Summarizing

Congrats to The Americans for preparing the best Summary and to those who turned their slides on time and were posted here!

The best works were selected (4 out 20 groups) based on the main requirements and necessary steps for writing a summary and how well they presented the information of the readings assigned.

When summarizing keep in mind to:

• Cover the original text as a whole.
• Present the material in a neutral fashion.
• Condense the material and present it in your own words.

Norwegians A5_Aye Aye

Americans A5_Butterflies

Italians A5_Aye Aye

British A5_Ice

De Stefano - Goncalves - Hergueta - Rodríguez

Cause and Effect Organizers

Congrats to The Jamaicans for preparing the best Cause-Effect diagram and to those who turned their GOs on time and were posted here!

The best works were selected (6 out 20 groups) mainly based on the correct Cause-Effect presentation of the information as it appeared on the readings assigned.

When making diagrams of Cause and Effect, it is important to keep some considerations in mind. You need to:

• be as concise and precise as possible
• present your causes and effects clearly

• choose your CE design carefully depending on the amount of causes and effects you have and how they relate to one another as in the model above

Russians A4_Pulse Laser

Lira - Rivas - Quiñones - Villalba

Comment: The first CE on the top left corner is not placed correctly.

Germans A4_Coffee

Anguiano - López - Peña - Salinas

Comment: Positive & Negative Effects are adjectives and don't have plural form.

Spanish A4_US Poor City Children

Corzo - Durán - Martínez - Requena

Comment: Children's diet is part of poor health.

Jamaicans A4_Pulse Laser

Herrera - Huamaní - Mendes - Romero

Comment: The second shape on the left in not connected correctly.

Italians A4_Actinic Keratosis

Cañamer - González - Sandia - Tsortouktzidis

Comment: Effect 2 is not an effect of AK.

Chinese A4_Coffee

Del Moro - González - Torrealba - Ysturiz

Comment: Consequences is not spelled correctly. Positive & Negative [aspects] are adjectives and don't have plural form.

Timelines - Chronological Order

Congrats to The Russians for making the best Timeline and to those who turned their Timelines on time and were posted here!

The best works were selected (6 out 20 groups) mainly based on the accuracy of the information as it appeared on the readings assigned.

When making Timelines it is important to keep some considerations in mind. You need to:

• be as concise and precise as possible
• present your info in a clear manner
• choose your timeline design carefully depending on the amount of info that you need to put down (look at the two examples below).

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British: Internet history pp 18-20

Norwegians: The history of calculators pp 11-13

Chinese: The history of calculators pp 11-13

Russians: Biography of Jonathan Ive - Apple Computers pp 8-9

Germans: Biography - Ernest Rutherford pp 4-7

Swiss: Biography - Albert Einstein pp 1-3

Spanish: Biography - Albert Einstein

Reading Strategies

Congrats to The Spanish for preparing the best Graphic Organizer and thanks to all the teams that sent their slides on time and were posted here!

Review all these strategies and try to use the ones you are not using at the moment. You will see how you develop a better understanding of what you read!

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Russians_29_A2 - Focus on signal words

Hungarians_29_A2 - Focus on dictionary skills

French_29_A2 - Focus on reading skills

Norwegians_29_A2 - Focus on inferences

Jamaicans_10_A2 - Focus on inferences

British_10_A2 - Focus on references

Chinese_10_A2 - Focus on guessing meaning from context

Germans_21_A2 - Focus on inferences

Spanish_21_A2 - Focus on reading strategies