Calendario verifiche orali Inglese

giovedi 7/05  AHAMAD                                     
                   HU
                   MARGINI                                      non sono permessi cambi, malattie finte
                   PAVANI

Martedi 12/05 GERMI
                    GORSCOVA
                    MARTORIELLO
                    SOMMA                    (in questo girone sono concessi tre moduli orari)

Giovedì 14/05 GLUSHENCO
                    MELLONI
                    PAPUSOI
                    SALVARANI      (denominato anche il girone di ferro)

Martedì 19/05 CAMPO
                    CASALI
                    CROCOLI
                    ROJAS
La Romanini è in stand-by perchè fin che non chiarisce la storia della sua Laurea presa senza la licenza media...

• political structure of the UK,

• Monarchy

•  Parliament

• Government

•  political parties (text book, photocopies)

• Banking services, e-banking

• methods of payment, (letter of order: quando lo faremo).

Buon lavoro a tutti

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WATER: A BASIC RIGHT-esercitazione III prova

WATER: A BASIC RIGHT

Two thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by water, but only 2,5% of this is fresh water. In many countries in the world there isn't enough water and the situation is going to get worse. It is believed that climate change will lead to more droughts and cause a 20% increase in water scarcity, especially in the Middle East, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and at the same time the world's population will increase. Some people think that, in the future, water will be so precious that there will be water wars. Yet today there is enough water in the world for home, farms and factories.
The basic problem is the unequal distribution and bad management of water: basically the rich have enough, while the poor do not. According to the World Health Organisation, all people should have a minimum of 20 litres of water a day; in Europe people use 200 litres and in the USA 400 litres. But at present 1,1 billion people in the developing countries do not have enough water. What is really shocking is that water is sometimes more expensive for poor people: for example, those living in slums in Indonesia or Kenya pay more for water than people in London or New York. This is because their house are not connected to water networks, so they have to buy water from vendors.
Yet there are ways of solving the problem: creating more effective irrigation systems; reducing water pollution; promoting international collaboration to distribute water more fairly. Some countries such as Colombia, Morocco and Uganda have adopted innovative strategies and have achieved improvement in access to water. But not enough is being done. To quote the UNESCO Human Development Report 2006: “Like hunger, deprivation in access to water is a silent crisis experienced by the poor and tolerated by those with resources, the technology and the political power to end it.”


Answer the following question with your own words as far as possible.


1. Why could there be water wars in the future? (Max 8 lines)

2. Why do poor people sometimes pay a lot for water? ( Max 6 lines)

3. How could the situation be improved? (Max 8 lines)

Use and @buse of the Internet- esercitazione III prova

Use and @buse of the Internet


Since the early 1990s the Internet has changed our lives significantly because it has proved to be the fastest and cheapest way to communicate with over 900 million people in more than 100 countries all over the world, find and share information and images of all types selected from an online database. By the beginning of the new century it has become the printing press of the technology era. Whether in homes, business, schools, computers are potentially more powerful than ever because they can be linked to virtually any source of stored information through modems converting data, like photos and text into electronic signs and as many as 10 million World Wide Web pages appear on the home computer screen.
Now people produce and consume in a single networked global system and increasingly have access to the same movies, home videos, data, music, ideas, goods and, unfortunately, pornographic material as well, in particular information on child- prostitution networks. With the intrenet the pornography appears instantly: in a short time you have the photos you want; moreover, pedophiles can exchange names and addresses freely, taking advantage of the absence of specific laws on the matter. Cyberspace is a popular passage for this kind of materials because it is difficult to detect. Internet usage will certainly grow every year: the Internet will be even more central to everything we are doing. Soon there will be more Net-enabled phones, TV sets and cars, but punishment for abusers and protection for vulnerable categories like children will have to be enforced even sooner.


Answer the following questions with your own words as far as possible.


1. How has the Internet changed our lives? (Max 8 lines)

2. Why are computers more powerful than before? (Max 6 lines)

3. How is there an abuse of the Internet? (Max 6 lines)

BBC learn english

Vi indico il link della BBC da cui la nostra Gentilissima Prof. estrae spesso idee e verifiche: esistono in questo portale, oltre che alle news divise per zona geografica, anche una serie di registrazioni audio per potere migliorare la pronuncia ed una sezione business.
Il vocabolario online è nel frame di sininstra ed inoltre si possono scaricare le lezione e gli articoli in formato pdf o mp3 (ma non per tutti).
E' questa una risorsa notevole per chi vorrà fare del proprio diploma un punto di partenza.
Buon uso a tutti.
Link alla BBC learn ENGLISH

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Vrifica di inglese

Il 26 ci sarà una verifica di inglese circa la comprensione del brano che ci darà.
Ci saranno tre domande cui noi dovremmo sapere rispondere con vocaboli nuovi.

E' titolo preferenziale il non fare "copia ed incolla".

L'argomento sarà "Globalisation".
Portare foglio protocollo e lasciare a casa il dizionario.

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PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE and PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS with FOR and SINCE

Present perfect continuous: have/has + been + verb in -ing I have been palying tennis for two hours

Look at these questions:

How long have you been studying Spanish?
How long have you known Lisa?
How long have you been working in this company?
How long has he had this computer?


