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Tarea: Grammar

Task Information: Present Simple

1. Watch the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0kTGL6Flzg

• Stop it
• write questions
• evaluate what topics are related
• repeat the video as many as possible
• Don't worry if you understand a few (learning is a process)
• take at least 20 minutes

2. Use the details and examples in the text to explain or infer meaning https://www.curso-ingles.com/aprender/cursos/nivel-basico/verb-tenses-present/present-simple

3. Complete the exercises to check out your progress 

Cuestionario:

Advantages of Being Bilingual

Goal:

• Recognizes what is being pointed at
• Produces the correct word/phrase
• Go beyond familiar vocabulary learnt in class
• Summarize the main ideas

Salma Hayek & Berbez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4596GUdlSnU

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Tarea:

Writing Practice

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/pre-intermediate-a2-writing/email-explaining-problem

Foro:

speaking Practice: Controversial opinions

1. In your opinion, which are the best festivities in Colombia?
2. What annoys you about the air-force announcement - reported in Medellin?
3. What battle did Simon Bolivar troops win in Colombia on August 7, 1819?
4. Who is the renowned Colombian Watercolorist and painter famous for expressing liberal, transgressive and rebellious' opinions, far away the conservative moral with naked female figures in her work?
5. The biggest Pre-colombian gold artefacts known as 'Tumbaga' by Quimbaya, Calima and Muisca civilisations are located in___________?

Option 1: https://vocaroo.com/

Option 2: mobile phone.audio recorder

Tarea:

Flower Fair / Festival

• Place: Medellín, Antioquia
• Region: Andes
• Date: August 1 - 10, every year
• Duration: 10 days

Flower Fair / Festival

In August, when Medellín - known as the "city of eternal spring" - blooms in all its splendor and balconies, terraces, gardens, and billboards get flooded with flowers, it is the beginning of the famous fair.

This feast of flowers takes place in early August and lasts ten days. It offers visitors and residents over 140 cultural, traditional, and modern events, the following among them: a horse fair, an orchestra festival, the national trova festival (singers in duels of improvised verses), an old and classic cars parade, a dog walk, musical and cultural platforms, the festival of remembrance and folk songs, a contest of talented women, the chiva carnival (a chiva is the typical open-sided bus built on a truck chassis), and the national championship of noise on wheels.

The flower fair is one of the cultural episodes in Colombia with a high degree of reaffirmation of identity and an event that brings together antioqueñosand thousands of visitors in search of flowers, enjoyment, music, and fun.

The Silleteros: more than a tradition

Undoubtedly, the most representative event of the fair is the Desfile de Silleteros (silleteros parade). Silleteros is the term used for the farmers who make beautiful flower arrangements on a silleta (a chair-like contraption for carrying flowers on a person's back). This parade is recognized as a cultural heritage of Colombia.

The silletas are made from wood and have a back plate and two handles for hanging the silleta on a person's back. They were used in colonial times to carry people on the mountains of Antioquia.The most emblematic figure of this tradition is the legendary Family Londoño , strong and modest silleteros who carried children, products and flowers on their back. They have a tremendous and the fastest way for carrying flowers from the farm to the city. The term silletero began to be applied to the people who sold flowers on Medellín's cobble-stoned streets.

Every year, men women, and children proudly carry on their backs a depiction in flowers of their life histories, land, and culture. This parade is eagerly awaited by foreign and national tourists who join this lovely tradition by chanting "Cuando pasan los silleteros, es Antioquia la que pasa" (When the silleteros go by, it's Antioquia going by.)

Cuestionario:

Amazing Structure Comprehension Questionaire

The brain's neurons use the spinal cord like a ________________

highway

pathway

map which shows the locations of different parts of the body

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 2

As used in this reading, the words "useless stuffing" refer to ________________

unimportant material

unused or new neurons inside the brain

unimportant lobes on the surface of the cerebral cortex

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 3

A mouse brain is ________________ .

about twice as strong as the world's best supercomputer

about as strong as the world'd best supercomputer

about half as strong as the world's best supercomputer

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 4

The cerebral cortex consists of ________________ .

four parts called neurons

useless stuffing

four parts called lobes

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 5

The top of the cerebral cortex ________________ .

processes sounds that people hear

processes things that people touch

processes images from our eyes

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 6

Adult humans have ________________ connections between neurons.

700 million

125 trillion

100 billion

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 7

Do you Know What the main idea of the third paragraph is?

People used to think the brain was not important.

The cerebral cortex, which has four parts, makes us intelligent.

The cerebral cortex has three parts.

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 8

What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

The brain's neurons send and receive information throughout the body faster than any computer.

The brain has 100 million cells called neurons.

People are born with most of the neurons they have when they become adults.

10 Pts. Única Respuesta 9

People who injure the side lobe of the cerebral cortex ________________ .

may have trouble remembering things

may not be able to feel happiness or sadness as well as other people

are usually not very intelligent

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Practice Online

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/pre-intermediate-a2-reading/study-skills-tips

Practical Resources III

Choose a topic to learn and practise common grammar points ( at least 1 per day)

- Strategy: Note-taking

- Write down your commments for next class

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1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZAklerD988

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2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjxWSLGXo8

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3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLuNOWXw96c

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4- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o24tpCah7Q4

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Cuestionario:

Having Homework In Colombia

Today, kids find that the amount of homework they get keeps them from playing sports, taking music lessons or just having fun after school. A recent study by the some of the biggest consulting companies worldwide ( Deloitte - PwC- KPMG ) reports that over the past 16 years, the amount of time the average 3 to 11 year old kid spends on homework has increased by 50 percent. More and more parents are protesting against so much homework. "The question is whether schools are holding our children captives with homework, said María Fernanda Campo Saavedra, during the launch of the Education Policy for Prosperity (Minister of National Education She realized one day last year that his sixth-grade son had given up music lessons, the football team and his favourite hobby because she was loaded down with homework. "I'm home reading the paper and relaxing and this kid who left in the morning is doing two to three hours of work," remembered María. In response, some Colombian TV stations including Canal RCN, Caracol TV, NTN 24 Tele Noticias 24, Cable noticias, Señal Colombia and many more shown how parents responded favourably to the evaluation of having task during holy-week, but a particular school principal refused to change their homework policies. Maria explained that, from the school's point of view, "Research confirms that doing homework is better than not doing homework." The Minister added that pressure for students to perform well on standardized tests has led schools to pile on at-home assignments. All work and no play can make boring kids. "Kids need to play outside and exercise or take art or music classes if they want to," said Maria Fernanda Campo. "At the very least, they need fresh air".

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25. The purpose of the writer is:

A. To show the advantage of doing more homework.

B. To explain why kids need to do more homework .

C. To show why kids shouldn't do more homework.

10 Pts. Descriptiva 2

26. Justify the following statements (Critical Thinking)

A. Kids nowadays have less and less free time.

B. The Minister did not react to the kids' problem.

C. The parents of other kids don't agree with Maria Fernanda's opinion.

10 Pts. Descriptiva 3

27. Answer and explain the following questions

A. Is The Minister for or against giving more homework to kids?

B. What does "this kid" in paragraph 2 refer to?

C. Why did the school refuse to give less homework to children?