Typical food and table manners

Reading
Read and answer the questions.
Table mannes have evolved over centuries to make the practioce of eating with others pleasant and sociable. With so many table manners to keep track, keep these basic, but oh-so-important, table manners in mind as you eat.

1. Chew with your mouth closed.
2. Keep your phone off the table and set to silent.
3. Don't use your utensils like a shovel or stab your food.
4. Don't pick your teeth at the table
5. Remember to use your napkin.

1) Why are tabe manners important?
2) What are three table manners mentioned?

Vocabulary
Write 5 verbs related to table manners

Listening
Watch the video and answer

1) What are some table manners mentioned in the video?
2) What does having a goos position helps with?

Writing
Follow the next link

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/tudor-table-manners-worksheet

Speaking
With a classmate make a play representing either a table manner or a wrong action at the table.

Mass Media & Communication

#1 Reading
Read the text and answer the questions

Types of Mass Media

The mass media has evolved significantly over time. Have you ever wondered how the latest news and information was communicated in the past? Well, before there was the Internet, television, or the radio, there was the newspaper. The newspaper was the original platform for mass media. For a long period of time, the public relied on writers and journalists for the local newspapers to provide them with the latest news in current events.

Centuries later, in the 1890s, came the invention of the radio. The radio would soon supersede the newspaper as the most pertinent source for mass media. Families would gather around the radio and listen to their favorite radio station programs to hear the latest news regarding politics, social issues, and entertainment.

Later on down the line came the invention of the television. The television would soon replace the radio for the most effective platform to reach the general public. Today, the Internet is the most relevant form of mass media and has become a major tool for news outlets. Since the evolution of the Internet, the general public is now able to access those same news outlets in an instant with just a click of a mouse, instead of having to wait for scheduled programs

1)What are three ways that mass media is communicated?

2)What was the original platform of mass media?

3)What is the most relevant form of mass media today?

#2 Vocabulary

Follow the link and make the activity

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/exercises/144.html

#3 Listening

Watch the video and answer the questions.

1) What is mass media, according to the video?

2) What are the most common forms of mass media?

#4 Writing and Speaking

Write a paragraph about what you understand with this image, and discuss it with a classmate.

Moral and values

#1 Reading
Read and answer the questions.

What are the differences between values, morals and ethics? They all provide behavioral rules, after all. It may seem like splitting hairs, but the differences can be important when persuading others.  Values Values are the rules by which we make decisions about right and wrong, should and shouldn't, good and bad. They also tell us which are more or less important, which is useful when we have to trade off meeting one value over another. Morals Morals have a greater social element to values and tend to have a very broad acceptance. Morals are far more about good and bad than other values. We thus judge others more strongly on morals than values. A person can be described as immoral, yet there is no word for them not following values.

1) What are values?

2) What is moral?

3) What is the difference between moral and values?

#2 Vocabulary

From the text above look for 5 words you don't know, write its definition. Write a sentence with each

#3 Writing

Write a paragraph giving your opinion of the next phrase.

#3 Listening 
Watch the video and answers the questions below

1) What are three things that matter in life, but are not the most important?
2) According to the video, what is a value?
3) What is the difference between a value and a feeling?

#4 Speaking
Follow the link and make the activities, discuss with a friend each option.
http://talkingtreebooks.com/docs/worksheet/character-ed-worksheet-what-is-respect.pdf

Tourism

Reading

Today, the business volume of tourism equals or even surpasses that of oil exports, ‎food products or automobiles. Tourism has become one of the major players in ‎international commerce, and represents at the same time one of the main income ‎sources for many developing countries. This growth goes hand in hand with an ‎increasing diversification and competition among destinations

1. What are the economic activities that are equal or surpassed by tourism?
2. Why is tourism important?
3. Does this affect natural resources?


Vocabulary and writing

Write a paragraph using the next words: Hotel, airport, theme park, shopping, and tourist guides.

