Monday, April 11, 2011

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Food, Inc.

After watching the documentary Food, Inc. in class,

we are going to study the topic a little more in depth.



Here are some questions, you are asked to answer:



1. What is the documentary’s main topic?
2. What type of restaurant first grew rapidly?
3. How were the working conditions in the world of fast food?
4. Who controls the US food system?
5. Give an example of an important food company.
6. What type of person catches the chickens to bring them to the factories?
7. People who work for these food companies have limited freedom. Why?
8. What is a CAFO?
9. Describe the animal’s living conditions.
10. What is E. coli and what are the consequences of it?
11. How does the food industry control our diets?
12. What are the 3 tastes we look for nowadays?
13. What kind of disease can affect a bad eating habit?
14. What are the dangers of the meatpacking industry?
15. How did the American corn industry affect the Mexican industry?
16. What is the injustice exposed about undocumented workers?
17. What is a surveillance team and what does it do?
18. Why is food labeling important?

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Week 2

Exceptional people:


2. Write the events in chronological order in this article


2.1 Cleft sentences with "what"


2.2 Compound adjectives


2.3 Superlative adjectives 

Friday, March 18, 2011

Week 1

Here is the link to the class anthology.

This week we studied different grammar points and :

1.1 Phrasal verbs
         Practice an exercise with several phrasal verbs.

1.2 Writing summaries
        Watch the report and write your own summary.



1.3 Verb patterns with infinitives

1.4 Objects with infinitives and gerunds

1.5 Objects with prepositions