SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FOR FINAL EXAMS OF HIGH SCHOOL. THIS IS A LANGUAGE INTEGRATED SPECIAL ACTIVITY. IMPORTANT NOTICES:
a) Please read carefully all the instructions of this work. All of the questions and assignments are related to the articles and cultural notes you will be reading. These activities are divided in 4 blocks: reading comprehension, grammar & vocabulary, writing, and oral expression, but they are going to be graded as a 20% of your 100% global of the final exam. Which means, that your final exam will be graded over 80. You will need:
1. Hemispheres 4, Student's Book
2. A dictionary
3. Internet (to research extra information)
4. Your personal computer, if you want to bring it to the school, you can!
5. Your printed activities in order to do all of them. A) Be careful with presentation: (Print, neatness, a folder, front page with the title, your full name and code, etc.) Your handwriting and your spelling will be graded, too. B) Oral expression will be presented daily since Monday 30th. November, 2009. (In list order, from 1…until 33). You can answer by topics, and give me day by day each one, for example, Monday November 30, reading comprehension, Tuesday December 1, grammar, and so on… or you can give me all the complete work when you finish, BUT BE AWARE that the deadline is Friday December 4. NOT LATER. If you finish on Tuesday or Wednesday, for example, you can do other subject activities during English class.
READING COMPREHENSION.
I. PREREADING. CULTURAL NOTE. LOUIS PASTEUR
Louis Pasteur was a successful French scientist. He is considered to be the scientist who finally proved that germs such as bacteria and viruses are the primary agents of disease. He invented a vaccine for rabies. He is best known for inventing a process for killing bacteria in milk and wine to keep it from spoiling. This process, pasteurization, was named after him.
II. READING. Read the article form your Hemispheres book “Put it to the test” of page 60. Answer the next questions.
1. The following items are mentioned in the article as parts of Pasteur’s experiment. Identify each as either a planned part (P) or an unplanned (U) part.
a) _____ giving some chickens a very weak culture b) _____ growing germs outside the chickens’ body c) _____ making healthy chickens sick d) _____ vaccinating chickens e) _____ using a group of chickens twice
2. The word "They" in the article refers to:
a) sick chickens b) healthy chickens c) germs d) cultures
3. The word It in the article refers to: a) a group b) experiment c) day d) culture
4. It is obvious that the word "Culture" in the article doesn`t refer to a geographic area with specific kind of people, with habits and rituals of their own, so what does it means then? Explain in your own words: _________________________________________________________________

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5. What is the name of the great discovery of Louis Pasteur, and what is it about? Explain. _________________________________________________________________

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III. EXPANSION ACTIVITY. Vaccination.
Investigate about vaccination and write the order of steps in which the process is done.
· The scientist processes the pathogen so that is weakened or dead. ___
· A doctor injects a patient with the weakened or dead pathogen. ____
· When the patient encounters an un weakened version of the pathogen, the body’s immune system recognizes it and quickly attacks it, preventing the patient from getting the disease. ______
· A scientist gets a sample of a pathogen such as a bacteria or virus 1
· The patient’s immune system produces an active immune response to the pathogen. ____

IV. PREREADING. CULTURAL NOTE. STROKES
Strokes are a loss of brain function caused by an interruption in the supply of blood to a part of the brain. This interruption can be caused by bleeding or a blockage, such as from a blood clot. Brain tissue is killed or severely damaged. In industrialized countries, stroke is the third leading cause of death and the biggest cause of adult disability. It is caused by a variety of factors that damage blood vessels, although genetic weaknesses are also a factor. Smoking increases the risk for strokes. High cholesterol is another common risk factor, as are diabetes, age, and high blood pressure.

