Homes

As you heard the word"Home",you feel like a peacful ,calm and relax place.Home should be a place that you feel comfortable ,secure and safe there ,and I think it`s depends on your personality and needs .
In this article there is a man who is a writer and loves sea life .Luke, really enjoys to live in a lighthouse .He has all the things that needs for living there .The sunrise and set, see all the time 360 degree,has fascinated pictures of dolphins ,whals and seals.These, makes him so lively.
He prefers the noisy seabirds and storms than cars and people because he has his peacful time to do his hob .
For his food,he fishes and even if he needs something more he walks to the nearest village`s shops in an half hour.
I do not see anything unusal in his life.He lives exactly how and where he loves and in my opinion he`s life is more usual than many of us ,because he is happy .

Q1-Describe your home .Is it unusal?
Our home,actually our appartement is completly usual.It located out of Kualalampour and because of that it`s quieter than inside the city .I really like our view because a golf land is infront of our building.
we have 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms ,an opened kitchen and a hall which is my favourite part of our apartment .The warmest place in our home is our hall .It furnitshes with a brown couch ,a wooden table and a televison set but has a wonderful view and sight to the city .Most of the time after our daily activities we gathering there and have wonderful time with eachothers, that makes it different to me .
What kind of homes are typical in your country?
In the capital cities ,an appartement with 2 rooms is so pouplar but in the other cities and provinces, most of people lives in villas or houses.

posted by Shima

Inuit

I read a article about" Inuit" and it was so interesting to me.Do you know how are the Inuit?
The old name for Inuit wae" Eskimo".Inuit means "The People" in their language .They live in Sibria ,Alaska Canada and Greenland.In the past they hunted and traveled by sleds which ten dogs have pulled it. They did all they needs by themselves and lived very hard.
But it`s interesting to know they have changed.Nowadays in Canada they live in villages. In houses of wood and buy their food and cloths and also they have telephone ,television and even internet.
What do you think the is it good or bad, the goverment push them to civilisation life !The goverment took all their past history and traditional life and gave them a new life style .

posted by shima

Preal

Q1-Do people wear pearls in your country?

Yes they do.People of my country are really interested in jewellery and gold,specially women.Pearl is one of precious stuff that is necesary to have, in their jewellery box.

Q2-What kind of jewellery are popular in your country?

All kind of jewellery are really popular in my country ,diamond,saphire,emerald,onyx and etc.People in my country really like
luxury life and depens of their income ,they spend on it.

Posted by Shima

Dear Marcus

Good day, I wish you have a perfect holiday, the text is normal but good learning make to think about payments and some simple way to keep money, here in a tourists country it’s a little bit hard as food is not only payment we have to pay too many things to have time with family and don’t feel far from hometown and family any way I am sure every body here know how to do! The replies to the question in my view are following:
1) Yes off course, one of the reasons for working is money, most of us are working far from family and hometown to capture better money and have quite life, money can be useful or awful it is depended on you how to save and how to spend the money, I like to save it and pay for my kids education normal life and buy a nice house as well help to poor people and so on. When I was a small child my grandfather always said me” if you keep your money, then money will keep you”, also remember “no money no honey”.
2) I like economic vegetable or low calories food, as I have extra weight and I have to loose my weight but I cant eat at all foods cook by waste things of supermarket or restaurant by expire date, there are too many better way to save money and economic food is one of them, quality is important too I prefer to leave in the frame of my salary and some ability that God give me .

Your truly

Farzad

AKRAM-ailian life

q1:is sendin rocket.satellite and people waste of money?
ofcourse not.not only is useful but also can saveour life in future.
q2:find sutable and new planet to live:
the best planet for living should have water and good atmosphere.so mars is the best
because water and atmosphere are essencial for our life and give us possibility to being alive.

The Flag

Q-1 Describe your country's flag?
Now I will describe my country flag: Its Iraqi flag .My country flag has four colors. There are red, white, black and green so it has writing on it. It's religious words. The words are: "الله اكبر ".It is written among three green stars .This words mean that the greatest just for the Allah where nobody in this creation should be called greatest. The colors are arranged as following: The red at the top, the white at the middle and the black at bottom so the green stars at the middle and among these stars the words Allah is the greatest have written.
What do you think about your country's flag?
I believe that each color in my country flag means something. The green color means the earth color and the white color means the peace so the red color means Iraqi people sacrifices while the black color refers for all country enemies.

Publisher Ali

Cheating: reading

Marcus

Good day, I read a the text about cheating , text is not too difficult to me, I got the meaning of writer also I found some words and wrote them in my calendar words, anyhow reply to the questions are following:

1)Q: How does the writer feel about cheating? Do you agree?
A: He is a great sports fan but he is very unhappy as he see a lot of cheating in the international sports champions and he hates from cheating, he hope a good sport will be meant in a nice way. I agree with him at all, I like all generously behavior.

2)Q: In what other situation might people cheat?
A: People may cheat in all daily activities such as: job, friendship, pair relationship, business, politic even education and many things that have a benefit to spoil.


