Chris Foster, a 48 year old teacher from Southern …...Chris Foster, a 48 year old teacher from...
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Chris Foster, a 48 year old teacher from SouthernCalifornia,has just competed the first part of a solo motorcycle journey around the world.
He roared his way through 14,343 miles, across three continents and eleven countries, starting his journey in late June, by dipping his feet in the Pacific Ocean
To him, travelling by motorcycle is a one of a kind experience, to get close to everything
One of the main motivations for this journey is to gain a first hand knowledge of
➢What does the travel experience of this teacher tell us?
➢What do you think interests him more: where to travel or how to travel?
How does the earth look when viewed from a different angle?
THE TRIP OF LE HORLA(A Chronicle)
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe French writer
Session=meeting
Manoeuvres = operations
Gasworks = factory
Courtyard = an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
Cargo = goods carried by a large vehicle
GASWORKS
Undulate = move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
Enormous = big
Attendant = someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Le Horla was lying in the courtyard like an enormous worm
Fortification = defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
Affirm = establish
Novel = new
Sway = move back and forth
Transparent = transmitting light
Prodigious = of great size
The balloon is swaying like a fantastic pear
Basket is attached; barometer, siren, trumpets, raincoats, overcoats and eatables are taken
Aboard = on a ship, train or other vehiclestar board = the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or noseGallant = displaying great dignity
M. Joliet cuts the ropes that hold the balloon to the ground and gives Le Horla its liberty.
Liberty = freedom
Glee = happiness
Applaud = clap
Traverse = travel across
Paris spreads beneath us, a dark bluish patch with its domes, towers, steeples, then
around it the plain, the country traversed by long roads, thin and white amidst green fields of a tender or dark green, and woods almost black.
The earth looks like a coloured map
We hear the sound of the wheels rolling in the streets,the snap of a whip, the whistling of trains and the laughter of small boys running
We begin to hear the country voices ....Double cry of the quailMewing of the catsDogs baying at the moon
Barn = an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
We can hear the cows lowing
Delicious = greatly pleasing or entertaining
Odour = smell
Verdant = green
Descend = fall
Ballast = any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
Docile = easy to control
synesthetic metaphor = a metaphor that exploits asimilarity between experiences in different sense modalities
(A strong and continuous odour of gas can be plainly observed)
A silvery light appears before us and... rises the moon from the edge of a cloud
We are now alone in space with the moon
We float along the space through delicious inertia
Something is running along the ground with great speed
Foundry = factory
polar star = the brightest star in Ursa Minor;at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper;the northern axis of the earth points towardit
Bellow =to shout
Bewildered = confused
Precede = to move before
Rigging = gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
Nudge = push gently
Pursue = follow
Tinged with = touched with
Brooks = small streams
Immense = great
I think myself transported into a fairyland
The sky is growing lighter, becoming clear blue tinged with red. It is dawn...
showing us all the details of the earth
The voice of ducks drowns everything
Flee = run away quickly
Descent = movement downward
Mast = a vertical spar/pole of wood or metal for supporting sails
Rumble = make a low noise
guy rope = a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Rapidity = speed
Overboard = from on board(here the basket)
Grapple = a tool consisting of several hooks forgrasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
Mast
Guy rope
Anchor
Deflated = release contained air or gas
Astonishment = the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
Accommodating = obliging; willing to do favours
Hospitable = disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity
We drag this grapple behind us through a field of beets
The basket does indeed strike the earth
Thanks to Captain Jovis we were able to see in a single night from far up in the sky