UNIT 4 VIDEO: 'STUPIDITY RULES US TODAY' BY VANDANA SHIVA

“Estupidez es lo que nos gobierna. Y nuestro reto es batallar contra la estupidez”. Son las palabras de Vandana Shiva, física y activista del medio ambiente, por la justicia alimentaria y los derechos de las mujeres.

MULTIPLE CHOISE: CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD:

1. She says that stupidity________ us today.

A. Move B.  Rules C. pushing

2. Our challenge really is _________ stupidity.

A. Against B. On C. pro

3. She says that the food we are eating today is _________ food.

A. Good B. Fake C. excellent

4. “I don’t think the Planet will______, I think the planet is too ________.

A. end / week B. finish/wee C. Die /Powerful

5. We need to protect our _______.

A. House B. Room C. Home.

WRITE DOWN IF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE WRIGHT OR FALSE ACCORDING TO VANDANA SHIVA’S WORDS.

1. Women were left to do the job that was considered not important.

2. Going to war and killing people was important.

3. Making profits at the cost of others was important.

4. These two things were designed by powerful people and these dirty jobs had to be done by poor people.

5. Women were left to do the real things: provide the food, the water, take care of family.

6. We don’t need the value of knowledge and how to live with nature. That is what women’s knowledge is.

7. We don’t need knowledge of how to care.

8. We don’t need knowledge of how to share.

9. Women will be teachers of how to be human beings in the future.

CORRECT MY GRAMMAR MISTAKES

1. The sistem that has made everything wich is very costly for the planet and for the producer looks very cheep for the consumer. (3 mistakes).

2. Very costly produccion that kills the girls in Bangladesh in slave factoryes is made to look like cheap clothing.  THIS IS A FAKE CHEAP. ( 2 mistakes).

3. Young people should recognize that working with their hand, head and mind are the higheest evolution of our species. ( 3 mistakes).

4. Working with our hands is not degradation is our real humanyity.  (1 mistake)

5. We are part of the earht family. (1 misake).

6. Don’t bi afraid of deceitful, dishonest and brutal power. That are true freedom.  (2).