Unit: Valparaíso, World Site Heritage

Target population: 8th grade, primary school Naciones Unidas, Playa Ancha
Entry behavior skills: students are not very keen on English, they do not like to
work and do not have respect to the teacher.

Contents: Passive voice

Activities: reading texts, talking activities, fill in the blanks, true or false, games.
Materials: photocopies, pictures of Valparaíso.
Evaluation: group work activities, share information with the class, games.
Time: four sessions of 45 minutes

Objectives:

General:
Cog/Int, Students will be able to apply simple present structures in daily life
Oft, students will be able to respect their classmates’ opinion.

Enabling: Students will be able to:

Discriminate simple present conjugation
Share their opinions with their classmates

Contents:

Phonological: final sounds “ed”

Structural: TO BE verb conjugation / Simple present, negative, interrogative and
positive conjugation of the test/ adjectives

Cultural: Learning about Valparaiso

Functional: Describing places, customs and people
Lexical: port, boat, city, building, hills, heritage, etc
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Valparaiso World Site Heritage

World Heritage Sites represent our world's most precious natural and cultural places. The
World Heritage Sites are so special that we want to make sure that when you grow up and
have grandchildren, they will be able to see them in the same condition you can see them
today.

World Site Heritages are chosen by UNESCO. They have a ten criteria list for choosing a
place and the place has to meet at least one requisite.

Since July 2003, the Sea port of Valparaíso is also part of our world site heritage.
The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late 19th-century
urban and architectural development in Latin America. In its natural amphitheatre-
like setting, the city has well preserved its interesting early industrial infrastructures,
such as the numerous ‘elevators’ on the steep hillsides.

Justification for Inscription

There are 10 criteria for being a World Site Heritage and Valparaíso accomplish Criterion iii:
“… (iii) to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a
civilization which is living or which has disappeared…” Valparaíso is an exceptional
testimony to the early phase of globalisation in the late 19th century, when it became the
leading merchant port on the sea routes of the Pacific coast of South America.

Adapted from the web sites

http://theunitednations.suite101.com/article.cfm/unesco_world_heritage_selection_criteria#ixz
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http://www.muenkermedia.com/whp/whatAre.shtml
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Activities

1. - Answer these questions and compare the answers with your

classmates.

 What do you think world site heritage means?

 Do you know something about UNESCO?
 Do you know places that are world cultural heritage?

2. - Scan the text and underline the words that you do not know.
Look up the words in a dictionary; ask for help to your teacher if
it is necessary

3. – Do you think your city can be a world site heritage? Why? Why
not?

4. – True or False. Write a T for true and F for false. Justify all the
false sentences.

a) _____ Valparaiso is a world site heritage since July 2003.

b) _____ Valparaiso is an airport.
c) _____ Valparaiso has lots of churches
d) _____The UNESCO criterion says that a place for being world
site heritage must meet at least 1 requisite.
e) _____ UNESCO has 10 criteria requisites.
f) _____ Valparaiso accomplished two requisites for being a world
site heritage.

5. – Look up these verb forms in the text and write next to them the
complete statement that they are within.

“the city is characterized by a vernacular urban fabric”

“World Site Heritages are chosen by UNESCO”

 What do they have in common?

 Do you think you can create a rule for their use?
 Ask your teacher for help and look up in the text more verb forms

6. Look at the four pictures in A and B and answer the following questions. If
you need help ask your teacher.
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What’s the difference between them?

Do you think you can create a rule only looking at these statements?
What would be the rule?

A B

Active Voice, Passive Voice

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There are two special forms for verbs called voice:

1. Active voice 2. Passive voice
The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use most of the time. You
are probably already familiar with the active voice. In the active voice, the object receives
the action of the verb:

Subject Verb Object

Example: Sue rides a bike

In the passive voice, the object of the sentence receives the action and becomes the subject.

Subject Verb Object

Example: A bike is ridden by Sue
There are also some changes in the verb form. The structure of the passive voice is very
simple: Subject + auxiliary verb (be) + past participle
(Remember that the main verb is always in its past participle form)
Now look at the following chart above, there are some examples of passive and active
voice.

Tenses Active Passive

Simple Present This movie bores Jack Jack is bored by the movie
Simple Past The movies surprised them They were surprised by the
movie
Present Continuous I am helping Shannon Shannon is being helped by
me
Past Continuous They were cleaning the The bedroom  was being
bedroom. cleaned by them
Present Perfect I have mailed the gift. The gift has been mailed
by me.
Past Perfect Steven Spielberg had The movie had been
directed the movie. directed by Steven
Spielberg.
Will Jack will mail the gifts. The gifts will be mailed by
Jack
Going to I am going to make the The cake is going to be
cake made by me.
Can/ Can’t Mai can tell the truth. The truth can be told by
Terry can't tell the Mai.
future. The future can't be told by
Terry.
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7. Look the game above. Form groups of 3 students and throw the dice. The
student who transforms the sentence in each box into passive voice and
finishes first wins the game.

He has written a She was reading

They knew it. a book.
letter.

They did not He teaches us He has given me They had sent a

sing a song. English. his book. message.

What do you Open the door. They elected him

I kept him
want? minister.
waiting.

He will invite her She will not beat Smith buys two Who teaches you
to the party. the dog. books every English?
month.

This pot contains She has read the They are making He will have
ink. book. the finished the
arrangements. work.

They have He is telling a Someone cheated All love him.

broken the chair. story. John.

The servant will Do you know her Your I can win this
polish the shoes. brother? performance race.
surprised her.

They have He plays football She was reading Please tell him
gathered all the well. a novel. about it.
things.

Have they seen Where did you His behavior

the Taj Mahal? keep that thing? bothers me.