NEWS:

NEW 3.
Nintendo's veteran games developer Shigeru Miyamoto has told the BBC that the firm is "not worried at all" by Microsoft and Sony's new controllers.
The Japanese firm has enjoyed huge success with its Wii console, in large part due to its motion control system.
At the E3 games show in Los Angeles, both Microsoft and Sony have shown off new control systems which aim to make gaming more accessible.
Mr Miyamoto said Nintendo was flattered by the approach taken by the firms.
He told BBC News: "The fact that both of those companies are looking at getting the gamer off the couch, taking advantage of motion control, and getting them to control the game by moving their body shows that they have looked at what we have done with Wii.
"And now they are moving in the same direction. To that end we are very flattered, he said.
While both the Sony and Microsoft showcases at E3 have featured new technology and techniques for motion controllers, Nintendo's event was decidedly low key.

Nintendo have announced a new Super Mario game
The only "new technology" on offer was a modification to the Wii controller, called the Wii Motion Plus, which was announced last year, and a pulse measuring device called Wii Vitality Sensor, although that is still in the early stages of development.
"Just as we enable you to see the centre of your body balance with Wii fit, the Wii Vitality Sensor enables you to see the information related to the inner world of your body," said Nintendo's chief, Satoru Iwata, at the event.

NEWS.

NEW 2:

A 25-year-old Somali pirate has told the BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan by telephone from the notorious den of Harardhere in central Somalia why he became a sea bandit. Dahir Mohamed Hayeysi says he and his big-spending accomplices are seen by many as heroes.
I used to be a fisherman with a poor family that depended only on fishing.
The first day joining the pirates came into my mind was in 2006.
A group of our villagers, mainly fishermen I knew, were arming themselves.

NEWS:

NEW 1:

President Barack Obama has said the "cycle of suspicion and discord" between the United States and the Muslim world must end.
In a keynote speech in Cairo, Mr Obama called for a "new beginning" in ties.
He admitted there had been "years of distrust" and said both sides needed to make a "sustained effort... to respect one another and seek common ground".
Mr Obama said the US bond with Israel was unbreakable but described the Palestinians' plight as "intolerable".
The president made a number of references to the Koran and called on all faiths to live together in peace.
He received a standing ovation at the end of his speech at Cairo University.
White House officials had said the speech was intended to start a process to "re-energise the dialogue with the Muslim world".

FILM SUMMARY:THE OTHERS

The scene is set in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Grace Stewart is a Catholic mother, who lives with her two small children in a remote country house. The children, Anne and Nicholas, have an uncommon disease characterized by photosensitivity (a special feature on the DVD indicates the disease is xeroderma pigmentosum), so their lives are structured around a series of complex rules designed to protect them from inadvertent exposure to sunlight.
The new arrival of three servants at the house (an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills, an elderly gardener named Mr. Edmund Tuttle, and a young mute girl named Lydia) coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone. Anne draws pictures of four people — a man, a woman, a boy called Victor and a scary old woman whom she says she has seen in the house. A piano is heard from inside a locked room when no one is inside. Every time Grace enters and exits the room the door closes, but while she tries to figure out why, the door slams in her face knocking her to the floor. Grace tries hunting down the "intruders" with a shotgun but cannot find them. She scolds her daughter for nonsense about ghosts until she hears them herself. Eventually convincing herself that something unholy is in the house, she runs out in the fog to get the local priest to bless the house. Meanwhile, the servants, led by Mrs. Mills, are clearly up to something of their own. The gardener buries three gravestones under autumn leaves, and Mrs. Mills listens faithfully to Anne's allegations against her mother.
Out in the forest, Grace loses herself in the heavy fog, but miraculously discovers her husband Charles, whom she thought had been killed in the war and brings him back to the house. Charles is distant during the one day he spends in the house, and Mrs. Mills is heard telling Mr. Tuttle "I do not think he knows where he is." Grace later sees the old woman from Anne's drawing dressed up like her daughter. Grace says "You are not my daughter!" and attacks her. However, she finds that she has actually attacked her daughter instead. Anne refuses to be near her mother after this event, while Grace swears she saw the old woman. Mrs. Mills tells Anne that she too has seen the people but they cannot yet tell the mother because Grace will not accept what she is not ready for. Charles is stunned when Anne tells him the things her mother did to her. Charles says he must leave for the front and disappears again. After Charles leaves, Anne continues to see things, including Victor's whole family and the old woman. Grace breaks down to Mrs. Mills, who claims that "sometimes the world of the dead gets mixed up with the world of the living". The two women also find and examine a 'book of the dead,' which shows mourning portraits taken in the 19th century of recently deceased corpses.One morning, Grace wakes to the children's screams: all of the curtains in the house have disappeared, as Anne had said they might earlier in the movie. When the servants refuse to help look for them, Grace realizes that they are somehow involved. Hiding the children from the light, she banishes the servants from the house.
That night, Anne and Nicholas sneak out of the house to find their father, and stumble across the hidden graves. They find that the graves belong to the servants. At the same time, Grace goes to the servants' quarters and finds a photograph from the book of the dead and is horrified to see that it is of the three servants. The servants appear and give chase to the children, who make it back into the house just as Grace emerges to hold off the servants with a shotgun. The children run upstairs where they hide, but are found by the strange old woman. Downstairs, the servants continue talking to Grace, telling her that they have to learn to live together. She begins to understand what they mean. Upstairs, Anne and Nicholas discover the old woman is acting as a medium in a séance with Victor's parents. It is then that they learn the awful truth: the old woman is not the one who is a ghost; the ghosts are Anne, Nicholas and their mother. Grace loses her temper and supernaturally attacks the visitors. This sequence is quickly intercut with scenes from both Grace's viewpoint and the family's. For example, when Grace is shown shaking the table in anger, it appears in the next shot that the table is shaking on its own.
The truth is finally clear to Grace and the audience: She breaks down with the children and remembers what happened just before the arrival of their new servants; yearning for the company of her missing husband and increasingly frustrated by her children, she went insane, smothered them both with a pillow and then, realizing what she had done, shot herself. When she awoke, she assumed that God had granted her family a miracle. Grace and the children realize that Charles is also dead, but he was not aware of this fact. Mrs. Mills appears and informs Grace that they will learn to get along, and sometimes they won't even notice the living people who inhabit their house. Outside, Victor's family — less than happy with their haunted house — pack up and move out. From the window, Grace and her children watch as they drive away. Despite her earlier loathing of the house, referring to it as a prison, Grace ends the film with the line; "No one can make us leave this house." and disappears with her children in her arms.

OPINION ESSAY

I agree with te idea that we have almost learnt to respect our world because we will destroy our world with our own hands.The great majority of people think that the government find solutions to stop the world's destruction,but I think that if everyone thinks the same way,nobody does anythink ,the worls will be destroyed,but I also think if all the people think that is a one more person,finally every person help to save the world.In conclusion,if we don't help,the worls will be destroyed in a very short time.

SOCIAL ESSAY**

**podcast**Sara y Alexandra

INFORMAL LETTER

Hi Marga!
How's life in Holand?I wrote you a week ago,but you haven't answered!Now,I am stay the next month in the school,and I finish! I haveholidays until "San Juan",and later I start to work in the jewelley "Alba",you know.I am writing because I want to offer you to come to my town,and stay for two weeks in my house! And we can go to discoteques wich are pretty cool!What's the weather like in Holland?Here there is sunshine,but there's wind too!And if you come we can go to the beach ,in Almadrava,or go shopping to the street market!Wath do you think? When you have decided,please tell me something,ok!And,if you come,you can taste the typical food of my home....Italian food!I hope you'll answer soon!Write me soon!

All the best,
kisses!!!

