PRUEBA DE ENSAYO

ACTIVITY ONE
Reading.
Read the following article. Then answer the questions below by selecting the correct
option.
Do not send to the University the complete activity. Just list the answers. (Example: 1,a/
2,b)

1. What did her father want Sedna to do? a. get married

a. Get married

2. How did Sedna react to the hunters’ proposals of marriage?

a. She refused their offers.

3. Why did Sedna agree to marry the young hunter?

c. He made a good impression.

4. What did Sedna find out when she got to her new home? a. Her husband was a
b. Her husband was a raven, not a man.

5. Why did her husband keep his face hidden?

a. He didn’t want her to know he wasn’t human.

6. Because Sedna was so unhappy, what did she do?

b. Every day she cried for her father to come.

7. Why did the raven fly after Sedna and her father?
c. He wanted to get his wife back.
8. How did the raven cause the dangerous storm?
b. By flapping his wings at the ocean.
9. What did her father do when their lives were in danger?
b. He threw Sedna out of the kayak.
10. Why did her father throw Sedna out of the kayak?

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 c. He wanted to save his own life.
11. How did Sedna try to save herself?
c. She grabbed the kayak with her fingers.
12. How did the sea animals come into the world?
a. Sedna’s fingers became the seals and fish, and her hands became the whales and
walrus.

ACTIVITY TWO

1. Plan a paragraph about one of these environmental problems in your town: air
pollution, noise, or any other. Use the outline below to make notes on your ideas.
Mention the problem you are to write about.
Problem: Atmospheric Pollution
Causes Effects
1.- Smoke Emission It affects health in the short term to
vulnerable groups such as children and
a.- The vehicles the elderly.
b.- burning forests In medium and long term causes
discomfort to serious diseases including
2.- Atomic radiation cancer.
a.- atomic explosions Pollutes the air with radioactive particles are
deposited on plants and water and food pass
b.- failures in reactors through humans and causes cancer and
genetic disorders.

2. With your own words write a paragraph about the environmental problem mentioned
in the former activity. Use the information provided in the planning.
Atmospheric Pollution
Air pollution is caused by causes smog produced by vehicles and the burning of forests,
another cause of this pollution is the atomic radiation produced by nuclear explosions and
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failures in the reactors. These cases lead to various effects on the health of all people such
as: Short-term affects vulnerable people such as children and elderly, medium and long
term because simple discomfort to serious diseases, radioactive particles are deposited on
plants and water, they can be transmitted through food passing to humans and causes
cancer and genetic disorders.

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