BYE BYE ESO

This post will be the last one in 4th of ESO. I will say which blog I like the most and the best post I have published in my own blog. In my selection proces I have decided to give the price to the post " What's making duck sounds in the ocean? ". And the blog that I like the most is Gabriel's one because he has a lot of appealing writings.

News. What stops us from building very high skyscrapers?

There are only two problems that humans can't prevent 100% when building a skyscraper.

The first one is the wind, wind is not the same at ground level than at more than 300m. What a gentle breeze can be at ground level at very high altitudes. Many buildings in very popular and famous cities have been too exposed to wind, and there has been high risks for the skyscrapers to collapse. That's why many architects without saying anything to anyone construct security objects such as pendulums or metals to protect the upper partform wind.

However, for example, the highest skyscraper in the world  is in Dubai, it's name is Burj Khalifa Tower and it is 1km high. This tower has a unique structure and solution, it is " Y " shaped, the architect says that the key is to have a very big and strong base and it has to be still big at it's half size, in this case 500m.

Seconldy, there is another problem. Elevators. It is impossible to construct a 1km elevator, any winch in the world can support a cable of more than half a kilometre, that's the true problem of the engineers or the architects on those super structures.

My World

In this text I will talk about the possitive aspeects of living in a city, and in the countryside. Then, I will compare them and chose the option that best fits me.

In general, cities are much better for teenagers and young people, than for older people. In a city, you have shops next to your house, you can go out with your friends.

Book v.s. Film

There are many differences between the book and the film version, in the following text I will tell all the differences.

To start with, the film is recorded in a modern cities for example, the movie stars such as the phone and the cars. The film is more a comedy of the true story, and makes fun of gangs and Romeo's stupid love.

 Afer all, I think that the film is very bad, boaring and cheap. I think it should have more meat, and it should be recorded in a better way.

In the other side, the book was writen by Shakespeare many years ago and in old english. But, it narrates the true story changing a litle bit the towns and the stars character.

My trip to Berlin

22nd of April

I woke up at the same hour I would In a normal school day. I arrived early to the school just in case I lost the bus or I forgot something in home. Some of my friends were already there.

We spent more than five hours traveling, and finally we arrived to Berlin. It was raining so we weren't as happy as we were when the plane took off.

Having just arrived  to the St Cristopher's Hostel we left the baggage in our rooms and we started the activities that the teachers had planed for us that afternoon.

23rd of April

This day is when we really started our touristic trip, we went to visit a museum. After having lunch, we went to another museum and we went to super to a very bad restaurant, what I didn't know is that we would go everyday.

In our room we were Miquel, Adrià, Luis, Raul and me.We laughed a lot, specially because Adri had already lost the room card.

24rd of April

This day was exactly the same as the 23rd of April, with only a difference, we had a little bit more of free time and we ate in the Subway, instead of the McDonald's.

25th of April

Certainly my favorite day, we had free time nearly all day long, I bought a pair of shoes in a skate shop called " Titus". My friends bought some  t-shirts and some sweaters as well. I bought some souvenirs for my parents because they had never been in Berlin. In fact, it's the only European capital that they haven't visited yet.

26th of April

We woke up happier than all the other days because we had free time all the morning, because it was the last day in Berlin so the teachers gave us more freedom to do what we want. We went to the airport at 2:00 o'clock and we got our flight to Barcelona, I was very tired so I slept in the plane and half of the time in the bus.

After all, I think this trip has been very interesting and we have learned somethings, but we should have had more free time, and visited less museums, which were very boring, but this doesn't take, that we learned new things.

What's making duck sounds in the ocean?

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Scientists have been trying to disccover a type of noise that can be heard at the bottom of the ocean since 1960.

At the beginning scientists thought that noise was made by a military object in the depths of the ocean, after a few years of investigation they discovered that the noise appeared each October and disappeared in December, and it can only be heard in the Antarctica.

With that information in their hands they started to realize that the sound was emited by an animal, but they didn't know what animal could make that huge ultra-sound noise that can be heard a few kilometres away.




