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Do you believe in ghosts?

If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone. Cultures all around the world believe in spirits that survive death to live in another realm. In fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed of paranormal phenomenon. Millions of people are interested in ghosts.

The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an ancient one, appearing in countless stories, from the Bible to "Macbeth." It even spawned a folklore genre: ghost stories. Belief in ghosts is part of a larger web of related paranormal beliefs, including near-death experience, life after death, and spirit communication.

The belief offers many people comfort — who doesn't want to believe that our beloved but deceased family members aren't looking out for us, or with us in our times of need?

ACTIVITY 1.

Watch the next video and pay particular attention to the bold structure used in this story, as well as the main three different functions of it.

ACTIVITY 2.

Exercise 1.

Read the ghost story in schoology and complete the gaps using the apropriate tense form (simple present, simple past or past continuous).

Exercise 2.

Look the highlighted words and match them with the corresponding definition.

Exercise 3.

Complete the statements using the highlighted vocabulary in the story to complete the exercise.

LINKERS AND CONNECTORS.

Connectors or linking words are extremely important because they help us organise and connect our ideas in a logical way. Therefore, they have a double role:

a) a grammatical function: connecting structures(words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs...)

b) a meaning function: explaining the relationship between the ideas (if two ideas go in the same direction, if they express a contrast, if one is cause/consequence of the other...)

ACTIVITY 3. 

After revising the video and the brief explanation about linkers and connectors, complete the quiz available in schoology with the same title.

ACTIVITY 4
Go to schoology and participate in the forum "Do you believe in ghosts?" reading again the story and giving a different ending. Write 20 to 30 words and use simple past, past continuous and connectors.

ACTIVITY 5.

• Complete the unit 8 from Workbook GATEWAY, 100% in each activity.
• For the ones who don't have workbook, send to me a message by schoology with your complete name to assign a similar activity to complement this part of your evaluation.

PAST PERFECT .

The past perfect is a verb tense which is used to show that an action took place once or many times before another point in the past.

The past perfect is formed using had + past participle. Questions are indicated by inverting the subject and had. Negatives are made with not.

ACTIVITY 6.

Download the worksheet that is in schoology and watch the video to answer it.

USED TO.

Used to + infinitive':

We use this expression to talk about habits or repeated actions in the past which we don't do in the present. We also use it to talk about states in the past which are no longer true. For example:

• I used to have long hair (but now I have short hair).

• He used to smoke (but now he doesn't smoke).

• They used to live in India (but now they live in Germany).

Watch out! With the negative and the question it's 'use' and not 'used':

• Did you use to be a teacher?
• Did he use to study French?
• She didn't use to like chocolate, but she does now.
• I didn't use to want to have a nice house.

Note! With this 'used to' there is no verb 'be'. We CAN'T say 'I am used to have long hair'.

ACTIVITY 7

Try an exercise about 'used to + infinitive' in schoology.

ACTIVITY 8

In 50 words describe how your life used to be when you were younger. Take in consideration the questions available in schoology to create your paragraph.

KEEP IN TOUCH!

WE HAVE NOT FINISHED YET.

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PASSIVE VOICE.

Passive voice is not precisely a new tense, passive voice is simply another way to express things where we put special emphasis on the object/action of the sentence. To appropiately form a passive voice we need verb to be & participle of an action verb.

• Verb to be indicates the tense.
• Past Participle action performed.

Regularly negative forms are expressed through the use of NOT. Look at the example:

EX:
a. Fire was NOT discovered by the modern man
b. Regular books are NOT read by new generations who prefer e-boks

As in any other interrogative form, the auxiliary plays an important role in questions. It MUST BE placed in first position:

EX:
c. Was penicillyn discovered in 2001?
d. Is Facebook used by millions of people?

How much do you know about inventions?

The invention of the telephone was done by a group of individuals, many different companies. However, it is believed that the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875 with the help of his friend Thomas A. Watson.

A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency while the user is moving around a telephoned serviced area. The first mobile phone was created by Martin Cooper a researcher from Motorola in 1973. And the first phonecall was made to John F Mitchel. It was until 1980’s when the first commercial mobile phones were sold. And, do you have a mobile phone?

ACTIVITY 1.                                                                             ( From April 27th to May 1st)

Go into schoology and do the quiz about inventions.

ACTIVITY 2.

Social networks are definitely the invention of our time. But what do you know about their inventors?

Start by searching for information about the inventors of Social networks. Keep in mind that the information you find has to answer these questions, at least:

a) Who invented it?
b) When was invented?
c) How did they have the idea
d) Why is it important?

Then, using the information you found about the social networks , write a text (wording 50-80 ) about one of the social networks, ONLY ONE. Don’t forget to use the present and past passive voice. If you have any question you can always check the previous sections to clarify.

