Indian drummers

Shillong 1) __________ north east India 2) __________ the world record yesterday for
the largest number of people 3) __________ the drums together. People travelled 4)
__________ long way, many 5) __________ foot, from villages in the state in order 6)
__________ in.

A total of 7,951 people played the drums at 7) __________ same time, over seven
hundred more than the old record.

The state now 8) __________ two world records - it is the wettest place in the world as
well.

1      2               3               4       5       6             7         8

in     breaks      play          a       by     join         the     hold
on    broke       plays         an    on     to join     a        holds
at     broken     playing     the   in      joining    as      holding

ORDENA LAS FRASES

1. The young man sold his share of the property and left for another country.

2. The father tried to dissuade his son, but he wouldn’t listen to his father whom he
regarded as old and ignorant.

3. Years went by. The younger son began to get restless because he was unhappy with
his lot.

4. He led a luxurious life and spent a lot of money on gambling.

5. They were living together happily.

6. Soon all his money was gone and he became a pauper.

7. Once upon a time there lived a rich farmer.¡ called Jack.

8. He went to his father and asked for his share of the property.

9. So the father gave him a third of his property.

10. He had three sons.

ELIGE CADA PALABRA DONDE CORRESPONDA.

If you’re 1)__________ on your phone past 10pm at night, you might be heightening
your risk of 2)___________disorders.
A new study by the University of Glasgow has found a disrupted 24-hour body clock,
typically caused by things like checking Facebook at midnight or getting up to make a
cup of tea in the middle of the night, could 3)_____________ your risk of depression
and 4)___________ disorder. It was also associated with decreased happiness and
health satisfaction, and a higher risk of 5)____________ loneliness.

Circadian rhythms are variations in physiology and behaviour that recur every 24-hours,
such as the sleep-wake cycle and daily patterns of hormone release. They occur in
plants, animals and throughout biology, and are fundamental for maintaining health in
humans, particularly mental health and wellbeing.

Professor Daniel Smith, Professor of Psychiatry and senior author on the study, told The
Times a 10pm cut-off with technology would give the average adult time to
6)____________ properly before sleeping, therefore giving them the chance to establish
a regular sleeping 7)____________.

Interestingly it’s not just 8)____________ sleep that can upset the fine balance of your
circadian rhythm, it’s also important to be active during the day and inactive at night –
so that evening gym session probably isn’t for the best.

“Especially in the winter, making sure you get out in the morning in the fresh air is just
as important in getting a good night’s sleep as not being on your mobile phone,” said
Smith. “Benjamin Franklin said that ‘early to bed and early to 9)_________ makes a
man, healthy, wealthy and wise’. There’s a lot of 10)__________ in that.”

ORDENA LOS PARRAFOS.

A. Finding the evidence

B. The living continent
C. Small but significant
D. Making modern Antartica
E. Putting it all together
F. Joining another continent
G. An impossible idea
H. What’s in a name?

1.  Meet Mesosaurus, a small reptile which lived in fresh-water lakes and streams
millions of years ago during the lower Permain age. Mesosaurus has had a big impact
on how we view our planet, because he helped to prove the existence of the super-
continent called Gondwanaland.

2.  Every schoolchild has probably looked at a map of the earth and noticed how Africa
and South America fit together like pieces of a giant jigsaw, yet until just over a
hundred and fifty years ago, no-one believed that this was more than an odd
coincidence. It seemed impossible that the massive continents of the earth could ever be
moved, let alone so far apart that they ended up half a planet from each other.
3.  Nevertheless, in 1912 Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist came up with the
theory that the continents of the earth had all existed in a single mass, which he called
Pangaea (which is Greek for ‘all the world”). Later researchers decided that Pangaea
had been two continents, one to the north of the other, which had existed about 250
million years ago. From the geological evidence found in the Gondwana area of India,
an Austrian geologist, Eduard Suess coined the name ‘Gondwanaland’ for the southern
supercontinent, of which India was once a part. (The northern continent was called
Lurasia.)

4.  For many years super-continents were regarded as an interesting theory, but no-one
knew how it might work in reality. Then the discovery of the mechanisms of plate
tectonics showed how continents might drift across the face of the globe. Once it was
accepted that the continents were floating on currents of lava, more evidence became
apparent. A particular type of an early plant, the seed fern, was found on continents now
scattered about the southern hemisphere of the world, as were tillates, a deposit left by
glaciers in the Permo-Carboniferous era of 520 million years ago. And Mesosaurus, the
little fresh-water reptile, left his remains in West Africa and Brazil. Since Mesosaurus
had no way of crossing the Atlantic, researchers realized that it could not be coincidence
that this reptile had left remains in exactly the place where Africa and South America fit
together so neatly.

5.  By investigating similarities in animal fossils, different types of plants found in the
southern hemisphere but not in the northern hemisphere, and patterns of rock
formations, researchers have managed to put the continents of modern-day earth
together like a huge jigsaw to make up the vanished super-continent. Sometimes rock
formations can be seen to break off at the ocean’s edge, to carry on once more
thousands of miles away on another continent. The evidence shows that not only were
Africa and South America once joined to Antartica, but so were India and Australia,
parts of south Western Europe, and Florida.

6.  Although Gondwanaland was located in the far southern hemisphere of the planet,
where Antarctica remains today, the climate was much warmer, and we know that huge
forests grew there. These forests, fossilized into coal, supply many Indians with energy
today. The land animals were adapted to life on their cool continent, with its long dark
winter days. Some of the best known dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and
Tyrannosaurus lived on the northern continents, but Gondwanaland also had some
fearsome predators such as Abelisaurus, a large meat-eater that lived during the
cretaceous period. The seas were populated with fish called placoderms, a name which
they get from their skin, which was so thick that they were practically armoured.

7.  The break-up of Gondwanaland had huge consequences for planet earth as we know
it now. In geological terms, India has been a sprinter. Breaking from Gondwanaland the
sub-continent drifted rapidly northward from the south pole, finally smashing into Asia
about 45 million years ago in a collision that raised the Himalayas.

8.  When South America split off about 30 million years ago the effect was even more
dramatic. Cold Antarctic water no longer mixed with warmer seas when pushed
northward by the south American landmass. Instead it circled the pole getting colder
and colder, until Antartica lost its vegetation and animal life, and became the barren icy
wilderness it is today
SOLUCIONES:

1-in, 2-broke, 3-playing, 4-a, 5-on, 6.to join, 7-the, 8-holds

Once there lived a rich farmer. He had two sons. They were living together happily. Years went
by. The younger son began to get restless because he was unhappy with his lot. He went to his
father and asked for his share of the property. The father tried to dissuade his son, but he
wouldn’t listen to his father whom he regarded as old and ignorant. So the father gave him a
third of his property. The young man sold his share of the property and left for another
country. He led a luxurious life and spent a lot of money on gambling. Soon all his money was
gone and he became a pauper.

1-scrolling; 2-mood; 3-increase; 4-bipolar; 5-reporting; 6-wind-down; 7-pattern; 8-disrupted; 9-

rise; 10-truth

1. C
2. G
3. H
4. A
5. E
6. B
7. F
8. D