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English IV 1 Present perfect uses Eight hours

Professor: LORENA FUYA

Student’s name: _Daniela Fernanda Muñoz Lara______

1. EVALUATIVE TASK (PRODUCTION):

For this activity you will write 20 sentences in order to talk about meaningful changes in
life, it could be in relation to science, medicine, education, transport, fashion,
architecture... (you can choose the topic(s) of your preference, for example Industrial
Revolution). Remember you must explain briefly what aspect of life has improved by the
change you are writing about.

Important
 Use the structures of present perfect in order to talk about meaningful changes in life.
 Don’t forget to include punctuation marks .
 You must write 20 sentences and a brief explanation of each one.
 This is a guide for you to have a better idea of what every sentence should look like:

 Education has migrated to As the pandemic for COVID 19 has

virtual settings. spread worldwide, teachers have
used many online tools at their job.

You must submit your production activity via Moodle Platform / WhatsApp or Gmail before July
11th, 2021 at midnight.
Use the table below to organize your sentences.
 Sentences
1. Tommie Smith's Black Power at the
Mexico 68 Olympics
2. Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
3. Uprising of the EZLN in Mexico
(1994)
4. Martin Luther King in Memorial
Park, Washington (1963)
Explanation
The Black Power occurred on October 16, 1968
when Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and
bronze medals in the 200 meters, took off their
shoes, lowered their heads and raised a black-
gloved fist during the performance of the
United States anthem. Australian Peter Norman,
white and silver medalist, listened at attention
but on his tracksuit he wore the insignia of the
Olympic Project for Human Rights, the
movement to which Smith and Carlos belonged.
Obviously the controversy did not end with the
Games. Smith and Carlos, mainly, had a bad
time. They were censored, threatened and their
family life suffered. Carlos's wife ended up
committing suicide without being able to bear
the pressure. Over the years, Smith and Carlos
are today recognized and honored and
monuments are dedicated to them.
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November
1989 was a pivotal event in world history which
marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the
start of the fall of communism in Eastern and
Central Europe. The fall of the inner German
border took place shortly afterwards. An end to
the Cold War was declared at the Malta
Summit three weeks later and the German
reunification took place in October the
following year.
The term Zapatista uprising is the name for a
12-day rebellion led by the armed group
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, on
January 1, 1994 in the Mexican state of
Chiapas, which reached international diffusion
due to its demands for justice and vindication of
the rights of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
and the poor.
At the end of the March on Washington for
Labor and Freedom, which took place on
August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered
the speech known for one of its key
expressions: "I have a dream" which is to the
once an anaphoric construction in the
rhetorical-communicative organization of
discourse, the central theme of its semantic
macrostructure and the basis of its pragmatic,

5. Virginia Tech Massacre, United
States (2007)
6. Economic crisis of 1929.
7. Coup in Chile, (1973)
8. Woodstock Festival at Bethel Farm
(1969)
social and political construction.
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree
shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007,
comprising two attacks on the campus of the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United
States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate
student at the university and a U.S. resident of
South Korean descent, killed 32 people and
wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic
pistols. Six others were injured jumping out of
windows to escape Cho.
The Great Depression was the worst economic
downturn in the history of the industrialized
world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after
the stock market crash of October 1929, which
sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out
millions of investors. Over the next several
years, consumer spending and investment
dropped, causing steep declines in industrial
output and employment as failing companies
laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great
Depression reached its lowest point, some 15
million Americans were unemployed and nearly
half the country’s banks had failed.
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military
coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity
government of President Salvador Allende. On
11 September 1973, after an extended period of
social unrest and political tension between the
opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist
President, as well as economic war ordered by
U.S President Richard Nixon, a group of
military officers led by General Augusto
Pinochet seized power in a coup, ending
civilian rule.
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a hippie
congregation with rock music performed from
Friday the 15th until the early hours of Monday
August 18, 1969. It took place on a 240-acre
farm in Bethel, Sullivan County, New York
State; . Writer Elliot Tiber helped the organizers
negotiate with farmer Max Yasgur to host the
concert on that family's grounds, 40 miles
southwest of Woodstock. It was advertised as
"An Aquarius Exhibition: 3 Days of Peace and

