IO8 - Perales

Extensive Reading Report – Intermediate

 

1.    Title of the article:

 

I Saw Injustice Everywhere I Looked

 

2.    Source of the article (link):  

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201307/saw-injustice-everywhere/

3.    Author's name:  Jehovah's Witnesses

4.    Before you read, look at the picture(s) if any, as well as the title. What do you think the article will be about?

 

In my opinion, the article is about the experience of one man, he might have been lawyer, and he talks about the different cases that he had, which not had a happy end.

 

5.    Read the article and describe what you understand of it in as much detail as possible.

 

Patrick was born in 1965 in Northern Ireland, he lives during the violent conflict between Catholics and Protestants, he said "I saw injustice and inequality everywhere I looked", because he experiment abuse every moment, but he decided  to fight back.

While he was in the university, he joined at some protests, but he understood there are other ways to ask for justice, because in the protests rather than achieving their goals, often increase the fires of hate.

 

 

6.    Vocabulary Use: Choose 05 new vocabulary items (words, collocations or idiomatic expressions, etc.) and write their meanings and 02 examples related to your real experience.

 

Achieving: To succeed in doing or having something.

·         My cousin Jessica is achieving all her goals; one of these was her degree of lawyer.

·         All of my sisters achieved enter at the University.

 

Beaten up: To be hit by something or someone.

·         Two days ago, I saw three boys beaten up other boy, but the police didn't anything to save at the boy.

·         Some people give beaten up at the robber, because they don't believe in the justice.

 

Poll:  An occasion when many people are asked what they think about something.

·         Is necessary to do a poll about the kind of tourist that arrive at our city.

·         The poll is the most important part in a market study.

 

Strikes: A period of time during which people refuse to work, as a protest.

·         The tourist doesn't visit the places which have many strikes at the year.

·         While I was in the university, I never participated in one strike.

 

Despite: Used for saying that something happens or is true even though something else makes it seem unlikely.

·         There are many people traveling to Europe to work despite the bad economy.

·      I have one friend from Panama and other from USA, despite their different cultures; they will get marry on December 2013.

Student's Name: Perales Sanabria Leila