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):