Unit 3 What to do to be a PRO in

HUMANISTIC STUDIES?

Preview
Objective: Reading for information
Warm up

EXPLORING THE MEANING OF THE WORDS THROUGH SOCIAL

CULTURAL CONTEXT.
a) What do Bolivianos prefer for lunch?

this?or this?

b) Why?

STRATEGY: Podemos identificar el significado de la s

Exploring the meaning of words
through:
A) Lexical/ Semantic meaning.
B) Structural/Gramatical me aning.
C) Social-cultural meaning.
palabras, a tomando en cuenta los entes
sigui criterios::
A) Exploración del Significado.
B) Análisis gramatical.
C) Comprensión de las palabras a partir
de su contexto cultural.

LET’S FOCUS ATTENTION ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE MEANING OF

WORDS THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL CULTURAL MEANING.

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LEARN

Comprensión de las palabras a partir de su contexto cultural

Existen expresiones cuyo significado se define de acuerdo al contexto cultural en el que

se desarrollan y que en muchos casos, difiere del contexto en el cual se aprende un
idioma como lengua extranjera.

Example:
La palabra ”lunch” que en nuestro contexto se traduce como almuerzo, en países de
Norte América, y Europa, este se refiere a un refrigerio ligero que puede ser un
sándwich, hamburguesa o ensalada. En tanto que en Bolivia, el almuerzo es una comida
importante que consiste en entrada, sopa, segundo y postre.

El ejemplo presentado en la página anterior ilustra lo que significa la comida del medio
dia que en nuestro contexto se denomina “almuerzo” y cuyas caracteristican difieren de
la comida del medio dia en otros países.

EL CONTEXTO CULTURAL EN EL QUE SE UTILIZA UN TÉRMINO, DEFINE EL SIGNIFICADO

DE LAS PALABRAS.

ARE YOU READY TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT?

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SECTION 1: READING
B) Pre – Reading
1. EXPLORING THE MEANING OF ACADEMIC TERMINOLOGY .
STRATEGY:
Constructing Frame Sentences for
exploring prior knowledge.
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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HUMANITIES?
Frame Sentence: Subject +Verb + Complement
a) Match the following halves of sentences to construct valid descriptions of Humanities.
1. ____ Humanities is
2. ____ Humanities studies
3. ____ Humanities connects
4. ____Humanities explores
5. ___ Humanities develops
6. ____ Humanities continues
b) Match concepts and abilities.
1____Problem-Solving Skills
2 ____Historical Understanding
3. ____Aesthetic Understanding
4. ____Independent Learning Skills
Esta estrategia permite explorar los
conocimientos previos sobre el tópico de lectura
a partir de la construcción de oraciones y la
activación de vocabulario
Se refiere prácticamente a“zambullirse” en el
vocabulario especifico a partir de la
familiarizacion con conceptos y definiciones para
lograr una mejor comprensión del texto.
A. views and perceptions from philosophers,
historians, poets, psychologists and linguists.
B. to build on a rich tradition of ideas and values.
C. the human being.
D. a multidisciplinary human science.
E. important contemporary social, political and
ethical issues.
D. critical and analytical skills for the creation,
expression and transmission of ideas.
A. Ability to understand how other people
think, and to value difference.
B. Ability to tell better ideas from worse
and test relevant ideas.
C. Ability to learn and recognize opportunities to
learn.
D. Ability to find information and ideas and to
distinguish sources of ideas critically.
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5. ____Critical thinking Skills
E. Ability to appreciate cultures, religions and foreign
traditions.
6. ____Adaptability
F. Ability to recognize and produce visual, narrative,
and musical structures.
7. ____Research Skills
G. Ability to understand and express a problem, and
the knowledge of methods of analysis.
8. ____Perspectival Understanding
H.Ability to see how and why things came to be as
they are or different.

9. ____Cultural Sensitivity I. Ability to operate in more than one language.

