In this exercise, you need to read the texts on pages 130-131 and mark these sentences as true or false, then correct the false ones.

1. Marcela learned to use infusions on a trip to Colombia, her grandmother’s land.
**False**
*Marcela aprendió a usar infusiones en la cocina de su abuela en Colombia, donde ella vive.*
Marcela learned to use infusions in her grandmother’s kitchen in Colombia, where she lives.

2. Colombia is one of the countries with the most diverse vegetal species.
**True**

3. In traditional healing practices, the healing properties of plants are combined with the healing power of animals.
**False**
*En las prácticas curativas tradicionales, se combinan las propiedades curativas de las plantas con ritos sagrados.*
In traditional healing practices, the healing properties of plants are combined with sacred rites.

4. Knowledge about the healing power of plants has been passed down from parents to children through centuries.
**True**

5. In Colombia, use of healing plants is only popular in indigenous communities.
**False**
*En Colombia, el uso de plantas curativas persiste en todos los niveles de la sociedad.*
In Colombia, the use of healing plants persists in every level of society.

6. Despite the arrival of scientific medicine, many communities kept their traditional medicinal practices.
**True**

7. The communities that kept their traditions better were those closer to the coast.
**False**
*Las comunidades que mejor conservaron las tradiciones fueron las que están más aisladas.*
The communities that kept their traditions better were those that are more isolated.

8. In Colombia, institutions are not worried about recovering healing traditions.
**False**
*En Colombia, las instituciones intentan recuperar y conservar el conocimiento sobre plantas curativas.*
In Colombia, institutions try to recover and save the knowledge about healing plants.

9. Pharmaceutical companies want to own the plants.
**True**

10. Colombia has started to control the exportation of healing plants.
**True**

In this exercise, you need to read the texts on pages 130-131 and complete the sentences with the correct option.

1. In Recreovía, Colombians can do ____ or take dancing lessons.

a. aerobics
b. crafts
c. contests

The correct answer is **a, aeróbicos**.

2. Countries like México, Chile and ____ are also implementing the Ciclovía.

a. Costa Rica
b. El Salvador
c. Venezuela

The correct answer is **c, Venezuela**.

3. In Chile, the health system follows the ____ model.

a. mixed
b. universalist
c. private

The correct answer is **a, mixto**.

4. Carlos Finlay contributed to discover how ____ is transmitted.

a. malaria
b. yellow fever
c. the flu

The correct answer is **b, la fiebre amarilla**.

5. In Chile, they use *estar funado* to say that someone has ____.

a. an indigestion
b. the flu
c. low energy

The correct answer is **c, poca energía**.

In this exercise, you need to read the texts on pages 130-131 and then discuss these questions with a classmate.

The questions are:

* Can you patent nature? Do pharmaceutical companies have the right to patent plants? To they have the right to do it if they modify the genetic structure of the plant? What are the possible consequences of patenting plants and living organisms?

So, you could say:

*No se debería poder patentar la naturaleza. Las compañías farmacéuticas pueden hacerlo si tienen el dinero, pero no es correcto, ni siquiera aunque modifiquen la estructura genética de la planta. Es algo que viene de la naturaleza, no es creación de nadie, y, si se patentan organismos vivos, van a querer quitárselos a las comunidades que los tienen. No está bien quitar los organismos vivos de su entorno por dinero.*
You shouldn’t be able to patent nature. Pharmaceutical companies can do it if they have the money, but it’s not correct, even if they modify the plant genetically. It’s something that comes from nature, it’s not anybody’s creation, and, if living organisms are patented, they are going to try to take them away from the communities that have them. It’s not right to take living organisms out of their environment for money.