Homework for holy week_ READING

Read the first chapter of the book "Uncle tom's cabin" (for children). 

You can find it in the following link:

 http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/88/uncle-toms-cabin-told-to-the-children/1484/chapter-1-uncle-tom-and-little-harry-are-sold/

 

 

- Tip: you can use the following  dictionary or other of your preference.

Then  answer the following questions according to the chapter you read:

1- What is an slave?

2- What happened when cruel people bought the slaves?

3- What was one of the sadest things about slavery? 

4- Who was uncle Tom? Who was his wife?

6-Who was Mr. Shelby? Who was Haley? were they bad?

7-What was the problem between Mr.Shelby and Haley?

8-What did Little Harry and Uncle Tom had in common?

9-  What do you think is the general idea of this chapter?

10- Who is the author of the book?

 

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Rehersal work

Listening

Watch the following biographies and answer the following questions:

  Tiger Woods Min 1:38-2:48 m

Tiger Woods

What separate the great from those who are just very good?

That they will__________________________________ 

For Tiger practice is the ____ and his work ethic is legendary.

He is up at dawn and can stay _____ on the course for as long as_________ hours...

Is a never ending quest for____________. 

You never loose that passion for compete and _____ a dream, and I`m able to do that...

His father Earl said Tiger was swinging a _______club at 9 months, before he can _____.

By 3 his __________ talent was featured in the Mike Douglas ______....

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

True(t) or false(f)

He wanted whites and blacks to become equal____

He won the Nobel peace prize in 1973___

Apartheid means the separation of interracial communities___

He used the sports to bring people together___

He went through a 20 year imprisonment__

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawkins

Whose anniversary was he born?

____________________________________

How long he used to spend in school?

_____________________________________

How he amazed the science world?

_____________________________________

What is the name of his best seller?

_____________________________________

Mike  Tyson

Mike Tyson

He got arrested more than ___ times.

What did he win when he was 16 ?____________________________

What other type of problems did Mike Tyson have?________________________________

What did he do to Evander Holyfield?________________________________

Writing
Grammar Past Tense
Review:
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past tense.
Then, indicate whether the verb is regular or irregular. Finally Make affirmative, negative and interrogative sentence.
Example:
Affirmative: Mrs. Anderson forgot her husband's last birthday(regular / irregular)
Interrogative: Did Mrs. Anderson forget her husband's last birthday?
Negative:  Mrs. Anderson didn't forget her husband's last birthday

1) I (begin) _______ the new project last week. (regular / irregular)
2) You (push) _______ the cart too hard and it crashed. (regular / irregular)
3) Jim and I (move) _______ the furniture in July, 2010. (regular / irregular)
4) The pelicans (find) _______ lots of fish to eat Thursday afternoon. (regular / irregular)
5) Our teacher (send) _______ the box to Oregon a week ago. (regular / irregular)
6) Jennifer (bake) _______ a lot of cookies for that party. (regular /irregular)
7) The lion (spend) _______ the night hunting. (regular / irregular)
8) The girl (stand) _______ in the rain for five minutes. (regular / irregular)
9) Callie (act) _______ in the play last fall. (regular / irregular)
10) Steven (give) _______ a donation five years ago. (regular / irregular)
Exerciise 10
Past Tense
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past tense.
Then indicate whether the verb is regular or irregular.
Example: They (eat) ate vegetables for dinner. (regular / irregular)
Example: The hikers (fear) feared they were lost. (regular / irregular).
1) Aunt Nancy (join) _______ me for lunch last Wednesday. (regular / irregular)
2) My cousin and I (ride) ________ the train last week. (regular / irregular)
3) The guests (drink) ______ juice yesterday morning. (regular / irregular)
4) We (swim) _______ in the lake on Tuesday. (regular / irregular)
5) The lawyers (present) ________ their cases last Friday. (regular / irregular)
6) The bad weather (surprise) _______ us in July. (regular / irregular)
7) The brothers (scare) _______ the kittens away. (regular / irregular)
8) Christy (run) _______ two miles in the race. (regular / irregular)
9) Maggie (leave) _______ the party early. (regular / irregular)
10) Christopher and Wes (light) _______ the campfire. (regular / irregular)
Retrieved from http://englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Verb-Tenses.htm

Pronouns

Pronouns from jpl888

- Watch the presentation and practice with the exercises, choose the right answer and practice pronouns. 

PHONETICS, PRONUNCIATION & PAST TENSES,

 

Pronunciation watch also parts 2 and 3 of this videos

After watching the videos do the following the exercises:

Past simple of regular verbs from jpl888

VOCABULARY GAMES

http://gamestolearnenglish.com/hangman/


 http://www.arcademics.com/games/invasion/invasion.html

Basic expressions

1-What is your name?   My name is_______

2-Where are you from? I'm from__________

3-How old are you?     I am ___ years old

4- What program are you studying at the UTP?   I am studying  _______________

5- What do you like to do ? Hobbies, activities, sports, TV shows.
I like to...    __________ 

Common expressions:

What is today´s date?  Wednesday, October 7, of 2014

What do you like to do?