10. ____Linguistic Skills J. Ability to apply knowledge and skills to a wide
variety of contexts.
c) While – Reading

STRATEGIES Cuando leemos un texto informativo nos

planteamos anticipadamente la información
Expectation questions que deseamos obtener.
Skimming: estrategia que consiste en recorrer
Skimming and Scanning rápidamente el texto con la vista para identificar
la idea principal poniendo atención a las
palabras o frases clave.
Scanning: estrategia que posibilita buscar
información específica en el texto: nombres,
fechas, datos estadísticos o términos lexicales.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HUMANITIES? b) Write down the

questions you
expect to answer
INDIVIDUAL WORK
in the brochures
from local and
a) Skim the texts and underline academic words. foreign
universities.
1.________________________________________
2.________________________________________
3.________________________________________ Example: What
4.________________________________________ areas are included in
5.________________________________________ Humanities?
6.________________________________________ 1._____________________
___________________

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 2.________________________________________
3.________________________________________
4.________________________________________
5.________________________________________
6.________________________________________

GROUP WORK

a) Make the questions to your partners and take notes.

1.________________________________________
2.________________________________________
3.________________________________________
4.________________________________________
5.________________________________________
6._____________________________

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 UTRETCH UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Humanities
Mission & Strategy

The Faculty of Humanities is home to

UNIVERSITY OF
ADGER the disciplines of History,Art, Philosophy, Music,
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Literature,Language, Religious Studies, and Media.
AND
EDUCATIO Our education and research in these fields are
N centred around Western culture, from classical
antiquity to the present day, examined from a
global perspective. Within this context, the faculty
has a special reputation in certain fields, such as
Are you interested in studying
thoughts, motivation and
people's linguistics, economic and social history, philosophy
learning? and gender studies. It is also the only university in
Netherlands offering a study program in Celtic
Or learning more about the languages,
history, beliefs or literature of different
studies (in Dutch).
cultures
?
Excellence in education and research We
This is what
humanities and
is abou. education are a multifaceted research faculty that is proud to
all t provide high-quality education. Starting in their very
first year of study, students are brought into
The faculty offers studies in Nordic
language and literature, contact
English,with lecturers who are considered to be the
German, Education, religion
French, leaders andin their respective fields. The faculty offers
history. excellent students and researchers the freedom and
We also offer studyprograms i
supervision necessary to develop their talents.
Communication Studies, Translation
n
Intecultural Communication
and Characteristic
an of humanities in Utrecht are its
Philosoph
r , d
intensive cooperative efforts in education and
y.
research, especially across geographical and
The faculty has 170 staff members and
about 2650
disciplinary borders.
students.
Social relevance
The facultyis organizedinto 4
departments, all of which are located
the main universitycampus
on Mosti of our research is financed with public means,
Kristiansan so we n consider it only natural that the results of our
d. research should be accessible to the general public.
We achieve this by organizing public activities,
providing social services and contributing to social
debates.

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 1. READING COMPREHENSION

1. READING COMPRHENSION

a) Skim/scan information and check (√) in the chart.

INFORMATION UNIVERSITY OF UMSA UTRETCH
ADGER UNIVERSITY
Number of
departments
Address

Cultural reference

Social interaction

Research

Creativity

Multiculturality

Mission and Vision

a) List as many careers you can remember from all three texts.
_________________ __________________
_________________ __________________
_________________ __________________
_________________ __________________

STRATEGY: En base a la lectura realizada se

Reading and recalling. replantean las ideas del texto en las
palabras del lector.
b) In your own words write what do you remember about…..
1. Research __________________________________________
__________________________________________
2. Languages __________________________________________
__________________________________________
3. Response to social needs. __________________________________________
__________________________________________

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STRATEGY: La lectura de un texto es más que la
Thinking critically. decodificación de los signos plasmados en él.
Implica la activación del pensamiento crítico y
analítico del lector para originar nuevos
conceptos u opiniones.

