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UNIT 5

Text A Writing Three Thank-You Letters Text Organization l.

Parte Paragraphs Main Ideas

Part One Paras 1-9 On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before.

Part Two Paras 10-16 The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.

Part Three Paras 17-23 The writer got three letters in reply.

Part Four Paras 24-26 The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it. Correspondents Letters Received

Father Thanks him for teaching the writer from

boyhood

to

love

books

and

reading. Tells the writer how he, as a

Sent Letters

teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.

The Rev. Nelson , Thanks him for his morning school prayers. I

i Tells the writer about his retirement coupled letter.

Grandmother Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer's life with Stardust. Expresses

Language sense enhancement 1. decades 2. undergoing

3. had done wrong 4. welcome reassurance 5. appreciated 6. brought back 7. relatives 8. accomplish

with self-doubt, and the

re?assurance brought to him by the writer's

her loving

gratefulness to her grandson.

9. consume 10. representing

Vocabulary

I. 1. 1) sprinkled 2) in turn 3) reversed 4) repay 5) at sea 6) traditional

7) statement 8) longed for 9) in secret 10) unloaded 11) weep 12) under way

2. 1) stretch out 2) make out 3) hope for 4) turns (it) over

5) put away 6) brings back 7) got to 8) go about

3. 1) As supplies of traditional fuels diminish, people are working to increase the use of solar energy.

2) We accord high priority to meeting the challenges of economic and environmental development in the region. 3) While it is true that children of today are exposed to more information than the children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated.

4) Since she borrowed those books from the library she has