Comprehension

Questions

1. Monday, May 1, 1989 on the track in Ramsey, N. J..

2. Kate Pritchard was bending over her car trunk and struggling with the bags of groceries she’d brought home.

3. Rich throw on the emergency brake and pulled on the air-horn with all his strength. Anthony’s words exploded at the same time: “kids on the track!”

4. being absorbed in play

5. ten feet left b/w snowplow blade and the children, Anthony sprang forward from the ladder.

6. unending blast of horn

7. Anthony covered Todd while reaching out with one arm to grab Scott and pull him clear of the track.

8. Anthony managed to pull Scott, completely under him.

9. jumping up and down and crying uncontrollably.

10.from the child cry but he might have internal injuries.

11. not serious, requiring just 13 stitches.

12. member of the family.

Key words for discussion

1.       courageous, composed

2.       it reminded him of his first holding the boy and he was glad to save the boys’ lives.

3.       courage, composure.

Text organization

Part one 1-13 while Kate was putting the groceries way her two sons were heading for the railroad, a train was approaching.

Part two 14-33 Anthony saved the lives of the two children at the risk of his own, thus prevented a horrible accident.

Part three 34-35 Anthony almost became a member of the Pritchards family.

Scenes

One 14-27 Anthony spotted the two children on the track, then jumped from the train, covered Todd, reached out to grab Scott and pulled him under him. Though hit on the back, he managed to push them clear of the track.

Two 28-33

Anthony made the screaming mother call the police. Fearing his movement may worsen the injuries, he held the child for all the time.

Vocabulary

1.       nearby

2.       signaled

3.       resumed

4.       spotted

5.       instant

6.       exploded

7.       swaying

8.       messing around

9.       leaped

10.    grabbed

11.    loose

12.    horror

13.    punched

14.    calculate

15.    clear of

2.

1. is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy ball in the western sky.

2. may be sent via e-mail

3. and shelters the homeless children.

4. by his brothers to keep clear of the street gang.

5. to draw your attention to the fact that the students’ enthusiasm about the project has cooled down.

3.

1. struggled with, with all his strength, out of the way, flash by

2. twisting, and scraping, the incident, to mess around

3.pulled on , up and down, from injuring, crashed into

II. Usage

1.       thunderous

2.       exploded

3.       sprang

4.       froze

5.       stared

6.       flash

7.       crashed

III.

1.       possibility

2.       highly

3.       amazing

4.       violatin

5.       neighborhood

6.       fulfillment

7.       determination

Structure

1.       making

2.       to kill

3.       to ask

4.       to think

5.       spending

6.       being spoken

7.       to pay

8.       practicing

2.

1. With Christmas only a week away

2. With his physical condition improving day by day

3. With our GDP growing steadily

4. With all the shops closed

Clze

Incident

Jumping

Instant

Spotted

Horror

Calculating

Grab

Clear

Loose

Reach out

All my strength

Scraped

Punched

Internal

II.

Run into/had

When

With

Before

For

Herself

With/because

On

House/spot

Elder

Too

And

Speak

To

Come

Out

When

Of