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domingo, 17 de febrero de 2019
I was born in Zamora: Ana Payo
ANA PAYO
1.
FILL THE GAPS:
A scientist _______ Zamora took part
in the first Spanish team made ____ of girls who moved to the Antartica to
fight ________ the global _________. She is Ana Payo and she _____ born in
Zamora.
This is RADIO 6, from ZAMORA in
SPAIN. ______ is “I WAS BORN IN ZAMORA”.
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2.
COMPLETE THE WORDS:
She was born in Zamora, she is from
Sayago, where there is no s___, but it was here where Ana Payo started to have
d______ about oceans and marine c__________.
She has travelled to more t______
twenty different countries and she has lived in ten different c_______. And
nowadays she l______ in Mallorca.
3. WHAT IS MISSING:
She studied at the ____________ of
Barcelona, where she has _______ a teaching assistant, and she estudied ____
the University of Cadiz too.
Ana Payo is an ocenographer and she
has studied how to avoid the _______ warming effects on the biodiversity.
She thinks _________ is an amazing
subject, so she has performed solos in _________, universities and _________ to
engage people with science.
She loves
cycling, and she hates lentils. But what she loves more is to learn new things.
4. WHAT A MESS!:
In march in 2018, she joined to a (rpyotce)________
called Homeward Bound, where every year 80 female (eicstnsist)_________
meet together in the Antartica to fight against the global warming and to show
how important are women in the Science.
Those female scientists could see
that (gnepiusn)________ are moving south, because their food is the
krill, but this fish is moving south thanks to the global warming, so the
penguins have to (nahceg)________ their habbitat in order to eat the
food they need to live.
The scientists say that we use too
much plastic which is causing many problems to other (lasmnia)_________,
and that plastic is taking part in our (cihprot) _______ chain, and it
means that we are eating plastic when we eat some fish.
They have discovered that the global
warming effects are worse in (emnow)______ than in men, because men can
get (yneom)________ easier than women and girls sometimes can not go to
school.
5.
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She thinks
Cooperative and Colaborative Learning are very important.
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and admire and
enjoy what was in front of her.
This was our figure today.
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One of Ana Payo´s workmates used to say:
Extraordinary things bacame ordinary life.
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So, Ana Payo
thinks that the girls who want to become scientists have to be brave, they
have to show what they know to other people.
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Our
best wishes to your best dreams from Radio 6, from Zamora.
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ANA
PAYO, She loved looked at the sea while sitting on boat
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And girls have
to help each other when it´s possible.
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She
was born in Zamora. And she is part of our history.
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And she says that when she comes to Zamora, what she
loves, it is one of her extraordinary things.
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I was born in Zamora: Laura Iglesias Romero
LAURA IGLESIAS ROMERO
1.
FILL THE GAPS:
She was a
__________. She studied the movement of _____, and nowadays the science award
from Castilla y León has her ______. She was Laura Iglesias Romero.
This is RADIO 6,
from ZAMORA in SPAIN. This is “I WAS BORN IN ZAMORA”.
Laura
Iglesias Romero was _______ in Zamora, in the city of Benavente in 1928.
She
said she hadn´t got a good _________, but nevertheless, she studied at the ___________ in Madrid, where she graded
with distinction and she became a chemist.
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2.
COMPLETE THE WORDS:
Science was her passion and she started to w_____ as a
scientific researcher at the CSIC in Spain. In 1956 she received a
grant to st______ at the Princeton U________ in New
Jersey w_______ she worked at the Physics faculty.
Following this, she mo_____ to Washington in order to work during the 1950s.
Her f______ idea was to work there for 6 months, but in the end she was working
there two y______.
3. WHAT IS MISSING:
She
said that there were very good _________ in Spain, but some of them had to move
abroad to _______. And after those years she returned to Spain to _______ spectra of transition metal elements, which
is __________ in the field of astrophysics.
In those days, most of her colleagues were men, _____ working hard she
became a brilliant scientist ______ after a few years she received the award “González
Martí” from the Spanish Science Real Academy _________ her work about magneisum.
