RECORDAR EL DIA 27 DE SEPTIEMBRE ME ENTREGARAN LA PRODUCCION TEXTUAL Y DE LECTURA Y SU RESPECTIVA SUSTENTACION LOS GRADOS SEXTO, OCTAVO Y DECIMO.
EL DIA 11 DE OCTUBRE SE HARA EL EXAMEN DE LAS HABILIDADES DE ESCUCHA, DE PRODUCCION ORAL Y GRAMATICA
SEXTO, OCTAVO Y DECIMO.EL DIA 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE ME ENTREGARAN LA PRODUCCION TEXTUAL Y DE LECTURA Y SU RESPECTIVA SUSTENTACION LOS GRADOS SEPTIMO Y NOVENO.
SI NO ENTREGAN TALLER NO SE LES HARA EL EXAMEN Y PASAN AUTOMATICAMENTE A RECUPERAR EN NOVIEMBRE.
GRADE 6TH
READING SKILL CLICK http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/wish/sound.shtml
WRITING SKILL: Create a story using grammar tenses and vocabulary seen in class
STORY PLANNER: __________________
Use this form to plan a story that takes place in the country you are
studying.
SETTING
Where does this story take place? Name and describe the place where your story
happens.
CHARACTERS
Who are your characters? Write them names and write brief descriptions of each one.
CONFLICT
What is the action in the story? What gives the story a beginning, middle, and end?
CONCLUSION
How will the story end? Will it be funny, sad, or something else?
GRADE 7TH
READING SKILL CLICK http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/pencil/sound.shtml
WRITING SKILL CLICK
http://www.abcteach.com/free/members/12174.pdf
GRADE 8TH
READING SKILL CLICK http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/butterfly/sound.shtmlWRITING SKILL Write 200 words about the Carnival in the university.
GRADE 9TH
READING SKILL
THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISHBritish or American, the language is basically the same, and its global stature is backed up by
massive English-language training programmes, an international business that in textbooks, language courses,
tape cassettes, video programmes and computerized instruction — is worth hundreds of millions of pounds or
dollars to the economies of the US and the UK. The English language is now one of Britain’s most reliable
exports. In the ironic words of the novelist Malcolm Bradbury, it is an ideal British product, ‘needing no
workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used
for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ...‘ Dr Robert
Burchfield, former Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, has remarked that ‘any literate, educated
person on the face of the globe is deprived if he does not know English’.
The first level of the global sway of English is to be found in those countries, formerly British
colonies, in which English as a second language has become accepted as a fact of cultural life that cannot be
wished away. In Nigeria, it is an official language; in Zambia, it is recognized as one of the state languages;
in Singapore, it is the major language of government, the legal system and education.
QUESTIONS
1. Answer the following questions using your own words. (2 points)
a. Is the teaching of the English language worth a lot of money?
b. According to Bradbury, what is the difference between the English language and
traditional industry?
2. Are the following statements true or false? (1 point)
a. Dr. R. Burchfield is not the Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary currently.
b. Malcom Bradbury is a novelist that works at an assembly line.
3. Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to: (1
point)
a. Essentially: ____________________
b. That can be trusted: ____________________
4. Choose a, b or c in each question below. Only one choice is correct. (2 points)
1. The English Language
a. is a good source of money for UK and USA.
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b. is not a good source of money for UK and USA.
c. is a good source.
2. The English Language
a. has not been accepted in the British colonies.
b. has been accepted in the British colonies.
c. has become obsolete in the British colonies.
3. The English language is an official language
a. in Zambia and Singapore.
b. in Nigeria.
c. in Nigeria and Zambia.
4. Dr. Robert Burchfield
a. is not a novelist.
b. works for the OED.
c. worked for the OED.
WRITING SKILL
Composition (100-150 words) Is the English language big business? (4 points GRADE 1OTH
SPACE
"It scares me," said Jack Hills, an astronomer at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid 1.6 km wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 48,000km in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question."
An actual collision? With an asteroid of that size? It sounded like the stuff of science fiction and grade-B movies. But front-page stories and TV newscasts around the world soon made clear that the possibility of a direct hit and a global catastrophe well within the lifetime of most people on Earth today was all too real.
Then suddenly, the danger was gone. Barely a day later, new data and new calculations showed that the asteroid, dubbed 1997 XF11, presented no threat at all. It would miss Earth by 1 million Km - closer than any previously observed asteroid of that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth.
XF11 was discovered last Dec. 6 by astronomer Jim Scotti, a member of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch group, which scans the skies for undiscovered comets and asteroids. Using a 77-year-old telescope equipped with an electronic camera, he had recorded three sets of images. The digitized images, fed into a computer programmed to look for objects moving against the background of fixed stars, revealed an asteroid that Scotti, in an e-mail to Marsden, described as standing out "like a sore thumb."
QUESTIONS
1. Read each definition below and choose the word from the list that matches the definition. (2 points)
| Newly | Chance | Actual | Front-page | Data | Comfortable | Scans |
| | Important or sensational. |
| | Looks at closely, scrutinizes. |
| | Facts or figures from which conclusions can be inferred, information. |
| | The possibility of an occurrence. |
| | True or real. |
2. Answer the following questions according to the text. Try to use your own words (2 points).
a. Why was Jack Hills worried?
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b. After additional analysis, how close to Earth will the asteroid come?
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c. What is the name of the asteroid?
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d. How was the asteroid discovered?
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3. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning of the original (1.5 points).
a. �The chance of an actual collision is small,� Marsden reported.
| Marsden reported that |
b. Then suddenly, the danger was gone. Barely a day later, new data and new calculations showed that the asteroid presented no threat at all.
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c. XF11 was discovered last December 6 by astronomer Jim Scotti.
| Astronomer Jim Scotti |
4. According to the text below, provide the appropriate form of the verb in parentheses (1.5 points).
Much more recently, in 1908, an asteroid or a chunk of a comet less than 60m across (1. rocket) ____________________ into the atmosphere and (2. explode) ____________________ about 8km above the unpopulated Tunguska region of Siberia. The blast, estimated at tens of megatons, (3. devastate) ____________________ an area of hundreds of square km, knocking down trees, starting fires and killing reindeer. If it (4. occur) ____________________ over a large city, hundreds of thousands (5. die) ____________________.
WRITING SKILL
Composition (400 words). Do you think there is life on other planets?
