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Please check your e-mails! I have sent you some details about the end of the course.Check it out!!!!

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Please check your e-mails! I have sent you some details about the end of the course.Check it out!!!!

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This is your final week and it is time to finish the platform lessons and the blog activities as well. Please take this week to end the berlitz course and upload any pending activity you may have on your blog...

I will give you details about your grades and the final exam by e-mail.

MAY 14TH IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!

Best regards,
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Ivan Camilo Gonzalez G.
Centro de lenguas
ECCI Instructor Virtual

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                     ACTIVIDADES SEMANA 10

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Fecha de inicio: Mayo 02              Fecha de finalización: Mayo 10
1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 110 al No 118 (Unidad final)
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 10 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

We are now in the last couple of days before the exam so let’s practice a little bit. Open the following links and complete them. Once you have finished a link, take a screenshot of the results obtained attach them in  a Microsoft word file. Finally, upload the document to your PADLET BLOG.

Exam preparation
- Present practice

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/present_simple.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_present_continuous.htm

- WH questions (How) practice

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_How_questions.htm

- Modals practice

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_have_to.htm

-Past with verb to be

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/was_were.htm

- Past simple/past continuous practice

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/pastsimpleorcontinuous/exercise6.html

- Future practice

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_going_to.htm

http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_present_continuous_for_future.htm

Reading practice

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading_obesity.php

Listening practice

http://www.englishaula.com/en/ket-listening-part-1-exam-1-cambridge-key-english-test-exercise.html

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                             ACTIVIDADES SEMANA 9

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Fecha de inicio: Abril 25              Fecha de finalización: Mayo 01
1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 101 al No 110
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 9 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:
Third Checkpoint Week!

For this week you don’t have a consolidation activity to post on your blog. I will just ask you to take a screenshot of your records updated. In other words, take one screenshot in the section “MY PROGRAM” showing me you have satisfactorily completed units up to 110.

Note:  upload it to your blog!

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Fecha de inicio: Abril 17              Fecha de finalización: Abril 23

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 76 al No 100
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 8 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

Based on the photo please complete as many of these activities as possible during this week and tick to say they have been done. Take pictures of you while doing them and make a colash. After creating it, write about some of the activities; for example say which one was the best and the worst and why, the things you couldn’t complete and why, when was the last time you did one of those actions, give some details about them, etc.  (TYPE AT LEAST 180 WORDS)

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Fecha de inicio: Abril 3              Fecha de finalización: Abril 9

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 62 al No 75
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 7 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

Second Checkpoint Week!

This week again  you don’t have a consolidation activity to post on your blog. I will just ask you to take a screenshot of your records updated. In other words, take one screenshot in the section “MY PROGRAM” showing me you have satisfactorily completed units up to 75.

Note: - Save it in a microsoft word document and upload it here

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Fecha de inicio: Marzo 28         Fecha de finalización: Abril 2

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 51 al No 61

2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe desarrollar y enviar el  Task 6 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

SPEAKING PRACTICE
Download the attached file. Study and practice the sounds using youtube as a tool to know how to pronounce them exactly. Then record your voice pronouncing the two pages document and upload the audio to your blog.

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How to Pronounce "Sh" vs. "Ch" Sounds | English Lessons

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Like these English Lessons !!! Check out the official app http://apple.co/1QwKA29 Watch more Learn English for Beginners videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/487785-How-to-Pronounce-Sh-vs-Ch-Sounds-English-Lessons Learn how to pronounce "Sh" vs. "Ch" sounds in English in this Howcast video with ESL teacher Megan Brach. My name is Megan Brach. I've been teaching English as a second language for 4 years.

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Fecha de inicio: Marzo 21         Fecha de finalización: Marzo 26
1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 41 al No 50
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 5 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

Choose only ONE topic and write a TEXT in Microsoft word; attached it to your Padlet.     (250-280 WORDS)

-       Topic 1: Describe your favorite teacher

How is he/she?

Short introduction about him/her (age, physical description, subject,   hobbies, marital status…)

Why is he/she your favorite?

Describe how a class with him/her is

-       Topic 2: What did you do last vacation?

Where did you go?
When did you go?
Who did you go with?

Which activities did you do?

Describe the place, the weather, the food, the landscape …

-       Topic 3: What will you do next birthday?

When is your birthday?
Do you like to celebrate it or not? Why?

How do you usually celebrate it?

What is the plan for this coming birthday?

What do you expect for that day?

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Fecha de inicio: Marzo 14               Fecha de finalización: Marzo 20

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 29 al No 40
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe: Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 4 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

Checkpoint Week!

This week you don’t have a consolidation activity to post on your blog. I will just ask you to take some screenshots of your records updated. In other words, take four screenshots in the section “MY PROGRAM” showing me you have satisfactorily completed units 1 to 40.

