Jaidan Jones / Azariyah Davis
Subject/ Verb Agreement: https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/subject_verb_agreement/quiz2181.html
Subject/Verb Agreement 2:
http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/subjectverbagreement4.html
Comprehension Skills: Making Inferences
The Greedy Man
There once was a very greedy man who sold everything he owned and bought a brick of gold. He buried the gold brick behind a hut that was across the road from his shabby old house. Every day, the greedy man went across the road and dug up his gold brick to look at it. After a while, a workman noticed the greedy man going across the road every day, and decided to follow him.
The next day, the greedy man dug down for his gold brick, but the hole was empty. He pulled at his hair, and cried out in sorrow. “My beautiful gold brick!” he wept. A neighbor came running, and asked the greedy man what had happened. When the greedy man told him, the neighbor just shrugged his shoulders. “Why be so sad?” said the neighbor. Just go get a rock and put it in that hole, and pretend that it is gold. It will do you as much good as the gold did.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1aWFW8bOpo
Bobsledding Jamaican Style
At first, everyone thought it was a joke. The Caribbean nation of Jamaica was sending a bobsled team to the Olympics. The tropical island had never before sent an athlete to compete in the Winter Olympic Games.
The Jamaican bobsled team first went to the Olympics at the 1988 games in Canada. The team was definitely the underdog- no one expected them to win. But, they soon became a fan favorite. They arrived with almost no practice going down a real bobsled run. They even had to borrow sleds from other countries to compete.
Although they finished in last place, they won the notice of the world. They were later the subjects of a Disney movie called Cool Runnings.
They showed that they were definitely not a joke by making return appearances at future Winter Olympics. In 1994, Jamaica's four-man sled surprised everyone by finishing in 14th place, ahead of both sleds from the United States. Since then, Jamaica has had both men's and women's bobsled teams compete in international events.
The idea of a Jamaican bobsled team is not completely crazy. Jamaica has a tradition of great sprinters and bobsled racing requires a similar skill to get off quickly in the important push start.
1. What does the word 'tropical' tell us about the weather in Jamaica?
2. Why would it seem like a joke that Jamaica would enter the Winter Olympics?
3. In what year did the Jamaican team first go to the Olympics?
4. What was the name of the movie which was made about this team?
5. Do you think it was surprising that they finished in last place? Give a reason for your answer.
6. How was the 1994 performance different to their first performance?
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