Writing Final Test: 10%

Tryst, you might not be for me

It was a day like the others. Then, come the night where me and others students went to see Tryst, a play impose by our teacher. And as i am looking forward to this experience I do not really think that I might be the best person to tell if whether it should win the best play of the year or not. First, because I do not think that the play was actually for us and second, because to give an award we need special viewer’s circumstances that were not granted to us.

First of all, in every way I could see this play, I do not think it was for us, young adults. When a play or anything creative really touched us it is because we feel a connection or something that related to something we know, we understand or that acted on us. But with two protagonists of a well-advanced age, set in the Victorian years, it is clear we would not found a lot of ourselves in it. Then, despite the fine and classy staging and the well-intended performances, the story was not enough captivating for a Tuesday night of school. This old-age womanizer’s con and this poor blocked-in-her-life woman with her sad past story, had nothing to capture my attention during two hours. And even if in a way we can try to related in any of those characters, for younger story about aging people is never something really captivating. That is why I do not think I could pronounced myself on if it should win or not because it was not the best play for people of our age.

Secondly, there are circumstances to choose a winner and we were not under them. Someone who has to watch a play, a movie or anything else for a special purpose, would not do it the same way other people will do. To give an award we need to know the criteria of evaluation first. And then, we need to compare it to other candidates, something we have not do. . Yes, I could evaluated this play individually by the too much intense performances, by the simple but in a way interesting staging. I could criticized the strange projections they tried to insert and that add nothing else to it. I could also talked about my own appreciation of the play, stating the finely written dialogues. But, it is an old play so what we are rating here is this peculiar adaptation and it had nothing to truly impressed. So in any case I would issued my judgement on that question.

To sum up, I am really not qualify to give any judgement on whether it should win an award or not because I do not think I was part of the audience they were targeting and because I did not watch the play with the circumstances someone who got to choose a winner would have done it. So, winners are never general one, they are part of a majority but we too often forget the circumstances case and in any way, it is what influenced everything else.

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Reading Final Test: 10%

Read the text: “Genetically Modified Foods.” Answer the following questions. /50 A.

Match the synonym or definition below with the word from the paragraph. The (number) in parenthesis refers to the paragraph number. / 16
(1) interfering - meddling
(2) Amount of food collected from a field - crops
(3) person who grows plants - breeder
(4) make better - improve
(5) things that are planned - obvious
(6) freedom from harm or danger - safety
(7) occurring in many places - outcry
(8) amount by which something is deficient B. - shortages

Comprehension / 3
1. State the thesis or main point of the text as a whole.
GM foods are not as bad as we might think, or as people wants us to believe it.

2. How, well in your opinion, does the author support her point of view? / 3
Well, she's supporting my point of view by saying that we shouldn't criticized too fast and that we should always show both side of every story. Too often things are hidden to people things or only the side that will makes us support the point of view they want is showed. So in that way, the author really relied to what I think. Saying especially that everything has good and bad sides.

3. How does this text relate to the readings in our textbook in the unit, GMF? / 4
Well both of them we're talking of GM food but with a different opposition. In our textbook it was talking more about the bad sides of it, but in this text they tried to show the good sides of it, a part that we hardly know actually.

4. In one or two sentences, write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words. / 24
Paragraph 1: Interfering with nature is something that has been made since the age of time.

Paragraph 2 : What is the process to gros food and always have the best crops.

Paragraph 3: How they used a way to accelerate the growing of food.

Paragraph 4: Besides what critics might say it's something really natural if we compare to reality.

Paragraph 5: Two great and positive achievements of GM foods that we don't read in the newspaper.

Paragraph 6: Gm foods don't increase the danger related to food more than anything else in reality. With or without, there are as many dangers.

Paragraph 7: The food growing from GM nature are not a threat to environnement or animal or insect or everything in it. Based on the Monarch case, experience were really positive to it.

Paragraph 8: GM foods is not the only solution, but there's a lot of problem to stop in the world and while people tried to stop GM foods it has gain more positive solution than a lot of other bad things.


Writing Final Test: 10%

Final Listening test 20%

FINAL LISTENING EXAM: Blowin’ in the Wind /50 (20%)

1- What is Percy Schmeiser’s problem? /4

He had been in farming industry for fifty years and winds always been his worst enemy and now it has brought a new threat: Monsanto's DNA.

2- What is Roundup used for? /4

It's used to killed everything growing on a field, but they invent a special Canola that can resist to it.

