Life Intermediate Student’s Book

NAME: Maria Camila Rincon Leal

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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.
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Generalities: My Speculation
The dancing plague in 1518 was a case of dancing mania that The speculations that were found are that this dancing
occurred in Strasbourg, Aksace, in the Holy Romman Empire in could have been a florid example of psycogenic
July 1518. Somwhere between 50 and 400 people took to movement disorder happening in mass hysteria or
dancing for days. psychogenic illness, which involves many individuals
suddenly exhibiting the same bizarre behavior.
Other speculation is that this psychogenic illness might
have created a chorea, a dituation comprising random
and intricate unintentional movements that flit from body
part to body part.
Finally the usted to think it may be because of the anxiety
and false fears gripped the region,

Deductions made by science

As a third speculation scientists said that it can be stress-
References
induced psychosis. Having suffered severely from famine, and
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-
in many cases wiped out and reduced to begging, the region
dancing-plague-of-1518
was in an ongoing crisis.