Paula's Text on Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH

Miami Beach is a group of islands located east of the city of Miami, Florida. This is the best known part of Miami, where thousands of tourists who travel in search of fun, sun and beach crowd.

Miami Beach Island is connected to mainland Miami by five causeways. One of the main roads is MacArthur Causeway, which links the city center with the area of Miami South Beach. Mc Arthur crossing the road there are several bridges to the Palm, Hibiscus and Star Islands, all full of mansions and yachts of some famous and wealthy people.

The two large islands south of Miami Beach, are Lummus Island and Dodge Island, comprise the Port of Miami, the largest cruise port in the world.

South Beach is one of the most popular areas of Miami Beach, is the area of Miami Beach with the most beautiful beaches.

TRUE OR FALSE:

    a)    Miami Beach is located in the state of California.

             

    b)    South Beach is one of the most popular areas of Miami Beach.

     OPEN QUESTIONS:

a)Where is one of the most popular areas  of Miami Beach?

     

           b)    What are the two large island south of Miami Beach?

SYNONYMS:

a)    Houses (paragraph 2) 

b)    Placed (paragraph 1) 

c) looking for (paragraph 1)

d) Linked (paragraph 2)

Sergio's text on Clash of Clans

Clash of Clans is a 2012 freemium mobile MMO strategy video game developed and published by Supercell, a video game company based inHelsinki, Finland.

The game was released for iOS platforms on August 2, 2012. For Android, itsoft-launched in Canada and Finland on September 30, 2013. On October 7, 2013, it was released on Google Play internationally.

 

Clash of Clans is an online multiplayer game in which players build a community, train troops, and attack other players to earn gold and elixir, and Dark Elixir, which can be used to build defenses that protect the player from other players' attacks, and to train and upgrade troops. The game also features a pseudo-single player campaign in which the player must attack a series of fortified goblin villages.

Troops

Troops are divided into Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Dark Elixir Troops, and Heroes.

·         Tier #1 - Consists of Barbarians, Archers, and Goblins.

·         Tier #2 - Consists of Giants, Wall Breakers (skeletons that carry bombs), Balloons (Wall Breakers in hot air balloons that drop bombs), and Wizards.

·         Tier #3 - Consists of Dragons, Healers, and P.E.K.K.As (heavily armored sword-wielding warriors whose exact identity is unconfirmed).

·         Dark Elixir Troops - Consists of Minions (which resemble flying imps), Hog Riders, Valkyries, Golems, Witches, andLava Hounds (a group of flying fiery hound-like golems that target air defenses). These troops are created by using "dark elixir", a special type of elixir that is only available at higher levels, and are also trained in their own "dark barracks".

·         Heroes - Consists of the Barbarian King and the Archer Queen. Heroes are immortal and are only trained once. They are summoned by  

QUESTIONS

1.True or False

a) clash of clans is created in the city of da vinci

b) there are 56,78 tiers

c) clash of clans offline

2.Open questions

a) how many heroes are there?

b) who many troops are there in CoC ?

3. Synonyms.

a) destroy (p.3)

b) created (p1)

c) launched (p2)

d) Armies (p.4)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9SSdpm35B8

Marta's Text on Rome

ROME

Rome is a city and special comune (named "Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and region of Lazio. With 2.9 million residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits.

The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4.3 million residents.The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of Tiber river. Vatican City is an independent country within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.

Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years. Although Roman tradition states the founding of Rome around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited much earlier, being one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe.

The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and Sabines 

1 TRUE OR FALSE

a)Rome is located in Germany. 

b) Rome's history is expanded though more than two and a half thousand years. 

2 OPEN QUESTIONS

a)In what year was Rome founded? 

b)Where is located the city of Rome? 

3 SYNONYMS

a)Inhabitants(paragraph 1)                    

b)Community(paragraph 2) 

c)Area(paragraph 2).                   

d) Borders (paragraph 2)

Cristina's Text on Paper Towns

Paper towns

Quentin Jacobsen (Q) has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows.

After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappear. Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues–and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Paper Towns debuted at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. It is taught in many high school and college curricular, often in conjunction with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which is an important text within the novel.

The author, John Green, announced in a blog that  Fox 2000 had bought the rights to Paper Towns, and would be bringing together the same team that made The Fault in Our Stars, with Nat Wolff, who played Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars, as Q. Margo will be played by the actress and model Cara Delevingne. Green also announced that the film will be released on July 31, 2015.

Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text between inverted commas.  

1. Margo has been loving Q her whole life.  
2. The movie will be filmed by July the 31, 2015.  

Answer the following questions with your own words without copying from the text.

1. Who will film the movie?   
2. What happens after the revenge? 

Find some synonyms of the following words on the text. The paragraph where you can find them has been indicated between brackets. 

