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Let's know a little more about Barack Obama and his school years... Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the USA on 20 January 2009. He was one of the most powerful people in the world. But his early life was quite difficult. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii. His mother was from Kansas in the United States. His father was from Kenya. When Obama was just two years old, his father returned to Kenya. Obama only ever saw his father again once, when Barack was ten years old. Barack Obama became the first African-American President of the USA on 20 January 2009 Obama's mother remarried and in 1967 the family moved to Indonesia. Obama lived in Indonesia for four years. Then his mother wanted him to go to school in the USA, so he went to live with his grandparents in Hawaii. However, although he enjoyed school school, he had his first experience of racism there. When he was just ten years old, a boy asked him if his father ate people! For many pe...

The following article was found by Vse.Normalno in a text book for English teaching. Enjoy it! As you read each cuestion, try to imagine yourself in each situation. Think of how you would react and then choose A) or B). Be honest! 1. You bought a book, but you left it on the bus on the way home. Do you think you will get it back?  A) Yes, probably - I'll call the bus station. B) Not very likely. - someone probably took it. 2. You want to buy a shirt/dress that you've seen in a shop. You find they've just sold the last ond. Do you think: A) Oh well, I can probably find something similar.  B) Why am I always so unlucky? 3. You get an "A" in an exam. Do you think:  A) Wow! I'm really good B) I was lucky with the questions. 4. You're crossing the road. A driver gets annoyed and shouts at you. Do you think: A) He/She must be having a difficult day. B) People are so rude! 5. You're trying to figure out ...

The following text has been found in  "What's up?" by Cathy Myers, Sarah Jackson & Silvia Carolina Tiberio, Ed. Pearson Education. Tell us about your point of view. Are you afraid of sharks? Have you seen one? What do you think about? Do you know why sharks attack on humans? There are about 450 species of sharks of different sizes. Some sharks are about 20cm long; others can reach 12m. Three species -the tiger shark, the white shark and the bull shark- are responsible for a lot of attacks on humans. White Shark stalking Sharks live in deep ocean waters but sometimes come to shallow waters to hunt. They eat fish, dolphins, sea turtles and seals. They are aggresive predators, but they are not man-eaters. So, why do they attack humans? Experts think that when visibility is poor, sharks mistake people for prey. This can happen when the water is not clear: for example, when there is a lot of splashing. They also explain that the number of people in...

Según expertos, las drogas con mayor auge entre la juventud de hoy son la marihuana, los inhalantes, la cocaína y la heroína, y, en menor grado, las pastillas psicotrópicas y el crack (cocaína en piedra). Sin embargo, por haber bajado de costo, la cocaína es cada vez más común, y como efecto, aumenta el uso de la heroína, puesto que el adicto busca cada vez experiencias más intensas, considerando a las drogas "comunes" como algo aburrido. No es solamente en barrios bajos y colonias escondidas donde se adquieren drogas. Las discotecas, los bares, las calles, los amigos, todo ello llega ocasionalmente a llevar al consumo de estas sustancias. Por los efectos de la sobredosis, o los signos y síntomas del síndrome de abstinencia, el tratamiento médico farmacológico, etc., se pueden dar diversas clasificaciones de drogas. Entre ellas: De tipo ALCOHOL-BARBITÚRICO. Bebidas que contienen etanol, los barbitúricos y otros fármacos con efectos sedantes como el hidrato de cloral, benz...

Misteriosa Buenos Aires –Spanish for Mysterious Buenos Aires – was written by Manuel Bernabé Mujica Láinez (Buenos Aires,1910 - Cruz Chica, Córdoba, 1984) in 1950 which talks about ghosts, supernatural stories and other imaginary or real tales of B.A. The book has 42 short stories about the biggest Argentinian city. It tells what Lainez knew about B.A. and its fictions. Misteriosa Buenos Aires, Manuel Mujica Lainez. Ed. Sudamericana One of them is La Galera –The wagon–. This short story talks about a woman who had to travel to B.A. from Córdoba –a crowded city of Argentina- because she had killed her own sister to inherit her fortune. The story begins when Catalina Vargas –the murderer– was traveling by wagon with the gold of Lucrecia Vargas –her dead sister– and suffering with her partners because it was so hot. They couldn’t open the window because there was too much dust outside the wagon. She remembered how she had changed the medicines to her sister and how she escape...