PEOPLE! ZARA COMMITS TO GO TOXIC-FREE

That's a bad new because all clothes that we use are damaging our enviroment. It is said that now all that companys who produces clothes with hazardous chemicals are going to try to eliminate all that chemicals for no spoiling our world. Greenpeace began a dialog with Zara because they wanted to eliminate all the hazardous chemicals from its clothes. Now Zara has committed to eliminate this before 2020. Not only Zara produces clothes with hazardous chemicals, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius and others produces clothes with chemicals.

CARNIVAL

Carnaval is in February. Like every year I get dressed up with my friends. We went to Empuriabrava's, Castello's and Sant Pere's carnaval and it was fantastic because we spend a good time laughing, dancing and singing with other people. 

We had some problems for choosing the costume because we strted looking for a costum two or three weeks before the carnival and that was too late. But finally we have good luck and we found that costume so we decided to buy it. This year we dressed up as cavewoman. I think that we were so pretty. We were only girls because boys dind't liked the costume and decided not to buy it. 

I like carnival because almost everyone who are around us gets dressed in that days and forget problems because they want to laugh, dance, sing and of course having a good time.

HOW WAS MY TRIP TO THAILAND?

My trip to Thailand was incredible. We left in the 28th of December and we arrived on the 11th of Jenuary. In 15 days we went to Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, Chumphon, Krabi and Ban Krut. 

When we arrived to Bangkok we stayed 2 days here, so we celebrate the year end on the capital. One thing that catched my attention was that they don't eat 12 grapes, it was a little bit strange spending the year end in shorts and shirt strips.

After that day we went to Kanchanaburi by train. There we stayed 3 days. I liked Kanchanaburi a lot because it was a small green village. There we went to the Erawan waterfalls and we saw a lot of monkeys jumping. We also saw a baby leopard. 

We continue our trip but then in Chumphon but we only stayed there one day so we didn't do almost nothing. 

We left Chumphon and we went near the beach, to Krabi. I liked a lot that place because everything was near the beach. There the beach isn't like here because here you don't see any monkeys near the beach where your going to have sunbathing. We stayed there 4 days. I liked a lot that place because we did things that I had never done before like ridding an elephant or going by canoe. 

finally we stayed one more day in Ban Krut before going again to Bangkok for leaving Thailand. Ban Krut is a really calm village nest to the sea. 

I really liked this trip to Thailand because everything was different there, people was happy having almost nothing and they always were looking at you with a big smile. They also respect you a lot and treat in a friendly manner.

I would like to go again and I think that someday I will do it.

SANT VALENTINE'S DAY

Sant Valentine's day is on the 14th of February. Lot of people in the world celebrates that day because is the day which many couples show their love. In Catalonia there aren't many people who celebrates it because here we have Sant George, that is more Catalan. People usually gives a chocolate box with cuddly toy. That's very romantic. 

I usually celebrate that day because I like giving a little present to my boyfriend. I always try to give a special present that is something that I have prepared and that I'm sure that almost nobody would thing about giving it.

I like Sant Valentine's day because lots of people celebrate it and because you remember to your boyfriend or girlfriend how much you love him or her.

MY TDR'S SUMMARY

My research project is about knowing how many English people are living in Castelló d'Empúries and in Empuriabrava, why did they come, when did they come and if now they want to live always here. 

I also wanted to know if they came alone or with somebody and if the economical situation influenced in their decision. 

I think that I did a good research project because nobody had done before. I also think that it was great because doing it I improved my pronunciation, because I had to interact with English people, my reading, listening and reading. 

I think that when I did my oral presentation I was so nervous that I didn't say all what I wanted and that's bad. Maybe I spoke very quick. A part of that I tried to look to everyone and to not stay still. 

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Marina, my friend, is 17 years old. She'll be overage on the 25th of June. We have been friends since 2005. We met in Sant Pere at the school. Since 2005 we have done many things together like singing in a choir, playing the piano together etc. Now she is studying 2nd batxillerat like me. She is a fairly good student.

Marina is a tall, thin and green-eyed girl. She has brown curly hair. She is a dark-skin girl. She usually bites her nails. She is smiling most of the time so we can say that she's a happy person. She hardly never gets angry. If you're with her it's quite difficult to get bored. She likes playing the piano but now she has stopped doing it. She is better than me because she has been playing the piano since 7 and I haven't. One of her favourite hobbies is playing volley-ball. 

In the future she wants to be an engineer. I think that she'll full fill her goals because she's very focused.

I admire her because she is a warm-hearted girl and because she is a really nice person and a good friend. I hope that everything in her life will be great.

MAKING MOBILES FOR THE MASSES

It is said that Barcelona is the center mobile's world. In barcelona there was a week for showing bests mobiles. now you can do almost anything from your mobilephone or your tablet. Tecnologhy has improved a lot.

They showed a lot of mobiles but now phone's industry is divided for a barrier because now there are hybrid telephones.

Tecnologhy industry now is very competitive because everyone wants to do something different that don't exist, and also improve each time all their creations. 

I think that all these creations don't have a lot of usings or maybe they have but they aren't necessaries because now they have invented a tablet which you can control with your eyes instead of using your fingers and in my opinion that's ridiculous, but everyone has it's own opinion.

New vocabulary:

1. barrier

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FUKUSHIMA: "SMALL INCREASED CANCER RISK"

It is known that people who were in Fukushima when the earthquake out at sea slammed in this factory, have more probabilitys to have a cancer because this accident spoiled people's health and many other things.

The substancial amount of radiation was realased into the enviroment, so for that reason many people have this risk to have this type of  disease.

In general boys have more probabilities to have cancer than girls, but there are a 70% of little girls who may have thyroid cancer.

Not only people who had the accident have the probability of develop a cancer, but there other people like doctors may have the likelihood.

New vocabulary:

1. likelihood
2. thyroid
3. spoiled

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LIVESTOCK VIRUS FOND ON 1.500 FARMS

Thousands of farms in Schmallenberg are in a terrible situation because of a virus which causes several diseases. 

For farmers this is a bad news because it kills their animals or it causes different diseases without a vaccine because it has not been developed yet.

Animals which have been affected for that virus are calves and lambs. It is said that this virus is fairly damaging because hitherto it has affected more than 1.500 farms in UK and that's a lot.

Experts now are looking for how to do a vaccine for stop and eliminate the virus.

New vocabulary:

1. calves
2. lambs
3. hitherto

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SOUTH AFRICA SUSPENDS TAXI DRIVER ARREST "DRAG" POLICE

A taxi driver was dragged by the police in South Africa. Everyone is outraged because people think that there isn't any respect to anyone. 

A bystander record the scene. The taxi driver finally died because the authorities had mistreated him.

I think seems incredible that even now people carry on doing things like that. I'm sure that if they were in his situation and they would have survived they would have denounced the police and tried to do anything for kill them.

The South African Police Service expressed that they were extremly shocked but I don't believe that because if they had been, they would had done something immediately.

I think that those to "policemans" ought to be arrested for their entire live for not causing harm.

New vocabulary:

1. outrage
2. harm
3. bystander
4. mistreated

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