Regards,
Farzad

chocolate

We all have heard or seen of individuals who are addicted to drug, alcohol and even tobacco, but is there such a thing as “Chocolate addiction”? This story is about a chocolate addicted woman who not only eats her own chocolate but also her children's without their knowledge. She knows she is doing the wrong thing, but cannot stop, no matter how hard she tries. This ashamed and embarrassed habit really bothers her, because she can`t control herself. Eating lots of chocolate is so necessary thing for her that she gets headache if she eats less than 10 bars it in a day. She has finally realized that she needs professional help.

Do you like chocolate?
Yes, I do. I really like chocolate especially with nuts. But of course not as much as when I was a child, then I used to adore chocolate.

How would you advise the writer?
The woman in the story clearly has an addiction and it`s an illness, so like the other diseases she should go to a doctor.
In my opinion it`s kind of addiction and because of that, her problem won`t be solve only with diet and medicines, surly she really need a psychologist, and find the root cause for her addiction. What is she running away from? Is she finding comfort in chocolate indulgence as a substitute for something else? …And if she is really eager, like many others addicted, she certainly will cured.
posted by Shima

What do you do that for?

Dear Marcus

Hi, this text explain about "Skydiving", a kind of exciting extreme sports in worldwide.There are reasons for do it. For example, interesting to fly is attracted for person, who wants to test herself or himself and to conquer a fear of heights.

Of course a skydiver have to beleive equipment and his or her paking the parachutes. In many countries, there are classes for learning it and that they reach a top of speed of 190 kilometres per hour during 10 seconds after leaving the plane and this is very exciting for them.

On the other hand, the people usually think why a skydiver do it. May be a death wish! But results indicated this sports is very safty in all of countries. Although there are some dangeres in the way and specially driving to the jump is always more dangerous than jumping out of a plan and sometimes have seen a variety of accidents that is not very much but it is important. However this risk are accepted by skydivers.

Over all , I think skydiving sports is very interesting sports. I`d like it although I didn`t learn it. But I know in my country, some people do it.

However,there are other extreme sports such as ski,moto cross,rafting,snowkayaking,speoturism and etc that all of them are very well for express exciting and feeling gladly for all of people in the world.

Regards,

Homa

100 years on ... Olive wouldn`t dream of moving!

Dear Marcous

Hi,

Today, I would like to say about” Olive Marchant”, an English woman who has lived in her parents house since a century ago until now!

Although people usually change their house in a few years but she would not dream of moving such others. Now, she lives in old house where she was born in 1910 .
she never got married because she liked too much her parents and her house and did not want to separate both of them. This is surprising for me, maybe for you and others.

On the other hand, she is very healthy, she has not gone to hospital during 100 years and hates visiting doctors because she has always taken care of herself with sports and eats vegetables. she starts her diet as vegetarians since 18 years ago. She worked as cleaner for 40 years and liked gardening, sewing and cooking before her sight became damaged that she did not to do them. These things about Olive`s life is surprising for me.

” How has her home changed in the last 100 years? “I told you that her home has still unmodernized and there is no central heating . Even she has used lit with candles and oil lamps until electricity was installed in the 1960s.

Over all ,in my opinion, Olive is an interesting woman , too relax and very houseproud. So seems she is very gladly from her life that can be wonderful and useful is for others.

Best regards,
Homa

Fat Frank

This article is in 3rd level for me because have several words I don't know.

I read the article in 10 minutes but at first I practice which words I don't know and then started to read the article.

The obese is very bad for the human because have a lot of disease like :Blood Pressure and Diabetes etc .

The article was about one man from America and his name is Mr Frank but the people called him "Fat Frank" because he was very fat and he weighed 347 kg. His favourite food is burger and beer.He ate a lot but didn't do any activity and exercise.He went to the doctor and the doctor said to him "if you continue this rule you will death and if you don't want death must you take diet".Frank didn't want to die because he want to live or stay with his family.So he decided to take diet.After five years he is a new man an he weigh 115kg.He still ate some of favourite food and do a lot exercise.

To prevent obesity should : don't eat dinner , take diet , don't eat fat food , don't use the drugs to thin and do a lot exercise such as : running , swimming , go to gym and play football .

Do you know any one who has lost a lot of weigh?how did they do it?

Yes,I do.My uncle when he was 43 years old and he weighed 217 kg and he had big body.

He was very fat and ate a lot of food.He ate a lot rice and butter and meat but he did a lot activity.When he was 51 years old he became sick and he became suffering from diabetes .After four years he became weak and weak because the diabetes weak him and he now is very thin and I think he weigh 78 kg.

Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

Tourism

Dear Marcus


Hi, I read this text at 15 minutes and I found that there are some advantage and disadvantage about tourism industry.

First of all, advantages of tourism industry are improving countries,exchange culture between people worldwide and common understanding, decrease their challenge and actually a good source for Income and Investment!

On the other hand,tourism industry can increase limited for some of people`s life who lives there. So governments in countries have to pay attention its.

