CONCENTRATE ON THE EXERCISES WHERE YOU HAVE TO SURF THE NET
2.2 RESPECT: Who do you respect most? Rank them, the person getting more respect goes at the top:
2.3 CHILD ABUSE: Here is a definition of child abuse taken from an encyclopedia:
Child abuse is the physical, psychological or sexual maltreatment of children. While most child abuse happens in the child's home, a significant portion also occurs in organizations involving children, such as churches, schools, child care businesses, and residential schools.
There are many forms of abuse and neglect and many governments have developed their own legal definition of what constitutes child maltreatment for the purposes of removing a child and/or prosecuting a criminal charge. In the United States, the Federal Government puts out a full definition of child abuse and neglect and creates a summary of each State definition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines child maltreatment as any act or series of acts or commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child. Examples of acts of commission include physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Examples of acts of omission include failure to provide (physical, emotional, medical/dental, or educational neglect) or failure to supervise (inadequate supervision, or exposure to violent environments.)
Neglect represents 54% of confirmed cases of child abuse, physical abuse 22%, sexual abuse 8%, emotional maltreatment 4%, and other forms of maltreatment 12%.
According to a recent UNICEF report on child well-being in the United States and the United Kingdom ranked lowest among first world nations with respect to the well being of their children. This study also found that child neglect and child abuse are far more common in single-parent families than in families where both parents are present. Recently a study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 50 infants in the United States are victims of nonfatal neglect or abuse. In the US, neglect is defined as the failure to meet the basic needs of children including housing, clothing, food and access to medical care. Researchers found over 91,000 cases of neglect over the course of one year (from October 2005- September 30, 2006) with their information coming from a database of cases verified by protective services agencies.
http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Roman+Catholic+sex+abuse+cases
2.4 DISCUSSION: Here are some questions you can try asking yourself before you come to our discussion on Wednesday:
a) What did you think when you read the headline?
b) What do you think should happen to the priests?
c) Do you think the Pope should 'resign'?
d) How badly do you think this crisis is affecting the Church?
e) Do you think abuse happens in all religions?
f) What do you think the Pope should do now?
g) What do you think of the Pope covering up the priest?
h) Do you think the Pope is a fraud and hypocrite?
i) Do you think the media is making a mountain out of a molehill?
j) Why is the Vatican fighting back if so much wrong has been done?
k) Do you think it’s better for the Vatican to talk about this crisis rather than stay quiet?
l) Do you think American citizens should be able to sue the Vatican?
m) What do you think of churches and religions?
n) Do you think it’s important for people to talk more about issues such as sexual abuse?
o) What would happen if Jeff Anderson won his lawsuit?
p) What questions would you like to ask Pope Benedict XVI?
PREPARING A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
THIS MUST BE DONE IN TWO DIRECTIONS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
THIS WAY YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
FINAL TASK:
HERE IS ONE FINAL TASK THAT YOU MAY DO IN ORDER TO COVER THE FOUR SKILLS YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN LEARNING A LANGUAGE: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING.
Write a composition and leave it in the blog as a comment to Session 25, I will edit it in the blog so that everybody can learn from other people´s opinions.
1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or False (F):
a. Many priests in the Catholic Church were sexually abused.
b. People have asked the Pope to stand down from being Pope.
c. The Catholic Church has its biggest crisis in 2,000 years.
d. Someone accused the Pope of concealing the abuse of up to 200 boys.
e. The media is covering an increasing number of Church abuse stories.
f. The Vatican is angry people are telling the Pope what to do.
g. The Vatican is a sovereign nation and can be sued by the USA.
h. A reporter got his foot stuck in the Pope’s door.
1.2 SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1.huge ................... a.press
2.calls .................... b.hid it
3.covered it up .......... c.more
4.monitoring ............. d.fake
5.fraud .................... e.forceful
6.media ................... f.enormous
7.broken out .............. g.checking
8.aggressive .............. h.journalists
9.further ................... i.requests
10.reporters ............... j.started
1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1.facing a huge number ................... a.to resign
2.calls for Pope Benedict XVI .............. b.in the door
3.the Pope’s role as head ................ c.fought back
4.people now say he failed to punish .... d.further
5.The Pope is a fraud ..................... e.of the Vatican
6.reporting on more and more ........... f.of lawsuits
7.The Vatican has ......................... g.a statement
8.Officials released ....................... h.cases of cover-ups
9.no one would comment any ............ i.and a hypocrite
10.this is the first foot ................... j.a priest
1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:
disaster - massacre - runway - cause - way - officials - profile - central
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski died this morning in a plane crash in Russia. He was on his ____________ to the town of Smolensk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn ____________. This was the killing of 22,000 Polish officers by Soviet security forces near Smolensk during WWII. Dozens of other high-____________ Polish officials also died in the air ____________, which no one survived. Among the 96 who lost their lives were Poland’s army chief, the governor of Poland’s ____________ bank, politicians, bishops and leading historians. Details are emerging of the ____________ of the crash. Safety ____________ believe it might have been due to human error. The plane hit trees in thick fog as it approached the airport’s ____________.
facing - within - saddened - anguish - board - disaster - tears - crisis
The crash has caused great ____________ in Poland. One comment on Twitter by a Polish woman said it was the biggest ____________ for Poland in the past 50 years. Another tweeter said Poland is now ____________ its worst political ____________ since it escaped from communism in 1989. Two dozen of the country’s top politicians were on ____________ the plane. The BBC's Adam Easton, reporting from Warsaw, said the crash was a catastrophe for the Polish people. He reported that Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in ____________ at the news of the tragedy. British leader Gordon Brown said the whole world was “____________”. The country must now announce a presidential election in the next two weeks. The poll will take place ____________ two months of the announcement.
THE INSIDE OF THE ALCAZABA:
THE ALCAZABA WALLS:
WATCH THESE VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=761sVTlxPaU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aOqXj_odEI
AND HAVE A LOOK AT THIS BLOG:
http://castlesofspain.blogspot.com/2007/09/alcazaba-of-almeria-castle-of-almeria.html
FINAL TASK
Here is one final task that you may do in order to cover the four skills you should focus on when learning a language: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING.
