3F Reading: The Kite Runner | Tiếng Anh 12 (Friends Global) | Unit 3: Customs and culture - Lớp 12 - Giáo Dục Việt Nam

English 12 - 3F Reading: The Kite Runner - I can understand an extract from a novel.


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I can understand an extract from a novel.

1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the different covers for the novel The Kite Runner. What do you think the story is about?

2 Read the extract from The Kite Runner. Which cover do you think matches the extract the best? Why?

3 Read the text again. What is it about?

1 Afghan cinema

2 Growing up in Afghanistan

3 The different social classes in Afghanistan

Reading Strategy

  • When you do a gapped text, first read the text quickly to find out what it is about.
  • Then read the text more carefully and think about what information is missing in each gap.
  • Look at the parts of the text before and after each gap to find words or information that link it to one of the missing sentences.
  • Pay attention to vocabulary and grammar structures which may also provide ideas.
  • Make sure the remaining sentence doesn't match any of the gaps.

4 Read the Reading Strategy. Match the missing sentences tch the missin (A-E) with the gaps (1-4). There is one extra sentence.

A Hassan and I were stunned. Dazed.

B I'd hear him singing to himself in the foyer as he ironed, singing old Hazara songs in his nasal voice.

C Not in the usual sense, anyhow.

D We had been close friends since childhood.

E Because history isn't easy to overcome.

5 Match (1-5) with (A-E) to make sentences about the extract.

1 The narrator and Hassan had a childhood that

2 The narrator doesn't think that he and Hassan

3 Certain cultural and social factors couldn't change the fact that the boys

4 Baba laughed a lot because the boys

5 In the last paragraph, we discover the narrator and Hassan

A had spent their childhood together.

B had a typical friendship.

C had different daily experiences.

D were confused about an actor's nationality.

E was similar to Ali and Baba's.

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6 VOCABULARY Find five underlined compound adjectives in the text. Then complete the sentences with them.

Compound adjectives

1 Although she was tall, she was slim and ...................... and didn't weigh much.

2 Try this ...................... jam. It's much better than the ones you buy in shops.

3 Suddenly, we heard the ...................... roar of a lioncalling out to its mate.

4 The stranger had ...................... eyes that were close together, giving him a menacing look.

5 After six months of travelling, the men were all ...................... and bearded.

7 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Why is it often difficult to form friendships with people from different cultural or social backgrounds? Use the ideas below and add your own.

  • Different hobbies and interests
  • Other people's attitudes
  • Different views, opinions, or outlooks

As far as I'm concerned,...

My view is...

To my mind,...

In my opinion, ...

 

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THE KITE RUNNER

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Ali and Baba grew up together as childhood playmates just like Hassan and I grew up a generation later. Baba was always telling us about their mischiefs he and Ali used to cause. But in none of his stories did Baba ever 5 refer to Ali as his friend.

   The curious thing was, I never thought of Hassan and me as friends either. hinh-anh-3f-reading-the-kite-runner-11813-3________ Never mind that we taught each other to ride a bicycle with no hands, or to build a fully functional homemade camera out of a cardboard box. Never mind that we spent entire winters flying kites, running kites. Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile.

   Never mind any of those things. hinh-anh-3f-reading-the-kite-runner-11813-4________Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.

   We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park. I remember begging Baba to take us to Iran so we could meet John Wayne. Baba burst out in gales of his deep-throated laughter and then explained to us the concept of voice dubbing. hinh-anh-3f-reading-the-kite-runner-11813-5

________ John Wayne didn't really speak Farsi and he wasn't Iranian! He was American, just like the friendly, long-haired men and women we always saw hanging around in Kabul, dressed in their tattered, brightly colored shirts.

   During the school year, we had a daily routine. By the time I dragged myself out of bed and lumbered to the bathroom, Hassan had already washed up, prayed the morning namaz with Ali, and prepared my breakfast. While I ate and complained about homework, Hassan made my bed, polished my shoes, ironed my outfit for the day, packed my books and pencils. hinh-anh-3f-reading-the-kite-runner-11813-6________

(Adapted from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini)

 

 

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