FERRIS’S ODYSSEY
FUNCTIONS
Ferris’s
trip – people – understand the situation in Irak |
ENABLING |
Ferris’s trip enabled / allowed people to understand the situation in Irak |
Give a 16-year-old a credit card ? |
USEFULNESS |
What’s the use of giving a 16-year-old
a credit card ? / There’s no use giving / what’s the point of giving |
Ferris – be killed |
RISK TAKING |
Ferris ran the risk of being killed |
Ferris – sensitize people |
PLANNING |
Ferris intended to sensitize people
/ planned to sensitize |
Ferris’s parents – be irresponsible |
ACCUSING |
Ferris’s parents are being blamed
for being irresponsible |
Ferris – enter the Iraqi territory |
PROHIBITION |
Ferris was stopped entering the
Iraqi territory / forbidden to enter |
Ferris – involve himself deeply in what he
does (s’impliquer) |
HABITS |
Ferris is used to involving himself
deeply in what he does (s’impliquer) / has a tendency to |
Ferris – be kidnapped |
PROBABILITY |
Ferris may have been kidnapped /
could have been kidnapped |
Ferris – focus attention on Iraq |
SUCCESS |
Ferris managed to focus attention
on Iraq / succeeded in focusing attention on |
Ferris – Iraqi parents- doesn’t speak Arabic |
PARADOX |
Ferris doesn’t speak Arabic
although/ and yet he has Iraqi
parents Ferris doesn’t speak Arabic , he
has Iraqi parents, though Although Ferris doesn’t speak
Arabic , he has Iraqi parents |
Ferris – not enter the Iraqi territory |
FEAR |
Ferris feared that he might not be
able to enter the Iraqi territory Ferris was afraid of not entering
the Iraqi territory |
TENSES
This is the article about Ferris published by Steve.
Unfortunately, he spilled some coffee on it and some words, expressions, etc.
are missing. Try and patch it all up.
Ferris left home without tellling his parents. He studies/ has been studying immersion journalism in California, and he
wanted to immerse himself in the
life of wartime Iraq. When I met him, he had been in Bagdad for a couple of days. I was reading a
report about a missing young American of Iraqi origin when somebody knocked at the
door of my hotel room in Bagdad. After listening to him telling me the reasons
for his presence in a war zone, I told him that not only was he jeopardizing his life, but also the lives of others. Later, he was driven to the American Embassy from where he flew / was flown back home. I hope that his odyssey will
have / had the impact he expected.
Ferrris struck / strikes me as a dedicated
youth. He is always asking questions. I wish I had a son like him.
HYPOTHESES
* Now that
he’s back, if I were his parents, I would ground him
for the rest of his life.
* If I had been his
mother, when I got news of his presence in Iraq, I would have flown to bring
him back straight away.
* If Ferris
had been kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists, it would not have helped the Iraqi cause at all.
PHONETICS
Classify
those words in four groups whose central voyel has the same
pronunciation as the word in the first box
bus |
you |
pocket |
no |
Tough / rough |
through |
Thought / taught / laugh |
Though / dough |