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Activity 8 Vocabulary Corner

Draw lines to match the vocabularies with their proper explanations in the boxes below. They will
help you to understand the next reading passage.

Cutlet /ˈkʌt.lət/ friendly, but formal and polite

Drenched /drentʃt/ a small piece of meat still joined to the bone, especially

from the animal's neck or ribs
Bachelor /ˈbætʃ.əl.ər/

a man who has never married
Foyer /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
something extremely wet

Cordial /ˈkɔː.di.əl/
a large open area just inside the entrance of a public

Activity 9 Silent Reading

Read a long story video entitled “About Love” given by your teacher. While you are reading, you
may take notes important points about the main character, the most interesting part, the moral
value, and lesson learnt of the story.

ABOUT LOVE
"How love is born," said Alehin, "why
At lunch next day there were very nice Pelagea does not love somebody more like
pies, crayfish, and mutton cutlets; and herself in her spiritual and external
while we were eating, Nikanor, the cook, qualities, and why she fell in love with
came up to ask what the visitors would Nikanor, that ugly snout -- we all call him
like for dinner. He was a man of medium 'The Snout' -- how far questions of
height, with a puffy face and little eyes; he personal happiness are of consequence in
was close-shaven, and it looked as though love -- all that is known; one can take
his moustaches had not been shaved, but what view one likes of it. So far only one
had been pulled out by the roots. Alehin incontestable truth has been uttered
told us that the beautiful Pelagea was in about love: 'This is a great mystery.'
love with this cook. As he drank and was Everything else that has been written or
of a violent character, she did not want to said about love is not a conclusion, but
marry him, but was willing to live with only a statement of questions which have
him without. He was very devout, and his remained unanswered. The explanation
religious convictions would not allow him which would seem to fit one case does not
to "live in sin"; he insisted on her apply in a dozen others, and the very best
marrying him, and would consent to thing, to my mind, would be to explain
nothing else, and when he was drunk he every case individually without attempting
used to abuse her and even beat her. to generalize. We ought, as the doctors
Whenever he got drunk she used to hide say, to individualize each case."
upstairs and sob, and on such occasions
Alehin and the servants stayed in the "Perfectly true," Burkin assented.
house to be ready to defend her in case of
necessity. We began talking about love.

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