Tuesday 6 March 2012

OCTAVIA!!!! the spider web city

Recall the activity we did in class last month. We illustrated a text from the "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino;  the city of OCTAVIA!!!
Well, here you have some of your drawings:

Now, let's practice some vocabulary from the text!
Remember that this vocabulary will be on the exam!

thin:
spider web:
precipice:
steep mountains:
void:
bound to:
crests:
ropes:
catwalks:
wooden ties:
to cling to:
hempen strands:
to glide past:
to glimpse:
chasm:
foundation:
rope-ladders:
hammocks:
clothes-hangers:
gas jets:
dumb-waiters:
trapezes:
cable-cars:
chandeliers:
pots:
trailing plants:
abyss:
inhabitants:
uncertain:
net:


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