LEL # 4

Grammar Practice 2



-Interest level:
This test was very interesting and very good for my English level. It wasn’t complicated and it wasn’t too easy. It helped me to work on my sentence structure which was useful and it was not too long to answer.



-Difficulty level: This test was not difficult because I was familiar with this type of grammar. It just helped me to make more attention to sentence structure.

-what you learned:
I learned how to start a sentence with: If, When, To have and etc. There were also some questions about the words that their pronunciation is the same but their meanings are different. For example: dessert and desert. I did quite well at it.

- Your score: My score was 27 out of 40. I am glad that I have less difficulty in sentence structure now.

- Rating:
I give 10 on 10 for this test. It was easy, useful and not long to answer.

LEL # 3

I did the vocabulary and spelling Practice 1


- Interest level:
This test was really interesting because there were too many words that I’ve never heard. I even didn’t know that these words exist in English language. They seemed very strange to me. There were 50 questions and it was kind of long.


-Difficulty level:
The questions were too complicated for my English level and I had to use an English dictionary. It seems that these words came from other languages. I spent a lot of time on this test.

-What you learned:
I learned a lot of new words like Adequate, Astute, Sphere and Panacea. In this test I had to find the words that have the same meanings. I learned that French and English have so many words in common. For example the word <<>> is the same in French and it has the same meaning.

-Your score: My score was 24/50 because the test was too hard for my level.

- Rating:
I give 10/10 for this test because it was very useful and it encourages me to learn more words in English.

FINAL LISTENING EXAM: Blowin’ in the Wind /50 (20%)

1.What is Percy Schmeiser’s problem? Percy doesnt like to use GM ceeds and the wind brings them into his lands./4


2.What is Roundup used for? to kill weeds and change the ceeds DNA to a better prodact./4


3.How did the chemical company invent Roundup? They made this new DNA ceeds so that they invest money with selling it to farmers to make a better product. /4

4.What has Monsanto accused Schmeiser of doing? Of stealing Monsantos DNA for his lands. /4

5.Why are the farmers pissed off? Because it is not their fault. The nature and wind transfers the DNA. /4

6.How did Monsanto initially learn about Schmeiser? Because Schmeiser was the only one who never bought Roundup prodacts and because Monsanto took a sample of Schmeiser land without permission. /4

7.Did the company respect its policy on dealing with the farmer? Yes or no. Give a reason. No they did not. Because they should not enter their properties without permission./4

8.What tactics did the company use with another farmer? They sue them and they told them that they stole their Gene ./4

9.How did another farmer, Zilinski, get Monsanto’s DNA in his crops? The nature brought their gene and Zilinski said that he cant control the nature./4

10.How did the company treat Zilinski? The company sue Zilinski/4

11.What is Schmeiser’s next step? He wants to protect his lands from GM products and he never allows them to enter his lands again. /4

12.The narrator ends the segment with this question: “But the real question is this, can Monsanto or anybody put a patent on a piece of nature?” What do you think? People can not control nature because nature does what it has to. So Monsanto could not expect farmers to not use their product. It is not their fault. /6

My Play Role

I'm an environmentalist. My name is Rachel Carson. My position is for this project.

.Biographical information (CV)

1-Your Life and history:
I was born on May 27, 1907 near Springdale, Pennsylvania. As a child, I spent many hours learning about ponds, fields, and forests from my mother, who taught me and my older brother and sister the lessons of nature-study. I was an avid reader, and, from a remarkably young age, a talented writer. I also spent a lot of time exploring around her 65-acre (260,000 m2) farm. I began writing stories (often involving animals) at age eight, and had my first story published at age eleven.

2-your Personal Job and work experiences:

I started my career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer. My first book was The Sea Around Us which was the bestseller. My other book Silent Spring inspired of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. This Agency is charged to regulate chemicals and protect human health by Water, Air and Land.


3-Your Schooling Information:
I attended Springdale's small school through tenth grade, and then went to Pennsylvania College for Women in English. After that I decided to switch major to biology and went to standing at Johns Hopkins University and continued studying in zoology and genetics.

4-Your achievements in life:
I’m a writer at the moment. I’ve never been married and have no kids. I was involved in many environmental projects.

5-Your abilities and competencies:
I’m very good at arguing and defending environmental projects. I always find good and strong reasons to defend projects. I always want the best for our planet and human’s health.

GM FOODS

1-Gm foods involve altering the appearance food. false
2-The genetic modification of food is not a new phenomenen. true
3- Technolgy exists to make plant resistant to insects. true
4-Health canada has accepted or approuved 100s of Gm foods. false
5-Some approuved gm foods include bananas and oranges. false
6-health canada has a strict process for the valuating the safety of gm foods. true
7-it takes over 10 years to approuved gm foods. false
8-Health canada uses many sciences to assess gm foods-including chemistry. true
9-gm foods can cuire Allergy. false
10-Critics of gm foods are worried about super rids. true

Pascua Lama updated

1.What happened? Barrick Gold, the largest gold company in the world, is developping this project. He plans to invest u.s$ 1.2 billion over 20 years.





2.where? Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains, south of Atacama, straddling the border between Chile and Argentina at an altitude of over 4,500 metres.








3.when ? Barrick is studing this project since 1991 for several years .





4.why?Pasca- Lama contains 17 million ounces of gold and 635 million ounces of silver.





5.how? He plans to invest u.s$ 1.2 billion over 20 years.





6.Who is involved? Barrick Gold company , Envirementalists, economists, chilian gouvernment and farmers.

BIAS

Pascua Lama Simulation p.180-181

.Bias: An opinion or point of view, It could be based on who you are or where you live or what u believe or value or what is your job.
. Bias in the media aims to persuade you that they are right:
Examples including of excluding information : by headline
: by terms (terrorist vs freedom fighters)
: where the information come from.

Summarizing

Summarizing is puttung a text in your own words in a shortened form.

.What to do first

1- Skim the text (table of contents/ Index)
2- Pick the main ideas ( LEL)
3-Find topic sentence (main idea of paragraph)


. Questions to ask your self
1. What happened? (where,when, why, how?)
2. What is involved?
3. What was the outcome/ consequence?
4. Is the essential piece of information?