key

 

FUNCTIONS

 

Ferris’s trip – people – understand the situation in Irak

ENABLING

 

Give a 16-year-old a credit card ?

 

USEFULNESS

 

Ferris – be killed

 

RISK TAKING

 

Ferris – sensitize people

 

PLANNING

 

Ferris’s parents – be irresponsible

 

ACCUSING

 

Ferris – enter the Iraqi territory

 

PROHIBITION

 

Ferris – involve himself deeply in what he does (s’impliquer)

HABITS

 

Ferris – be kidnapped

 

PROBABILITY

 

Ferris – focus attention on Iraq

 

SUCCESS

 

Ferris – Iraqi parents- doesn’t speak Arabic

PARADOX

 

Ferris – not enter the Iraqi territory

 

FEAR

 

 

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 (1 leave) home ………….. telling his parents. He (2 study) immersion journalism in California, and he (3 want) to immerse ………… in the life of wartime Iraq. When I (4 meet) him, he (5 be) in Bagdad for a couple of days. I (6 read) a report about a missing young American of Iraqi origin when somebody (7 knock) 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 (8 be/he) jeopardizing his life, but also the lives of others. Later, he (9 drive) to the American Embassy from where he (10 fly) back home. I hope that his odyssey (11 have) the impact he expected. Ferrris (12 strike) me as a dedicated youth. He (13 always/ask) questions. I wish I (14 have) a son like him.

 

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HYPOTHESES

 

* Now that he’s back, if I (be) ………………………….. his parents, I (ground him) ………………………….. for the rest of his life.

* If I (be) his mother, when I got news of his presence in Iraq, I (fly) ………………………….. to bring him back straight away.

* If Ferris (kidnap) ………………………….. by Muslim fundamentalists, it (not / help) ………………………….. 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

 

though / tough / through / thought / taught / laugh / dough / rough /

 

bus

you

pocket

no

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WRITING

 

Imagine the essay Ferris wrote about his trip and what he learned. (insist on his motivations and expected impact on his immediate environment and the way he is planning to follow up on his trip )