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Full Name:

Andrea Lucía Saldarriaga Rojas

Teacher:

Gabriela Palomino

Course:

Advanced 11

Lima - Perú
2022
 1. Sentences first vocabulary
His behavior wasn’t the best, he was always screaming to his mother.
controversy
Adriana has a unique laugh, if she starts laughing everyone will laugh too
He acquired a good reputation as a teacher for his accurate feedbacks
His approach to fitness was to exercise regularly and maintain a balanced diet.
With the support of her family and friends, she achieved her dream of being an
astronaut

2. Discuss
Question 1. I think it proved a low intelligence, just like how babies start talking by
repeating. It proves that it can learn but not if he can solve problems by their own
Question 2. I disagree with Temple Grandin because like they said in the text is
different seizure alert dog and a seizure dog the alert one are trained to prevent but
not to help. Instead, i think seizure dogs show inteligence but no seizure alert dogs
Question 3. I think his ideas expand my way to see animal intelligence because I
didn’t know how some of them worked by instinc or by intelligence and now I am
abble to difference it better

3. Outline for IQ by the Kilo

How is intelligence measured in animals?
a. In some species, it is measured by the proportion of the weight of the
brain according to the body
b. In dolphins, we can’t use this method cause they are different
c. Difficulties we have
i. Different ways to communicate
ii. Animales don't have a lenguaje

4. Wh Questions
 1. WH QUESTIONS – READING 1
2.
What …..is the main idea

Who …..wrote the Where did the experiment was

article? done?

Story

Why is there a
When is the animal difference between
considered intelligent? intelligence and
instinct

How….. we can determine the animal is intelligent or not?

5. Adjective clauses
● Binti the gorilla, who is best known for an amazing incident, had the incident
occur on August 16, 1996.
● I spoke with a man who had trained dolphins and killer whales.
● Psychologists study many animals that live in zoos.
6. Summary paragraph draft

In How Smart Are Animals?, author Gita Simonsen expresses her way of thinking about how
intelligent are animales, how we can measure it and finally how important for the humanity is
to know and understand how intelligent animals truly are and how they communicate
between them and even other species. She also uses results of cientifical studies to prove
her point of it.

The text starts posing the doubts that exist and also set the challenges we have defining the
animal intelligence without using the human standars. Measurement methods vary, with
some relying on brain size relative to body weight. However, communication barriers hinder
accurate assessments, particularly evident in the case of dolphins, whose language remains
incomprehensible to humans. Recent studies, such as those comparing learning speeds,
underscore the complexity of assessing intelligence across species. The Queen Mary
University research highlights the need to develop innovative, bottom-up approaches to
studying animal cognition, focusing on neural networks to uncover previously unknown traits.
7. Main ideas
1. Marriage:
Present-day society: Marriage is seen as a lifelong commitment, although in
some societies divorce is common. Some people may have more than one or
two marriages.
“Death Do Us Part”: Divorce is really common and you tend to marry more
than 5 people

2. Family Structure/Relationships:
Present-day society: Three generations of a family living at the same time is
common.
“Death Do Us Part”: Many generations of a family live on the same time

3. Careers:
Present-day society: Although many people have different jobs throughout
their lives, they usually continue working in the same career.
“Death Do Us Part”: Most of people have many careers and “reinvent”
themselves by drastically changing career.

4. Longevity:
Present-day society: The average lifespan varies around the world, but in
developed countries the average lifespan is mid-seventies.
“Death Do Us Part”: All the people live more than 100 years.
8. Connect the readings

CAUSE EFFECT/CAUSE EFFECT

 9. Using an idea web

Prepare to Write: Using an Idea Web

MARRIAGE

Not married but a lot of

relationships and one children

HOUSE CAREERS
Since I had a lot of time, I build More than 10 but worked in a
my own house lot of things

MY LIFE IN 2075

LONGEVITY

FAMILY
Have 169 years, younger that
many people but still, old I often see my siblings
10. Figurative Language/ Similes:

Paragraph 1: Sunglight and waterfalls are compared to cascades of diamonds

because they are shiny
Paragraph 2: Leo is compared to a boy cause he looks vigorous and young
Paragraph 34: Future husbands are compared to swords because they will cut or
end Leo and Marilisa's marriage
11. Writing 2 draft
The noise of my robot making breakfast wakes me up way before the expected so I decide
to do some virtual workout before going to breakfast. I finish my routine as tired as if I had
run a marathon and I decide to shower while doing work paperwork, using hologram
transmission. Finally, I can eat my breakfast, as always the robot has made the exact food I
need today, robots are connected to a cloud where they have all your information, including
health information. Is boring to eat alone so I decided to rewatch my dream recordings In my
dream there are so many people I don’t keep in contact with, I have a family and many
children, and I feel sad. In my 159 years, I got carried away with my career and work life,
forgetting my social and love life
12. T chart

Mandatory Volunteering
Pros Cons

1. Speed time doing something good 1. Is a personal choice

2. Involves kids and children in society 2. Not a school course
3. People don’t know how great the 3. Many students are doing it already
experience is unless is mandatory 4. Students may not want to do it
truthfully
5. Students don’t have time
6. Not a good work quality

13. Persuasive essay outline

 Persuasive Essay Outline
1. Introduction and thesis statement: Mandatory volunteering in schools is not the
best idea because most of the time they are being coerced, it can overload them
and is also not helpful for the community they are trying to help to.

2.

Students are They can get rebellious

and can generate dislike to
the activity

3.

Can cause stress and affect

Overload the students academic
students performance

Negative effect in Not the most effective work

the community they or eve results on the
4. are helping to community they are helping

5. Conclusion
To conclude students should not participate in mandatory volunteering cause it
affects both sides.
14. Counterarguments and Refutation

ARGUMENTS FOR/AGAINST COUNTERARGUMENTS REFUTATION (REASONS

COMMUNITY SERVICE WHY THE
PROGRAMS COUNTERARGUMENT IS
WEAK)

Even if they are coerced they Coercing them can make

Students are coerced can build a sense of them comprehend but it is
responsibility and superficial and they can end
comprehend the situation of up seeing it as “another
others. thing to do” and not a
human action

Students can get an overload These programs can help to It can have the opposite
teach the students to effect. Overload students
manage their time with activities can generate
stress and exhaustion which
can affect their academic
performance

Negative effect in the Mandatory or not is the Even if that’s true the quality
community they are helping same, they are helping the and reach will be
community significantly lower when
students are doing it
because they have to
15. Writing 3

During my last year of high school, I learned that to graduate, I would have to do a volunteer
program for at least 24 hours per month. Of course, it wasn’t the best news for me and my
friends, some of them were attending academics after school while others were studying on
their own. We had to wake up every Sunday at 6 am to go to school and take a bus that
would take us to a faraway village where there were too many insects and almost no phone
signal. All my class were fed up with this, and most of them after two Sundays started to just
play around or even manage to escape from the village. I think this is the best example that
Mandatory volunteering in schools is not the best idea because most of the time they are
being coerced, it can overload them and is also not helpful for the community they are trying
to help.

Coercing students to be part of a volunteering program affects the way students view the
activity. Volunteering becomes another course of school and not an activity that contributes
to your personal growth. People may think that even if they are coerced it makes them
responsible and emphatic but I strongly believe this is not true because most of the time this
feeling is superficial stop looking at it as a show of solidarity but instead a punishment of
“another thing to do” Another negative effect of this is that students can get overload.
Students already have a lot of academic tasks and extracurricular work, so mandatory
volunteering increases the burden that students already have. Even if people believe that it
teaches them how to manage their time and schedule this is not completely true, it can have
the opposite effect and make the students grow anxious, overwhelming students and leaving
them without the time needed to properly care for themselves.

This disadvantage is not on the student's side but in the community instead. Even if it is true
that any form of help can have some positive impact, a lack of genuine willingness can lead
to superficial participation and reduced engagement on the part of students. This can result
in lower-quality projects and limited impact on the community. I heard some teachers saying
“Mandatory or not is the same, they are helping the community” but that’s not true. By
making volunteering mandatory, we undermine this fundamental principle and deprive the
community of the true potential of volunteer service. The quality and reach will be
significantly lower when students are doing it because they have to.

In conclusion, volunteering in schools is important to promote civic responsibility and social

commitment among young people. However, making volunteering mandatory goes against
the principles of community service and raises significant concerns about student well-being
and community impact. It is essential that volunteering in schools arises from a genuine
desire to help, another solution can be implementing this program but making it optional to
students, of course with some kind of reward to encourage but not force