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ARTICLE 1- HUMAN EVOLUTION

DECIDE TRUE OR FALSE. JUSTIFY YOUR FALSE CHOICES.

1-Scientists have recently found the world’s oldest 100 skeletons.

2- They found the bones in Africa.

3- Lucy another skeleton was found in 1970.

4- Lucy is older than Ardi.

5- Ardi was a 70kg. man.

CONNECT

Ardi had:

A-similar 1- an arched foot

B- long 2- climb trees

C- smaller 3- long fingers and big toes

D-Ardi didn´t have 4- walk for long distances or run

E- Ardi couldn´t 5- brain

F- Ardi could 6- teeth

G- Ardi had 7- arms and short legs

ARTICLE 2- MEDITERRANEAN DIET

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- What is the conclusion of the report from the “Archive of General Psychiatry”?

2- What food do you have to eat to avoid depression according to this?

3- What special element is important to protect you against depression?

4- Where is it common to use it?

5- Why do scientists believe this diet makes people happier?

ARTICLE 3- ROGER FEDERER

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES

1- Roger Federer has recently won …

2- This victory makes him….

3- The four grand slam titles are …

4- He fell to the ground and cried because…

5- After the game his opponent Soderling told Federer: …

ARTICLE 4- CRISTIANO RONALDO

DECIDE TRUE OR FALSE. JUSTIFY YOUR FALSE CHOICES

1- Real Madrid paid more for Kaka than for Crisitano Ronaldo.

2- Kaka is a Brazilian football player.

3- Cristiano Ronaldo was playing for Barcelona, before this.

4- C.R. was became very famous playing for the Manchester United.

5- He wanted to continue playing in England

ARTICLE 5- ORGAN DONORS

CONNECT

1- According to a new research into people´s opinions A- and thought she would be different.

2- Most people are strongly against B- things like the memories and experiences

3- The volunteers said they would be very C- receiving an organ from a killer

4- Prof Hood said that personality included D- a British teenager

5- He presented the experience of E- happy to receive an organ from a good person

6- This girl had received a heart transplant F- organ transplants can modify personalities.

ARTICLE 6- COLD PLAY

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- Is it important appearing on “The Simpsons”? Why?

2- Where is the band Cold Play from?

3- What other famous bands have been in “The Simpsons”?

4- Why does Cold Play give a concert at the Simpson´s house?

5- When do they stop playing?

6- Where is Cold Play playing now?

7- Why are “The Simpsons” in the Guinness Book of World Records?

ARTICLE 7- FAST FOOD

DECIDE TRUE OR FALSE. JUSTIFY YOUR FALSE CHOICES.

1- According to a research in USA, people who can walk to restaurants are healthier.

2- Dr. Morgenstern and his team analyzed more than a thousand people in Texas for 3 years.

3- When a person suffers a stroke, it affects his/her heart

4- People have strokes because they live near fast food restaurants.

5- There are more fast food restaurants in poor areas.

6- Poor people don´t have much education, suffers from stress, and don´t have healthy habits.

ARTICLE 8- COMPUTER HYGIENE

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- What’s the name of the computer magazine on the article?

2- What did they discover?

3- How did they discover it?

4- Which illnesses can cause the germs found there?

5- How often do people clean their keyboards?

6- Which are the causes for germs and bacteria on keyboards?

ARTICLE 9- ARTIFICIAL BRAIN

CORRECT THE MISTAKES

A top French teacher has told a cutting edge ideas lecture he is close to make a replica human brain. Professor Henry Markham said to the annual Technology, Entrance, Drawing global conference that a synthetic functional brain must be built in the next ten years.

He has already been lucky creating parts of a rat´s brain. Prof Markham expected his work would lead to new cures for mental illnesses. Markham believes synthetic brain technology will decrease the necessity for experiments on animals.

ARTICLE 10- CALIFORNIA ABDUCTION

TRUE OR FALSE. JUSTIFY

1- Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy kidnapped a girl, in 1991.

2- They were arrested and they are saying they are not guilty.

3- The Police accuse them of murder, and robbery.

4- Jaycee escaped from the Garrido´s house and went to the local shopping mall.

5- While she was captive, she had two children, the first when she was 14 years old.

6- She was going to school the day Garrido, forced her into his car.

7- She had a special room in the Garrido´s house to live in.

8- Garrido had never committed a crime before, this is his first time.

ARTICLE 11- MOON WATER

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- What´s the big news about the moon?

2- How many missions have found water particles on the surface of the moon?

3- Which agencies provided probes on the existence of H2O?

4- What did India´s Chandrayyan-1 craft find? Why is it important?

5- Does it mean that there are lakes, and oceans on the moon?

6- How can water existence change space exploration?