Listening

Watch the video and write 5 key factors of tourism in the world

Speaking

Tell the class which tourist attractions you would like to visit and why



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Another activity: 
https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/lets_talk_about_tourism/questions-travel-lets/4409

Causes and effects of natural resources missused

Reading

Misuse of natural resources refers to excessive use, destructive use or achieving imbalance between resources either individually or in combination. Misuse of resources can also be direct or indirect. Direct misuse refers to such situations where the resource is directly destroyed or overused. But, many times, some resources are indirectly put to misuse. Lack of knowledge of resource and its significance leads to its misuse. Lack of knowledge about natural resource may be even with educated people or uneducated people.

1. What is misuse of natural resources? 

2. What are the types of misuse? Explain

3. What does lack of knowledge leads to?

Listening and writing

Watch the video and write a conclusion of at least 8 sentences. 

Vocabulary 

Translate the words.

Resources:

Pollution:

Ecology:

Deforestation: 

Waste:

Speaking

Based on the  image below, make a dialogue with two classmate about how one is in favor of this, one is against it and the other is a lawyer. 

Additional Activities
https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/EPA_Trash_Climate-Change.pdf

Science and Technology

#1 Reading
Read and answer the questions

In light of the importance of science and technology (S&T) in the world today, there is a need for scholarly work on its social dimensions. The Department of Science & Technology Studies is dedicated to research and teaching about scientific knowledge and technology in its social context. In their research, faculty members examine S&T both in contemporary societies and through historical investigations. The goal is to build a body of theory and empirical findings about:

• The social processes through which scientific and technical knowledge—whether packaged into texts, people, machines, images, or other forms—is created, evaluated, challenged, spread, transformed, and fitted into social relations.

• The ways people use, reconfigure, and contest scientific knowledge and technology.

• The normative issues entangled in scientific and technological developments.

• The place of science and technology in the modern world. 

1) What is the department of science & technology dedicated to?

2) What is the main goal?

#2 Vocabulary

From the text find at least 3 words you don´t know and define them.

#3 Listening and Speaking

Watch the next video and discuss with a friend. Anwer the question in the end.

#4 Writing

Write a paragraph related to the next image.

Democracy

#1 Reading Activity
Go to the following page and do the excersice
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-democracy.php

#2 Vocabulary and writing

The term Democracy comes from the Greek words dêmos (people) and Kratos (power). In its literal meaning, democracy means the "rule of the people". In fact it is a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy as a political systems existed in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.

Equality and freedom have both been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times.These principles are reflected in all citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes. For example, in a representative democracy, every vote has equal weight, no unreasonable restrictions can apply to anyone seeking to become a representative, and the freedom of its citizens is secured by legitimized rights and liberties which are generally protected by a constitution.

From the text above choose five words and difine them

#3 Listening
Whatch the next video and aswer, what are the functions of de government

#4 Speaking

Discuse with a friend the next phrase

Holidays and celebrations

When the definition of holiday is searched, most of them would say that it’s a vacation, or a day off from work or school. Finding a modern definition about remembering an event or religious activity is hard to find. When there is a holiday in school, we sometimes don’t even know why we have them. Most of the time we think its just another “teacher work day” until we have returned to school or gone on some type of social media. Over time, the meaning of holidays change for people. “A holiday to me is a free day to just chill and eat, no homework,” said junior Maria Villanueva. “Usually I don’t know why there isn’t any school but if ever a holiday concerns me then I do know, like Catholic holidays.”

#1 Speaking
Make groups of four people and make a play about your favorite holiday.

#2 Vocabulary
Write the definition. 

Christmas:

New year's eve; 

Halloween:

Hanuka: 

#3 Reading and writing
Complete the worksheet.
http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2016-08/1470953871_easter-vocabulary-0.png

#4 Listening
Write the lyrics from the song. 

Art, music and craft

#1 Reading

Alajuelan artist Gwen Barry is acclaimed for her "Movable Murals"--painted screens populated by characters from Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Rafa Fernández is heavily influenced by his many years in Spain, defined as "magic realism, where the beauty and grandness of women is explored with a sense of intimacy and suggestion." His ladies often appear in quasi-Victorian guise wearing floral hats. And Rolando Castellón, who won acclaim in the U.S. and was a director of the New York Museum of Modern Art before returning to Costa Rica in 1993, translates elements of indigenous life into 3-D art. His studio gallery in Zapote, Moyo Coyatzin, is named for the indigenous deity of creativity. And you can't travel far in Costa Rica these days without seeing examples of the works of another Escazú artist, Katya de Luisa, whose stunning photo collages are complex allegories. Katya initiated "Encounters With Art," a collaborative effort in which artists from different media contribute to a single work. Aldo Canale works with stained glass, producing what Chakris Kussalanant calls "a tendency for the organic-- large glasses full of sensuous lines and earthy colors." And a Cuban aesthetic finds its way into the works of Limonese artist Edgar León, who was influenced by travels in Cuba and Mexico.

