Verb tenses exercises

To revise the Past Simple and Present Perfect, open the link and do the exercises.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dj258t44cr4sphh/exercises%20Past%20Simple%20and%20Present%20Perfect.doc

A VERY controversial technological advance: Cloning

Cloning is a very controversial issue. Scientists, doctors, priests, ethicists, sociologists ... have been presenting a huge amount of arguments in favour and against its practice. To help you to write about this issue, study the pros and cons listed above.

Pros for cloning
- cloning of organs allows organ transplant at any time (no need to find donors)
- cloning of organs allows organ transplant without triggering immune attack against foreign tissue since the cloning will be based on your own cells
- techniques for cloning can be applied to other areas of biological research, for example, cell cycle regulation, genetics research, etc. If we have the technology to clone things, we can apply the technology to learn much more about cell biology than we currently know
- kind of controversial, but I guess you can say that cloning in farming and agriculture improves the productivity and it's the only way to feed the increasing world population.

Cons for cloning
- cloning is not ethical (an argument against that: what is ethics to start with? Are you the one to define it?)
- experiments on clones is not ethical (an argument against that: we can always clone organs and tissues and not clone the whole thing)
- some government might use the technology to clone people and make a clone army (an argument against that: are you watching too much Star Wars? The technology to clone an entire being and clone an organ is quite different. Besides, even if that were to happen, it would be the government's fault, not the fault of the technology. Do we blame Eistein's E=mc^2 for nuclear bombs?)

Hope that helps.

English for fun

Children's tales (Turma de Animação Sociocultural)

Performing tales for children can be a difficult task! You have to choose your tale, adapt it according to your target audience and also to the limit of time you have available. In this link you have plenty of tales you can choose to work on.
Good work!

http://www.childrenstory.info/

Webquest: It came from... technology

Only for my dear IT students.
This time I have a different challenge for you. Remember when I told you there is an inventor in each one of you? Now it's the time to show your technical skills, creativity and power to persuade people.
You have to create a new technological device and present it to the teacher and to your classmates. Your final goal is to persuade us to buy the product using a convincing marketing strategy! To help with your work you should do this webquest. Follow the link and have fun!

http://questgarden.com/129/18/0/110718122829/index.htm

Film Activity "Artificial Intelligence"

Hi 10th graders! Welcome to my blog. I hope you've enjoyed watching the film "Artificial Intelligence". Now it's time for some work on the film! Enjoy!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wygccpdtoaemvhx/film%20activity%20AI.doc