Elena's Text on Volleyball

Volleyball is a sport where two teams of six players in each field face on a smooth playing field separated by a central network, trying to pass the ball over the net to the ground the attacking half. The ball can be touched or driven with clean shots, but can´t be stopped, or fastened together. Each team has three hits for returning the ball to the opposite field. Usually the ball is hit with hands and arms, but also with any body part. One of the most unique characteristics of this sport is that players must be rotated each time point win.

A match consists of three, four or five sets, matches are best of five. A team wins a set when it reaches or exceeds 25 points with a two point lead. The contact of the players with the ground is continuous, typically using protection on knees.

Point is earned when:

   The Ball touches the ground, the ball goes to the team touched the ball last time.

   When the three are exceeded or touches a player touches the ball twice in a row

   When the other team's rotation is incorrect

   When playing the ball is incorrect

   When a player touches or kicks the network

1. True or False

a) Players do not usually touch the ground.

    

b) The ball can be hit with any part of the body.

      

2. Synonyms

a) Competitors (paragraph 2)  

b) Games (paragraph 2)  

c) Territory (paragraph 1)  

d) Scored (paragraph 3)   

3.Open questions

a)  How many points you need to win for win a set?

     

b) How many players are on the field?

      

  

Jaime's Text on Las Rozas

Las Rozas de Madrid (or simply, Las Rozas) is one of the larger townships and municipalities in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain, with an area of between 58.8 and 59.14 km² [1]. It is located some 17 – 20 km northwest of the city of Madrid itself, on the A-6 freeway to A Coruña. Las
Rozas is the beginning of this freeway, near the fork road M-505 to El Escorial, which marks the southern boundary of this 'comarca' or rural district (although it is no longer rural).

The municipality is served by four RENFE railway stations– Las Rozas, Las Matas, El Pinar and El Tejar. A fifth stop, at Peñascales was closed. The municipality shares borders with Torrelodones to the north, Villanueva del Pardillo and Galapagar to the west, the national park of Monte del Pardo (Madrid) in the east and Majadahonda (south).

Las Rozas has one of the highest average per capita incomes in the Community of Madrid. During the final decades of the 20th century the town has experienced a vigorous building program, mostly as a dormitory town for Madrid, with a correspondingly strong population growth, which more than doubled between 1991 and 2005 (from 35,137 to 76,246 inhabitants).

The provisioning for local services (such as schools and new dwellings) has at times been outpaced by the locality's high birth and immigration rates. However by 2010 the community was well served in all health, education and social sectors.


QUESTIONS

1. TRUE or FALSE .
- Las Rozas is one of the smaller townships in the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

- Las Rozas hasn´t got train station because it has an airport

- In 1991 the population in Las Rozas was 76.426 inhabitans


2. Synonyms .
- Ten years (paragraph 3) :
- Highway (paragraph 1) :
- Housing (paragraph 5) :
- Habitants (paragraph 4) :

3. Answer the questions .
- How many kilometres are there between Las Rozas and Madrid ?

- Which is the area of Las Rozas ?

Lucia Espliego's text on Jules Verne

JULES VERNE

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father’s footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in the life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraudinaries,  a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in eighty Days.

Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-grade and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction of children’s books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.

Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called “The Father of Science Fiction”, as are H.G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.

1.Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or FALSE.

a) Jules Gabriel Verne was an English novelist.

b) Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth.

2.In your own words and based on the ideas in the text, answer the following questions. Do not copy from the text.

a) Why is he best known for his adventure novels?

b) Why is Verne generally considered a major literary author in the most of Europe? 

3.Find the words in the text that mean.

a) Stories (paragraph 1):

b) Dad (paragraph 2):

c) Kids (paragraph 3): 

d) Possibly (paragraph 4):