GROUP WORK

a) Discuss about the following issue. Some people

say that careers at Humanities are

1. easy and less marketable than the others.

2. not lucrative

Do you agree or disagree? State your reasons.

b) Choose one or more replies that you best identify with the observation in a).

1 ……….. I study it because I am good at it.

2 ………...I study it because I enjoy it.
3 ……….. I study it because I love it.
4 ……….. My vocation is like my name. Nobody changes it. 5 ……….. Making a lot of money
does not mean “living well” 6 ……….. Yes, you are right!
a) Re-visit the text and check (√) academic offers to foster the following abilities:
UMSA ADGER UTRETCH
Reading Skills:
Problem-solving skills
Historical understanding
Aesthetic understanding
Independent learning skills
Critical thinking skills
Adaptability:
Research skills
Perspectival understanding
Global understanding and
cultural sensitivity
Linguistic skills

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b) Does Humanities promote solutions to world current issues? State your reasons
and write your conclusions.

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2. VOCABULARY

PAIR WORK

a) Look for the English equivalences of these words.

1 estratégico ____________________
2 sociedad ____________________
3 conocimiento ____________________
4 critica/o ____________________
5 desarrollo ____________________
6 investigador____________________

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 b) Identify the word categories of these academic words.Are they VERBS,
NOUNS, or ADJECTIVES?
research ________ thought ________
field ________ gender beliefs ________
________ lecturer culture ________
________ freedom translation________
________ develop ________
c) Re-visit the texts and underline cognates in all three texts. Do they help you
to get a better understanding of the content?

SECTION 2: WRITING step by step

WHAT TO WRITE?
AN ACADEMIC HANDOUT
Un “handhout“se refiere a un dossier informativo presentado en documentos oficiales
o folletos, cuyo contenido debe ser de conocimiento de una comunidad.

PRE-WRITING
Esta estrategia permite desarrollar una
lluvia Ideas a partir de la form ulación de
STRATEGY : Brainstorming ideas preguntas sobre la información a ser
desarrollada.

Step 1 Collecting information

a) Think about your institution, faculty of department.
b) Answer the following questions.
1. Who we are? ______________________________________
2. What do we do? ______________________________________
3. What is our Mission? ______________________________________
4. What is our Vision? ______________________________________
5. What are our main goals? ______________________________________

Step 2: Outiling information

1. Select the most important information.
Por la extensión del documento que es corta se evitara la información irrelevante,
así como la redundancia de ideas o términos.

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2. Arrange your topics in a logical sequence.
Se debe ordenar la información siguiendo una secuencia lógica de prioridad . Es
importante considerar que la mayoría de las personas que leen un documento
focalizan su atención en la primera parte a la que se debe dar énfasis en el mensaje
o contenido.

3. Use academic language.

La terminología académica se expresa en oraciones cortas redactas en la voz
activa de los verbos en Simple Presente, que es de mejor comprensión.
Examples:
Humanities explores human sciences.
Effective students develop learning strategies.

Step 3: Writing
4. Write a one page handout explaining what your department/career is all about,
answering questions, giving information or promoting academic achievements.

Step 4: Reviewing
5. Re-read the “draft” version to revise content and formal conventions.

A tiempo de elaborar la versión “en limpio” de nuestra redacción es importante aplicar

las convenciones formales y de contenido desarrolladas previamente.

Answer the following questions.

A. Is the introduction motivating for reading the handout?

B. Is the information clear and concise?
C. Does the information condense the “image” of the institution?
D. Are capitalization and punctuation marks correct?
E. Is spelling correct?

Step 5: Editing
6. Edit the final copy.

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 THE ORDER OF ADJECTIVES IN A SENTENCE

STRATEGY: Cuando en una oración figura más de un

Strategy: Identifying the order or adjetivo para describir a un nombre, el
adjectives orden de los mismos no es arbitrario.

1. ADJECTIVES

STRATEGY:
La comparación de los adjetivos en la lengua
Comparing/Contrasting Adjectives in L1 materna y el idioma que se aprende facilita
(Spanish)) and L2 English. la comprensión y uso de los mismos.

