World Health in the Twenty First Century

Name: Student´s number:

Course title:

English VIII Teacher’s name:

Module:

1.World Health in the Twenty First Century. Activity:

Homework 1/ Topic 4. Main Ideas

Date: Wednesday June 17, 2015 Team: The Age of Immigration

Bibliography:

Pakenham, K.E. (1998). Making Connections High Intermediate. (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Objective:

Understand new vocabulary in a real context and then use it to create ideas about the article.

Practicing how to obtain the main idea of the article.

Learn how to find the main idea with a strategy called Early Hypothesis Formation and Testing (EHFT) that will become an important tool as a learning strategy.

Procedure:

To carry out this report the following steps were taken:

I read the four topics from module 1.

I searched the textbook of this course in the sources mentioned in this course, but I couldn’t buy it. The textbook was unavailable in all the sources.

I went to my campus library to see if there was a chance to find the textbook there, but I didn´t have luck.

I told my teacher about my situation by email. So she decided to send the textbook pages that the students needed to make the first homework.

I read the article in pg 64-67.

Then I answered the closer Look Section in pg 66-67.

According to the article´s information, I drafted my results and conclusion, the experience was satisfying and successful.

Results:

2

6

4

7

1

3

5

True

True

1-significant

2-escape

3 -acquired

4-starvation

5 -violence

6-illiterate

7 -sacrifices

8 -possessions

9-discrimination

10-prejudice

11 -prosperity

12 -generations

13-visible 14 -guarantee

15- guarantee

Conclusion:

I learned from this first module that by doing extensive reading I will improve my skills to be a better English user. Also I noticed that if I read more I will be able to understand new vocabulary just like the last exercise of this report. I was able to understand and find synonyms for the words above. Then it will become a strategy to understand what´s happening while I am reading. I realize that the main idea is the most important idea that a writer expresses in a paragraph. Often, but not always, the main idea is stated clearly in one sentence. The other sentences in the paragraph usually support the main idea by providing details. Now I can use these strategies

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