ADVANCED 8

ADVANCED 8

HW ASSIGNMENT # 1

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb0EVoOYFWE

2. Answer the following questions

1) Why do children see using technology as a way of life?
 A. Because the access to it is easy
 B. Because they see their parents using it
 C. Both answers are correct

2) What do people feel when they leave their phone at home?
 A. They feel naked without it
 B. They feel handless without it
 C. They feel uncomfortable without it

3) The children should
 A. Use only one screen at a time and limit their time using it
 B. Use only one screen at a time for less than 2 hours a day
 C. Use electronics for only 2 hours a day

4) What is the significant loss mentioned, when people use text messaging?
 A. Affect (what do you see - like it is when you are talking face to face)
 B. Feelings (expressing emotions)
 C. Behaviour (people can "mask" themselves in the internet)

5) Donna's daughter didn't understand her mom because
 A. Donna used a wrong expression
 B. Donna forgot an exclamation point in her text message
 C. Donna's message lost the affect

6) What's the point in "no TV, no phones and no computers" rule at the dinner table?
 A. That's inapproriate behaviour
 B. That's the time to socialize
 C. That's distracting people from eating

HW ASSIGNMENT # 2

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwK7ggA3-bU

2. Answer the following questions
1) You and I go hard, at each other like we going to _______
 A. fight
 B. for
 C war

2) You and I go rough, we keep throwing things and slammin' the _______
 A. for
 B. more
 C. door

3) You and I get so, damn dysfunctional we stopped keeping _________
 A. store
 B. sore
 C. score

4) You and I get sick, yah I know that we can't do this no _________
 A. money
 B. more
 C. saw

5) But baby there you go again, there you go Again _________ me love you
 A. faking
 B. taking
 C. making

6) Yeah I stopped using my head, using my head let it all _______
 A. grow
 B. go
 C. row

7) Got you stuck on my body, on my body like a _________
 A. tattoo
 B. canoe
 C. balloon

8) And now I'm feeling stupid, feeling __________ crawling back to you
 A. foolish
 B. blue
 C. stupid

HW ASSIGNMENT # 3

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/tom_wujec_demos_the_13th_century_astrolabe.html

2. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the main focus of the lecture?

The lecturer uses the astrolabe to argue that technology is always good and bad.

The lecturer wants to encourage people to learn how to use astrolabes in their daily lives.

The lecturer wants to convince the audience that astrolabes can help us build better computers.

2. According to the professor, an astrolabe is

A map of the sun

A puzzle

A model of the sky

3. All of the following are true of astrolabes EXCEPT

Children at the time knew how to use them

An educated person could learn how to build an astrolabe

Astrolabes were always painted gold to represent the sun

3. Why does the lecturer say "It's worth probably about three MacBook Pros"?

To put the cost of the 15th century astrolabe replica into perspective

To protest the cost of technology

To prove that everyone should own an astrolabe

4. Which of the following is NOT a step in the process of using an astrolabe?

Selecting a star

Moving the rete so the altitude of the star corresponds with the scale

Aligning the moon and the North Star

5. According to the lecturer, an astrolabe    

Can be used in hundreds of ways

Must be made out of bronze

Is always identical 

HW ASSIGNMENT # 4

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke83y0PBAAw&feature=player_embedded

2. Answer the following questions:

Will Smith thinks the use of 3D effects in his new film is mainly focussed on creating sensations of falling and vertigo .
 True
 False


Will Smith believes that aliens may or may not exist .
 True
 False


Will Smith will play Obama in a film if he feels the ending is appropriate .
 True
 False


According to the interviewer , Will Smith seems to be both a happy and a lucky kind of person .
 True
 False


The word 'bugbear' means 'a hidden shape' .
 True
 False


What really annoys Will Smith is people talking too loudly on trains .
 True
 False

HW ASSIGNMENT # 5

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfsQBeXWktU&feature=player_embedded

2. Answer the following questions:

1. When did the Myth of the Bermuda Triangle start?
 a) On the fifth of December, 1945.
 b) On the third of December 1945.
 c) On the fifteenth of December 1935.

2. Why did the aircrafts in flight 19 take off?
 a) They were training to be aerobatic aircrafts.
 b) They were doing a routine flight.
 c) They were training for war.

