IDIOMA EXTRANJERO BACHILLERATO

COLEGIO “El Espíritu Santo”
Teacher: Delmy Ruth Flores 10th. “A”/”B”
August 8th. 2011

Instructions: Work on the following exercises and present them in your notebook

Grammar Exercise 1
Complete the following paragraph with the next words. PLACE THEM IN EACH NUMBER.
These are the words to choose from:
arrived was got started took went had was late angry
A Terrible Day
Yesterday (1) a terrible day. I (2) to a barbeque at a friend's place. I (3)
the bus to Fairfield but the bus was an hour (4) . Because I (5) late, everyone had already started eating. So, there (6) no food left. I was very (7)
On the way home, the bus (8) a flat tyre. Then I had to walk home but it (9) to rain. I (10) very wet. I had a terrible day yesterday.

Reading Exercises
Sara went shopping
Sara Smith, a Pasadena resident, went shopping. She is 30, and has lived at 3037 N. Foothill Street since 1992. Sara has been married to John for seven years. They have two children; Bob is five years old and Nancy is three. Sara owns a 1995 four-door blue Toyola. At 9 a.m., Sara got into her car and drove to Barget, a department store a mile away.
Barget was having a holiday sale. Sara bought a four-slice toaster for $29.95 plus tax. The regular price was $39.95. She paid by check. On her way home, Sara stopped at MilkPlus to buy a gallon of nonfat milk. The milk was $3.50. Sara got 50 cents back in change.
Sara arrived home at 10 a.m. John and the kids were still sleeping. She woke them up and then made a hot and nutritious breakfast for everyone.
Exercise 1
Instructions: Answer the following yes/no questions with the correct form of "be" or "do".
1. Did Sara go shopping?
2. Is Sara 50 years old?
3. Does she have children?
4. Does Sara have a new car?
5. Was Barget having a holiday sale?
6. Did she buy the toaster at the regular price?
7. Did she buy eggs on her way home?
8. Was her husband still sleeping when she arrived home?
9. Did she make breakfast for her family?
10. Was the breakfast nutritious?
Exercise 2
Instructions: Give a complete answer.
1. How old is Sara?
2. Who is Sara married to?
3. How many children do Sara and John have?
4. What kind of car does Sara have?
5. When did she go to Barget?
6. What is Barget?
7. How did she pay for the toaster?
8. What did she buy on her way home?
9. What was the price of the milk?
10. What did she do when she found that kids were still sleeping?

COLEGIO “El Espíritu Santo”
Teacher: Delmy Ruth Flores 11th. “A”/”B”
August 8th. 2011

Instructions: Read the article and work on the following exercises and present them in your notebook
Pulling Out Nine Tons of Trash
A work crew consisting of 150 volunteers worked for eight hours in a light drizzle on Saturday to clean Carson Creek of almost nine tons of debris. “A job well done,” smiled Alan Specter, the director of the event. “We’re scheduled to come back here one more time, three years from now. Of course, we hope that there won’t be nine tons of garbage next time.”
The garbage came in all shapes, sizes, and colors: cans, bottles, bicycles, car tires, auto batteries, sofas, furniture, clothing, shopping carts, bowling balls, plastic bags, dolls, baby carriages, TV antennas, and portable radios. There was even a golf bag with a full set of golf clubs.
Much of the backbreaking work was done by two community groups—the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, and two environmental groups—Save the Bay and Watch the Whales. Concerned retirees and volunteers from police and fire departments assisted. Everyone was issued boots, gloves, and rain gear. The work occurred along a two-mile stretch of streambed. The debris was hauled roadside, where trucks lined up to take the trash to the landfill. More than 500 big yellow trash bags were filled.
No one found anything of great value, although a five-year-old boy found an earring that he thought might be worth a million dollars because it was so shiny. He said he would sell it. Then he would donate half of the proceeds to Watch the Whales, and use the other half to buy a triple-scoop ice cream cone every day for the rest of his life.
Exercise 1
Instructions: Answer the following yes/no questions.
1. Did the work crew get paid?
2. Were there more than 149 people in the work crew?
3. Was it raining on Saturday?
4. Was it a light rain?
5. Did the volunteers work all day?
6. Did the volunteers remove 18,000 pounds of garbage?
7. Will the work crew come back next year?
8. Is the work crew scheduled to come back three more times?
9. Does the event director want to see nine tons of debris again?
10. Did they find couches in the creek?
Exercise 2
Instructions: Answer the questions. Give long answers
1. What was the weather like?
2. How long did the volunteers work?
3. What were the volunteers cleaning up?
4. Which day did the volunteers work?
5. How much debris did the volunteers collect?
6. What was the name of the creek that the volunteers cleaned up?
7. How many times will the volunteers come back to the creek?
8. Who was Alan Specter?
9. What did the golf bag contain?
10. Did they find couches in the creek?







COLEGIO “El Espíritu Santo”
Teacher: Delmy Ruth Flores 10th. Technician
August 8th. 2011

Instructions: Read the article and work on the following exercises and present them in your notebook
Jimmy Fixes His Door
Jimmy lives on the second floor of a six-unit apartment building. His front door has two locks -- a security deadbolt, and a regular door handle lock. The front door also has a peephole -- a tiny piece of glass through which Jimmy can look out his door at about eye-level to "preview" who is knocking on his door or ringing his doorbell.
The peephole is a security device, but Jimmy never uses it. When someone knocks, he just opens the door. First of all, he lives in a safe neighborhood, so security is not really a problem. Second, people rarely knock on Jimmy's door, so he is always eager to greet a visitor.
Before you can knock on the front door, you have to push the button on the black screen door to open the screen door. The screen door has an inside lock on it, but the lock has not worked since the screen door was installed more than two years ago. This has bothered Jimmy from day one. Today, Jimmy finally decided to do something about the lock on the screen door. It was a nice, warm sunny day. Jimmy was in his shorts -- no flip-flops, no shirt.
The lock was part of the screen door pushbutton handle. The outside and inside handles were held together with just two screws. Jimmy got a flathead screwdriver and loosened both screws. He kept adjusting the screws, and pushing on the outside button. Eventually he adjusted the screws enough to where the lever stayed in the locked position when he pushed on the outside button. Finally, he had made the right adjustment.
But now he needed to put a spacer on the inside handle to maintain that adjustment. He found a piece of plastic that was just the right thickness. He inserted the plastic between the handle and the doorframe itself, and then he tightened the two screws. Bingo! It worked perfectly. He could push on the outside button with all his might, and the lever would remain locked. Jimmy grinned. The screen door finally worked properly!
Jimmy had fixed a two-year-old problem in less than an hour. He was ecstatic. He returned the screwdriver to the toolbox, thinking “I'm a genius.”

Exercise 1
Instructions: answer the following questions.
1. Does Jimmy live on the sixth floor?
2. Does Jimmy live in a small apartment building?
3. Are there two locks on Jimmy’s front door?
4. Can Jimmy look through a peephole in his back door?
5. Does Jimmy use the peephole regularly?
6. Is there a lot of crime in Jimmy's neighborhood?
7. Is the peephole about four feet above the floor?
8. Does the screen door have its own lock?
9. Was it a warm, overcast day?
10. Did Jimmy fix the lock on the screen door?
Exercise 2
Write a 10 words vocabulary list from your interest.
Example:
1. peephole: -- a tiny piece of glass through which someone can look out his/her door at about eye-level to "preview" who is knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell.