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On-going marks

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Advertisements

Read the following advertisements, then fill in the blanks with appropriate relative pronouns and do the task at the end.

SECRETARY

Computer Future is looking for a person ……………… has the right skills for fast-paced, growing office. The current position, …………… is being announced here for the first time, is for a front office secretary. Thus, we are looking for a person ………. can perform secretarial duties and work with the public. The ideal candidate for this position is someone …………. can type at least 80 wpm and is comfortable with basic and advanced word processing programs. Our company stresses excellent customer relations, so only those applicants…......................people skills are truly outstanding should apply; an outgoing personality is a requirement. We offer a very competitive salary, full health insurance, a generous retirement plan, and opportunities for professional growth, a package of ……………..other companies can only be envious. If you think you are the right person for this job, we urge you to apply today.

BILINGUAL TELEPHONE OPERATORS

A large multinational company seeks an energetic individual …………. has a good telephone voice. Applicants …………. English and Spanish skills are impeccable should call Mr. Wilford at 555-1417 to set up an appointment. In addition, we seek someone …………is familiar with a traditional switchboard but also knows how to operate a computer-driven switchboard. In particular, applicants ……………… are good with details are encouraged to apply. The next two years will be a time …………… our company is expanding rapidly and similar jobs may be opening up in the very near future. Therefore, we urge all interested persons to call for a job interview as soon as possible.

WEB PAGE DESIGNERS

Our downtown office is looking for a creative person ……………can meet work deadlines. The ideal person for this job is someone …………..can translate a client's ideas and needs into a dynamic Web page. We need a designer……………imagination can help turn mundane Web pages into innovative sites. In addition, we are looking for a person. In addition, we are looking for a person……………..knows HTML and JAVA, programming languages…………..our company uses extensively. If interested, you should submit a detailed resume, a small portfolio of previous Web creations, and three letters of reference from clients for ……………..you have worked during the last five years.

Task: Your language center is in need of some teachers of English. Write down the advertisement for your language center using as many relative clauses as possible. Then record your advertisement to upload onto the web.

The Person Who Influenced My Life the Most

Read the essay and fill in the blanks. Then do the task at the end of the essay.

THE TEACHER WHO INFLUENCED MY LIFE THE MOST

School was always very important to me. Therefore, it is not surprising that the person ……………..influenced my life the most was a teacher. In my twelve years of school, 1 have had many teacher …………….I have admired greatly, but Mrs. Thompson, ………………. was my French teacher in the tenth grade, is the teacher to ………………I owe the most.

Mrs. Thompson was an excellent teacher, and I really liked the way she taught the class.
It was a class ……………I felt important. In this class, I was able to excel, ………………helped me feel better about myself. Before I took this class, I was not the kind of person …………spoke up in groups. In fact, I was very quiet and did not socialize much. Because of the success ……......I had in this class, though, I became more confident and at ease, something ………..also helped me to do better in my other classes. I became a better student and a better person.

My family did not have a lot of money, and it looked like I wasn't going to be able to
attend the university. However, Mrs. Thompson wrote strong letters recommending me for
scholarship ……………I submitted along with the applications. In the end, I was able to get a scholarship to attend the university. After my acceptance arrived, Mrs. Thompson gave me advice regarding the classes I would take, as well as other academic matters. Those days at the beginning of my college career were difficult for me. They were day …………..I really needed someone's advice, and Mrs. Thompson came through for me.

My final reason for choosing Mrs. Thompson is the subject to ……………she introduced me. This was my first class in French, a language ………..I really liked to study. I enjoyed French so much that I then took Spanish the next year. I enjoyed studying both languages and had excellent grades in all my language classes, an accomplishment ……………has given me the idea of becoming a language teacher myself. I can only hope that T will one day be able to teach as well as Mrs. Thompson, class had such a positive impact on my life.

Task: Who is the most influential person in the world nowadays, to your group? Compose an essay using as many relative clauses as possible.

Read, fill in the blanks with appropriate relative pronouns, and then listen and check

LIQUID PAPER

This is the story of a very simple invention ………... you can find in almost every office in the whole world today. It is also the story of an inventor …………… creativity and persistence resulted in a very useful product. What is the famous invention? It is Liquid Paper, the white liquid ……….. covers up the mistakes you make when writing or typing. It was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in Dallas, Texas, in the early 1950s,…………..began using tempera paint to cover up the typing errors in her work.


At the time, she was a twenty-seven-year-old single mother of one son, struggling to make ends meet and working as a secretary to the chairman of a big Dallas bank. When she began to work with her first electric typewriter, she found that the type marks she typed onto the paper didn't erase as cleanly as those from manual typewriters. So Ms. Nesmith, ……….. was also an artist, quietly began painting out her mistakes. Soon she was supplying bottles of her homemade preparation, …………… she called Mistake Out, to other secretaries in the building.

When she lost her job with the company, she turned to working full time to develop the Mistake Out as a business, expanding from her house into a small trailer she had bought for the backyard. In hopes of marketing her product, she approached IBM, ………… turned her down. She stepped up her own marketing and within a decade was a financial success. The product, ………..came to be called Liquid Paper, was manufactured in four countries and sold in nearly three dozen. In fiscal 1979, which ended about six months before she sold the company, it had sales of $38 million, of ………….. $3.5 million was net income. By the time she finally sold her business to Gillette in 1979, she had built her simple, practical idea into a $47.5 million business.

It is heartwarming that the story has a happy ending in more ways than one. Ms. Nesmith remarried and became Mrs. Graham. Her son, Michael, a musician of whom she is understandably proud, became very successful as one of a music group called the Monkees, ……………. appeared on an NBC television show for several years in the mid-1960s. Subsequently a country-rock musician, a songwriter, and a video producer, he now heads a production company in California, …………… he also directs some charities.

With some of her profits, Mrs. Graham established a foundation ……….. purpose is to provide leading intellectuals with the time, space, and compatible colleagues …………. they need to ponder and articulate the most important social problems of our era. Bette Nesmith Graham first developed a product ……….. there was clearly a need for; then she used the substantial profits for charitable purposes, …………….. is a fine thing to do. The story of Liquid Paper and Bette Nesmith Graham is a story everyone can appreciate.

It shows how a wonderful product came to market because of the cleverness and perseverance of its inventor. Perhaps you, too, have a clever idea ………… will spread like wildfire if only you can give it the kind of spark that Mrs. Graham gave to her product.

Obama's Speech "Yes We Can" 2

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Are you Showing or just Telling?

Power Out
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
By Shinan Barclay

I awoke to a silent chill. In my cottage, no clocks blinked, no refrigerator hummed. In this rural Oregon coast area, power pauses are frequent: a minute, an hour, sometimes three. Then, eventually there's that cascade of welcome sound -- buzz, blink, hum and whirr -- as radio, refrigerator, clock, computer, TV, heater and answering machine snap back to life.
I've made it through numerous power failures. No light, no heat, no sound -- all that I can handle. But I can't function without morning coffee. I could have built a fire on the stone patio outside my back door and heated water. But it was pouring rain. I could have hiked up the hill to my neighbor's, to see if Jenn had coffee perking on her camp stove. But wind whipped through tree branches. At least the phone was working.
I telephoned my boss. "It's going to be a long time before the lines are repaired," she said. "Hunker down. Work's cancelled. There's emergency food and shelter in town at the Methodist Church." Groping in the dim morning light, I excavated a lantern and my down sleeping bag from the back of my closet. I set the lantern on the kitchen counter, reread the instructions, struck a match and lit the mantle. Continue...

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What type are you?

 this lesson, you will know what type of person you are.Read and fill in the blanks.


Suppose you attend a party ………. there are several people you know well. The hosts have a new party game ……….. involves asking everyone to compare each person to a flower. Which flower would you choose for each person and which flower for yourself? Are you the kind of person ………. resembles a sunflower, open to the world most of the time? Or are you more like a four o'clock, someone ………. opens up only at special moments?

This may sound like just an amusing activity, but there is a science of personality identification ………. grew out of the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and ……… of two American women, Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. After studying Jung's work, Briggs and her daughter developed a system of 4 personality dimensions and 16 different personality types. Based on this system, they developed a test, ………… has been refined many times over the decades and has been taken by millions of people. Take a look at the following descriptions based on the Myers-Briggs test. Try to place people you know into one or more of the categories. You may learn something about your co-workers, friends, loved ones, and yourself.

Category 1: extrovert or introvert. This category has to do with the way …….. people direct their energy. An extrovert is basically a person ……….. energies are activated by being with others. An introvert is essentially a person ………… energies are activated by being alone. Mary is a good example of an extrovert. She's the kind of person ………… others consider shy, but there's no correlation between shyness and either introversion or extroversion. At a party, Mary starts to open up and get energized once she meets some people ……… make her feel comfortable. Her friend Bill is the opposite. He isn't shy at all, but after he's been at a party for a while, he's tired and ready to go home. He finds the conversation interesting enough but is just as likely to be imagining a time when he was hiking alone in the mountains.

Category 2: sensor or intuitive. This category has to do with the kind of information we notice and remember easily. Sensors are practical people ………. notice what is going on around them and rely on past experiences to make conclusions. Intuitives are more interested in relationships between things or people, tending to focus on what might be. Consider Jack and Barbara, ………... have been married for years. At a party, Jack, ………..parents own a sofa company, notices that their hosts have bought a new sofa and asks where they bought it. Barbara is less interested in the sofa and more interested in the tense way the hosts are talking with each other. Did they have a fight? Jack is the sensor and Barbara the intuitive.