Alexandra


P.S.Please,if you answer,send me the photos of your trip to Germany!!!I will see what this country is like!!

news*****

***THE TIMES*** *MARCH,10,2009*
NEW N.1:
More than 30 dead in Abu Ghraib bombing as violence returns to Iraq

A suicide bomber struck a group of tribal leaders gathered for a reconciliation meeting in western Baghdad today, killing as many as 33 people,It was the second major bombing in a week ,and The attack was a clear attempt to sabotage efforts to reconcile the Iraqi people at the crucial tribal level,all depended on the so-called Sunni Awakening which saw tribal leaders turn their backs on sectarian bloodletting and set up militias to fight al Qaeda and other extremist groups. The Sunni and Shia tribal leaders were in talks aimed at alleviating the deep and lingering animositi between the communities in Iraq after years of death , suicide bombings and ethnic cleansing.

NEW N.2:

Women should be hit for wearing sexy clothing in public, one in seven believeOne in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dressed in “sexy or revealing clothes in public”,A similar number believed that it was all right for a man to slap his wife or girlfriend if she is “nagging or constantly moaning at him”.Although a majority of 1,065 people over 18 questioned last month believe that it is never acceptable to hit or slap a woman, the poll found that those aged 25-39 were more likely to consider that there were circumstances in which it was acceptable to hit or slap a woman. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said: “Violence against women and girls is unacceptable in any form no matter what the circumstances are.” Ms Smith said that more needed to be done to challenge attitudes that condoned violence against women and girls.I think this is unaccetable,all the people has liberty of clothes thinks,and chose their ways!

NEW N.3:

The 20 coolest camp sites in EuropeThe publisher of Cool Camping Europe picks his favourite sites across the continent
*1 ILHA DA BERLENGAPortugal

*2 LUGAR VARZEASPortugal

*3 EL BURRO BLANCOSpain

*4 LA FRESNEDASpain

*5 CALA LLEVADOSpain

*6 LES ROMARINSFrance

*7 LA VENDETTEFrance

*8 LE BREVEDENTFrance

*9 LES ROULOTTESFrance

*10 VAL D’ORLuxembourg

*11 CAMPSPIRITHolland

*12 TENTSTATIONGermany

*13 SEEPERLEGermany

*14 CAMPING DES GLACIERSSwitzerland

*15 STELLA MAREItaly

*16 IL FALCONEItaly

*17 KORENSlovenia*18 MALA MILNACroatia

*19 ARETIGreece

*20 TARTARUGAGreece

***DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE:LAKE OF COMO***

When you arrive at the lake from the steet of Milan Nord,your impression is a bir frightened for the majesty of the place:you come to a great mountain range in circle, which you start getting down in a sinuous and narrow road stuck to the rocks,the rocks are tied by networks in order to avoid .As you continue the road, your sensation of dizziness increases, since there are many curves and you are to many height,but ,when you arrive at some places,and you see the enormous and beautiful lake,You forget the dizziness!!When you come to the center of it fence, concretly to Bellagio, a village that has the lake it making a detour to both sides, (since the lake has form of "Y") you feel that the trip to been worth it, it is a precious place, full of flowers and parks, and houses with majestic gardens, in addition from there one sees the dark, smooth and brilliant surface of the lake.In my opinion this is a good place to go in holidays,if you want peace and calm days,and beautiful landscapes!!!!I recommend it to all the persons!

***DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON:SARA***(podcast)

I am going to describe my companion of class and friend,Sara:
she is a good friens and is Spanish,from Andalucía.She isn't low,is normal,and thin.She has a very long black hair,smooth and brilliant.Her face is pale and she has many freckles,her eyes are green and she takes glasses sometimes.She is very beautiful!!She's a very calm person,if you want to calm down,she can help you!Also is a very intelligent person,kind,and nice with everybody.She isn't big-headed for nothing,and is very lazy!!!But she has intentions of improving this part!Is a very good person,but this does not want to say that she hasn't got personality,because she has got a very strong and defined personality!In my opinion,the better part of her character is her control of emotions,and her amiability!!The worst part is...she is very lazy!!!

