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