English V - Week 3 - Hopes & Ambitions

Introduction: In today's class we will begin Unit 8 on the topic of hopes and ambitions. We will read about the famous Rocket Girls from NASA, listen to famous people talk about their wishes and regrets, and we will add comments to a bucket list wall. 

Warm Up: Solve the Puzzle

Click your group link below. One person in your group should share the screen and follow the instrcutions in the Jamboard.

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Task 1: Rate the Advertisements

Last week you created some advertisements to try to convince Costa Ricans that eating insects is good. Read some of the ads your partners created in the Entorno Virtual. 

• Design: What is effective about the design of the advertisement?
• Information: What was a convincing fact or piece of information?
• Creativity/Humor: What did you like about the creativity shown in the post?

Reply to at least one post summarizing your thoughts.

Task 2: Listening Practice - Hopes and Ambitions

Have one member of your group open his/her ebook to PAGE 93. Click play on the audio and answer exercises 3, 4 and 5 together. 

Task 3: Reading Practice - Who were the Rocket Girls?

Have one member of your group open his/her ebook to PAGE 94. Read the article then complete the questions in exercise 2. If you have trouble viewing the reading, CLICK HERE.  

Task 4: Grammar Practice - Mixed Conditionals

Click the link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

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Now, click on your group link and complete the tasks in the document with your partners.

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The rocket girls went from being ‘’computers’’ to becoming the lab’s first computer programmers and engineers. One of the group’s early leaders, Macie Roberts, made the decision to hire only women, and this policy continued for the next thirty 25 years. They brought in many women who wanted to be engineers but didn’t have the necessary qualifications. If anyone tried to employ only men or only women today, they wouldn’t be allowed to. But Roberts made the work environment at the lab 30special. The women formed close relationships and worked flexible hours to help each other balance home and professional lives. At the same time, they felt they were doing something really valuable. As a result, many women stayed on working at JPL for 35 thirty or forty years. Holt says that if there were more women engineers today, she probably wouldn’t have written the book. She hopes that the rocket girls will now get the recognition they deserve, and inspire a new 40generation of female engineers.