? Do you support Jimmy Carter`s point of view? What is apartheid?

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2. Summarize the basic ideas about college life, described in the article.