Unit 9 Lesson 3: ¿Qué vas a hacer? Flashcards
What’s un hincha
un hincha, as extremely passionate and dedicated sports fans are called in South America.
How doesun hincha present themeselves
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.
How does a true hincha behave
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.
in Spanish, when people talk about clubs de fútbol, they mean
Spanish, when people talk about clubs de fútbol, they mean soccer teams, not fan clubs.
The Méxican professional soccer team Club América has a huge fan base, with more than how many followers?
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
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
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.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, where I’m from, the most popular team in España is
FC Barcelona, known simply as el Barça.
Which team won the Wrold cup in 2010
el Barça
el Barça has the largest fan base in social media with more than
el Barça has the largest fan base in social media with more than 69 million fans on Facebook.
el Barça also boast some of the best and most popular players in the world, like
Lionel Messi, who is originally from Argentina and holds the record for all-time top scorer for the team.
Whats the offical slogan of el Barça
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!
How many times has the Poás volcano erupted
The volcano has erupted about 40 times since 1928. It is active almost continuously.
What is near the Poás volcano
An interesting feature of the Poás volcano is that there are two crater lakes near the summit.
the Laguna Caliente
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
fumaroles
These are openings on the crust of the planet that emit steam and gases.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
