Class 2.7
Class 2.7
Class 2.7
PRESENTACION:
Before class, review the video related to the structure of the passive voice, then answer the
exercise to practice the passive voice in the present and past
1. Mr. Trump was elected as president by the Americans in November 2016.
10. Millions of bees are being killed / are killed by pesticides and Asian hornets. They are
disappearing.
14. My friend wasn’t careful. She was fell off her bicycle.
3. Jennifer didn't finish her homework. Jennifer hasn't finished her homework.
8. Mrs. Smith didn't read the book. Mrs. Smith hasn't read the book.
17. We lived here for a year. We have lived here for a year.
19. It didn't rain for a long time. It hasn't rained for a long time.
20. Who finished the homework? Who have finished the homework?
PRACTICE
During class the exercise will be reviewed and work will be done with the revision to reinforce
the structure and pronunciation. Then write a biography of a famous CEO or director of our times
so that you can create a video and share it in the classroom as evidence of the spoken
production.
BIOGRAPHY
Guillermo del Toro (born October 9, 1964, Guadalajara, Mexico) Mexican director, screenwriter,
and producer who was known for imbuing horror and fantasy films with emotional and thematic
complexity.
Del Toro developed an interest in both film and horror stories as a child. He began making short
films while in high school and later studied filmmaking at the University of Guadalajara. He
subsequently learned the art of movie makeup from legendary film makeup artist Dick Smith. Del
Toro spent much of the 1980s working as a special-effects makeup artist, and he cofounded
Necropia, a special-effects company.
Ron Perlman as the title character in Hellboy (2004), directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Del Toro wrote and directed several episodes of the 1988–90 television horror series Hora marcada
before creating and helming his debut feature film, Cronos (1993). The movie, about the effects of
a device that confers immortality, won nine Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film—
including best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best original story—and also received the
International Critics’ Week grand prize at the Cannes film festival. His next movie was an American
Miramax production, Mimic (1997), starring Mira Sorvino. He followed it up with a ghost story set
at the end of the Spanish Civil War, El espinazo del diablo (2001; The Devil’s Backbone). Del Toro
won more widespread notice with his comic-book adaptations Blade II (2002), starring Wesley
Snipes, and Hellboy (2004), which he also had a hand in writing.
PRODUTCION:
In 1902, Julián Slim Haddad, father of Carlos Slim Helú, arrived in Mexico from Lebanon, all alone
and 14 years of age, speaking no Spanish. He was escaping from the yoke of the Ottoman Empire,
which at the time conscripted young men into its army; mothers therefore sent their sons to exile
before turning fifteen.
And thus Don Julián arrived in Mexico; he was a young man, energetic and full of enthusiasm and
ideas, who after disembarking in Veracruz, moved to Tampico, Tamaulipas, where four of his older
brothers had already settled since 1898 (José, Elías, Carlos and Pedro Slim) with the conviction that
they would succeed together with the country that had received them.