Class 4 7EGB: Oil Boom

My dear Students:

So you have more understanding on what is the Oil Boom or "El Boom Petrolero" you will have to watch the following videos.

Please answer the following questions and make a mind map in English in your notebooks about the topic.

Questions:

1. When did the oil boom begin?
2. Which was the period of time when the PIB in our country grew?
3. How much did Ecuador grow in 1973?
4. Mention some benefits from the oil boom.
5. Where does the oil mainly come from?
6. Where did the company Tex-Pet Petroecuador work?
7. What is the name of the international organization is Ecuador part of?
8. How many oil barrels does Ecuador produce every year?

Class 4 7EGB: Activities

Dear Students:

Using the information in the post Class 4 7EGB: Military Dictatorships in the Americas answer the following questions:

1. What is a dictatorship?
2. Who governed Perú between 1968 to 1975?
3. When did Perú joined Operation Condor?
4. What did Guillermo Rodriguez Lara believe in?
5. Who governed Chile between 1973 to 1990?
6. How many people are believed to have been killed during Pinochet's government?
7. What is the "moral rehabilitation" of Brazil?
8. How many documented cases of assassinations or disappearances were there in Brazil?
9. What is the "The night of the long police batons"?
10. How many people were tortured, killed and disappeared in Argentina?

Dear students remember to check on the dictionary all the words you don´t understand in the dictionary so you can understand better the reading.

Good luck with your homework and Happy Vacations!!!

Class 4 7EGB: Military Dictatorships in the Americas

A Dictatorship is a country, government or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator. It is usually violent.  These are some examples of the dictatorships in Latin America. 

PERU 
Peru has had over a dozen coup, often short-lived, sometimes populist. Below is a small sample.
Manuel A. Odria (1948-56)
Modified the penal code to punish "political terrorism" with the death penalty, adopted a draconian Internal Security Law, suppressed opposition party APRA.
Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-75) A rare left-leaning dictator, Alvarado stifled some dissent (exiling publishers), nationalized companies, and pursued relations with the Soviet Union. As his health deteriorated, he was overthrown. 
OPERATION CONDOR Peru joins in 1978

ECUADOR 
A military coup in 1963 to keep the country from going communist, commences with jailing or exiling the entire leadership of the communist left and reorganizing the universities to squash the left. The junta returns power in 1967. The leader of the 1972 coup, General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, believed in “revolutionary nationalism” and created state-run companies, often run directly by the armed forces,as part of an effort to replace foreign-produced goods and services with nationally produced goods and services. The state expanded its role in industries such as the telephone service, airlines, tourism, hotels,and steel. In addition, the government joined the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). He is deposed by the military in a series of coups in 75/76. Power is handed back in 79.
OPERATION CONDOR Ecuador is known to have participated beginning in 1978. It is unclear to the extent, but is believed to have been peripheral.

CUBA 
Fulgencio Batista
Runs the country after a coup in 1933, but is finally elected in 1940. Installed in power by the US in 1952 and rules until being overthrown by the Cuban Revolution. Complete stooge of US corporations and the American Mafia. 

CHILE 
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1973 to 90)
heads coup against President Salvador Allende on Sept 11, 1973. Orders thousands of leftists rounded up, tortured and murdered in the basement of the national sports stadium. Between 5,000 and 30,000 people are believed to have been killed in the operations of Pinochet's regime.
OPERATION CONDOR killed Chilean activists, generals, trade-unionists, and threatened US Congressman (and later NYC Mayor) Ed Koch. The assassination of several people in Washington, D.C. led to the some diplomatic tensions with the U.S. Many Chileans were "disappeared."

BRAZIL 
A Military Junta (1964-85), supported by the US [principally, the CIA, the ITT corporation], ousts João Goulart. Congress was shut down, political opposition was reduced to virtual extinction, habeas corpus for "political crimes" was suspended, criticism of the president was forbidden by law, labor unions were taken over by government interveners, mounting protests were met by police and military firing into crowds, peasants' homes were burned down, priests were brutalized...disappearances, death squads, a remarkable degree and depravity of torture...the government had a name for its program: the "moral rehabilitation" of Brazil. Kennedy Ambassador Lincoln Gordon refers to this as "the single most decisive victory of freedom in the mid-twentieth century."
OPERATION CONDOR According to a government-sponsored truth and reconciliation commission in 2007, by the end of the 21 years of dictatorship there were 339 documented cases of government-sponsored political assassinations or disappearances. More were interrogated, tortured, and jailed.

