Esperanza+Álvarez

= = = **ACT.** =

//**focused**// on one place. Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It’s never perfect, but we do better than //**random**// guessing." || 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 //**input**// over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many //**sources**// including the BBC and New York Times. The //**data**// showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their //**recent**// revolutions. The computer also saw
 * //early//** indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was //**captured.**// Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts //**spot**// future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to //**advise**// their clients. ||
 * Leetar explained the //**importance**// of news to look into the future: “News gives you //**incredible**// information about people, places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people //**view**// each other,” he said. Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three //**key**// areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different //**emocions**// to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to //**track**// references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels
 * 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.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * This year for you **study Bachiller** ||
 * Your country **Valencia/Spain** ||
 * Sport **run and bike** ||
 * Inventions **nothing** ||
 * The world ||
 * Your old age ||

4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have **finish the university** In ten years' time we will both be **work.** By this time next week I will have **leson in my class** and my friend will **leson with my**. This time tomorrow I will be **Valencia class** and my friend **Valencia class** = = = = = EMAIL TO MY FRIEND =


 * < Subject: Greats News.

Hi Mary,

Wow are you? I hope that you are funny, I'm writting to you because I guy a new computer, it's very nice and it's has a lot of aplications also is small. And I can go to school with them and I can have the homework with it, it isn't never heavy and it is very comfortable. I think it is an excelent computer and I'm very happy with them. The computer is very expensive and I saving since 2010. The only problem in the battery, it'i a short time of life.

I want to hear from you, so drop me a line. Love, Esperanza || = = = = = = = **ACT. 13-2-12** =

__**TASK 1. Choose the best option.**__

Scientists have discovered that addictions may be **HEREDITARY**. A team from Britain’s University of Cambridge found that siblings of drug addicts **SHARE** the same brain abnormalities as their drug-using brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are linked **TO** poor self-control and drug dependence. The researchers suggest that addiction is **IN** some ways a “disorder of the brain”. This may provide important new ways into helping people with problems of self-control when it **COMES** to addictions. The study sought to find out if drugs changed the “wiring” of the brain or whether the brains of drug addicts were wired **DIFFERENTLY** from birth. Lead researcher Dr Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has **LONG** been known that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted.” She continued: “It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we **NEED** to recognise this. These brothers and sisters who don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they **OVERCOME** these problems, how they manage self-control in their **DAILY** life.” Dr Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 pairs of siblings — one with a history of drug addiction and one with no experience **OF** taking drugs. She compared these with 50 healthy people. She concluded: “We need to find out how these non-addicted siblings were able to resist **USING** drugs.”
 * Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.**
 * 1. || (a) || hereditary || (b) || herald || (c) || herded || (d) || heresy ||
 * 2. || (a) || compare || (b) || share || (c) || repair || (d) || fare ||
 * 3. || (a) || as || (b) || at || (c) || to || (d) || up ||
 * 4. || (a) || to || (b) || of || (c) || by || (d) || in ||
 * 5. || (a) || arrives || (b) || leaves || (c) || goes || (d) || comes ||
 * 6. || (a) || difference || (b) || differs || (c) || differently || (d) || different ||
 * 7. || (a) || long || (b) || deep || (c) || wide || (d) || tall ||
 * 8. || (a) || must || (b) || need || (c) || should || (d) || necessary ||
 * 9. || (a) || overjoy || (b) || overkill || (c) || overcome || (d) || overplay ||
 * 10. || (a) || daily || (b) || nightly || (c) || afternoon || (d) || morning ||
 * 11. || (a) || as || (b) || for || (c) || to || (d) || of ||
 * 12. || (a) || users || (b) || using || (c) || use of || (d) || uses ||

__**TASK 2. TRUE / FALSE**__


 * a. || Scientists say that many addictions may be hereditary. || T ||
 * b. || Drug addicts can have the same brain abnormalities as their siblings. || T ||
 * c. || Abnormal brain structures usually results in better self-control. || F ||
 * d. || The study may be able to help people control themselves better. || T ||
 * e. || Everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted in some way. || F ||
 * f. || A researcher said addiction is a brain disorder and not a choice. || T ||
 * g. || The researcher said one in fifty of us are drug addicts. || F ||
 * h. || The doctor knows why some siblings of drug addicts are not addicts. || T ||

__**TASK 3. SYNONYM MATCH.**__ Match the following synonyms from the article.


 * 1. || discovered || a. found out ||  ||
 * 2 || siblings || b. brothers and sisters ||  ||
 * 3. || linked || c. connected ||  ||
 * 4. || provide || d. give ||  ||
 * 5. || sought || e. decision ||  ||
 * 6. || lead || f. head ||  ||
 * 7. || choice || g. tired ||  ||
 * 8. || overcome || h. get over ||  ||
 * 9. || colleagues || i. co-workers ||  ||
 * 10. || resist || j.stay away from ||  ||

= AN ESPECIAL PERSON =

ALBA

My friend alba is one of the most important people to me. She we go out together sometimes and in summer is my neighbor. Alba is tall, blond and has green eyes. She is very friendly and sincere, It's nothing serious. Alba likes animals, she also likes rocks music, she hasn't got a motorcycle license but it will do. In short. Alba is very especial for me and it's a beautiful person. I'm glad that she is my friend.

=** READING **=

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