FINAL REFLECTION

Unlike last year I am much more comfortable with the subject although this course was more difficult. one of the improvements that I've noticed is in the Newsroom because them and dedicated more time and desire to improve my performance in obtaining a note. I believe that oral presentations and oral examination I have served to try to speak the language more fluent and non-stop me so much to think about what I'm going to say.

Presentations presenting trying to work issues that already knew to be able to focus on pronunciation. I guess that it has been the tool more useful for improving in every way.

For me all activities have been useful although at the beginning it was too lazy to do them. If we make them something, I'm sure.

To not get the performance I think that they should continue oral works for expanding our oral performance and so get used to the language and that the conversation between teacher and student is more fluid. The other thing that I think is important to maintain is the choice of a book to read at home, because one thing that is not forced, like most.

My gap year, sport gap year.

Volunteer Sports Coaching Abroad (Sports Gap Year)

My first gap year I wnt to go to coaching children who love the football and run like me. It's a oportunity to learn a new language of poor people and his culture. 

The travel  it cost me 1326€ and in the ticket of the agence of travel includ me the food, insurance, accomodation, specialist equipament and airport pickup. In developing countries many children are not given the same basic opportunities as the rest of the world. One great way of addressing this issue is by introducing sport within these communities.

Sport provides both mental and physical benefits. It also teaches important life-skills, such as discipline, team-work and communication. We aim to create a fun and enjoyable learning environment, allowing participants to form good social relationships and to facilitate a positive path for development. Regular sports lessons and matches can have a really positive impact upon those from impoverished areas. There is also the opportunity to teach sport in schools. Many of the schools in which we work are understaffed so the children do not have access to such activities. You will be very well received and the children will be eager to learn from you. You do not need to have previous experience to get involved in this project - the key is enthusiasm! We accept volunteers of all levels of experience and you will be supervised by a local sports coach.

Whichever sports placement you choose, Projects Abroad will assist you along the way to ensure both volunteers and students get the most out of each experience.  Sports placements we currently offer are the Football, Basketball, Rugby, Surfing,  Volleyball, Multi-sports and School Sports.

Paris Agreement and Trump

The Paris Agreement is an agreement on emitting less greenhouse gases. Trump wants to pull back from the agreement.

This makes a lot of people angry. Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Trudeau and Hillary Clinton tweet about this. Emmanuel Macron, Australia Greens Party Leader, and the Japanese Environment Minister talk about this. The Japanese Minister says that he is very angry.

However, some Americans are happy. They are mostly miners. They want to keep their jobs.

Difficult words: agreement (something that you promise to do), emit (put into the air), greenhouse gas (a gas which makes the planet warmer), miner (a person who mines –gets something like coal out of the ground).

Camel Racing in Jordan

Camels and their trainers come to a desert in Jordan. They come to race. Camel racing is a tradition in Jordan. Crowds come to watch. The racers want to win money. The winner receives 400 Dinars (564 dollars).

Children cannot race in Jordan. Trainers use small radio-controlled jockeys on the camels.

After Ramadan, the camels race again.

Difficult words: radio-controlled jockey (a small thing that rides on an animal instead of a person and the trainer uses a controller to move it), Ramadan (the ninth and holy month of the Muslim year).

Boxing in a Hijab

This news is about a girl. She is Muslim. She lives in the USA. She fights in a boxing match. She wears a hijab during the match. She is the first person in the USA to do this.

She loses the match, but it is OK. It is about more than winning. She fights for what she believes in. She believes that all girls must have a chance.

Difficult words: match (a game, a sports event), hijab (clothes which cover the head; clothes worn by some Muslim women in public), during (in the time of).

Galaxies Meet

An incredible image, which was taken in 2009 by the Hubble Space Telescope, has been released.

A galaxy moves through a cluster of galaxies, and it is being ripped apart. It happens near the Great Attractor. This is a region in space around 200 million light years away from Earth.

Scientists study the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope for years because the images are very complex. The telescope has been taking pictures of space since 1990.

Difficult words: incredible (amazing and hard to believe), cluster (group), rip apart (pull something to pieces), complex (being made of many parts and not easy to understand). 

