having relaxed during the Easter, you're surely ready to tackle some more activities in English;-)
Last time, you looked at crisis mapping.
Related to this topic are earthquakes and how they can be predicted if at all?
Just before the quarantine, I managed to loan a few issues of Geographical - a magazine of the Royal Geographical Society. I'll use this great source to adapt a few articles for your practice.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
2. SKIM the text to get the gist (main idea/s). IGNORE THE GAPS at this point.
3. Answer these three questions:
Check your answers in the key below.
4. Now, complete the ROPOT. Only FUNCTION WORDS (words without meaning, such as prepositions, articles, auxilieries and quantifiers) have been left out.
The correct answers will pop up automatically after you've filled in and submitted the ROPOT.
First, think about the title. What does forecasting mean? What does soothsaying mean? What's the difference?
Use online dictionaries to look up the meaning (Cambridge, Collins, Macmillan etc.)
Share your interpretation of the definitions in the forum below. Remember to explain the difference between these two expressions.
This time, you'll look at it from a different angle.
Follow the instructions, complete the tasks and check them in the key.
Please, remember to download the document before you start filling it in.
Thank you!
Check in the key.
Complete the gaps with suitable expressions. Pay attention to the parts of speech. Are the left out words nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs? How do they fit into the sentence?
1. Skim the text and watch the video below.
2. Pick either the video or the text - it's entirely up to you.
3. Watch/read again, make notes.
4. Decide on the main ideas and write a summary, using the connectors from one of the activities above.
About 100 words is fine.
5. Upload in the homework vault below.
File name: Surname_written summary