Lesson 9

UNLa, our university

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  Look at the following photographs and answer the following
questions in Spanish.
1. Do you study at those buildings?

2. How old is the University?

3. Can you mention the names of all UNLa’s buildings?

4. Do you know how many academic departments are there? And how many university studies does your
Department offer?

 Put the nine paragraph headings into the correct order in the text.

UNLa, our University

1. Additional information
Our University is a quite new public national university. It is only seventeen Facilities
years old! It is in the old railways workshops. It is located in Remedios de
Malvinas Observatory
Escalada, Lanús, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is approximately
40 minutes from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires by bus. If you go by Art, Science, Sports and Music
car, it can take you 30 minutes to get there. You can also get there by train or Academic Departments
private chartered bus.
Location
2.
Contact
You can get Associate’s, Bachelors’, Master’s and Doctor’s Degree in many
fields, for example: Audiovisual Arts, Political Science and Government, Food Buildings
Science and Technology, Nutrition, Design and Visual Communication, What can you study?
Industrial Design, Social Work, Corporate Economics, Education Management,
Nursing, Urban Environmental Management, Planning and Logistics, International Relations, Citizens Security,
Computer Information Systems, Tourism, Combined Arts, Physical Education and IT Teaching Management, among
others. In the future, more options will be offered.
Is the English exam a problem for you? Don’t miss academic tutoring classes. Or is English your favorite subject?
Then, study to become a certified translator!
Traditional learning is combined with e-learning. Online learning is offered using Moodle, the Course Management
System. Also, on-site courses are using on-line support activities.
The University also offers courses for the community: IT, languages, tango, Argentine folklore, etc.

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At present, approximately 10,000 students are studying in our University.
3.

There are four Academic Departments: Productive and Technological Development Department, Public Planning
and Policies Department, Humanities and Art Department and Community Health Department.
The Community Health Department includes: Nursing, Social Work, Nutrition and Physical Education.
4.

There is a full equipped library, a recording studio, a laboratory, a gymnasium for students and teachers. Do you
like going to the cinema? Visit the “Tita Merello” cinema near the Malvinas Heroes Square: it is free for all the
community and it shows national films.
There are three computer rooms; one of them has a smart board. The professors can write on this board and the
students can see everything on their screens simultaneously.
Are you an internet addict? Don’t worry, free WI-FI service is offered.
In the university bar, you can enjoy healthy options every day while you are watching UNLa TV.
5.

Are you interested in sports? You can play football and handball or go to the gym.
Chess courses are also available. The UNLa Chess Team is 2014 Argentine University Games champion.
In UNLa, sports, culture and solidarity are also present. Every summer, there is a summer camp for children. In
2014 Summer Program, more than 500 children from 5 to 12 attended the camp.
Are you interested in Arts and culture? Visit the permanent art gallery in the different buildings and the open
permanent exhibition in “Mills” Square.
Can you sing? Join the choir! If you are interested in Unla news, listen to UNLa Radio at 92.1,
www.radiounla.com.ar or your mobile phone with Android.
At the weekend, you can visit Abremate with your children. It is an extraordinary Interactive Center of Science and
Technology.
Finally, don’t miss the old narrow-gauge trains.
6.

Do you smoke? We are trying to have a smoke-free university, so please do not smoke in closed areas. Remember
you mustn’t smoke in closed areas, this will benefit your health and our community health. It is important to take
care of us.
Do you like nature? You can enjoy it, for instance, in spring you can enjoy the trees blooming and bird-watching.
The classes have big windows with a lot of light so energy can be saved.
A benefit for the students: the ones who travel by bus within Lanús neighborhood have a special student fee. You
must get a special ID card.
7.

It is an educational and research project initially between the University and the Committee of Families of the
casualties/dead in Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands.
Its main objectives are to develop research and teaching programs about Malvinas for the educative system and
the community, to train teachers to make pedagogical material for them and the students of all the education
system and to promote the discussion of the different dimensions of the problem.
8.

Up to now, there are eleven buildings. Each building is named after Argentine outstanding personalities in different
fields. They are: A. Jauretche, M. Ugarte, H. Manzi, L. Marechal, J. Manso, J. Hernández, O. Peña and the newest
are: M. Fernández, O. Varsavsky and L. Werthein.
9.

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 www.facebook.com/unlaoficial www.twitter.com/@unlaoficial

www.youtube.com/UNLaOk
http://www.unla.edu.ar/

Telephone and fax: 5533-5600

 Answer the following question about the passage in Spanish.

1. Where is the University? How can you get there?

2. How old is it?

3. Mention Malvinas Observatory objectives.

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4. Mention some of the activities you can perform at UNLa.

5. Does the university have a radio?

6. Is e-learning included in all the subjects?

7. Can the community enjoy the university facilities?

8. Which sports can you play?

9. Is English your favorite subject?

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 True or false? Justify the false statements in Spanish.
True False Justification

The University is located in the City of

Buenos Aires.

The cinema tickets are expensive.

Smoking is allowed in all places.

You can get there by the old narrow-gauge

train.

You must pay to get WI-FI service.

 Write a short description of the University in Spanish.

 Complete the list with three cognates from the text and translate them.
English Spanish

 Complete the list with five “key words” and translate them.
English Spanish

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 Can you complete the diagram on a separate sheet of paper with information in
Spanish?

Origin

Sports
Malvinas

Academic
Art UNLa
Departments

Studies Contact

Community

GRAMMAR IN USE
 Complete the following tables with examples from the text.

Example Functions / Uses

Tense
(in English) (in Spanish)

Simple Present

Simple Future

Present Continuous

Modal Verb

Example (in English from the text)

…ing form (as a noun)

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 Example (in English from the text)

…ing form (as a verb)

…ing form (as an

adjective)

Adverb of frequency

Comparative adjective

Connector and function

Imperative

Interrogative Pronoun

Introductory it

Noun-Noun Structure

Possessive adjective

Possessive Case

Prefix

Preposition (place)

Preposition (time)

Structure of Existence

Suffix

Superlative Adjective

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