UNIT 4-Vocabulary

AMUSING: Causing laugh and providing entertainment.

UPSETTING: Make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried.

MOTIVATING: Provide (someone) with a reason for doing something.

WORRYING: Causing anxiety about actual or potential problems; alarming.

PLUG IN/UNPLUG: Connect into/disconnect of a plug.

SWITCH ON/OFF: Make something start/stop working.

SWAY: To move slowly form side to side.

SWIPE: An act or instance of moving one's finger across a touchscreen to activate a function.

BROWSE: To look for something on the Internet.

SCROLL: If you scroll through text on a computer or mobile phone screen, you move the text up or down to find the information that you need.

STREAM: To film a video in real time so people watch it at the same time that you're doing it.

UPDATE: To make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design.

BE BORN: When a person or animal is born, they come out of their mother’s body or out of an egg.

RECEIPT: Mark (a bill) as paid.

SCREEN: A flat surface in a cinema, on a television, or as part of acomputer, on which pictures or words are shown.

HELPLINE: A telephone service providing help with problems.

REPLACEMENT: The action or process of replacing someone or something or the person or thing that takes the place of another.

ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE-Agatha Christie PROJECT

SOME THINGS ABOUT THE NOVEL:
-This novel was written by Agatha Christie in 1958.
- The editorial is Collins crime club.
- The book has 288 pages.
- It is a black novel
- More than 4 millions of copies have been sold.
- Stella Maris translated the novel.
-There is a serie of the book.
THE AUTHOR:
-The author is Agatha Christie, she lived from 1890 to 1976.
-She won an Edgar Grand Master prize.
- She said: “There is only one secret when writing a black novel, the detective should not know more than the reader”
-To write this novel, she needed new experiences to live, because the characters were very complicated and the novel was so different of other novels that she had written before.
THE BACKGROUND: 
-In 1958, started the effort to recover the democracy in Venezuela.
-In USA, Dwight president signed the legislation that allowed the creation of the NASA
-The 23th. of January the NASA threw the first American satellite to the space.
- The 3rd. of November was inaugurated in Paris (France) the seat of United Nations Organization for the education, science and culture. The organism was founded the 16th. November 1945.
THE CHARACTERS:
-Rachell Argill: Is the victim.
-Leo Argill: Is the husband of Rachell. He is an intelligent and serious man.
-Jacko Argyle: Is the adopted child accused of killing his mother, he died in prision.
-Arthur Calgary: Is a friend of the family. He’s the person responsible of opening the investigation again.
-Superintentendent Huish: Is the investigating officer.
-There are four more adopted sons.
THE PLOT: 
Rachell Argill, a rich woman, one day is killed. The police has evidence that one of her adopted son (Jacko Argyle) killed her. He died in prision.
18 months later, Arthur Calgary (a friend of the family) said that Jacko hadn’t killed his mother and the investigation was opened again and everyone was suspect again.
MY OPINION:
I like the plot of this book. I think that is a different type of novel and I will like to read it.