Final Test

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the help of technology, life is easier today than in the past. Use specific reason and examples to support your answer...

Technology is the group of tools that permit make objects and machines in order to adapt the environment and satisfy necessities. Although the development and usage of technology can have impacts in the whole environment of the human and the nature, we agree with the idea of “With the help of technology, life is easier today than in the past”. Today we can communicate with friends or family that are far, do a great surgery at the distance or simply, we can travel long distances in little time. The list of examples isn´t have end.

We know that also the usage of Technology have brought horrible disasters. Almost all of the bad events in the history are caused for the wrong technology usage. An example of that could be the wars, biological bombs, nuclear guns, etcetera. In this case, we disagree with the statement. But if we put in a balance the bad progress and the good progress we’re sure that win the good progress.

In addition, the mechanical machines have been changing for digital machines. This fact could be the reason for many layoffs, because the new machines don’t need much manpower. However, a lot of new machines help to take care of the nature producing much more.

The technology is very useful for us. Every day we need at least one thing that is involved with technology. There are many objects, for example, our watches, cars, computers, calculators, machines, cell phones, and all this objects need a little of technology. Today our lifes are easier than in the past, consequently our lifes are more sedentary, because we don´t need too much effort to do something.

The technology is very important for us and is indispensable. All the things that are around us has technology. Our life depends in great measure of the technology. Finally it is important to say that the technology is one of the best inventions than the man can do it. The technology will continue doing us our lifes easier.

Activity 6

Unit 6 Travel hassles and experiences

Step 1. Prewriting. Planning ideas with a chart.

City 1: D.F.

The angel of independence

Volcano Popocatepetl

Is in America

Polluted

City 2: Paris

Eifel Tower

River Siena

Is in Europe

Clean

Both

It is the capital of his country

Tourist city

Step 2. Writing

If I had to chose to live in D.F. or live in Paris, I would choose D.F. Both Paris and D.F. are beautiful tourist cities, but D.F. has the Volcano Popocatepetl and I love to see mountains. Paris has the Eifel tower; similarly D.F. is famous for his angel of independence.

Paris is a very clean city. In contrast D.F is very polluted. On the one hand, I want to live in Paris because is beautiful and it is in Europe. On the other hand, I prefer live in America mainly because I think that the people are more pleasant than the people who live in Europe. However D.F. is the city that I could live forever, but I don´t rule out the possibility of living in another country

Activity 2

UNIT 2 Characters counts

Writing: Descrie an experience that taught you a lesson

ERROR CORRECTION: Correct the three errors in punctuating adjective clauses.

ORIGINAL VERSION

While working at my first job, which was a clothing store, I had a co-worker who got me into a lot of trouble. She had stolen some money from the cash register and then blamed me. I insisted on my innocence, but my supervisor who did not believe me fired me that day.

Ten years later, I got an e-mail, that stunned me. It was from the woman who had gotten me fired. She was writing to tell me how sorry she was for what she had done! I now realize that the experience that cost me my job also taught me a valuable lesson. Sometimes people hurt themselves when they cheat or lie more than people they lie to or about. This incident which I had almost forgotten still troubled my former co-worker, even after all these days.

CORRECTED VERSION

While working at my first job, which was a clothing store, I had a co-worker who got me into a lot of trouble. She had stolen some money from the cash register and then blamed me. I insisted on my innocence, but my supervisor, who did not believe me, fired me that day.
Ten years later, I got an e-mail that stunned me. It was from the woman who had gotten me fired. She was writing to tell me how sorry she was for what she had done! I now realize that the experience that cost me my job also taught me a valuable lesson. Sometimes people hurt themselves when they cheat or lie more than people they lie to or about. This incident, which I had almost forgotten still troubled my former co-worker, even after all these days.

Step 1. Prewriting. Using information questions to generate ideas. Think about an incident in your life that though you a lesson. The write questions about the incident to help generate ideas.

• Who was involved?
My parents and I
• What happened?
I crash in the highway
• When did happen that event?
3 years ago
• Where did happen that event?
In the highway Cordoba-Veracruz
• Why did happen?
Because I exceed the velocity limits.
• How did happen?
A tire exploded

Step 2. Writing. On a separate sheet of paper, describe the experience that taught you a lesson, using the answers to your questions. Include details, using adjective clauses when possible.
Like 3 years ago I was driving to Veracruz in the highway and I was too fast like 160 km/h, everything was fine until that a tire exploded and I lost control of the car in which were my parents and my brother too, the accident was not as strong, we just scared and only that. Then I calmed and change the tire and we continue our trip to Veracruz, since that I drive more slow and carefully.

Step 3. Self-Check.
Did you include adjective clauses?
YES
Did you set off non-restrictive adjective clauses with commas?
NO
Were you able to add any more details, using adjective clauses?
YES

Activity 1

Unit 1 Dreams come true

Error correction: Find and correct five sentence fragments

An artist in our community

Isabel Carter is a talented portrait painter. Who is much admired in our community. Although she is quite young. She has already achieved a great deal. Her portraits, which have been exhibited in local galleries and art shows, use bold strokes of color to express character and mood. Everyone in our community is familiar with Ms. Carter’s portraits. Because many if them depict people we all know. Her vision and technique make you see a person you thought you knew remarkable. Ms. Carter has painted many beautiful portraits of people. Whom she has encountered around the world, and they are as fascinating to us as the portraits of people we know. If she can get financial support. She will study painting in Italy next year.

An artist in our community (Corrected)

Isabel Carter is a talented portrait painter who is much admired in our community. Although she is quite young, she has already achieved a great deal. Her portraits, which have been exhibited in local galleries and art shows, use bold strokes of color to express character and mood. Everyone in our community is familiar with Ms. Carter’s portraits because many of them depict people we all know. Her vision and technique make you see a person you thought you knew remarkable. Ms. Carter has painted many beautiful portraits of people whom she has encountered around the world, and they are as fascinating to us as the portraits of people we know. If she can get financial support, she will study painting in Italy next year.

Step 1 Prewriting: Clustering ideas.

Step 2 Writing.

Madonna was born on August 16th in 1958; her real name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. She is a singer-songwriter, an entertainer, a dancer, a record producer, a film producer, a film director, a fashion designer, an author, an actress and an entrepreneur. Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan; and raised in Rochester Hills. Also, she plays guitar and percussion.

She’s acted in 22 films. Although most failed critically and commercially, she earned a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1996 film Evita. Madonna is married with Ritchie, they have two sons, Rocco and David Banda, a Malawian boy whom they adopted in 2006, which caused media allegations they violated that country's adoption laws.

Finally, she has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by various sources.