Unit 9 Lesson 3: ¿Qué vas a hacer?

Question 1

What’s un hincha

Answer 1

un hincha, as extremely passionate and dedicated sports fans are called in South America.

Question 2

How doesun hincha present themeselves

Answer 2

Typically, los hinchas wear their team’s colors in their clothes and paint them on their faces. When national teams play, hinchas display the flag for their team and wear the national colors.

Question 3

How does a true hincha behave

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true hinchas are also known for displaying their support and loyalty in other ways: They sing and chant during the match, regardless of how the game is going; they watch the whole match standing rather than sitting; and they attend as many games as possible, both home and away, regardless of distance or cost involved.

Question 4

in Spanish, when people talk about clubs de fútbol, they mean

Answer 4

Spanish, when people talk about clubs de fútbol, they mean soccer teams, not fan clubs.

Question 5

The Méxican professional soccer team Club América has a huge fan base, with more than how many followers?

Answer 5

with more than 5.5 million followers on their official Facebook page. It’s the most successful Méxican soccer team, with a long history dating back to its founding in the early 1900s

Question 6

Club América also has the rare distinction of being both the most popular and the most hated soccer team in México, based on newspaper polls done in 2013 and 2014. What are its fans repsonse to this

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Well, Club América’s fans embraced the hate with a new slogan: Ódiame más, or Hate Me More. It ranks as the number one team with the highest attendance numbers in México and the eighth highest attendance worldwide.

Question 7

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, where I’m from, the most popular team in España is

Answer 7

FC Barcelona, known simply as el Barça.

Question 8

Which team won the Wrold cup in 2010

Answer 8

el Barça

Question 9

el Barça has the largest fan base in social media with more than

Answer 9

el Barça has the largest fan base in social media with more than 69 million fans on Facebook.

Question 10

el Barça also boast some of the best and most popular players in the world, like

Answer 10

Lionel Messi, who is originally from Argentina and holds the record for all-time top scorer for the team.

Question 11

Whats the offical slogan of el Barça

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Our official slogan is Més que un club, which means, We are more than just a team. And we are. We are a way of life!

Question 12

How many times has the Poás volcano erupted

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The volcano has erupted about 40 times since 1928. It is active almost continuously.

Question 13

What is near the Poás volcano

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An interesting feature of the Poás volcano is that there are two crater lakes near the summit.

Question 14

the Laguna Caliente

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One of the lakes, the northern one, is known as the Laguna Caliente, or hot lagoon. It is one of the world’s most acidic lakes. It’s so acidic, in fact, that people can’t swim there. The bottom of both lakes is covered with sulfur. I

Question 15

fumaroles

Answer 15

These are openings on the crust of the planet that emit steam and gases.

Question 16

People think the smoke they see rising from the lake is the volcano spewing ash, but that’s not the case. What is it then

Answer 16

The smoke you see over the lake is actually water vapor mixed with acid fog. The water from the lake is constantly seeping through cracks in the hot rock, evaporating and building pockets of steam.

Question 17

We’ve all heard of how damaging acid rain can be to the vegetation of the planet, right? Well, at Poás Volcano National Park you can actually see the effects of acid rain. Elaborate

Answer 17

The fumaroles at Poás produce acid fogs and rains with a high content of sulfur. As a result, part of the vegetation has been wiped out near the summit, and some areas are covered with unusual, stunted trees that have adapted to this acid rain.

Question 18

They don’t allow camping inside the Poás Volcano National Park, but we were able to find a place to camp out nearby. And we took hiking tours to the crater. There are various trails that you can take to get to the top of the volcano and see the crater. The trails take you through the cloud forest, teeming with many species of birds, including

Answer 18

hummingbirds and the clay-colored robin, which is Costa Rica’s national bird. If you are lucky, you may catch a glimpse of the most famous bird in Central America: the resplendent quetzal.