activity group 5

MEASUREMENTS AND PERCENTAGES

Exercise 1. ( Brainstorm) Try to find out what we are going to do.

Describe the pictures.

Sergei Yefimovich Zakharov is a russian painter perhaps Diana knows it

Picture I

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(Arcimboldo)

Picture II (Arcimboldo)

Arcimboldo´ s picture III

Picture IV

Exercise 2.-Hints to help you guess the answer.

a) If you look at the cheek’s man in Arcimboldo´s picture II you’ll get it. b) It is the man’s nose in picture III , you can also find this fruit in Sergei Yefimovich Sakharov’s picture. c) .-You have more than five near the man’s neck in Arcimboldo’s picture II d).-Try to guess witch is your fruit in picture IV e) .-You can see two of them on the right side in Arcimboldo´s picture.

Exercise 3.-Now, please, in fours, take these four fruits and complete the next table.

NAME

DESCRIPTION

ESTIMATE WEIGHT

REAL WEIGTH

PROBLEMS 4.-a) Prepare a recipe with 350g of A, 20 oz of B; 0,532 pounds of C, 0.00000005 tones of D, ( Convert to grams ).

b) Calculate the percentages of all the ingredients. Estimate it to three decimal places.

Think about what you have learnt I especially liked to learn about …………………………………………………

My favourite activity was ……………………………………………………………

I didn’t like …………………………………………………………………………………