1. What are the names of the artists in the text?

2. Why is Gwen Barry known for?

3. Which artist is known by having mexican and cuban characteristics?

#2 Listening and writing

Watch the video and write 5 important facts.

#3 Vocabulary

After you finish drawing, write the name of the animals. 
http://www.printablee.com/post_lines-of-symmetry-activities-printable_398933/

#4 Speaking
Explain to the class the instruments that the men are using and the history about them.

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Sports

#1 Reading Activity

Instructions. Read and answer the questions

Costa Rica’s Nery Brenes won the world indoor men’s 400m title on Saturday in a championship record of 45.11 seconds, setting a new championship record. Nery Antonio Brenes Cardenas (born September 25, 1985 in Limón) is one of Costa Rica’s up-and-coming athletes. At the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championship in Istambul, “Brenes improved his personal mark by approximately one second, something nobody expected on a championship, taking the gold medal”, said his personal trainer and motivator Andres Oro Fijo Calderon.

1. What was Nery's record?

2. For how much did Nery improved his record?

3. Where was the competition?

4. Name Nery's hometown.

#2 Vocabulary
Inatructions. Translate the sports in the image. 

#3 Listening and Writing
Watch the video and write a paragraph about how this video changed you.

#4 Speaking
Instructions. Make a dialogue acting like if you won a world championship and you are in an interview.

Additional Activity
Intructions. In the page scroll down and click where it says "Sports Quiz". The activity will start automatically, just follow the instructions.

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/sportQuiz.htm

Jobs and Occupations

#1 Reading
Instructions. From the image, read the text and answer the questions.

#2 Vocabulary
Instructions. Follow the next link and do the exercise.
http://esldivlabs.vcc.ca/ELSA/Instructor_Web_Exercises/Vocabulary/Jobs_2_Match.htm

#3 Listening and Writing
Instructions. Write at least 10 jobs that you hear in the song and write a sentence with each.

#4 Speaking
A job is simply working for pay. You can have many jobs in your lifetime that may or may not relate to your occupation or your career.
An occupation is a wide category of jobs with similar characteristics. With each occupation there are different jobs.
A carrer is a lifetie journet of building and making good unse of your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Instructions. After reading the information avobe, discuss with a friend what job, occupation, and career would you like to have. Mention one of each category.

Illness and Diseases

#1 Reading activity 

Instructions.  Read the following paragraph and answer the questions.

Leukemia Symptoms

Leukemia is actually a group of different cancers of the blood cells. Leukemias can be acute or chronic, and people with chronic leukemias may not notice any symptoms before the condition is diagnosed with a blood test. Acute leukemias are more likely to cause symptoms. Symptoms of all forms of leukemia are related to the proliferation of abnormal blood cells and replacement of the bone marrow by the cancerous cells.

Symptoms of leukemia include fevers, night sweats, and swollen lymph nodes that are typically not painful or tender. Fatigue, weight loss, and bone or joint pain are other potential symptoms. Easy bruising and bleeding tendencies may result in bleeding from the gums, purplish patches on the skin, or small red spots under the skin.

Questions:

1. What is Leukemia?
2. What are the two kinds of leukemia that one can have?
3. What is the difference between acute leukemias and chronic leukemias?
4. What does this type of cancer affect?
5. State 5 sypmtoms of leukemia

#2 Vocabulary Activity

Instructions. Translate and define the following words. Use the images to help yourself.

#3 Listening

Instructions. Go to the following link and follow the instructions. You do not have to do the other excercises 

http://www.esl-lab.com/sick1/sick1.htm#list

#4 Speaking

Instructions. Watch the next video and discuss it with a partner. Make sure you answer the question of the beginning.

#5 Writing

Instructions. Write a paragraph using the prompt below.