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Week 1

Text 1 :Story:  Time out

“I live high in the hills and my body is getting old. One day I was out in my garden fussing with weeds and grew tired. I decided to lie back on the grass and rest like I used to when I was a small boy.

I woke up some minutes later with a neighbor I had never met leaning over me, all out of breath, asking me if were okay.He had looked out his window two blocks up the hill and saw me lying on my back on the grass, looking, I am sure,like the victim of a stroke or heart attrack,and had run all the way down the hill to check on me.

It was embarrassing, but it was also so wonderfully touching. After we had it all aorted out, he let out a deep breath and lay down on the grass beside me. We both stayed there very quietly for a while and then he said, “Thank you for deciding to take your nap out on the lawn where I could see you and come here. The sky is such a beautiful thing, and I cannot remember the last time I really looked at it”.

I.                  Rhetorical devices: Metaphor: the hills, the grass

II.               Message: People should stop amoment, cease your work, look around you.

Text 2:    Poem :  Friendship

“ Many people will walk in and out of your life.

But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

To handle yourself, use your head:

To handle others, use your heart.

Friends

Anger is only one letter short of danger

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;

If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

Great minds discuss events;

Small minds discuss people.

He, who loses money, loss much;

He, who loses a friend, loses much more;

He, who loses faith, loses all.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,

But beautiful old people are works of art.

Learn from the mistakes of others

You can’t live long enough to make them all

yourself.

Friends, you and me…

You brought another friend…

And then there were 3…

We started our group….

Our circle of friends…”

I.                  Rhetorical devices: Assonance: one letter short of danger

                                            Rhyme: use your head -  use your heart.

                                          Climax: loss much - loses much more - loses all.

                                         Repetition: minds discuss -  minds discuss; He, who loses money -

He, who loses a friend -  He, who loses

II.               Message: Friends are very important, it always last forever so we can not live without friendship.

Text3 : Picture

I.                  Rhetorical devices: Symbol: Globes like the Earth; arrow

II.               Message: We need to do 3R to protect the environment such as : Reduce – Reuse – Recycle.