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2. Haz los ejercicios
Comprensión, verdadero o falso, ordenar, habla real y un dictado. Cada uno se verifica al final.
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Comprensión
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Pregunta 1
What is Ms. Hale doing?
Pregunta 2
How will the projects be done?
Pregunta 3
When do the reports have to be handed in?
Pregunta 4
What does Ms. Hale say matters most for the marks?
Pregunta 5
Can students use the internet for background information?
Pregunta 6
What does Ms. Hale think about an experiment that fails?
Pregunta 7
How does Ms. Hale feel about the students' worries?
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Sobre esta pieza
Una maestra de ciencias explica las reglas de un proyecto de clase y contesta las preguntas de un alumno. Practica seguir explicaciones largas, condiciones y advertencias, y fíjate en cómo habla de verdad una maestra.
Qué vas a practicar
- Comprensión: la idea principal y los detalles que se escuchan (números, precios, horas, nombres).
- Verdadero, falso o no se dice: atención precisa a lo que de verdad se dijo.
- Ordenar: seguir la secuencia de lo que pasó.
- Habla real: formas y expresiones que no suenan como se escriben.
- Dictado: escribir las palabras que faltan en una frase del audio.
Vocabulario de esta pieza
go over phrasal verb
repasar, revisar con cuidado
to explain or check something carefully from start to end
handed in phrasal verb
entregado
given to a teacher or a boss
extensions noun
prórrogas, más tiempo de entrega
more time to finish something after the deadline
genuine adjective
real, genuino
real, not false
marking noun
la calificación (el acto de calificar)
the way a teacher gives points to students' work
method noun
método
the way you do something step by step
provided conjunction
siempre que, con la condición de que
only if; on the condition that
necessarily adverb
necesariamente
in a way that must be true
copied adjective
copiado
taken from another person's work without permission
Ms. Hale: Right, everyone, settle down. Before you go, I need to go over the details of the science project, because last year half the class got them wrong.
Ms. Hale: First of all, the projects will be done in groups of three. Should anyone want to work alone, they'll need to ask me by Friday.
Ms. Hale: Next, the reports have to be handed in by the end of the month, and I mean the end, not the first week of the next one. No extensions will be given unless there's a genuine emergency.
Jamal: Does being sick count as an emergency, or does it have to be something more serious?
Ms. Hale: It does, as long as I get a note from home. Now, a word about marking. If I were marking on effort alone, most of you would pass easily. But what matters is the method. It's the quality of your experiment that counts, not how long the report is.
Jamal: Ms. Hale, does that mean a short report could still get top marks?
Ms. Hale: Absolutely, provided it's clear and the results are explained properly, because length was never the point.
Ms. Hale: I'd rather read two good pages than ten confused ones.
Jamal: And what if our experiment fails?
Ms. Hale: Well, that's not necessarily a problem. Some of the best scientists in history are known for experiments that failed. What I want to see is why it failed, and what you'd do differently.
Jamal: What if we use the internet for the background information?
Ms. Hale: That's fine, provided you say where it came from.
Ms. Hale: If I find a copied paragraph, you'll get zero for the whole project, no questions asked.
Jamal: Okay, understood. We'll write down every source we use.
Ms. Hale: Had I known you were all so worried, I would have explained all of this earlier.
Ms. Hale: Right, that's all. Off you go, and please don't leave it all until the last night.