Thursday, February 15, 2024

Types of crime and offences

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Now check your answers
1) smuggling, 2) mugging, 3) fraud, 4) shoplifting, 5) vandalism, 6) drug-dealing, 7) terrorism, 
8) arson, 9) hacking, 10) looting

Extra vocabulary

11) burglary
12) hijacking
13) blackmailing
14) (bank) robbery
15) forgery
16) theft
17) kidnapping / abduction
18) public drunkedness

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Debate

 1) It's better to be good at sports than to be good at maths.

2) The requirement to wear a school uniform improves the behaviour and performance at school.

3) Sweet food should be banned from the school canteen.

4) From now on we should build only highrise buildings to save more land for nature and agriculture. 

5) School days should start at 10 o'clock.

6) Due to the increasing world population, families with children should pay high taxes. 

7) We should stop talking about climate change because it causes anxiety and mental problems. 

8) Doing homework doesn't promote / improve learning. 

9) Vegetarian food should be the cheapest option of food and meat the most expensive. 

10) Artificial intelligence is dangerous. 

11) Playing violent video games at an early age damages your brain. 

12) Men and women should compete together in sports. 

13) At the age of 14 students should be able to decide what subjects they learn at school.

14) It is better to live in Tallinn than in Rapla. 

15) To grow up without siblings is better than to have brothers or sisters. 

16) The wealthier  you are, the more taxes you should pay.

17) To be successful means to be rich and famous.

18) To fall in love at the age of 14 is a way too early. 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

International Charity Organizations

Create a presentation (Office => presentation):

* title page: name of the organization, your name, school, date

* general information

* history of the charity (if it was founded by one person, add some information about the founder too)

* focus - which issues they address, where the charity events take place, what about Estonia or the nearest areas to us

* statistics - how many employees, volunteers, buildings, projects, money etc.

* future campaigns, days, events?

* donations and volunteers - how we can contribute


Your slides: 

1. should have less text than you would speak

2. don't contain long sentences - write the bullets (alapunktid) or key words / facts

3. are attractive ( nice font, images, colours, backgound)




 1) Engineers Without Borders (Triin)

2) Rotary International (Merilin)

3) The Salvation Army (Anett)

4) Save the Children / Save the Children Fund (Kaisi)

5) UNESCO (Annabel)

6) UNICEF (Marta)

7) Oxfam (Arelia)

8) Cancer Research UK (Eliise)

9) The RSPCA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) (Sarpedon)

10) Malala Fund (Rednar)

11) Tzu Chi (The Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation) (Jorven)

12) ChildFund (Rasmus)

13) The Red Cross (Hendrik)

14) Action Against Hunger (Jaan)

15) Amnesty International (Krete)

16) Barnardo's (Liise)

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Charities

Task 1: Vocabulary

 1) (to) raise awareness

2) (to) transform lives

3) (to) aid developing countries

4) (to) support a campaign

5) (a) participant

6) (a) competitor

7) (to) promote

8) (a) fund-raiser

9) (to) / (a) volunteer

10) (to) address an issue / a problem


Task 2: issues addressed by charities. Solve the anagrams:

* gedarnneed pcissee

* mtcalie egcahn

* dofo trashgeo

* gruefee risics

* nowem's gitrsh

* tranula streaids