Week 9- Day 3 Appendices
Appendix A
Task 2. Say What?
Each sentence has an underlined idiomatic expression. Idioms are words which have fixed expressions and non-literal
meanings. Decide what each idiomatic expression means.
1. When news about the plight of Mindanao reached King Indarapatra, he did not beat around the bush. He immediately
sent his brother to fight the monsters.
2. Sulayman, despite being of noble birth, did not hesitate to get his hands dirty.
3. Upon reaching Mindanao and killing the first monster, Sulayman realized that he had barely scratched the surface
of Mindanao‘s problems.
4. Had the monsters closed ranks, they would have been able to defeat Sulayman.
5. Despite being a king, Indarapatra remained down to earth when he met the people who hid in the caves.
Answers
1. To talk about lots of unimportant things because you want to avoid talking about what is really important (From
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary)
2. To do physical work (Macmillan Dictionary)
3. To deal with only a very small part of a subject or a problem (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and
Thesaurus)
4. When the members of a group or organization close ranks, they make an effort to stay united, especially in an order
to defend themselves from severe criticism (Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus)
5. Practical, unpretentious, lowly, modest, demure (Merriam- Webster Dictionary)
Appendix B
Task 3. Watch Out!
A. Study the following sentences. Write C if the sentence is a compound sentence and write S if it is a simple sentence.
1. The epic does not state where the monsters which ravaged Mindanao came from.
2. The epic also doesn‘t state where Indarapatra and Sulayman came from either.
3. Some experts say that Indarapatra and Sulayman came from Borneo, and their arrival represented the Indones wave
of migrants to the Philippine islands.
4. Mindanao was depicted as a troubled land in the epic, and this depiction seems true even to this age.
5. The people of Mindanao initially fought the monsters, but the monsters were just too powerful for them to
overcome.
6. Sulayman‘s revival is seen as proof of his supernatural heritage.
7. Epic heroes often have supernatural abilities, but they too have weaknesses.
8. The heroes in this epic simply wanted to help people in distress.
9. Indarapatra‘s marriage to the headman‘s daughter explains how his people came to Mindanao.
10. Many of us see epics as fiction, yet reading an epic often reveals a lot of truths about the people who created them.
Answers
1. S
2. S
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. S
7. C
8. S
9. S
10. C
Appendix C
B. Study the sentences below. Each sentence is missing a coordinating conjunction that will turn it into a compound
sentence. Fill in that blank with appropriate coordinating conjunction.
1. The four monsters came out of nowhere, ____ they began to attack the people of Mindanao.
2. The people of Mindanao were either devoured by the monsters, ____ they fled to the caves for sanctuary.
3. The Philippines during this time did not have a central government, ____ did it have a national force.
4. King Indarapatra was a foreigner, ____ he showed a lot of sympathy for the people of Mindanao.
5. Sulayman managed to kill the giant bird, ____ the bird‘s wing managed to crush him in the process.
Answers
1. and
2. or
3. nor
4. but
5. but
