Unit 4: Future matters
Future challenges, plans, predictions, conditions and possible solutions.
Lecciones
Diagnóstico
Preguntas disponibles: 8. En Smart TV se muestran como material de práctica con solución desplegable.
¿Cuál título coincide mejor con un texto sobre reconocer noticias falsas?
- Three Ways to Check Online Information
- My Favourite Sport and the Equipment I Use
- A Recipe for a Traditional Family Meal
- Ancient Buildings and Their Architectural Styles
Solución: El título anticipa de forma directa el contenido.
¿Qué herramienta puede ayudar durante la revisión sin reemplazar tu juicio?
- An automatic tool accepted without reading its suggestions.
- A random word generator.
- A dictionary or spell checker used to verify doubtful words.
- A calculator for every sentence.
Solución: Las herramientas sirven para comprobar, pero la decisión final debe revisarse.
¿Cuál oración contiene información relevante para un correo de viaje?
- Our reservation number is 4827 and check-in begins at 2:00 p.m.
- My favourite colour is blue, which does not help with a travel reservation.
- Triangles are interesting, but this information is unrelated to the trip.
- My password is private information and is not relevant to the travel email.
Solución: La información se relaciona directamente con la reserva.
¿Cuál oración usa “going to” correctamente?
- They going to installing bins.
- They are going install to bins.
- They are going to install new recycling bins.
- They is going to install bins.
Solución: La estructura correcta es subject + be + going to + verbo base.
¿Cuál oración mantiene un registro claro y respetuoso?
- If you are unsure about a message, just do whatever seems fastest and avoid asking anyone else for help.
- If you are unsure about a message, ask a trusted adult or teacher for help.
- Only stupid people make mistakes online.
- Never ask anyone anything.
Solución: La primera ofrece una recomendación respetuosa y útil.
¿Cuál secuencia representa correctamente el proceso de escritura?
- Publish → plan → delete → draft → ignore.
- Edit → publish → invent topic → plan.
- Draft → publish immediately → never revise.
- Plan → draft → revise → edit → publish.
Solución: El proceso avanza desde planificación hasta publicación.
¿Cuál cierre funciona para una reseña breve?
- Overall, the hostel exists and this is the end of my review.
- Overall, the hostel is a good option for students who want a central and affordable place.
- Overall, the hostel is perfect for every person in every possible situation.
- Overall, I will finish without giving the reader any final evaluation of the hostel.
Solución: El cierre sintetiza valoración y público apropiado.
¿Cuál first conditional está bien escrito?
- If the temperature will rise, we use will energy.
- If temperature rose, will use more energy tomorrow in this pattern.
- If rising temperature, we will used energy.
- If the temperature rises, we will use more energy for cooling.
Solución: La condición va en presente y el resultado con will.
Evaluación de unidad
Preguntas disponibles: 16. En Smart TV se muestran como material de práctica con solución desplegable.
¿Qué detalle mejora una historia sobre un problema digital?
- What happened, how the character reacted and how the problem was solved.
- A list of unrelated colours that never connects with the digital problem.
- Several random equations that do not explain what happened in the story.
- Only the character’s name repeated several times without describing any event.
Solución: Una narración necesita eventos y resolución conectados.
Revisa: “In my country people greet with a handshake however customs vary.” ¿Cuál versión es más clara?
- In my country, people often greet with a handshake; however, customs vary.
- In my country people greet however handshake customs.
- However in my country because customs.
- In my country, people greets with a handshake; however the sentence still has a subject-verb agreement error.
Solución: La versión corrige concordancia y separa adecuadamente el contraste.
¿Cuál oración evita un error de concordancia?
- The rooms were clean and the staff was friendly.
- The rooms was clean and staff were friendly one person.
- The rooms were cleans.
- The staff were friendlys.
Solución: La primera mantiene formas correctas para rooms y staff.
¿Cuál frase expresa preferencia de forma clara?
- I prefer public transport because it reduces the number of cars on the road.
- I prefer public transport, but the sentence does not explain any reason for that preference or connect it to the context.
- Public transport prefer me.
- I am prefer transport.
Solución: prefer + objeto y because permiten expresar y justificar preferencia.
¿Cuál párrafo está mejor conectado?
