english_9_lm_draft

Criteria UNESCO sends
experts to
Tubbataha Reefs
Purpose
Format
Features
Language Use
How to Maintain
Cultural Identity
The Courage That My
Mother Had
Task 11. Weigh Up!
Examine the following examples of texts. Indicate the type of reading text they are.
DRAFT
1. Men in great places are thrice servants:
servants of the sovereign or state,
servants of fame, and servants of business
“Of Great Place”
April
2. NASA is proposing another
10,
space project. The
2014
agency’s budget request,
announced today, included a plan to send another person to the moon.
3. Those that have tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when
failing. In a game or in life, tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo,
“Failure is not an option."
4. Three passions (simple but overwhelmingly strong) have governed my life: the
longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind.
5. Director Steven Spielberg launched a Germany-wide contest Sunday
designed to promote tolerance through students’ intercultural interaction
6. If you can dream – and not make your dreams your master;
7. An earthquake is a shaking or rolling movement of great masses of rocks on
the earth’s uppermost layer or crust.