jueves, 4 de diciembre de 2014

Unit 2 Lesson 12

7.-Complete the sentences with an appropriate form of the words in the box.

a) The populations of the world is growing. Will we be able to grow enough food?
b) One reason GM crops are controversial is that we do not know what the health risks may be.
c) Scientists want to recreate the wooly mammoth.
d)Is it ethical  to clone a human being?
f) Genetic enginnering is a new discilpline


8.-Complete these sentences with the verbs in parentheses in the correct tense

a) When he sometimes  uses (use) the internet to find information?
b) When  did scientists  clone the first animal ? (clone)
c) The woolly mammoth not existed  (not exist) for thousands of years now.
d) Will we be able to (be able to ) stop people from getting old in the future.?
e) Will scientists are do (do) enough research about the effects of GM crops?

Unit 2 Lesson 11

5a.-Number the sentences in the correct order to make a paragraph.

1.-The Oresund Bridgein is more than 7,600 meters long in total and over 200 meters tall , and it opened in
4.-60,000 travelers by car , bus, and train per day. Crossing the Oresund Bridge isn´t
3.-82,000 tonnes. It has one of the longest cable-stayed spans in the world at 490 meters. It carries
2.-2000 to connect Denmark and Sweden. The entire bridge weighs
6.-a frequent traveler. The bridge cost $3.8 billion to build.
5.-cheap. It costs $53 to go one way in a car , but you can get good discounts if you are

The Oresund Bridgein is more than 7,600 meters long in total and over 200 meters tall , and it opened in 2000 to connect Denmark and Sweden. The entire bridge weighs 82,000 tonnes. It has one of the longest cable-stayed spans in the world at 490 meters. It carries 60,000 travelers by car , bus, and train per day. Crossing the Oresund Bridge isn´t cheap. It costs $53 to go one way in a car , but you can get good discounts if you are a frequent traveler. The bridge cost $3.8 billion to build.

 


5b.-Complete the next with the words in the box

The Bosphorus Bride in
  Turkey is not the longest or largest  

bridge in the world , but it is famous because it separates two 

continents , Europe and Asia. Workers  completed the bridge 

in 1973. It has a main span of 1,073 meters and clearance of 64 

meters. In 2005, american tennis   star Venus Williams played 

a five-minutes tennis game on the bridge with turkish player Ipek 

Senoglu. It was the first tennis match ever to be played across  two continents.




6.-Read the texts in Exercise 5a and 5b again. Circle these sentences T(True) or F (False) .(Lesson 11)

a)The Oresund bridge connects two countries                               True
b)If you frequently travel over the bridge , the price is cheaper       True
c)The Oresund Bridge is only for cars and buses.                          False
d)The Bosphorus Bridge connects two countries                           False
e)It has a sports stadium on it.                                                       False
f)The Bosphorus Bridge is longer than the Oresund Bridge             False

miércoles, 3 de diciembre de 2014

Unit 2 Lesson 10

3.-Put the words in parentheses into the correc form to complete the sentences.
 

Do you play a musical instrument?(music)
a.-I´m bored. I want to do something new and exciting .(excite)
b.-You can lose a lot of weight by Powerbocking.(weigh)
c.-I think this is a dangerous sport.(danger)
d.-The Rubik´s cube was a great invention .(invent)
e.-This is a wonderful way of getting excercise.(wonder)
f.-What equipment do you need to play that sport? (equip)

 

4.-Identify the error in each sentences.Write the sentences correctly.

a) I like listen to jazz.

 I like to listen jazz.
b)He love to go PowerBocking on Sundays. 

He loves to go PowerBocking on Sundays.
c)We don´t like to work out in the gym.We prefer going runing.  

We don´t like to work out in the gym.We prefer going to run
d)I hate to playing game like Rubik´s cube and TouchCube.
I hate to play game like Rubik´s cube and TouchCube

Unit 2 Lesson 9

1.-Solve the clues to complete to puzzle. What is 1 down? 