Category 3: thinker or feeler. This category is about the way that we make conclusions. Thinkers are those ……….. tend to make decisions objectively, on the basis of logic. Feelers make decisions based on their personal values and how they feel about choices. Helen and Gary are at a bank applying for a loan. The loan officer tells them they owe too much on their credit cards and will have to pay off their debt before they can borrow money. This makes perfect sense to Helen, ………… classifies her as a thinker. Gary's reaction is quite different. The loan officer, ………… makes Gary feel criticized, is only trying to do his job. However, Gary takes the loan officer's comments personally, …………. classifies him as a feeler.

Category 4: judger or perceiver. This dimension is about the kind of environment ………. makes us feel most comfortable. Judgers are people ………… prefer a predictable environment. They like to make decisions and have things settled. Perceivers are more interested in keeping their options open, preferring to experience as much of the world as possible. Consider Tim and Samantha. Tim, …………. always has a plan for everything, gets impatient with Samantha when he calls her to plan a time when they can get together. Tim wants things to be definite; Samantha wants to keep her options flexible.

So we're left with this question: What good is classifying people? It certainly doesn't give us any magic powers or tools for relationships. But it can give us insight. It can help us understand others better, and perhaps minimize or reduce conflict. Best of all, it can help us understand ourselves.



Note: What type are you? Give some evidence and examples to support your idea.

obama speech

Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill.



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Obama's Speech "Yes We Can"

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Noun Clauses

Start Point: 

What you've told us is very interesting. (= The information is very interesting.)

You've probably also heard that the Marsh has been given to the NWT to look after. (= You've probably also heard this report.)

Nine o'clock is when we usually meet. (= Nine o'clock is our usual meeting time.)

A noun clause functions in a sentence in a similar way to a noun (e.g. information, report) or noun phrase (e.g. our usual meeting time). Noun clauses usually begin with that or a wh-word (e.g. how, what, when, where, which, who, why; also whether, whatever)

1.   that- noun clauses

In informal contexts we often leave out that at the beginning of a that- noun clause:  

It's also good to know that they're helping the environment, or ... to know they're helping...

I can guarantee that you'll make a lot of new friends, or I can guarantee you'll make ...

We usually use the fact that (rather than that):

•   when the noun clause is subject:

The fact that you're not a member of the trust makes no difference, (rather than That you're not a member of the trust makes no difference.)

•   after a preposition or after verbs such as change, face and overlook:

We have to face (or face up to) the fact that we don't have enough resources at the moment.

Note: Depending on meaning, we can use words like argument, assumption, belief claim, idea,   notion, and view instead of fact:

The idea that it's all hard work is just wrong.

2.   wh- noun clauses

When a wh- noun clause follows certain nouns (e.g. example, problem), we often have to include

of before the wh-word:

We'd like to follow the example of what they've done at Broadstone Park.

Some verbs (e.g. advise, teach) must have an object before the wh- word:  

I'll be happy to advise you when to come.

Noun clauses beginning how are commonly used after certain verbs (e.g. decide, know): 

It's entirely up to you to decide how much time you can give.

We can use a wh- noun clause, but not a that- noun clause, after a preposition:

If you've got any questions about what I've said so far, I'd be happy to answer them.  (not... about that I've said so far ...)

We can also use noun clauses beginning with whatever (= anything, or it doesn't matter what), whoever (= the person/group who, or any person/group who), or whichever (= one thing or person from a limited number) to talk about things, people or times that are indefinite or unknown:

We will he very grateful for whatever time people can spare.

You can phone whoever is in charge of arranging lifts on the weekend you want to come.

Rather than a wh- noun clause, we can often use a noun or pronoun which has a meaning related to the wh- word:

Why most people volunteer is that they want fresh air and exercise, or

The reason (why/that) most people volunteer ...

Clearing the vegetation is what is urgently needed, or

Clearing the vegetation is something which/that is urgently needed.

 
Other words used in this way include the place (rather than where), the time (rather than when), the way (rather than how) and somebody/someone (rather than who).

3. whether and if

We can use whether as the wh- word in a noun clause when we talk about possible choices.

Whether has a similar meaning to if.

I can't remember whether it runs on Sundays.

Notice the difference between sentences with whether- and that- noun clauses:

I didn't know whether/if the bus service has been cancelled. (= it may or may not have been

cancelled)

I didn't know that the bus service had been cancelled. (= it was cancelled; now I know)

Note: In rather formal contexts, particularly in writing, we can use as to with a meaning similar to   'about' or 'concerning' before a whether noun clause:

There was some debate as to whether he could legally give us the land.

We use whether, not if-

•  before or not:

I don't know whether or not I'd be able to come on a regular basis.

However:

I don't know whether/if I'd be able to come on a regular basis or not.

•  before a to-infinitive:

I can't make up my mind whether to help on Saturdays or Sundays.

•  usually after a preposition, and also after the verbs advise, choose, consider, debate, discuss, enquire, question:

You can think about whether you'd like to be involved.

You can choose whether you want to work indoors or outdoors.

•  in a clause acting as a subject or complement:

Whether you help with the outdoor or indoor work depends on you. (= subject)  

What I'm not clear about is whether we can get a lift to the reserve. (= complement)