LOLcats from Francesca Zurlo, I LSA

Thank you, Francesca!

Baseball

                                        BASEBALL

Baseball is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of nine players each.

The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball whit a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at a corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond.

Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.

A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate’s hit or other means.

The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding teams records three outs.

One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game.

The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Evolving from older bat and ball games, an early form of baseball was played in England by the mid-eighteenth century.

This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed.

By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States.

Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia.

The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball. 

Giulio Mattolin, II LSB

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American Football

                            AMERICAN FOOTBALL

 
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line.

Many games known as "football" were played at colleges and universities in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.

American football, known in the United States simply as football and sometimes as gridiron outside the United States and Canada, is a sport played between two teams of eleven.

The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. The ball can be advanced by running with it or throwing it to a teammate.

Points can be scored by carrying the ball over the opponent's goal line, catching a pass thrown over that goal line, kicking the ball through the opponent's goal posts or tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone.

American football is closely related to Canadian football but with some differences in rules and in the configuration of the field, in particular the presence of eleven players on the field rather than twelve and the allowance of four downs per possession rather than just three. The larger number of downs results in more offensive rushing in American football than in the Canadian game.

 Riccardo Cappello, II LSB

Hollywood

                                                          HOLLYWOOD

        

Hollywood is a part of Los Angeles, California. It is the historical center of movie studios and movie stars. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxliary industries, such as editing, effect, post-production and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the Paramount Pictures.

In addition, Hollywood is home to various entertainment studios and production companies, leading both the community and Los Angeles in general to also become known as
                                 "THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD".

                              THE STUDIOS

Hollywood stars have one thing in common: they have all passed through the gates of the fabled Hollywood studios.They are star factories. It is here that the stars work, producing celluloid fantasies behind the towering walls that surround these centers of Tinseltown imagination.

Some studios offer guided tours to the public. All of  them offer a particular slice of the illustrious history of the silver screen.

Sofia Gelain and Sofia Busatto,
II LSB                                                                                            

   

Song: Sagi Rei, I'll fly with you

A song performed by the romantic girls of class 3LSA during an X-Factor lesson:

A nice example of the simple future tense use...

And now, try to sing this song on the base only!

An Israeli singer and guitarist born in 1975, Sagi-Rei moved to Italy in 1989, where he lives and works. Sagi-Rei attracted immediate attention with the release of his first album, 2005’s "Emotional Songs" (also released as "Acoustic Dance" in 2006), consisting exclusively of acoustic renditions of classic dance hits from the 1990s, such as Haddaway’s “What Is Love” and Snap!’s “Rhythm Is a Dancer.”

Food - vocabulary games

Play these online games about food:

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/vocabulary/memoryaudio/food/
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/vocabulary/labeling/food/index.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/food/cafe/cafematch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/food/breakfast/breakmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/food/fruit/fruitmatch.html
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/food/vegetables/vegmatch.html
http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodQuiz.htm

(...poor dog!)