Sustainable development?

The United Nations Development Programme’s recently published Human Development Report, which says that its ‘Human Development Index’ (based on income, life expectancy and education) has increased in almost every country in the world in the last twenty years, but also that the threat of climate change jeopardises this progress. Think about the following questions:
1. What factors do you think determine a country’s level of ‘development’?
2. In what ways, if any, would you say development is different from ‘quality of life’ (how comfortable or enjoyable someone's life is)?
3. In which countries do you imagine quality of life is highest, and why?

Here you find a text with two activities and a glossary with some expressions that might be new for you. You will find the answers below, but don't cheat ;)

Sustainable progress student

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Glossary

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Answers:
Exercise 1
1. F 2. D 3. F 4. F 5. D 6. T 7. T 8. F 9. F 10. T
Exercise 2
1. Average income, life expectancy and level of education.
2. The financial crisis.
3. The report says that most people are healthier, live longer, are more educated and have access to more goods and services.
4. Because some of those countries have better health and education systems than others.
5. Because it could cause severe environmental problems in some parts of the world that will threaten the livelihoods of huge numbers of people.
6. The report says the link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions needs to be broken.

Homework (4º A)

Homework:

Student's book: Mini-grammar section, page 25
Order of adjectives - sheet I gave you
Workbook: page 17 and 18

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Past simple

Dear 2nd year students,

Here you can practise a bit more to get used to the irregular and regular verbs (past simple).

Irregular verbs

Pronunciation of regular verbs

USA elections

Republicans recaptured control of the House and made gains in the Senate on Tuesday night!!!