FRANKENSTEIN DIFFERNECES BETWEEN THE FILM AND THE BOOK***

*In the book Frankenstein goes on the ice with bobsled dragged by dogs,in the film he walks.

*In the film the Frankenstein's family is rich,in the book they are poor.

*In the film Viktor F. knew Henry at the university,in the book he was a friend of childhood.

*In the film,Viktor`s mother dies when he is a man,in the book when he is a child.

*In the film Viktor does one experiment whith electricity of the sky.

*Viktor started his work in his house,in the book he started in a laboratory.

*Frankenstein's teacher dies in the film,not in the book.

*In the film,Viktor only hase one little brother.

*In the book,Viktor doesn't tell about his work to anybody,but in the film,he tells that to Henry.

*When he creates the creature,he used parts of the body from dead people,dies for Malaria,in the book he tooks this parts from the cementiry.

*The creature in the film resucited,because the first experiment go bad,in the book this doesn't happen.

*In the film,the machines of the experiment are very complexed,whit water,in the book there are more simple.

*The creature learns to talk and read with books from the family who he watchs,not hear.

*The creature kills the little brother,and the people think that it is sirvent of family who did that,consequentely kill her,he kills anybody after Elizabeth.

*In Frankenstein wedding nigth,the creature kills Elizabeth,he took her heart,in the book he kill her,but it doesn't take the heart.

*Viktor creates another creature with the face of Elizabeth,the monster wants her,but she go mad and burn herself,in the book this doesn't happen.

*After the monster kills Elizabeth,Frankenstein tell to him,that he created a woman for he,but he don't.In the book,Viktor destroys her.

*At the end,the monster dies with Viktor,and he burn helself with tje Viktor's dead body.

13 Jenuary
2009

I.E.S Castellé d'empuries(GI)

Dear madame,
I am writing this letter because this is wath I have to do in the English class,this day!!!!I think that our institute is well organized(more or less):all the times that I have been absent they have called to my house(the secretary of the IES).I also believe that it is a multicultural college and there fore learn much of all the cultures,there are many very intelligent teachers from we learn very much.The institute in general is a good place,there is heating in the classes and the sandwiches are very good,we have many computers and a big enough playaround.The bad or wrong part of the college,is the different groups or crews that exist,though they do not get along badly.There are also teachers who do not want to work,and people who you don't stand,but in general it is possible to tolerate.Best regards,Alexandra Duò.

DISCUSSION ESSAY

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS TODAY,WE NEED STRICTED RULES AND PUNISHEMENTS?
At the moment,it is a well-know fact that children(at the age of 12-16 years old)have not enough discipline,and have no education,the school isn't enough stricted and children "win's" the teacher.There are advantages and disadvantages:on the one hand ,it is that there more bad people,but at the same time,there are god people.and,children have liberty of ideas and they can choose their way of live, their future.On the other hand,there are more people without education,and without values
WHAT ABOUT BEING A FAMOUS PERSONAL?
At the moment every person wants to be a famous person,but there are advantages and disadvantages(you know for all the people,your good ways,and you're bads actions too).On the one hand,you have too much money and all the people want to know you,but on the other hand,anybody tell you the truth,people are false because you are famous,and you don't have friends.In realithy it is better to be normal and have a good live,with the real love from people you love,that being famous and being crazy without friends.My own opinion is that being famous is a superficial live,because you must have different lifes!!