Note: - Save them in a microsoft word document and upload it here
- This is the last chance to be up to date with the blog activities (3) until now.

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Solar Impulse 2 has completed the first round-the-world flight by a solar-powered aeroplane, after touching down in Abu Dhabi early on Tuesday.

The final leg of the feat, aimed at showcasing the potential of renewable energy, was a bumpy one, with turbulence driven by hot desert air leaving the solo pilot, Bertrand Piccard, fighting with the controls.

The plane, which has a wingspan wider than a Boeing 747 and carries more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings, began the circumnavigation in March 2015 in Abu Dhabi. It has since crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans using no fossil fuel and has spent more than 23 days in the air.

Speaking to the Guardian from the cockpit shortly before landing, Piccard said he was feeling emotional as he neared the end of the journey: "It is a very, very special moment - it has been 15 years that I am working on this goal.

"I hope people will understand that it is not just a first in the history of aviation, but also a first in the history of energy," he said.

Solar Impulse map

"All the clean technologies we use, they can be used everywhere. So we have flown 40,000km, but now it is up to other people to take it further. It is up to every person in a house to take it further, every head of state, every mayor in a city, every entrepreneur or CEO of a company.

"These technologies now can make the world much better and we have to use them, not only for the environment, but also because they are profitable and create jobs."

Solar impulse graphic

During daylight, the solar panels charged the plane's batteries, which make up a quarter of the craft's 2.3 tonne weight. The pilot also climbed to 29,000 feet during the day and glided down to 5,000 feet at night, to conserve power. The plane flies at about 30mph, although it can go faster if the sun is bright.

The plane could fly almost perpetually but the pilots cannot, due to the gruelling conditions aboard.

Bertrand alternated with André Borschberg to fly the 16 legs of the journey, spending up to five days in the unheated and unpressurised cabin, taking only short naps and with the single seat doubling up as a toilet. Borschberg flew the longest leg, 4,000 miles over the Pacific from Japan to Hawaii, smashing the record for the longest uninterrupted journey in aviation history.

But Bertrand said his biggest challenge was getting his pilot's licence in the first place: "The challenge was to come from the world of ballooning and hang gliding to the world of aeroplanes and instruments and procedures. When I initiated the project, I had no aeroplane licence so I had to work for it over six years. I did hundreds of hours to be allowed to fly a prototype aeroplane."

Piccard and Borschberg, both Swiss, are seasoned adventurers. Piccard made the first non-stop balloon flight around the world in 1999, while Borschberg, a former Swiss Air Force fighter pilot, has had brushes with death involving an avalanche and a helicopter crash.

Bertrand said the final leg from Cairo to Abu Dhabi was particularly tough, because of having to fly at high altitude to avoid the worst of the turbulence. "It is a much more demanding and exhausting flight," he said. "It is so turbulent, there were moments in the last night that I could not rest at all, I just had to fight with my flight controls."

He said his ground team had made the record-breaking flight possible: "I am alone in the plane but all the people who have worked on this project are people who are completely devoted and committed to success. I will give to each of them a big hug, because they made my dream possible."

The aim of the Solar Impulse adventure was not to develop solar-powered planes for widespread use, but to show the capabilities of renewable energy.

"I worked for 15 years to have [this] demonstration of the improvements of these technologies, so now I really want to leverage this demonstration and create a world council for clean technologies," Piccard said. "That will allow all these experts and specialists to advise the governments and big corporations on which types of technology to use to profitably fight climate change and profitably protect the environment."

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said: "Solar Impulse has flown more than 40,000 kilometers without fuel, but with an inexhaustible supply of energy and inspiration. This is a historic day for Captain Piccard and the Solar Impulse team, but it is also a historic day for humanity.

"You may be ending your around the world flight today, but the journey to a more sustainable world is just beginning. The Solar Impulse team is helping to pilot us to that future."

Solar Impulse's journey has not been without difficulties. Crosswinds in China caused weeks of delays in 2015 and overheating batteries during the Pacific crossing forced it to spend the winter inside a Hawaiian hangar. The team also overcame financial troubles in 2015 after raising €20m from sponsors.

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Solar plane makes history after completing round-the-world trip

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Solar Impulse 2 has completed the first round-the-world flight by a solar-powered aeroplane, after touching down in Abu Dhabi early on Tuesday. The final leg of the feat, aimed at showcasing the potential of renewable energy, was a bumpy one, with turbulence driven by hot desert air leaving the solo pilot, Bertrand Piccard, fighting with the controls.

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They're the Amelia Earharts of clean energy: Starting in March, Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will attempt to become the first people to circumnavigate the world in a solar-powered airplane. Their twelve-leg, 21,748-mile trip will take five months to complete, beginning and ending in Abu Dhabi, with stops in North Africa or southern Europe, and the United States. We had a few questions.

Who are these guys?

