Argentina's mid-term elections (Class work)

In small groups,read different paragraphs of the following Text and extract the main ideas.Then, share these ideas with the other groups and prepare to analyze the text. Is it biased?

Bias in texts. (Class Work)

A) 

A description of Jake’s uncle

Jake’s uncle is tall and slim. He has a receding hairline and when the light sparkles on his forehead, he looks distinguished. His pale face always has a sincere expression. He dresses informally in well-worn jeans and comfy jumpers.  

B)

A description of Jake’s uncle

Jake’s uncle is lanky and skinny. He is going bald and when the sweat glistens on his forehead, he looks unkempt. His ashen face always has a gloomy expression. He dresses untidily in old jeans and tatty jumpers.  

Read the description given to your group (here you have a mini dictionary to make your work easier MINI DICTIONARY)
 and do the following activities:

1. Read the description of Jake’s uncle. Look up words you are not sure about.
2. Do you like or dislike him?
3. Underline words that describe the uncle.
4. Discuss for each word underlined whether it means something positive or negative. Put 😊 for positive, 😒 for negative and 😐 for neutral (neither positive nor negative) above the word.
5. Draw a picture of Jake’s uncle. One of you draws the picture and everybody helps to make the drawing look like the description in words.
6. Decide which of the two sentences would be best to finish the paragraph:
a) Everyone has great respect for him.
b) Everyone shuns him.

Trunk Ep 1

Hi everybody! Let's start working on our mini serial "TRUNK".

Take time to watch the episode as many times as you need to understand it.(Make sure you turn on the subtitles so that you can have a better chance to catch meaning)
Then, answer these questions in the comments below:

1. What do you think Randy and Jenny's job is?
2. What is the problem between them?
3. What do you think "BATCHCROFT" is?
4. What was the problem back then? (HINT: Check the meaning of the phrase "Jump the gun")
5. What do you think will happen to them?

Check your answers in the following episode!

Hope you have fun!
Good Luck 😉

Enlarge your vocabulary

Hello my dear all! I hope you are enjoying your holidays! Here I leave you a list of some synonyms you may use to enlarge and enrich your vocabulary. Feel free to use them in the texts you have been writing in class and will be posting HERE↓. See you soon!