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Lesson 10
How to Describe Yourself
Text A
All about me
I'm twelve years old. I'm large for my age and have big feet which I am self-conscious about. I look like both my mum and my dad but in different ways. I have fair hair and blue eyes like my dad, and a mouth an'd expression like my mum. My nose is like my mother's and definitely nothing like my father's ( 'thank oodness'). I am very like my mum intemperament1,though I don't have her very hot temper.
I'm rather a tomboy but I'm not violent. I hate fighting and arguments. I hate being laughed at and some teasing hurts me more than I show. I tend to sulk when I am annoyed and I tend to be a bit oversensitive. Friendship is important to me with people of all ages. My home is very important to me and I would hate to be sent to a boarding school. On the whole I'm a fairly tidy persorl.
I am quite creative with my hands. I like making models, pendants and candles as well as other things. I likeacting2and music, I play the French horn and can play thetrumpet3.I am not a very keen reader because I like to be outside most of the time. I ride my bike a lot and have been youthhosteling4with it. My father lives abroad and I enjoy travelling to see him. I enjoy my food (especially my French grandmother as she is an excellent cook! ) and I have a sweet tooth but I hate the dentist. I don't like my hair being brushed by someone else and I hate it long.
Finally, the one thing I really find boring is homework as I would far rather be outside or make something.
Text B
My thoughts
I sometimes wonder what my mind is like inside, often I fancy that it is like this. I feel as if my mind goes round and round like the earth and if my lessons make me think hard it begins to spin. In my other class it was getting allstodgy5and still and lumpy andrusty6.I feel as if there is a ball in my mind and it is divided into pieces -each piece stands for a different mood.
The ball turns every now and then and that's what makes me change moods. I have my learning mood, my goodlooks mood, my happy mood, my loose-end mood and my grumpy mood, mymiserable7mood, my thoughtful mood and my planning mood. At the moment I am writing this I am in my thoughtful mood.When I am in my thoughtful mood I think out my maths and plan stories and poems. When my kitten is in her thoughtful mood she thinks shall Ipounce8or not, and shall I go to sleep or not. This sort of thing goes on in my own mind, too. It is very hard for me to put my thoughts into words.
Additional Information
(1)
He's the sort of chap who loves to make entrances and exits. He'll arrive ten minutes before everybody else and he'll leave ten minutes before everybody else. He'll come dashing in with a bunch of flowers, screaming hellos. He likes to be noticed. He loves telling jokes. He's a well-informed chap and keeps up to date with all the current affairs. He likes to talk and give his view on life.
He's very successful. When he sets himself a goal, he works hard toattain9that and to achieve it. He knows what he wants and he'll set out to get it. As a result, he's successful. When you're talking to Roger, sometimes you're left way, way behind. His mind is whizzing over so fast that you're talking about something, and he's off at a tangent,talking about something completely different. He can't sit down. He's not. He can't relax. He's always jumping up and doing things and finds it hard to concentrate at times.
(2)
She gazes at.herself in wonder. Vanished are her healthy pink cheeks, her slightly red winter nose, hermole10,her littlefreckles11andblemishes12;she is smooth, new made. Shedabs13a little powder on top, and stands back to admire the effect. It is pleasing, she decides. She wonders what it will look like by midnight. Will she be transformed imo anuneven14,red-faced, patchy,blotchy15clown? An ugly sister?
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When she was twenty-three years old, she met, at a Christmas party, a young man from the Erewash Valley. Morel was then twenty-seven years old. He was well set-up,erect16,and very smart. He hadwavy17black hair that shone again, and a vigorous black beard that had never been shaved. His cheeks were ruddy, and his red, moist mouth was noticeable because he laughed so often and soheartily18.
He had that rare thing, a rich, ringing laugh. Gertrude Coppard had watched him, fascinated. He was so full of colour andanimation19,his voice ran so easily into comicgrotesque20,he was so ready and so pleasant with everybody. Her own father had a rich fund of humour,but it wassatiric21.This man's was different: soft, non-intellectual, warm, a kind ofgambolling22.
She herself was opposite. She had a curious, receptive mind which' found much pleasure and amusement in listening to other folk. She was clever in leading folk to talk. She loved ideas, and was considered very intellectual. What she liked most of all was an argument on religion or philosophy or politics with some educated man. This she did not often enjoy. So she always had people tell her about themselves, finding her pleasure so.
In her person she was rather small and delicate, with a large brow, and dropping bunches of brown silk curls. Her blue eyes were very straight, honest,and searching. She had the beautiful hands of the Coppards. Her dress was alwayssubdued23.She wore dark blue silk, with apeculiar24silver chain of silver scallops. This, and a heavy brooch of twisted gold, was her onlyornament25.She was stillperfectly26intact, deeply religious, and full of beautiful candour.
1 temperament | |
n. Khí chất, tính cách, tính tình | |
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2 acting | |
n. Diễn kịch, hành vi, làm bộ; adj. Đại lý, lâm thời, diễn xuất dùng | |
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3 trumpet | |
n. Loa, loa thanh; v. Tâng bốc, thổi phồng | |
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4 hosteling | |
n. Ở thanh niên nhà khách tìm nơi ngủ trọ | |
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5 stodgy | |
adj. Dễ no; cồng kềnh; trệ sáp; cũ kỹ | |
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6 rusty | |
adj. Rỉ sắt; rỉ sắt sắc; hoang phế | |
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7 miserable | |
adj. Bi thảm, thống khổ; đáng thương, không xong | |
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8 pounce | |
n. Mãnh phác; v. Mãnh phác, đột nhiên tập kích, vui vẻ đồng ý | |
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vt. Đạt tới, đạt được, hoàn thành | |
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10 mole | |
n. Thai khối; chí; khắc phần tử | |
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11 freckles | |
n. Tàn nhang, lấm tấm ( freckle danh từ số nhiều ) | |
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n. ( thân thể ) ban điểm ( blemish danh từ số nhiều ); vết sẹo; tỳ vết; vết nhơ | |
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13 dabs | |
Một chút ( dab danh từ số nhiều ); là… Năng thủ; làm mỗ sự thực lành nghề; ở phương diện nào đó kỹ thuật thuần thục | |
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14 uneven | |
adj. Bất bình thản, bất quy tắc, không đều đều | |
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15 blotchy | |
adj. Có lấm tấm, có vết bẩn; đốm ô | |
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16 erect | |
n./v. Tạo, thành lập, sử dựng đứng; adj. Đứng thẳng, vuông góc | |
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adj. Có cuộn sóng, nhiều lãng, cuộn sóng trạng, dao động, không ổn định | |
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adv. Chân thành mà, thành khẩn mà, thập phần, thực | |
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n. Hoạt bát, hưng phấn, phim hoạt hoạ phiến / phim hoạt hình chế tác | |
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20 grotesque | |
adj. Quái đản, xấu xí; n. Quái đản đồ án, quái nhân ( vật ) | |
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21 satiric | |
adj. Châm chọc, nói móc | |
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22 gambolling | |
v. Nhảy bắn, nhảy lên, chơi đùa ( gambol hiện tại phân từ ) | |
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adj. Khuất phục, nhu hòa, yếu bớt Động từ subdue quá khứ thức cùng qua đi phân từ | |
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24 peculiar | |
adj. Cổ quái, dị thường; đặc thù, đặc có | |
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25 ornament | |
v. Trang trí, điểm tô cho đẹp; n. Trang trí, trang trí vật | |
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26 perfectly | |
adv. Hoàn mỹ mà, không thể dị nghị mà, hoàn toàn mà | |
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