Word Translation (analysis)

English Reading Blog:

Are there any words you are unsure of their meaning? Write down the words. Then write down what you think they mean, guessing from the context. Then write down a dictionary meaning.

English word	The meaning I think	The real meaning
clutched	hielt	klammerte
smirked	lächelte	grinste
impishly	gemein	verschmitzt
menacing	drohend	bedrohlich
exaggerated	übertreiben	übertreiben
fiendish	fies	teuflisch
customary	häufig	üblich
sprouted	-	sprossen
oddly	seltsam	eigenartig
toenails	Fussnägel	Fussnägel
fuselage	Brustkorb	Rumpf
forlorn	einsam	verlassen
southward	Nach süden	Nach Süden
belly	unterseite	Bauch
glistening	funkelnd	glänzend
disturbing	störend	störend

Text with the words:

The devil clutched a bomb in his left hand, a pitchfork in his right, and smirked impishly. He might have appeared menacing if it wasn't for the exaggerated eyebrows and the half-moon eyes. They gave him more of a sleepy gremlin look than the fiendish expression expected from the ruler of hell. Yet he wore the customary red suit and sprouted regulation horns and long forked tail. Oddly, the clawlike toenails of his feet were curled over a gold bar that was labeled 24 K.

In black letters above and below the circled figure on the fuselage of the B-29 bomber were the words Dennings' Demons.

The aircraft, named for its commander and crew, sat like a forlorn ghost under a sheet of rain driven southward over the Aleutian Islands by a wind from the Bering Sea. A battery of portable lights illuminated the area beneath the open belly of the plane, casting wavering shadows from the ground crew on the glistening aluminum body, Flashes of lightning added to the haunting scene, stabbing the darkness of the airfield with disturbing frequency.

279 words (but the text is from the book)

Description of the main caracter(Characterization)

Dirk Pitt

Describe a character from the book (e.g. physical characterstics, personality, likes, dislikes). Say why you like / dislike the character.

Dirk Pitt is a tall man, firm muscled with broad shoulders and straight back slightly on the lanky side and yet he moves with a catlike grace that seemed poised for action. There is razor hardness about him that even a stranger could sense, yet he never lacks for friends and allies in and out of government who respected and admires him for his loyalty and intelligence. He is buoys by a dry wit and an easygoing personality, a trait a score of women had found most appealing, and though he adores their company, his most ardent love was reserved for the sea.

I like Dirk Pitt because he is calm and he loves the sea like I do. I really would dive so far like him too.

150 words

5 Questions (Reflection)

At any point during your reading write down 5 questions you would like to have answered.
Questions to Dragon:(partly with answers)

1)      How many atomic bombs were build from the Americans in the Second World War?

2)      How many atomic Bombs have the USA?

The United States of America has 5’113 applicable bombs and about 5’000 in inactive ones.[1]

3)      How deep can a deep-sea submersible dive?

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point of the world. It is 11’034 meters deep and there is a Pressure of over 1170 bar. In January of 1960 the Swiss Jacques Piccard and the American Don Walsh dove at 10’916 nearly so deep.

4)      Which material can withstand such a high pressure?

Steel. The submersible was build of steel and there were no edges because when they are round the pressure distributed better.

5)      Why can they hear music under water, when they have no electric power?

Source of evidence: (Quellennachwies)

[1]= Wikipedia; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernwaffe stand: 30.10.2011

148 words

Empathy

First Blog – Empathy (Third Question)

Say in what ways you wish a character would change/develop or what you would like to

Happen in the life of some character.

Craig Plunkett is the chief engineer and Pilot for Old Gert. Old Gert is a deep-sea submersible which can dive about 5200 meters down. Craig thinks it is the only submersible which can dive so far. When they are nearly at the ground of the sea in 5000 meters at the water surface suddenly an atomic bomb explode. Because water is incompressible the shock wave traveled through the water at roughly 6.500 kilometers per hour in an expanding circle.

Old Gert a bit saved from the shock wave by the nearly canon walls. But the one of the five spheres, the sphere with the electrical and oxygen imploded because the pressure was too big.

I would like that Craig will be rescued because it might not be the only submersible which can dive so deep. And so I hope the change in his life will be that he has once luck and not the same bad luck then the rest of his live.

163 words (without title and question)