9. Disappearance in Ayotzinapa,
Mexico (2014)
10. Assassination of the Archduke of
Austria (1914)
11. Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986)
12. Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Music" and is also known as the Woodstock
Rock Festival.
The festival has become a pivotal moment in
the history of popular music, as well as a
defining event for the generation of the
counterculture.
On September 26, 2014, the death of six people
and the forced disappearance of 43 students
from the rural normal school of Ayotzinapa, in
the state of Guerrero, led to the emergence in
Mexico of a broad movement in solidarity with
the families of the victims, whose main The
slogan is the presentation of these young people
alive.
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este,
was Archduke of Austria, Imperial Prince of
Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia
and, from 1896 until his death, heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in
Sarajevo precipitated Austria's declaration of
war against Serbia that sparked World War I.
It is considered the worst nuclear accident in
history, and together with the Fukushima I
nuclear accident in Japan in 2011, as the most
serious on the International Nuclear Accident
Scale (major accident, level 7). Likewise, it is
usually included among the great environmental
disasters of history
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise
military offensive carried out by the Imperial
Japanese Navy against the United States naval
base in Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) on the morning
of Sunday, December 7, 1941. The attack was
intended to be a preventive action aimed at
prevent the intervention of the United States
Pacific Fleet in the military actions that the
Empire of Japan was planning to carry out in
Southeast Asia against the overseas possessions
of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands
and the United States. The Japanese made this
offensive coincide with the attack on the British
Empire's possessions in Hong Kong, Malaysia
and Singapore, which were already in their
possession in mid-February 1942.
13. Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-
1976)
14. Rwanda Genocide (1994)
15. Vietnam War (1955 - 1975)
16. Independence of India (1947)
17. Arab Spring, (2010-2013)
18. Bombing of Baghdad, 2003.
Was a socio-political movement that occurred
in China from 1966 to 1976. Initiated by Mao
Zedong, then the leader of the Chinese
Communist Party, its stated goal was to
preserve Chinese communism by removing
remnants of capitalist and traditional elements
from Chinese society, and reimpose the
thinking of Mao Zedong as the dominant
ideology within the Party. The Revolution
marked Mao's return to a position of power
after the failures of the Great Leap Forward, a
period during which approximately 30 million
people died in what is known as the Great
Chinese Famine.
It was an attempted extermination of the Tutsi
population by the hegemonic Hutu government
of Rwanda between April 7 and July 15, 1994,
in which approximately 70% of Tutsis were
killed, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000.000
people were killed
It was a warlike conflict fought between 1955
and 1975 to prevent the reunification of
Vietnam under a communist government. The
Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam,
capitalist) participated in this war with the
support of the United States and other allied
nations against the local guerrillas of the
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
(Viet Cong) and the Army of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam. (North Vietnam), backed
by China and the Soviet Union, all of them
socialists
The independence of India consisted of
revolutions that began in 1857 and came to an
end under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi
between 1942 and 1947, as well as the invasion
of British India by the Indian National Army
commanded by Subbash Chandra Bose during
the Second World War.
They corresponded to a series of popular
demonstrations clamoring for, according to the
protesters, democracy and social rights
organized by the Arab population.
The Battle of Baghdad, or also Fall of Baghdad,
was a military campaign carried out between
April 3 and 12, 2003, within the framework of

19. Bombing of Syria by Russia, 2015
20. Border Spain - Morocco
the Invasion of Iraq.
Russia said it fired cruise missiles for a fourth
day against IS targets. The long-range missiles
were launched from Caspian Sea warships.
Some missiles hit IS in strategically important
Deir al-Zour, reports say.
The IS-held town in eastern Syria lies between
the IS self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa and
territory that the jihadists also control in
neighbouring Iraq.
The Morocco–Spain border consists of three
non-contiguous lines totalling 18.5 km (11.5 m)
around the Spanish territories of Ceuta (8 km),
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (75 metres) and
Melilla (10.5 km). These three exclaves form
part of Spain's plazas de soberanía, which also
includes a number of small islands off the
Moroccan coast.