- I received a link. Blue. Tomorrow. Password.
- I received a suspicious link. First, I checked the sender. Then I deleted the message and reported it.
- First I deleted the message. Then, before that, I checked the sender after I had already reported everything.
- Suspicious because the message and no action.
Solución: Los conectores ordenan acciones relacionadas y completas.
¿Qué comentario de revisión es más útil?
- Make the whole text better, without identifying what should change or where.
- Add an example in paragraph two to explain how the tradition has changed.
- I do not like the paragraph, but I will not explain what could improve it.
- Change everything in the text, even the parts that already support the purpose.
Solución: El comentario identifica lugar y mejora concreta.
¿Cuál texto distingue hecho y opinión?
- The ticket is the best in the universe, so the sentence treats an opinion as a fact.
- The ticket costs $5,000. In my opinion, it is good value for a two-hour tour.
- My opinion costs $5,000, which confuses a personal judgement with a ticket price.
- Everything I write is a fact, even when the statement cannot be verified.
Solución: Se separa un dato verificable de una valoración personal.
¿Cuál revisión mejora esta oración: “Electric cars are quiet they can still create traffic.”?
- Electric cars are quiet because however traffic.
- Electric cars are quiet; however, they can still create traffic.
- Electric cars quiet they traffic.
- However electric cars are quiet because no contrast.
Solución: however conecta correctamente las dos ideas contrastantes.
¿Cuál opción evita una afirmación exagerada?
- A strong password makes every account impossible to attack.
- Passwords solve every online problem.
- A strong password can reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
- One password is safe for all accounts forever.
Solución: “can reduce the risk” expresa una afirmación razonable sin absolutismos.
Antes de publicar, ¿qué comprobación final es importante?
- Only change the font colour.
- Add unrelated information and extra examples even when they do not match the purpose or the intended audience.
- Confirm that the final version matches the purpose and audience and has no obvious language errors.
- Remove the title even if it helps the reader.
Solución: La revisión final combina adecuación comunicativa y corrección.
¿Cuál oración desarrolla un problema y una solución?
- We got lost, but the sentence never explains what happened next or gives any action that could solve the problem.
- Directions because lost maybe.
- We got lost, so we asked a police officer for directions.
- We asked because no problem existed.
Solución: La segunda acción resuelve el problema planteado.
¿Cuál párrafo combina plan, consejo y condición de forma correcta?
- We are going to start a school garden. Students must brought gloves. If it is dry, we watering every afternoon.
- We will to start and students should bringing if it will dry.
- We are going to start a school garden. Students should bring gloves. If the weather is dry, we will water the plants every afternoon.
- Garden because future, gloves maybe.
Solución: Las tres funciones aparecen con estructuras correctas y coherentes.
¿Cuál texto breve cumple mejor un propósito real?
- Reminder: The media project will be ready sometime soon. Upload something when you remember, but no deadline is given.
- This is text about no deadline.
- I like projects because projects.
- Reminder: The media project is due on 18 August. Upload one file and check that your name is visible.
Solución: El mensaje contiene propósito, fecha e instrucción concreta.
¿Cuál cambio mejora coherencia entre dos oraciones?
- Add “However” before the second sentence even when both sentences support exactly the same idea and there is no contrast.
- Use “because” without a cause.
- Insert a random date.
- Add “For example,” before a sentence that illustrates the previous idea.
Solución: El conector debe reflejar la relación real entre las ideas.
¿Cuál mini párrafo es más coherente?
- The beach was beautiful because the bus was late. Tomorrow we visited the old town and yesterday the wind will be strong.
- The wind because and stayed no subject.
- Town centre was beach and nothing happened.
- The beach was beautiful, but the wind was strong. We stayed for an hour and then returned to the town centre.
Solución: Las dos oraciones mantienen tema, contraste y secuencia.
¿Cuál cierre escrito propone una solución con cautela, sin prometer demasiado?
- This plan will solve every environmental problem forever, even if nobody uses the system or changes any other behaviour.
- The plan cannot fail under any condition.
- One bin will eliminate all waste.
- This plan could reduce waste if students and staff use the system consistently.
Solución: could + condición evita una afirmación absoluta y expresa una posibilidad razonable.