jueves, 13 de marzo de 2014

Chapter 9


The Hurons guards discover that had dissapeared and instead of Uncas, they saw Gamut. They didn´t pay attention to Gamut and he ran away.
The Hurons discovered that Magua was tied and they untied him. Magua and the Hurons decided to go to the village of the Delawares. Magua thinks that Hawk-eye is there hidden with the Delawares.
Meanwhile, Chingachgook and Munro were hidden inside an old big beaver´s log.
Magua and the Hurons went to the village and asked the Delawares if Hawk-eye was there.
Cora, Alice and Heyward were there and Magua saw Hawk-eye too. Magua wanted to take Hawk-eye back but the Delawares people didn´t agree with Magua.

Vocabulary:

Gag
Noun
Mordaza
A piece of cloth or rope stuffed into or tied across the mouth
They place a gag in the mouth and in the hands
Lodge
Noun
Pabellón de casa, pesca, etc
House that a beaver makes for itself from wooden sticks
They saw the lodge from the canoe
Sharp
Adjective
Afilado
Good for cutting with
They had a dangerous sharp knife

lunes, 10 de marzo de 2014

Chapter 8

Heyward was a medicine man now so the Hurons asked him to help an ill indian woman. Magua discovered that Uncas was the prisioner of the Hurons. He was happy.
Suddenly when Heyward went into a cave to help the sick woman, he saw a bear. The bear was a suit and inside, Heyward saw his friend Hawk-eye. Heyward and Hawk-eye, with the help of Gamut, found Alice. They rescued her and Magua was tied with ropes. Alice was covered with a blanket and Heyward and Hawk-eye said to the sick woman´s husband that they needed medecines from the forest so Heyward, Hawk-eye and the girl covered with the blanket ran to the forest.
Hawk-eye with his disguise of bear went to rescue Uncas. The men who guarded the prisión let him in because they thought Hawk-eye was a medecine man. Uncas took Hawk-eye´s disguise of bear and Hawk-eye exchanged clothes with Gamut. Both men disguise left the place without problems.

Vocabulary:

To gag
Verb
Amordazar
To tie something across someone´s mouth to stop them from speaking
They gagged the girl sharply
Fool
Adjective
Tonto, loco
A stupid person
He was a fool person!
 To exchange
Verb
Cambiar algo (con álguien)
To give something and to get something different back
We exchange the chromes of football
To growl
Verb
Gruñir
To make a deep, angry noise
The dog growled fiercely

Chapter 7

Hawk-eye, the Mohicans, Heyward and Munro were following the tracks searching Cora and Alice. Suddenly, they saw an Indian figure. Hawk-eye approached to this figure and he discovered that the indian figure was in fact Gamut. The Hurons didn´t kill him because they thought he was crazy.
Gamut told the Mohicans that the girls were not in danger. Cora was with a trib past the mountain.
Heyward had a plan. He painted his face so he would pretend to be a crazy french actor ( a Gamut´s friend) in order to enter  the village.
Finally, Heyward and Gamut got into the village. While they were there, they discovered that Uncas
and another Huron were prisioners of this tribe. This tribe killed the Huron but they didn´t kill Uncas.

Vocabulary:

Feather
Noun
Pluma
This comes from the tail of a bird
She had a feather in the hair
Beaver
Noun
Castor
A brown animal with big front teeth and a flat tail that lives in lakes
The place was built by beavers
Beyond
Preposition
Más allá (de)
To point on the other side
We were beyond the problem
To trip
Verb
 Tropezarse
To fall because something is in front of your feet
On having been walking, I tripped over a stone
Wise
Adjective
Sabio
Clever, intelligent
He seems to me a really wise person

domingo, 9 de marzo de 2014

Chapter 6

The Fort William Henry was now a black smoking ruin. The battlefield was  busy of lifeless bodies. The French army had destroyed the british place.
Uncas, Chingachgook, Munro, Hawk-eye and Heyward were searching for Cora and Alice when they realised that the girls were in Magua´s hands.
At night, there were shots on the battlefield.
Next morning,  the Mohicans, Heyward, Munro and Hawk-eye decides to look for the girls and they got into the canoe. They found a fire above the trees but early, they were attacked by Hurons.
Finally, they arrived at the forest and the Hurons lost their trail.

Vocabulary:


Leather
Noun
Cuero, piel
Made of animal skin
My jacket is made of leather
Northwards
Adverb
Hacia el norte
Towards the north
We went northwards
Battlefield
Noun
Campo de batalla
The place were a battle is fought
The battlefield was busy of lifeless bodies
Supper
Noun
Cena
An evening meal
We had a great supper!
Crawl
Verb
Andar a gatas, arrastrarse
To move on the ground on your hands and knees
They crawl for the forest
Briefly
Adverb
Brevemente
For a short time
I explain the lesson to her briefly
Paddle
Verb
Remar
To move a canoe trough the water with a long flat piece of wood
They paddle to coming to the island
 
Land
Verb
Aterrizar, caer
To come down to earth after a flight
They have to land for lack of fuel

jueves, 6 de marzo de 2014

Chapter 5

The fort was surrounded by the French.
Heyward saw from a slope that Hawk-eye was a prisioner of the French.
Heyward was in love with Alice. Munro felt they couldn´t resist in the Fort longer without the help of General Webb.
The French army and its General Montcalm offered Munro help. Munro accepted and all the british people left the Fort.
However, while they were crossing the forest, the british people were attacked by the Hurons. The French army did nothing to stop it.
During the fight, Magua took girls (Cora and Alice) and ran away with them.

Vocabulary:

Siege
Noun
Sitio, cerco policial
When an army surrounds a building and waits for the people inside to stop fighting
The French siege went on for five days.
Side
Noun
Lado
A position, opinion, etc, held in opposition to another in a dispute
He was of side of the French
Coward
Adjective
Cobarde
An easily frightened person
She was a really coward woman
Freely
Adverb
Libremente
Able to act at will; not under restraint.
We act freely, without any type of influence.