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)