My English fifth course

Friday 22 February 2019

Blogger reading

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. It is one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tolos.

In February 2003, Google bought it terms. The acquisition allowed premium features to become free. In October 2004, it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowingthey allowed users to post photos to their blog.

On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth-anniversary celebration. The features included:
·         Adding location to posts via geotagging.
·         Vertical re-sizing of the post editor.
·         New Preview format
·         New toolbar with faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website.  As of late 2016, Blogger is available in these 60 languages, including languages such as Spanish, English, French, German, Greek, Chinese, Dutch, Italian or Portuguese.

Answer the following questions:

1) What is Blogger?

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2) Who launched Blogger on August 1999?

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3) Who bought Blogger in 2003?

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4) When did Blogger allow to post potos?

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5) Can you name 2 features included in 2009?

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6) In how many languages is Blogger available?

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Shakespeare reading

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England. His father was a glove maker, and his business did well, so William’s family was not poor. His father became an important person in the town.

William was the eldest boy in the family, so he had to help his father. One day, he went to a market with his younger brother, Edmund. Edmund slipped because it was muddy, and a young woman helped him to stand up.

Her name was Anne Hathaway, and she lived near Stratford. After this meeting at the market, William and Anne fell in love, and they married in 1582.

Anne gave birth to their first child, Susanna, in 1583. At first, William and Anne lived with William’s parents, but they moved to another house in 1584. Their twins, Judith and Hamnet, were born in 1585. Sadly, Hamnet died when he was only eleven years old. William was not happy in Stratford, because he wanted to work in the best theatres. But these were in London, so in 1587 William went to live there to follow his dream.

He asked his brother to look after his wife and children, and he sent money home to Stratford and visited when he could. During his career, he worked as an actor, and he also wrote thirty seven plays: seventeen comedies, ten histories and ten tragedies, as well as poems.

Shakespeare became rich and famous and his company of actors had enough money for a new theatre, The Globe, built in 1598. During a play in 1613, a fire started and The Globe burnt down and Shakespeare retired after the accident.

He died on his birthday, aged 52, in 1616, and was buried in a church in Stratford. His daughter Susanna inherited most of his money and possessions.

Put he following questions in order and answer them:

many how write did Shakespeare plays?

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- Shakespeare where live did?

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- happened what 1598 in?

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- died when did he?

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Find the simple past form of the following verbs in the text. Classify them into regular or irregular:

Bury: ________________________ Inherit: _____________________

Become: _____________________ Start: ______________________

Die: _________________________ Build: ______________________

Send: ________________________ Write: ______________________

Visit: ________________________ Work: ______________________

Be: __________________________ Go:________________________

Have: ________________________ Move: ______________________

Regular verbs	Irregular verbs

Blogger mixed-up sentences

A blogger is really confused and wrote these sentences. Can you put them in the correct order?

1- very hard you last week worked	14- moved to London year last they
2- lived in Japan last she year last	15- called police they the
3- they how swim ago learnt to two years	16- grandma visited last week she her
4- painted house my I weekend last	17- played I new a game yesterday
5- liked sun sit in sun the she	18- parked her car garaje she in garage
6- Mr Green with my uncle worked	19- they them with their custome scared
7- studied for exam English the he	20- helped dog the I in Street the
8- wanted London to visit she	21- film the ended at 10.00pm
9- needed to find we a new job	22- you beautiful picture drawed a
10- ten minutes arrived you late	23- travelled you to London two ago years
11- talked on phone the week they last	24- cried baby a lot the
12- cooked special we for a meal her birthday	25- reach tried to she the bus.
13- we three hours walked reach to the station

Thursday 21 February 2019

Thomas Alva Edison

How many devices did he invent?

Which is considered to be the most importat invention?

Why was he fired from the school?

What did her mother decide?

Did he love science?

What did they buy when Edison was ten?

Why did he invent the electric energy?

How many fail trials did he do to invent the electric light?

What happened with the laboratory?

Leonardo Da Vinci reading comprehension

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 and he was Italian. He never married nor had children. Unbelievably his assistant inherited his entire estate. He lived during the Renaissance era, which was all about important developments and discoveries in areas such as art and science. The name Leonardo da Vinci translates to ‘Leonard from the town of Vinci’. That sounds quite weird, but that was how they named people back then.

Why was he famous?

Well actually quite a lot; he was a brilliant artist, sculptor, draftsman, inventor, scientist, mathematician, engineer, costume maker, writer and musician and he was also very interested in the laws of science and nature, which greatly influenced his work.

He is without a doubt known as one of the greatest painters of all time, and quite possibly the most talented person that has ever lived.

What was his childhood like?

He was the child of a respected notary, who is a person who can do all sorts of legal things, and a young peasant woman. At 14 he learnt and worked for an artist Verrocchio, where he learnt loads of technical skills, including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing and sculpting. By age 20, he had qualified as a master artist in the Guild of Saint Luke, which was like a prestigious association that was for painters and artists, and now had his very own workshop.

What else did he do?

He loved animals and was a vegetarian throughout his life. He also liked to buy caged birds so that he could set them free. That’s nice!

He hated war, but besides this he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons, drawing plans for the first armored car in 1485. He also invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road and created an inflatable tube so people could float on water. Ah, no now we know who to thank for that awesome creation that is heaps of fun.

When was he born?

During which era did he live?

What did he do?

What did his father do?

Did he eat meat?

What did he invent?

What do you think they invented?

INVENTIONS	INVENTORS
Telephone (1876)	Samuel B. Morse
Car (1885)	Boris Rosing
Television (1906)	Carl Benz
Light bulbs (1880)	Alexander Graham Bell
Facebook (2004)	Thomas Alva Edison
Telegraph (1837)	Mark Zuckerberg