Expansion Activities

EXPANSION 1

Hi everyone. Use your creativity to do the following task. Search sites on  the Internet to help you with the job: information, illustration and so on. Have fun and Good job!

Active Questions
Passive Answers: affirmative or negative
WHO...? invented, planned, idealized, created, wrote, built, started, said, destroyed, explored, designed, found, first used, first thought of,  etc.... WHAT...?

YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM:
The airplane - the first Parachute – the Eiffel Tower - the first wristwatch - hamburgers – the TV set – the first computer – the Internet – Google - a cure for AIDS – Brasilia – The Brazilian Flag, etc...
Write some more information about the invention, when, where it happened and its consequences to life.
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Example:                          
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1.             1.    Who invented the airplane?
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The airplane was invented by Santos Dumont in Paris.
The first attempt to fly was made on August 21st in 1906 with no success.
But on  September 13th with his 14bis the first successful flight  finally happened.







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EXPANSION 2

 Find a videoclass on Conditional Constructions: If-clauses. Then, practice your knowledges with the following activity. Go ahead!

1.     WHAT WOULD YOU DO...?

(After watching the videoclass, read the questions below and try to answer them as sincerely as possible, if that’s the best way for you,  of course!)

a.     ...if your father , or mother, or you were the President?
b.     ...if your family lived in the poorest part of your city?
c.     ...if you could fight  violence against women?
d.     ...if you had God’s Power?
e.     ...if you were the school principal?
f.      ...if English became our second language?
g.     ...if you were me, your English teacher?
h.     ...if you were the city Mayor?

Now let’s sing with Bruno Mars. After watching the video, read the song lyrics and write  two or three lines about your impressions of the song meaning.

Student's jobs: 


Karlos: If my mother were the President, I would ask her to help everybody and principal(ly) forbide reelections and to take for (to) prison all corrupt politicians. And I think she would agree with mo too.

Laura: If my family lived in the poorest part or district, I think I would gather everybody together to fight for rights, for more jobs, for education, for a better life, etc.

Marta: If I had God’s Power, oh my God! I would create a new world without bad people and free (of) from violence, prejudice of all types, and without poverty.

Paulo: If I were the city mayor here in Palmeira, I would invest on Security, Health Care and build more Schools, and pay a better salary for the teachers.


Junior: If English became a second language in Brazil, we would be lost. It would be the end of our history. I think I would make a revolution by the Internet and we would give impeachment to the president.


Expansion One:
Passive Constructions

Activities on Passive Constructions




Who designed Brasília?
Brasilia was founded on April 21, 1960. It was planned and developed by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956. At the time Rio de Janeiro was the Brazilian Capital, but they moved to Brasilia because it is located in a more central region.
 (Ailton e Jameson – atividade 1 – English4all
      






CRITICAL PARAGRAPHS 
1. “At  that moment, Luther King Jr. was representing the voices of the world. When he said that he wanted his four little children to live free and to be treated by  their character he was and still  is the voice of milions and milions of parents and children in the world that are treated as slaves. We think that racism is a serious problem in Brazil too and the fight is no over.”  (Junior – Rose – Paulo – Sheila)


COMMENTS AND BLAHS:
Chris: I liked the phrase: “the fight is no over” because many people imagine that we don’t have more racism in Brazil because of the Laws. This is not true.
Laura: I think the same way and we need to see and treat everybody as humans.
Marta: There are many problems about civil rights but racism is a serious problem.Things are changing, I think, or I hope.


2. “The dream is not  ended because this is a problem in many parts of the world. The American leader wanted  the world  not to stop the fight. We have to face other problems too, homophobia,  violence and poverty, for example. (Chris – Carla – Ailton – Letícia)

COMMENTS AND BLAHS:

Matheus: Também acho que qualquer preconceito é só um entre os problemas que precisamos resolver.
Alisson: I think that we need a human revolution to give an end to all kinds of injustices and prejudices, but it is not easy.


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