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You have 10 minutes starting now. Good luck and have fun designing your ghost mask!
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2. It describes how Jobs helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world after rejoining in 1997.
3. Jobs stepped down as CEO in August 2011 due to health issues and died of cancer on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.
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Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area exerted by the weight of air above a surface. It is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure from the weight of the overlying air. Areas with less atmospheric mass above them have lower pressure, while areas with more atmospheric mass have higher pressure. Pressure also decreases with increasing elevation as there is less overlying atmospheric mass. Standard atmospheric pressure is used as a reference point and is defined as 1.01325 bar or 101325 Pa at sea level and 0°C. Any instrument that measures air pressure is called a barometer. Torricelli first measured atmospheric pressure using a mercury-filled tube in 1643.
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Local stories are an important part of any culture's history. This document discusses how stories can help teach about a community's past in an engaging way. In just a few sentences, stories can convey key events and traditions that shaped a local area.
This document discusses an integrated approach to designing an immersion program. It references several scholars and their works on language acquisition, including Krashen who supports the concepts of affective filter and comprehensible input. Widdowson is cited as dissenting that grammatical knowledge can follow communication. Finally, Swain's conclusion from French immersion studies is mentioned, that not all good content teaching is necessarily good language teaching.
Local stories are an important part of cultural history. This document discusses local history stories from the Matthayumsuksa 1 region. In just a few sentences, the key details and importance of local stories for a community's cultural identity are conveyed.
Local stories are an important part of any culture's history. This document discusses how stories can help teach about a community's past in an engaging way. In just a few sentences, stories can convey key events and traditions that shaped a local area.
The document discusses conditional sentence type 2, which is used to talk about unlikely or impossible present or future conditions. It states that in this type of conditional sentence, the if clause is in the past simple tense and the main clause uses "would" followed by an infinitive verb form. It provides the examples "If there was only 1 banana, each brother would get half a banana" and "If there were a dozen grapes, they would do this."
Electrical conductivity is a material's ability to conduct electric current. It is measured in siemens per meter. Materials with many movable charged particles like electrons or ions are good conductors of electricity, while insulators contain few mobile charges. An experiment was described to test conductivity using a battery, lamp, wire, and pencil lead. As the lamp was moved farther from the pencil lead, its brightness dimmed, showing that the pencil lead is a poor conductor over long distances due to few mobile charges.
The document discusses movies and contains questions about movie plots, characters, genres, and details. Multiple choice questions are asked about the type of doll in a movie, the genre of a particular movie, what happens to characters at the end of a movie, which Harry Potter episode is being referred to, whether Jack Sparrow is a pirate, and whether a movie is a sci-fi genre. The document provides feedback for correct or incorrect answers selected.
This document discusses how to write effective advertisements. It provides several principles and procedures for writing advertisements, including putting a benefit in the headline, asking a provocative question, being direct, offering a free booklet or brochure, using a coupon, and using a multi-part headline. It also discusses vocabulary words related to watches, such as photograph, watch, phosphorescent, glow, and stainless steel. Finally, it provides directions for an activity where students will work in groups to create an advertisement poster for a watch, including attractive information and decoration.
The document provides an overview of context clues and examples of different types of context clues such as rewording, synonyms, antonyms, and details that can help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. It also includes sample sentences demonstrating each type of context clue and how readers can use the context to infer the meaning of underlined words. Finally, it presents an activity asking readers to use context clues to guess the meaning of words from a folktale called "The Selfish Giant."
The document provides information about Lee Weston's daily routine as a wildlife biologist working in Alaska. It describes that she carries a gun to protect herself from bears, eats sandwiches, cheese, crackers and chocolate for lunch, and wears snowshoes and warm clothes even in the summer due to the cold weather in the Alaskan mountains where she works. The students listen to an audio about Lee Weston and take turns retelling the story to each other.
Here are the materials to create your ghost mask:
- Color papers
- Glue
- Scissors
- Markers
- Other craft materials you can find
You have 10 minutes starting now. Good luck and have fun designing your ghost mask!
The document provides examples of using the phrases "It's time" and "I'd prefer" followed by an infinitive. It gives the examples "It's time to get the dinner ready" and "I'd prefer to go to a restaurant for a change, wouldn't you?". It then provides a conversation excerpt using these phrases in context.
1. The document discusses the life and career of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple.
2. It describes how Jobs helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world after rejoining in 1997.
3. Jobs stepped down as CEO in August 2011 due to health issues and died of cancer on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56.
