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Date Posted: 20:22:53 10/26/03 Sun
Author: Renata Nascimento
Subject: Task 4 - reading

I was truly upset after reading a tale by Edgar Allan Poe, whose name is "The Tell-Tale Heart", and realizing that there were no exercises to be done about it. I wasn't extremely angry by that because I loved the tale, which I'll soon summarize, but I was disappointed because I wondered how the exercises about the tale would be. Would they ask us to interpret the tale or what? Ask true or false questions. I don't know. I wish there could have exercises for me to do, but at least I couldn't and still can't find them.

Anyway, the tale is about a mad man, who doesn't consider himself so, and kills a man because he didn't like his eyes. Before killing him, he visited his victim seven nights at midnight to see whether his eyes would open or not. The interesting thing was that the police came after being called by some neighboor that heard a strange noise and he tried to talk to the police without fear, because in his mind there was nothing to fear about. However, after some time answering the police's questions he couldn't stand the fact that the police didn't tell him they were listening to the same sound he was listening to, which was the man's heart, and he confessed everything to the police. Isn't that man extremely mad?

Since there were no exercises to be done about the tale, I decided to look for another text that had exercises, though. I could find a text that described many characteristics of elephants. There was, indeed, new information about it, but in general, I have already heard or read something about the elephants. What I enjoyed about the text was the new vocabulary that was available for us to see in order to help us. It is, actually, much faster just pressing the bottom and seeing the new vocabulary than checking it in our own dictionary. Students would, sure, love that idea.

My performance on doing the exercises was, unsurprisingly, great since those exercises were to be done by intermediate students.

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