TASK #17: Imagine a world without ......

1. Internet.
2.TVs
3. Schools

DEADLINE: June 2  at 10.00 pm

INSTRUCTIONS: WRITE  a text speculating about a world without 1, 2 or 3 above. Explain how you see it.

Internet:

The advantage of the internet is that it has advanced more technologically, you have the immediate information when you need it, it allows you to study a distance, it facilitates learning, it increases communication, it is a form of entertainment, you can explore other countries ... 

The disadvantages of the internet are: the privacy problems of our information, not always in all pages is good information, some of them have viruses, creates addiction ...

TASK #16: About the film TROY

DEADLINE: May 14 at 10.00 pm

INSTRUCTIONS: RETELL the story from the point of view of one of the characters. MAKE SURE that you WRITE, at least, 120 words.

PARIS: He is a Trojan prince, the brother of Hector who fell in love with Helen, taking her to Troy, would have to fight with Menelaus who won with her, Paris was wounded and would have died had it not been for the help of Aphrodite that I took him to Las Walls With the excuse of fighting he goes to the Trojan plain. He is not an expert warrior, but he was a good archer, and he is very cowardly, so he flee from combat with the Sparta king. It was he who killed Achilles for having killed a brother Hector, firing an arrow with the bow.

TASK#15
TITLE: A brief history of money
DEADLINE: 01 May at  10.00 p.m

INSTRUCTIONS: FIND the information on the internet. MAKE a summary of between 100 and 120 words. THEN , .....

 

Humans have long invented trade. The work forced us to exchange what we had for other goods or services that we needed. They began to use accepted payment measures. Some were more practical than others and became habitual. The money was born.

There were many products that had economic value, that could be used as means of payment.

In century VII a.C. It was popularized as a means of payment of metal pieces that we call "coins", with drawings that identified those who made them.

Paper banknotes appeared in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century, later the bank was invented.

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TASK#14
TITLE: You've won 200.000 euros. 
DEADLINE: 24 April at  10.00 p.m

INSTRUCTIONS: WRITE  a text following the instructions below:


Paragraph 1

What would you do first?

Paragraph 2

What would you buy for yourself?

Paragraph 3

What would you buy for other people?
 Would you give any money away?

Paragraph 4

TASK#11

TITLE: Elysium task

DEADLINE: 10 March at 10.00

INSTRUCTIONS: This film shows a terrible world where 99,99999 percent of people live in very bad or even terrible conditions in a polluted and dry planet while a very rich elite live in a huge space station in perfect conditions. This is inequality at its maximum expression. 

What could be done to prevent this from happening? PLEASE, write your advice:

For those who do not have a pass for the poor, they should fight for their rights and make them understand that we are all the same, not because we have more money.

TASK #9
TITLE: A job application letter

DEADLINE: February Sunday 12 at 10.00 pm  2017

INSTRUCTIONS:  WRITE a letter of application for the job announced in exercise 3 on page 63 in the textbook.. USE  the writing guide below to help you. You can also use the letter in exercise 1 to get inspiration from.

Paragraph 1:  Why are you writing? Where did you see the advertisement?

Paragraph 2: Give information about yourself and your personality. Why are you ideal for the job?

Paragraph 3: What work experience have you got? (Just invent it)

Paragraph 4: What  are you sending with your letter?

I saw your nuncio on a web page, I'm writing to apply for the job as a sales clerk at your clothing store, on Mondays and Wednesdays.

I am fifteen years old and I am a student of the institute Ies El Palo for four years.
I would be ideal for that job because I love clothes, I am very responsible, kind and hardworking.

In the summer I help my cousin with her clothing store to place them ...
I am interested in this job because I love clothes and pay well.

With my letter I send a photo helping my cousin with his store.

TASK #6
TITLE: Tell me the truth, do the Three Kings really exist?

DEADLINE: 13 January 2017

INSTRUCTIONS: ANSWER the letter by Virginia as you think best.

Dear Mr Defensor del Lector of El País,

My name is Virginia and I am 8 years old. Some of my older friends say the Three Kings don't really exist. I asked my dad and he said to write to you about it. He said he is sure you can give me the right answer. Please, tell me the truth, do the Three king really exist

 

 The parents are the ones who put the gifts, but the Magi if there was what happens is that being three kings could not bring gifts to all children and thought that who better than the parents to put gifts and not lose the tradition.