1) He doesn´t want to continue studying. He wants to get ajob.
2) She has all the qualities you need to in businees.
3) He has stall a in the market selling T-shirts.
4)My store has a wonderful location .It´s across from the subway station , so a lot of people walk past.
5)I want to borrow money from my parents , but they don´t want to borrow me any!
6)We want to make some money by selling cakes.
7)I don´t have any long-term objective . I just think about tomorrow.
8)I am a regular customer at the ice cream store. I love ice cream!
Number 1 down is  nothing


2.-Complete the sentences with the correct form of an appropriate verb from the box.

a) She has become a lot of money selling tacos in the market.
b) Have you ever eaten ham flavored ice cream?
c) Blackberries have made very popular recently.
d) Has he decided where to open his businees yet?
e) They have started working in a supermarket and they like it a lot.
f) We have bought a new computer for our business

Unit 2 Lesson 8


7.-Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjectives in the box 

A: Which is the highest mountain in the world ? Mount Everest.
B: Which was the most violent volcanic eruption in the last 300 years? Krakatoa.
C: What is the rainiest place on the planet ? Mount Waialeale , Hawaii(It rains 350 days a year on average.) D: Is the  Pacific deeper than the Atlantic? Yes. At t one point it´s 10,911 meters deep.
E: Is Bill Gates wealthier than Carlos Slim ? I don´t know who has more , but they are both millionaires.
F: Are dogs more popular than cats as pets in the US ? Yes , they are. More people have dogs than cats. 
G: Lin Enhai from China makes the world´s the thinnestnoodles.
His noodles  are thinner that a human a hair ! A pasta record!
H: How much does the world´s the fattest cat weigh ? 40.8 kilos. 

8.-Write four questions to ask your clasmmates next class.(You must know the answers!)

WHO IS GOING TO EAT?
WHO WILL APPROVE ENGLISH?
WHO STUDY FOR THE TEST?

WHO IS THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM? 


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martes, 2 de diciembre de 2014

Unit 2 Lesson 7

5.-Put the words in thecorrect order to make sentences.


a) were / doing / What / you / six o´ clock / at / night / last / ?
What were you doing last night at six o´clock
b) watching / They / television / were / got / I / home / when / .
They were watching when I got home.
c) when / She / hurricane / was / hit / sleeping / town  / the / the / .
She was sleeping when the hurrican hit the town.
d) they / evacuating / Were / the leaves / city the broke when / ?
 
Were they evacuating the city when broke the levees.

6.-Complete the conversation with the verbs in parentheses in the correct past tense.  

A: What were you doing when the hurricane hit the coast of Southern Florida?
B: I was flying (fly)  National Hurricane Center aircraft.My team of meteorologists and I was collecting (collect) data about the storm.
A: What time was the hurricane making (made) landfall?
B: At about 6:00 a.m 
A: How fast was the storm moving (move) ?
B: Not very fast but the winds blown (blow) violently. It was the worst storm I´ve ever seen.
When we realizing (realize) the city was flooding , we knew(know) it was a terrible disaster


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Unit 2 Lesson 6

3.-Complete each sentence with an appropriate word.


a) A deaf person is a person who cannot hear.
b) A blind person is a person who cannot see.
c) The eardrum is our organ of hearing.
d)Our organ of sight is the eye.   
e)When you are short-sighted you need to wear  glasses to see in the distance.
f)You can have a little operation to correct your vision.



4.-Put the verbs in parentheses into the correct tense to complete the next.


In 1967 , a South African doctor , Christiaan Barnard, performed the first human to human heart transplant. He and his surgical team  took the heart of a 25-years-old woman killed in a car accident and put in the body of a 55-year-old man.The patient survived for 18 days. Over the next 10-15 years doctors made important medical advances, but many hear transplant patients  died . Nowadays , the operation have  a good success rate. Doctors   doapproximately 3,500 heart transplants a year , and at the moment researchers  work to perfect a mechanical heart. And what of the future? Technology will improve all the time.  we  will be able to perform bran transplants one day?