Activity #11.

- “Discussing facts about education in your country”

Write some ideas that could describe your opinión or experiences about the topics
below (50 words in each one)

1- Your first day at elementary school.

my first day in primary school, a new stage of my life where I would develop
and learn many things, where I would make many friends and said and done
so, 6 years of happiness where everything was happiness and without
worries

2- The quality of your elemental education.

the quality was regular, it was not the best school but it has always been
said that everything depends on the student and his interest in both school
and life

3- The higher education facilities in your country.

Higher education facilities are very good in that for all those who want to
study they have open doors for all grades / levels from technical to
postgraduate from private schools to public.

4- The preparation of teachers in your school

teacher preparation varies a lot since there are teachers in faculties that
have high degrees of study (ETC master's degree), but they are not trained
or trained to be teachers instead there are also teachers who are in
preschool and are more than qualified to teach

5- All children attend to school in México

Not all children go to school, as there are families with low
economy, but there are programs in which the government of the state or of
the republic where they give scholarships for the family does not add any
more expense to their scarce economy

6- Higher education is expensive in México

In Mexico education is on the ground, education is based on the student
developing their studies, but in Mexico the economy does not help the
facilities and updating of schools, since in the secretary of public education
they are not well managed for improve the study
7- Educative system in México needs improvement
obviously, the Mexican system is full of corrupt people who steal money when
all that money could be used to modify the entire education system from
indigenous peoples to public schools, all would benefit the country if the
president put himself in our shoes
Activity #12.- “Reviewing Information about education in the United
Kingdom”
Write five questions that can be answered with the information given about higher
education in the United kingdom. Include the answers. You may use the next
structure in your questions.
Wh-word + do/does/did + person + verb + complement
Wh-word + is/are/was/were + person + verb + complement
 Activity #13. – “Universities in English world countries”
Fill the information about this prestigious universities, and add another University in
UK, and 2 of USA
Oxford Cambridge Harvard UCL Stanford Princeton
Location Oxford, Cambridge, Cambridge, Londres, Palo Alto, Princeton,
Inglaterra, Inglaterra, Massachusetts Inglaterra, California, New Jersey,
Reino Unido Reino Unido Estados Reino Estados Estados
Unidos Unido Unidos Unidos
Year of 1096 1209 1636 1826 1890 1746
foundation
Founder Henry II Académicos Corte General Henry Leland John
huyendo de de Brougham Stanford y Witherspoon
Oxford Massachusetts Jane
Stanford
Motto The lord is From here, Veritas Let all The wind of Under God's
my light light and come who freedom Power She
sacred by merit blows Flourishes
draughts deserve
the most
reward
Famous Stephen Isaac Barack Alexander Christian Michelle
graduated Hawking, Bill Newton, Ian Obama, Mark Graham McCaffrey, Obama,
Students Clinton y McKellen y Zuckerberg y Bell y Reese Wentworth
Emma Stephen Natalie Christopher Witherspoon Earl Miller III
Watson. Hawking Portman Nolan. y Jennifer y Thomas
Connelly Woodrow
Wilson
Activity #14.- “Research about academic Exchange program in your school”
Research about two Exchange programs (undergraduate level and master degree)
that your school (FIME) has with different education, institutions, to study abroad.
Include the next information: requirements, cost, schoolships, facilities, benefits

Exchange academic program 1

Level: ____Bachelor degree____
University: CREPUQ
__________________________________________________________________
Requirements:
- Application format with photo (UANL).
- Format of revalidation of learning units (signed by the academic commission
of the unit).
- Letter of support from the director of the agency.
- Have completed a minimum of 50% of the credits of the career and have a
minimum average of 85 (general).
- Letter from the academic assistant director of the dependency or School
coordinator in which he certifies the average and the percentage of credits
covered until the moment of applying.
- Kardex (certificate).
- Letter of reasons why you want to make the exchange (addressed to the
destination University).
- Curriculum vitae.
- Proof of language proficiency required. English: TOEFL IBT (minimum 80
pts.) Or official TOEFL (minimum 550 points), French: DELF (B2), German:
level B2 (intermediate high). For other countries, the language proficiency of
the target geographical area must be checked, regardless of the language in
which the classes will be taught.
- Copy of passport (With a minimum validity of 6 months to the date of his
return).
- CURP copy.
- Program of subjects to be taken at the destination University.
- The student must take 15 to 20 credits.
- Analytical content of each of the subjects that will be taken at the destination
University.
- Commitment Letter
- Copy of the VISA procedure (once it has been accepted).
- Letter of good health and general medical tests of blood and urine (once it
has been accepted).
 - Psychological exam (once it has been accepted).
- International medical expenses insurance (with repatriation, psychological
and dental coverage).
__________________________________________________________________
Costs:
the faculty has a scholarship program for exchanges
__________________________________________________________________
Economic Support (Scholarship):
DAAD: becas del programa del Gobierno alemán de intercambio
académico._________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Facilities:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Benefits:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Exchange academic program 2
Level: ____ Bachelor degree ____
University: CONAHEC __________________________________________
Requirements: Requirements:
- Application format with photo (UANL).
- Format of revalidation of learning units (signed by the academic commission
of the unit).
- Letter of support from the director of the agency.
- Have completed a minimum of 50% of the credits of the career and have a
minimum average of 85 (general).
- Letter from the academic assistant director of the dependency or School
coordinator in which he certifies the average and the percentage of credits
covered until the moment of applying.
- Kardex (certificate).
- Letter of reasons why you want to make the exchange (addressed to the
destination University).
- Curriculum vitae.
- Proof of language proficiency required. English: TOEFL IBT (minimum 80
pts.) Or official TOEFL (minimum 550 points), French: DELF (B2), German:
level B2 (intermediate high). For other countries, the language proficiency of
the target geographical area must be checked, regardless of the language in
which the classes will be taught.
- Copy of passport (With a minimum validity of 6 months to the date of his
return).
- CURP copy.
- Program of subjects to be taken at the destination University.
- The student must take 15 to 20 credits.
- Analytical content of each of the subjects that will be taken at the destination
University.
- Commitment Letter
- Copy of the VISA procedure (once it has been accepted).
- Letter of good health and general medical tests of blood and urine (once it
has been accepted).
- Psychological exam (once it has been accepted).
- International medical expenses insurance (with repatriation, psychological
and dental coverage).
____________________________________________________________
Costs: the faculty has a scholarship program for exchanges
__________________________________________________________________
Economic Support (Scholarship):
DAAD: becas del programa del Gobierno alemán de intercambio académico
__________________________________________________________________
Facilities:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Benefits:
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Activity #15. – “Mexican inventions”
A) Choose from the inventions given the six things that you think were invented
by a Mexican.
Mexican Inventions:
- Color TV
- Contraceptive Pill
- Trans Lucid Concrete
- Instant Book Maker
- Polio Vaccination
- Mouse Pad

B) After discovering the six Mexican inventions, write the person who invented
them. These are the inventors: Guillermo González Camarena, Juan Manuel
Lozano, Víctor Celorio, Armando Fernández, Joel Sosa and Luis Miramontes.

1. _Guillermo González Camarena__ ___Color TV__________

2. _Juan Manuel Lozano__________ ____Rocket Belt_______
3. _Víctor Celorio________________ _Instant Book Maker___
4. _Armando Fernández__________ ____Mouse Pad______
5. _Joel Sosa___________________ __Translucid Concrete__
6. _Luis Miramontes______________ _Contraceptive Pill_____