Book 2 Unit 5
Book 2 Unit 5
Active reading 1:Navigation Identify ironic tone 1.a peculiar game with weird rules.the players often decide to call it a draw.Would you find this satisfying?What does the writer think of cricket? Maybe playing is enough without always having winners and losers. The writer's choice of words suggests little respect for cricket:peculiar,weird,non-event
Identify ironic tone 1. . a peculiar game with weird rules . the players often decide to call it a draw. Would you find this satisfying? What does the writer think of cricket? Maybe playing is enough without always having winners and losers. The writer’s choice of words suggests little respect for cricket: peculiar, weird, non-event. Back Active reading 1: Navigation
Active reading 1:Navigation Identify ironic tone 2.Don't sit on a potato.How would it feel to sit on a potato? Why does the writer say this? Foolish and uncomfortable The couch potato's intelligence may be so low as to think this is what is meant. 3.In fact,watching TV without a channel hopper.and probably should be avoided.Why should this be avoided? The tone is highly ironic:The person would have to get up and change channels manually so making a physical effort
Identify ironic tone 2. Don’t sit on a potato. How would it feel to sit on a potato? Why does the writer say this? Foolish and uncomfortable The couch potato’s intelligence may be so low as to think this is what is meant. 3. In fact, watching TV without a channel hopper . and probably should be avoided. Why should this be avoided? The tone is highly ironic: The person would have to get up and change channels manually so making a physical effort. Back Active reading 1: Navigation
Active reading 1:Navigation Identify ironic tone 4.a highly fashionable style known as a muffin top.next time you're in Starbucks.Do you think it's fashionable or simply very common with people who don't take much exercise?Why Starbucks? Not fashionable,but common these days. another example of the ironic tone. The writer seems to suggest people who frequently go to Starbucks share the lifestyle of couch potatoes
Identify ironic tone 4. . a highly fashionable style known as a muffin top . next time you’re in Starbucks. Do you think it’s fashionable or simply very common with people who don’t take much exercise? Why Starbucks? Not fashionable, but common these days. another example of the ironic tone. The writer seems to suggest people who frequently go to Starbucks share the lifestyle of couch potatoes. Active reading 1: Navigation Back
Active reading 1:Navigation Identify ironic tone 5.Mouse potatoes are addicted to online gaming with other fellow tubers around the world.Why does the writer call them tubers? for language variation and a comic effect Tuber sounds even more remote from human than potato-roots buried deep underground. Although we are now on the topic of computers,the writer may be half-referring to the slang term for the television:the tube
Identify ironic tone 5. Mouse potatoes are addicted to online gaming with other fellow tubers around the world. Why does the writer call them tubers? for language variation and a comic effect Tuber sounds even more remote from human than potato – roots buried deep underground. Although we are now on the topic of computers, the writer may be half-referring to the slang term for the television: the tube. Active reading 1: Navigation Back