People possessions

Adriana Calles Gallart, Joan Bertrand Mayoral and Octavi Pérez.

The article explains that people accumulate lots of things that finally they become unnecessary and they don’t know where to put them.

Also there’s the history of a man who lived two-year-and-two-month in a cabin living a simple life and now he has made a film explaining that.

At the end, we found 10 possessions that are the most necessary things of Leo’s Pick the journalist of this article.

1) What does the text talk about?

It talks about the possessions of the people and the real importance of them.

2) Where does the story take place?

In a Massachusetts forest

3) Who is the protagonist(s) of the article? Why?

He’s Henry David Thoreau.

4) What is the most interesting thing(s) of the article?

The history of Henry.

5) Do you thing it may happen to you?

Yes, because we thing that everybody can do this sometimes in their lives

6) Explain the reasons of you choice.

We think that this article is very interesting because we have a lot of things but only 10 to bring with us.

Bay to breakers

Marina Paredes

BAY TO BREAKERS

1- What does the text talk about?

    It explains a race that is celebrated in San Francisco called Bay to Breakers,                  

    and it consists in running a race where you can go disguised of what you want.

2- Where does the history take place?

    It is in San Francisco, United States of America. It goes from San Francisco to

    the Pacific Ocean.

3- Who is the protagonist of the history? Why?

    The protagonist of the history are all the racers that run the race in groups or

    or alone because they are the reason of this event.

4- What is the most interesting thing of the article?

    The most interesting things of the article are the very original disguises that

    people wear in this race, there are groups of a lot of people and all of theme

    go with the same disguises.

6- Explain the reason of your choice:

    I’ve chosen it because the clothes and the customs that they wear are very

    original and it’s a very famous and popular event in USA.

SUMMARIZE:

The text is about a very popular race called Bay to Breakers, it is about a race that goes from San Francisco to The Pacific Ocean. People who run in this race, usually wear very original customs, and some people go naked.

The Olympic Games

THE OLYMPIC GAMES

The text that I read talks about the history of the “Olympic Games”.

The first Olympic games were in Athens (Greece) and the last Olympic games were four years ago in Beijing .

The most interesting think of the Olympic Games is that all the countries of the world, with their  responsible of each sport like: athletics, football, basketball, swimming, etc… play without  any discrimination.

The Olympic Games are the most sportive event in  the world.

I think that the people responsible of the Olympic Games can do the Olympic Games every two years because I think that every four years is a lot of time.

I choose this article because my family and I watch the Olympic Games every time that they are  on TV.

By Gerard Reig

Diane Keaton

This article talks about Diane Keaton, exactly, Keaton films. There are a lot of films that Keaton does, but the famous film is Godfather, the serious characters, because she only does comedy films. After this film, like: Godfather, Reds… all the people though that she was a serious actress. But, in recent years, she has started an other time, do family comedies, like: Something’s Gotta Give or Because I said so.

The theater has always a big part of Keaton’s live. She growing up near Los Angeles, and move to New York, when she has 18 years old, to study acting. She found a roll in the musical Hair.

In 1970, Keaton was cast opposite a young Al Pacino, do her first movie roll the Godfather. This movie won 4 Oscars. Later Keaton played the iconic roll of Annie Hall, this film made her famous.

In 1987, she directed the documentary Heaven. And she also directed an episode of the American television drama Twin Peaks.

Now, Keaton live in Hollywood and continue doing films. 

Maria Hernàndez i Maria Cayuela.

Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton

The article that we read talks about Lewis Hamilton, an F1driver, he’s one of the bests, because he’s only 22 years old and he finished some races in the podium. Lewis Hamilton was an English boy that grows up around the motor world her father love cars, and also the firsts black Grand Prix driver, but he doesn’t considerate it important. The people compared Lewis with Tiger Woods for his maturity.One of the most important things is that her father had three jobs to finance him in the past, and Lewis never missed a race. When he was young he always want to run with Mclaren Mercedes team so her dream now it’s a reality. Now in 2012 Sebastian Vettel steals her place of the young and best driver of F1 , but the think of that we choose this topic is because we like cars and F1 but in the actual F1 there’re better drivers

Photo of the driver




Pau Bonet i Aleix Solsona

Pepito Los Palotes

Pepito  los Palotes

Pepito los Palotes was born in 1991 Cartagena,  but now he lives in Lleida. He is twenty-one years old now. He is a novelist.

He started writing in 2006. His hobby is running in along city but also he plays draughts.

