CONDITIONAL SENTENCES INTRO

MORE ON CAUSATIVE STRUCTURES

and here some exercises :)

 http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/221.html
 http://www.tolearnenglish.com/english_lessons/causative-exercises

Passive and causative structures 2º bachillerato

USE OF ENGLISH COMPILATION EXERCISES

JE SUIS CHARLIE

Read the following article and answer the questions below:

Is Islam to Blame for the Shooting at Charlie Hebdo in Paris?

CONTENT

1. What do you think about the expression "in the toilet, all religions"?

2.  Right after the news were reported, why does the writer suggest that we already thought that the perpetrators were Islamic extremists? 

3. How did the terrorists expressed their opinion about the magazine publishing activity, according to the writer?

4.  Who was Rashid Rehman and why did he die? 

5. Check and write down the last 10 countries where the gender gap between men and women is the largest.

6. Why does the writer say that Muslims are disproportionately the victims of terrorism?

7. "Let's avoid religious profiling". What does he want to say with this?

8. Where is the great divide? Is it between Western and Eastern civilizations?

9. Finally, according to the writer, what should we be careful with?

VOCABULARY:

Find a synonym in the text for the following words or expressions:

Pierce (vb): 

Land (n): 

Tension:

Background:

Superficial:

Harshly critical:

Senselessly:

outflow (n):

Find an opposite in the text for the words given below:

opposer:

careless: 

authentic:

The writer invent a word, which one? What does it mean?

WRITING 

\ 50 words approx\

What do we know about Islam?

Finally, listen to the video below and answer some more questions:

Commitee to protect journarlists

1. What did he never expect?

2. What is the new defining reality?

3. Who should decide what’s published? Who musn’t decide that?

REPORTED SPEECH 2º BACH PRACTICE WITH ANSWER KEY

Click on the following links to download some exercises on reported speech:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ONu-96HqXa0C5xylji03raQSK7py1fNzS5lxD9w_ZU/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqZW5nUFdXZnpSVE0/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqNW1xbzFWMmhhYVU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqNFFOeC1ILUZobGM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqOFlvUXdPRVBoZ0U/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqT2xWTmtqQUhIZlk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqTG4waExVbUN6cUk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pkjzz84plqZWUwM3p4elVFMlU/view?usp=sharing


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