Present Perfect Continuous is used to express an activity which began in the past and continues to the present

Ex: We have been waiting here for hours
It has been raining for days!

Sometimes there is little or no difference in meaning between the Present Perfect Simple and Preset Perfect continuous

EX: How long have you worked here?
How long have you been working here?

Verbs that have the idea of a long time (or with dymanic meaning, or action verbs) : for example work, learn, travel, play, wait, study,ecc. These verbs can be found in the Present perfect continuous
Verbs that don't have the idea of a long time (or with stative meaning): find, start, stop, buy, lose, break. These verbs cannot be found int the Present perfect continuous
Verbs that express a state are not found in the PPC: like, love, hate, know, have (possession), want, believe, understand, hear, feel,


1.Put the verbs in the Present perfect continuous

1.We ........................................(live) here since last summer
2.How long ..............................he (play) the guitar?
3.What ......................................you (do) since 2.00 p.m.?
4.The children ....................................(sleep) for three hours
5.Tom ...............................................(paint) his room since this morning

2. Complete the sentences with the present perfect simple or continuous

1.How long ......................................you (live) in Paris?
2.Ann ...................................(find) a good job
3.How long ................................(have) your car?
4.Tom ....................................(work) as a postman for the last 5 months
5.Sara .................................(study) History all day
6.I .................................(write) six pages



3.Choose the correct tenses
1.She is hot because she has run / has been running
2.Have you heard / have you been hearing Coldplay's latest CD?
3.Sorry. I've broken / I've been broken your chair
4.I've lost / I've been losing my wallet
5.Look what my parents have given / have been given me ror my birthday! A bike!
6.There's my wallet. I've looked / I've been looking for it for ages
7.I've cut / I've been cutting my fingers
8.Great news! Joanna has been having/has had a baby boy!
9.“Your English is good”. “Thanks!I 've been learning/ have learnt it for 8 years”

4. Complete the sentences with the PRSENT PERFECT SIMPLE OR PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS form of the verbs.
1.A: Hi Jack! I ______________________________(not /see) you for ages! What ________________(do) recently?
B: I _________________________________(travel)
A: That's fantastic! Where _______________________(be)?
B: I ________________________(be) to Asia. Have ___________________(you/ever/go) there?
A: No, I haven't but I __________________(always / want) to go there.
2.A: Your house looks fantastic!You ________________________(decorate) it beautifully
B: Yes, but it's a hard work. I ___________________________(paint) the bedroom all afternoon and I _____________________(only paint) three walls.
3.Sorry, I'm late. Have you _______________________________(wait) for long time?
4.That company ________________________(sell) that product since 1979
5.They _______________________________(know) each other for a year

1.Write sentences for the situations with the verb in brackets and just, already, or yet

1.You're having a salad in a restaurant. You stop eating for a minute and the waiter tries to take your plate away.
You say: Excuse me! ___________________________________________ (not finish)
2.You had a glass of water. Your sister comes in and offers you another glass
You say: No, thanks. ____________________________________________ (have one)
3.You're working in your office. Your boss comes in and asks you to reply to the email of Mr Beave.
You say: I ___________________________________________________ (write)
4.You are waiting for the travel agency to confirm your reservation for a two days holiday. Your husband comes in and asks: ______________________________________(confirm)?

Globish_and_possible_answers

Per gentile concessione della Proof.ssa A.M.

READING COMPREHENSION – CLASSWORK – December 2008


IF YOU CAN'T LEARN ENGLISH, TRY GLOBISH



It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean, starts talking to the man opposite, who is perhaps Colombian. Soon they start chatting in a language that seems to be English. But the native English speaker who is sitting between them can't understand a word.

They don't know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking a form of Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are spoken around the world. Globish was invented by a French man, Jean Paul Nerrière. Nerrière is quick to point out that it is not a proper language. “it's not a language. It's a tool”, he says. “A language is the vehicle of a culture. Globish doesn't want to be that. It is just a means of communication, a means of simplifying the language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all”.

The main principles of Globish are a vocabulary of only 1,500 words in English ( the Oxford English Dictionary lists 615,000), plus gestures and repetitions. “The point”, says Narrière “is to reach the threshold of understanding”.

The idea for Globish came from the 1980s when Narrière worked for IBM in Paris with collegues of about 40 nationalities. At a meeting where they were waiting to be addressed by two Americans, they started talking in what Narrière calls “une certaine forme d'anglais perverti”. Then the Americans arrived and after their opening phrases “Call me Bill”, “Call me Jim” no one understood a word. Neither did Jim or Bill understand the perverted English.

Narrière sees a great future for Globish, which he has trademarked. He has written a book Parlez Globish and, since its publication, his website has had many thousands of visitors.


(source: Herald Tribune)


Answer the following questions


1.

Read the title of the article. What do you think the origin of the word “Globish” is?
2.

Why does the inventor of Globish say that it is not a proper language?
3.

How many words are there in Globish? Is it formed only by words?
4.

What is the target of a Globish speaker?
5.

