Pre Reading Activities

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1. Can you guess what Marta Turok’s text is about by reading the title? Write your guess.

2. Scan the text and make a list of the cognates.

4. Identify the new vocabulary, make a list and define it.

5. In her short story, Marta Turok uses several expressions. Next is the list of some of them. In a piece of paper, explain them.

• Sometido a la naturaleza.

• Cúmulo de conocimientos.

• Entorno natural.

• Formulación de unidades de medida.

• Incrementar el potencial de la fuerza humana.

6. Scan Turok’s text and make a list of verbs in present, past and future tenses, conditional/potential and perfect tenses.

7. On your own, complete a first reading of “Cultura material y ecología”. What is the main idea of the text?