 

PROTECTING SHIP WRECKS 

Ship wrecks have also been pretoected from "treasure hunters" in British territory, now they are being exploded because of the technology advancement. 

Before the associations that defended this pieces of history, didn't have too worry about robatories. However, as I said before nowadays technology makes it easy to arrive at the bottom of the sea, were the ship wrecks are situated, the only thing you need to have is a bit of money to buy the necessary equipment.  

 

For example, in this image you can see a boat that sank in 1978, it's near the British coast and it has been in perfect state until 2009, a grup of treasure hunters stoled everything they could leaving the boat in very bad conditions.

In my opinion, I think shipwrecks should be protected because they are very valuable and give historians clues about how the people sailed before, and what methods they did when the weather conditions were bad.

1st INTERVIEW ( 3rd term)

Where are you from? 
England, York.

Is it the fisrt time that you are in Spain? 
 Yes.

How did you como here? By plane, ship or train? 
 By plane, he lost his first flight because of the traffic jam coming to the airport.

Why are you in Barcelona? 
People say it's a very nice place to visit, and my wife had always wanted to come.


How long are you going to stay here? 
 Two weeks.

Are you travelling with family or friends? 
 With my wife, I have two sons but they had exams.

What have you visited up to now? 
 The " Sagrada Familia" and today " Parc Guell".

What do you like the most? 
 The climate and the amount of facilities thay the city offers you.

Have you bought any presents? 
  Yes, the ipad mini air and the iphone 5s for my two sons.

How do you get around in the city, by underground, car, bus or on foot? 
 Normaly on foot but if it's far away by taxi.

Do you know any words in Catalan or Spanish? 
 Yes, but only basic things to be able to communicate with the managers of shop and restaurants.

Have you tried any typicall Spanish or Catalan food? 
 No, we don't like the Spanish food.

Do you think Barcelona is expensive? 
 No.

Do you see any differences from your country? 
 Yes, the people's character and specially the climate.

Is there anything you don't like?
 Only the Spanish food.

Would you recommend Barcelona to your family or friends?
 Yes.

Will you come back again? 
 Yes, with my two sons this summer.


Interview done to: 
John Walter Smith.

What's your favorite horror film?

My favorite horror film is "28 weeks later". I don't really like watching horror films because then I can't sleep at nigh time and I imagine things that don't exist.

This film is based on an infected apocalypse in the UK, people start being infected and day after day more people become infected, the USA helps the British soldiers to close the zones and keep the inhabitants that are still alive in a extremely secure place. The film is majorly based in a family that is surviving at the outskirts of London, but a boy arrives running and enters the house, but the infected people have followed him so they enter the house and kill nearly everyone, only Don, the dad of a boy and a girls who are in a school trip in Spain survives.

When the children arrive from the trip his father explains them what has happened exactly, his son and his daughter are so unhappy that they escape from the security zone and go to their house to get some photos from their mother to remember her, while escaping a soldier sees them leaving the protected area, so he send people to go and get them, they find them in the house with their mother, but his mother is infected and in a bad estate. They get them all, including the mother, they investigate her, Don goes to were his wife is being investigated and says her sorry for abandoning her in the house, he kisses her and gets infected because of the saliva transmission, he escapes and kills nearly everyone in the zone. His daughter and son however survive thanks to a woman that later is killed by him.

28 weeks after France asks for help because they have detected infected movements in the metro-station in Paris, near the Infel Tower.

My favourite place to live (2nd term my world)

If I could choose any place in the world to live, I would go to the California, concretely, in Hollywood. The reasons for me to chose this place are simple:

-I love hot climate.

- I like the way in which the Americans live.

- I have always wanted to go and visit the place were they make the best films in the world.

- There are more artistic, or film-based universities, which is good as I want to study a career that is based in " Animation in 3D, motion and sound FX".

- I have always liked big cities with a wide range of activities to do everyday.

- It has a lot of natural places and facilities to enjoy.

