rite of passage

UNITED STATES ELECTIONS SPECIAL.

Donald Trump:

Positive things:
He has donated a lot of money to help some countries.
His business acumen can be used to actually create jobs instead of offering empty lip service.
He is decisive and not wishy-washy.

Negative things:
He is racist.
He's not used to listening to anybody else.
He is too impulsive.

Hillary Clinton:

Positive things:
She isn't racist.
She is one of the 27 women who graduated from Yale Law school in 1973.
She won a Grammy for the audio ediyion of her book.

Negative things:
She can be a liar sometimes.
She was having an affair with Vince Foster.
Because of her, 33.000 e-mails have been deleted.


 

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If you are tired of the cold winter, think about the residents of a Russian town who say that they live in the coldest town on Earth. Their town is called Oymyakon and it lies deep in Siberia. The temperatures there very often drop to minus 60.
These local people say that these low temperatures sometimes last for ten days in a row.
There is another amazing thing in their town. It is a horse that survives in these low temperatures. The horse is small but perfectly formed for cold winters.

I hate cold weather, I wouldn't be able to live in that village, I love the sun and there it's always cold. The horse surprised me a lot because I don't know how it can survive to those extreme temperaturas.

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Crowds of people chanted “Not my president” in the streets of California to express their anger at the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Making sure that their voices were heard, hundreds marched through big cities using anti-Trump slogans and shouting insults at the newly-elected president.
Republican Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton shocked many people and ended eight years of democratic control of the White House, but clearly, as the protests show, many people are not pleased with the outcome.

I wasn't surprised when I saw the result because I thought that he was going to win the elections. I don't like Donald Trump because he is racist. If I lived in USA I would do the same as these protestants.

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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 pionering 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.

I think the doctors did a very strange thing, but the important thing is that he will have a new ear that will bring him back a normal life.


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My favourite meal.

I don't really have a favourite meal because I love a lot of different things. My favourite are fries, I love them, but i love rice too. In my home we eat rice every week because in Africa rice is the basic aliment for the people and they eat lots of rice. I love my mum's rice because it's very tasty and there are a lot of different sauces to put. I like vegetebles but not too much, I eat them because they are healthy but i don't really like them. I like fish, I usually eat fish at home and I like it now, but i didn't when I was a child, i hated it. My favourite is salmon, it's very tasty. I love salad, I eat salad every week and I don't know why but at summer I eat salad almost every day. I definitely loe food but my favourite are fries.

My favourite tv show.

My favourite tv show is La que se avecina. It is a spanish humor serie that it's seen for milions of young people in Spain. It is about a neighbourhood comunity that live in a zone called El mirador de Montepinar. There are a lot of funny people there but my three favourites are Antonio Recio, Amador Ribas and Fermín Trujillo. Antonio Recio is a fisherman and he is racist, he is always saying funny things and his best friend is Enrique Pastor. Amador Ribas is a man who is divorced now, he has 4 children and he likes all the girls. He is poor now but he was rich when he made a very famous song called "Mandanga Style". Fermín Trujillo is a man who has been very poor and he came to live in his daughter's home, He is very funny and he thinks he is very atractive, he is always lying but he is very clever.

Football

Football is my favourite sport, I play it since I was four years old. I started to play it at school with my friends, then when I was five I joined my village football team and since I was nine I'm playing in l'Escala football team. I'm defender and I like my position. My favourite football player is Messi because he is much better than the others, but I like other players too like Mesut Ozil, Andrés Iniesta, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos... This year I play with Juvenils which are my age, 1 and 2 years older tan me and I don't like it very much because the olders play more time than us. My dream is to become a professional football player, i don't care in which teambut my favourite one is F.C.Barcelona.

Last summer

Last summer has been nice. I love summer because i don't have to go to school, I have a lot of free time everyday and I can enjoy it with my fríends going to the beach or to the swimmingpool. I hate winter because i don't like cold weather, I prefer the sun and the beach. This summer I worked in a restaurant, it was my first job, and I liked it because you can meet young people from different countries and you get money too. This summer has been the best in my life because I went to Ireland 3 weeks and I met a lot people there and I had too much fun with my new friends. I want to go again to Ireland next summer because I really liked it. Last summer was amazing.

Tracey Chapman Talkin' about the Revolution.

Don't you know
They're talkin' 'bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
They're talkin' about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Don't you know
You better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution
Yes, finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution, oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution, oh

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion.

Tracey is talking about a revolution.

MY PRESENTATION.

Hello, I'm Koli and I'm 16 years old. I live in a small village called Sant Pere Pescador. This year I finished the ESO and last week I started Batxillerat. I'm a little bit afraid for my final marks because Batxillerat is difficult and you have to study everyday and do a lot of homework, and I don't really like to do homework, I prefer meeting my friends and play football with them. I used to study the last day before the exam at ESO but this year i will try to listen at every lesson and study more than last years.This year I'll be busy everyday because of my homework and the activities that I do like english lessons on monday and wednesday and my football trainings on tuesday, thursday and friday but I hope to pass all my exams.
I don't know which career I'm going to do after Batxillerat, but I will think it during this year and the next one.