What's up guys? Amazing! You made it through 2ºBachillerato!!! Congrats!
You may be full of uncertainties and fears about this year but there is just a good way to start, asking questions...Here are some tips if you do not want to spoil everything....
There’s nothing like a good introduction like…
”Her Excellency Mrs Loida…
I desperately need to ask you something…..”
SESSION 1:
To start with, we will revise verb tenses. You need to bear in mind two things:
a. TENSE and TIME don't mean the same.Time is a concept which is related to our perception of reality. We refer to TIME when we speak about the present, past or future. TENSE is a grammatical category which is marked by verb inflection and expresses when an event or action happens in the flow of time.
b. The ASPECT of the verb - simple, progressive, perfect or perfect continuous - is determined by whether the verb expresses a fact, an ongoing action, a completed action, or the end of an ongoing action:
Have a look at this chart. You will see the "name and surname" of each tense:
To express future you can use not only will but also the forms to be going to and present continuous. Watch the video to know when to use each of them:
If you want to know more about verb formation, please, click here
Now go to pages 8 and 9 and do the exercises.
SESSION 2:
I guess you love traveling, I do. Although, unfortunately, this is not the best moment in history to do it, but at least we can imagine how it would feel like to get around.
How do you prepare for a trip? Here you have some tips. Watch the following video. Write the tips in your notebook.
There are also some tricky words which refer to traveling that you can't confuse:
travel, trip, journey and voyage. Read this to know more.
If you think you had enough, wait and see...
SESSION 3:
Let's work on the EVAU test!
1. READ THE TEXT TWICE AND DO THE EXERCISE BELOW:
Palaeontologists have been digging in Africa´s sands in search of the missing link between humans and primates. Discovery this year of a fossil skull could be the first evidence of an enormous diversity of ape-like, human-like creatures that existed from five to ten million years ago. Perhaps, humans and chimpanzees might be the only survivors of an ancient burst of evolutionary activity.
Actually, a mere 2% of our genes separate us from from two species of chimpanzees: at some point, as human beings have made our way up the evolutionary scale, becoming taller and less hairy as we travelled, we probably separated from our closest relatives. Nevertheless, the longer scientists study the daily existence of primates, their family life and their complex societies, the more it seems obvious that we are, in fact, the third chimpanzee. This similarity has led chimp expert Dr Jane Goodall to call for human rights to be extended to chimpanzees.
In his book "What It Means To Be 98% Chimpanzee", anthropologist Jonathan Marks argues that the 2% gene difference gave humans the great leap forward of language, separating us significantly from monkeys. That seemingly small amount of genetic matter transported us from trees to urban jungle and transformed us from exhibits into zookeepers, but it does not seem to prevent us from literally killing our "cousins": development and destruction of their natural habitats, along with commercial hunting for food, have cut their numbers from two million chimpanzees at the turn of the last century to less than one-tenth of that now.
SAY IF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE. THEN, COPY THE EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT:
a. Nobody thinks that monkeys should be treated like people.
b. The population of chimpanzees has recently increased.
2. READ THE TEXT TWICE AND DO THE EXERCISE BELOW:
The British use the lounge or dining room while the French prefer the bedroom. Location is not the only difference between Britons and the rest of Europe when it comes to choosing a place to work for a company from home and not at the office.
There is more paranoia in the ranks of British homeworkers about working from home while colleagues are confined to the office, the evidence suggests. Half of the British homeworkers, according to a survey, said they e-mailed or telephoned a colleague early in the morning to prove they were working, while only 14 per cent of German homeworkers felt it necessary to check in and demonstrate they were working hard.
There are also national differences in the motivation for homeworking. The French see it as a way to a healthier lifestyle with an emphasis on more regular exercise and enjoying the benefits of home cooking at the expense of junk food. For the Spanish the interaction with the family is a principal reason for homeworking, while for the Germans it is the opportunity to increase their income. Overall, fewer British work from home than in the rest of Europe, although more would like the opportunity to do so, and less stress is seen as one of the main reasons for making the switch. The study predicts that by 2005 around 11 per cent (16 millions) of the European Union workforce will be working fom home either permanently or for part of the working day.
In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions:
a) How do the British feel about working away from home?.
b) What are the motivations of the French to work from home?.
3. READ THE TEXT TWICE AND DO THE EXERCISE BELOW:
A child's future really may be written in his hands-not in the creases of his palms but in the relative lengths of his fingers. A report just published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology suggests that people with autism have ring fingers that are abnormally long compared with their index fingers.
Children with autism have trouble interacting with other people. Both their verbal and their gesture-basedcomunication is poor, and they often have low intelligence. Early symptoms -a failure to point at things, follow the gazeof someone else, or engage in pretend paly- are often obvious by the tender age of 18 months. About one child in 500 suffers from the condition.
Two British researchers, who have studied what fingers can indicate about everything from fertility to sexual preference, have observed 72 autistic children and 23 with Asperger's syndrome, a related condition in wich the individual's intelligence is not affected. The scientists photocopied the children's hands, and carefully measured the lengths of their fingers from the copies. They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of their relatives. The researchers found that autistic children had extremely long ring fingers compared with their index fingers. Children with Asperger's also had abnormal index-to-ring finger ratios, though less so than autistics. Even the unaffected relatives of the autistic children had ratios that differed significantly from the average lengths.
Find the words in the text that mean:
a) lines:
b) the look:
c) relationship between two amounts:
d) standard:
4. Write about 100 to 150 words in the following topic:
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages you find in homeworking.
Plan before writing:
Brainstorming: anota todas las ideas que te vienen a la mente.
Introduction: "in the first place", "to begin", "firstly".
BODY : DEVELOP YOUR ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OPR AGAINST with words like but, on the other hand, however, in my opinion, on the other hand.
CONCLUSION: to sum up, to conclude, in conclusion.
FURTHER EXPRESSIONS:
The main advantage is... There are other disadvantages in connection with... I would say there are more advantages that drawbacks...
The main disadvantage is... There are other problems in connection with... I would say there are more drawbacks than advantages.
En este apartado tienes que tratar de utilizar expresiones y vocabulario variado.
SESSION 4:
Give a chance to...listening!
1. Watch the following video on millennials' choices for traveling. Then answer the questions below in your notebook:
a. How is technology directly related to traveling when it comes to millennials?
b. Why pictures posted on social networks are so important to decide where to go?
c. Which was the most visited European capital in 2016? Why?
d. How important are comments on photos?
e. How many sites do young people browse on average before setting off?
f. What is collaborative economy? Give examples.
g. How will virtual reality revolutionize the way we travel in the near future?
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