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• NEW: Some people were trampled in the panic to leave the club, Band News reports
• Authorities have confirmed at least 220 people are dead
• Hundreds more are believed to be injured, though there is not an exact count
• The fire started at about 2 a.m. at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria

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Sao Paolo, Brazil (CNN) -- A fire swept through a popular nightclub in southern Brazil on Sunday, killing at least 220 people, officials said.
The death toll was expected to climb as firefighters continued to pull bodies from the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, said Col. Adilomar Silva, the regional coordinator of civil defense.
Most of those killed appeared to have died of smoke inhalation, he said. Hundreds are believed to have been injured, though an exact count was not immediately available.
Many people were trampled in the panic to leave the club, one security guard told CNN affiliate Band News.
Police described it as the worst tragedy ever to affect Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, Band News said.
The fire started at about 2 a.m. after the acoustic insulation in the Kiss nightclub caught fire, Silva said.
There was a pyrotechnics show going on inside the club when the fire started. Authorities stopped short of blaming it for the blaze, saying the cause was still under investigation.
The incident called to mind a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island where pyrotechnics used by the heavy metal band Great White ignited a blaze that killed more than 90 people.
Pyrotechnics were also involved in a 2004 night club fire in Argentina that killed 194 people and a 2009 explosion at a night club in Russia that left more than 100 dead.
The Kiss nightclub is popular with young people in Santa Maria, drawing between 2,000 and 3,000 people a night on the weekends.
The blaze broke out during a weekend when students were celebrating the end of summer. Students at many Brazilian universities return to school on Monday.
Santa Maria is home to the Federal University of Santa Maria as well as a number of other private universities and colleges.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who has been in Chile for a regional summit, was expected to come to Rio Grado do Sul, the state government said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/27/world/americas/brazil-nightclub-fire/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

1 – What happened in the text? What elements of the text helped you?
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2 – What other similar events does the text talk about? Were there victims?
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3 – How many people did lose their lives?
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4 – The expression “called to mind” could be replaced without changing the context by:
( ) say ( ) forget ( ) tell ( ) remember ( ) mentioned

5 - According to the text, what was happening when the event started?
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6 - The text says that many youngsters live in the city. Why?
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POST 100 - The Matrix - Conjunctions

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Today It´s the HUNDREDTH POST of Teacher Bruno´s blog. A very important goal was achieved with the blog recently and bigger ones are to come.
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Today´s post includes a new Matrix class using conjunctions.

1 – Watch the vídeo segment from The Matrix and identify the missing conjunction from the sentence.

Oracle: You´ve got the gift, __________ it looks like you are waiting for something else.



2 – This conjunction has the contexto of:
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3 – Can you tell other conjunctions, which works the same context?
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4 – Rewrite the sentence using the conjunctions from activity 3:
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Download the worksheet
http://www.4shared.com/office/HuFytZBZba/The_Matrix.html?
Download the video
http://www.4shared.com/video/soy59g0Tba/Matrix_-_Conjunctions.html?

Answer key

1 - But

2 - Contrast

3 - However, Although, Even though, Despite, In spite of

4 -
You´ve got the gift, however it looks like you´re waiting something else.
Although/ Even Though, You´ve got the gift, it looks like you´re waiting something else.
Despite/ In spite of having the gift, it looks like you´re waiting something else