task 9

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Read this page attentively and when you finish,
2. Get 2 news of your choice.Look for a newspaper in English!(e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk/. ) It may be news you’ve already read or would like to read. Choose a paragraph of each of them and then find the main idea of the paragraphs. Next, copy the paragraphs on your blog. Then, identify the main idea by underlining it or highlighting it. Finally, make an illustration of the main ideas to share.
3. Send your task to one of your classmates 
4.  Write your own paragraph about a topic that interests you and illustrate it. Write at least four supporting deatails. Use a power point presentation. Be creative and have fun!  

us launches major immigation reform 

Illegal immigrants are getting their records in order as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) starts accepting applications for the programme, which would allow them to remain and work for at least two years.

Baltimore is inviting immigrants to settle there, no questions asked

Long queues of migrants wanting to submit applications were seen outside immigration offices in parts of the US with large minority populations, such as the states of California and Texas.

In an internal document, DHS officials estimated 1.04 million people would apply in the first year.

The Migration Policy Institute and the Pew Hispanic Center have estimated as many as 1.7 million people could be eligible under the programme.

The administration's plan is to stop deporting many illegal immigrants who were brought to the US as children.

To be eligible, immigrants must prove they arrived in the US before they turned 16, are 30 or younger, have been living here at least five years and are in school or graduated or served in the military.

They also cannot have been convicted of certain crimes.

The measure has echoes of the so-called Dream Act, which offered permanent residency to young undocumented immigrants, but failed to pass after years of congressional stalemate.

"Childhood arrivals who meet the guidelines and whose cases are deferred will now be able to live without fear of removal, and be able to more fully contribute their talents to our great nation," said Alejandro 

Orbiting views of Olympic London

The 1,500-ton-steel tower located in East London’s Olympic Park was primarily designed by engineer Cecil Balmond and Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor, who created the stainless steel sculpture CloudGate, also known as the Millennium Bean, in Chicago’s Grant Park.

To tour the Orbit, visitors gather under its base, a red fibreglass canopy that resembles the mouth of a gigantic red trombone. While waiting for the elevator to the top, time-lapse videos of the structure’s construction are shown, with scenes of the two construction workers -- yes, only two -- assembling sections of tubular steel like a child’s construction set.

From the outdoor section of the observation deck, the view of Olympic Park outshines that of London’s distinctive skyline. The park has 4,000 trees and 150,000 perennial plants, including many golden wildflowers, which can be clearly seen scattered around canals and among the distinctive Games venues.

The indoor portion of the observation deck includes a pair of over-size, concave mirrors that produce fun-house reflections of visitors. A central window in the deck allows visitors to look down almost straight to the bottom of the sculpture. 

At the end of the half-hour tour, visitors are encouraged to walk down the spiralling 455-step staircase along the outside the tower to enjoy the full effect of the structure’s shape-shifting form.

With a silhouette vaguely evoking a shisha pipe, the Orbit’s unconventional design has sparked controversy, being variously described as “the Eyeful Tower”, “the Eiffel Tower after a nuclear attack”, and “the Hubble Bubble”.

“We wanted to see if we could create a structure that seemed unstable, seemed to be propping itself up,” said Balmond in a statement. “So, we’ve slowly evolved a form that seems to be teetering, weaving itself, a loop.... The whole thing is in a twist, it’s never centred, never quite vertical.”

The Orbit will only be open until 12 August. Tickets must be bookedonline in advance, at £15 a pop.

After the Games, the tower will be temporarily closed until the Olympic Park is re-developed into a site that is expected to eventually feature public swimming pools and sports complexes, residential housing and a museum dedicated to London’s history of hosting three Olympic Games. In July 2013, the Orbit is expected to re-open as a ticketed attraction with a cafe that can also host private functions.

While it hibernates, the Orbit will continue to serve as a landmark, illuminated by coloured spotlights, and from time to time there will be a 15-minute light show.

INSTRUCTIONS n 4

insecurity in the streets


insecurity today in the streets of Colombia grows with each day, can be more dangerous, for violations that occur, robberies, murders late at night as it can be at times of day, what is most striking in this case, the little security we have in Colombia is very little that was controlled for many years now is a disaster for society.
today the police are afraid to get into a dangerous neighborhood but that for fear of a lack of control in the street and the bands in the city.
people who commit gun crime late at night ....