So­lu­ti­ons­heet

WS 8 Row­ley - Greg’s “tech­ni­cal­ly best” fri­end

1. Why does Greg so­me­ti­mes go mad about Row­ley?

• Check his state­ments and tick the right ex­pla­na­ti­ons:

“Row­ley is tech­ni­cal­ly my best fri­end, but that is de­fi­ni­te­ly sub­ject to chan­ge.”

• Row­ley is his fri­end be­cau­se he is bet­ter at doing tech­ni­cal things like de­fi­ning sub­jects and other gram­mar tech­ni­ques. ❒
• Row­ley is a fri­end but not in the emo­tio­nal way be­cau­se there are times of stress once in a while. ✓

“I have told Row­ley at least a bil­li­on times that now we are in midd­le school, you’re sup­po­sed to say “hang out, not ”play”.

• Row­ley still be­ha­ves as in ele­men­ta­ry school be­cau­se he is a bit be­hind in de­ve­lo­ping into a teen­ager, so Greg finds his be­ha­viour em­bar­ras­sing in front of others. ✓
• Greg tries to get across to Row­ley that he should be­ha­ve more “grown-up” and not sho­w­ing the others that they were still play­ing like litt­le kids.  ✓

No mat­ter how many noo­gies I give him, he al­ways for­gets the next time.

• No mat­ter how many sweets Greg gives Row­ley, he al­ways for­gets to be­ha­ve the way Greg wants him to. ❒
• No mat­ter how often and how ag­gres­si­ve­ly Greg re­minds him of not sho­w­ing chil­dish be­ha­viour, Row­ley just doesn’t care be­cau­se he can­not see a re­a­son why he should. ✓

I guess I kind of felt sorry for Row­ley, and I de­ci­ded to take him under my wing.

• Greg wants to warm Row­ley up like a hen does with her chi­ckens be­cau­se Row­ley is al­ways cold. ❒
• Greg re­co­gni­zes that Row­ley lacks some in­tel­li­gence and is a bit re­tar­ded^[1] in his men­tal de­ve­lop­ment. ✓

2. Have a look at page 20. What does the car­toon tell you about the way Greg tre­ats Row­ley? Why has Greg be­fri­en­ded Row­ley any­ways? Write a short com­ment. Use the in­for­ma­ti­on above. It might “come in handy”.

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