2 Vocabulary Activity: These words appear in the dog breed questionnaire. Look for the meanings AND add 5 more words that you don't know from the same questionnaire.

example: sprinter: (a dog) that can run very fast in short distances (velocista)

jogger: a dog that can run at slow pace (trotador)

breed: the type or race of an animal (raza)

to hunt: a dog that can chase a prey (cazar)

watchdog: a guard dog (perro guardian)

grooming: haircare of your dog (aseo)

> Activity 2.- Select 2 SHOWS that attract your attention. In two lines for each show, tell me why you want to watch these shows.

Show 1: Cats 101: This show attract my attention because I love cats, the programme is like an encyclopedia of              cat breeds, so I want to watch it because I like to know all about cats and quirky cat facts too!

Show 2: The World's Oddest Animal Couples: This show is about very strannge animal couples, like a mother cat              that raise two baby ducks or a bear that think a tiger is his brother. I want to watch it because they                  give each other so much love no matter what species they are.

Show 3: Wild Kingdom: This show is about wild animals living in their natural habitats. I want to watch it                        because a like to see how they live in the wild, the animals have to live in their natural habitats not                  locked up in the zoo.

Show 4: Too cute: These is about puppies and kittens life since they are born. I want to watch it because they                are so cute when they are babys and I need to see something cute to relax from the university rutine!

My Life's Main Events

1. When I was born, on March 14 1998 in Santiago I was the first and the only child that my parents had.

2. Growing up with my grandparents and my cousin, they take care of me until I was like eleven years old.

3. When my grandfather died, I was eleven years old, it was one of the sadest days of my life because he is like a father to me.

4. I lived in San Bernardo until I was twelve years old, then we move to Buin where I live now, it is a beautiful and peaceful neighbordhood.

5. The day when my mother brought home my dog Toby. She founded him sick and starving in the place where she worked, he broke her heart with his sad face so my mom rescued him.

6. One of the happiest days of my life was when I founded my little baby Lia outside of my home meowing, she was sick and starving too. I don't understand how a human can be so cruel to abandon a baby cat like she or any inocent animal.

7. When I founded the little beast Sonny. Me and my mom were taking a walk with Toby when, in a bus stop in the middle of the road, we saw a hairy ball. He was sick and starving like Toby and Lia and he had his left hand broken, so I begged my mom and she allowed me to adopt him.

8. The last important event was when I graduated from the school, it was just one year ago and it was also one of the happiest days of my life!!

CA 2

1. About 800,000 years ago, Fire was controlled by early humans.
2. About 4 million years ago most early human species became bipedal.
3. The Homo Habilis used to live in Eastern and Southern Africa.
4. About 12,000 years ago, humans managed to control the growth and breeding of some plants and animals.
5. The Sahelanthropus tshadensis is the earliest human species from the timeline.


Answer these questions:

1. What's been the role of climate change in the development of humans?

The role of climate change is forcing the humans to adapt their bodies and behaviours to survive during times of greatest fluctations. Thank to this the humans have been able to develop through the year.

2. In your opinion, what is the most significant milestone for the human evolution? Why?

I think the most significant milestone for the human evolution is becoming bipedal, because is the base for the others milestones and becoming bipedal helped to get advantage of diferents habitats and these have inlfuence in the development of new adaptations for the humans bodies and beahaviours.

3. Which early human species was thought to be the first to use tools made from stone?

The early human species that was thought to be the first to use tools made from stone was the Homo habilis.

4. Who were the first human species to travel to and live in Europe? When?

The first human species to travel and live in Europe was Homo heidelbergensis, by 1,3 million years ago.

5. Which species survived for the longest time? For how long?

The Homo erectus was the species that survived for the longest time, they survived more than nine time as long as our own species, between about 1.89 million and 143.000 years ago

My favorite thing

My favorite things in the world are books, I got my first book when I was 11 years old, my mother gave it to me, then when I was 12 years old I bought my first book of Stephen King it was called "Pet Sematary" and I loved it, so I started reading all his books, others horror books (from autors like Poe or Lovecraft) and fiction books since now. I used to read all the time but currently I'm studying all day so I don't have much time for these, and I miss it so much because it was like watching a movie but even better, you can learn new words and improve your grammar and orthography. I like it because, when you are bored or when you are waiting for something (like in the waiting room of the dentist), reading immerses you in a new world full of new amazing experiences, and life without it will be so boring!!

3 Videos of animals

This is a video of the Black Jaguar/White Tiger Foundation, located in Mexico. They are engaged whit the rescue of big felines from circuses and private owners. The video shows the founder of it and Cielo, the first panther he rescues. Is evident that she loves him and she is happy there.

I love animals, but if there is something that really scares me are the spiders, they move so quickly that make me nervous and in this video they share 10 gigantics and horrifics sipders, I watched it only by curiosity so I am going to have nigthmares about them.

Here is another video of Black Jaguar/White Tiger Foundation, but these show how the circuses damage these beautilfuls and inocent animals only for the amusement of their public. I think what this foundation do is beautiful but this mistreatment have to end so BOYCOTT THE CIRCUS. These are Rose and Cuzco

My Opinions

What is your opinion about owning an exotic pet?

I like exotic pets, I think they are cute, but I don´t like to have an animal confined in a cage, and I think that an exotic animal like a ferret, a parrot or a hedgehog usually have to be locked up, so I wouldn´t like owning an exotic pet. In addition I have two cats that would happily eat that kind of pets.

What is your opinion about killing stray dogs?

In my opinion killing stray dogs isn´t the solution for the overpopulation of this inocent animals, I think that the municipalities should take care of these and sterilize all the stray dogs on their communities, put them in adoption, and also they have to punish people who abandon an animal.

I would like a tatto like these!

What is your opinion about recycling?

I think recycling is very important to protect the environment, if every person recycle they garbage it would give a breather to the Earth.

What is your opinion about tatoos?

I think tattoos are beautiful works of art, it has to be very difficult to draw in the skin like tattooists do. I don´t know if I can get a tattoo because I´m very coward about pain, but I would like to have at least a small one.

What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana?

In my opinion legalizing marijuana is something good because there are many other drugs that cause more damage and they are legal, so legalizing marijuana would be something good but with some restriction like don´t use it when you have to drive and other things like that.

My Autobiography

I was born on March 14, 1998 in Santiago, Chile. At elementary school and high school I studied at Instituto Sagrado Corazon, located in San Bernardo. I´m currently studying veterinary at U de Chile, at Veterinary Sciences faculty.

I live with my parents, my dad Osvaldo and my mom Elizabeth, and with my pets: Sonny (a little pseudo-poodle very energetic), Luna (an obese and lazy cat) and Lia (my "little baby cat"). I love them so much, and I had one more dog named Toby but he died months ago of  kidney failure. We live in Buin, so I have to wake up early to go to the university.

I like reading a lot of fiction books, specially Stephen King´s novels, he writes the best horror histories of the world.