Alberto's text on Graffiti

1. True or False:
a. Graffiti is one of the main elements of hip hop music.
b. Graffiti was used as an art of expressionin the 1990s.

2. Open questions:
a. In which year is it the origin of graffiti in United States?
b. Is there any sort of relationship between hip hop and rap? if there is one, which one?

3. Synonyms:
a. awesome/ surprising (paragraph 1):
b. way (paragraph 1):
c. places (paragraph 2):
d. quit (paragraph 2):

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hi, guys!

I leave you here some good webpages to practice and improve your English during our beloved Christmas holidays.

PLEASE, if you can listen the music you like, watch your favourite movie, talk with native speakers if you have the chance and behave and have super gorgeous holidays with your friends and family :)

Kisses!! ;))

Use of English:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/grammar-exercises

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com

Listening: http://www.lyricstraining.com

Reading: http://englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Reading-Comprehension.htm

Speaking: http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/speaking_situations.html

Writing: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing-skills-practice

Ana's Text on Secret Santa's webpages

Too soon? Never! Secret Santa is arguably one of the best holiday traditions, but if your friends aren't meeting in advance to pick a name out of a hat, get help from a tool that promises to keep the names a secret. Here are the best ones on the web. 

Elfster will organize your party and gift exchange. As the organizer you set up the exchange, input money limits, sign up and exchange dates, and create an invite to send to guests. Once they accept and all guests are accounted for, Elfster "draws" names and then emails your guests letting them know who they need to shop for. 

Secret Santa Random Name Generator selects names for a Secret Santa group and automatically sends participants an email. All you need to share are email addresses, the number of presents for each participant, and names of the participants. 

Sneaky Santa delivers more than a cute name. The site lets you virtually draw names for your group, set up gift rules, and send an anonymous message to the participants. The design is a little old school, but you can customize your site with a picture, which means you have an excuse to Elf Yourself or Scrooge Yourself again! 

Draw Names saves group information, so you can draw from the same group of people again and again. There is also an option to input your wish list and view the wish list of the person you've selected. 

Secret Santa Generator lets you add rules (like person A can't pick person B), which is useful when two people live in the same household or your group doesn't want to pick the same people as last year.


http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Best-Secret-Santa-Picker-Websites-12602647






Questions:


1) Which oneis one of the best christmas traditions?


2)What are the main characteristics of Draw Names' webpage?






True/False


1) You can play Secret Santa through different webpages without meeting physically.


2) In Secret Santa Random Name Generator the emails are sent after an hour waiting.






Synonyms


1) house (par. 6)


2) buy (par.2)


3) Maker (par.3)


4) tricky (par. 4)

Marco's Text on Víctor Valdés

Victor Valdes' agent clears up the Liverpool speculation
Gines Carvajal has denied Liverpool offered Victor Valdes a four day trial, but that doesn't mean they're not interested.

Victor Valdes is on the lookout for a new club. Gines Carvajal, the representative of former Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes, has put the record straight regarding Liverpool's proposed offer for the player.

Reports in England had suggested Valdes rejected an offer from Brendan Rodgers to go and prove his fitness at the club.The offer, the story went, would have meant the Spanish goalkeeper spending four days at Liverpool's Melwood traning base.


However, according to Carvajal, the story is total fiction."Liverpool have not offered us the chance to train with them for four days," he revealed to SPORT. "And we have not rejected the offer, because it is false [the offer]." In addition, he added that "that proposal was never made to us by Brendan Rodgers nor by Liverpool at any moment."


However, that does not mean there is no offer on the table from the English side. Valdes has been out of action since he got injured in Barça's win over Celta Vigo in March. He had been due to sign for Monaco, but the French club pulled out of a transfer in the summer, calling the player's fitness into question.

QUESTIONS

True or False

1. . Liverpool has offered Victor Valdes a four day trial.

2. Victor Valdes is interested in playing with Liverpool.

 Question

1. What did they offer to victor valdes?

2. What has Gines Carvajal said about the Liverpool offer?

Synonyms

Nevertheless (p.3)

Goaltender (p.2)

proposal (p. 1)

denied (p.2)

María and Clara's Text on Crips

How did crips become crips? It all began in 1853 , in a small restaurant in New York. A man in the restaurant was unhappy. He said to the waiter: these potatoes are too thick. Please cut theme very thin.

The waiter took the potatoes away and came back with another plate of potatoes. These potatoes were very thin. But the man said the potatoes were still too thick. He asked the waiter to cut them thinner. Three times the man asked the waiter to cut the potatoes thinner. 

Finally, the potatoes were thin enough. They were so thin that the man ate them with his fingers. And that is how crips became crips.

TRUE OR FALSE.

1. The restaurant customer was very happy with the restaurant food.

2.The potatoes were too thin for the client.

OPEN QUESTIONS.

1.What was the year of the origin of chips and in which city was it developed?

2.How many times the customer told the waiter to cut the potatoes?

SYNONYMS.

1.Chips (p.1)

2.sad (p.1)

3.started (p.1)

4.big (p.1)

Sergio's text on

Google Driveless car project

Google's driverless car project was officially launched in 2010. Since then it says its test vehicles have completed more than a million kilometres on public roads. They've progressed from relatively simple driving on the Californian freeway to more complicated manoeuvring in urban areas.


So far, Google has used a fleet of ordinary cars, which have been converted to carry self-driving technology. But now it wants to take the process a stage further by producing a purpose-built machine. It’s planning to create a fleet of about a hundred fully autonomous electric vehicles capable of carrying two people at up to 40 km per hour without any input from a human driver.


The ultimate aim is to get rid of the controls altogether, although early versions will still need to have a steering wheel and pedals.


