Killer TVs

Think in English n:30

For young children watching TV is dangerous. Apart from the dangers of the programmes it’s also the time. All the programmes are rubbish.
I think that the main problem is that children imitate the same things that they do on TV and use the violence . I believe that the problem is not to turn off the TV and stop watching TV, for example I can watch the most violent programme and I never use violence. Every day the programs have more violence and the children are more aggressive

Rise: increase
Gooble bar: TV
Trash: rubbish

Monster homes

The new houses in the United States are very much bigger. Now they are, for example 2,349 square feet while in the past there were at least twice.
In the south, there are beautiful and Mega houses. People say that now they are out of scale with the neighbourhoods.. in the street can be a fourth of fifth house. The new homes sell for $700,00. The gardens are bigger than other houses ..

Vocabulary:
Uprooted= to pull a tree out of the ground
Trend: fashion
Backlash: Strong negative reaction

The science of dancing

Scientists think that good dancing is a sign of genetic perfection in nature.
A magazine found a woman that her subconscious linked dancing and physical symmetry
Dancing is very important for the culture. Because dancing tells much about it. Every culture has their dancing.
Scientists study the symmetry of the wrists, fingers, elbows, ankles and ears.
Not everybody dances well, and my conclusion is that we don’t have perfect genes!

Vocabulary
Wrists: canell
Elbows: colze
Ankles: turmell

Robot Cars

In the future, city cars will be free to use and easy to drive and park. The architects and engineers created the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. As the Guardian reports, the cars would be free for anyone to use. It’s the same system that the concept
of bicycles in European cities.The power comeing from wheels unites with electric motors, the wheels make parking much easier.

Vocabulary:
Wheel: the rotating round part on a vehicle
Wrap: go around itself

Minister Maragall wants to change the schools calendar

Minister Maragall wants to change the schools calendar, he wants to advance the start of school one week, I say that If now we start school on 12 of September ,Maragall wants to begin the 6 or 7 of September and a set seven days of vacation in February week. Some parents and unions believe that it's inappropriate but for Maragall it's the best because the change will improve teaching.
I think that it is better that the minister Maragall and the Education change the calendar because we have a lot of days in the summer and after when we begin the second term, it's very long and we don't have holidays and days for parties, but this is only my opinion

Catalonia Today

http://blog.cataloniatoday.cat/

Nice Ice

Costa Brava

Resident

Serving the english speaking community

August 2008, n:36

What started as a family-run ice cream shop in Empuriabrava has grown to become a global success.
Dino Parvese and his family came to the Costa Brava on holiday. Parvese soon spotted a gap in the market. New-built Empuriabrava had plenty of cafés and bars, but no ice-cream parlour.
His marketing plan was simple; use only fresh fruit and dairy product as a healthy foodstuff rather than confectionery. It clearly worked, for the business flourished; new outlets soon opened up in nearby Roses and Santa Margarita.
Today Gelats Dino is a multimillon-Euro business with a gleaming new factory in the centre of Empuriabrava. They now produce ice-cream without sugar or gluten and next year introducing a soya-milk version for customers who are dairy intolerant. Although ice-cream might be seen as a luxury product, sensitive to the economy. Gelats Dino has never felt the need to diversify.
And despite inroads made by more exotic flavours, the old favourites vanilla,chocolate and strawberry in that order, still account for over half of European sales.
http://www.gelatsdino.com/

Opinion of the New:

Now, I am going to give my opinion about this news.
I think that it’s very interesting news because it’s news that influences Empuriabrava, our town .
Is there anyone who hasn’t ever eaten an ice cream?
I love dino ice cream!!
The objective of this news consists of giving information about the business and a little history about Dino’s family. But for other part I think that it’s also publicity.
In summer I went to Dino, to see other people and the machines that make ice creams, It’s very interesting and impressive and after the visit, they gave me a vanila ice cream!

Johnny Deep

N: 28

Think in English

Johnny Deep is a rebellious pirate now. He made a film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, he’s back as Capitan Jack Sparrow. He’s a pirate with dreadlocks, scarves, gold teeth and a bizarre walk. He modelled the pirate on Keith Richards. Keith Richards is one of the guitarists of the rock group the Rolling Stones; he’s 65 years old.At the beginning of the film, Captain Jack is at the bottom of the sea. He’s surrounded by different sides of his personality.Some scenes in the third film were filmed underwater. Johnny Deep’s first role was in the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984.He made films for adults, he has always been a cult actor but it was Pirates of the Caribbean that made him a superstar.He wanted to make a film that his children could see.He was born in Kentucky in the USA.Now, he lives between France and California with Vanessa Paradis.

Vocabulary:

Dreadlocks: Refers to Rastafarian hairstyle

Amazed: Sorprès

Scarves: Mocador

Goal :Meta, objectiu

Trigger: Provocar

Bottom: Fons

Rounded: Rodejat

Today, I’ll speak about Callejeros, I considere that it’s new, because Callejeros is a TV programme where you can see the real life. You can see this programme on Cuatro in Spain.
This is urban programme where the objective is to see the different ways of life, the problems with sub, vagrants, slums, prostitution, drugs, erotic show, luxury homes, adolescents, street children… Callejeros centre a topic but they what happened lot families that happen about it. When Callejeros shows luxury homes and things about it, I don’t watch the programme because it’s boring. But every Friday there is a different topic more or less interesting. Sometimes it’s hard, but I like it.
Callejeros won an Oscar in 2006, it’s the best actually programme recently. A lot of channels have copied the idea for example Gps Testigos or in TV1, but I’m think that callejeros it’s the best.

Now you can see a part of the video about the adolescents.

How to get lose in cyberspace?

Part of the problem is that new technologies have entered our lives so rapidly that we haven't yet developed the appropriate psychological mechanisms needed to cope with them.That means that many of the assumptions we make when dealing with computers are actually based on our childhood experiences with physical objects such as books.Route learners remember the specific instructions needed to get from A to B, recalling whether to turn left or right, which waymarks to look out for and so on.This can be very efficient, but if you stray from the path then you can be in real trouble, as anyone who has tried to follow a garbled set of directions from the pub to a party will tell you.The alternative is to build maps in your head, constructing an internal model of the space on which you then "draw" the route, making links between the instructions you have been
given and a larger representation.

Vocabulary:

Childhool--> Infantil

Recalling--> Recordant

to cope--> Per fer front a

BBC

Cancer

One in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life.The disease tends to affect older people,but can strike at any time. Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than 270,000 new cases of the disease in 2001,and the rate is increasing by about 1% a year.Some cancer, such as breast, are becoming more common, while new cases of lung cancer fall away due to the drop in the number of smokers. However, while the overall number of new cancers is not falling, the good news is that successful treatment rates for many of the most common types are improving rapidly.




BBC


strike: Vaga
increasing: Cada vegada més
disease: Malaltia
due: Degut

Health tips

Costa Brava Resident n:35

Summer eating and drinking

In the article talk about the health diet, say that is important to eat vegetables and fruit, because there contain water. At the summer the adults requiers three liters of water for day because the doctor recommended that its better for avoid deshydration.

When the people consume a lot of vegetables and fruit the anitoxidants help to prevent the illness.Fruits there ara a lot of vitamin C and can make raw eat in a salads. You can drink alcohol but which precaution because the boore deshydrates the body.

New words:

Towards: Capa

overall: Total

average: Mitjana

onset: Arribada

Harm: Mal

Raw: Cru

Shakes: Sacsejar alguna cosa

Chard:Bledes

zucchini:Carbassó

Booze:Beguda