Before you read skim the e-mail below and answer these questions

a) What is the purpose of this e-mail?

b) Can you identify some of the phrases people use when they write e-mails of complaint?

Read this e-mail. Underline the phrases used to express complaint.

After you read the e-mail, write down notes and answer these questions:

a) Do any of the complaints about young people sound familiar to you? Explain your point of you.

b) Have your parents or grandparents ever told you something like that? Why?

3) Is the man right in any of his complaints? Explain your thought.

Realiza la lectura de las 2 historias y luego tradúcelas al español.

ALISON HARGREAVES

She was born in Scotland in 1962. She started climbing mountains before she was 20. In the summer of 1993 she climbed six montains in the Alps, an amazing accomplishment.

In may 1995, she climbed Mount Everest alone and without extraoxygen. In August 1995 she and a group of climbers tried to climb K2, a montain in Pakistan. A few days after they reached the summit, a group of Spanish climbers found her body.

Seven climbers died that night because of the strong winds. She was 33 and she was married with two children.

DIAN FOSSEY

She was born in California in 1932. In 1967 she went to Rwanda to study mountain gorillas She called her favourite gorilla Digit. A few years later, hunters killed Digit.

She established the Digit Fund and dedicated her life to saving the gorillas. In 1980 she started writing her book Gorillas in the Mist. After she finished the book, she returned to Rwanda.

In December 1985 somebody killed her in her cabin in the mountains Her death is still unsolved. But her life's work was not wasted and mountain gorillas are now protected by the government of Rwanda.

SEPARACIÓN DE PALABRAS AL FINAL DE UNA LÍNEA

En este artículo te explicaré en palabras sencillas cómo debes separar las palabras en Inglés al final de una línea.

1) Para dividir palabras al final de una línea, no podemos dividir sílabas que son partes fundamentales de una palabra; es decir, no podemos dividir letras que claramente están agrupadas juntas. Por ejemplos:

Error = plan -  ted

Correcto =   plant  -  ed

2)  No es posible dividir una palabra que contenga una sola sílaba: Por ejemplos:

Error = fe -lt

Error= plac - ed

3) Es posible separar todos los prefijos y sufijos. Por ejemplos:

Correcto = real - ly 

Correcto = play - ing

Correcto= pre - cede

4) Si la ultima letra de una palabra se duplica antes de un sufijo, esa letra adicional continua en la siguiente linea. Ejemplos

Correcto = bid - ding

Correcto= stop - ping

5) Si algunas otras divisiones no están claramente indicadas, deberemos colocar una consonante que se encuentra entre dos vocales con la primera vocal y que esta sea corta. Si la primera vocal es larga, se deberá colocar la consonante con la segunda vocal. Ejemplos:

mod - el

mo -tor

pit -y

pi - rate

sat - in

la - ter

EJERCICIOS DE PRÁCTICA

Separa en sílabas las siguientes palabras:

1. begging
2. benefit
3. police
4. policy
5. player
6. pitiful
7. feeling
8. excitable
9. lovable
10. prefer
11. preferred
12. worship
13. worshipped
14. asled
15. shield
16. employee
17. owner
18. occurence
19. metal
20. meter
21. photography
22. century
23. hopeful

Lee y responde las preguntas. Para una mejor comprensión puedes practicar la traducción del texto completo.

RIGHTS IN BRITAIN

• In Britain, the age of majority is eighteen and you are then legally an adult. At this age, the law says that you can take all the decisions that affect your life. For example, you can vote in elections.

• Education is compulsory from the age of five to the age of sixteen. However, many young people choose to stay at school until they are eighteen.

• Young people can get married at the age of sixteen, with their parents' permission. At eighteen, you can marry without anyone else's permissions.

• In England and Wales, ten-year-olds are responsible for any crimes they commit. In Scotland the age is eight.  Children do not go to adult prisons but stay in special centres for young people.

• Young people cannot drink alcohol in a pub, work or in a bar until they are eighteen. Sixteen-year- old who are working in supermarkets cannot sell alcohol. If someone buys a bottle of wine, a supervisor comes to help them. You can drink alcohol at home from the age of five.

• You can ride a moped when you are sixteen. You can have a full driving licence from the age of seventeen when you have passed the driving test.

• Young people cannot work until the age of thirteen, and nobody under sixteen can work for more than two hours on a school day. When you are sixteen, you can leave school and work full-time.

Responder las siguientes preguntas del texto

1) Is it right for parents to smack their children sometimes?

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2) Should smacking children be illegal?

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3) Are these rights the same in your country?

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4) At what age can you:

a) vote?

b) leave school?

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c) get married?

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d) drink alcohol?

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e) ride a moped?

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f) drive a car?

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EJERCICIOS

Completar los espacios con was /were  o  wasn't  / weren't.

1) Where ...........you last night? I rang you but nobody ........... in

2) ....Pedro and Maria at the picnic?

3) He .........so tired last nigjt that he slept twelve hours.

4) There ..........a serious accident on the motorway yesterdar.

5) I ........very ill yesterday, but my mother and sister ...........

Where were you yesterday at ...?

Observa las horas y escribe oraciones como en el ejercicio 1)

1) 05:00

I was in bed at five o'clock

2) 08:50

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3) 12:20

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4) 14:15

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5) 18:45

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6) 21:50

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