1.

Vocabular i compoziie
a) Noises and sounds
- hail (people)
- shout (people)
- bark (dog)
- click (mouse)
- wheeze (wind)
- babble (people)
- ringtone (telephone)
- creak (things)
- thunder (clouds)
- snore (people)
- whisper (people)
- whistle (people and things)
- swish (things)
- rustle (leaves, things)
- hiss (things)
- sigh (people)
- cough (people)
- squeak (mice)
- hiccup (people)
- moan (people)
- sizzle (things)
- sneeze (people)
- snarl (people; animals)
- tweet (bird)
- trample (people)
- screech (teeth)
- rumble (things)
- tick (clock)
- crackling (things)
- jingle (bell)









[+male] [+female] [+young]
boar sow cub
bull cow calf
buck doe infant
tiger tigress cub
dog bitch puppy
drake duck duckling
gander goose gosling
leopard leopardess cub
lion lioness cub
jack jenny foal
peacock peahen peachick
ram sheep lamb
stag hind calf
rooster hen chick
tomcat puss kitten
rabbit doe bunny
wolf she-wolf whelp
drone queen larva
turkey hen poult
blackback empress infant












b) Animals
Is it true that all animals feed on other animals?! I wondered if so, how could that be
possible? The answer is not the hardest one: of course!
There are many people who has at least a dog or a cat at home. But what do they feed on?
The dogs often eat beef and cats eat poultry, but a puppy or a kitten feed on the milk their mother
provide them with. So... does any young feed on their mother? This is an example but lets take a
look at what we call food chain. We know the food chain refers to predator-prey relationships
between species within an ecosystem or habitat. We also know there are animals wich feed on
plants such as cows, bulls, stallions, mares, sheeps, rams, rabbits, roosters, ganders, gooses and
so on. Of course we cant ignore them, but lets return to those animals which live on flesh.
They feed on other animals in order to live or support their youngs, dont they? How
about a tigress which feeds on plants? Its impossible! So, I think its true that animals feed on
dove pigeon chick
cob pen cygnet
boar sow tadpole
cock chantelle cheeper
stallion mare foal
pig sow piglet
king queen nymph
frog tadpole froglet
buck goat kid
ant gyne larva
other animals, but not all of them. The pigeons feed on ants, eagles feed on pigeons, wolves feed
on eagles, but what about bears? They feed on other animals, but also on plants. Another
example is the wellknown pig, which feeds on plants such as maizes or grains, but animals and
insects too.
The question is how many animals feed on ather animals? It is hard to say that someone
can count them, but I think there are more animals which feed on other animals than animals
which feed on plants. The chickens eat plants, but they also eat ants.
So not all animals feed on other animals and I think its better so.


2. Retroversiune
The travelling pachyderm

In the fast-track, internautic and globalist millennium in which we live in, travelling lost
its initial shiver. The start of a journey lacks the picaresque aplomb or the dose of mystery.
Everything has been reduced to an efficient travelling, with less time and abundance of facilities.
Nobody ever leaves without being certain of where he or she is going and no one is still looking
for the hidden meanings underneath the footstep mechanics. Todays voyager is a resolute being
that has to get swift from location A to location B. He has a mopish, concerned or hectic stance,
based on the days time table. The voyages style, for business or for pleasure, has orderly
depleted as the technical props have enriched. The busses, the trains, the airplanes and the
subways carry heaps of passengers gone, like George Bernard Shaw used to say, To meet with
themselves striving not to arrive late. Oh, but why to enable, even you dear pachyderm, the
wounding frown of these timeless ramblers? Well, see you can, if you know how to choose your
weapons and the optimal moment for your intervention.
Survey, for instance, a buss taking people to work or bringing them back home from
work. Youll immediately start to notice that in that tank on wheels that travels round the city
lingers a general unfulfilment of a pointless dullness in the atmosphere. Every passenger is a
hidden island under the page of a newspaper, a book cover or a stare out the window. There are
people that dont enjoy life and dont understand its subtle meaning. Some read defiant as if you
were to understand that you cannot enter their forbidden world. Others plunge into their
thoughts, sign of contemplating a domestic dilemma or a job assumed frustration. Anyway, some
are fagged out and leaning with their forehead against the window are trying to get a 15 minutes
recovery nap. Its clear, something must be done and quick.
No doubt that for an undertaking of this nature to be successful, it has to begin
accordingly. In this case, from the very ascension in the buss. Its a delicate moment that not
everybody manages adequate. The genuine pachyderm however knows not to crack under
customs. The quaint politeness, the delicate hamletisms, the concessive drawbacks or the inane
trifles are only child-play that the race will use to assess you when you feel youre on top of the
world. There still are places in the country where people wait for the buss of for the tramway on
the sidewalk, and sometimes like and acme of scathe desuetude on the citadel benches. A
Bucharestian pachyderm dispatched in Oradea might encounter surprises hard to digest. There
are neighborly whimpers, that practice an abusive discrimination and allow access in the vehicle
only on unfashionable criteria based on: age, sex and physical handicap. Seeming as theyre still
God given creatures, there miserable chaps, fed only with the perfusions of a wrongful nostalgia,
cant be liquidated nor be locked up in special reservations. In front of them the pachyderm has
only one option: direct action.

3. Gramatic Structuri sintactice
ii.
That the lizard got into my drawer surprised me.
It surprised me that the lizard got into my drawer.
I know that he is going to Kiribati.
That Cecil would go to Kiribati is odd. Its odd that Cecil would go to Kiribati.
That a lizard was in my drawer is weird. Its weird that a lizard was in my drawer.
For Cecil to go to Kiribati is surprising.
It would be surprising for him to go to Greenland.
It was unexpected for Cecil to go to Kiribati.
The fact that he would plan to go there is surprising.
His putting a penguin in my bathtub was a really strange idea.
Cecils going to Greenland will be an interesting vacation.
No doubt that for an undertaking of this nature to be successful, it has to begin accordingly.
His dreaming of an angel made me nervous.
Her sister arriving at home made him believe it was an urgency.
It was like a thunder that he told me these news.
That he was wrong made me realise the mistake.
That Tom sang last night make me think of my future.
It surpised the family that Tim was fine.
Toms singing last night made me want a juice.
It came as a surprise to me that Jean entered the room.