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Introduction
Let's improve English with Steinbeck. Here you are an excerpt of the novel The Wayward Bus.
Task
- Read the text carefully and underline all the descriptive adjectives you see. Find the antonyms. Use them in a different context.
- Highlight all verbs in past and include in brackets their infinitive.
- replace all the relative pronouns repeating the clause /word they make reference to.
- Make a short research work about who were the Yankees and the Blankens
Process
If you find too many terms whose meaning is unknown for you, work with a classmate and try to deduce their meaning. When you do, you can start the assigned tasks. Make them in pairs or groups.
Evaluation
The evaluation can be done through the following questions:
- look for the words that correspond to the following definition.
- put in chronological order the following events.
- what other historical places you know in the States? and in your own country?
- answer true or false to the following statements and correct the false ones.
Conclusion
write a short writing about what you have learned related to the American civil war with this text.