#5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading teacher Created Resources #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up
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20 Oprah Winfrey ©Teacher Created Resources 157 #5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up Check Your Understanding / 4 Name ______________________________________________ 1. What are some of the English errors that Dizzy Dean made? a. using “ain’t” c. using “there is” instead of “there are” b. using “them” instead of “they” d. all of the above 2. What does “unusual use of words” mean? a. creative expressions c. using an accent b. speaking a foreign language d. speaking perfectly 3. Which paragraph quotes several of Dizzy Dean’s imaginative exaggerations? a. paragraph one c. paragraph three b. paragraph two d. both paragraph two and three 4. Which of the following information would not be relevant to support the main ideas of the passage? a. Dean was playing during a time of severe economic depression. b. Dizzy Dean won thirty games and lost seven in 1934. c. Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.” d. Dean once cleaned horse corrals as a child. In the 1930s, “Dizzy” Dean and his younger brother, Paul, were great pitchers for the St. Louis Cardinals. Dizzy became a radio and television broadcaster for twenty years after injuries shortened his playing career. Dean’s unusual use of words made him popular and much quoted, except probably by English teachers. Dizzy was very confident as a player. He tended to brag about his successes on the field. When he pitched a one-hitter and his brother pitched a no-hitter in a double header, he remarked, “If I had known what Paul was gonna do, I would have pitched one too.” He once claimed, “If Satch [Satchel Paige] and I were pitching on the same team, we’d clinch the pennant by July 4 and go fishing until World Series time.” He teased one batter, “Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?” Dizzy rattled English teachers with his comments. He said “ . . . there is a lot of people in the United States who say ‘isn’t’, and they ain’t eating.” He also enjoyed stretching the truth with some inventive stories. After he gave several different hometowns in different states as his place of birth, he told the writers, “Them ain’t lies; them’s scoops.” Another time, he remarked of a rather slow player, “He runs too long in one place. He’s got a lot of up and down, but not much forward.” The entire country laughed with Dean when he left a hospital after being hit on the head. He told the reporters, “The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.” Fascinating People Download 10.24 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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