ADRIAN MOLE

Adrian Mole is a thirteen-year-old boy who used to live with his parents until they separate.Adrian´s mother runs away with their neighbour, Mr Lucas and his father goes away with Doreen.Adrian is in love with his new classmate, Pandora is going out with Nigel. Adrian gets very nervous every time he sees her.In the end Adrian goes out with Pandora. Adrian´s parents make up and Adrian is very happy.

prominent figures:

Adrian Mole is thirteen and a three quarters years old. He is very worried about his looks. He has a spot and is always looking at it to see if it has changed.
Adrian is always worried about his thing “which was 13 cm long”
Adrian´s parents got on very badly with each other. They shouted and are angry all the time. Adrian´s mother was an alcoholic.
Adrian´s mother has run away with their neighbour Mr Lucas and Adrian´s father has run away with Doreen.
Adrian´s father is unemployed and can´t find a job. In the end, they end up together.
Pandora is a very beautiful girl. She is new in Adrian´s class. She goes out with the best friend of Adrian´s but Adrian finally goes out with Pandora.
Pandora travels to Greece but doesn´t bring any presents to Adrian because she gave them to a poor man.
The dog was disgusting and ate everything that he found on his way.
Adrian´s grandmother liked gossiping and was always minding everybody´s business. She always looked after Adrian and protected him against Barry Kent.
Nigel is Adrian´s bestfriend. He goes out with Pandora and Adrian gets angry but in the end they make up
Bert Baxter is an old man. Adrian helps him in his house
Mr Lucas is of Adrian´s mother´s boyfriend
Dorren is of Adrian´s father´s girlfriend

mouline rouge film actuvity

A boy explains the story,who wanted to go the neighborhood more Bohemian of París(wich,according to his father had said to him,a neighborhood of lust and of wrong people),to devote itself to be a writer innovator that as good bohemian believes in bauty,truth,freedom and love.Only that he did not know love,until in the most famous motel of París,the mouline rouge,falls in love with the court more beautiful:Satine,the star of the motel,called the shining diamond.For a confusion,the writer remains with Satine alone,while she thinks that he is a very rich duke who has fallen in love with her,and she tries to seduce him.He,wich had gone to present a work,falls in love with her and she with him.But they cannot be united since the duke would do that they close the Mouline rouge and would kill him before seeing the woman he loves in the arms of another man.The owner of the motel says to her that she must go to bed with the duke and marry him,in addition he discovered that she has a disease and dies.Satine initially wants to escape with his dear one,but in all that she discovers that she is dying,she prefers to lie and say to the writer that she does not love him.While they were doing the last scene of the famous work,Satine doesn't bear and confessed her love for the writer;the duke becomes mad and wants to kill both of them,but he cannot:the companions of her,and the chief do not leave he,they realize that she is in love.When lowner the courtain Satine dies and this way she says to her boyfriend who should tell your history in order that she always could be with him.

Horror story***

It was a cold day of winter, I was walking along the park of my street, when I saw a seated girl, trembling.I insisted, then she gave to me a paper with a address and said if I could take her there, but before she wanted to stop five minutes in every church of the city. Though I thought that it was strange, I took her to her house.While I was coming back home, I start to being very bad:I stay 5 days sick. Past these days I went to the house of the girl for look her condition, a woman attended to me and I said to her if she was the mother of her:she show me the photo to the girl and she asked me if I was shure of this are the girl, When I said to her that yes, she started crying and telling me that this is her daughter, that is dead five years ago, for a disease of five days.Apparently every year was appearing and went to a church more:she is dead five years ago:five churches.

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~my presentation

Hello!!My name is Alexandra and I have born in Italy, near the opposite Switzerland, the Lake of Como.I am 17 years old and I come 10 years ago in Spain; I live in Ampuriabrava, in the north-east of Catalonia, with my parents.Here also there live my brother, my aunt and my cousin. I have chosen this Btx (Humanistic and social) since I like to learn languages and the culture and history of the places, and to travel. Because of it, though still I am not sure, I wanted to study the career of tourism. In my free time I like to walk, to listen to music (rap, reagge..), I am charmed with drawing and cooking.Also I am going to start going to a school of funky and hip-hop. The weekends I am in the habit of being going with my friends to some discotheque or to take something. I hope to have appeared more or less and that the one who reads this knows something more of my life!!

Xxxx Alexandra