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WS 9 – Par­en­tal Warnings

Greg often com­plains about how par­ents and other grown-ups be­ha­ve like in this diary entry:

“Un­for­t­u­n­a­te­ly, Dad does not ex­act­ly app­re­cia­te my skills. He’s al­ways get­ting on me about going out and doing so­me­thing “ac­tive”. (p.24)

Guess from the con­text what the un­der­li­ned parts of the sen­ten­ces mean. Ex­plain or pa­ra­phra­se the mea­ning, e.g.:

does not ex­act­ly app­re­cia­te my skills” = Greg thinks that his Dad does him wrong. He doesn’t ac­cept what Greg does be­cau­se he can­not see any­thing im­portant in it.. “…he’s al­ways get­ting on me” = he’s get­ting on Greg’s ner­ves by con­stant­ly tel­ling him to go outs­ide and do things like sport.

Now you:

  1. So to­night after din­ner when Dad star­ted hass­ling me about going outs­ide…(p.24)
  2. Dad is a pret­ty smart guy in ge­ne­ral but when it comes to com­mon sense, so­me­ti­mes I won­der about him. (p.25)
  3. I’m sure Dad would dis­mant­le my game sys­tem if he could fi­gu­re out how to do it. (p.25)
  4. Whe­ne­ver I bring a game to Row­ley’s house, his dad looks it up on some par­ents’ web­site. (p.26)
  5. Yes­ter­day Rod­rick got a new heavy metal CD, and it had one of those “Par­en­tal Warning” sti­ckers on it. (p.32)
  6. I have never got to lis­ten to one of those Par­en­tal Warning CDs, be­cau­se Mom and Dad never let me buy them at the mall. (p.32)
  7. Right in the midd­le of our game, Mrs Crai came around the cor­ner and caught us red-han­ded. (p.34)
  8. She took the music play­er away from me and star­ted chewing us out. (p.34) She star­ted tel­ling us how rock and roll is “evil” and how it’s going to ruin our brains.(p.35)
  9. To­night, Dad yel­led at me … He told me I was groun­ded from play­ing video games for two weeks…(p.38)
  10. Mom has a to­tal­ly dif­fe­rent style when it comes to pu­nish­ment…. But then after a few days, right when YOU for­get you’re in trou­ble, that’s when she lays it on you. (pp.39-40)
  11. Rod­rick’s in some hot water with Mom right now, too. …(p.41)

 

WS 9 – Par­en­tal Warnings: Her­un­ter­la­den [docx][20 KB]

 

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