HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS AMÉRICAS

LANGUAGE CENTER
SEMESTER AUGUST-DECEMBER, 2019
FIRST PARTIAL PROJECT
LEVEL 5
NAME: ___________________________________________________ DATE: _______________________

ROLL NUMBER: ____________ ENGLISH GROUP: ______________

Reading 5% Listening 5% Oral 10%

READING.
Why you should listen
Daniele Quercia works in the area of social media at Yahoo! Labs in Barcelona. Before that, he was a Horizon senior researcher at
The Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. He is interested in the relationship between online and offline worlds and
his work has been focusing in the areas of data mining, computational social science, and urban informatics. His research has been
published in leading venues including ICSE, Ubicomp, ICDM, CSCW, RecSys, WSDM, and WWW, received honorable mentions from
AAAI ICWSM, and has been featured on La Repubblica, The Independent, New Scientist, Le Monde, and BBC. He spoke at TEDx
Barcelona and Falling Walls Berlin, and wrote for BBC. He was Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
where he worked on social networks in a city context, and his PhD thesis at UC London was nominated for BCS Best British PhD
dissertation in Computer Science. During his PhD, he was a Microsoft Research PhD Scholar and MBA Technology Fellow of London
Business School, and he also interned at the National Research Council in Barcelona and at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
He studied at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and University of Illinois (USA).
Underline the correct answer (1 point each).
1.- In what area Daniele Works in Yahoo! Labs?:
a) Social networks b) Social media c) none of the above
2.- Where Daniele was working before Yahoo! Labs?:
a) England b) Spain c) Mexico
3.- Where was the TEDx video of Daniele?
a) Mexico b) Spain c) Germany
4.- What was the topic of his PhD thesis?
a) social networks in a city context b) social media in Europe c) How to improve our social networks?
5.- In what Company Daniele was a Research Scholar?
a) Microsoft b) London Business School c)Italy

LISTENING.
LISTEN AND WATCH: (TED video Unit 2 part 1 and 2)
According to the video of Danielle Quercia with TEDx answer True (T) or False (F)
1.- Danielle used to work at Cambridge when he lived in Boston ______
2.- At the beginning of the talk Danielle confessed that he focused on efficiency for many years ______
3.- Danielle studied his PhD programme in Boston ______
4.- Danielle said that only a few people used mapping apps ______
5.- The “Single path” was the idea of Danielle to encourage single walks through beautiful places ______

ORAL RUBRIC. PROJECT PRESENTATION.

CATEGORY 2.5 2 1.5 0.5
All requirements are met and All requirements are One requirement was not More than one
Requirements exceeded. met. completely met. requirement was not
completely met.
Covers topic in-depth with Includes essential Includes essential Content is minimal OR
details and examples. Subject knowledge about the information about the there are several factual
Content knowledge is excellent. topic. Subject topic but there are 1-2 errors.
knowledge appears to factual errors.
be good.
Smooth and fluid speech; Smooth and fluid Speech is frequently Speech is slow, hesitant
few to no hesitations; no speech; few hesitations; hesitant with some & strained except for
attempts to search for words; a slight search for sentences left short memorized
Fluency volume is excellent. words; uncompleted; volume phrases;
inaudible word or two. very difficult to perceive
soft. continuity in speech;
inaudible.
Speaks very clearly. Very Most of the time speaks Sometimes speaks clearly. Does not speak clearly.
Pronunciation easy for the audience to clearly. Easy for the Sometimes easy for the Difficult for the
understand. audience to understand. audience to understand. audience to understand.

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