Tarea tema 1
Traduce el siguiente texto:
A SIMPLE LIFE
My name is Peter, I live in the suburbs of Boston with my family. I'm 45 years old and I work for IBM. Most people believe we are rich because we live in a big house. But our family
seems to be like any other one.
Maggie, my wife, loves cooking. She enjoys being in the kitchen with her
friends. At the moment she is making a cake and you can't talk to her. What
really worries her is our daughter, who prefers to chat in front of her
computer instead of cooking with her.
Like many teenagers, Jenny is always complaining about her parents and she
thinks it is easier to get advice from someone she is not going to see later
than listening to her parents.
It's 5 pm. Paul, my son, is playing basketball in the garden and I am watching
TV, waiting for that delicious cake that Maggie is cooking.
We enjoy being together. At weekends we often go camping. We go walking and we
also like swimming in the river. My wife and I usually go to classical music
concerts, but my children prefer rock music.
I told you, a family like yours.
Tarea tema 2
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TRAVELLING ONLINE
More
and more people want to see the world, but travelling can be very expensive and
it takes a lot of time. Now, with the Internet, you can travel anywhere in the
world - virtually. Virtual travel is not real, but it can make you feel that
you are actually there. Travelling Online is an online travel site. At the
site, you can read other travellers' experiences and see their photographs too.
You can "visit" all the cities and countries of your dreams.
Armchair Travel is another travel site which makes very specialised films about the places that you want to visit. The company developed a special way to make these films. For example, they photographed 50 different views to make a film about St Paul's Cathedral. Then they computerised the pictures and now we can make a virtual "tour" in the cathedral from home.
Tarea tema 3
1. Traduce el siguiente texto al español.
Margaret Thatcher's political career has been one of the most
remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market
town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for two decades the
only) woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive General
Elections and served as British Prime Minister for more than eleven years
(1979-90), a record unmatched in the twentieth century.
During her term of office
she reshaped almost every aspect of British politics, reviving the economy,
reforming outdated institutions, and reinvigorating the nation's foreign
policy. She challenged and did much to overturn the psychology of decline which
had become rooted in Britain since the Second World War, pursuing national
recovery with striking energy and determination.
In the process, Margaret
Thatcher became one of the founders, with Ronald Reagan, of a school of
conservative conviction politics, which has had a powerful and enduring impact
on politics in Britain and the United States and earned her a higher
international profile than any British politician since Winston Churchill.
