Activity 1

An artist in our community
Isabel Carter is a talented portrait painter, who is much admired in our community. Although she is quite young, she has already achieved a great deal. Her portraits,, which have been exhibited in local galleries and art shows, use bold strokes of color to express character and mood. Everyone in our community is familiar with Ms. Carter´s portraits because many of them depict people we all know. Her vision and technique make you see a person you thought you knew in a completely different way, which is quite remarkable. Ms. Carter has painted many beautiful portraits of people whom she has encountered around the world, and they are as fascinating to us as the portraits of people we know. If she can get a financial support, she will study painting in Italy next year.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father and in 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licentiateships in Physics and the Mathematical Sciences. She succeeded her husband as Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne, gained her Doctor of Science degree in 1903, and following the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took his place as Professor of General. The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant researches and analyses which led to the isolation of polonium, named after the country of Marie's birth, and radium. Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular. Curie's work is reflected in the numerous awards bestowed on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world.
Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity. She also received, jointly with her husband, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1903, and in 1921, President Harding of the United States, on behalf of the women of America, presented her with one gram of radium in recognition of her service to science.

Final activity ESSAY

Could you imagine the life without technology?

Nowadays, technology is an important part in our lives and it has been become essential to us, because actually the society depend a lot of the technology and almost all consumer use products in their activities. These products are presented to the global market with high prices and these products replace old products like cell phones, laptops, television, iPod, walkman, or another kind of high technology.

The use of technology makes life easier because people need it; in this area exist a lot of products for home, college, job or entertainment. This products are focused on satisfy costumers needs. The new technology is demanded by the people who feel the necessity to innovative their obsolete products and these products have the purpose of attract us and earn money and let the consumers having a chance to show off their new digital technologies.

All the products have one constant, technology always renewed therefore we could find in the stores that most of the products released are having similar features but having a complete different design and functions consequently technology always have structure changes and at the same time provide us a lot of possibilities of digital technology. While technology is a big help on business, as it allows being in touch with the customer in all parts of the world.
All the technology has been on change and revolution with the purpose of simplifying tasks and activities in our lives.

Activity 2

Correct the three errors in punctuating adjectives clauses.
*I insisted on my innocence, but my supervisor, who did not believe me, fired me that day.
*Ten years later I got an e-mail that stunned me.
*This incident, which I had almost forgotten, still troubled my former co-worker, even after all these years.

Think about an incident in your life that taught you a lesson. Then write questions about the incident to help generate ideas.
*Who was with you?
My friends

*What happened?
Somebody stole some of my personal things like my cell phone and my wallet.

*When did it happen?
One day at night in the carnival parade

*Where did it happen?
In the boulevard of Veracruz

*Why were you there?
Because I was seeing the parade.

*How did you feel at the moment?
I was really scared and confused because i didn't know what was happening.

Activity 5

Identify and correct four errors in subject-verb agreement in the paragraph below.
1) Error: One common superstition in Western countries concern the number thirteen.
Correction: One common superstition in Western countries concerns the number thirteen.
2) Error: Because they are considered unlucky, many situations involving the number thirteen is frequently avoided.
Correction: Because they are considered unlucky, many situations involving the number thirteen are frequently avoided.
3) Error: For example, in the past, the thirteenth floor of tall apartment buildings were often labeled “fourteen”.
Correction: For example, in the past, the thirteenth floor of tall apartment buildings was often labeled “fourteen”.
4) Error: In addition, there is a general belief that Friday the thirteenth brings bad luck, increases the chance of mishaps, and make it more difficult to get things done effectively.
Correction: In addition, there is a general belief that Friday the thirteenth brings bad luck, increases the chance of mishaps, and makes it more difficult to get things done effectively.