1. Way (paragraph 2) 
2. Inside (paragraph 3) 
3. Performed (paragraph 4) 
4. Riddle (paragraph 2) 

Esther's Text on Whatsapp

WHATSAPP

Whatsapp is an instant messaging app for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model. The proprietary, cross-platform app uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages. WhatsApp has more users in India than any other country in the world. In January 2015, WhatsApp was the most globally popular messaging app with more than 600 million active users. In April 2015 Whatsapp reached 800 million active users.

WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, in September 2007, the duo travelled to South america as a break from work. At one point they applied for a job at Facebook but failed.

WhatsApp was switched from a free to paid service to avoid growing too fast, mainly because the primary cost was sending verification texts to users. In December 2009 WhatsApp for the iPhone was updated to send photos. By early 2011, WhatsApp was in the top 20 of all apps in Apple's U.S. App Store.

As of 22 April 2014, WhatsApp had over 500 million monthly active users, 700 million photos and 100 million videos are shared each day, and the messaging system handles more than 10 billion messages each day. WhatsApp added about 25 million new users every month or 833,000 active users per day. By early January 2015, WhatsApp reached a new milestone of 700 million monthly active users with over 30 billion messages being sent every day.

   1- TRUE OR FALSE:

   a)   Whatsapp has more users in India than in any other country in the world.

   b)   It reached 15.000 million active users.

   c)   It was founded in 2007.

2- OPEN QUESTIONS:

    a) Who founded whatsapp?

    b) When did whatsapp have over 500 million monthly active users?

  

    3- SYNONIMS:

    a) Place (paragraph 1):

    b) turning point (paragraph 4):

    c) Images (paragraph 3):

Álvaro Peña's Text on Google

GOOGLE





Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world information and make it universally accessible and useful,"and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil."In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.EE

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its "high-quality low-cost. Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.


1 TRUE OR FALSE.
1.1 Google was funded by Oxford students.

1.2 Google was moved increasingly into communications hardware.


1.3 Google is an spezialiced company in internet-related services and products.


2 OPEN QUESTIONS.

1. Which two guys founded google?

2 Which day has google become a privately held company?


3 SYNONYMS

1 Email.(Par 3)

2 Cost.(Par3)

3 Energy.(Par2)

Pablo Ortiz's Text on Apple Watches

No tattoos for Apple Watch

Early adopters of the Apple Watch who also have tattoos are complaining that a number of its key functions are disrupted by their ink. Tattooed owners of the new gadget have found that their inked skin confuses the sensors on the underside of the device. Users of the watch, which went on sale last week, took to social media on Thursday under the hashtag “tattoogate,” voicing their frustration with the problem.

One anonymous user on website Reddit said the device’s locking mechanism which should open when the watch detects it’s being worn, failed to work on tattooed skin. The user wrote, “My hand isn’t tattooed and the watch stayed unlocked. Once I put it back on the area that is tattooed with black ink, the watch would automatically lock again.”

An Apple support article says the watch uses green LED lights paired with light-sensitive photo diodes to detect the amount of blood flowing through the wrist and calculate the frequency of heart beats. A website support page from the company also says that tattoos can interfere with readings from the heartrate monitor but does not mention interference with other functions.

TRUE OR FALSE

·        The Apple Watch went on sale last year.

·         Users took it to social media on Thursday.

·         Apple can´t calculate the frequency of heart beats

QUESTIONS

·         Which was the name of the hashtag?

·         Which was the name of the website  where an anonymous user said the device´s locking mechanism of the Apple Watch?

SYNONYMS

·         Fail (paragraph 1)

·         Digital clock (paragraph 2)

·         Business firm (paragraph 3)

Carlota's text on Times Square

Times Square (New York City)

Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighbourhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as "The Crossroads of the World", "The Center of the Universe", and the heart of "The Great White Way". It is the hub of the Broadway Theatre District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing over 39 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of whom are either tourists or people working in the area.

Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, the site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve, a tradition which began on December 31, 1907 and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every New Year's Eve.

The northern triangle of Times Square is Duffy Square, which was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS discount theatre tickets booth. The stepped red roof of the TKTS booth also provides seating for various events. The statue of Duffy and Duffy Square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

    1.       True or false

a)    Times Square was renamed in January 1905 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times building.

b)    Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighbourhood in Midtown Manhattan

  2.       Open questions

     a)      What are the names referred to Times Square?

     b )      What is Times Square brightly adorned with?

   3.       Synonyms

         a)     Painting (1 paragraph)                                          

         b)     Avenues (1 paragraph)                                         

         c)      placed (3 paragraph)                                          

Exercises for the exam

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