He usually gets up at 6:30 in the morning, he goes to the gym an finish at 8:30, later he goes home an he writes his novel.

BRITNEY

Britney was born in Seashells, but she lives in New York. She is 18 years old, and she is a singer. She is very famous and her future is excellent.

Her boyfriend is John.

Her hobbies are snowboard and play beach volley.

She has one dog, his name is Toby and it is a Yorkshire, one cat his name is Tristan and it is Siamese.

His wardrobe is very big, the wardrobe ago 3x4 m, and she has 258 shoes.

Her favorite hobbies is: makeup and go shopping.

My imaginary friend:)

Oriol was born in Tarragona, in 1993.He is 18 years old now.He studies medicine in UAB. In 2010 he won one prize of literature in a Spanish competition.He’s hobbies are singing and playing the guitar.He’s favorite band is “Queen”.He loves horse riding and going to the beach in the summer.

Hilary Swank

Hilary is an American actress. She was born in July 30^th of 1974 in Lincoln.  When she was young, she lived in a trailer park. Her parents divorced when she was 13 years old. Hilary studied performing arts at University.

She won two Oscar:

The first Oscar was for the film Boys Don’t Cry. In it she plays a young woman, who dresses as acts as and feels like a man.

 

The second and more important Oscar was for the film “Million dollar baby”, the film, recorded in 1994.

Swank plays Maggie, she fights to fulfill her dream of becoming a fighting female boxer, but at the end of the film she had an accident and she never played boxer. 

Marc Doladé and Cristina Alcaine.

New Zealand: RUGBY

Ferran Capdevila and Pau Aresté

Rugby is a national sport in New Zealand, the place where be the next world cup. Here, is the Museum of Rugby, where are a lot of information of the popular team “ALL BLACKS”.

Rugby was created in England, in a boarding school. It was invented in 1823. In New Zealand, rugby arrived in 1870, when New Zealand was very much a developing country.

Bob Luxford is the curator of the New Zealand Rugby Museum. He explains th

at rugby is the most popular sport. Since opening in 1969, the museum has more than 30 000 items, including famous players shirts and boots… The Museum provides excellent documentation of the games rich history.

The “ALL BLACKS” are very famous because they intimidate their opponents by dancing the Maori “Haka” before each match, and they are the most famous rugby team in the world. It was created in 1905. It is believed that the name arose the newspaper report at the time about the “all blacks”.

This text explains to us the history of the rugby, the history of “ALL BLACKS” and the museum of the New Zealand.

 

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

The article explains the life of the beautiful actress, Scarlett Johansson. It contains the information that she started very young to be an actress, at eleven years old.

In 1995, she played with Sean Connery’s daughter in a popular crime drama, in the film “Just Cause”.

Just a few years later, she appeared with Robert Redford in the “Horse Whisperer”.

At fifteen years old, she landed a role in “The Man Who Wasn’t There”, she did this film with the Coen brothers.

It was a good star. But a good star doesn’t always mean success in Hollywood.

When she was nineteen, she could just began to star in blockbusters, action films and typical romances.

The movie, “Last in Translation”, made her a star and she was nominated for her first major award, the Golden Globe for best actress in a feature film.

 










Guillem Sol     Xavier Sabaté

CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA

In Australia the weather is hot on Christmas. The temperature is around 30ºC Australian homes are decorated in the traditional way with Christmas wreaths on the front doors and Christmas presents pilled under a Christmas tree. They celebrate the Christmas Day in the beach, and the Christmas father arrives in the beach, with a surfboard. At night, they prepare a dinner, a cold dinner for everybody, the 26^th December they celebrate the sport’s day. And the events are Sydney to Hobert Yacht Race and the Boxing Day rest match from Melboume Criket. And after this day, the summer Christmas starts.

Robert Villamarin, Ari Pelegrí

Eli and her father

Eli

She’s an orphan girl from Colombia, she hasn’t any friends there and she came here to find her father.

Here Eli has more friends and she is very popular in the city. She lives near the river because isn’t far from her school “Maristes”. She works at MC Donald’s because she has to pay her necessities.

One day walking in the street Eli saw a very beautiful man and they started to talk. Next day, the man invited Eli to drink a coffee in his house and in 4 minutes late they were watching a movie. Some minutes later…Eli said “I want to find my father, are you going to help me?”

Man said: Yes, but first a want to say you one thing…I’M YOUR FATHER.

Eli said: NOO!  

Moral of the story: If you want to find your father in another country, take a picture of your father.



