Worksheet No. 1 Subject: Advanced English Subject Code: EN32215 Lesson Title: Advanced Vocab & Reading Class M.5 Name: ____________________________ Class _____________ A. Complete the following table with the correct form of the words. Noun information intuition Verb rely manipulate Adjective informational/informative confident frustrated/ frustrating consciousness Adverb - confidently manipulatively frustratingly adequately B. Read the following excerpt and underline the sentence in each paragraph that expresses its main idea. How to Stop Procrastination Here are some steps to stop procrastination. The first thing you will want to do is to figure out what is causing you to associate pain to getting a task done. Let’s say you want to clean out the garage. Just thinking about it makes you shiver. Well, that’s the reason why you have been putting it off. It is what you visualize in your mind that is causing you the pain. You have not actually done anything yet so in reality, you are not experiencing any pain. This means you need to work on what you are focusing on in your mind. In this case, instead of thinking about how long cleaning the garage is going to take, focus on how great it would feel once it is all cleaned up. Or else, you can focus on all the free time you will have after you get this task over with. The point here is to get yourself to associate pleasure to getting the task done. When you can get yourself to look forward to taking action, you will not procrastinate. Another way you can stop procrastinating is to associate more pain to NOT taking action. Let’s say you need to get back into shape but you keep putting off going to the gym and no matter how much you try to tell yourself how great you will look if you get yourself to go to the gym, you still do not go. In this case, you will need to focus on the pain of not getting into shape. Imagine how your body and health will be 5 years from now if you do not start taking better care of yourself. Now imagine how you will look 10 years from now, 20 years from now. The key to making this work is to actually feel the pain you would cause yourself by not taking action. Where would your life be 5, 10, or 20 years from now if you keep letting procrastination take the best of you? If you can make this experience intense enough, it will drive you to take immediate action. C. Choose the sentence that has the same meaning as each given sentence. 1. By that time, horses and pedestrians had so clogged the streets of London that the city government ruled that no railroads could enter the city except underground. a) By then, London’s streets were filled with traffic, so the government banned above-ground trains from the city. b) By then, the lack of traffic rules made it difficult to control the people, horses, and trains using London’s streets. 2. Ecotourists seek out accommodations that follow environmentally friendly practices such as using renewable resources and recycling. a) When traveling, ecotourists make sure to always recycle their trash. b) Ecotourists prefer hotels that are careful not to harm the environment.
