domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2012

COMMENTS

1 comment in Raiza's blog : http://raizaenglish2nbat.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/anorexia.html?showComment=1353883183752#c6572400677909981734


2 comment in Paula's blog: http://paulavicaspace.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/high-marks-uni-students-turn-to-adhd.html?showComment=1353883387310#c360392646083170929


3 comment in Sabrina's blog: http://yousmiletotheday.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/blog-post_7455.html?showComment=1353884020391#c1922498670656440164

"Youth is the most important thing in the world"

In the book The picture of Dorian Gray, there is this sentence. Youth is the most important thing 

in the world,  he want be young always, for he can enjoy of his beauty.

Some people do everything to seem young, because don't accept to grow old. 

think that youth isn't most important thing. When one person is happy and people feel good. 

The most important thing is the soul. Perhaps we must laugh in life. We learn to value the soul of 

people and we are happy and enjoy the life.


 

Walmart hit by Black Friday strikes across 46 states, say protesters


SUMMARY:

Giant Retail Walmart has been hit by protests and strikes by stores in the U.S. on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day in the retail calendar.
The protests began on Thursday as they announced that in Thanksgiving Day they would have to work.
Walmart workers in Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Texas, Bay Area of California, Chicago, Washington and other cities participated in the walk out to protest over wages and working conditions.
The executive director of Walmart said they had a very successful black day very safe in all stores nationwide. He also announced that at least 50 workers went to protest.
Workers announce that they suffer from harassment and abuse. They also are threaten to shorten the hours and wages.
Some of the protesters say they are seeing changes slowly there.

PERSONAL OPINION:

Not only in America but also in many other countries, people are realizing that things are not going well. The only solution I found for people to the problems of today is going out and protests. I think the protests, strikes and demonstrations work, but the changes aren’t drastic. We will observe that the things change gradually.

VOCABULARY:


Walkouts: huelga

Roughly: aproximadamente

Lobby: vestíbulo






Dallas Actor Larry Hagman dies aged 81



SUMMARY:

Hagman, was born in Fort Worth (Texas) on Sept. 21, 1931, the son of actress Mary Martin and attorney Ben Hagman.
Hagman, who had suffered from cancer and liver disease, died in the hospital of Dallas (Texas).
Hagman had come to Dallas to meet with friends and family in the fair of Thanksgiving. Family members say he had a peaceful death as he always wanted.
Linda Gray, a longtime friend who starred with Hagman in Dallas as his wife in "Sue Ellen Ewing" was by the bed of the actor when he died.
Hagman's agent said he was a man with joy, creative, generous, funny, loving, talented. A person who we will miss.
He became a star in 1965 in the television comedy series "I Dream of Jeannie".
It was in 1977 when he landed the role of ruthless oil baron JR Ewing, the character in downtown Dallas the show, which consolidated his worldwide fame.
Many of the people who knew him and had worked with him, paid tributes on social networks (Factbook, Twister, ...)


PERSONAL OPINION:

It is a well known actor. An actor who played a very good job and made successful films, and successful series. Surely the big screens will miss him.  

VOCABULARY:

Surrounded: rodear

Screen: pantalla

Tweeted: piar


Women Won This Time, but Men Are Voting's X-Factor




SUMMARY:

Studies have shown that most women vote for Barak Obama and the men vote for Mitt Romney. But it’s also true that men are more hesitant.
When it comes to elections, men as a group are more influential because they show loyalty, but women don’t. That is why presidents usually focus more on issues that concern to women, such as abortion.
Paul Kellstedt has some ideas. The associate professor in political science, studies Kellstedt what American men and women want from their government and how that changes over time.
As a group, women tend to prefer bigger government with more health and social welfare programs, men lean toward smaller government that spends less, except in the military issues.
Besides the traditional role of women as caretakers of the family, who live longer than men so they are more likely to rely on Social Security and Medical. Women are more likely to be poor. They are more likely to be single parents struggling to pay for child care, education and medical expenses. Men may feel that many of the social programs are expensive and will not benefit.

