WHAT TO DO AFTER FINISHING SECNDARY SCHOOL

TASK 1 Look and the pictures. Which options do you have after leaving school? Discuss your answers in pairs.

TASK 2 Quicky read the below. Which of the three ideas below is the main odea? Underline it.

Setting Up a Small Business

TASK 3 Read the text again. Complete the table below

options study at university

advantages

disadvantages

TASK 4 Work in pairs. Student A: Read the Advantages of Running Your Own Business, then add two more advantages to the list in the table in task 3. Student B: Read the Disadvantages of Running Your Own Business, then add two more disadvantages to the list in the table in task 3.

TASK 5 Look at the underlined words in the advantages. Student B: Look at the underlined words in the disadvantages. Wthat meaning do they give to the sentences? Discuss your answers in pairs. TASK 6 In the same pairs, try to convence each other of your point of view in relation to the options for school leavers. Stundet A: Running your own business is the best option. Student B: Getting a job is the best option.

A Business Plan
TASK 1 Read A Business Plan and use the outline to morganize your thoughts about a business that you would like to start.

1 The name of the business:_______________________________________ 2 The addres:__________________________________________________ 3 The name of the owner:_________________________________________ 4 The telefhone number / e-mail:____________________________________ 5 The business goal:_____________________________________________ 6 The market:__________________________________________________ 7 The competition:_______________________________________________ 8 The manager:_________________________________________________ 9 The employees:_______________________________________________ 10 The timelines:________________________________________________

TASK 2 Read the statements. Tick ( ) the correct information.

1 Hydroponic farming is an agricutural technique. ( ) 2 it doesnt need nutrients. ( ) 3 it is used for growing products without using land. ( )

TASK 3 Listen to Hydroponic Farming. Check your answers TASK 4 Label the things you need to set up Hydroponic Farming. A wooden box Some plastic some seeds some gravel some sawdust bathtub with some soil

TASK 5 Listen to the second part of Hydroponic Farming. Put the pictures in order.

TASK 6 Work in pairs. Student A: explain the first four steps to your partner. Student B: explain the last three steps to your partner.

Working in the Health Sector

TASK 1 Tell your as many professions as you can that are related to the health sector. TASK 2 Student A: Read My Life as a Veterinarian and complete the corresponding part in the table. Stundent B: Read My Life as a Nurse and complete the corresponding part in the table.

TASK 3 In pairs, ask each other questions to fill out the rest of table.

Project Work
TASK 1 Get into groups of give. Choose what to sow. Discuss your ideas with your teacher.

TASK 2 Make a list of the materials needed. Refer to Lesson 2.

1bathtub with some soil 2_____________________ 3_____________________ 4_____________________ 5_____________________ 6_____________________

TASK 3 Follow the instructions for hydroponic farming.

1 Adapt a container
2 Build a wooden box to grow plants. 3 Cover the bottom of the container with plastic . 4 Place the substratum in the box. 5 Take out the small plants from the seedbed.

6 Feed the plants.

7 Protect your plants from insects.
TASK 4 Let us know the results of your project. Send them to: The CRADLE Project, San Gregorio y Juan de Murillo (esq.), Oficina 405, Quito Ecuador

Checking My Progress 8
TASK 1 Put a tick () in the table.
How well can you Say the options a school leaver has? Very well well A little

Say the advantages and disadvantages of staring ones own business?

Tell about some business activities?

Mention some business activities?

Mention some frequency and sequence adverbs used in this unit?

TASK 2 Imagine you are going to open a small business. Compete the plan below.

1 The name of the business: 2 The name of the owner: 3 The location: 4 The telephone number: 5 The businessgoal: 6 The market: 7 The competition: 8 The manager: 9 The employees:
TASK 3 Write the words in the correct part the table.

First

after that

next

often

finally

never

occasionally

usually

always

Sequence adverbs

Frequency adverbs

First

Often

GLOBAL WARMING
TASK 1 Look at the pictures. What do they suggest?

TASK 2 Work in pairs. Read the statements below and select the correct answer. a Global warming is the increase in temperature in the word. b Global warming is the increase of disasters in the world. TASK 3 Read Global Warming and check your answers.

TASK 4 Read Global Warming again and select true or false.

1 Measurements during the last century indicare thet temperature has increased. __true_______
2 Climate changes are consequences of global warming.__________ 3 Global warming stops polar ice-caps from melting.__________ 4 It is assumend that the worlds temperature will stop increasing.__________ 5 Natural disasters are not related to human activities.__________ 6 The greenhouse effect is produced by certain gases thrown in the atmosphere._________

Whats Global Warming?

