TASK 1

Choose the correct definition for each vocabulary word from the list below. Write

it in the correct space. Then, write your own sentence using the word correctly.

DEFINITIONS:

  • something that seems illogical, contradictory
  • capable of springing back into shape or position
  • extremely small- too small to be measured
  • a thick substance that is in your nose/throat that is produced when
    you have a cold
  • having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
  • not strictly necessary; capable of being sacrificed
  • say officially that an agreement is no longer in effect
  • not loud, bright or obvious in any way
  • not recognized by the conscious mind, but still having an influence on it
  • to kill in large numbers
  • to send money in payment

annihilate (v) / noun:
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expendable (adj)
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infinitesimal (adj)
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paradox (noun)
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primeval (adj)
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remit (v) / noun:
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resilient (adj) / noun:
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subtle (adj) / noun:
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revoke (v) / noun:
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subliminal (adj)
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phlegm (n)
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TASK 2

Completetheparagraphbelowbywriting a wordfromtheword box to fit eachnumbered blank.
Not all wordsfromthe box will beused.

I havebeenwantingtogotothe ______forest, theoldestplace open to
time travelers. I havemoneytopaytheheftyfee, thoughtheworldis in an

economic ______. Besides, HistoricTravels, Inc., will
______myfeeiftheauthorities ______
thecompany'slicenseandcancelthetrip. The Time Travelerpacked light, bringingnothing
that was not ______andcouldbeleftbehindifsomething
wentwrong. But nothingcouldgowrong, couldit?

TASK 3

Ray Bradbury uses language to re-create a lush prehistoric setting. We see and feel the vast jungle and its huge inhabitant, the Tyrannosaurus rex. The passages below contain some of Bradbury’s stylistic devices:

  • figures of speech—metaphors, similes, anaphora
  • imagery—words that appeal to sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell

Passage 1 / Passage 2
The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever. Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls, soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever. / It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight. It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons.

Describe Bradbury's style

Mood and tone of the story

TASK 4

Setting(s)

Point of view

Eckels' character

Theme(s)

TASK 5

Questions for discussion

1. Imagine you could travel in time, where would you go to?

2. Who would you like to meet or which event would you like to witness?

3. What are your three most important questions you would like to ask
a time traveller from the year 2218?

SOURCES:

TASK 6

The Butterfly Effect

In the short story The Sound of Thunderwe learn that traveling through time can be dangerous. The characters from the story realize how they impact nature when Eckels steps on a butterfly. Through the destruction of one small element of the ecosystem, the future is changed. This is known as the “Butterfly Effect.” Man is causing changes in the ecosystem today.

Choose two of the topics below and write six sentences each about how “tomorrow” will be affected by that topic.

Example:

TODAY: There is an oil spill off the coast of California.

TOMORROW:

1. Fish are poisoned.

2. People must buy expensive fish from the east coast.

3. People can no longer afford fish so they eat more meat.

4. More and more people get high cholesterol.

5. More people die from heart attacks due to high cholesterol.

6. A president who creates positive change in the world is never born.

Choose two topics.

  • More oil is pumped to lower the price of gas.
  • A park is made into a parking lot.
  • The polar bear becomes extinct.
  • (An extra-special topic of your own choosing)

TODAY: Topic 1 -
TOMORROW:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
TODAY: Topic 2 -
TOMORROW:
1.
2.
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4.
5.
6.