TASK 8 Working with Short Stories

TASK 8
0. Download the story called 'The Monkey's Paw'. To do so you need to go to FILES at the top of the page. Click on Files 1 Bachillerato. Then click on the file with the name of the story. Copy it and paste it on a new page on your blog. Then, ....
1.Read the story from the beginning right to the end. Underline the words that you don't know.
2.Write a summary of the story in Spanish just as you understood. Use your blog preferably. If you can't use your blog, use your notebook.
3.Read the story again. Try to infer the meaning of the words underlined from the context. Write then down on your blog.
4.Use a dictionary to check that your guess is right.
5.Read the story again from the very beginning. Make sure that this time you remember the meaning of the words that you underlined.
6.Write a summary of the story in your own words. Your teacher will tell you how many words it must have.
7.Write a 10 item questionnaire about the content of the story.
8.Make sure you carry out the indications of your teacher. He'll give you a little test to find how much you remember.

• 0: ok: link del archivo de la historia

• 1:
  preventing :im
  involving:
  blinds :
  surveying:
  unlooked-for violence":
  perhaps :
  contentedly:
  tumblers:
  squared:
  shoulders:
  regarding :
  strange :
  nodding:
  warehouse:
   shaking:
  hastily.,:a
  perhaps:
  mummy.":
  proffered :
  manners :
  jarred:
  somewhat:
  blotchy :
  wishes:
  granted:
  enthralled:
  business:
  dropped:dr
  darted slowly:
  shamefacedly :
  chords.:
  distinctly :
  greeted:
  wardrobe :v
  pocket :
  shiver :
  wiped
  fears.:
  soothingly :
  apologized:
  coughed:
  servant :
  obeying:
  hopeless:
  weariness :
  parlour :
  replied:
  candle:
  granted:
  feverishly :
  fearfully :
  candlestick :
  peering.:
  downstairs :
  noisily:
  squeaky:
• 2:En una noche fria y humeda , en la que un padre y un hijo jugaban al ajedrez , llego un amigo del padre a la casa el cual era sargento , y empezo a contarles historias , incluyendo una de una mano de un mono , esta condecia deseos , pero el les advirtio que les perjudicaria , el tenia esta mano y no la queria , asi que se la dio , pero le recomendo que la quemase , ellos pidieron 200 libras , y a la mañana siguiente un hombre vino y le dio 200 libras y le digo que era en recompesa del accidente que tubo de muerte el hijo en la fabrica . los padres estaban muy dolios , una noche a la mujer se le ocurrio pedir el deseo a la mano de que el hijo volviera a la vida , y y esa noche ella le dijo al marido que pidiese ese deseo , al rato empezaron a dar golpes en la puerta , la mujer salio corriendo para habrir , decia que era su hijo y el hombre asustado , porque no lo queria dejar pasar , pidio el tercer y ultimo deseo , todos los ruidos sesaron , la mujer habrio al puerta y no habia nadie.
• 3:preventing :impedir
  involving:incluye
  blinds :persianas
  surveying:topografia
  unlooked-for violence":inesperada violencia
  perhaps :quizas
  contentedly:contento
  tumblers:vasos
  squared:cuadrado
  shoulders:hombros
  regarding : en relacion a..
  strange :extraño
  nodding:asentir
  warehouse:almacen
   shaking:agitar
  hastily.,:apresuradamente
  perhaps:quizas
  mummy.":momia
  proffered :ofrecer
  manners :modales
  jarred:sacudir
  somewhat:algo
  blotchy :mancha
  wishes:deseo
  granted:conceder
  enthralled:cautivar
  business:negocios
  dropped:dejar
  darted slowly:correr lentamente
  shamefacedly :avergonzado
  chords.:acordes
  distinctly :claramente
  greeted:saludo
  wardrobe :vestuario
  pocket :bolsillo
  shiver :escalofrio
  wiped:borrado
  fears.:temor
  soothingly :con dulzura
  apologized:disculparse
  coughed:toser
  servant :siervo
  obeying:obececiendo
  hopeless:sin ezperanza
  weariness :cansancio
  parlour :salon
  replied:respondio
  candle:vela
  granted:concedida
  feverishly :febrilmente
  fearfully :temerosamente
  candlestick :candelero
  peering.:iguales
  downstairs :abajo
  noisily:ruido
  squeaky:chillona 
• 4: ok
• 5: ok
• 6:
  On a cold night, father and son playing chess, when a man friend of the father, I teach a monkey hand, wishes granted, but had consequences, the father asked 200 pounds, and the next morning the child died, came and handed a man, 200 pounds, a few days after the woman, thought to ask the child back to life, and went to ask the father tried to stop but could not. After a while he heard a knock at the door, the mother ran to open, and the father asked the son for fear the third wish. the mother opened the door and there was nobody.   
• 7:

1. What work was the friend of the father?
2. What desire wanted ask the mother?
3. What caused the first wish?
4. Who gave the monkey's hand?
5. Who ask the third wish?
6. Why They received 200 pounds?
7. What the friend recommended the father to do by hand?
8. What think the act of the father in the third wish? 
9. Why wanted 200 pounds?
10. What wanted the mother?

• 8:ok