Life Intermediate Student’s Book

NAME: Laura Camila García Orozco.

GRAMMAR DISCOVERY TIME!

Instructions:
• You are about to read a text that reveals the mystery behind the NAZCA LINES.
• Print it , highlight the sentences and take it to class.

IN BLUE: What the speaker is certain that happened in the past

IN RED What the speaker is certain it didn't happen in the past
IN GREEN: What the speaker thinks it is possible to have happened in the past
IN ORANGE: What the speaker thinks it is NOT possible to have happened in the past
There is an example for you.

Desert art
The mysterious desert drawings known as the Nasca lines have puzzled people since they first
became widely known in the late 1920s. Before air travel in Peru began, it was impossible to get a
clear view of the giant drawings of the spider, monkey and hummingbird. Yet the Nasca people
who made these patterns 2,000 years ago couldn’t have seen them from above.

One of the first formal studies of the lines was by Maria Reiche. She spent half a century working
for their conservation and was convinced that the lines must have been part of an astronomical
calendar. Other people thought they might have been ancient Inca roads or irrigation systems. The
weirdest idea was that they could have been landing strips for alien spacecraft!

This region of Peru is one of the driest places on Earth and yet successful societies, including the
Nasca, lived here. Water must have had an incredible significance to these societies, so perhaps
the lines were related to this. We know that the Nasca River, which comes down from the nearby
mountains, runs underground for about fifteen kilometres before suddenly emerging on the surface
again. This must have seemed an astonishing, even sacred, phenomenon to ancient societies. It has
also become clear that there are many huge drawings in the area, not just the ones on the flat
desert plain. Many are much older than the Nasca figures themselves, so the same group of people
can’t have created them. It now seems that the Nasca lines may have been part of a long tradition
of ceremonial activities connected to water and religious beliefs.
 Example: the Bermuda triangle: the SHIPS AND PLANES Note: You can use this example to design your ticket -in
for your task 1. In the next page, you will find an empty
that vanished IN THE 1950s template. Make sure to have it ready for net week.

GENERALITIES:
MY SPECULATION
• Western part of the North Atlantic Ocean
between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. • I’m sure that Aliens and monsters didn’t do it.
• Ships, planes, and people • It is possible that some magnetic field in the
mysteriously vanished in the 1950s bottom of the ocean attracted all the objects that
• Atlantic tropical storms, hurricanes, rapids and were made of metal such as planes and ships.
drastic changes in weather are common there.
• There are many islands in the Caribbean Sea
that create labyrinths very difficult to sail.
Sailors are confused and lost very often.
• The ships and planes were never found.

DEDUCTIONS MADE BY SCIENCE:

• No supernatural explanations for
these disappearances.
• Lawrence David Kushe: Radio contact was difficult
in the area at that time
Planes and ships needed this guidance system to
get oriented.
• Another explanation: Pilots did not feel gravity
used to confuse the sky with the ocean. They
crashed.
• References:
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bermudatri.ht
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• Kushe, L. (1975).The Bermuda Triangle mystery
solved.
Make sure you read reliable source of information:
NATGEO articles, scientific journals or well-known
newspapers in English must be used.
 My Speculation:

 It is possible that there are animals that

humanity still does not know exist.
 It is possible that such a large monster does not
exist in Loch Ness, since the dimensions of the
lake are too small for it to survive.
 The monster may have existed thousands of
years ago when the lake was adequate for its
Generalities: size.

 It lives in Loch Ness, a deep freshwater lake near the city

of Inverness, in Scotland.
 The history of the monster dates back to 565, when the
Irish missionary Columba of Iona is believed to have
encountered a beast in the River Ness.
 A whale-like creature and lake water are described as
"churning and cascading."
 The mythical monster has also been compared to a
plesiosaur. That is, marine reptiles that coexisted with
dinosaurs.
 More than two million people visit Loch Ness each year,
according to The Telegraph. This means 41 million
pounds for the local economy.

References:
 BBC News Mundo. 2019. Ni Tiburones Ni Reptiles
Prehistóricos: El Estudio Que Asegura Haber
Deductions made by science: Descifrado Qué Era El Legendario Monstruo Del
Lago Ness. [online] Available at:
<https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-49599932>
 It was concluded from through DNA samples [Accessed 6 September 2019].
taken that the lake has not been inhabited by  Tiempo, C., 2020. ¿Existió O No?: Estudio
large animals. Revelaría Verdad Sobre Monstruo Del Lago Ness.
[online] El Tiempo. Available at:
 El ADN hallado, sin embargo, demuestra que <https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/ciencia/monstruo-
nada de eso ha vivido en el lugar. del-lago-ness-estudio-revela-su-identidad-410646>
[Accessed 6 June 2004].
 Most of the species are so small that they can
hardly be seen and there are some that are
larger.