Carlos Beltrá's text on mobile telephones

The first mobile telephone

BY: CARLOS BELTRÁ


A mobile phone is a phone that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.


In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming, and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones .


The first hand-held cell phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 4.4 pounds (2 kg). In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population and reaching the bottom of the economic pyramid. In 2013, the top cell phone manufacturers were Samsung, Nokia, Apple Inc., and LG.

1) True or false

A) Mobile Phones can only be used inside a house.

B) Mobiles nowadays only make calls.


2) Open questions

A) Who and when invented the first cell telephone?

B) How much did the first mobile phone weight?


3) Synonyms

A) wireless (p.1):

B) Chatting (p.2):

C) Mobile phone (p.3):

D) abilities (p.2):

Sara's blog on The Fault in our Stars

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS.

Hazel is a girl of 16 years old with cancer. She encounters a boy named Augustus Waters in one of the support group sessions that she attends. Augustus is smart, appealing and has a prothetic leg, although there are not signs of cancer in his body.

-What's your name?-he said
-Hazel
-No, your full name
-Um... Hazel Grace Lancaster.
He just looked to her.
-What?- she asked
-Nothing...-he said
-And why are you looking at me like that?
-Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people.
-I'm not beautiful...

Then Augustus reached into a pocket and pulled out a packet of cigarettes. He flipped it open and put a cigarette between his lips.

-Are you serious? Do you think that's cool? Oh my god, even though you had FREAKING CANCER, you give money to a company in exchange, for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER!! Totally disappointing.
-Hazel Grace, if you don't light the cigarette, will not hurt you. It's a metaphor see:
You put the killing thing between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
                                                           

 QUESTIONS

1.- TRUE OR FALSE   
a) Augustus Waters have cancer.                
b) Hazel met Augustus in a support group sessions of her mom.              

2.- OPEN QUESTIONS
a) What did he say about putting the cigarette between his lips as a metaphor?
b) Does Augustus smoke?

3.- SYNONYMS.
a) admirable (paragraph 2):
b)  bitter (paragraph 4):
c) attractive (paragraph 1):
d) opportunity (paragraph 4): 

Patricia's Text on Cara Delevingne

CARA DELEVINGNE.


Cara Jocelyn Delevingne, born the 12th August 1992, is an English fashion model, socialite, actress and singer. Cara was born in London. She is Pandora Anne Delavigne and Charles Hamar Delavigne´s daughter, has two older sisters, Chloe and model Poppy Delavigne, her godmother is the actress Joan Collins. Delavigne distinctive dark, bushy eyebrows are her model trademark as well as her beautiful blonde hair.


She signed with Storm Model Management in 2009 and modelled in Clements Ribeiro and Burberry fashion shows in 2010. In 2011, Cara was featured in Burberry's spring/summer 2011 campaign, later she became the face of Burberry's spring/summer 2012 campaign. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for other brands like H&M, Zara, Chanel and Blumarine. In 2012, Cara won the "Model of the Year" award at the British Fashion Awards.


She played an important role in the film world, playing a part in the film Anna Karenina, an adaptation of Tolstoy´s novel. In 2014 she will take a role in films like the face of an Angel and Tulip Fever, she also sings and plays the drums. In 2013 she recorded an acoustic duet cover version with Will Heard.


Cara has a resemblance to Kate Moss though they´re separated by about twenty years; both Kate Moss and Cara Delavigne have much in common. Beyond his physical resemblance and its British origin, the two of them scratched the top of the modeling world and have been the standard bearers and protected of many star designers.



1. True or false?
 - She participated in the Hercules movie playing the role of a princess.

- Cara Delevingne is a British girl, she was born in London.


2. Open questions.
- In which campaigns of clothes has she participated? Name 3 of them.

- How many sisters does she have? Are they famous like?


3. Synonyms.
- Apart (paragraph 4):
- Mark (paragraph 2):
- Next (paragraph 2):
- Defended (paragraph 4):

Enrique Beneytez's text on the Scottish Referendum

Scottish Referendum.

By: Enrique Beneytez.

Almost 85% of the electorate turned out to vote, an unprecedented proportion in recent decades. The overall result was reached by simply adding together all ballots but data from the 32 Scottish council areas reveal differences in voting patterns.

The overall result was slightly wider than predicted with 55% No to 45% Yes but the split varied across areas. The closest result was Inverclyde with 50.1 No to 49.9% Yes. The most emphatic No vote was Orkney where 67.2% voted against independence, followed by Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway. Dundee was the most pro-Yes with 57.4%, followed by West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow, which has an electorate of half a million people.

Questions.

1) True or false questions:

A) The 74% of the electorate turned out to vote.

B) After the referendum results Scotland will be independent from Great Britain.

2) Open questions:

A) Which council voted the most against independence?

B) What was percentage of YES in Dundee?

3) Synonyms:

A) Frontier:           B) Nearest:

C) Global:              D) Achieve: