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[2] Inside Reading-2 Unit 7 Reading-1 Pieces of a Puzzle: The Evidence for Pangaea [pænˈdʒiə]
- Reading Skill: Making Inferences-> Read and mark the line number=> Pair
- Read the text and identify the main ideas and important facts/names
=>Blog Write a summary of the text in four or five sentences. Do not copy the clauses or sentences.
Some European geologists thought the shape of today’s continents were not the same as the ones in millions years ago, but there had been no scientifically proved theory until the 20th century.
First of that kind was the theory of plate tectonic developed by a German meteorologist Afred Wegener which assumed that the today’s continents were divided from one large continent and moved gradually to the current locations.
Although the theory clarified the basic mechanism of the plates’ movement, it was later in the century when new discoveries, scientific evidence and theory of continental drift came out.
Today’s geology says that the earth’s surface consists of 40 plates that float on the mantle and move gradually over a long period of time. (122 words)
[3] Read & Write-2 Unit 6: Self-Reliance
Review Writing: why the blogger hate machines concisely in 50 words. Use the words from the text.
When she needed assistance to get the Internet access to her apartment, she got recording messages, transferred, put on hold and even hung up, and it took two weeks to get the problem solved. She was also frustrated and embarrassed when she used self-service checkout machine at the supermarket. (49 words)
- Q-Classroom Practice Reading Par.2-3 -> Study words and expressions
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