UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CALLAO

FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA ELÉCTRICA Y ELECTRÓNICA

ESCUELA DE ELECTRÓNICA

TOPIC: FIRST REPORT WEEKLY

STUDENT:
Guadalupe Briceño Kelly
CODE:
1713220545
COURSE:
English IV
TEACHER:
Camones Estela Rosaura

Callao, Peru NOVEMBER,2019

 Gulliver's Travels

1) ABOUT THE WEEKLY READING COMPREHENSION

 Introduction
Gulliver’s Travels has been written by Jonathan Swift, and it is the story of the
various adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, who is basically the narrator and protagonist
in the book. Gulliver, a married surgeon from Nottinghamshire, England, is
someone who loves traveling. He works as a surgeon on ships and lands up
becoming a ship captain.

Through many unfortunate events during his voyage at sea, Gulliver gets stranded
in foreign lands and absurd situations, whether it’s getting captured by the miniature
Lilliputians or becoming friends with talking horses, the Houyhnhnms.

 Chapters or pages read during this week,(put the date)

 Chapter 1 “LILLIPUT”(November,4)
 Chapter 2 “BROBDINGNAG” (November,5)

 Summary of the reading

Chapter 1 “LILLIPUT”
Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where he is huge and the Lilliputians are small. Initially,
the Lilliputians look amiable, but the reader soon understands that they are very
ridiculous and petty creatures. For “making water”, Gulliver gets convicted of
treason in the capital (although he was putting out a fire and saving innumerable
lives)–among other “crimes.”
Chapter 2 “BROBDINGNAG”
Gulliver travels to Brobdingnag, which is a land of Giants and he is as small as the
Lilliputians were to him. So, naturally, Gulliver is scared, but his keepers are
surprisingly gentle. He gets humiliated by the King when he is forced to see the
difference between how England is and how it ought to be. Gulliver soon
understands that he must have been very revolting to the Lilliputians.

 New vocabulary learned

SHIPWRECKED - NAUFRAGADO
ACQUAINTANCE - CONOCIDO
 FLURRY – RÁFAGA
DOWNWARDS - HACIA ABAJO
ASTONISHMENT - ASOMBRO
SOPORIFEROUS - SOPORIFEROSO
RECKON - CONTAR
INTERMINGLE - ENTREMEZCLAR
BEHOLDERS - AFICIONADOS
WORSHIPS - ADORACIONES

 Examples of grammatical structure found in the reading

1. I determined to go again to sea.

2. The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the
sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
3. We set sail from Bristol, May 4, 1699, and our voyage was at first very
prosperous.
4. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea,
made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock.
5. This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am
confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like
occasion.
6. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge.
7. The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed
fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of
flowers.
8. When this adventure was at an end, I came back out of my house, having
occasion for fresh air.
9. When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, although
in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars.
10. He first called for my scimitar, which I took out, scabbard and all.

 Character (s) (main and secondary)

 Gulliver: Captain Lemuel Gulliver, the narrator.

 Blefuscudians: The sworn enemies of the Lilliputians live on a neighboring island.
Gulliver flees to his island when the liliputienses condemn him for treason.
 The emperor: The leader of the Lilliputians. He is initially friendly with Gulliver,
but changes his mind about him when Gulliver refuses to continue fighting against
Blefusco and puts out a fire in the Empress's chamber when he urinates on him.
 Flimnap: Lord High Treasurer of Lilliput, who conceives a jealous hatred for
 Gulliver when he begins to believe that his wife has an affair with him.
 Reldresal: He is the Chief Secretary of Private Affairs in Lilliput, who explains to
Gulliver the history of political tensions between the two main parties in the kingdom,
high heels and low heels.
 Mrs. Mary Burton Gulliver: Gulliver's wife whose superficial mention in the first
paragraphs of Gulliver's Travels demonstrates how unsentimental and emotionless
Gulliver is.
 The Lilliputians: The inhabitants of Lilliput. They are between five and six inches
tall. They are the sworn enemies of the Blefuscudians of a neighboring island.