Weekly Packet 4 Moh - Sherif Moustfaaa
Weekly Packet 4 Moh - Sherif Moustfaaa
Weekly Packet 4 Moh - Sherif Moustfaaa
Grade 12
(2022/2023)
3rd Trimester
Weekly Packet 4
Class: Alaska
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Vocabulary:
• List 2: 10 words from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Grammar:
Sadlier Grammar for Writing
• Chapter 10: Subject-Verb Agreement
HW.
Grammar
• Choose the correct answer:
1.Your friendship over the years and your support (has/have) meant a great deal to us.
2. Hamilton Family Center, a shelter for teenage runaways in San Francisco,
(offers/offer) a wide variety of services.
3. The main source of income for Trinidad (is/are) oil and pitch.
6. Neither the professor nor his assistants (was/were) able to solve the mystery of the
eerie glow in the laboratory.
7. Many hours at the driving range (has/have) led us to design golf balls with GPS
locators in them.
8. Discovered in the soil of our city garden (was/were) a button dating from the Civil War
dating from the turn of the century.
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9. Every year, during the midsummer festival, the smoke of village bonfires (fills/fill) the
sky.
10.The story performers (was/were) surrounded by children and adults eager to see
magical tales.
• Edit the following sentences to eliminate problems with subject-verb agreement and
write the edited sentence. If a sentence is correct, write “correct.”
1.One of the main reasons for elephant poaching are the profits received from selling the
ivory tusks. Are = is
2. Not until my interview with Dr. Chang were other possibilities opened to me. Correct
3. Batik cloth from Bali, blue and white ceramics from Cambodia, and a bocce ball from
Turin has made Hannah’s room the talk of the dorm. Has = have
4. The board of directors, ignoring the wishes of the neighborhood, has voted to allow
further development. Has = have
6. The presence of certain bacteria in our bodies are one of the factors that determines
our overall health. Are = is
7. Leah is the only one of the many applicants who has the ability to step into this job.
Correct
8. Neither the explorer nor his companions was ever seen again. Was = were
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Independent Reading
“The Old Man at the Bridge”
by Ernest Hemingway
An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the
road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts, trucks, and men,
women and children were crossing it. The mule-drawn carts staggered up the steep
bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels.
The trucks ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasants plodded along
in the ankle deep dust. But the old man sat there without moving. He was too tired
to go any farther.
It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridgehead beyond and find out
to what point the enemy had advanced. I did this and returned over the bridge.
There were not so many carts now and very few people on foot, but the old man was
still there.
“Where do you come from?” I asked him.
“From San Carlos,” he said, and smiled.
That was his native town and so it gave him pleasure to mention it and he smiled.
“I was taking care of animals,” he explained. “Oh,” I said, not quite understanding.
“Yes,” he said, “I stayed, you see, taking care of animals. I was the last one to leave
the town of San Carlos.”
He did not look like a shepherd nor a herdsman and I looked at his black dusty
clothes and his gray dusty face and his steel rimmed spectacles and said, “What
animals were they?”
“Various animals,” he said, and shook his head. “I had to leave them.” I was
watching the bridge and the African looking country of the Ebro Delta and
wondering how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and
listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious
event called contact, and the old man still sat there.
“What animals were they?” I asked.
“There were three animals altogether,” he explained. “There were two goats and a
cat and then there were four pairs of pigeons.” “And you had to leave them?” I
asked.
“Yes. Because of the artillery.
The captain told me to go because of the artillery.” “And you have no family?” I
asked, watching the far end of the bridge where a few last carts were hurrying down
the slope of the bank.
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“No,” he said, “only the animals I stated. The cat, of course, will be all right. A cat can
look out for itself, but I cannot think what will become of the others.” “What politics
have you?” I asked.
“I am without politics,” he said. “I am seventy-six years old. I have come twelve
kilometers now and I think now I can go no further.” “This is not a good place to
stop,” I said. “If you can make it, there are trucks up the road where it forks for
Tortosa.”
“I will wait a while,” he said, “and then I will go. Where do the trucks go?” “Towards
Barcelona,” I told him.
“I know no one in that direction,” he said, “but thank you very much.
Thank you again very much.” He looked at me very blankly and tiredly, then said,
having to share his worry with some one, “The cat will be all right, I am sure. There is
no need to be unquiet about the cat. But the others.
Now what do you think about the others?” “Why they’ll probably come through it all
right.” “You think so?”
“Why not,” I said, watching the far bank where now there were no carts.
“But what will they do under the artillery when I was told to leave because of the
artillery?”
“Did you leave the dove cage unlocked?” I asked. “Yes.”
“Then they’ll fly.”
“Yes, certainly they’ll fly. But the others. It’s better not to think about the others,” he
said.
“If you are rested I would go,” I urged. “Get up and try to walk now.”
“Thank you,” he said and got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down
backwards in the dust.
“I was taking care of animals,” he said dully, but no longer to me. “I was only taking
care of animals
.” There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were
advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their
planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves
was all the good luck that old man would ever have
• Answer the following questions:
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. B
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