1. Electronic Journal (EJ)
“ESL/EFL Listening Comprehension
Lesson for the Movie Super Size Me”
Alenka Blake
Alenka.blake [at] gmail.com
1st High School in Celje (Slovenia)
14. Simple Past Tense
Structure: S + V Past (Regular / Irregular) + C
1. To talk about an action that started and finished at a
specific time in the past.
USE 1 “Completed Action in the Past”
15. Example
V2
subject
I grew up in West Virginia.
V2
A few Americans got fed up with being overweight.
subject
16. 2. To list a series of completed actions in the past.
USE 2 “A Series of Completed Actions”
17. Example
V2
subject
I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice
place to swim.
V2
subject V2
He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the
hotel at 9:00, and met the
V2
others at 10:00. V2
23. Everything's bigger in America; we've got the biggest cars, the
biggest houses, and the biggest companies, the biggest food,
and, finally, the biggest people. America has now become the
fattest nation in the world. Congratulations. Nearly 100 million
Americans are today either overweight or obese. That's more
than 60% of all Since 1980 the total number of overweight and
obese Americans has doubled, with twice as many overweight
children and three times as many overweight adolescents. The
fattest state in America Mississippi -- where one in four people
are obese. U.S. adults. I grew up in West Virginia, currently the
third-fattest state in America. When I was growing up, my mother
cooked dinner every single day. Almost all my memories of her
are in the kitchen.
24. And we never ate out, only on those few, rare special occasions.
Today, families do it all the time, and they're paying for it – not only
with their wallets, but with their waistlines. Obesity is now second
only to smoking as a major cause of preventable death in America,
with more than 400000 deaths per year associated with related
illnesses. In 2002 a few Americans got fed up with being overweight
and did what we do best. They sued the bastards. Taking aim at the
fast-food companies and blaming them for their obesity and
illnesses, a lawsuit was filed in New York on behalf of two teenage
girls, one who was 14 years old, 4'10", and 170 pounds; the other 19
years old 5'6'' and 270 pounds the unthinkable had suddenly
become reality. People were suing the golden arches for selling
them food that most of us know isn't good for you. To begin with yet
each day, one in four Americans visits a fast-food restaurant.
25. And this hunger for fast food isn't just in America. It's happening
on a global basis. McDonald’s alone operates more than 30000
joints in over100 countries on 6 continents and feeds more than
46 million people worldwide every day. That's more than the
entire population of Spain.In the united states alone McDonald’s
accounts for 43 % of the total fast-food market.They're
everywhere – walmarts, airports, rest stops, gas stations, train
stations, shopping malls, department stores, amusement parks,
even hospitals. That's right – hospitals. At least you're close
when the coronary kicks in. Lawyers for McDonald’s called the
suits "frivolous, stating that the dangers of its food are
universally known and that these kids can't show that their
weight problems and health woes were caused solely by their
mcdiets.
26. The judge states, however, that if lawyers for the teens can show
that mcdonald's intends for people to eat its food for every meal
of every day and that doing so would be unreasonably
dangerous, they may be able to state a claim. Are the food
companies solely to blame for this epidemic? Where does
personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin? Is
fast food really that bad for you? I mean, what would happen if I
ate nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days straight? Would I
suddenly be on the fast track to becoming an obese American?
Would it be unreasonably dangerous? Let's find out. I'm ready.
Super- size me. [ queen's "fat bottomed girls" plays ]
27. Hey
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew love before I left my nursery, huh
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!
Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round
29. Task 1
Read the text and fill in the gaps.
1.America is the _________________ nation in
fattest
the world.
2.More than _______ % of adults in the US are
60
obese.
3._______________________ is the fattest state
Mississippi
in the US.
4.The two main causes for deaths in America are
___________ and ______________.
smoking obesity
30. 5.McDonald’s is spread over the world and feeds more
than __________ million people worldwide a day.
46
6.McDonald’s accounts for _______ % of the fast food
43
market in the US.
7.In the US you can find McDonald’s everywhere:
______________, ___________________,
Walmart outlets airport
______________________.
hospitals
31. Task 2
In groups discuss the following questions.
Support your opinion and make notes. Then
present in front of the class.
Discuss your eating habits.
– How many times a day do you eat?
– When do you eat?
– What do you eat?
– Who prepares your meals?
32. -In your opinion, what is a healthy way of eating
? (consider the type of food, frequency of eating,
time of eating, variety of food, etc.)
-Are the eating habits of Slovenians changing? In
what way?
-Is fast food going to influence our eating habits
the same way as it has many Americans?