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Proficiency Two, unit 9 - seasons, vocabulary

 sweltering day even for tigers

 bleak land

 blizzard

 dreary day

 frosty morning by the river

 hazy day

 misty day

 raw wind

 converting raw wind into energy

scorching day

Creepy Creatures???????

Children across the USA are gobbling Peeps, those marshmallow chicks and bunnies that are an inescapable fixture of Easter baskets.
What's up with Peeps, anyway?
There is something vaguely creepy about Peeps. They are blob-like and ubiquitous. Their eyes have no expression. With little taste, no nutritional value (though only 32 calories apiece) and a shelf life of two years, they hover somewhere between foodstuff and material object.
These traits have inspired many to test their physical properties. On some of the more than 200 Peeps Web sites, you can see fetishists skewering, microwaving, hammering, decapitating and otherwise abusing the spongy confections.
In 1998, two Emory University scientists, Gary Falcon and James Zimring, produced what may be the definitive Peeps study. They dunked Peeps in liquid nitrogen, subjected them to 350-degree heat, and put them in a vacuum chamber, among other procedures. The results can be found at www.peepresearch.org.
Matthew Beals of Brooklyn, who is completing a documentary about Peeps, thinks the phenomenon is a function of the candy's iconic status. "What could be more American," he asked, "than something that's mass produced and covered in sugar?"
(nytimes.com)

Proficiency One

All of these web sites have to do with water. Surf on them and make notes on new things you might learn.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0770092.html

http://www.wolframalpha.com
Here, type in patos lagoon and see what it´s got about it.

http://scienceray.com/biology/ecology/the-worlds-largest-bodies-of-water/

Check any doubts you have about what the following are throgh google, images:
reed, river mouth, river bed, port or harbour, canals, cliff, gorge, cove.

Second step.
On your textbook there is a text about Lake Mead (you pronounce Míd, mead is a honey wine).
Visit this website about it and check the following information:
Where is Lake Mead?
What facilities are there?
What are the natural and man-made wonders mentioned?
What is the opposite of ashore or landing?
A word similar to VAGA, referring to the jobs menu
Find the phrasal verb "take in", what does it mean?

http://www.lakemeadcruises.com/

On page 18 of your textbook there is a text about Maverick´s. Before you read about it, study the parts of the waves:

Find more about it on

http://www.maverickssurf.com/