ARGENTINA 
Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet (1955-58) 
Overthrew Peron in 1955, deposed two months later by General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu who ruled for three years. Aramburu is later kidnapped and killed in 1970 by the Montoneros in retaliation for his murder of a Peronist-General.
Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70), a month into his regime ordered La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Police Batons"), beating and arresting University professors and students. Overthrown by General Roberto M. Levingston (1970-71) who was then deposed himself byGeneral Alejandro Agustín Lanusse (1971-73).
Jorge Rafael Videla (1976-83)
One of the leaders of the Military Coup, appoints himself president and commences the dirty war. Currently living under House Arrest. 
OPERATION CONDOR Alongside the "Dirty War," upwards of 30,000 are "disappeared:" abducted, tortured, killed, their bodies hidden; often their infant children would be kidnapped and adopted by military officers or the wealthy.

Latin America Dictatorships.

Dear students:

Please watch the videos and answer the questions. If you don´t understand some of the words, please check them in the dictionary. One of the videos is in Spanish, but you have to answer the questions in English. Please watch the videos with your parents, so they can help you understand more about this topic.

Questions:

1. Which countries were fighting in the Cold War (Guerra fría)?
2. Which country helped establish the dictatorships in Latin America?
3. What ideals did the dictatorial regimens try to repress in Latin America?
4. What is "Operación Condor"?
5. How many people were killed, tortured or disappeared during the dictatorships?
6. Who was identified as the head of "Operación Condor"?


Please present homework for the next week!!

Reading comprehension 2: Flyers practice

Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the correct word next to numbers 1–5. There is one example.

summer              whispered          empty      followed             full                       found      horrible               find                      heard

One evening in     summer    I was climbing in the mountains with my older brother, Robert. After about an hour, Robert looked at the map but he couldn't (1)                      

out where we were. There was a castle in front of us but it wasn't on the map. We walked up to the big door together. Suddenly an ugly old woman was standing there! She was wearing a (2)                     black dress.

We went inside. It was very dark in the castle and we were both afraid. The old woman didn't say anything but started to walk away from us. My brother (3)                    
 'Don't go with her!' but I didn't listen. I (4)                      her up some stairs. At the top there was another smaller door. The woman opened it and there, in front of me, was a
room (5)                      of sweets! I went inside and the door closed behind me.
It wouldn't open again.  And then I heard someone in the room. It was my brother. 'Come on Harry! Wake up, you'll be late for school!' he said. 

Reading Comprehension: Flyers practice test

Part 6

– 10 questions –

Read the text. Choose the right words and write them on the lines.

Example

Come to London There are many famous places        to       visit in London. The most famous, perhaps, is 'Buckingham Palace' (1)                it's the Queen's home. 'Tower Bridge' is over 100 years old and you (2)                see it from one of the boats on the 'River Thames'.    London (3)                lots of things for families to do together. (4)                you want to go shopping, Harrods is London's most famous store but it's very expensive. You'll find that markets sell some very nice things and are (5)                 cheaper. And you must visit 'Hamleys'(6)                 is London's best toy shop.    What about food? There are many restaurants in London(7)                 the 'Rainforest Café' is very good for children. When you go inside you(8)                 see paintings of jungle animals everywhere! And in summer it's nice to have(9)                 picnic in one of London's lovely, green parks. When it's rainy, go to the cinema at the science museum and (10)                a rocket go up into space! London's a great place for a holiday!

Example       to                       for                      by

1                      when                 because           while

2                      can                    like                    want

3                      is                       has                    gives

4                      Before              Then                  If

5                      very                   much                 most

6                      what                  that                    which

7                      but                     so                      or

8                      have                  would                will

9                      a                        an                      the

10                      watching           watch                watched

Presidents of Ecuador: José Placido Caamaño

José Placido Caamaño

José Plácido Caamaño was born in Guayaquil in 1838 and died in Spain in 1901. He was president of Ecuador from 1883 to 1888. He participate against the revolt against the president Borrero. He wanted to follow García Moreno's footsteps. Among his important work we can highlight the railways and telegraphs he built, several highschools and many schools. He was accused of bribery.