secundario

1) COMPRENSIÓN LECTORA
A) Lea el siguiente texto y marque las transparencias[i]. Luego realice las actividades a continuación.
The general idea of a constitution and of constitutionalismoriginated
with the ancient Greeks and especially in the systematic, theoretical,
normative, and descriptive writings of Aristotle. Aristotle used the Greek
word for constitution in several differentsenses. The simplest and most
neutral of them was "the arrangement of the offices in a state". In this
descriptive sense of the word, every state has a constitution, no matter
how badly or erraticallygoverned it may be.
Every government has an organizational structure that defines the
specific responsibilities of its public officials. Some officials make the
laws, others see to their enforcement.Taxes must be collected and
revenues spent. There must be provision for preserving the domestic
peace and providing for national defense.

1- Marque el núcleo de las siguientes frases sustantivasy luego tradúzcalas al español.

Núcleo
Traducción
1/ SEVERAL DIFFERENT
SENSES
Varios sentidos diferentes
2/ ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
Estructura organizacional
3/ DOMESTIC PEACE
Paz local2- Marque el sufijo e indique cuáles son los sustantivos en inglés de los que derivan estas palabras.


Sufijos
Deriva de...
1-Constitutionalism
ism
constitution
2-Systematic
ic
system3-Theoretical
cal
theory
4-Normative
tive
norm

3- Escriba el singular en inglés de las siguientes palabras.

1. responsibilities
responsability
1. taxes
tak
1. laws
law
1. revenuesrevenue
1. these
this

4- Encuentre en el texto dos ejemplos de adjetivos posesivos y transcríbalos.

a. its
b. their

5- Lea las siguientes oraciones extraídas del texto.

A- In this purelydescriptive sense of the word, every state has a constitution, no matter how badly or
erratically governed it may be.

B- The simplest and most neutral of them was “the arrangement of the offices...