Persian Vocabulary Practice Lesson

adapted from Persian Vocabulary Acquisition: Second Edition (2003)

54.17. Text 42: A Report on a Writer's Death in TehrSn. This lesson's text is a report
from a Tehran daily newspaper illustrating writing with meaning between the lines.

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Text 42 Translation. Sa'idi Sirjhi Passes Away. Tehrh-Jomhuri Eslami News Service
(1) A reliable source reported that the effon of doetors to save the life of 'Ali Akbar Sa'idi
SirjBni, the elderly Iranian writer, were ineffectual, and he passed away in the first hours of
Sunday morning in Tehrin.
(2) On Saturday SirjBni suffered a massive heart attack and was quickly plaeed under the
eare of physieians. On Sunday morning, the leader of the team of physicians attending to
SirjBni reported that from one o'eloek that morning Sirjhi's eondition grew grave and doctors
began an expanded effon in their eare and treatment of him. But their efforts did not produee
results and he passed away. The chief of the team of attending physieians said rhar Sa'idi
S i r j h i had suffered a heart attaek and that heart resuscitation procedures were undenaken to
save him. The ~atient'sheart had revived. But beeause of a double mvdriasis and the leneth of
eessation of his breathing4espite breathing resuscitation-after a time his heart stopped beating.
Despite special medical attention, he did not respond to treatment or therapy and he passed
away.
(3) In its report, the Jomhuri-ve Eslbtni News Serviee added that s ~ n e elast Esfand
[FebruaryIMarch] when he was arrested, and aiter undergoing judieial prwedures, Sa'idi Sirjini
chose to reside in a house in nonh T e h r h , where he undertook a revision of his works.
Among his new works his "Cultural Memoirs" is on the subject of contemporary history.
(4) After a voluntary visit last month to the southern (former war) fronts, Sa'idi called his
reeent perspeetive a new binh and produeed some writings in this regard. During his trip to
the front, Sa'idi Sirjini talked to a representative of Elleld'd, Newspaper in the south. That
conversation was published a little while back in the "Reports" page of that newspaper.
(5) Also, in an interview on Abin 4th with Jomhuri-ye Esldmi Newspaper, Sa'idi had
said, "Before my arrest my writings had veins of stubbornness, and I am very regretful
beeause the devotion and sincerity which I see in young people and veterans have shaken me."
He also said in this interview, "I want to make up for things with my writings from now on, so
that 1 am no longer ashamed of myself."
( 6 ) At the same time, in view of the fact that the late Sa'idi Sirjini had entrusted the
publication of his political and cultural memoirs to the EttelB'it organization, these memoirs
will soon be printed and published by Ettelrit Publications.
54.17.2. Scan the text to find answers (X) to these multiple-choice questions.

2 How many times (X) does the name of the writer in question appear in the text:
08-10 0 12-14 0 16-18
3 . What event (X) does the text report?
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4 How many times does any form of the word G>.[physician] appear in the text?
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5 . What sort of book by the writer in question is about to appear?
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54.17.3. Check (X) items in this list which you would expect to see in a newspaper article
written immediately after the death of a relatively well-known writer.
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0 date of dearh
0 place of death
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0 citation of educational achievements of the deceased writer o e ;If>
0 mention of highlights of the deceased writer's professional career bLJK
0 citation of the titles of the deceased writer's most imponant or famous works ~qri

0 brief assessment of the deceased writer's contribution to hidher field ~ ~ i , d k j ~ ~

$4.17.5. Look at Text 42 to find the missing singular or plural form of each of the
following pairs of words. Write the missing form in the space provided.
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[information] 7

[memoir, memory, recollection] a&L r

[hour] UL T

[pages] -6 b

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[action, pluced~ue,operation] JX V

[symptoms, complications] U",J I 9 A

[stages, phases] J=IP 9

[subject, topic, theme] & \.

[sources, authorities] eL \\

[results] \T

$4.17.6. Search Text 42 to find an Arabic loanword related by consonantal root system to
each of the words in the following groups of words. The number in parentheses after each
group of words cites the text line location of the related word in question.
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$4.17.7. Review the following pairs of words. Discuss and guess their meanings. Then
scan Text 42 (above) to get a feel for its order and organization by underscoring its verbs.

$4.17.8. Match nouns in the right columns below with appropriate modifiers in the left
columns.
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$4.17.9. Check the word (4in each group below which does not belong with the other
words in the group.
84.17.10. Read these comprehension questions. Then read Text 42 to find the answers.
Questions are numbered according to text paragraph numbers.

54.17.1 1. Match phrases in the right column below, some of which illustrate journalistic
jargon, with their equivalents in the left.
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54.17.14. Review Section 54.17.3. Does Text 4 2 repon facts which you checked there? If
not, why not?

$4.17.15. Medical Vocabulary.

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