INGLÉS MAESTRO ARMANDO 1° D y G
ESCUELA SECUNDARIA
“QUANAX-HUATO”
ACTIVITIES
FIRST GRADE
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D-G
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SECOND GRADE
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D
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In the following files you will find several power point presentations related to various topics depending on your grade (second or third). First, you will have to read consciously the presentations and clear all the doubts you may have with the use of a dictionary or a translator. After you go through the presentations you will have to answer the worksheet for each one of the topics.
As well, you will also find a presentation about reading techniques, you have to study and go through the presentation in order to understand the different ways you can approach reading. After, you will encounter several reading comprehension texts with their exercises to be completed.
Finally, you will have to answer the review worksheet, in which you will find different exercises about different topics covered in class.
NOTE- The exercises can be done in your notebook or in a word document.
DUE DATE (FECHA ENTREGA) 30 ABRIL 2020
Armando Coronado Martínez
Para dudas exclusivamente coronadomartinezarmando@gmail.com
For people who like sport, the American winter is a season of opportunity
Winter sports are popular in North America. In winter time, a large part of the continent is covered in snow for up to four months.
Downhill skiing in the Rocky Mountains, in Utah
Only two parts of the USA are mild or warm in winter — a) the coasts, especially Florida and southern California, and b) the southern part of the Mississippi basin.
Everywhere else it gets cold, often very cold. By the end of November, many American states are often covered in snow; and although recent winters have been less cold, sport in winter usually means snow sports, or indoor sports.
By January, many people in North America will have temperatures of -30°C; not every day, of course, but such low temperatures are not rare. In Chicago and Minneapolis, the temperature can fall below -40°.
When it is very cold, specially when there is a cold wind, few people want to go outside, unless they have to; but on sunny winter days, winter sports are popular.
In the large flat regions in the middle of North America, the most popular winter sports are snowmobiling, snow-shoeing and cross-country skiing. Ice-skating is popular too; lakes and rivers freeze, and many towns and cities have free open-air skating rinks. In many places, these are flood-lit after dark, so that people can enjoy skating in the evening.
However, for many people, real "winter sports" means downhill skiing; and in the USA, there are two principal areas for this; the Adirondack Mountains in the North East, and the Rockies in the west.
The Rockies are probably the best place in the world for skiing. North America's "continental" climate means that the snow that falls there is usually very dry, very powdery. It provides perfect skiing conditions in the most famous skiing resorts, which are mostly situated at a height of over 2000 metres.
The best resorts are in Colorado and Utah, where the air is usually beautifully clear through the winter months. In Colorado one finds America's most famous skiing resorts, Vail and Aspen, where the stars and the rich go for their winter holidays. But the great ski areas of Utah are just as good, with miles and miles of slopes.
There is one big difference between American ski resorts and most Alpine resorts in Europe: the traffic!
For most Americans, a skiing holiday means a trip by plane, as most American cities are far from the Rockies. Americans do not take long holidays, so they cannot spend several days driving to the Rockies.
The situation is different for people in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities. They can drive to ski resorts in just a few hours.
Nevertheless, American ski resorts encourage visitors to come by plane and use buses when they arrive: lots of ski resorts offer free bus services from the nearest airports; some, like Aspen, provide free buses between the hotels and the pistes.
As a result, people do not sit for hours in their cars, moving very slowly towards the slopes, and the air is not polluted.
Conditions are not going to get worse; the quality of the environment in America's mountains is a very important issue.Vocabulary guide
area: zone - basin: wide valley - everywhere else : in all other parts - flood-lit: illuminated - height: altitude - issue: question - provide: make for, offer - resort: holiday centre - skating rink: artificial lake where people can skate on ice - slope: piste - snowmobile: a snow scooter - trip: voyage, journey.
Student Worksheet
Select the factually and grammatically correct versions of each of the following statements.
1. In winter a lot of North America is covered / covering in snow while / during / for over three months.
2. On very cold days little / few / a few people are going / go / do go outside unless they are having to / must to / have to .
3. Most / Most of Americans go by / in / with plane when they go to the Rockies, and many /many of resorts provide / are providing free / cheap buses.
4 State parks are well equipped / equipping / equip for / with / of vacationers.
5 North of San Francisco, the ocean is not enough warm / warm enough / too warm
for swim / for swimming / for to swim.
6 Many state parks open / are opening / have opened / opened in 1872.
Hollywood & Superheroes
Why is Hollywood fascinated by Superheroes ?
There have been lots of movies about superheroes! Normally each superhero movie is about just one superhero : Superman, or Batman, or Spiderman, or some other fantastic hero. But in 2017 Hollywood gave us several different superheroes in the same film, Justice League, which came out in November 2017. This was exceptional ! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more... all in the same movie.
If only they were real ! As Coronavirus strikes the whole world, we could do with a few superheroes to help us get by.
Ben Affleck was Batman in the 2017 film Justice League
Not just Superman and Batman...
Superman and Batman are just two superheroes out of many. We could also include Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Robin Hood, James Bond, Zorro, Indiana Jones and a lot more. They're all more or less the same person, in different forms. Some are in the past, others in the present, others in the future.
But why does Hollywood love superheroes? Is it a question of money? Of course; but it's not only money.
People have always loved superheroes. Long before the first Hollywood movie, people loved stories about superheroes. Robin Hood has been a popular hero for over 600 years ... and there were others before him.
The first superheroes were real people. Nevertheless, the stories about them were often invented. Some of the oldest European superheroes were Charlemagne and Roland (Orlando). Mediaeval writers and singers invented exciting stories about these real men, just as Hollywood invents stories about tomorrow's superheroes.
A thousand years ago, people sometimes sat round in dark rooms in the evening, listening to the adventures of brave heroes. Today, we sit in a dark room in the evening, watching the adventures of the brave Batman. The medium is different, the technology has changed .... but the people are really the same.
Superman - perhaps the best-known of all superheroes
Hollywood doesn't actually invent many new superheroes. Superman, Judge Dredd, Batman and the others already "existed" before Hollywood discovered them. These three all come from comic magazines.
The first Batman story came out in 1939! So Batman has now been defending the people of Gotham City for over 80 years! There have been several Batman movies, with different stars including Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale. How long can it last?
Superman is even older: he dates from about 1932 (the exact year is not certain). Even Judge Dredd is a familiar figure; he first appeared in England in 1977.
Hollywood's biggest superheroes live in the future. That is not really surprising. Hollywood has fallen in love with special effects, and the future allows great spectacular special effects. Besides, people today are frightened about the future. Things do not always look good; perhaps we will need characters like Batman and Judge Dredd in 100 years' time. Perhaps we even need them today!
WORDS:
movie: film - do with: use, get some help from - long before: a long time before - nevertheless: but, yet - Charlemagne: Carlus Magnus, Charles the Great - mediaeval: from the Middle Ages - medium: means of communication - actually: in fact - last: continue - dates from: first appeared in - besides: also - look: seem, appear
Student Worksheet
Exercise:
Imagine you have been talking to Ben Affleck (who plays Batman in Justice League). Write 10 questions you wold ask Ben if you had the opportunity.
Remember to use WH questions, auxiliary verb Do and the Verb To be.
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