Edith Wharton is the author of this week's American Story, The Line of Least Resistance. This is a weekly multimedia series of American short stories for English language learners. Each story has video, audio, quizzes, and a lesson plan for teachers.
understand what you are reading is not skills you can apply generally but how much background and vocabulary you have relating to the topic. it is not rot memorizing but a depth of understanding in a specific area? it doesn t have to be depth. if we are talking about a background knowledge and you come across the phrase achiles heel. you don t need to know the history, you will become confused and have more trouble figuring it out and you may not be very good at make inferences. if you know a lot about baseball, you ll under a passage
latching in the hallways. look, as a courtroom observer, it seems to me that the prosecution has put on an str d extraordinarily powerful case. the thing about these charges are the prosecution doesn t just have to prove that paul manafort didn t pay his taxes and submitted false information to banks. they have to prove he willfully intended to commit crimes, to defraud the irs. while there s a lot of persuasive evidence that would allow the jury to infer that, there was no smoking gun e-mail. so you really rely on this jury to take this massive amount of documents and make inferences. sometimes jurors hold prosecution to unreasonably high standard. sometimes they interpret reasonable doubt as i should have no doubt at all. jury deliberations are about to get under way. we know that judge ellis was certainly holding the xru