Watching and keeping information on comings and goings
What is surveillance?
300
A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.
Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.
Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
What is don't be greedy?
300
Better to arrive late than not to come at all
What is Better late than never?
300
your prior knowledge
What is background information?
300
Words such as because, as a consequence, and as a result signal interactions.
What are transition words?
300
An interview with the intent of figuring out previously unknown information.
What is an interrogation?
400
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.
The Ants inquired of him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' He replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing."
They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."
What is don't procrastinate?
400
To get something over with because it is going to happen no matter what.
What is bite the bullet?
400
My seatbelt is buckled. My tray table is down. I am snacking on peanuts and pretzels. I can see clouds out the window.
What is flying on a plane?
400
Look for key details in the text that explain important ideas.
What is how to identify text structure?
400
A breakdown or error that results in the lack of function of a machine, system, or body.
What is a malfunction?
500
ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume.
In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.
What is don't pretend to be something you're not?
500
Change the facts to make the outcome look better.
What is "to put a positive spin on"?
500
Everything I think of when I think of the the best things in life come from things I've seen on TV. The most perfect looking people and homes come from TV. I won't be happy unless my life looks like TV life.
What is TV is telling me how to live my life?
500
Determine how a(n) ______________ influences an individual, an event, or an idea.