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UNIT NINE

EXPRESSING UNEXPECTED RESULTS

Reading

A. Engage yourself
Look at the picture below, and answer the following questions.

a. Guess what the boy is thinking about.
b. Which road do you think he chooses?
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c. Dilemma is a situation in which a dif¿cult choice has to be made between
two or more alternatives. Have you ever faced a dilemma? When? Why
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were you in a dilemma? What did you do in that situation? Was it dif¿ cult
to make a choice between the two?
B. Study time

Reading I
Read the poem by Robert Frost, and ¿nd out why he is in a dilemma.

The Road not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
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