4. WHAT A MESS!:
After a whole (elfi)
______ dedicated to the science, nowadays Laura Iglesias Romero is known
because she studied the movement of stars. The same (assrt) _______ she
looked at when she was a (dihcl) ________ and she played and dreamed in
the (eresstt) _______ of Benavente.
She wrote many different informative articles to the (sebt) ______ Science
Magazines, such as “The
American Chemical Society” (ro) ____ “Journal of Physical and Chemical”
5.
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The scientist Laura Iglesias Romero.
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Our best wishes to your best dreams from
Radio 6, from Zamora.
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The Science Communication award Laura
Iglesias Romero.
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This was our figure today. She was born in
Zamora. And she is part of our history.
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In 2008, the scientific communication
award from Castilla y León, which is given in The Science Museum in
Valladolid took her name,
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lunes, 5 de febrero de 2018
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2018
I was born in Zamora: Viriato
VIRIATO
1.
FILL THE GAPS:
“Rome
does not pay traitors.” This is what Servilio Cepión answered to the
soldiers_____ had killed their chief, the soldiers who had killed____leader.
And this is the sentence_____ is going to pave____ way to our important figure
today… He___ Viriato, he was_____ most important leader of the Lusitanian
people.
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This
is RADIO 6, from ZAMORA in SPAIN. This is “I WAS BORN IN ZAMORA”.
2.
COMPLETE THE WORDS:
Viriato
was the mo__ important lead__ of the Lusitanian
people. There was no Spain n__ Portugal. The
peninsula was called Hispania and Hispania was a province in the Roman Empire.
Lusitania
w__ a region in the west of Hispania. And this region spread over the areas of
what we know nowa_____ like North of Portugal, Zamora and Salamanca.
We
are in the second centu__ Before Christ. And Lusitanian people with his leader,
Viriato, are resist___ Roman Expansion.
3. WHAT IS MISSING:
Nowadays, we know about Viriato thanks
____ some Greek or Roman historians, such ___ Apiano, Diodoro de Sicilia, Tito Livio, Eutropio, Osorio, Suidas
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Floro.
Some ____ them described
him as ___ shepherd who became _____ a hunter and then a soldier. That was the
way for most ____ young warriors.
According
___ the bibliography we have, we don´t know where or when ____ Viriato born,
but the legend tells us that he was born in Torrefrades, a small village ___
Zamora in the second century Before Christ.
Rome's dominion of Hispania met with much opposition. And in 185 Before
______ Rome decided ___ invade Lusitania.
4. WHAT A MESS!:
After some ttasble______, in the
region of 30.000 Lusitanians met Galba tihw_____ the idea of finishing
the raw____ and getting the land fairly distributed. But nevertheless,
the pretor Galba killed many of them, others were send to Galias as slaves and
just a wef____ amount of them ran away and among those ohw____
could avoid the slaughter was our hero, was Viriato.
This
massacre and the otrvpey________ of Lusitanian people got Viriato to
rebel against the Rome, he became the leader of the Lusitanian tribes and he
won oesm______ battles agaist Rome during some years.
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But nevertheless, Viriato and his men were winning
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And they called him “Roman people´s friend”
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After some victories, the Rome goverment sent more
soldiers to fight against Viriato,
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so Roman senate declared an agreement with Viriato.
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some elephants.
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6. WRITE THE PRESENT
VERBS:
After a while, the governor Servilio Cepión broke the
treaty and planned his death. Three Viriato´s soldiers killed
him while he was sleeping. And when they went to
ask for their payment the Roman governor answered them “Rome does
not pay traitors."
And this was the end of the
leather of the Lusitania's tribes. Afterwards, Roman governors understood
that it was better getting a peace treaty than opening confrontation against
Lusitanian people.
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7.
WRITE THE INFINITIVE, PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PARTICIPLE VERBS:
Nowadays, Viriato is
a local heroe in Portugal and in Zamora. You can find some
statues in Viseu, in Lisbom or in Zamora, in a square with his name. And the
flag of Zamora, called Seña Bermeja, has 8 red strips honouring
the eight victories of Viriato over the Romans.
Viriato.
This was our figure today. The legend says he was born in Zamora.
And he is an important member of our history.
Our
best wishes to your best dreams from Radio 6, from Zamora.
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