PERSONAL OPINION:

Maybe women and men express our opinion different in time to vote for someone as president. Each gender has its problems and concerns. Depending on the ideas that candidates have, we tend to vote for one or the other. In my opinion, knowing the ideas of each candidate, I would vote for Barak Obama, it can also be because Obama represents the middle class families, instead of Mitt Romney who represents wealthy families.

VOCABULARY:

Polls: votación

Binders: carpeta

Welfare: bienestar


Holiday Miracle as Man Awakes From Monthlong Coma





SUMMARY:

On October 28, a boy of 21 years old, called Pessah was on his way to a party with his girlfriend and two friends. Suddenly he sees a man who wanted to abuse of his girlfriend and Pessah protected her, when suddenly the man shoots him in the head.
The first time doctors examined Pessah, doctors told the family that he had very little chances to live. After a month in a coma Pessah, just a days before Thanksgiving, he woke up and he said his first words. On Thanksgiving Day the whole family accompanied him and supported him in his first steps. Pessah remembers everything but not of the shooting.
Pessah was a student and entrepreneur, and surely he will go back to his life as soon as he completes recovery.

PERSONAL OPINION:

Surely the family will have gone very badly, sometimes unexpected things happen. Despite what the doctors have said Pessah is awake and enjoying a second chance. He has to be happy because he has survived even taking few chances.

VOCABULARY:

Bizarre: Extraño

Thanksgiving: día de acción de gracia

Whisper: cuchichear








Egyptian judges in Alexandria to strike over constitution


SUMMARY:

Judges in the Egyptian city of Alexandria have decided to go on strike in protest at a decree issued by President Mohammed Mursi which shields his decisions from judicial review.
In protest, angry youngsters threw stones at police officers and burned a police car. This has happened because they do not accept the new Egyptian president's decision to grab the new powers. Police fired tear gas. There were also protests in Port Said, Suez and north of Cairo.
Last Thursday, President Mursi issued a decree that puts his decisions beyond any legal challenge until a new parliament is elected. Opponents immediately accused him of kidnapping the Egyptian revolution.
United States expressed their concern for the President's decision. But President Mursi (Egyptian President) would not hear anything.
The president's aides said the decree was intended to speed up a protracted transition to democracy that has been hindered by legal obstacles.


Egyptian judges are meeting to respond to the president's move, which put him above the judicial oversight.
Although Washington has praised Egypt for its part in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to a ceasefire on Wednesday, it expressed reservations about Mursi's latest move.
The EU urged President Mursi to respect the democratic process, while the United Nations expressed fears about human rights.
Since Mursi has risen to power the Constitution has been in constant change. But when making the parliamentary elections, Mursi have to leave the constitution in place.




OPINION:

I agree to the judges’ protest. I think they are a great authority, that will influence people to anime and protest. The people in Egypt can’t let the president do what he wants and skips the rules.


VOCABULARY:

prosecution : interposición  de una acción judicial

sweeping: amplio

aides: asesor/a


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sábado, 24 de noviembre de 2012

Holidaying homeowners in for shock after car crashes into their country cottage and leaves it on verge of collapse


Summary:

A couple when he returned to his country house, they found a car that had crashed into his house. The owners of the house had gone on vacation.
The driver was a man of 22 years. The driver was drunk and lost control of his car. A few hours later a neighbor called the police. The other three passengers in the car escaped without serious lession.
Now the police has told the owners that the crane can not get the car. The crane can not because if you take the house collapsed.
An engineer study the damage of the house, to know how to get the car. Although most of the house is destroyed.
'This area is notorious for this kind of thing. It is a long straight road, so people like to see how fast they can go. Not the first time it happens.

Personal Opinion:

As people are little cautious, police would have to put radars. Have if putting fines on bad drivers, change a little bit the way you think. It can’t be that so many accidents in the same place.


