INGLÉS

SEMANA 07
SUCCESFUL PEOPLE HEADLINES
PAST SIMPLE
Transcript 1:
Miami (U.S.), Sep. 29.
Peru's Susana Baca has won 2020 Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album
Peruvian singer-songwriter Susana Baca won the 2020 Latin Grammy Award for Best
Folk Album for "A Capella". Baca recorded her songs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This album features 17 songs and poems.In her album, she performed famous songs
like "Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazon" by Argentine Fito Paez or "Gracias a la vida" by
Chilean Violeta Parra.
This is the third time that Susana receives a Latin Grammy Award Statuette.
In 2002, she got a Latin Grammy Award for her album "Lamento Negro". Later, in
2011, she received a second Latin Grammy for her collaboration on the song
"Latinoamerica" with the Puerto Rican group Calle 13. A few months ago, Susana
Baca affirmed that she made the album thinking about what is happening around the
world because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The recording of "A Capella" started on May 1 in a small studio at her home. She
recorded her 17 videos with only two cell phones.

Transcript 2:
January 18, 2021
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the world’s richest person
again
Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, became the world’s richest person on January 7. 24
hours earlier, Bezos held the position as the world’s richest person since 2017.
Both Amazon and Tesla stocks fell on Friday when markets reacted after US
President-elect Joe Biden released the details of his proposed US$1.9 trillion
coronavirus relief package. Amazon’s stock fell by just under 1% on Friday, while
Tesla dropped by over 2%. This was more than enough to see Bezos surpassing
Musk.
Amazon has 16 online market- places outside of the US. Earlier this month, Amazon
announced the building of five new achievement centers in Detroit. Bezos expected to
create more than 2000 permanent full and part-time jobs with a minimum US$15 per
hour wage.
The e-commerce trading site registered its most profitable quarter ever in the three
first months of the pandemic and it ended on September 30, 2020.
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event that happened in a specific time in unspecified time and a repeated action in the
the past past
FINISHED TIME: UNFINISHED TIME
I lived in Japan from 2000 to 2010 I have lived in Peru since 2011
DEFINITE TIME INDEFINITE TIME
I visited Paris last year I have visited many countries
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He cleaned the house and then did the
laundry