Google believes it will be able to launch a pilot scheme using the new cars within the next two years. But the internet giant is far from being the only company working on self-driving technology. A number of major manufacturers have their own test programmes, among them Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and BMW.


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1)TRUE OR FALSE.


a)Google's driverless car have been tested on the Californian freeway only.


b)Google is planning to create a fleet os two hundred fully autonomous electric vehicles.



2)OPEN QUESTIONS.


a)Is Google the only company working on self-driving technology? (Long answer).


b)When did Google launch this car project?



3)SYNONYMS


a)Enormous (P.4):


b)Main (p.3):


c)Plan (p.1):


c)Common (p.1)

Miguel's text on FIFA World Cup

FIFA WORLD CUP  

 The FIFA World Cup, occasionally called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.

  The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s). The World Cup is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 final.

  The 19 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Italy, with four titles; Germany with four titles; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France, and Spain, with one title each.  

The World Cup is among the world's most widely viewed sporting events; an estimated 715.1 milllion  people watched the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup held in Germany.  

The most recent World Cup was held in Brasil in 2014. The next World Cup will be hosted in Russia in 2018

   

 Questions :  

1-TRUE AND FALSE 

 a) There are 32 teams playing the World Cup. 

  b) The tournament takes place every four years.  

  2-OPEN QUESTION

a) How many world cup has Germany won?

b) What is the meaning of FIFA?

 3-SYNONYMS

a)Tournament (p.1): 

b)Contest (p.2): 

c)Celebrated (p.3): 

d)Interval (p. 2): 

Rafa's text on a story

The story begins in May 1863 , the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, Germany, with Professor Lidenbrock rushing home to peruse his latest purchase, an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga written by Snorri Sturluson ("Heimskringla"; the chronicle of the Norwegian kings who ruled over Iceland). While looking through the book, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a coded note written in runic script. (This is a first indication of Verne's love for cryptography. Coded, cryptic or incomplete messages as a plot device will continue to appear in many of his works and in each case Verne goes a long way to explain not only the code used but also the mechanisms used to retrieve the original text.) Lidenbrock attempts a Lidenbrock and Axel transliterate the runic characters into Latin letters, revealing a message written in a seemingly bizarre code. decipherment, deducing the message to be a kind of transposition cipher; but his results are as meaningless as the original.

Professor Lidenbrock decides to lock everyone in the house and force himself and the others (Axel, and the maid, Martha) to go without food until he cracks the code. Axel discovers the answer when fanning himself with the deciphered text: Lidenbrock's decipherment was correct, and only needs to be read backwards to reveal sentences written in rough Latin. Axel decides to keep the secret hidden from Professor Lidenbrock, afraid of what the Professor might do with the knowledge, but after two days without food he cannot stand the hunger and reveals the secret to his uncle. Lidenbrock translates the note, which is revealed to be a medieval note written by the (fictional) Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm, who claims to have discovered a passage to the centre of the Earth via Snæfell in Iceland. In what Axel calls bad Latin, the deciphered message 

1TRUE OR FALSE:

The story begins on june 1454:

The manuscript was written by Snorri Stulson: 

Lidenbrock and Axel transliterate the runic characters into latin letters revealing a message:

The story develops in Australia:

2 SYNONIMS:

Teacher (p. 1): 

Scared (p. 2): 

Nucleous (p.2): 

Authentic (p.1): 

3 Open questions

1 What is the name of the professor?: 

2 What had the medieval alchemist Sarknumsem discovered?:

3 How long did he take to reveal the message?: 

4 What did Julio Verne love?: 

Paloma's text on Bullying

    Bullying

Martin Horner, born in Britain, a boy of sixteen years old. For several years he suffered abuse by her short stature and for his love of music.

   

The boy endured the insults of his classmates and decided to commit suicide in their parent’s room,

the mother claims that her son was severely insulted.

The teen's parents said that Martin suffered from abuse at Gloucestershire School, where he studied computer science at the time of his death: "Martin was an anxious child, cared about many things and continually was intimidated by what Colin and I believe that Martin tried to end his life.

    Questions:

1.      True or false:

A/ Martin Horner, committed suicide by jumping from a bridge.

B/ His parents knew he suffered bullying.

   

    2.Open questions:

      A/ How old was Martin when he committed suicide?

      B/ Why was he intimidated by his classmates?

   

    3.Synonyms:  

      A/ Schoolmate (second paragraph).

      B/ Infringement (first paragraph).

      C/ Youngster (first paragraph).

      D/ Offense (second paragraph).

Rocio's text on the fashion week

WHAT IS A FASHION WEEK ?

A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers, brands or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly, these events let the industry know what's "in" and what's "out" for the season.

The most prominent fashion weeks are held in the four fashion capitals of the world: New York City, London, Milan, and Paris. Some other important fashion weeks in the world are held in Australia, Bangalore, Jakarta, Berlin, Bangkok, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo, São Paulo, Los Angeles, Łódź, Rome, Dubai, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Toronto, Dallas and Madrid.

Fashion week happens twice a year in the major fashion capitals of the world: New York, Paris, London and Milán.

QUESTIONS:

1 True or False:

          . The most prominent fashion weeks are held in the four fashion capitals of the world: New York City, London, Milan and Dubai: 

           . Fashion week happens twice a year in the major fashion capitals: 

2 Open Questions:  

- What is the aim of the fashion week ?

- How much time does the fashion week last? 

3  synonymous

Protuberant (2) : 

Nearly(1): 

Present (1): 

Customers (1): 

Just checking out!

Hi my dear students!

This is me just checking out everything is working out well.

See you tomorrow! 

Ana