English & science April 28th

Hello kids!!! I saw this picture and I thought about you. Lets start...

Today in English we have to correct from Student Book exercise 1 page 103:

1.- 1) to help   2)playing    3)watching   4) playing   5) helping. Download the exercise and the table about Infinitive and -ing verbs that you have copied on your English folder in GoogleDrive.

For today. It would be great if you could watch again the video that I sent you yesterday. I know you liked it because many of you just told me. 

Complete exercises 2 and 3 in page 58 from your Student Book. I will send tomorrow the corrections and you will submit them tomorrow. 

Remember last Friday task (Día del libro) will be graded. Today you don't have to.much homework so it will be great if you check the task and you complete it. Just an advice, you have to submit it before Friday.

Social science. The mind maps from this lesson that you are sending me everyday will be graded.

Today's lesson will be deboted to agriculture:

Because of the relative decline of agriculture since the 1960s, Spain’s rural population decreased and many farms disappeared. Spanish agriculture has remained relatively backward by western European standards: capital investment per hectare is about one-fifth the average for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the vast majority of farms are small. Since Spain joined the EEC in 1986, the Spanish agricultural sector has had to respect Europe-wide policies. As a result, many small-scale operations, especially in grape growing and dairying, had to cease. Since the mid-1990s, however, the amount of agriculturally productive land (especially land dedicated to organic farming) in Spain has increased through irrigation and the conversion of fallow lands.

Vegetables, fruits, and cereals are the principal crops, accounting for about three-fourths of Spain’s agricultural production (in terms of value), with cereals the principal crops. Barley and wheat, the major crops in Spain, predominate on the plains of Castile-León, Castile–La Mancha, and Andalusia, while rice is grown in coastal Valencia and southern Catalonia. Corn (maize), grown in the north, is a major fodder product. Other crops include cotton; tobacco (grown in Extremadura); sugar beets (grown mainly in the Duero and Guadalquivir valleys); olives (produced in the south), a large portion of which are used for oil; and legumes (beans, lentils, and chickpeas). Fruit growing is also significant, with citrus fruits, especially oranges (grown in the regions of Valencia and Murcia), being of greatest importance. Other fruit crops include apples, apricots, bananas, pears, peaches, and plums. Spain also produces vegetables (especially tomatoes, onions, and potatoes) and nuts (almonds).

Because Spain is one of the world’s largest producers of wine, grape growing is of considerable importance. The main wine-producing areas are La Rioja, the Penedès in Catalonia, Valdepeñas in Castile–La Mancha, the Duero valley in Valladolid, and Málaga and Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, which is also the centre of sherry production.

The raising of livestock accounts for just under half the value of Spain’s total agricultural output. Pigs are raised mainly in Castile-León, Aragon, and Catalonia, and pork leads meat production in Spain, followed by poultry, beef, and lamb. In the Atlantic coastal regions and the dry southern interior, sheep and dairy cows are raised.
I hope you understood my explanation, iif you have any question PLEASE contact me. This is the transcription of the second audio which is on your science folders.

Remember to read the next 2 pages and complete your mind map. I will grade this task.