Boletín 99 - María Lorena Ramírez, la influencia de la Iglesia católica y los ninis.
Boletín 99 - María Lorena Ramírez, la influencia de la Iglesia católica y los ninis.
A shoe rotation is the desire of many deep into their running. One shoe for the easy runs, one for the recovery runs and one for speedier intervals. The list goes on.
What does this have to do with Spanish?
Enter María Lorena Ramírez. A young Mexican running superstar and native of the Rarámuri tribe that was immortalised in the book Born to Run.
Ramírez is an enigma. She shies away from the limelight, seems to prefer the company of her family in her rural home to the potential millions of online followers, wears traditional dress during races and hasn’t succumbed to the ego which might come with the level of fame she has achieved.
The Netflix documentary Light Footed Woman or in Spanish Lorena, la de pies ligeros is a captivating watch by the way. She’s an incredible modelo a seguir.
To have Lorena, as she is more widely known, on board as a brand ambassador would be a massive swoop for any sports company.
That said, I’m sure the New Balance marketing team had their fingers crossed when sending a box of new trainers out to her. It wasn’t to be though as Lorena opens the package and looks at the trainers saying:
“I don’t think I’ll use them. The people who do are always running behind me”.
So, what does she wear instead?
Answer: Not the carbon plated, Zoom X foamed super shoe worn by Eliud Kipchoge but a modest leather sandal.
Edition 99 includes texts about Lorena Ramirez, education and the Catholic Church as well as los ninis.
Source text one on Lorena Ramirez can be found here.
Source text two on la iglesia católica y la educación can be found here.
Source text three on un gobierno nini can be found here.
Grammar to look for
Preterite tense
Adjectives
The imperfect subjunctive
Volver a + infinitive (a nice verb phrase meaning to do something again)
Convertirse (a high frequency A Level verb meaning to become)
The passive voice (ser conjugation + past participle)
Direct object pronouns
The present perfect
Para (where para can mean in order to)
Qualifiers (the small words like very, a little, too which add detail to adjectives
Seguir + gerund (to carry on doing something)
GCSE resource update:
Last week I shared a resource on KS4 subjunctive opinions and a standalone lesson on the controversy sorrounding the Qatar World Cup which led to some very mature writing from my year 10 and 11s.
Thanks as ever for continuing to read Boletín, it is crazy to think I’ve made 99 of these now with 650,000 downloads in total! With the release of edition 100 I will upload an index of topics to my buymeacoffee profile here. The front cover of the printed edition 2 is already there.
The download link is in the normal place here.
Ollie
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