Hey, summary homework for this holiday. -By Adam (not much to talk)

Cristiano Ronaldo ridiculed as newly

     

I've read an article in the magazine about Cristiano Ronaldo, the most talented footballers nowaday. 

In his childhood home of Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo will now be remembered forever thanks to this bizarrely-proportioned statue newly erected in his honour. The large replica of the Real Madrid maestro shows him in his famous free-kick pose. The statue was erected in Ronaldo's home city of Funchal, where there is already a museum, known as CR7, dedicated to the star. The former Manchester United player, who won the Club World Cup with Real Madrid on Saturday, is favourite to win 2014's Ballon D'Or accolade which is an annual award to the world's best player. He is also the winner of 2013's Ballon D'Or. 

So, the vocabs that I've learned about this article is :-

-bizzare :- conspicously or grossly unconventional or unusual

-erected :- upright in position or posture            

-maestro :- someone who is skilled enough to be considered

-accolade :- it is a form of praise or an award

                       

Now, we go to second article :) 

Albert Einstein's Early Life

 

This is another article I read on the magazine. On March 14, 1879, there was born a genious person named, Albert Einstein. He was born in the southern German city of Ulm, Einstein grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Munich. As a child, Einstein became fascinated by music (violin), mathematics and science. He dropped out of school in 1894 and moved to Switzerland, where he resumed his schooling and later gained admission to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. In 1896, he renounced his German citizenship, and remained officially stateless before becoming a Swizz citizen in 1901. While at Zurich Polytechnic, Einstein fell in love with his fellow student Mileva Maric, but his parents opposed the match and he lacked the money to marry. The couple had an illegitimate daughter, Lieserl, born in early 1902, of whom little is known. After finding a position as a clerk at the Swiss patent office in Bern, Einstein married Maric in 1903; they would have two more children, Hans Albert (born 1904) and Eduard (born 1910).  

So, the vocabs that I've learned about this article is :-

-fascinated :- having your attention fixated as though by a spell

-admission :- the act of letting someone enter 

-citizenship :- membership in state with rights and duties 

-illegitimate :- contrary to or forbidden by law

-patent :- goverment document that proves that an invention is yours and yours alone

Novel Summary

The Three Musketeers

We begin the novel in France, where a young man from Gascony (city in France) named D'Artagnan sets out for Paris with three gifts from his farther: fifteen crowns, a horse and a letter of introduction to M. de Treville, who is a Very Important Person (VIP) since he commands the King's Musketeers. D'Artagnan hopes to become a Musketeer one day, but he doesn't have much going form him except for his training as a gentleman, which means, effectively, that he can handle a sword and be polite about it. His pluck, determination and good manner lead him to become BFF with three Musketeer named Porthos, Athos and Aramis and also lead him to fall in love with the beautiful Constance Bonacieux. 

Vocabs I've learned from the novel is :
-nefarious :- evil or wicked

-declarations :- a statement that is emphatic and explicit

-lackey :- a male servant (especially a footman)

-foreshadowing :- the act of providing vague advance indications

-circumstances :- one's overall condition in life 

NEXT!

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

After, Dr. John Watson gets married (to Mary Morstan, in Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of Four) he doesn't see Holmes quite as often as he use to. As Watson sets up a happy home with his wife, Holmes remains as weird as ever, hanging around their old place in baker Street and alternating betweet cocaine and criminal cases.

Watson happens to be passing his former apartment on the walk back from his medical practice one evening and decides to stop in to see his old pal Holmes. The two bat jokes back and forth about Holmes's deductive ability. Holmes finally comes out and asks if Watson can even recall the number of  stairs that lead up to the 221B Baker street apartment and Watson admits that he cannot. "Ah ha!" crows Holmes: proof that, while Watson sees the same things that Holmes does, he fails to observe them.

A new client arrives to meet Holmes and after trying to hide his identity for about two seconds, comes clean: he is Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and hereditary King of Bohemia (whoa, that's a lot of letter for one name! Bohemia, by the way, is now part of the modern-day Czech Republic). His problem is that he's about to marry the daughter of the King of Scandinavia. The thing is, though, she's from a family with very strict moral and she wouldn't be pleased to know that he had a serious affair with another woman before their engagement.

This woman is Irene Adler, who live in Holmes's memory as the woman. She's a singer who met the King in Warsaw, where they subsequently had a bit of a fling. Unfortunately, the King allowed himself to be photographed with Adler and she has the picture. The King wants Holmes to recover incriminating photo. Holmes agrees.

Holmes then puts on a disguise and goes to Irene Adler's current house in London to stake it out. He finds out that she gets frequent calls from a lawyer, Godfrey Norton. Holmes even happens to be on the site when Adler rushes out of her house to meet norton at a small chruch and get this our detective is actually called upon (still in disguise) to be witness for her marriage to the guy. After their surprise elopement, Adler goes back to ther house and Holmes realizes he has to hurry to get the photo back before she has a chance to leave with her new husband.

So the vocabs I've learned from this novel is :-

- deductive :- relating to logical deduction

- hereditary :- occuring among people descended from a common ancestor

- subsequently :- happening at a time later than another time

- disguise :- any attire that conceals the wearer's identity

- incriminating :- changing or suggestive of guilt or blame

- elopement :- the act of running away with a lover 

Okay that's it. Exhausted. Finished English homework, Bm here I come. 

Thank you,

Adam Naqib Bin Zunnasri