Summer 10
SPAIN WINS THE WORLD CUP
On July 11 the Spanish football team won the World Cup in the football championship celebrated in South Africa. From June 11th to July 11th 32 teams played in 10 different stadiums. The fnal match was played in the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. It was a very exciting competition because Spain had many diffculties to win the matches. They even lost the frst match against Switzerland. In the minute 116th AndrĂŠs Iniesta made the winning goal. There were great celebrations all around the country. Besides, they have just been awarded with the Principe de Asturias prize in its sports section, as the jury has explained, because they have shown fair play, companionship and a great desire to better themselves. th
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TRAPPED MINERS IN CHILE
On August 7 33 miners got trapped in a copper and gold mine in Chile. A rockslide cut off their exit route and left them stuck inside a 50-square-meter shelter, 710 meters under the ground. The miners are resisting well and they are in good health, thanks to the food, drinks and medicines they receive through a tube. The families have sent them letters of support and encouragement but the conditions are very diffcult. Moreover, experts think that they will need 4 months to be able to rescue the miners. Chile has asked the NASA for help and advice and they are trying to get to the miners and save them as soon as possible.
SALT
Angelina Jolie stars in Salt, one of the most seen summer flms. In this thriller, Angelina is Evelyn Salt, a CIA offcer accused of being a Russian spy. She runs away and has to use all her abilities and experience as a spy to escape from her pursuers. During all the flm she has only a friend, Ted Winter, played by the actor Liev Schreiber She tries to prove her innocence but this only makes her more suspicious. All the flm revolves around the question: Who is Salt? Angelina Jolie was born in 1975 in Los Angeles, California. She started working as an actress with his father Jon Voight in 1982. The role which made her famous was Tomb Rider where she plays the role of the video game heroine Lara Croft. Apart from her cinema work, she is also known for her humanitarian activities in refugee camps all around the world
CRAZY SUMMER “SPORTS” A lot of people practice sports during the summer, specially water sports like swimming, canoeing, surfng, sailing and many others. However, some people want to do unusual and weird sports. Look at the picture and see the World Tin Bath championship, a very peculiar race on tin baths. But this is only an example: there is the “Toe wrestling” where people fght using their feet, or the “Glocestershire Cheese rolling” where the participants have to climb a mountain and then run it down trying to catch a cheese piece. It's very funny because people roll and fall down on a muddy hill. Practising weird sports is specially popular in China. We can fnd games like the “squeeze into a car” competition consisting in trying to place as many people as possible into a car in 10 seconds.
ACTIVITIES Read the texts and answer the following questions in a separate paper to give it to your teacher. Try to answer as many questions as possible during the class time. You can use the dictionary you have in the blog.
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What kind of humanitarian work does Angelina Jolie do? How many different stadiums hosted the matches during the World Cup? Who are the two actors starring in Salt? How deep from the ground are the trapped miners? Who is Ted Winter? What weird sport is practised in China? Where did Spain play the fnal match for the World Cup? How old was Angelina Jolie when she became an actress? Why was the Spanish team awarded with the Principe de Asturias Prize? Who is Lara Croft? Which American organization is going to help the Chilean miners? What do participants have to do in the Squeeze into a car competition? How can the miners eat or drink? When did Iniesta make the winning goal? How old is Angelina Jolie? Which water sports are mentioned in the last text? How many miners got trapped in Chile? Was it easy for Spain to win the football matches? Why is the World Tin Bath competition unusual? How long are the miners expected to be trapped? Who is Evelyn Salt? Who wins in the Cheese Rolling competition? Are the miners in good health? What was Angelina's frst blockbuster? Which prize have the Spanish team won recently?