V. READING. Read carefully the next dialogue, then answer the questions.
Uncle’s Mike Stroke Doctor: Well, Tom, you’re certainly healthy enough to be on the swim team. I’ll sign that form for you. Tom: Thanks, doctor. Uh… can I just ask you a question? It’s not about my health, but… Doctor: Sure, Tom. What is it? Tom: Well, my Uncle Mike just had a stroke… Doctor: Sorry to hear that, Tom. How is the doing? Tom: Ok, apparently. No really serious damage, except for some balance problems. A little weakness in one arm, too. Doctor: He’s very lucky. Tom: Yeah. He is. But here’s the weird part. My aunt says the stroke made him forget that he smokes… smoked… whatever. Is that even possible? Doctor: I know it sounds strange, Tom, but yes, it’s possible. If a stroke damages a little part of the brain called the insula, it can happen. Tom: Incredible. Doctor: Your uncle probably didn’t actually forget that he smoked. What probably happened is that it just stopped seeming pleasurable to him. The insula is what we call a pleasure center. If it’s damaged, you might stop associating things like the taste or smell of cigarette smoke with pleasant feelings. Tom: So he remembers smoking but it doesn’t sound good to him anymore. It’s like he lost his taste for cigarettes. Doctor: That’s right. Tom: So, in a way, he is lucky he had the stroke. Doctor: Well, in a way, but strokes are extremely dangerous and unpredictable. They are a form of brain injury. They almost always cause a lot more damage than your uncle seems to have suffered. The really lucky thing is that he wasn’t paralyzed or killed. Tom: Yeah, I know. When I first heard he had a stroke, I thought maybe he’d be unable to walk or talk or something. Doctor: Well, anyway, I’m glad he doesn’t have a smoking habit anymore. Maybe that will reduce his chances of having another stroke.

1. What does the doctor mean by saying “He’s very lucky”?
a) That he could die but he didn’t b) That he won the lottery c) That he was lucky he had the stroke
2. Why does the doctor say “Well, anyway, I’m glad he doesn’t have a smoking habit anymore. Maybe that will reduce his chances of having another stroke”?
a) Because he doesn’t like to smoke either b) Because smoking is one of the first causes of strokes and he stopped smoking since he had one c) Because he felt like saying that
3. What happened to Mike’s uncle?
a) He had a stroke b) He die c) He stopped drinking coffee
4. Why does Mike’s uncle stop smoking?
a) because he forgot b) because he doesn’t want to and he resolved to quit c) because with the stroke he lost his will of smoking
5. What other factors can cause a stroke:
a) Jogging and working out b) Diabetes and genetic weaknesses
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7. Now, make an investigation and write with your own words more about “Insula”:
(If you want, you can use another paper to complete your writing)
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8. Why strokes are extremely dangerous and unpredictable? a) Because you can feel they are coming b) Because a stroke is a brain injury that happens suddenly and can kill you.
9. What does Genetic weaknesses means? ______________________________________________________________

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10. Explain:
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11. According to the doctor, in what part of the body do all strokes occur?
a) the insula b) the arms c) the brain d) the mouth
GRAMMAR STRUCTURE & VOCABULARY. THE CORRECT USE OF LANGUAGE.
VI. GRAMMAR STRUCTURE. Please read again the article, the interview and the cultural notes, and write from them, with correct grammar structure, punctuation, and capitalization, the next indications. Use your Hemispheres 4 Students Book, to help you.
Write 5 sentences about any of the texts, in Present Perfect Tense.
Change those sentences into Past Perfect Tense.
Write 5 sentences about any of the texts, in Present Perfect Continuous.
Change those sentences into Past Perfect Continuous.
Write 5 sentences about any of the texts, using Used to
Write 5 sentences about YOUR FAMILY HABITS with Be used to.
Use the next Causative verbs (have, let, make, get, and help), to show actions that causes another actions to happen. Based your sentences in the stories you read.
Write 5 pairs of related sentences, about the texts you read, and then connect them using Correlative Conjunctions (Both…and /either…or / neither… nor).
Write 5 pairs of related sentences, about the texts you read, and then connect them using Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns (Who/Whom – Which - That).

VII. VOCABULARY.
Make a chart with all the vocabulary words from unit 1 until unit 7 in which you must separate each word according to the parts of the speech that it is, and write a synonym of each word. For example: NOUN SYNONYM
1. Unique. The one. The only.
2. long-lost relative Third cousin.

VIII. WRITING. BUILDING VOCABULARY.
According to all the research that you had made, please write an essay of two pages using at least 20 vocabulary words from unit 1 until unit 7. You can write about a personal experience with a disease or anything related to the topic that we have been studying. Be careful with verb tenses and please be creative! Don’t forget the title.

ORAL EXPRESSION.
IX. INDEPENDENT SPEAKING. Prepare a personal speech to respond the following question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your response. Make a presentation of 5 minutes to express your ideas.
The doctor mentions that part of the brain can associate the taste or smell of cigarette smoke with pleasant feelings. Discuss four or five tastes or smells that recall pleasant feelings for you – the smell of the coffee, the taste of an apple, etc. What do you associate them with?