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.
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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
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To him, travelling by motorcycle is a one of a kind experience, to get close to everything
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One of the main motivations for this journey is to gain a first hand knowledge of
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➢What does the travel experience of this teacher tell us?
➢What do you think interests him more: where to travel or how to travel?
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How does the earth look when viewed from a different angle?
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THE TRIP OF LE HORLA(A Chronicle)
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GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe French writer
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Session=meeting
Manoeuvres = operations
Gasworks = factory
Courtyard = an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
Cargo = goods carried by a large vehicle
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GASWORKS
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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
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Le Horla was lying in the courtyard like an enormous worm
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Fortification = defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
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Affirm = establish
Novel = new
Sway = move back and forth
Transparent = transmitting light
Prodigious = of great size
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The balloon is swaying like a fantastic pear
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Basket is attached; barometer, siren, trumpets, raincoats, overcoats and eatables are taken
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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
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M. Joliet cuts the ropes that hold the balloon to the ground and gives Le Horla its liberty.
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Liberty = freedom
Glee = happiness
Applaud = clap
Traverse = travel across
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Paris spreads beneath us, a dark bluish patch with its domes, towers, steeples, then
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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.
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The earth looks like a coloured map
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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
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We begin to hear the country voices ....Double cry of the quailMewing of the catsDogs baying at the moon
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Barn = an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
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We can hear the cows lowing
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Delicious = greatly pleasing or entertaining
Odour = smell
Verdant = green
Descend = fall
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Ballast = any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
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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)
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A silvery light appears before us and... rises the moon from the edge of a cloud
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We are now alone in space with the moon
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We float along the space through delicious inertia
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Something is running along the ground with great speed
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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
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Rigging = gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
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Nudge = push gently
Pursue = follow
Tinged with = touched with
Brooks = small streams
Immense = great
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I think myself transported into a fairyland
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The sky is growing lighter, becoming clear blue tinged with red. It is dawn...
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showing us all the details of the earth
The voice of ducks drowns everything
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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
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Mast
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Guy rope
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Anchor
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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
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We drag this grapple behind us through a field of beets
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The basket does indeed strike the earth
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Thanks to Captain Jovis we were able to see in a single night from far up in the sky