Bertrand Piccard is an aeronaut who copiloted the first nonstop trip around the world in a balloon in 1999. In 2003 he teamed up with André Borschberg, an engineer and former fighter pilot. With a crew of eighty engineers and technicians, the two devoted the next twelve years to developing one of the most innovative solar-powered machines on the planet.

Will this be their first attempt?

At traveling around the world, yes. There was an earlier prototype, Solar Impulse 1, that broke eight records, three of them when Borschberg flew it for twenty-six hours straight in the first night flight in the history of solar aviation. They're now on to Solar Impulse 2, which has greater energy density in its 1,400 pounds of lithium-ion batteries and improved 17.5-horsepower electric motors that spin the propellers with 94 percent efficiency.

Both men have trained in meditation and self-hypnosis to rapidly enter deep sleep and wake up alert

How comfortable is the plane?

Not very, especially considering that it is unpressurized and has no heat. Borschberg and Piccard will have oxygen tanks to deal with the altitude, but they'll be forced to endure temperatures that fluctuate between minus 4 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit with only small warmers for their hands and toes.

How do they sleep?

They don't, really. Since only one pilot can fit in the 106-cubic-foot cockpit at a time, he is allowed just six twenty-minute naps a day while the plane is on autopilot. Both men have trained in meditation and self-hypnosis to rapidly enter deep sleep and wake up alert.

Is there a bathroom?

The longest and most demanding leg of the trip is a five-day stretch of continuous flight over the Pacific, so it wouldn't be fair to expect the pilot to wait for a rest stop. The seat, which can recline completely for naps and physical exercise, also serves as a toilet-by removing the cushion of the seat as you might on a private plane.

If it's a solar plane, does that mean it can't fly at night?

The plane uses stored energy to fly in the dark. So as not to exhaust its reserves, Solar Impulse 2 takes advantage of gravity, gradually gliding down to an altitude of 5,000 feet at night. During the day the pilot regains a cruising altitude of 28,000 feet-where there is lower air density and drag-and can reach a top speed of eighty-six miles per hour while the batteries are recharged.

The plane uses stored energy to fly in the dark

Are they scared?

The plane has never flown in inclement weather or periods of turbulence. In case they do run into trouble, the two have been practicing parachute landings and treading water in the North Sea. "If oxygen runs low, if there's not enough energy to fly through the night, or if autopilot doesn't work, we'll end up in the water," says Borschberg.

Okay, so what's the point of all this?

Although Piccard admits that solar-powered commercial flights may never happen, "we would be able to cut the world's energy consumption in half if we replaced old technology with current technology," he says. They also hope to inspire more businesses to consider clean energy. They've already heard from companies that want to use their technology to replace satellites with cheap, unmanned aerial vehicles for transmitting telecommunication services to developing countries.

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They're the Amelia Earharts of clean energy: Starting in March, Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will attempt to become the first people to circumnavigate the world in a solar-powered airplane. Their twelve-leg, 21,748-mile trip will take five months to complete, beginning and ending in Abu Dhabi, with stops in North Africa or southern Europe, and the United States.

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Fecha de inicio: Marzo 6                Fecha de finalización: Marzo 12

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 19 al No 28
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe:  Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 3 a través de PADLET el cual describo continuación:

Let's talk about transportation!

a) Read the articles on your right side and give your personal impressions in a paragraph. (mention things you liked, things you were surprised by, things you expect for the future, general opinions about solar powered planes, etc)

b) In another paragraph talk about the following topic:
What's the safest and the most dangerous way to travel? WHY?              (Motorcycle, bicycle, wlaking, car, train, boat, plane, etc)

c) Will humans travel to the space one day? What do you think? Write in another paragraph your opinion about this question.

Note: Write at least 15 lines (5 lines each question) you can include examples, personal expiriences or anecdotes, pictures, etc.

Good luck      =)

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Create a slide describing who you are in A PARAGRAPH. Include the following information and a nice picture of you.

-       Personal information (Name, age, profession, where you live, hobbies, marital status)

-       Personal description (physically and psychologically)

-       Food you like and you disliked (Explain why)

-       Say what you did last weekend (give some details)

-       Say what you usually do on a Holiday (long weekend)

-       Say bye!

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Fecha de inicio: Febrero 27
Fecha de finalización: Marzo 5

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 10 al No 18
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe:  Desarrollar y enviar el Task 2 a traves de PADLET

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Fecha de inicio: Febrero 20
Fecha de finalización: Febrero 26

1.    Desarrollar lecciones del 1 al No 10
2.    Con base en los contenidos de ésta se debe:  Desarrollar y enviar el  Task 1 a traves de PADLET

RECORD A SHORT VIDEO TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU WERE IN THE PAST, WHAT YOU’RE STUDYING IN THE PRESENT AND HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS ( ONE MINUTE LENGHT)

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Looks it good? =)