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Read pages 50 and 51 of your eBook, complete the exercises individually to practice giving
opinions and discussions.
Read pages 52 and 53 of your eBook, complete the exercises. Create a word document with your
answers and report how you fulfill the checkpoint of the lesson.
Resulted:
1. Agree.
2. Disagree.
3. Agree.
4. Disagree.
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Mainly that the mother should stay at home taking care of the small children, the television is bad
for the children and after the break they would talk about the role of the father.
1.- B.
2.- A.
3.-D
4.-C.
5.-F
6.-E
7.-H
8.-G.
I think we should have our own thoughts but also respect the ideas and thoughts of others.
1. Personally.
2. Opinion.
3. Point.
4. With.
5. What.
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6. Completely.
7. Better.
8. Idea.
a) 1, 5, 7.
b) 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.
For: They can marry to woman of his life. He can have a family with her.
Against: He should work harder. Other persons will depend on him.
For: They learn how to take care of themselves. They star to know the real world, the outside.
Against: They can be in danger. They can be confused with someone else. 4. For: They star to
learn how to save money. They can afford their own stuff.
Against: they can waste the money. They can lose it.
For: The elderly people can feel the love of their families. The family can supervised by
themselves how´s their health.
For: Children can learn by themselves how to use a computer. They can look up for any
information and be more informed.
Against: They can find inappropriate content. They can be fooled by mean people.
TV host: right, the next topic is, ´Children should not have computer in their rooms´.
So, what´s your name and what do you think?
David: my name is Alan and I think that after certain age they can have a computer on their rooms,
but with a parent control.
TV host: do you agree with her?
Ariana: Yes, I agree. Besides, they need to learn about computers, it´s a part of this modern world.
TV host: what do you say to that?
Mario: well, that´s a great idea, but I think that they may be some mistakes in the parental control,
and they can go to any page.
TV host: what´s your opinion?
Ricardo: I completely agree with you. Nowadays no one is safe from the internet.
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Critical thinking means asking questions about what you see, hear or read.
2, 3, 5.
2, 1, 4, 3, 5.
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The 2, because is it very difficult to grow up without your mother, We need this love.
Yes, I have.
1. Yes, I have.
2. No, I haven’t.
3. No, I haven’t.
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I think they liked how well it expresses itself from citizens, but it has no consistency in what it
writes
My society I do not like, we have many things to improve and others that we should stop doing.
However, if I were to choose 2 things that I like about my society would be the way we support
each other.
On the other hand, I would choose education, since now I can see how we are growing in
knowledge and development.
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Talk about the 2 things that you like most in today's society
1. Silvia studies business at university. She lives with her parent´s and help them in their shop
at weekends.
2. Her sister studies at school. She likes boy bands and wants a car.
There were a very large number of entries (over 3,000), so it took long time to read them all.
However, the judges ‘task was interesting, as the young people wrote about a wide range of topics.
The standard of entries was also very high, and it was extremely difficult to choose the winners.
After so much discussion, however, the judges agreed on the top 20 entries.
The judges were impressed by Sylvia Hussein’s article, because of her modern vision and a feeling
for other people. They also liked the style of her entry, as she communicated her ideas very clearly.
However, they were not happy with her paragraph organization.
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My society is not the best or the worst, we have good and bad things like all, I think we can improve
in many things but everything depends on the citizens that belong to society and have values that
should teach us at home by example and in school with knowledge.
Conclusion:
I like to practice as in all activities but on this occasion I learned to express my opinion regarding
daily issues and be able to communicate my ideas and thoughts about them.