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e. Why does Manisha want her nephew to give it a second thought?
f. What suggestions did Manisha give Kunsang? Make a list.

g. Do you like Kunsang’s idea of stopping his studies? Why? Why not?
Explain.

ii. What can be the advantages and disadvantages of a cosmopolitan city
that are hinted in the letter above? Read the letter again, and complete
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the table. You may add your opinion too.
Advantages Disadvantages
a. City may be appealing. a city can be appalling.

C. Follow-up activity

Suppose you are Kunsang. Write a response letter to your aunt.

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Read the following movie review that was written by Dan Kois, the
Wahington Post Staff writer. It was published in The Washington Post on
Friday, November 13, 2009.
Movie Review: “2012” is a Perfect Disaster

Director: Roland Emmerich
Producers: Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon and Larry
J. Franco
Script writers: Harald Klose and Roland Emmerich
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson
Release: November13, 2009
Language: English
Budget: $200 million

If a ¿lm critic awards four stars to a movie directed by Roland Emmerich,

will the world come to an end? That’s a question the ancient Mayans never
asked, but it’s the one facing me after the enormously satisfying, amazingly
accomplished, reprehensible yet irresistible “2012”, the greatest achievement in
Emmerich’s long, pro¿ table career as a destroyer of the world.

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