Valentine´s day exercices

Valentine’s Day Around The World is the title of several listening exercises from ELLO.

http://www.elllo.org/english/0901/T944-Mel-VDay.htm


I have learned that Valentine's day is a tradition that was created in the USA and it has been existing many years.

Love Story (Titanic)

Titanic is a film directed by James Cameroon, published in 1997.

This film is about a cruiser that has been constructed and his first and last voyage will be from the UK to USA. Majorly, this film is about a couple that are in love, it's a romantic love film. When the Titanic was made the architects said it was an unsinkable boat, a terrific thing had to happen to make the boat sink, unfortunately happens.

The film is based in real facts, however it's focused on the love of Jack and Rose, who are two young people that meet in this tragic voyage. They were going to marry and Jack was going to help Rose to get out of his life that she hated, although he was engaged to a very rich person and had a lot of money, so she lived well, but, unfortunately she doesn't like it, meeting Jack is going to change her life but, life changes for all the people who were in the boat.

The boat was already near to it's destination, the guards that searched for icebergs and obstacles in the middle of the ocean at night time saw an iceberg, but too late, they tried to pass by the side, but the boat was wrecked by the huge iceberg, and started to sink, they called for S.O.S and help, but they arrived late and half of the people abroad died.

Romeo & Juliet Summary

Romeo and Juliet is a love story written by William Shakespeare in the 1597. 

This story happens in Italy, concretely, in Verona. In this town there are two wealthy families that are always fighting, one family is called Montague family, the other one is called the Capulet family.

One day the servants of the Capulets were walking and meanwhile talking about the desire they have to fight the Montagues. Suddenly, the servants of the Montagues appear in the streets and as a result they start to fight. In a minute everyone is fighting.
One day in a Capulet party, Romeo sneaks in and meets Juliet, they both fall in love, they are members of different families so they can't marry officially, so they decide to marry secretly.

As nobody knows this marriage has occurred, Juliet's parents decide to marry Juliet with Paris.

Romeo calls someone to help him live in peace with Juliet and he gives him a potion that will make Juliet sleep the day of the marriage and the next day as well.

Romeo is now living in a nearby town because the prince has banished him from Verona, the news arrives to him in a wrong way, so he thinks Juliet is dead. He goes to the tomb with a poison he has bought and kills himself next to Juliet inside the tomb. Juliet wakes up sees Romeo and she suicides as well. At the end, because of all this tragic things, both families decide to live in peace and to be friends.

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Shakespeare's Biography

William's Shakespeare Biography

He waw born on the 23d of April in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon which is a town near London. His family was well-off. His father, John Shakespeare was a Glovemaker, shop keeper and Mayor of Stratford. His mother, Mary Arden didn't have to work to be rich because she inherited lands. William had seven brothers and sisters. 

On the other hand, he wasn't a good student, he attended the free grammar school until 15. He read a lot of Mythology and Ovid books. 

He married Anne Hathaway on the 27th of November in 1582. Anne was eight years older than him. They had three children: Susanna and Hamnet and Judith who were twins. 

He lived in London for a long part of his life, but he retirated in Stratford because of the large amount of land he had there. 

In addition, by the 1592 he was raconized as a succesful actor on the London Stage. He wrote more than 38 plays as well as sonnets and other poems. He revolutionized the English stage with dramatic and poetic genius. He retired from the thatre and went to live to his native Stratford were he had bought a large house called "New Place". 

He died on his 52nd birthday,  on the 23d of April 1616 in Stratford. He was buried in the Church Of The Holy Trinity.

My objectives in this New Year are less than the other years, but are bigger.

I have to pass 4th of ESO, and find more ways to appreciate my life. This are the only objectives I've proposed for this year, but in my opinion, they are difficult to accomplish. But, of course like nearly everyone I've proposed things which I won't do because I don't have time or laziness.  But above all I just want to enjoy my life as if it was the last day.

 This in fact are all of my purposes for 2014, except quit smoking ( I don't smoke), lose weight and get out of debt.