E n g L i s h jenni Currie Santamaria

participant. Suring is an intensely personal activity—just you, your board, and a 
wave. Every day is different. All you have to do is catch the wave, stand up, ride, 
and do it again. . .three times, ive times, ten times. You win. It doesn’t matter 
whether you’re suring a one-foot wave on a sandy beach break or a roaring 
hollow monster at Pipeline on Oahu’s famed North Shore. Many surfers 
continue into their seventies, a few into their nineties. It’s the cheapest life 
insurance around. Success is measured purely by the personal happiness you 
generate. There is no obligation to impress others, win accolades, or even 
worry about what anyone else thinks.
This makes suring about as close to pure fun as our species can approach 
on this particular planet. Other crazes come and go, yet the popularity of 
suring has never waned since the modern worldwide explosion that began in 
the 1960s. There’s a wave out there for everyone—every generation, race, and 
gender—and each surfer comes out a winner. Success in suring is wrapped up 
in that infectious attitude of making every day great over the largest possible 
variety of conditions.
Source:
 Wingnut’s Complete Surfing
, by Robert “Wingnut” Weaver, New York: 
McGraw-Hill, 2009

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III. COMPREHENSION CHECK
Mark the sentences T (True) or F (False).
_____ 1.
When we become adults, we have to spend a lot of time making 
money, and we forget how to play.
_____ 2.
Suring makes you feel like a child again.
_____ 3.
Suring provides only intellectual stimulation.
_____ 4.
Suring makes you happy.
_____ 5.
Usually when you take on an activity, you think only of the pain you 
will have to undergo.
_____ 6.
Success in suring is deined by each participant.
_____ 7.
Every day, suring stays the same and does not change.
_____ 8.
People who surf the big waves, like a “roaring hollow monster” are 
the only winners.
_____ 9.
People usually stop suring when they turn ifty.
_____ 10.
Success in suring is measured by personal happiness.
_____ 11.
To be successful in suring, you must win awards and trophies.
_____ 12.
In suring, it’s important to impress others.
_____ 13.
Suring became popular in the 1960s.
IV. VOCABULARY BUILDING
A.
Understanding from context
Read the phrases. Before you look up words in the dictionary, use the context 
of each sentence to help you match the boldface words and idioms with the 
definitions that follow.
_____ 1.
. . .
giving yourself wholly
to the pursuit of an activity that brought you 
joy. . .
_____ 2.
It might have been swimming, 
shooting baskets
, ishing. . .
_____ 3.
. . .but while you were engaged in it hours would
melt away
unnoticed. . .
_____ 4.
When we 
come of age
. . .
_____ 5.
. . .we forget the 
timeless
joy. . .
_____ 6.
Even for the average, 
garden-variety