 I like to study, I like to read, I like to exercise.

please, thank you, what s your name?

how do you say in English _________? como se dice en ingles________?

What is the meaning of__________?   Que significa____________?

 How do you pronounce _______? Como se pronuncia___________?

I don’t know,

 may be

Ask your partner,

talk to you classmate

Listening activity

1- Watch and listen the video and complete the blank spaces (fill in the gap) Until minute 5:00.

2- search for unknown vocabulary.

3- answer the questions

1Visual Arts: The cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris completed in the _____ 1250 after a near century of construction, this magnificent gothic building is a striking reminder of the strength of the ______ in Europe, at the end of the Middle Ages in a time when the majority of Europeans endured an existence of fueled poverty the church was by far the wealthiest most powerful __________ on the continent and one can imagine the odd an ordinary person would have felt upon encountering ________ such as this in the churches; dominance of ________ also expressed itself in a world of art not only in architecture but in all the visual arts, the anonymous painters and sculptors of those days were concerned almost exclusively with religious themes, their aim was simply to use time-honored techniques to produce images that will _________ a spiritual message. The representation of reality in the ordinary temporal world was not their intention, but art and artists were about to change forever and the late mediaeval _______ would see the development of new ideas and techniques that would lead on to the glory of the 16th century high renaissance and art as we know it today. As the 13th century drew to a close the social and _______ fabric of Europe was slowly beginning to change, although most people still live as peasants on the land tied to a feudal lord, the late Middle Ages saw the tentative beginnings of a _______-class across Europe, gradually secular thinking emphasizing the importance of trade, commerce and an economy based on money began to be established, in England and northwest Europe: wool and _______ were a substantial source of new wealth while in Italy with its historical links to the east merchants, tradesmen and bankers began to play increasingly profitable trading in urban centers such as Padua, Sienna, and Florence. It was against this new secular background that the great _______ of the late medieval world would achieve their greatest results, most especially in the Tuscan Republic of Florence 150 miles north of Rome the first of the great artists to come from here was Giotto di Bondone, born near Florence around _____ little is known about Giotto's early life, like so many of artists of its time but between 1302 and 1305 we know he was working in the northern Italian town Padua painting the walls at the Cappella de la arena using a technique for to be unknown since ancient _______, along with his contemporary Cimabue, Giotto rediscovered the fresco, the method of painting with watercolors on plaster while the plaster is still wet. ‘Fresco’ paintings pops one of the most permanent wall ________ techniques defies in the medieval period but really specialized and developed in Italy, it relies on the bonding of paint with wet plast and this is true 'fresco' as distinct from just wall painting where pigment was applied to the surface of dry plaster. The paint of course will be applied by using _____ and pigment mixed together, this would go into the wet plaster and fuse with it, this gives it the terminology known as 'bono fresca', more remarkable than Giotto rediscovering of the ‘fresca’ technique, however where the images he created using it but it wasn't the subject matter that made works ______ as 'the mourning of Christ'… revolutionary. Visual depictions of events surrounding the life of Christ were commonplace but the _____________ of Biblical events that were created mainly from manuscripts were simply a means of communicating sacred themes to a mainly illiterate world, this twelfth century German manuscript illustration of 'the Annunciation' makes no attempt to represent the Virgin or the ______ as physically real figures existing in real space, the artist will simply have not been concerned with this, what was remarkable about Giotto equally religious work was that they have depth.

2- write a list of unknown vocabulary.

3-Visual arts:

1-What was the video about?
2-Which organization was the wealthiest of the middle ages?
3-What type of themes were the middle age painters more concerned with?
4-In what age did arts and artists change forever?
5-What happened in the 13th century?
6-Who was Giotto di Bondone?
7-What was ‘the fresco’?
8-Name one of the creations of Giotto?
9-What was remarkable about Giotto’s art works?
10-Name two other important artists and their famous artistic creations.

Second listening (after minute 8 from the video)

1           1-     What did Giotto’s earlier works represent?

2         2-    What is the difference between Giotto’s artistic representations and the masterpieces of later     time artists?

3-What was the problem in Giotto’s time?  When did they discover the solution?

4-Why were not Italians of the mid-1300 concerned with creating works of arts?

5- How long did the construction of Santa Maria del Fiore take?

6-What Brunelleschi had done to strengthen his engineering and artistic abilities?

7- Why was Brunelleschi one of the most important artists of its time?

8-What was Masaccio greatest achievement?  How did Masaccio achieve it?

9- Write two similarities and two differences among Masaccio’s works of arts of other artists?

10- What would become the standard textbook on perspectives for generations?