Review 3: People, culture and traditions. 10 de marzo de 2022

Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).

Comenzamos una serie de ejercicios dedicados a revisar los puntos principales del programa del curso.

Hoy toca: People, culture and traditions.

Nota: Los textos están seleccionados tanto del programa CREA como de otras fuentes, a quienes doy las gracias y cito, pero todos tienen el nivel del curso.

CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:

AZUL: Traducciones.

ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.

VERDE: Aspectos culturales.

NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas

MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.

Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.

Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.  

https://www.visitbritain.com/es/es/inglaterra/londres

Texto nº 1:

                        Looking for a job in London.

Paul: Hello Pablo! I didn't know you were here.

Pablo: Oh, I've been here for nearly two months, I arrived here in January.

Paul: The last time I saw you you said nothing about coming to England. What made you change your mind?

Pablo: Well, as you know I've studied ingeneering at university in Spain. When I finished my studies I tried to look for a job but unfortunately I couldn't find anything suitable for me. Then, I decided I needed a gap year and that I needed to improve my English. My sister is working here, so it seemed a good option.

Paul: What have you done so far?

Pablo: I arrived two months ago and I stayed with my sister till I found a flat on my own. I've found a job as a barman at a local pub, I've worked since February. I've met a lot of people at the pub so  I've got many friends. Some of them work there, and  I have travelled a lot with them. I have met English people too, so I have learnt good English. I also attend formal lessons. I've been at a languages school for one month and I've improved a lot. Don't you think so?

* to change one's mind: cambiar de opinión

Texto nº 2:

                                    A funny anecdote

A suspected hit and run driver told police she hadn´t stopped because she feared her ice cream would melt.  Flora Burkhart was driving home around 6pm on Sunday night when she crashed into the back of a pick-up truck. But instead of stopping at the scene, on state highway 59 in Van Buren, a city in the Ozark Mountain foothills in Arkansas, the 58-year-old continued driving.

Quick thinking victim, Derek Parker,  dialled 911. Before that, he had followed the suspect home.Officers from Van Buren Police Department later confronted Burkhart and asked why she had fled the scene of the accident. According to a police report, she told them: “I left because I did not want my ice cream to melt.” 

The accused also claimed that she “didn’t think there was enough damage to the vehicles to call police. ”In fact, cops estimated that each car sustained $500 worth of damage in the crash. Burkhart was issued a citation for leaving the scene of an accident and driving too closely to Parker’s vehicle.

Texto nº 3:

Lee la siguiente biografía sobre el boxeador norteamericano Muhammad Ali, toda una leyenda.

https://www.elespanol.com/deportes/otros-deportes/20200603/sin-muhammad-ali-negro-musulman-racismo-boxeador/494951910_0.html

 

Early life

Muhammad Ali has been the only professional boxer to win the heavy-weight championship three times. He has provided leadership and is an example for African American men and women around the world with his political and religious views. 

Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky.  His father was a sign painter who also loved to act, sing, and dance; his mother worked as a cleaning lady when money was tight. Ali began boxing at the age of twelve. His bicycle had been stolen, and he reported the theft to a policeman named Joe Martin, who gave boxing lessons in a local youth center. Martin invited Ali to try boxing and soon saw that he had talent. An African American trainer named Fred Stoner taught Ali the science of boxing. 

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

As a teenager Ali won both the national Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and Golden Gloves championships. At the age of eighteen he competed in the 1960 Olympic games held in Rome, Italy, winning the gold medal in the lightheavyweight division.  Ali worked his way through a series of professional victories, using a style that combined speed with great punching power. He was described by one of his handlers as having the ability to "float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee. In February 1964, when he was only twenty-two years old, he fought and defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world.

Religious change

Inspired by Muslim spokesman Malcolm X (1925–1965), Ali began to follow the Black Muslim faith (a group that supports a separate black nation) and announced that he had changed his name to Cassius X. This was at a time when the struggle for civil rights was at a peak and the Muslims had emerged as a controversial (causing disputes) but important force in the African American community. Later the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975) gave him the name Muhammad Ali.  In his first title defense in May 1965 Ali defeated Sonny Liston with a first-round knockout.  Ali successfully defended his title eight more times.

In April 1967 Ali was drafted into military service during the Vietnam War (1964–75). He claimed that as a minister of the Black Muslim religion he was not obligated to serve. The press criticized him as unpatriotic, and the New York State Athletic Commission and World Boxing Association suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his heavyweight title. Ali was finally sentenced to five years in prison but was released on appeal, and his conviction was thrown out three years later by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Back in the ring

Ali returned to the ring and beat Jerry Quarry in 1970 and he regained his title as the world heavyweight champion in the 1970s. In 1975 Sports Illustrated magazine named Ali its "Sportsman of the Year. Ali successfully defended his title ten more times. At the end of his boxing career he was slowed by a condition related to Parkinson's disease. He retired  in 1981. Since Ali's boxing career ended, he has became involved in social causes and politics. He has campaigned for Jimmy Carter (1924–) and other Democratic political candidates and has been taking  part in the promotion of a variety of political causes addressing poverty and the needs of children. He even tried to win the release of four kidnapped Americans in Lebanon in 1985. As a result, his image changed and he became respected as a statesman. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, the world and his country honored Ali by choosing him to light the Olympic torch during the opening ceremonies. 

Ali remains in the public eye even as he has been suffering from the effects of Parkinson's disease lately.

Saludos y nos vemos la próxima semana Dios mediante.