employees are a bunch of crooks. Lencho.” Oral Comprehension Check Was Lencho surprised to find a letter for him with money in it? What made him angry? .
Are there people like Lencho in the real world? What kind of a person would you say he is? You may select appropriate words from the box to answer the question. greedy naive stupid ungrateful selfish comical unquestioning .
There are two kinds of conflict in the story: between humans and nature, and between humans themselves. How are these conflicts illustrated? I. Look at the following sentence from the story.
Suddenly a strong wind began to blow and along with the rain very large hailstones began to fall. ‘Hailstones’ are small balls of ice that fall like rain. A storm in which hailstones fall is a ‘hailstorm’. You know that a storm is bad weather with strong winds, rain, thunder and lightning.
There are different names in different parts of the world for storms, depending on their nature. Can you match the names in the box with their descriptions below, and fill in the blanks? You may use a dictionary to help you. gale, whirlwind, cyclone, hurricane, tornado, typhoon A violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle: __ __ c __ __ __ __ An extremely strong wind : __ a __ __ A violent tropical storm with very strong winds : __ __ p __ __ __ __ .
A violent storm whose centre is a cloud in the shape of a funnel: __ __ __ n __ __ __ . A violent storm with very strong winds, especially in the western Atlantic Ocean: __ __ r __ __ __ __ __ __ . A very strong wind that moves very fast in a spinning movement and causes a lot of damage: __ __ __ __ l __ __ __ __ II. Notice how the word ‘hope’ is used in these sentences from the story: (a) I hope it (the hailstorm) passes quickly.
(b) There was a single hope: help from God. In the first example,