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B1 Level 1Organizing my ideas

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Welcome!

Hello, dear apprentices!

In this material, you will learn how to brainstorm and organize your ideas; how to form some adverbs and other words to express the way you do things; how to use the passive voice for report and finally, some vocabulary related to

projects. Enjoy it!

Warm Up

Besides all the research I have to do for my project, I also have to clean this mess up! Look at my desk! Its a disaster! It is very hard to organize your ideas in the middle of this chaos. Maybe Stacey can give me a hand with this too.


Warm Up

Anthony: Hi, Stacey! How are you doing?

Stacey: Im doing fine. How about you?

Anthony: Well, I was looking for papers about recycling on the web

and I found many interesting articles about it, so I printed them all.

Stacey: But, why did you do that? It seems you forgot what our

project is about: ecology!

Anthony: Youre right, Stacey. Silly of me! I was so excited about

having found so much info that I did not think about paper waste at

all.

Stacey: As long as you recycle all that paper once we read the

articles, its ok.

Anthony: And, what can I do with the rest? There are bottles, cans,

cardboard, and even organics.

Stacey: Then, youd better start by classifying those in separate

bins, while I try to arrange all this paper here.


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Stacey: Later, because the paper classification is still unfinished. I

wanted to have your opinion as I am a bit indecisive about it.

Anthony: Sure! By the way, thank you very much for your help,

Stacey. It has been invaluable!

Stacey: No problem. Now, listen. All the articles are put together on

the desk regardless of their topics or publication year, so I guess

we have to organize that next.

Anthony: I got an idea! What if we create a glossary to sort all this

out?

Ok, so plastic is stored in the red bin! The glass is placed in the yellow one! The biodegradable is thrown away in the green one. And the blue for paper. Are we actually using it?


Lets get inside

Anthony: I cannot help thinking that I am simply incapable of doing

all this. Weve been working for hours and these papers continue

incredibly untidy.

Stacey: Dont get discouraged, Anthony. You can do it

successfully. Maybe whats happening is that we are doing things

unproductively.

Anthony: Youre right. That must be the reason why I feel all my

work has been purposeless. What do you suggest, then?

Stacey: Lets define first which words will be emphasized in our

proposal.

Anthony: Alright! As far as I remember bleaching, buyback

centers, deinking, paper Waste Management (PWM),

sustainability

Stacey: We can label some folders with those key words to put

everything in place.

We have progressed a lot but we still have to do the most important part: Paper classification. Join us and learn how to organize your ideas!

So, one for bleaching; one for buyback centers; another for deinking; this one for Paper Waste Management (PWM), and finally, the last for sustainability.

Lets get inside


Lets get inside

The first article is titled...

We can classify that article in the bleaching folder.

Eco-friendly Chemical Processes in Paper Recycling: Natural

alternatives to hazardous substances

How to reconcile environmental and

economic performance to improve corporate paper

sustainability


Lets get inside

Stacey: Let me put that one in the sustainability folder. I think we

also need to have a file in excel to make a glossary with all these

key words.

Anthony: In fact, I downloaded a file with a glossary sample. Its on

the desk. Do you want to see it?

Stacey: Unbelievable! That is precisely the way I thought it should

be.

Anthony: So, you complete the glossary including the fields in the

table:

Term in English

Grammar category (Noun, adjective, verb, etc)

Type (General/Specialized)

Definition

Source of definition

Field (Science/Medicine/Literature)

Stacey: Ok! Waste is mentioned everywhere in our project. Lets

add it to the glossary.

Anthony: Try one of those monolingual dictionaries online for the

definition. See Cambridge, for example.

Stacey: ...an unnecessary or wrong use of money, substances,

time, energy, abilities, etc.

Anthony: Dont forget to add the source of the definition.


Lets get inside

Anthony: I was completely incredulous that we could actually

arrange all this paper today, but were done!

Stacey: Were about to finish. All we have to do is to complete the

glossary. Lets see the call requirements in order to brainstorm

some ideas and concepts.


Lets get inside

I remember some:

shredding,

screening,

repulping,

deinking...

And also the acronyms we found in the articles, do you remember?

KFT,

MWP,

OMG,

ONP.


Lets get inside

Stacey: What do they stand for?

Anthony: KFT is Kraft Paper.MWP stands for Mixed Waste

Paper,OMG is not Oh, my God! Its Old Magazines and ONP

means Old Newspapers.

Stacey: I was thinking we could organize the vocabulary in two

groups: types of paper and types of processes.

That makes sense! Ill put it in a graph.

Stacey: Its time to have a break, dont you think?

Anthony: Would you like some coffee?

Stacey: Absolutely! I feel powerless at this point.

Anthony: Ill make a very dark coffee then.


Lets analyze!

Hello dear apprentices!

As you have seen, organizing our ideas has been hard work! Now, its time for you to do it.

Do you know what a prefix is? It is very simple. Basically, a prefix is a syllable we add before some words in order to change their meaning. In these particular cases, the prefixes IN -, UN - and MIS - transform some adjectives and verbs into their negative form. Lets see some examples! Click on the prefixes below to see the information.

Lets analyze!


Lets analyze!

Do you know what a suffix is? Piece of cake! A suffix is a syllable we add at the end of some words in order to change their meaning. In my conversation with Stacey, we used some suffixes to transform adjectives into adverbs (-LY) and nouns into negative adjectives (-LESS) meaning without. Lets check it out!

Click on the suffixes below to see the information.


Lets analyze!

Now you know how to use some prefixes and suffixes to transform words. Remember that IN-, UN- MIS- and -LESS have a negative meaning while the suffix LY turns an adjective into an adverb so that we can express the way things are done!

Were done! We hope you can form new words with the prefixes and suffixes we studied!

Also, we expect that you learned a lot of new vocabulary but, most importantly, how to organize your ideas! Bye!


Credits

Credits

Pedagogical Direction

Paul Cifuentes Velsquez,

Carlos Javier Amaya

Direction of Art

Csar Augusto Pez Ramos

ICT Leadership

Yeison Ospina Marn

Quality management

Ingrid Carolina Flrez Urzola

Script composition

Carlos Serrano

Content Support

Carlos Serrano

Multimedia Development

Andrea Contreras Guerra

Andrs Felipe Rodrguez

Natalia Herrera

Audio Production

David Molina

Wes Manuel

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