3- How did the chemical company invent Roundup? /4

They invent it with special toxic products, but with their special Canola that can resist it, they assure themselves to have something to back them.

4- What has Monsanto accused Schmeiser of doing? /4

They accused him of stealing their special DNA because they found some in his seeds and he's not paying the rights for it.

5- Why are the farmers pissed off? /4

The farmers are pissed off because they don't think it's ethical to pay for this kind of things. they souldn't pay and change the way they've been doing agriculture for centuries and more.

6- How did Monsanto initially learn about Schmeiser? /4

Somebody told them and they trapped him.

7- Did the company respect its policy on dealing with the farmer? Yes or no. Give a reason. /4

No. Their playing the rough game and since their bigger than everything and everyone else, they don't let a tiny bit of chance to the others. Looking on the situation, Justice don't seem to be an option. The biggest win.

8- What tactics did the company use with another farmer? /4

They ask if they can have an excerpt of his plantation/seeds and since they've got it, they analyze it.

9- How did another farmer, Zilinski, get Monsanto’s DNA in his crops? /4

He trade his seeds with another farmer (something realy common) but sadly for him the seeds he got were having Monsanto's DNA. He was accused and penalized after.

10- How did the company treat Zilinski? /4

They shoot and spray their product on his fields with an helicopter to see if the Canola were resisting to te product, to finally discover that it was having nothing to do with it.

11- What is Schmeiser’s next step? /4

Continue fighting because he believe in what he's fighting for and he won't let them win so easily.

12- The narrator ends the segment with this question: “But the real question is this, can Monsanto or anybody put a patent on a piece of nature?” What do you think? /6

It goes along with the ultimate question: what about selling water? It's an hard question because yes of course those elements of nature are brought near us and supervised by people, but if it's to start a war or something violent or bad, I don't think it's the right solution. We need to know the borderline and not cross them, and actually it's always the question of power and human are good to exaggerate with it and abused of it too. But ultimately there's this idealized world really "Peace and Love" where everything belongs to everybody and we can all share and everything. Sadly the world is not like that and it's a question too elaborate in too much directions to really tell here. There's a lot of sides (good and bad) to it and it's all about circumstances. Really is a big opening question.

Pascua Lama Role Card

Title of special interest group: CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

Your name: Yeng Li

Biographical information (CV)
Your Life and history : I was born in 1980

Your Personal Job and work experiences : I always been interested by news since my youth. But for

Your Schooling Information : Had studied International journalism in England at University College Falmouth.

Your achievements in life : Working at central news agency.

Your abilities and competencies : I can talk about anything that passionate me. I'm very voluble.

Position statement (for, against or neutral): state three reasons with specific facts or examples (see Persuasive Map).

As a news reporter my job is to state news and to tell everything we have to and everything we can say. I don,t want to put my own judgement in the mind of everyone and there's a lot of good and bad sides so I can't really divide myself.

GM foods

1. GM foods involve altering the appearance of food. -- True -> FALSE

2. The genetic modifications of food is not a new phenomenon. -- True

3. Technology exists to make plants resistant to insects. -- True

4. Health Canada has accepted or approved hundreds of GM food. -- True -> FALSE

5. Some approve GM food include bananas and oranges. -- True -> FALSE

6. Health Canada has a strict process for evaluating the safety of GM food. -- True

7. It takes over 10 years to approve GM food. -- True -> FALSE

8. Health Canada used many sciences to assess GM food including chemistry. -- True

9. GM food can cure allergies. -- True. -> FALSE

10. Critics of GM food are worried about superweeds. -- True.

Pascua lama

Who? Chile and Argentina

What? Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining proyect of gold, silver, copper and other minerals.

Where? Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains, south of Atacama, straddling the border between Chile and Argentina at an altitude of over 4,500 metres.

When? Since 1991

Why? Lots of controversy

How?

LEL #4 Reading Skills Diagnostic 1: Persuasive Text

1. Interest level: This course was really boring (great; okay; loosy; boring)
2. Difficulty level: It was dunno level

3. What I learned: It was really precise and all the questions were helpful about everythings. I was evaluate on many things such as:
Distinguish Fact from Opinion
Draw Conclusions
Draw Inferences
Identify Author's Purpose
Identify Main Idea
Identify Organizational Patterns
Identify Vocabulary in Context
Predict Meaning
Recognize Point of View
Recognize Supporting Details
But the problem was I didn't rely on te text and he really bored me more than interest me. So the persuasion wasn't really effective and it didn't catch my attention to answer with precision.

4. My score: 65%

5. Rating (on 10): 4/10