Tulip

The tulip is a Eurasian and North African genus of herbaceous, perennial, bulbous plants in the lily family, with showy flowers. About 75 wild species are currently accepted.

The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, north to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a common element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation.

Turtles

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. "Turtle" may refer to the order as a whole (American English) or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling testudines (British English).

The order Testudines includes both extant (living) and extinct species. The earliest known members of this group date from 157 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than snakes or crocodilians. Of the 327 known species alive today, some are highly endangered.

Turtles are ectotherms—animals commonly called cold-blooded—meaning that their internal temperature varies according to the ambient environment. However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea turtles have a body temperature that is noticeably higher than that of the surrounding water.

Turtles are classified as amniotes, along with other reptiles, birds, and mammals. Like other amniotes, turtles breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water.

Love

Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.

Ancient Greek philosophers identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge), friendship (philia), romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: limerence, amour de soi, and courtly love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning—notably in Abrahamic religions. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Resentment

Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a mixture of disappointment, anger, and fear. It comprises the three basic emotions of disgust, sadness and surprise—the perception of injustice. Robert C. Solomon, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, places resentment on the same continuum as anger and contempt, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed toward a higher-status individual; anger is directed toward an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed toward a lower-status individual.

As the surprise of injustice becomes less frequent, so too fades anger and fear, leaving disappointment as the predominant emotion. So, to the extent perceived disgust and sadness remain, the level of disappointment also remains. Resentment can be triggered by an emotionally disturbing experience felt again or relived in the mind. When the person feeling resentment is directing the emotion at himself or herself, it appears as remorse.

Resentment is the foundation of hatred. It is not one of Paul Ekman's big six (basic emotions of surprise, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear).

The word originates from French "ressentir", re-, intensive prefix, and sentir "to feel"; from the Latin "sentire". The English word has become synonymous with anger and spite.

Formal letter

Dear...


I was watching a little information of your web about the travels , and i'm a little upset about that, so i want some information about my close gap year.
My firts question abou my travel is:
-How much could it cost me the trip to ghana?
-Within the ticket included me some insurance?
-What is the maximum weight that I carry on luggage?
-Where do I have to stay?
-How many children will have to train?
-How old are the children?
You would need to know the information as soon as possible to deduce the time it will need to prepare both luggage and money.

Sincerely,


Younes.

Presa Canario

The Presa Canario is a breed of large-sized dog, native to the Canary Islands. Canario presa dog is considered, according to a law of the Government of the Canary Islands, the natural symbol of the island of Gran Canaria, jointly with the cardon.
This type of dogs formerly them usanban to help them hunters to hunt bears Brown of the mountains of and forests of Canary.
Once enacted the prohibition of fights in Spain, the Presa Canario is declining, which aggravates the invasion of alien races in the Islands, reaching a phase of near-extinction to 1960.Fue from 1970 when starting its recovery. Its resurgence is slow but uninterrupted. He interest of the dam Canary, as part of the heritage native of them Islands Canary is widespread, although not is raises still the program of selection and improves essential for get it fixity genetic that perpetuates the race.
This photo is the world champion of this race and the great-grandfather of my dog.

Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a supercar designed and developed by the Volkswagen Group and produced by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. in Molsheim, France since 2001. The basic version of the car (Veyron 16.4) was manufactured until 2011, and later the Grand Sport and Super Sport versions were launched in 2009 and 2010.
During the year 2010 is produced the version more powerful of the Veyron, the Super Sport, that mounted a motor similar to the of the Veyron original but with 1200 CV of power to 7500 rpm. Is worked intensely in its reduction of weight using fibre of carbon, and marked a record Guinness of speed maximum of 436 km / h.

Badr Hari

Is a Moroccan-Dutch super heavyweight kickboxer from Amsterdam, fighting out of Mike's Gym in Oostzaan. He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion (2007—2008), It's Showtime Heavyweight world champion (2009-2010) and K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 finalist. Hari has been a prominent figure in the world of kickboxing and considered one of the best kickboxers in the world, however he has been involved in a number of controversies relating to his "unsportsmanlike conducts" in the sport and crimes of violence outside of the ring.