Vocabulary:

Removal: extracción

Bruises: cardenal/ moraton

Damage: daño



BON JOVI


The Bon Jovi is an American rock band, formed in Sayreville (New Jersey). The lead singer is Jon Bon Jovi. He formed the band in 1983 with the guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, bassist Alec John Such and drummer Tico Torres. But in 1994, Alec John was replaced by Hugh McDonald.
The group Bon Jovi has been known for using different styles in their music. They have always been together, except in some years, when two member were in solitary.
After touring, the band went on a hiatus after the New Jersey Tour in 1990. During that hiatus Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora released successful solitary albums.
In 1992, the band returned with the album Keep the Faith. Since that moment they created successful albums during 1990 and 2000. Their latest album, The Circle, was released on the 10th of November, 2009.
They have performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries and for more than 35 million fans.
All albums are:

Bon Jovi was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006. The band was also honoured with the Award of Merit at the American Music Awards in 2004, and as songwriters and collaborators inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009.




PODCAST

jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2012

Do you want to know how my ideal music programme would be?


First of all, I will try to have lots types of music and the music will be of different styles because like this all the people will be able to hear the programme. There will be since electronic music, rock, Ballad, Latin music, Jazz, Rap, Tango and more.
Moreover, I will try to make the programme more popular by phoning people and waking them up and also they would be able to telephone us asking for the songs they want. Furthermore, every week we will have an artist and we will interview him or her. Every day there would be a meeting where we explain amusing anecdotes of daily life, with the aim of making people laugh to all who will listen.
I don't like the commercial ads on the radio, so I would put commercial ads in fewer hearings schedules. I would try to reduce them as much as possible.
So, having all these things on a radio music programme would make the radio more popular and people would have a great time listening to it!





THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INTERNET








DEFINITION:

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide.

WHEN WAS INVENTED THE INTERNET?

The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960’s.

In 1982 the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized and the concept of a world wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called the Internet was introduced. Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation(NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET).

INVENTOR:

A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of several different people who've helped contribute and develop the Internet.

The initial idea is credited as being Leonard Kleinrock's after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1961.
In 1962 J.C.R. Licklider becomes the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. In addition to the ideas from Licklider and Kleinrock, Robert Taylor helped create the idea of the network, which later became ARPANET.
Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler helped to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications.

Other people helped create the Internet too.



WWW
Tim Berners-Lee introduces WWW to the public in 1991. WWW meaning  World Wide Web, and is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

IMPACT:

Since the 1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near instant communication by electronic for exemple:
CONCLUSION:


We learnt more of internet and more vocabulary with this work too. We hope that you enjoyed listening with presentation.



VOCABULARY:

Networks : red

Worldwide: mundial

Several: varis

Flow: fluir

 Hypertext: http





lunes, 1 de octubre de 2012

MY GOAL REACH



Hello teacher!!!!!


My name is Myrna Gabriela Aparicio, I’m sixteen years old, but in November I will turn seventeen years old.
I have a twin sister called Sabrina. Also I have two very beautiful pets, one dog called Lady and one rabbit called Sammy. All my family are Argentina. I arrive in Spain when I was seven years old and I have always lived in Empuriabrava.
I like to paint my nails. My hobby are to paint and to draw. My favourite sport is swimming but I don’t practise it now. Now I’m studying Batxillerat in Castelló d’Empuries. I hope I will finish second of Batxillerat and I will go to the city to study degree.
I will wait until I’m eighteen years old to drive. In my future I will have two children but when I’m 30 years old. During my life I want to have different experiences.  



miércoles, 6 de junio de 2012

FINAL REFLECTION

In my opinion I inprove a litlle my level of english. I don't like a languages, but I intend strain because is very important the english in our world. I don't do a big progress. I improve for I do redactions about me or a good topic. Also I read a book, I think that It help me. Is true that I like read other books but it is good. The other teacher said  me that I will have a more listening, because I same a litlle difficult  the listenings. I improve in english I read a book, wacht a fillm with subtitle in spanish, do exercices and the most important to study. It's true that this term I haven't good notes. In english I have improve for I have good notes.
I more like when we stay in the lenguage room, but is true that more people waste the time in the lenguage room. 
  