3. How were the conditions of the aircrafts before the flight?
 a) They had some minor problems.
 b) They were strong and safe aircrafts.
 c) They were old aircrafts but still useful.

4. How long were the aircrafts in the air?
 a) About four hours
 b) Twenty minutes
 c) It was not mentioned

5. What happened right after the planes disappeared?
 a) They found some wreckage in the ocean.
 b) Some people heard pilots asking for help.
 c) A rescue plane took off to look for them.

6. Which area is covered in the Bermuda Triangle?
 a) 1500 000 square miles between The Bermuda Island, Puerto Rico and Miami.
 b) 1500 000 square miles between The Atlantic Ocean and The Gulf of Mexico.
 c) 150 000 000 square miles between The Bermuda Island, Puerto Rico and Miami.

7. Why did the reasons of these unexplainable disappearances start growing?
 a) Because a ship sailing in the area saw some lights in the sky.
 b) Because after many years a ship disappeared again in the Bermuda Triangle.
 c) Because the Columbus ship sailed in the area and disappeared.

8. What would not be a speculation of what happened in the video?
 a) Giant monsters appearing in the sky.
 b) Spinning compasses.
 c) Holes in the ocean which swallowed ships.

HW ASSIGNMENT # 6

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduAbLpZDHg&feature=player_embedded#!

2. Answer the following questions:

1. How much would the drug cost in the street?

 16 or 17 pounds

 60 or 70 pounds

 1670 pounds

2. Which of these effects is NOT mentioned?

 you can go paranoid

 your heart beats faster

 you feel in good spirits

3. The expert says that...

 having drugs for personal use is illegal

 having up to half a kilo is legal

 is legal if its for religious reasons

4. Which drugs is Class A?

 Marijuana and hash

 Extasy and LSD

 Cocaine and Heroine

5. A worrying effect of Extasy is that...

 it helps you concentrate at home

 it makes you enjoy house music

 it alters your perception

6. How did Ali's friend, "Dangerous Dave", feel after having 22 E's in one night?

 He had sleeping disorders

 He had a driving accident

 He had a big headache and felt dizzy

7. What happened when a friend of Ali's gave his dog an E?

 The dog died soon

 The dog tried to rape a cat

 The dog went mad and bit him

8. What is the lesson people can learn from this?

 You can hurt yourself if you are under the effects of substances

 You run the risk of having a heart attack

 Substances affect the way your body work

HW ASSIGNMENT # 7

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZbAufhdfwU&feature=player_embedded#!

2. Answer the following questions:

1. In which year were the smurfs created?
 1958
 1968
 1978

2. Who created the smurfs?
 Peter Culdesack
 Pierre Culliford
 Dear Mulligan

3. The smurfs were created as side characters for which comic?
 The shoe with 6 wholes
 The flue with 6 poles
 The flute with 6 holes

4. For how many years did the cartoon air?
 8
 7
 9

5. How many episodes aired?
 376 episodes
 256 episodes
 266 episodes

6. The characters were given names based on...?
 They were given names based on their personality.
 They were given names base don their brothers.
 They were given names based on actuallity.

7. When they first debuted, they lived in the...?
 They lived in a lovely land.
 They lived in a magical land.
 They lived in the cursed land.

HW ASSIGNMENT # 8

1. Watch the following video and answer the questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQWwkERit4&feature=player_embedded#!

2. Answer the following questions:

1. Rights you have simply because you are human, they are applied to everyone, everywhere; they are universal:
 Natural Rights
 Human Rights
 Individual Guarantees

2. According to the United Nations, there is a total of
 29 Human Rights
 30 Human Rights
 31 Human Rights

3. This is the most widely accepted document of Human Rights:
 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 Constitution
 Magna Carta

4. What was the most important contribution of Cyrus the Great?
 He conquered Babylon
 He announced that all slaves were free to go
 A document called the Cyrus Cylinder where the rights for people were written

5. Who did change the concept given by the romans of Natural Law to Natural Rights?
 French people
 American people
 British people

6. In 1915 a man from India leaded protests and insisted that all people on Earth should have rights:
 Nelson Mandela
 Martin Luther King
 Mahatma Gandhi

7. With the creation of this document Human Rights were born:
 United States Declaration of Independence
 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
 Cyrus Cylinder

8. When was the United Nations formed?
 In 1945
 In 1946
 In 1948

9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in:
 1946
 1947
 1948