What gave Nerrière the idea for Globish?


Possible answers


1.

The word “Globish” comes from the combination of the words Global and English. Global refers to the fact that this language is spoken all over the world and English refers to the most popular language spoken in the world, in particular English as the international business language.


2.

A language has got its own rules and it's the vehicle of the culture of a country; a language helps to create the identity of a country. Globish doesn't belong to any country in particular, it's simply a means of communication. It's a simplified language with few rules so that it can be understood by people.


3.

Globish has got a vocabulary of about 1,500 words in English and it is formed by gestures and repetitions, which help in the understanding of what people say.


4.

The target of the Globish speaker is to “reach the threshold of understanding”. Since Globish is a common means of communication and a simplified language with few words and with lots of repetitions and gestures, the speaker wants to be able to communicate easily with other people and to understand what the others say.


5.

He had the idea of Globish when he was working at IBM with collegues of about 40 different nationalities. They all spoke an imperfect and “strange” form of English, and apparently no one could understand a word. But Narrière thought that all the peolpe at that IBM meeting were able to communicate in a certain way and he decided to study Globish as a new means of communication.

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Lunedi 26 verifica di Diritto (modalità crocette - 120 domande - 2 ore - tutto il programma)
Martedì 27 verifica Inglese, solo di grammatica

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Allego qui alcuni appunti di inglese per ripasso in vista della verifica di Grammar:

SIMPLE PAST - PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE – use of FOR and SINCE


1. The Simple Past refers to an action that happened at a definite time in the past:

EX:

She went to Los Angeles in 2002

He won a gold medal when he was 24

Time expressions used with Simple Past: yesterday, in 1997..., last month/year.., two weeks/three years ago


2. The Present Perfect ( have/has + past participle of the verb) refers to an action which happened at an indefinite time. It connects the past and the present. It can describe something that started and finished in the past but we don't specify when


She has written three emails

They have made five albums

I've visited london and Edinburgh


The Present Perfect expresses an experience as part of someone's life

Tom has travelled a lot in Africa. They've lived all over the world


Time expressions used with Present Perfect : ever-never-just-already- (not)...yet


3. The Present Perfect expresses an action or state which began in the past and continues to the present.

I've known Alice for six years. She has lived here since 1998

FOR: with a period of time

SINCE: with a point in time

Sono diversi esempi da miniaturizzare e usare all'occorrenza durante il compito di inglese!!!

Verifica_di_recupero_di_inglese

Avviso di Inglese: molto importante

Vi giro la mail che ci ha passato la prof. in data odierna:

"Avviso coloro che devono recuperare la verifica del 18 dicembre (già
stabilita per l'8 gennaio scorso) che  sarà svolta giovedì 15 gennaio e
che non ci saranno altre date per recuperare questa verifica. Notizie
su cosa consiste questa verifica le avevo già inviate in una precedente
mail.


a presto
prof. Antonella"

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eBay's rise to world fame

If we want to imagine what companies of the future will be like, we have to look at how eBay works: no factory plant, limited human resources, total globalisation.

The minimum number of staff with the maximum amount of profit.

eBay is the fastest growing e-company in the American market. Over the last seven years, its revenue has risen from $5.7 million to $ 4.55 billion. Not even Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo or Cisco have grown as rapidly.

eBay was launched by Pierre Omydyar on 4^th September 1995 and it appeared under the more prosaic title of “Auction Web”. This software engineer living in California wanted to create a new kind of online trading system. The idea was to attract visitors to its auction site where they could offer their own items for sale and bid for items on offer.

The opening day was not a success. In fact the site attracted no visitors at all in its first 24 hours. Within a few weeks, however, about 50 items were already on sale, including a warehouse in Idaho and a 1937 Rolls-Royce. By the end of 1995, several thousand auctions, attracting more than 10,000 bids, had taken place.

Today eBay has more than 157 million users in 34 different countries. The company has 11,600 employees and a further 430,000 people earn their income by trading on the site. In addition to the auction site, eBay also opened an e-commerce site in 2006, ebay express , where companies could sell their new products for a fixed price. The site was open to all companies and allows small and medium companies to compete with leading retailers and sell their products to a huge market of people throughout the world. In early 2008 eBay express closed since so many featueres from eBay express have been integrated and improved onto the original eBay.com.

(source: BBC News)

Answer the following questions

1. Why is eBay considered to represent the future for business enterprises?

2. Was eBay launched under this title?

3. Was it an immediate success? Why?

4. What was the difference between eBay.com and eBay express?

5. What advantages do companies or sellers who sell online on eBay have?

6. Can you translate the title of the article into Italian?

La scalata di Ebay al successo

Se noi volessimo immaginare come saranno le aziende del futuro, dobbiamo quardare coma lavora eba: nessun azienda, limitate risorse umane, globalizzazione mondiale.
Il minimo di personale col massimo profitto.
Ebay è la compagnia di e-commerce con la più veloce crescita in America. Negli ultimi sette anni, il suo guadagno è passato da 5,7 milioni a 4,55 miliardi di dollari. Nessuno di Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo o Cisco sono cresciuti più rapidamente. [continua]

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