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Grade 9 HW for April 22

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Grade 9 Homework: Reading and Comprehension

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/graded-reading/amazing-adventurers-level-1

Read the following paragraphs then answer the True/False questions:

Amazing adventurers

Do you ever dream about climbing Mount Everest or visiting Antarctica? If so, you’re not alone. Every year, thousands of people try to climb the world’s highest mountains or walk across continents. Let’s take a look at some of the 21st century’s greatest adventurers.

Amazon adventurer

Ed Stafford from the UK is the first person to walk along the Amazon River from the mountains of Peru to the mouth of the river in Brazil. His amazing journey took two years and four months. There are many dangerous animals in the rainforest, like snakes and crocodiles, but Ed was lucky; he was only bitten by ants and mosquitoes. On his trip, Ed had to find fruit and nuts or catch fish each morning. Sometimes food was hard to find and Ed was often tired and hungry.

Technology was very important for Ed. He used a radio to ask the people of the rainforest for food and help. Many people came to meet him and guide him through the rainforest. While he walked, Ed wrote a blog to tell the world about climate change and destruction of the rainforest.

A mountain climber

Did you know that more than 4,000 people have climbed Everest? Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria is one of them. She is one of the world’s greatest climbers and has climbed all the world’s mountains over 8,000 metres. It’s very difficult to climb in cold weather and storms, but Gerlinde loves it. She started climbing as a teenager in the mountains near her home. When she left school she became a nurse but always went climbing in her free time. Now she spends her time climbing and helping a charity for poor children in Nepal.

More than one adventure

Some adventurers are always looking for a new challenge. Meagan McGrath from Canada has climbed mountains, ridden a bike across Canada and run races in the desert. But her most incredible journey was a skiing trip to the South Pole. As she skied, Meagan pulled a sledge with a tent and all her food. She skied through terrible storms and freezing temperatures for forty days till she arrived at the South Pole.

Erik Weihenmayer from the United States has climbed mountains and ridden a bike through deserts. Amazingly, Erik is blind and he wants other blind people to have active lives too. He has taken groups of young blind people climbing in Nepal.

Where next?

Technology is a big help for adventurers but the world is still a dangerous place and it’s very important to prepare well. If you dream of being an adventurer, there will always be continents to walk across and mountains to climb!

I- Answer the following questions. Say whether they are true or false?

Ed Stafford walked along the Amazon from Brazil to the mountains of Peru.
-True or False
Ed’s walk along the Amazon took 28 months.
True or False
Ed was bitten by a snake in the rainforest.
True or False
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner climbed for the first time when she was a nurse.
True or False
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner helps a charity for blind people.
True or False
Meagan McGrath had bad weather on her skiing trip to the South Pole.
True or False
II- Make sentences with the following words:
1- Terrible:
2- Skied:(To ski)
3- Blind:
4-  important:
5- Amazing:

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I am a psychologist and a teacher of EFL from Lebanon. Born in 1974, in a big family of five kids, bombs and shelters were the highlights of our childhood years. In 1991, I graduated from Yegishe Manougian College,the humanity section, then took off to work in my father's printing press. In 1997 I earned my BA in psychology from Haigazian University, being on the Dean's List periodically. In 2005 I earned my MA in General Psychology, Clinical Psychology as the main field of study, with a minor in School Counseling. My Thesis Findings addressed a psycho-social issue, research on the assimilation patters of the Armenians in Lebanon and the weight of the Armenian State in that process. Thus, in 2006, I was invited to UCLA, to participate in the fifth Annual Colloquium in Armenian Studies, to present the findings of my MA thesis among the PhD candidates from all over the world. My research based article is titled "The Assimilation of Armenians in Lebanon as a Function of Involvement with the Armenian State." Along formal education, I aslo had formal musical education at Parsegh Ganatchian Musical school, played the Piano with a professional pianist invited from Armenia. My teaching experiences involve teaching English as foreign language in prominent Lebanese high schools, where I taught English in Middle and High schools as well as worked as a Psychology instructor and school counselor. I consider my job gratifying and motivating as it is a very humanitarian and a giving job. I am a mother of two beautiful girls. My elder, Natalie, studies English and Communications at AUA, whereas my little sweetheart, Mariam Luce' is a 4 year old at KG! I am blessed to have a big loving family, great parents, siblings and most importantly a husband who is one in a million! I can write many chapters about me, but as they say, time is money, and I have to go now to grab something to eat!

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