PUNTA QUERANDÍ

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

1) During your visit to the Delta del Tigre, you found these signposts and this painting.
You are not sure what they refer to, so you try to make some guesses together with
your classmates.

What do you
think has
happened
here? What is this
painting
showing?
2) You are interested in these signposts so you look for some information in a newspaper and
you find the following article.
3) Some of the words in the text were not clear, so you looked up some definitions. But you
put them in a Word document and it was saved in the wrong format, so now they are all
mixed up. You try to match the words to the definitions.

● ANCESTOR ● When a group of people

march together to show that
they disagree with someone or
something.

● ARCHEOLOGIST ● Characteristics belonging

to the culture of a particular
society such as traditions,
languages or buildings and which
have historical importance.

● HERITAGE ● A person who was in

someone’s family in past times.

● ENTERPRISE ● A person who studies

buildings, graves, tools belonging
to people who lived in the past.

● BURIAL ● Something or someone

that blocks a road stopping the
traffic to show they disagree
with someone or something.

● DEMONSTRATION ● An organisation,
especially an important business,
that makes money.

● ROADBLOCK ● A grave of the remains of

bodies found in it.

4) While visiting your grandparents, you decide to tell your family about what you read in the
newspaper. You took some notes but you are not sure if they are right. You grab the
newspaper to check which of the options given is the correct one.
5) The people of Punta Querandí
are organizing a demonstration
to raise awareness about what
has happened there. You don’t
want to go alone, so you write to
a friend but your internet
connection isn’t working well,
and some words were not sent in
the message. You try to
complete it looking at the text in
task 2.

6) GW
1) Go back to the article in task 2 and complete the following statements.

If huge companies like Consultatio S.A. ………………………………………………………………………….., the destruction

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

If we and different organizations ………………………………………………………………………………………….., we

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2) Choose the correct option:

The sentences above express: ● the CAUSE and the EFFECT of something.
● the COMPARISON between two things.
● the CONTRAST between two things.

3) Identify in the following sentence which clause corresponds to the cause and which one to the effect.

If they continue building on wetlands, they will destroy our heritage, our land, and the complete ecosystem.

____________ ____________

4) Look at the sentence above and choose the correct option.

● When we want to talk about the CAUSE OF or the CONDITION for something to happen,
we start the clause with “IF” and we use the verb in PRESENT SIMPLE // PAST SIMPLE.

● When we want to talk about the EFFECT or CONSEQUENCE of something, we use the verb in
FUTURE SIMPLE//PRESENT SIMPLE.

These kinds of sentences are called conditional

sentences. ThE “if clause” introduces a condition and the
rest of the sentence its effect or consequence.
7) The people of VACHUG are holding a contest to choose the best phrases to
accompany a mural they sketched. You decide to participate with a classmate.

You can use some of the following words to complete the phrases:

defend - environment - protect - territory - destroy - damage - disappear

IF big companies_______________________________,
wetlands _______________________________________.

IF WE _________________________________________________,
we _______________________________THE ECOSYSTEM.