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www.wHATIsyOURNAME.yOU (MANUAL) 157 Senegalese origins and is very good at maths and sciences. How can Giuseppe find out Jemina’s tastes in order to buy a present she likes? B. Today Vittoria has a lot of homework to do and risks arriving late to Kung Fu tra- ining. She cannot miss the training because the following week she will be taking part in a competition. It is 17:30, the training starts at 18:00, and it takes 45 minutes on foot to reach the gym. Her mother is about to come back from work, so Vittoria could wait and ask for her mum to take her to the gym by car and be there in 20 mi- nutes, but Vittoria does not know whether her mum has stopped to do shopping. If so, she would not come back home in less than 15 minutes. Moreover, Vittoria does not know how much traffic there is. Another possibility is to take the underground, which is 10 minutes away from home and 10 minutes away from the gym. The tra- ins run every 6 minutes, it is just one stop for the gym and it takes 3 minutes from one stop to another. What should Vittoria choose? Should she go on foot, wait for her mum to go by car, or take the underground? Why? You can find further resources in the manual to Tina and Amir, episode 2 and Chris- tian, episode 2. Exercise b): Investigatory process After answering the previous questions, explain to your classmates the processes of investigation you have used, what information you have taken into account and the general assumptions you made to determine your conclusions. Discussion Plan: Mistakes 1. What is it that we define as a mistake? 2. When is being incorrect a mistake? 3. When is being inaccurate a mistake? 4. When you make a mistake, are you doing something wrong? 5. When you do not make a mistake, are you doing something right? 6. Under what circumstances does making a mistake imply being wrong? 7. Under what circumstances does not making a mistake imply being right? Exercise: Mistake Read the following sentences and decide if there is a mistake. Then specify which type of mistake it is (e.g. grammatical, mathematical, moral…). If it is possible to co- rrect or remedy, say why and how. If it is not possible to correct or remedy, say why not. Also say if each mistake could have been avoided and how. 1. If I would have done my last assignment well I had passed. 2. My friend Jessica told Jemina: “ You must not use make up because your skin is too dark.” 3. To build a fast train line they will have to dig deep through a mountain in which there are harmful substances for our health. 4. Taking the videogame from the table, I knocked over the crystal vase that my mum loved a lot.