Los adjetivos son palabras que modifican al nombre, el termino modifican se refiere a
que se refieren al nombre para calificarlo, cuantificarlo, describirlo. En Ingles como en
Español los adjetivos cumplen la misma función.

Examples:

Mr. Suarez is a polite professor.

The Faculty has an excellent reputation.
We provide high quality education.

Una diferencia importante entre los dos idiomas radica en que en ingles los adjetivos
no se modifican, es decir que no varían en genero o numero, es decir no se añade “s”
cuando se trata del plural y no recibe ninguna terminación especial para formar el
género masculino o femenino.

Mr. Suarez is a polite professor se refiere a una persona en

género masculino.
The Faculty has an excellent reputation  se refiere a una institución en
género femenino.

Roger and Eddy are intelligent boys. se refiere a dos sujetos en plural.
Otra diferencia se presenta cuando el adjetivo describe este va delante del nombre, lo
que es diferente en español.

Examples:

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 The White House is in Washington White house / no house white.

We provide high quality education. high quality education/ no education high quality

Check:

The best leader

Global poverty

Observamos un solo adjetivo para describir al nombre.

Fellow human beings

Major multicultural cities

Observamos más de un adjetivo (2, 3 ) para describir al nombre.

Santa Cruz is a beautiful modern city

I have a small green Japanese car.

Cuando en una oración se presentan dos o mas adjetivos, la posición de los mismos
no es arbitraria, debemos tomar en cuenta el orden que se ilustra en la tabla
siguiente:
Study the chart

ORDER OR ADJECTIVES
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ORIGIN MATERIAL
OPINION Descripción física origen Material
OPINION
SIZE SHAPE AGE COLOR
best TALLA FORMA EDAD COLOR
expensive TAMAÑO
interesting

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 big square new black Bolivian plastic
small round old white American leather
large ancient red Peruvian cotton
medium young blue Chilean
Cuban

Los adjetivos que describen nacionalidad se escriben siempre con MAYÚSCULA.

LAUGH!

a) Read the jokes and complete them with the correct order of adjectives in
italics.

1. brown/horrible/little

A: Hey! What’s that ………………………………………….on your shoulder?

B: Aaaaaaaaaargh! What is it?

A: Don’t panic. It is only your head!

2. dead/blue/dig

A: Waiter, there is a…………………………………….. fly in

soup!

the meat

B: That’s the meat, sir!

3. plastic/ small/black

A: Doctor my hair is falling out. Can you give something for it?

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 B: Certainly. Here’s a …………………………………………………bag,

Source: Woolard George. Grammar with Laughter. Language Teaching Publications, 2001

PAIR WORK.

b) Check your answers with your partner.

c) Vote in class on the best joke!

BUILDING NEW WORDS WITH ADJECTIVES

Adjectives & Adjectival AFFIXES

STRATEGY: ES: Prefixes Los afijos son vocablos que ag

regados al
Strategy: Building new words adjetivo modifican el significa
do del
Adjectives & Adjectival AFFIX mismo.
and Sufixes
Los afijos (prefijos, antes del
jetivo o
ad sufijos, después de los
s), nos
adjetivo permiten formar
vos y así
nuevos adjeti incrementar
o.
nuestro vocabulari
a) Study the chart. Check the prefixes in the adjectives
Adjetivo Affix + New adjective Meaning
Adjective
happy un + happy unhappy Infeliz
honest dis+honest dishonest
dependent in+ dependent independent
racional ir+racional irracional
posible im+posible imposible
illogical il+logical illogical
confident self+ confident selfconfident seguro de si mismo
b) Infer the rule for the use of prefixes.

_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

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_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

c) Complete the chart.

