Hướng dẫn giải Writing a Lesson 3 – Unit 1 – Tiếng Anh 12 iLearn Smart World. Hướng dẫn: Writing Skill (Kĩ năng viết).
Câu hỏi/Đề bài:
a. Read about using time expressions, then read the biography about Nellie Bly again and circle the time expressions that were used.
(Đọc về cách sử dụng biểu thức thời gian, sau đó đọc lại tiểu sử về Nellie Bly và khoanh tròn các biểu thức thời gian đã được sử dụng.)
Hướng dẫn:
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Writing Skill (Kĩ năng viết) Using time expressions (Sử dụng biểu thức thời gian) When writing a biography, you need to use many time expressions. Some common time expressions are: (Khi viết tiểu sử, bạn cần sử dụng nhiều cách diễn đạt chỉ thời gian. Một số biểu thức thời gian phổ biến là) • At the age of …: when someone was a certain age (At the age of…: khi ai đó ở một độ tuổi nhất định) At the age of 16, she graduated from high school. (Năm 16 tuổi, cô tốt nghiệp trung học.) • As a (child/teenager): when someone was a (child/teenager) (As a (trẻ em/thiếu niên): khi ai đó còn là (trẻ em/thiếu niên)) As a teenager, she met many inspiring people who were her parents’ guests. (Khi còn là thiếu niên, cô đã gặp nhiều người truyền cảm hứng và là khách của cha mẹ cô.) • During + time period: all through a period of time (During + khoảng thời gian: xuyên suốt một khoảng thời gian) During the war, she and people in her organization risked their lives to help others. (Trong chiến tranh, cô và những người trong tổ chức của mình đã liều mạng để giúp đỡ người khác.) • For + length of time: how long something happened (For + khoảng thời gian: việc gì đó đã xảy ra trong bao lâu) They researched and developed many airplane models for four years. (Họ đã nghiên cứu và phát triển nhiều mẫu máy bay trong 4 năm.) |
Lời giải:
Nellie Bly was an American journalist, best known for her investigative reporting. She also made the fastest trip around the world.
She was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania, the United States. Her parents named her Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She started her career in 1885 after writing an angry response to an article called What Girls Are Good For in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. They were impressed and gave her a job. In her first article, she argued that not all women needed to get married, and that they should have better opportunities. She then used the name Nellie Bly for the rest of her career.
After leaving the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Nellie was rejected from jobs because newspapers wouldn’t hire a woman. She finally got a job at the New York World by agreeing to pretend to be mentally unwell to investigate a mental asylum. Her report exposed the asylum’s conditions, and it was forced to improve its patient care, she wrote about many difficult issues, and most of them are in support of women’s lives.
In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, she took a trip around the world. The idea was rejected by her newspaper at first because “no one but a man can do this”, but finally her editor agreed. She traveled alone for most of it, an unusual thing for women to do at the time. She actually met Jules Verne in France and completed the trip after 72 days, setting a world record.
In her later years, Nellie Bly returned to journalism. She wrote reports about World War I and problems that impacted women. Nellie Bly died in 1922 at the age of 57. Her life has inspired dozens of movies, TV series, and books.