Grade 7: Unit 5

The panoramic shot of the Grand Canyon was breathtaking.

The voiceover helps the audience to follow a narrative.

One example of a transition is when a scene changes to another location.

The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in the coming days.

Can't haul it all back—Well, take it, and a bitterness with it.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

The women sat among the doomed things, turning them over and looking past them and back.

They stood and watched them burning, and then frantically they loaded up the cars and drove away, drove in the dust.

When he finally chose the Carcanchita, he checked it thoroughly before driving it out of the car lot.

Papá sighed, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said wearily: "Es todo."

Instinctively, Roberto and I ran and hid in the vineyards.

"The first thing we have to do this morning is finish reading the story we began yesterday," he said enthusiastically.

"Would you like to read?" he asked hesitantly.

"You can read later," Mr. Lema said understandingly.

So as I'm telling him, he says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, Aimee. The reason everybody liked you all those years ago was because you were this sweet, vulnerable, naive girl, and if you walk onstage today, and you are this polished young woman with too many accomplishments, I'm afraid they won't like you."

Thank God I'm not normal. I get to be extraordinary.

And the marvelous thing was that this six-year-old understood something that it took me twenty-something years to get, but that we both did discover—that when we can celebrate and truly own what it is that makes us different, we're able to find the source of our greatest creative power.

I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it.

Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.

There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away.

A close-up shot is often used to show the facial expression of a character.

"Energy poverty"—the scarcity of modern fuels and electrical supplies in poor parts of the world—is a subject of great interest to development economists.

"People do desire what is happening here. They come, and admire," he says.

A gust of wind blew the blades off the man's first few attempts.