Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Food waste is the world's dumbest problem (B1A/B)



1.What´s the food cam?
2. When was it invented?
3. How much of the food produced in the US is never eaten?
4. How do food production and food waste affect the environment?
5. Is reducing food waste a difficult goal to achieve?
6. Where is food specially wasted in the US?
7. Why are fridges responsible for food waste?
8. And why are plates also responsable for that?
9. What is Copia?
10. How many people were the Copia organizers able to feed in 2 days with food that wasn´t going to be consumed?

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

My questions on How I Live Now for the next LC (ch. 7-11)



Choose 3 questions to answer. Some questions refer to chapters 1-6 as well:
-Explain this quote (p. 19) :"Starting your first day as a murderer". Who says it? Why?
-Would you have left your four children alone to go to Oslo to work like Aunt Penn did? Would we be asking this question if the one who went away was their father?
-What is The Calm before the Storm? Why do you think it is mentioned? (ch.6)
-What problem did Melissa Banner and Lyle Hershberg have as a couple? (ch.7)
-What are Edmond´s and Isaac´s weird gifts? (ch. 8)
-Why doesn´t Daisy care about the alarming news about war (actually, she´s enjoying the situation)? (ch.9, 10, 11)


Don´t forget to include your own question and quote in your worksheet.

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Emma Watson´s UN speech (4ºA)



1.According to Emma Watson, who are the inadvertent feminists?


2. How does Emma Watson´s speech make a difference in relation to other similar speeches on this issue?


3. Explain Edmund Burke´s quote.