Unit 17

Communication

Workshop

1. Read the story and match the headings (1-8) with the Paragraphs (A-G). There is one extra heading.

1 Attack!

2 A storm at sea

3 A special drink

4 Tied down

5 Freedom

6 Welcome speech

7 Food and wine

8 Tiny people!

A B C D E

F

G

Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubdubdrib,Luggnag and Japan.Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

Pt. I: Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's

surgeon, is shipwrecked at Lilliput

where the inhabitants are six inches

tall, except their emperor who is

taller by almost the "breadth of my

nail" than

Summary of Gulliver's Travels

any of his court. Swift satirizes war

by showing how seriously the little

people wage it, and has harsh

words for the politicians and

government officials. The parties

are known by the height of their

heels; a dispute over the question

at which end an egg should be

broken is enough to plunge

Lilliput into a civil war.

Pt. II: In Brobdingnag, the

natives are as tall in proportion

to Gulliver as the Lilliputians

were short. He engages in

lengthy discussions with

the king, who cannot understand

the lofty pretensions and vanities

of the warfare; what he hears

strikes the king with horror.

Pt. III: In Laputa, men abandon all

common sense and concern

themselves with speculative

philosophy. In Lagado, the flying

island, Gulliver is amazed to see

the scientists trying to extract

sunbeams from cucumbers.

Pt. IV: Gulliver visits the land of the

Houyhnhnms, where intelligent

horses are the masters and the

Yahoos, filthy, degenerate human

beings, are the slaves. At last,

Gulliver returns to his wife and

family, but finds them impossible to

live with, after having associated

with the Houyhnhnms. The yahoos

represented for Gulliver the worst to

which human beings could descend.

Complete the story using the linking words below. You may use the words more than once.

suddenly, at first, then, when,

soon, before, after, as soon as,

immediately, at last

A We set sail on May 4th, 1699. (1) _______ our voyage went well but in

November, we were driven by a storm onto a rock. Six of us managed to escape the sinking ship in a life boat, but it was soon upset by the waves. I swam, pushed forward by the wind and the water. Just when I was able to struggle no longer, I found myself within my depth. (2) ________________ I reached land and dropped to the ground. (3) __________ my head hit the sand, I fell asleep.

B

(4) _____________ 1 awoke, the sun had just come up. I tried to rise, but found that my arms and legs were strongly tied to the ground. My hair was tied down in the same manner. I heard a confused noise around me, but could see nothing except the sky.

At first

As soon as / then

when / as soon as / before / laterWhen

C(5) _________________, 1 felt something alive moving on my left leg. It advanced over my body and came almost up to my face. I looked down as much as I could and saw a human creature just six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands. (6) __________________, I felt at least forty more of the same kind following the first. I was completely surprised and shouted so loudly that they all ran back in fear.

DHaving scared the little beings, 1 began struggling to get loose and managed to break the strings that tied nay left arm and slightly moved the strings that tied down my hair. But (7) _______ I could catch any of the creatures, I felt a hundred needles stick into my hand. Another flight of arrows fell on my face, which I (8) ______________ covered with my left hand. I shouted with pain and decided to wait till night, when I could easily free myself.

Suddenly / then / immediately

Then / Immediately

before

immediately

E(9) _____________ not moving for a minute, the arrows stopped. For the next hour, I heard a knocking noise by my right ear. Turning my head as far as I could, I saw a stage built about a foot and a half above the ground. One of the creatures climbed onto the stage and made me a long speech. I didn't understand a single word but answered in English in a very quiet manner.

F(10) ______________ being almost starved with hunger, I showed that 1 wanted food. They understood and hundreds of the tiny people limbed onto my body bringing baskets of meat and tiny loaves of bread. They fed me as fast as they could, showing surprise at my size and appetite. I (11)_________________ showed that I wanted drink and they brought me two of their largest bottles of wine.

after

after

then / at last

It is true that I often wanted to catch forty or fifty of them, and throw them against the ground, but having eaten their food and drunk their wine, I now felt that to do so would be rude. (12) __________, I started to yawn and quickly fell asleep. And it was no wonder, for their doctors, by the Emperor's order, had put a sleeping drug in with the wine.

G

then / suddenly

Find words and expressions

in the text which mean the same as the words or phrases below.

journey (Para. A), stand (Para.

B), way (Para. B), move forward

(Para. C), type (Para. C), amazed

(Para. C), pick up (Para. D),

dead from Lack of food (Para. F),

not a surprise (Para. G),

journey—voyage

able to stand in water—rise

way—manner

move forward—advance

type—kind

amazed—surprised

pick up—grab

climb onto—mount

dead from lack of food—starve

admit—confess

not a surprise—no wonder

medicine--drug

Find examples of these structures in the text.

I After hitting the rock,

the ship sank

2 Having hit the rock,.

Use the structures to link the sentences below.

1 finish my English homework - walk to the post office

to post a Letter

2 post the Letter - meet a friend and go for a coffee

1 After finishing my English homework / Having finished my English homework, I walked to the post office to post a letter.

2 After posting the letter / Having posted the letter, I met a friend and went for a coffee.

3 have coffee - go to the cinema together

4 watch a really bad film - go to play table tennis at

the local club

5 Lose three games - I go back home again

3 After having coffee / Having had coffee, we went to the cinema together.

4 After watching a really bad film / Having watched a really bad film, we went to play table tennis at the local club.

5 After losing three games I Having lost three games, I went back home again.

Write a personal anecdote. Follow the stages.

Stage 1Decide what situation you are going to write

about. You may need to use your imagination. Here are some

suggestions.

1 a day when everything went wrong

2 a disastrous school outing

3 a terrible night out

Think about the other people who were involved. Were they funny, tough, nervous?

Stage 2

Draw a timeline and write notes about the main events.

Stage 3

Divide your notes into four or five paragraphs.

Writing Help 2 (layout), page 97.

Stage 4

Write your story.

Writing Help 2 (style).

Talkback

In groups, read each other's anecdotes. Choose the most

amusing one and tell it to the class.