Now, I would like to tell you and another my friends about tourism industry in my country,Iran.Iran is a very beautiful country and it has a variety of visible places . Of course I think advertisment rule is very important for it.e.g media, so designing International Conferences for exchange culture and relationship between countries and ways to improve tourism industry is a good idea about it. Such as International conference of tourist promotion between Asia and the Middle East in Tehran,April 3 ,2009 and so Tehran 3-5 March 2007 for three days about tourism of Islamic countries already . So each country introducing the culture and tourism attractions of his or her own country to persuade others to see these attractions themselves.

The bottom there are 3 Adress for Hotel tourism in Iran.
www.Expedia.com(Iran Hotel)
www.Mircorp.com(Tour Iran)
www.Iran Gasht tour.com(lovely Iranian Hotel)

Over all, I would like to introduce” Darabad” in Tehran, the Capital city of Iran.
Darabad is a former village on the slopes of the Alborz mountain range to the north east of Tehran.
Darabad today is home to Iran`s most famous Museums for natural history, the nature and Wildlife Museum of Iran be protected by law.

Yours sincerely

Homa

The genius

Do you like Physics? What was your favorite subject at school? Why?
When I was in secondary school. I was interested in sciences and my favorite sciences were Physics and mathematics because all invention in this world began with these sciences.

Was Newton a genius? Do you know of any others like him? Write about one of them.
Newton was interested in physics, Kinematics and kinetics of particles he put three laws in motion to yet these laws represent principles of motions.
Today, everything in this world like plants, projectiles, satellites, rockets, machines and in combustion engine …etc. work on this principle of motion therefore I think he was a genius.
I know another genius scientist. he was Albert Einstein. He was born in 1879 in Germany. He was a teacher of mathematics and physics in the secondary school in Switzerland and then he became a lecturer in a university. Einstein invented the Theory of Relativity in 1915 and on 1921 he received the Nobel Prize. This award was for his researches in physics and mathematics. Einstein was the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He died in 1955.

Fat Frank

I would like to choose about this story is because i'm very interested in a man who was obese ,but he was determined to slim down .This story is happened in America . His name called Mr.Frank ,but everyone call him 'Fat Frank' .
His weighs was never got lose , and almost increase in a day . I feel very surprise that at last he can lost his weighs and slim down . How did he change his diet ? It's because his just has only one choise : diet or death . Frank did not want to die ,he want to see his nephews and nieces grow up, and of course want to stay with his wife . So , he decided to started a diet . He eats less and walks a lot now . Nowadays , no one called him 'Fat Frank' anymore and everyone feel very happy that he was slim down .

I don't know anyone who has lost a lot of weight around me . But I have some oppinion , example : go to the gym ,do more exercise , eat less and many things u can do . Just beleive yourself and give yourself confidence . YOU CAN DO IT .


Veronica

Computers

computers

I read an article about computer and internet.

This article is easy(not very easy) for me because I know mostly words' article.

I read the article in thirteen minutes and I read the article study reading module .

This article tell about three people the first person lived in a poorest country in the world and in 1995 a university was the first place to have the full internet.

When did you start using computers ?

I started using computers in 2004 when I was 13 years old .At first I can't use a computer but my oldest brother learned me how use a computer.Now I can use computers very good.I use a Computer mostly for playing Games , studying and internet.

Do people use the internet in your country ? Where do they use it ?

Yes,the people in Iran use the internet .In 1989 the internet connection in my country and the people use the internet at home or in coffee net.The coffee net is a place have a lot of computers connections to internet.I think 55% Iranian people use the internet.

Abdolaziz Torfi Salmani

hi

1-How did the mistakehappen? the couple -who had booked their air canada tikets on the internet -landed on the opposite side of the word. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you ever had any travel or holiday problems ? what happened? I was in holiday,s new year , years ago , every thing was good but after to hour something happen made me worried because my mother had pain in heart , and took her to the hospital , everything broken my holiday. thanks for reading my letter

Welcome from Marcus

Welcome to Academic Reading and Writing 1A. This site is where you can say something about the articles you are reading. Everytime you read an article, write about how it makes you feel or what you would like to say about it. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did it make you think of something? Write about it here. It's excellent practice of your writing skills. Return to this page every time you want to write about something you just read. Looking forward to the next five weeks.

Marcus

Pearls

I read an article about pearls.

1. Yes, absolutely, many people wear pearls in my country.

2. People in my country wear many kind of jewellery. Such as pearls, diamonds, gold, and silver. Those jewellery are popular in my country

FAJRI ACHMAD MAULANA

Cheating

I read an article about cheating. It was interesting me because it is about true stories, it happens around us.

1. The writers feel unhappy about cheating in sport. I absolutely agree with the writers because I want seeing a good sport in some competitions with fair game.

2. Another situation when people might cheat is when people do an exam, and there are consequences for people who cheating, such as failed an exam, or the score will be deducted.

FAJRI ACHMAD MAULANA