Hari has been officially praised by the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, since 2009 for his outstanding accomplishments in the sport.

As of October 2016, he is ranked the #10 heavyweight in the world by Combat Press.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurological disease, invariably fatal, that attacks nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. This disease belongs to a group of conditions called motor neuron diseases, which are characterized by the gradual degeneration and death of this type of neurons.
ALS causes weakness in a wide range of disabilities. Eventually affected all the muscles under voluntary control and patients lose their strength and the ability to move their arms, legs and body and diaphragm muscles fail when the thoracic wall, patients lose the ability to breathe without a ventilator or artificial respirator. Most people with ALS die from respiratory failure, usually between 3 to 5 years from the start of symptoms. However, about 10 percent of patients with ALS survive for 10 years or more.

the rites of passage

Fast plane goes down (news)

FAST PLANE GOES DOWN

Turkish armed forces have taken down a Syrian plane that they believed was violating their airspace.

A video posted online appears to show the aftermath of the downed plane with plumes of white smoke rising behind Mound Turkman in Lattakia.

The Turkish Prime Minister told supporters at a rally that the country’s forces had taken down the plane.

“A Syrian plane violated our airspace. Our F-16s took off and hit this plane. Why? Because if you violate my airspace, our slap will be hard.”

Syria’s condemned the move, calling it “blatant aggression” and said their jet was pursuing rebel fighters on Syrian territory. The pilot survived, as he managed to eject before the plane crashed. 

SUMMARY:

A plane is shot down. It is a Syrian plane. Turkey shoots the plane. Turkey thinks that the plane is a threat.

There is a video on the Internet. It shows the situation after the crash.

The Turkish Prime Minister talks about the incident. The pilot of the plane survives. He left the plane before it crashed.

VOCABULARY:

take down (shoot down), violate (do something against a law), aftermath (time right after a disaster), plume (cloud), rally (large public meeting), condemn (disapprove), blatant (done openly), pursue (chase).

Ear on the arm (news)

EAR ON THE ARM

A Chinese man lost an ear during a tragic car accident and ever since felt incomplete. Doctors in the city of Xi'an are trying to change that.

To begin the pioneering procedure, they took cartilage from Mr Ji’s ribs and then cut the cartilage into the shape of an ear. Subsequently, they implanted the cartilage under the skin of the man’s forearm, which was perhaps the most complicated and dangerous step but it was a success.

The artificial ear now needs to grow for at least another three months before the final surgery when it will be transplanted onto his head.

Mr Ji has gone through many operations since his accident, not only for his ear, but also for his skin and cheeks. He hopes that the operations will eventually bring him back a normal life.

SUMMARY

This news is from China. A man has a car accident. He loses his ear. Doctors try to help him. They make him a new ear.

They take a piece of his ribs. They make the piece into an ear. They put the ear under the skin of his arm. It grows there.

This takes 3 months. When it is finished, the doctors put it on the man’s head.

The man has many operations. He has many operations for more than his ear. He also has them for his skin and cheeks. He wants to have a normal life

VOCABULARY

pioneering (innovative, new), cartilage (a flexible material of the body), subsequently (then, afterwards), i.e. (that is).

The Clash - London Calling (Official Video)

[Verse 1]
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

[Chorus 1]
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning, and I, live by the river

[Verse 2]
London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
London calling and I don't want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

[Chorus 2]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

[Chorus 2]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

[Verse 3]
Now get this
London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile? (London calling)
I never felt so much a' like a'like a'like

SUMMARY:
In this song is situated in London. The song protest about pollution and by the proximity of the end of the world where he believes it will be zombies among other bad things. One of the causes according to the singer, the excessive use of the machines closer this final "London calls hell" where hinting at how bad people that are the English thus then to "call in" to hell for 'book site' to all of them.

USA elections special

TRUMP OR CLINTON?

Positive things about Donald Trump's policies: he tries to protect the econmy of USA using free trade.

Positive things about Hillary Clinton's policies: she isn't a racist politician.

Negative things about Trump's policies: he is very acist with the latin and musulman people but he don't argument this obsession with this theme.

Negative things about Hillary Clinton's policies: sometimes lies and she deleted a lot of emails about USA's politic.