Unit 17 Communication Workshop

1. Unit 17 Communication Workshop

2. Before Writing 1.Read the story and match the headings (1-8) with the Paragraphs (A-G). There is one extra heading. A B C D E F G 1 Attack! 2 A storm at sea 3 A special drink 4 Tied down 5 Freedom 6 Welcome speech 7 Food and wine 8 Tiny people!

3. Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib,Luggnag and Japan.Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

4. Summary of Gulliver's Travels Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput where the inhabitants are six inches tall, except their emperor who is taller by almost the "breadth of my nail" than

5. any of his court. Swift satirizes war by showing how seriously the little people wage it, and has harsh words for the politicians and government officials. The parties are known by the height of their heels; a dispute over the question

6. at which end an egg should be broken is enough to plunge Lilliput into a civil war. Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the natives are as tall in proportion to Gulliver as the Lilliputians were short. He engages in lengthy discussions with

7. the king, who cannot understand the lofty pretensions and vanities of the warfare; what he hears strikes the king with horror. Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all common sense and concern themselves with speculative

8. philosophy. In Lagado, the flying island, Gulliver is amazed to see the scientists trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, where intelligent horses are the masters and the

9. Yahoos, filthy, degenerate human beings, are the slaves. At last, Gulliver returns to his wife and family, but finds them impossible to live with, after having associated with the Houyhnhnms. The yahoos represented for Gulliver the worst to which human beings could descend.

10. Complete the story using the linking words below. You may use the words more than once. suddenly, at first, then, when, soon, before, after, as soon as, immediately, at last

11. A We set sail on May 4th, 1699. (1) _______ our voyage went well but in November, we were driven by a storm onto a rock. Six of us managed to escape the sinking ship in a life boat, but it was soon upset by the waves. I swam, pushed forward by the wind and the water. Just when I was able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth. (2) ________________ I reached land and dropped to the ground. (3) __________ my head hit the sand, I fell asleep. B (4) _____________ 1 awoke, the sun had just come up. I tried to rise, but found that my arms and legs were strongly tied to the ground. My hair was tied down in the same manner. I heard a confused noise around me, but could see nothing except the sky. At first As soon as / then when / as soon as / before / later When

12. C (5) _________________, 1 felt something alive moving on my left leg. It advanced over my body and came almost up to my face. I looked down as much as I could and saw a human creature just six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands. (6) __________________, I felt at least forty more of the same kind following the first. I was completely surprised and shouted so loudly that they all ran back in fear. D Having scared the little beings, 1 began struggling to get loose and managed to break the strings that tied nay left arm and slightly moved the strings that tied down my hair. But (7) _______ I could catch any of the creatures, I felt a hundred needles stick into my hand. Another flight of arrows fell on my face, which I (8) ______________ covered with my left hand. I shouted with pain and decided to wait till night, when I could easily free myself. Suddenly / then / immediately Then / Immediately before immediately

13. E (9) _____________ not moving for a minute, the arrows stopped. For the next hour, I heard a knocking noise by my right ear. Turning my head as far as I could, I saw a stage built about a foot and a half above the ground. One of the creatures climbed onto the stage and made me a long speech. I didn't understand a single word but answered in English in a very quiet manner. F (10) ______________ being almost starved with hunger, I showed that 1 wanted food. They understood and hundreds of the tiny people limbed onto my body bringing baskets of meat and tiny loaves of bread. They fed me as fast as they could, showing surprise at my size and appetite. I (11)_________________ showed that I wanted drink and they brought me two of their largest bottles of wine. after after then / at last

14. G It is true that I often wanted to catch forty or fifty of them, and throw them against the ground, but having eaten their food and drunk their wine, I now felt that to do so would be rude. (12) __________, I started to yawn and quickly fell asleep. And it was no wonder, for their doctors, by the Emperor's order, had put a sleeping drug in with the wine. then / suddenly

15. Exercise 3 Find words and expressions in the text which mean the same as the words or phrases below. journey (Para. A), stand (Para. B), way (Para. B), move forward (Para. C), type (Para. C), amazed (Para. C), pick up (Para. D), dead from Lack of food (Para. F), not a surprise (Para. G),

16. journey—voyage able to stand in water—rise way—manner move forward—advance type—kind amazed—surprised pick up—grab climb onto—mount dead from lack of food—starve admit—confess not a surprise—no wonder medicine--drug Exercise 3

17. Exercise 4 Find examples of these structures in the text. I After hitting the rock, the ship sank 2 Having hit the rock,. Use the structures to link the sentences below.

18. Exercise 4 1 finish my English homework - walk to the post office to post a Letter 2 post the Letter - meet a friend and go for a coffee 1 After finishing my English homework / Having finished my English homework, I walked to the post office to post a letter. 2 After posting the letter / Having posted the letter, I met a friend and went for a coffee.

19. 3 have coffee - go to the cinema together 4 watch a really bad film - go to play table tennis at the local club 5 Lose three games - I go back home again 3 After having coffee / Having had coffee, we went to the cinema together. 4 After watching a really bad film / Having watched a really bad film, we went to play table tennis at the local club. 5 After losing three games I Having lost three games, I went back home again.

20. Step 2 Writing Write a personal anecdote. Follow the stages.

21. Stage 1 Decide what situation you are going to write about. You may need to use your imagination. Here are some suggestions. 1 a day when everything went wrong 2 a disastrous school outing 3 a terrible night out Think about the other people who were involved. Were they funny, tough, nervous?

22. Stage 2 Draw a timeline and write notes about the main events.

23. Stage 3 Divide your notes into four or five paragraphs. Writing Help 2 (layout), page 97.

24. Stage 4 Write your story. Writing Help 2 (style).

25. Talkback In groups, read each other's anecdotes. Choose the most amusing one and tell it to the class.