NEWS. Clinton Ends Campaign With Clear Call to Elect Obama

in Washington, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her campaign for the White House to an end on Saturday with a rousing farewell to thousands of supporters here and an emotional and unequivocal call for her voters to get behind Senator Barack Obama, the man who defeated her for the Democratic nomination.
At that point the cheers, mostly from women, swelled so loud that Mrs. Clinton’s remaining words could not be heard.
It was a dramatic — and at times theatrical — end to a candidacy that transfixed the country. Many of her supporters watched, some weeping, turning out to witness and appreciate the history of this latest turn in the Clintons’ story. If it was a clearly personal moment for Mrs. Clinton, it was a political one as well, as she tried to marshal her large following on Mr. Obama’s behalf.

NEWS. The revolutionary

During much of his 45-year career, Saint Laurent, who died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 71, held the style world in his thrall, wielding an influence that dominated the runways and exerts a fascination to this day.
Saint Laurent, a stylistic rebel with a paradoxically conservative streak, arguably did more to advance fashion than any designer of his generation. His signal contribution to the world of style was to elevate the lowly and the outré, conferring an aristocratic insouciance on modes of dress once considered too gritty or exotic for conventional wear.

Today Saint Laurent is a touchstone for designers hoping to demonstrate a mastery of tailoring and draping. In the mid-’90s, Mr. Ford was alternately criticized and lauded for his fidelity to the designer. In his collections for Gucci, his curvaceous blazers and dinner jackets recalled the gender-bending sexuality of a Saint Laurent piece memorably captured in the ’70s by Helmut Newton.

Even in his sportier styles, Saint Laurent championed a sexy androgyny. Successors to the safari jacket introduced in 1968 resurface on designer catwalks almost every season. On its debut, it caused a furor, sending devotees to Abercrombie & Fitch to improvise interpretations of their own.

ORAL PRESENTATION (2)

ORAL PRESENTATION (1)

ORAL PRESENTATION (3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt2UQ2WFqwE

8. Final evaluation

If I obverse my portfolio, I can see that my level of English have to improve than September 2007. For example, my vocabulary. I think that now, i know more vocabulary than September, more verbal forms...and I'm improved considerably.

The orals presentation (level for talk), writings and blogs are the best activities that show my level of English.

The activities really useful for improve my english are the blogs, because we have time for think and express our ideas.

I don't think that we have any activities for learn English. All the activities contributent anything.

For next year, I think that the good activities that the children could liked are the blog, films, games, songs, orals, separate activitues in Aula Idiomes, and well...all the things that we practise this year.

2. Opinion essay

We have almost learnt to respect our world.

I begin with a statement we have a lot of bad habits (in the past, now, and probably in the future) and the people make the limits they want.

The pollution warming, the absence of water and a very log etcetera, are the principals reasons of the problems of the world, and my principal question is, fot example: can any govenment have to invent any law, method or have to find a way more efficacy to do help for all this problems?

I think that the governments and all the people in general believe that to have wich countries is ncessary to have poor countries, or that the people while have topics for dispute and dabte as for example the serious problems of the world, the politicions can find the solution and make a best society, or that any divine force could change all the persons to respect our world.

In conclusion, we are gullible and we think that always we do the best things to respect the world, but sometimes we get wrong.

NEWS. Albinos, Long Shunned, Face Deadly Threat in Tanzania.

Samuel Mluge steps outside his office and scans the sidewalk. His pale blue eyes dart back and forth, back and forth, trying to focus. The sun used to be his main enemy, but now he has others.
Mr. Mluge is an albino, and in Tanzania now there is a price for his pinkish skin. Discrimination against albinos is a serious problem throughout sub at least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed and mutilated in the past year, victims of what Tanzanian officials say is a growing criminal trade in albino body parts.
Many people in Tanzania — and across Africa, for that matter — believe albinos have magical powers. They stand out, often the lone white face in a black crowd, a result of a genetic condition that impairs normal skin pigmentation and strikes about 1 in 3,000 people here. Tanzanian officials say witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.

Many albinos in Tanzania are turning to the Tanzanian Albino Society for help. But the nonprofit advocacy group operates on less than $15,000 a year. That’s not enough for the sunscreen, hats and protective clothing that could save lives.

Tanzania’s new albino member of Parliament, said, “People think we’re lucky. That’s why they’re killing us. But we’re not lucky.”

6. EXAM OPINION ESSAY IMPROVED VERSION

Now, I talk about my opinion with the sentence “too much importance is given to taking exams at school.

I agree with that topic because I think that people need a level of education and the teachers can measure this level only with the mark of the exams. A lot of people say that the children who have a good mark in Catalan, have a good mark in maths, too. I think that this argument is not an important thing.

On the one hand, I’m sure that a lot of children would suppress the exams or delete the questions of the exams, but on the other hand I think that the children and teachers, in some subjects, give much importance to get an excellent exam and less importance to take a good work in class during the year.

In addition, a lot of children take advantages and copy the exams or some questions of their friends and for this reason give too much importance to take exams than the work of the class, it’s unfair.

All in all, I think that the exams are important, but they aren’t the base of our level.

4. A SUMMARY OF THE FILM: FRÁGILES

In Wight Island, Amy Nicholls arrives in the old Mercy Falls Children Hospital to work as night nurse as replacement of the former nurse Susan. The hospital is in a deactivation process, with the patients being transferred to Saint James Hospital; however, due to a train crash, the closing process has been postponed. Amy is introduced to eight children with lung cases by the nurse Helen Perez, and she feels a sort of attraction for the terminal girl Maggie. Maggie likes to play with some letter blocks to talk with the mechanical girl called Charlotte that would live upstairs, in an abandoned floor. Amy asks about Charlotte to her coworkers and they explain that she is an urban legend and the Maggie is making up her existence. But sooner they find that the children can not be transferred to Saint James since there is something evil that wants to keep them near.

I learnt this words:
sooner - abans
deaf - sord
dumb - mut

7. SAINT GEORGE ACROSTIC

THE MOON WAS SHINING

The hot

Hell is an awful place, so

Every day I wish to see the moon

Moon is an amazing place

On your dreams and

On the reality is very

Nice and wonderful

When the moon was born

And in the sky, the

Stars start to shine

Sometimes I think that the

Heart and sun would be the best place in the universe, but

I prefer the moon because it’s more

Near than me

Is more special

Nearly perfect, the

Giant in the night

Gemma and Andreu