ACTIVITY 3.                                                                               (Date of delivery: May 15th)
Complete the unit 10 from Workbook GATEWAY, 100% in each activity  and those who don't have Workbook do the assignation from EZONE.

 ( From May 4th to May 8th)

ACTIVITY 4. 

1.Who is your favorite actor? Who is your favorite actress?
2. What movies have you seen recently?

Read the magazine article available in schoology into the quiz "HOLLYWOOD". Pay special attention to verbs in the passive voice.

REPORTED SPEECH

Secrets, secrets… (But don’t tell anyone I told you…)

Have anyone ever told you a secret, and then you have gone to tell somebody else even you were not supposed to?

If you have not, you are an amazing person, reliable and good friend, but if your answer is yes, let me tell you that you are not the only one, the thing is: did you say the message correctly?

First of all, it is important to understand what direct speech and reported speech is.

Meeting in a bar…

Did you notice the difference between what Sandy said and what Carol reported?
When Sandy told her friend about the guy she met, immediately Carol went to tell Jessie, she reported what her friend had told her.


What is the difference between direct and reported speech? Well, let’s analyze:

Carol: Hey, have you heard the news? Sandy met a new guy.

Jessie: Really, where?

Carol: She said: “I went to a bar last night and I met the most amazing guy in the city”.

Direct speech is used when you want to repeat the exact same words the other person used. When writing direct speech, it is necessary to use quotation marks (“ ”). In this case, we understand that you are saying the exact words.

 ( From May 4th to May 8th)

Activity 1.

Practice Direct speech doing the quiz in schoology.

  (Date of delivery: May 30th)

Activity 2.

Complete the unit 9 from Workbook Gateway 100% in each activity  and those who don't have Workbook do the assignation from EZONE.

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS.

The Past Perfect Continuous is the structure you use to describe “actions that were in progress at an earlier time in the past”. In other words, an action that was in progress BEFORE another event in the past. We use this structure to emphasize the duration of the first action.

Example:Martha had been walking  three miles a day  before she broke her leg.

Affirmative:
The affirmative form is used to state that an action or event was in progress or was occurring repetitively before another action occurred. The emphasis is placed on the action in progress in the past.

Example:
He had been drinking milk out the carton before his  mom walked into the kitchen.

He                              had been                    before                      his mom walked 

Subject          +          drinking           +         connector         +      into the kitchen

                              milk out the carton                                             the stamp act. 

                               had been                                                       complement    

                                   verb- ing

                                   

Pay attention to the following questions (Q) and answers (A):

Q: Which action happened first?
A: He had been drinking milk out the carton.

Q: Which action occurred later?
A: his mom walked into the kitchen.

Consequently, if you wish to emphasize the action that occurred first, use the past perfect continuous with:
                                      
              SUBJECT                              HAD BEEN                                     VERBING

Negative:
You can also make negative sentences:

            

         SUBJECT                       HAD BEEN                                NOT                  VERBING

Example:
I hadn't been walking for a long time, when it suddenly began to rain.

Negative:

         

            HAD               SUBJECT                BEEN              VERBING    QUESTION MARK

Example:
How long had she been studying English before she went to London?

The Role of the Environment 

in Shaping Personality.

What role, if any, does the environment play in the development of human personality?

Personality often depends on particular combinations of genes that brothers and sisters don’t necessarily share, but what about the environmental influences on personality? Consider the impact of the parents and the family environment on personality. One might expect children who are raised by the same parents in the same way in the same home ought to turn out similar, but this fact isn’t necessarily the case.

It is true that environmental influences, including parenting, affect personality. Based on genetic data, researchers have concluded that environment accounts for approximately 50 to 70 percent of personality. But researchers have also found the environments that children from the same family share with each other exert a much weaker influence on their personalities than the environments that each child experiences individually.

One of the strongest pieces of evidence for the idea that the shared family environment does not cause children to be alike stems from research with adopted children. If the shared family environment made children similar to each other, then children with different biological parents who are adopted into the same family should have personalities that are more similar than two unrelated people who grew up in different homes. According to the latest research, they are not.

When researchers analyzed why identical twins were so similar psychologically, they found that the similarity was due almost entirely to genetics, not to the fact that they grew up in the same environment. The fact that sharing a particular environment growing up does not lead siblings to be similar surprises most people.

• Does a person’s environment affect their personality?
• Is personality genetic or environmental?
• What factors influence human behavior?
• What are two environmental influences on personality?

    ( From May 18th  to May 22nd)

ACTIVITY 7.
Go into schoology and solve the quiz Past Perfect Continuous vs Past Perfect.

ACTIVITY 8.

• What do you think about the influence of the environment on relationships?
• How can you explain this?

Go into schoology and express your opinion about it in the forum "The effects of friends on siblings relationships".

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