domingo, 3 de junio de 2012

BOOK


NOISY CROWD AWAY


Gabriel was in the field and one day he saw a car with a girl and her things. He was happy working in the field. This girl called Bathesva, he fell in love with her. He asked her to marry him  and she said no. After a few months she went to a city.
One night se saw a light and he ran a farm was burned, he and other farmers were able to stop the fire. That farm belonged to Batheshva the end Gabriel working on this farm.
Bathesva lived with a girl called Fanny. Bathesva and Fanny made a joke for Sant Valentine, they sent a letter by Blondwood. He never loked her until now. Now he fall in love with Bathesva. Later she said his that the letter was a false, but he continue insisting, he said her that he give an answer.
Gabriel doesn’t want in the farmer but she asks for he stay in her farmer.
At night two workers called Batheshva that had a leak of gas farm out and killed sheep. Two farmers couldn’t close leak, only one man could close leak, Gabriel.
She told his doesn’t go. As he was still in love with her couldn’t leave. After 6 weeks appeared Blondwood  ask for her the answer. She said his that no.

At night she looked around the farm and the forest he met a soldier, Batheshva fell in love his. Few days later Batheshva ask to Liddy who was that man. Liddy said that he was a soldier and for a time he stay in the town, he called Sergeant Troy. Gabriel said that the soldier wasn’t a good person. Troy had planned to take off her money for he marries with Fanny. When Fanny died, Batheshva learns that Troy loved Fanny.


A year later Troy returned in the Christmas party and killed Blondwood. Gabriel said her that he would leave but she said to Gabriel that she fall in love with his. More later Gabriel and Bateshva married.



MY PLANS FOR SUMMER


 I now have one month for finish the class, but I think that I will do in the summer. When I finish of classes I will go to the beach because it will be hot, but my intention isn’t burn me for sun. I want to rest and I will sleep more.









June month I have more plans. I will go to Blanes’ camping with my friends for four days. Also in June is the birthday of two friends, one of them will be 18 years old and other 17 years old.


During all summer I want change my room. I through that will change the poster and the painting, and after I will write sentences on the wall. Phrases as for example:

-         "If you cry over losing the sun, the tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
-         "Getting used is another way to die."

For Christmas my parents gave me, the first book of Millennium, I will read it. I always read in the summer some books, because that is when I have time. I am passionate of mystery books, but the Federico Moccia’s books are very nice.










All this is genial but I will have do search work. My search work is a good topic and I will learn more about chemistry of beer.

The true is that I have more things for do in this summer. Later my plans may change but for now are these.

INDIAN CULTURE


Taj mahal


I speak of Indian culture because looks me a characteristic, nice and flamboyant culture. One of my dreams is going to India. I speak a little about Indian Culture.





Greeting




GREETING:
Say hello in Hindu is “namaste”. In this country the men and woman don’t shake a hand or hug each other because isn’t well. But is the same sex they can shake a hand or hug them.



WEEDING:
More marriages are arranged by the families of the couple, between persons of the same culture and of similar social and economic level. They believe that there are loves after marriages, when the couple has been well selected.
Marriage is traditional ceremony in which the brides dress with gold and silver. Then make traditional rites where set off fireworks, listening music, singing, they served traditional foods and the couple exchange rings and the boyfriend’s family welcome the girlfriend to who will be from that moment her new family.

FOOD:
The Indians are mostly vegetarians, they don’t eat cow meat because it sacred.


CLOTHES:



- Saris: Majority of the Hindu woman wear a clothes called “Sari”, is typical clothe.

This is a Sari














- Tika: The Bindi or Tika is a traditional ornament Indian woman. It was originally a small red dot on the forehead, according to legend, red is the colour of blood, life and energy source. Today it’s used a symbol of the woman is married or engaged, or simply as an ornament. It can have many forms and colours.



Turban: Among men is common that use a big turban and beard. Who dress well is the Sikhs, which is one of the religions of India.