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    Intermediate 4 - 7c Sweet Songs and Strong Coffee

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    The document provides details about the town of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. It describes the town as beautiful and pacific, with lovely landscapes and romantic fountains and stone benches. It discusses traditions still practiced, like parades with horses on holidays, and local singer Tato Ramos performing flamenco music. The document aims to provide a vivid mental picture of what life is like in Adjuntas through these descriptive details.

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    The document provides details about the town of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. It describes the town as beautiful and pacific, with lovely landscapes and romantic fountains and stone benches. It discusses traditions still practiced, like parades with horses on holidays, and local singer Tato Ramos performing flamenco music. The document aims to provide a vivid mental picture of what life is like in Adjuntas through these descriptive details.

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    7c SWEET SONGS AND STRONG COFFEE

    NAME: Marjorie Rosy Quintana Pacompia

    1- One word to describe my home town: pacific.


    2- Read the article and choose the correct option. What is the article mainly
    about?
    c. People traditions
    3- Which paragraoh gives information about:
    a. What life used to be like in Adjuntas? 3
    b. a traditional activity the people still do? 4
    c. a new activity that people have learn to do? 2
    d. what the town looks like ? 1
    4- What can you remember about these things in Adjuntas?
    1 the horses: You can see it in the parade through the town on holidays.
    2 the town square: elegant square with horses on holidays, romantic
    fountains and stone benches.
    3 Lala Echevarria: she is an 85-year-old woman (great-great-
    grandmother) who was born in the oldest street in town, where she still
    lives.
    4 Tato Ramos: is a local singer who appeared in Lauro Yepe’z place to
    sing in a flamenco style that hasn’t changed for centuries.
    5- What do you think of Adjuntas as a place to live? Or a place to go on
    holiday?
    I think that Adjuntas is a beautiful place to live, since its beautiful
    landscapes, to the horses and romantic fountains and stone benches, I
    really love this kind of details everywhere I go. Listen to music in different
    places unexpectedly is a lovely daily detail, I think it could be a good
    place to grow old with somebody else.
    6- Look at the wordbuilding box. Find the adjectives in the article that are
    formed from these nouns.
    1 ROMANCE - - - ROMANTIC (LINE 10)
    2 NATION - - - NATIONAL (LINE 16)
    7- Complete the sentences with adjectives formed by adding -al or -ic to
    seven of the nouns.
    1 The farmer never stops working. He’s energetic and enthusiastic.
    2 The coastal part of the island is quite flat and the central part is
    mountainous.
    3 Opening the forest part was beneficial for the villagers and the wildlife.
    4 We saw lots of birds in their natural habitat.
    5 The economical crisis hasn’t affected business.
    6 The historical area of the city around the old market is worth visiting.
    8- The writer aims to ‘paint’ a picture of Adjuntas in the readers mind. Which
    descriptions in the article helped you to build a mental picture of
    Adjuntas? Underline words and phrases in the article.
    These are ones phrases that helped me to build a mental picture:

    9- Compare the words you have underlined.Do you think the writer has
    been successful in her aims?
    I think yes, because it seems like a beautiful, sweet, pacific and lovely
    place, I would like to live there, furthermore, in all the article not just
    describe as a beautiful place but he give more information about new
    activities that the town had to learn to do, about life and different points of
    view of different people, so we had a best idea of what it would be like to
    live there.
    10- Add descriptions to each sentence to help the reader build a mental
    image. Then exchange sentences with your partner.
    1 The village is in the forest.
    The tiny village is in the hearth of the dense forest.
    2 The houses are small.
    The beautiful houses are as small as adorable and warmly
    3 You can walk through the streets.
    If you wanted, you can walk around and through the streets, looking the
    beautiful landscapes, surrounded by mountains and big trees.
    4 The village center is full of people.
    The sweet village center is always full of friendly people.
    5 People are working everywhere you look.
    Everywhere you look in this beautiful place, you would see hardworking
    people.

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