HOMEWORK N2

Names:

I.               Create the corresponding question using the following structure:

  WH       +  DO/DOES +      Subject +     Verb + Complement ?

Example:  Where         does              your sister          study?

1.     _____________________________________________

My father works at Cencosud.

2.     _____________________________________________

I go to play football with my brother.

3.     _____________________________________________

On weekends I sleep and eat.

4.     _____________________________________________

I practice sports twice a month.

5.     _____________________________________________

She goes to the beach on summer.

6.     _____________________________________________

My mother works on Saturdays.

7.     _____________________________________________

She lives with her parents.

II.              Answer each question:

1.     Who do you go to the park with?

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2.     What do you cook on weekends?

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3.     How often does she go to Aiep?

______________________________________________

4.     When does he study?

______________________________________________

5.     What time does she go to the Institute?

______________________________________________

6.     When do you start summer vacations?

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7.     What does she do in her free time?

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WH Questions con Presente Simple

Utilizamos preguntas de este tipo cuando necesitamos saber información detallada, o lo que denominamos Respuesta larga. En la respuesta a estas preguntas, jamás nos encontraremos con un Yes o No, sino que , dependiendo de la WH question que utilizemos, la respuesta variará.

Por lo tanto,

I. What, tendrá como respuesta una cosa, objeto o actividad :

 What do you do every day?

I work and go to the gym

II. Where, tendrá como respuesta un lugar:

                  Where do you work?                                    Where do you play basketball?

                                    I work at the mall.                  I play basketball at the park.

III. Who…with? , tendrá como respuesta una persona, porque responde a Con quién…? Por lo tanto siempre deberá llevar WITH (con) en la respuesta:

                  Who do you study English with?

                                    I study English with my brother.

IV. When, tendrá como respuesta un día, mes, estación del año, etc. En general, un TIEMPO determinado

                  When does he practice soccer?

                  He practices on Mondays.

V. How often, tendrá como respuesta una FRECUENCIA, es decir cada cuánto tiempo ocurre o no algo.

                  How often do you read?

                  I read three times a week / I read once a month.

VI. Why, tendrá como respuesta una razón. Responde al Por qué. En la respuesta, para dar la razón, utilizaremos la palabra BECAUSE (porque de razón). Jamás utilizaremos el WHY en respuesta.

                  Why does she go so early?

                  Because she has to work.

VII. What time, tendrá como respuesta una hora:

                   What time does she get up?

                                    She gets up at 7:00 in the morning.

HOMEWORK

NAMES:____________________

I.               Answer these questions using complete information:

1.             What is your name?

2.             Where are you from?

3.             How old are you?

4.             What do you do in your free time?

5.             Who do you live with?

6.             How often do you study English?

7.             When do you study English?

8.             Who do you study English with?

9.             When is your birthday?

10.          How do you celebrate your birthday?

11.          Where do you go on weekends?

12.          What can you do very well?

13.          What sports do you like?

14.          What time do you start English classes?

15.          What are you going to do this weekend?

protest in Santiago

More than 70 organizations participated in the march, denouncing Chilean energy company AES Gener and mining company Antofagasta Minerals for possibly threatening the capital’s water supply.

“Everything starts with the glaciers … and for us it’s important that we be present in this march in particular because the construction of Alto Maipo will impact the glaciers,”

“There’s a lack of understanding regarding the impact this construction will have on the city, which has to do with this secret agreement between [Aes Gener] and Aguas Andinas and which will allow it to use drinking water reserves for the production of energy,” 

Earlier in July, various political figures denounced what they saw as a lack of transparency in the AES Gener’s dealings with Aguas Andinas, a utility company that manages drinking water.

According to the companies in charge of Alto Maipo, the US$700 million project would generate approximately 50 percent of Santiago homes’ electricity demand.

Catalina Pezoa, representing the Workers’ Revolutionary Party (PTR), spoke to The Santiago Times about the moral imperative behind her organization’s participation.

“We’re a movement connected to the earth and in that sense, we have a more moral outlook on this problem,” she said. “We want the nationalization of natural resources … because we know that the workers are those who should have control of those resources without having to designate an employer who takes all of those resources and interests.”

Back in April, thousands of Chileans gathered in Parque Almagro demanding the end to the private management of water in Chile, and to have the resource named a basic human right in the Constitution

On Saturday, carrying posters with pictures of the local plant life, residents of the Peumo community of the Cajón del Maipo joined the march to defend their home.

“We’re against the Alto Maipo project because it’s going to take the water from the river and tributaries, 80 percent of it … and the area is filled with flora and fauna. It’s a national heritage. I don’t know how the government can allow something like this. It’s an immoral project,” 

Saturday’s march is one more act of opposition in a string of protests against the hydro project and the privatization of water.

Earlier in June, residents of San José de Maipo occupied the entrance to the Public Works Ministry to show their opposition to Alto Maipo.

Chile imports 70 percent of its energy and has some of the highest energy prices in the region. Bachelet has warned of a pending energy crisis as the mining industry in the north expands, however large-scale hydro projects and coal-fired power plants have struggled to remain operational or get off the ground in the face of legal battles with communities, environmentalists and regulators.

The 2014-18 Energy Agenda revealed the government is gambling on the U.S. shale gas boom in order to address rising energy prices in the medium term.

Palestinian refugees’ escape to Chile

Ahmad and Mustafa are proud Palestinians — but they have never lived in Palestine. The two brothers — 19 and 15 years old, respectively — have spent much of their lives in refugee camps across Iraq, suffering poor conditions, sandstorms and the threat of reprisals from Shia militia as the country continued its descent into sectarian violence.
Now Ahmad and Mustafa live with their family in the leafy Santiago suburb of Ñuñoa. In 2008, the Chilean government gave them and more than 100 other compatriots and fellow refugees asylum in the country, believed to already have the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middle East.

“In 2003, following the beginning of the war, we were discriminated against and abused by various Iraqi criminal groups,” Ahmad said. “They killed a lot of young Palestinians and destroyed our houses and shops.”

The situation for many in the Palestinian community in Iraq only got worse in the following years, according to Ahmad. Sectarian violence was on the increase and Baghdad became increasingly dangerous. In 2006, militant Sunni’s bombed Askariya Shrine — one of the most important religious sites for the country’s Shiite majority — sparking a cycle of retaliatory violence which was often directed at the vulnerable and principally Sunni Palestinian refugee population.

After six years in Santiago, Ahmad and Mustafa are well integrated in the Chilean-Palestinian society, especially through organizations such as General Union for Palestinian Students in Chile (UGEP). Like many Palestinians across the world, Ahmad and Mustafa follow current events in the Middle East closely and continue to voice their opposition to Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip following the recent outbreak of violence. On Saturday July 19 Palestinian solidarity groups will protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Santiago.