Medellin

Medellin is a city in northwestern Colombia. It is the capital of Antioquia department and

counted in 2006 2.4 million inhabitants. Medellin is located in the Valle de Aburrá, and the
same metropolitan area Valle de Aburrá (Aburra Valley). It is an area with more than 3.2 million
inhabitants and an industrial and commercial center. The river the Medellín runs along the city.
The city was founded in 1616 by Francisco Herrera y Campuzano. At the end of the 20th
century the city had much to do with violence and crime, including the Medellin cartel headed
by Pablo Escobar. In recent years, the city is safe and the crime rate dropped dramatically.
Population 2,214,494
Height 2,113 meter
Weather 25°

AREA: 382Kms2

CALI

santiago de Cali or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, , with an estimated
2,319,655 residents according to 2005-2020/DANE population projections.[2] The city spans
560.3 km2 (216.3 sq mi) with 120.9 km2 (46.7 sq mi) of urban area,[3] ). As the only major
Colombian city with access to the Pacific Coast, Cali is the main urban and economic centre in
the southwest of the country, and has one of Colombia's fastest-growing economies. The city
was founded on 25 July 1536 by the Spanish explorer Sebastián de Belalcázar.
Cali is also a centre for sports in Colombia, and is the only Colombian city to have hosted
the Pan American Games (in 1971). It hosted the 1992 World Wrestling Championships,
the ninth edition of the World Games in 2013, the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in
2014 and the World Youth Championships in Athletics in 2015.
AREA: 619 km²

WEATHER: 27º

HEIGHT: 1.018 m
PoPULATION: 2,401 millones (2012)
FEATURE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE

Practice 2: Comparative and Superlative Q & A

Complete the questions and answers
A What is the ___________________ place in Medellìn you have been to?
(interesting)
B __________________________ I have been to is __________________.
A What is the _________________ building you have been in Medellìn ? (tall)
B __________________________ I have been in is ___________________.
A Which is _________________ the North park or Arvi park? (large)
B The _______________ is _____________________.
A Who is _______________________ Juanes or dario gomez?? (famous)
B ________________ is ________________________.

Listening practice

1. This is __________ __________ that one.

2. Their house is _________ __________ _________ ours.

3. He's __________ ___________ you are.

4. A Mercedes is __________ ___________ __________ a Honda.

5. Our teacher is __________ ___________ yours.

6. The weather today is __________ ____________ what it was yesterday.

7. The house looks ___________ ___________ after the housekeepers did their work.

8. We're looking for a _________ ___________neighborhood.

9. Compared to our last experience, this was ________ _________.

10. It's a lot __________ today ___________ it was yesterday.