TASK 5 Read Global Warming again and put the pictures in order.

TASK 6 Listen, mark the stress of the words and say them.

Greenhouse effect

global warming

climate

flooding

drought

TASK 7 Work in pairs. Take it in turns to explain the graphic sequence of global warming in Task 5.

Flood and Droughts

TASK 1 Read and match the sentences. 1 Gases are thrown into the atmosphere__d___ 2 The greebhouse effect ins produced_____ 3 Global warming is caused partly_____ 4 Some natural sisasters are caused_____ 5 The earths climate has beeb changed_____ (a) by increase in temperature. (b) by global warming. (c) by the greenhouse effect. (d) by men. (e) by gases trapping the sun light.

TASK 2 Work in pairs. Label the pictures with one of these words: drought or flood.

TASK 3 Read Floods and Droughts. Complete the table. Produced by Characteristics Worst in other countries Worst in Ecuador

Floods

Too much water

droughts

TASK 4 Read again. Underline the adjectives and circle the nouns they modify Task 5 Work in pairs. Can you tell where adjectives are placed in English sentences? Task 6 Work in pairs.

Student A: Look at picture 1 in Task 2 and write a description of it. Student B: Look at picture 2 in Task 2 and write a description of it Then take it in turns to decribe your picture to each other.

Picture 1: There is a lot of water..___________________________________

______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ picture 2: There are not any plants..________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________

Climate and Weather

TASK 1 Look at the pictures and label them.

Fog

clouds

rain

sunshine

hail

snow

wind

1 rain

2________ 3__________ 4__________ 5_________ 6__________ 7_________

TASK 2 Work in pairs and discuss what weather and climate are. Tell your ideas to your teacher.

TASK 3 Listen to Weather and Climate and check your anwers. TASK 4 Listen again and tick () the correct information. 1 Weather is the long term condition of the atmosphere. ( ) 2 It is possible to notice wthat the weather will be like at the beginning of the day. () 3 The state of weather tells you what cloyhes to wear. ( ) 4 Climate describes the pattern of weather occurring in a place or region. ( ) 5 Climate usually follows patterns . ( ) 6 Cliamte is predictable but weather is unpredictable. ( ) TASK 5 Work in pairs. Talk about the weather and the climate of a place in Ecuador you know.

Lets Do Our Part

TASK 1 Work in pairs and answer these questions. 1 Do you think it is possible stop global warming? 2 What can we do?

TASK 2 Listen to How Can We Help and see if your ideas math. TASK 3 Listen and complete the information.

1 Get informed a. It important that you______b as much as posible about the______c. 2 ______a electricity. Whenever we use_______b we send gases into the atmosphere. Turn off the______c, the television, and the computer when you are not using______d. 3______,a bus, and walk . You can save energy by ______b taking the bus, ______c a bike, or walking. 4______a to your family and friends about ______b change. Tell them what you know. 5 ______a trees. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, a ______b gas from the air. 6 ______a cans, bottles, plastic bags, and newspapers. When you recycle, you send less______b to the landfill and you help to save______c resources.
TASK 4 Get into groups and tell your partners about an immediate action that you plan carry out to stop global warming.

Project Work
TASK 1 Get into the same group as in Lesson 4. Choose the best idea to stop greenhouse gas emissions.

TASK 2 Make an action plan to implement the idea.

TASK 3 Prepare a poster with your plan.

TASK 4 Nominate a group member to present the plan to the class. TASK 5 As a class, choose the best plan and see if it is possible to implement it in your school or community. TASK 6 Send your results to: The CRADLE Project, San Gregorio y Juan de Murillo (esq.) Oficina 405, Quito Ecuador

Checking My Progress 9
TASK 1 Put a tick () in the table.

Very well How well can you Explain what global warming is?

Well

A little

Tell the difference between weather and climate ? Describe the relationship between global warming and some natural disasters? Express the need for a personal commitment to stop global warming?

TASK 2 Write the way global warming is produced. You may use some of the verbs in the box or your own words.

Throw

trap

keep

heats

cause

_________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ TASK 3 Mark the stressed syllables on the following woeds by underlining them.

greenhouse

effect

global warming

climate

flooding

drought

TASK 4 Match sentences. 1 Global warming is the increase of __b___ 2 Earths climate is warmer because of____ 3 The level of oceans increases because___ 4 Men cause ____ 5 Gases trap the energy from ____ (a) the greenhouse effect. (b) temperature. (c) polar ice caps melt. (d) global warming. (e) The Sun.