ISFA

INGLES

Prof. María Victoria Saumell

4o AÑO

Toda la información para estas dos semanas se subirá a un grupo de Facebook

Como acceder

1.  Acceder a www.facebook.com

2.  Buscar ISFA ingles 4H 4C y 4CAD

3.  Unirse al grupo

Project 1: Passive Voice

Part 1: Reading about newspaper guidelines

News headlines are written in a particular way.

Read these newspaper guidelines:

·  Newspaper headlines are often incomplete sentences: Difficult Times Ahead

·  Headlines often contain a noun phrase with no verb: Unexpected Visit

·  Another common headline form is a string of three, four or more nouns together, without verbs or adjectives: Landscaping Company Disturbance Regulations. It's helpful to try to connect the ideas by reading backwards

·  There are a number of verb changes made to headlines. The most common are:

o  Use of simple tenses instead of continuous or perfect forms: Forgotten Brother Appears = A forgotten brother has appeared (after a long period of time).

o  The infinitive form refers to the future: James Wood to Visit Portland = (Famous actor) James Wood is going to visit Portland soon.

o  Auxiliary verbs are dropped in the passive form: Man Killed in Accident = A Man has been killed in an accident.

·  Definite and indefinite articles are also dropped in newspaper headlines: President Declares Celebration = The president has declared a celebration.

Part 2: Finding newspaper headlines in passive voice

Check one or all of these websites and find 10 instances of headlines written in passive voice.

·  www.cnn.com

·  www.bbc.co.uk

·  www.nytimes.com

·  http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Then:

1.  Copy them in the chart (column 1)

2.  Write the full passive voice sentence (column 2)

3.  Turn them into active voice (column 3)

Newspaper headline / Full passive voice sentence / Active voice
Example:
Yemenia crash jet signal detected / Yemenia crash jet signal was detected / They detected Yemenia crash jet signal

Project 2: Listening comprehension

Access http://learningenglishthroughvideos.blogspot.com/

Do the activities for “Jeff Godblum will be missed”