DICTATIONS FIRST SENIORS (10,11,12)

 

Walt Disney

  

            Try to imagine a world without Walt Disney. Walt Disney is a legend; a folk hero of the 20th century. He transformed the entertainment industry into what we know today. He pioneered the fields of animation, and found new ways to teach, and educate. Walt loved history. As a result of this, he didn't give technology to us piece by piece. He connected it to his mission of making life more enjoyable, and fun. Walt was our bridge from the past to the future. He was a creator, an imaginative, and aesthetic person. Even thirty years after his death, we still remember him for everything he has done for us.

 

 Walt Disney's dream of a clean, and organized amusement park came true, as Disneyland Park opened in 1955, in Anaheim, California. By the end of the eighties this fabulous $17-million magic kingdom had entertained more than 200 million people, including presidents, kings and queens, and royalty from all over the globe. Then Disneyworld was created in Orlando, Florida, in 1971, with Magic Kingdom, adding Epcot in 1982, and MGM Studios in 1989.

Guinness Records 

            The Guinness Book of Records is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognised collection of world records, both human achievements and extreme facts of the natural world. It was first published in 1955, and has shown people doing outrageous feats, such as the fattest man/woman, or the most swords swallowed by a person.

 

            The tallest man in history was Robert Wadlow, who grew to a height of 2.72 m. The tallest woman alive measures 2.30 m. The most pierced woman had, up to 2002, 720 piercings on her body, including 192 on her face alone. Kim Goodman of Chicago, Illinois, can pop her eyeballs out at least 11 mm beyond her eye sockets. A lady in Canada gave birth to a 10.8-kg boy in 1879, who unfortunately died 11 hours later. The land speed record is held by a British man, who in 1997 reached a speed of 1,227 mph in a super sonic car which generated a shock-wave and a massive sonic boom.

  

Deep Sea Creatures 

            Deep under the surface of the sea, where light no longer can penetrate, live a large number of strange-looking creatures. Some of these areas can be up to 11 km deep, and most of it is unknown territory. Conditions at these extreme depths are very different to those on land: temperatures are lower, pressures are higher, and food is sparsely distributed, so the life that exists down there has to be well-adapted. There is no plant life, because there is no light for photosynthesis.

 

            Some of the strange sea creatures which have been discovered are the following: the deep-sea dragonfish, which is a ferocious predator; the deep sea angler, a grotesque-looking fish that looks like a basketball with a large mouth full of sharp teeth; the gulper eel, one of the most bizarre creatures, which has a large mouth similar to a pelican’s beak, and it can swallow an animal much larger than itself.