My name is Valery Nicole Romero Jaramillo author of this project, I am 16 years old, I was born in Santa Marta the pearl of America, in a loving family of 4 members.

I consider that I have attributes such as honesty, empathy, generosity, sincerity, patience, loyalty, responsibility, tenacity, etc.. but also highlighted that I have the qualities of strength, muscular endurance, coordination, speed, agility and balance.

Personally I dislike people who do not keep their word, I do not tolerate being yelled at, nor those people who like to humiliate, instead I like brave, responsible, honest people and I also love all kinds of music and dancing, I am a fan of going out and sharing with my parents and friends, I like everything that has to do with adrenaline, and finally I like to exercise.

Contrastive connectors are nexuses that are used to oppose or counteract two statements. Connectors are words or expressions used to indicate a relationship between two sentences or statements. The use of connectors favors the reading and comprehension of texts as they provide coherence and cohesion.

Cause and effect connectors are a certain type of discourse connectors or textual markers, which serve to link the parts of a text and give it a logical organization.

In order to establish the cause and effect relationship, it is necessary to form sentences connected by a connector. Therefore, we work with dependent and independent clauses. A clause is a collection of grammatically related words that include a subject and predicate; the collection of grammatically related words that do not contain a subject or predicate is called a clause. grammatically related words that do not contain a subject or predicate are called phrases. are called phrases.

Both" is used with plural nouns but "either" and "neither" with singular nouns.

Direct object + Verb to be + Verb in participle + Preposition BY + Subject 

The third conditional is the one we use to talk about the past. But not of something that happened, but of something that could have happened, its consequences in a hypothetical future and if that past event had been otherwise. In other words, we use the Third Conditional to refer to something in the past that is already impossible to change.

If + Past Simple + Subject + Would + Infinitive

In the main proposition we can also use "could", to show that something would have been possible or that we would have had the ability to do it.

Another possibility is to use "might", when we are not 100% sure what the outcome of a particular situation would have been.

Questions and Answers
1. COMPLETE THE SENTENCE: Sport develops social skills in children, since it
encourages them to be (_________) individuals.
 selfish
 cooperative
 self-employed

2. INFER THE ANSWER: How does learning to lose benefit children?
 Helps them recover from any disappointment
 Train with greater rigidity and pressure
 Accepting unpleasant experiences
 Become insecure

3. DECIDE: Sport keeps children away from selfishness, and helps them to work as a
team.
True
False

4. DECIDE: Physical activity only stimulates an improvement in the body.
True
False

5. WRITE: Why does sport help children become resilient?
When children play sports they learn to lose. Being a good loser requires maturity and
practice, losing teaches children to recover from disappointment, to cope with unpleasant
experiences and is an important part of becoming resilient and in this way helps them