Children can ask teachers questions about their lessons here.

pool
Children can ride their bikes here. * shopping center
When it´s hot, children swim and get wet in this place. * library
People go there with their children to take photos of the animals. * classroom
You can buy sweaters for children in this place. * park
You can look for exciting films for children and buy tickets here * candy store
zoo
cinema
Aquí los niños pueden hacer preguntas a los profesores sobre sus clases.
Los niños pueden montar en bicicleta aquí. *
Cuando hace calor, los niños se bañan y se mojan en este lugar.*
La gente va allí con sus hijos para hacer fotos de los animales. *
En este lugar se pueden comprar jerséis(suéteres) para los niños. *
Puedes buscar películas emocionantes para niños y comprar entradas aquí

Do you believe we´re going to find an available campsite? *

Join us.
Just once.
Not quite sure.

I guess we could rent a bicycle. *

That´s kind!
Sounds lovely!
How crowded!

I´m upset because my digital camera was stolen *

How did it happen?
May I keep it?
Why bother?

I can´t remember if my dentist appointment is tomorrow *

Arrive on time.
Call there and ask
Copy it immediately.

Why did you miss the competition? *

Traffic was heavy.
I prefer it this way
Follow instructions.
FAST FOOD VS. SLOW FOOD

The term fast food is (0) _USED__ for restaurants that serve cheap meals (1) ___ in paper bags or
boxes, for example burgers and chips. Fast food (2) ___ popular in the 1950s in the United States, but
today, it´s known that it is bad for your body.
There´s also slow food. It began in 1986 thanks to Carlo Petrini, an Italian journalist (3) ___ found a
McDonalds´s restaurant in Rome. He thought it was horrible.
(4) ___ , he started the “slow food”, that is about (5) ___ fresh food that is cooked for a longer
time; that´s why this food is (6) ___ . It has two goals: to make the food of one´s town popular, and
to buy food made (7) ___ small farmers. This movement has (8) ___ 80.000 members in 100
countries.

1. Quicker quickest quickly

2. Became becoming become
3. What which who
4. If As So
5. Eaten eating eat
6. Health healthier healthiest
7. near off by
8. over until across

Egyptian pyramids

The wonderful Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan and the large Pyramid of the First Quin King in China
are visited by thousands of people every year. However the Great Pyramid of Giza is the world’s most
famous pyramid. It was built in the Sahara Desert in northern Egypt, and fills an area of 52,609 square
meters; the bad weather of the Sahara has actually made the pyramid become smaller 9 meters from
its real size.

The pyramid, which was cleaned in 2012, was such a fascinating piece of engineering, that it was the
tallest building in the world for over 4000 years! Most Egyptologists, people who study Egyptian
history, agree that the Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC, a little more than 5,000 years ago. It
took tens of thousands of workers 20 years to make it. The pyramid has over 2.000.000 rock blocks.
How heavy are they? Most of the blocks are 2000 or 3000 kilograms.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built from orders by the King Khufu for dead kings. His closest friend,
Hemon, was the pyramid’s architect. The Great Pyramid is part of the three pyramids at Giza and it is
the largest and tallest. The other ones are the Pyramid of Khafre with two known rooms, and the
smaller Pyramid of Menkhaure, with three smaller pyramids next to it.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is *

the biggest.
the most amazing.
the most popular.
The Great Pyramid is found in *
Teotihuacan.
China.
Egypt.

What does an Egyptologist do? *

learns about pyramids.
improves pyramids
builds pyramids.

The time spent building the pyramid was of *

twenty years.
five thousand years.
four thousand years.

The Great Pyramid was made *

With 2.000.000 rock blocks.
2000 years ago.
by 2000 workers.

Khufu was the person in Egypt who *

was friendly with everybody.
decided what to do.
planned the buildings.

Hemon was a *
person Khufu knew well.
place in Giza.
pyramid´s name.

The pyramid that has other pyramids around is *

Khafre.
The Great Pyramid.
Menkhaure.

Snake Charmers

Instead of collecting comic books or sports memorabilia as a kid, Dr. Zoltan Takacs collected all kinds of
different snakes. The Hungarian herpetologist says his initial interest in snakes came from spending his
childhood summers in Transylvania, a region in the neighboring country of Romania. A herpetologist is
someone who studies reptiles and amphibians. "That's where I was exposed first to snakes, reptiles,
amphibians and other wildlife, so I started to catch them, take them home and keep them in all kinds
of basic conditions," he says. "Later, in high school, this turned into a more advanced snake-keeping
hobby. That's how I got into the snake business." Takacs is currently a research associate and assistant
professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. The herpetologist
says he discovered valuable information about snakes during his early encounters with the animals
while growing up in Budapest, Hungary. Those experiences were not always pleasant. "I kept vipers at
home in my room, and I got bitten once," he says. "I tried to measure the length of the snake. It was
my mistake; just as the other six bites I have had since then. I gave anti-venom to myself... just to find
out a few weeks later that l´m allergic to the snake anti-venom! I did learn a lot during that early
period.”

Eventually, Takacs found out that he was not only fascinated by snakes, but that he was also intrigued
by their venom, a poisonous fluid some snakes secrete and use on their prey. "I think the venom and
the molecules in the venom—the toxins—are the coolest molecules nature ever invented," he says.
Takacs' interest in venoms led him to study pharmacology, which is the study of drugs and their
effects. Eventually, he earned a PhD from Columbia University in New York City. One aspect of venom
that intrigued Takacs was how the substance is able to zoom in on particular components of the prey's
body to immobilize or kill it. Some venoms target the way a prey animal's blood clots. Without the
capability to clot, a prey animal quickly bleeds to death. Other venoms target muscles, paralyzing the
target. Still other venoms target the heart or lungs, causing the target to suffocate.

Although these venoms can be deadly to prey animals—and sometimes humans—they can also provide
valuable medical assistance for some diseases. Venom that prevents blood from clotting, for instance,
may help create a drug for heart attack victims by encouraging blood flow.
Adapted from an article by Stuart Thornton

What kind of article is this? *

informative.
historical.
novelistic.
scientific.

According to the article a reader can infer that... *

Zoltan was interested in vampires in his childhood.
Dr. Takacs is an animal person.
Dr. Takacs is allergic to snakes.
reptiles and amphibians can only be found in Hungary.

What piece of information is NOT given in the article? *

the length of the snake that bit Dr. Takacs.
that Zoltan is intrigued by snakes' venom.
snake venoms can be deadly for humans.
that toxins are molecules inside the venom.

Where can you find an article like this? *

in a comic book.
in a poems book.
in a cultural and science publication.
in a sports magazine.

After reading the article we can conclude that. *

Dr. Takacs is Romanian.
although deadly, the venom in the snakes can be useful in medicine.
there's only one way in which a venom can kill a prey.
snake bites never occur due to humans' faults.

The unknown woman

There is a mystery in the US history which is worth (0) …MENTIONING………In 1963, while the police
was checking the film of the crime of John F. Kennedy that (1) ………… in Texas, a woman with the
scarf around her face was noticed.
In (2) …………, she appears in plenty of photos of the scene and seems to carry a camera. (3) …………
the shot that killed Kennedy, she kept recording while most people were (4) ………… Later the FBI
publicity (5) ………… the film from the woman but she never gave it to them.
At (6) …………, in 1970 the police receive an (7) ………… call, a woman named Beverly Oliver (8)
………… that she was the “Scarf Woman” but her description had many gaps and she didn’t (9) …………
further details. Nowadays the story remains a mystery, and (10) ………. The “Scarf Woman” was
Beverly Oliver or not, her purposes are still unknown.

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