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Date Posted: 06:32:32 11/19/03 Wed
Author: Ana Carolina de Carvalho
Subject: TASK 7

TRANSITION WORDS:
1) In addition to: Yesterday, it became known that in addition to many population-scaring reforms, like energy and housing and communal services reforms, State Duma deputies were preparing one more surprise for Russian citizens

2) Likewise: Unless You Repent You Will All Likewise Perish (Luke 13:1-5)

3) Certainly: You certainly can get your Z's in Polish Scrabble

4) However: However, the Hebrew and Arabic games, put together by a supposed expert who seemingly couldn't add up, proved unplayable.

5) Nevertheless: Nevertheless, childbearing may be a part of the subject. In the background, partly visible, is a high-backed carved chair, with a figure clearly intended as St Margaret, the patron saint of the child-bearing woman, and on the floor by the bed there is a carpet.

6) Namely: Hawaii students, namely females, defy trend of disinterest in science.

7) Besides: U.S. could hit countries besides Afghanistan. (CNN)

FREE WRITING ACTIVITY: READING
Reading is one of the things I enjoy the most. When I was younger, my father used to say that reading could take him anywhere and that was the only way he could travel and “visit” places. Even though my father is a Physicist, he knows about Literature and has read much more than most of the people I know.

When my father started telling the story of his childhood and how he could only go places though reading, I used to think there was a bit of exaggeration it since I had always been able to go many places, or rather; my father had been able to afford taking my family to many places. Still, I grew fonder of reading and as I did, I started to think more and more like him.

I also used to marvel – and that was even when I started to study Language Arts (Letras) at the University – at how much people understood Literature and how well they could read through the text itself. I thought I would never be able to be like that and even considered going more deeply into Linguistics. After taking some disciplines on Literature I realized how in love I am with reading and nowadays I am a much more mature reader who is able to READ, namely, recognize and understand symbols, identify writing styles as well as the perspective (historical, personal) people choose in a text. I am even able to read poetry!!!

My all time favorite book is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by an American writer and poetess Maya Angelou.

All in all, I think that besides being a good way to improve writing skills and speech since the more you read, the more you learn vocabulary and structures, reading is also a great source of knowledge.

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