Sharon+Hidrobo

**Writing: A desription of a person. **

 * My favorite player is Leo Messi, he is one the best players in the history of the FC Barcelona.**


 * Messi is Argentinian and he is 24 years old. He lives in Barcelona. His is 169m high and he has short brown hair. He's very shy, but usually cheerful. Messi as a forward in FC Barcelona, although he is the captain the Argentinian national team.**


 * Messi is the best player in the world, because he has won three gold balls. People think he is the best player in the world. And I think they are reasons, because he is my favourite player.**


 * In conclusion, Messi is quite different from most players because is very modest and calm boy. I love watching his matches.**

(5)** early ** indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was (6) **captured** Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts (7) **spot** future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to (8) **advise** their clients. ||  || //captured// //recent// //sources// //advise// //spot// //input// //data// //early// || (15) ** focused ** on one place. Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It’s never perfect, but we do better than (16) **random** guessing." ||  || //emotions//  //incredible//  //k////ey//  //random//  //importance//  //focused//  //view//  //track// || Good things bad things ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1. GAP FILL:** Put the words into the gaps in the text.
 * Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future. Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA (1) **input** over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many (2) **sources**, including the BBC and New York Times. The (3) **data** showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their (4) ** recent ** revolutions. The computer also saw
 * Leetar explained the (9) ** importance ** of news to look into the future: “News gives you (10) **incredible** information about people, places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people (11) **view** each other,” he said. Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three (12) **key** areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different (13) **emotions** to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to (14) ** track ** references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels
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 * 2. Listen and check your answers. ||  ||   ||
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
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4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have ..................................................................................................................... In ten years' time we will both be ........................................................................................................................ By this time next week I will have.......................................and my friend will........................................................ This time tomorrow I will be ................................................. and my friend .........................................................