English Through Reading for efl learners
English Through Reading for EFL Learners
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English Through Reading for EFL Learners
INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 65 conditions. The women will be forced to work as prostitutes, if they are young, or work and live in miserable conditions if they are older. 6. The coming of the Single European Market has changed the nature of smuggling, and the customs men still remain vigilant. So do the coast guards. The fight against smugglers may not be the same as it once was; but if the coast guards ceased to exist, the door would be open to the new age of smuggling. It is certain that a new generation of smugglers would quickly make the most of it! WORDS: smuggle: to import/export contraband -landing stage: small jetty, place where people can get out of a boat - unload: discharge - dispatch: send - lucrative: profitable - supply: provide - duty: tax - climax: highest point - stage: point - watch: guard - cunning: clever, astute - the odd: the occasional - in the event : in reality -Eldorado : land of gold - would-be: hopeful, wanting-to- be - labour: workers - Comprehension: Explain the meaning of the italicized expressions in the article; then make up sentences reusing the same expressions in entirely different contexts. Text correction: Correct the mistakes in this badly copied extract from the article. This can be done with or without the original article. If you compare the two texts, this is an exercise in careful reading (a highly useful exercise!); if you look at the text below without looking at the original article, it will be an exercise in grammar, memory and logic. The second variant of this exercise can usefully done by students working in pairs; you will need to argue with each other in order to reach agreement over what is wrong, and what the original text actually said. March 28th 1960. It is death of night; in the small stream near Dymchurch, a city on Romney March, a black ship approaches a well-built landing strip. It moves noisily across the fields, speeds up, and ties down. Immediately, but without a pound, some thirteen figures converge from the bar and approach the waiter. A horse and car appear from somewhere, and the walk begins. In the place of quarter of an hour, the boat's captain is totally undone, carried into the bank and loaded into the car, and onto another one that follows him. Twenty seconds later, the goat, with opened sail, is turning round and driving back out to see whence it had come. Its captain, with a hundred bottles of finest cognac, is on his way to a hiding place, for latest dispatch to London. |
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