ADJECTIVE WORD FORMATION NEW ADJECTIVE MEANING
kind un+kind unkind poco amable, hostil
friendly
caring
different
regular
moral
legal
d) Study the examples of suffixes in the chart and infer the rule.
beautiful beauty + ful = beautiful
useful ue + ful = useful útil
careles care + less= careles descuidad@
hairy
help
careful
dangerous
RULE
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
_
_______________________________________________________________________

ADJETIVES ENDING IN ED/ING

1.-ED El participio pasado de los verbos actúan como adjetivos.

Examples: bored aburrido tired

cansado

2. -ING La forma “ing” del presente actúa como adjetivo.

Examples: boring = aburridor tiring =

cansador

a) Choose the best adjective in the chart to complete these sentences.

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 amusED/ING depress ED/ING amaz ED/ING worri ED/ING frustrat ED/ING
bor ED/ING frighten ED/ING surpris ED/ING disgust ED/ING

1) TV programs about the destruction of the environment are ________________ 2)

It’s ________________ how people are contaminating water in Lake Titicaca.

3) People feel ________________ to see how chemicals are destroying the ozone
layer.

4) All that garbage in the streets after the weekend. It is ________________ !

5) I’m ________________ that my grandfather collects papers and bottles all the time
to recycle them.

6) Scientists are ________________ about the effects of global warning.

7) The higher levels of poverty and corruptions are ________________ in third world
countries.

8) People look ________________ because the government does not create more jobs
for the unemployed.

LAUGH!

b) Read the jokes and underline the correct form of the adjective.

1. A: Why do you look so depressed/depressing?

B: The doctor says I have to take a pill every day for the rest of my life.
A: Why is that so depressed/depressing.
B: I only have only 25 pills.

2. A: I am extremely embarrassed/embarrassing. I called

my boyfriend Eduardo.
B: What is
embarrassed/embarrassing? A:
His name is Oscar.

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 3. A: I have an amazed/amazing watch. It only cost me $
1. B: Why is it amazed/amazing?
A: Because every time I look at it I’m amazed/amazing
that it’s is

still working.

2. THE USE OF ’S TO DENOTE POSSESSION IN NOUNS.

• Hemos aprendido que el uso de la s al final de un nombre indica el plural de la

misma.
• Pero el uso de la s después de un apostrofe ‘s, señala posesión.
• Para los nombres en singular:

Para decir: la oficina de Andrea es grande.

En lugar de : the office of Andrea
Señalamos : Andrea’s office is big , demuestra que la oficina pertenece a Andrea.

Gabriela’s boyfriend is tall .El enamorado de Gabriela es alto.

AND NOT : The boyfriend of Gabriela.

• Para los nombres en plural, el apostrofe va después de la “s”.

Example: The teacher answers the students’ questions.

• Con más de dos nombres el apostrofe va después del último nombre.

Example: Raul and Jorge’s father is a doctor.

a) Use ‘s to express possession.

1. El video favorito de Vicky y Ana _______________________
2. La casa de la mama de Pedro. _______________________
3. La nueva lección de Carla. _______________________
4. El nuevo auto de Tom. _______________________
5. La madre de Tania y Patty. _______________________
b) Rewrite the following text using ‘s with the words in italics.

1. The classes of Professor Teran are very funny.

_________________________________________________________
2. The news on television reports what happens every day.
_________________________________________________________

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 3. The exams of Philosopy are not
easy.________________________________________________________.
4. The house of my parents is big.
___________________________________________________________
5. I always attend conferences about Ethics.
__________________________________________________________.

c) Plural or Possession. Ad -‘apostrophe if appropriate.

1. Carlos and Anas surname is Perez.

2. What are the Bolivian flag colors?
3. My daughters boyfriends names are Javier Andres.
4. My friends name is Rodrigo.
5. Rodrigos brothers are Joaquin and Mauricio.
6. My daughters boyfriends names are Oscar Andres.

SECTION 5: CROSS CURRICULAR

Some people illustrate “Humanities”in this picture. Compare and contrast both sides
of the picture and write your conclusions.

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