                                                                           
                                                                 
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ONE DREAM

English   Redaction            

Víctor Vinós   &   Jaume Gimeno

One dream

One Spanish girl lived in Barcelona, in her school the boys went to United States but she wanted to go to Africa because the girl had a big personality.

She had a dream, her dream was helping the boys and girls in Africa.

This decision causes the split up of the family and loses her family.

She went fast to the airport and she caught the airplane to go to Africa.

When she arrived in Africa, the people received the girl in one house of Africa.

In Africa she helped a lot of people in hospital and from de streets.

This is the life of Carla.

In the land of all blacks

In this text, the writer is about of the rugby realizing in New Zealand.

Because there is the most famous team there, the name of the team is the All Blacks, and they intimidate their opponents by dancing the Maori before each match and probably avoided the extreme amateur attitude that applied in the UK

Also, there open a museum about the oldest rugby and the game is named after the English boarding school. The curator is Bob Luxford, and he explains why rugby has been popular sport since it first arrived in the country.

In the museum has amassed over 30.000 items, including famous players’ shirts and boots, international caps, photographs and programs dating back to the 1880s.

Also there are a lot of films and books about this team and information of the museum.

New Zealand will host the last edition of the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and it could well win it but usually start out because they have only won one of the six editions that have been held so far which they hosted in 1987.

Bob thinks that there’s a lot of children that playing soccer more than are playing soccer. And a game that has become more physical in a society that has become softer, a softer living style.

Júlia López and Jordi Sitjà

THE DINOSAUR COUNTRY

Wyoming is a desert where have been found a lot of dinosaurs bones because it has the perfect geological conditions for fossils hunting.
The landowner of Wyoming have created a big museum in that. In this museum we can see a lot of bones exposition an some videos.
The climate in Wyoming is very hot, dry and dusty . The ground is too hard. The desert was discovered in 1872 by Edward Cope, but the bones were discovered in 1993.
The Wyomming dinosaur center has a big group of scientists, paleontologists and geologists, the science director is now Scott Hartman.




Posted by: Xavier Fernández and Èric Frias.

Food, glorious food

Marian Guillén

In this summary I will talk about Erica Bauermeister, the author of the novel ‘The School of Essential Ingredients’. Erica loves the art of cooking, and she wants to teach to other people how to prepare some recipes.

Erica’s book was published in the USA by Putnam at the beginning of this year. Her book talks about how Lillian, the main character, runs a restaurant and she also teaches people how to cook.

This book has become very popular in the USA. It has a lot of success and followers, and it is also known internationally.

Erica said that she started writing her book in 2001, but she left it for a long time. Five years later, she sent it out to her agent, and he really liked it, so her agent decided to send it to eight publishers of the USA, and that’s the reason why her book was published.

Erica Bauermeister, the writer of this famous book, loves cooking and food. She really like writing about it, and teach to other people how to cook.

The Haley-Davison anniversary

  

     ALEIX AND ANDONI 

HARLEY-DAVISON

The text talks about the 105^th anniversary of Harley-Davison. This is the most popular motorbike brand of the world. To commemorate the anniversary of the motorbike Harley-Davison, in Milwaukee is stabled a museum in honor of Harley-Davison.

The Harley motorbikes are a symbol in USA old times and inspirited movies as: Easy Rider, The Wild One and Triumph Thunderbird.

In the other pages is explain what has the museum of Harley history, over 450 motorbikes that comes to the event.

The next part of article talks about what made Milwaukee famous and history of Harley during the ages.

For the museum the Harley-Davison company makes the new super-motorbike night rod special the ultimate Harley-Davison.

David Straitjacket

David Straitjacket was born in Manchester in 1977.

When he was a child, he became a circus juggler.

With a lot of practice and years he became a very good escapologist. Now he can walk in broken glasses, eat light bulbs, put tubes through his nose and swallow a sword.

He won six Guinness World Records.

He appeared on some television series: The New Paul O’Grady Show, Ant & Dec, Big Brother 7 and in CBBC.

In 2008 was shortlisted for the “Best Vegan Entertainer”.

With a lot of practice and years we can be like David and we’ll become good escapologists. 

The professional llife of David.

This article talks about the professional life of David. He was a magic boy, because he can do things like walk on broken lights, eating lightbulbs and putting tubes triughthis nouse.

He starts to practice this when he was 16 years old. David Straitjacket won six records Guinnnes. He explained that, for the firs few months, he stuck a toothbrush down his throat several times a day. Now, in the actuality he has got 32 years old, and he appears on British television, and he is very faumos.

The text was taks about the life of David.