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domingo, 14 de marzo de 2010












Time for listening:






Story 2: "Flash floods devastate Portuguese Island"

  1. Do the prelistening vocabulary
  2. Listen to the news trying to fill in the gaps.
  3. Answer the questions on the text in the space reserved for the comments on this post (in the blog not through the e-mail).
  4. Check your answers at the bottom of the page where you did the listening.



16 comentarios:

  1. Hello teacher! I did the listening but I couldn't understand one boxe: 'mudslides'.

    1.Madeira is an island that belongs to Potugal.
    2.Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3.Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to the victims.

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  2. HELENA CASTRO FERRAZ

    Hi teacher!
    I did the homework but I didn't know the word "mudslides" like Isa.

    1. Madeira is an Atlantic island that belongs to Portugal.
    2. Some people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3. Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

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  3. Hi teacher,I just do my homework and I take to hear this listening 5 times!
    1º.Madeira is an island that belongs to Potugal.
    2º.Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3º.Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.
    Tania M.Pérez

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  4. Hi teacher!
    I did my homework but it took me four times to find the third word.

    1. Madeira is an island that belongs to Portugal.
    2. Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3. Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

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  5. Hello teacher! I did my homework, but I didn't know the word "mudslides"
    1-In the Atlantic ocean, Madeira belongs to Portugal
    2-They grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3-The Portuguese government declared three days of national morning to remember the victims.
    Eduardo G.R.

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  6. 1. Where is Madeira?
    Madeira is a Portuguese island that is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Iberian Peninsula.

    2. What did some people have to do to keep from drowning?
    They had to grasp onto anything they could find.

    3. What did the Portuguese government do shortly after the flooding?
    The Portuguese government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember thevictims.

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  7. Verónica Pérez Fernández, 1ºBACH-A

    Hi teacher=),I didn't understand mudslides and matter...
    1.is an portugal's island that is in the ocean Atlantic.
    2.Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3.The Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

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  8. 1.Madeira is an Atlantic island which belongs to Portugal.
    2.People grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3.Following the disaster, Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

    Carlos Alejandro Martín Perdomo

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  9. Hi Teacher,

    1.Madeira is an Atlantic island which belongs to Portugal.
    2.People grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3.Following the disaster, Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.
    Raphael Bevand

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  10. Hello teacher I`ve done my homework today because I`ve been in my cousins` house all the easter week. I`m sorry, but at least I did it.

    1.Madeira is an Atlantic island which belongs to Portugal.
    2.Many people grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3.Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

    Samuel Pérez Pérez

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  11. Hi teacher! I have done my homework and the answers are:
    1. Madeira is an Atlantic island which belongs to Portugal.
    2.People grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3.Following the disaster, Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

    Lara Chacopino Hdez

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  12. 1º Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago of two islands that lies west of the Iberian Peninsula and north of the Canary Islands.
    2º People grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowning.
    3º The Portuguese government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims of drowing.

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  13. 1. Madeira is an Atlantic island that belongs to Portugal.
    2. Many people grasped onto anything they could find to keep from drowimg.
    3. Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to remember the victims.

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  14. Teacher I did my homework today because I`ve been in Madrid all the easter week. But I didn't find the questions that we had to answer and the listening I did is different than the others.

    Bárbara Pérez

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  15. Hello teacher, I did my homework.

    1.Madeira is an island that belongs to Potugal.
    2.Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3.Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to the victims.

    Chen

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  16. Hi Teacher,I have just do my homework because I was working all days and I was out home.Sorry¡¡
    Before holidays i did the listening and questions, but I didn´t comment.

    1.Madeira is an island that belongs to Potugal.
    2.Many people grasped onto anything they could find.
    3.Portugal's government declared 3 days of national mourning to the victims.

    Jorge Henríquez Yanes

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