India

India, officially the Republic of India is a big country situated in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area.

Economy

India's population is estimated at more than 1.1 billion and is growing at 1.3% a year. It has the world's 12th largest economy--and the third largest in Asia behind Japan and China--with total GDP of around $1 trillion ($1,000 billion). Services, industry, and agriculture account for 55%, 27%, and 18% of GDP respectively. Nearly two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. 700 million Indians live on $2 per day or less, but there is a large and growing middle class of 325-350 million with disposable income for consumer goods.

Society

India has the wolrd's second largest labourd force, with 509.3 million people, 60% of whom are employed in agriculture and related industries; 28% in services and related industries; and 12% in industry.In 2006, estimated exports stood at US$112 billion and imports were around US$187.9 billion. Textiles, jewellery, engineering goods and software are major export commodities. Crude oil, machineries, fertilizers, and chemicals are major imports.

Past continous

FORM
[was/were + present participle]

Uses

-->Actions in the past that take place at a particular time.

Ex: What were you doing last evening at 8:45?

-->With the Past Simple to refer to a long action that is interrupted by a shorter one. (When or While are the habitual conjunctions)

Ex: We were talking about our last holidays when the boss came into the office and got angry .


-->Two actions developing at the same time in the past ("While" is the habitual conjunction)

Ex: While my boss was talking to me, I was dreaming of my last holidays in Cancún.

Form

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I was dancing I wasn't dancing Was I dancing?

We were dancing We weren't dancing Were we dancing?

Credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-progressive

Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country situated in the Horn of Africa that has been landlocked since the independence of its northern neighbor Eritrea in 1993.

Location: Apart from Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia is bordered by Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Djibouti to the northeast, and Somalia to the east.

Religion: Christians make up 61.6% of the country's population, Muslims 32.8%, and practitioners of traditional faiths 5.6%.

Languages: Ethiopia has eighty-four indigenous languages. English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is the medium of instruction in secondary schools. Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by local languages

Regions: Ethiopia is divided into nine states and two chartered cities: Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa

Economy: Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world.

Credits:

wikipedia

http://www.tourismethiopia.org/

PRESENT PERFECT

FORM

[has/have + past participle]

Examples:

You have seen that movie many times.

Have you seen that movie many times?

You have not seen that movie many times.

We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We CAN use the Present Perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.

Use 1: Actions which started in the past and are still continuing

Ex: She has worked at the University since 1994.

Use 2: Actions which happened at some unknown time in the past

Ex: She has worked at the University since 1994.

Use 3: Actions which happened in the past, but have an effect in the present

Ex:
I've lost my keys. ------> I haven't found the keys yet -- they're still missing.

She's broken her arm. ------> The arm is still injured.´

Credits:

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/pperf.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/pres_perf.htm

PAST SIMPLE

PAST SIMPLE

WHEN DO WE USE THE PAST SIMPLE?

We use the simple past to refer to an action in the past that is finished.
EX: I lived in Paris for 1 year.
-----1 year in Paris----------- Now I live in London

How to make an affirmative sentence in the simple past:

Subject + Verb (past form) + Adverbial

EX: I went to the beach yesterday.

How to make a negative sentence in the simple past:

Subject + Auxiliary + Verb (infinitive) + Adverbial

EX: They did not (didn't) go to the beach yesterday.

How to make a question in the simple past:

Question Word + Auxiliary + Subject + Verb (infinitive) + Adverbial

Why did you go to the beach yesterday?


Examples from the past simple:

I saw a movie yesterday.
I didn't see a play yesterday.
Last year, I traveled to Japan.
Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
Did you have dinner last night?
She washed her car.
He didn't wash his car.

Credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html

There are many who believe that the traditional books are being phased out in favour of the computers. Perhaps in the future we'll read all our novels on a screen, perhaps not even moving our eyes to read. I am going to show you some opinions that are totally different.

"Norwegian Phoenix" will be debating on the side of computers.

"Justcallmeadam" will be debating on the side of books.

Side of computers:

Technologie that for only ten years ago seamed impossible is now an important part of the modern community. Comptuers are getting more and more advanced and it has now been built computers with 1000 gigabyte (one terabyte). An earlier problem with computers was their size and prize, they was to large and to expensive, but as time has gone they have shrinked both in size an prize. In the future we will proboly have computers with tons of terabytes, so small that you can put it in your pocket, which only cost you 5 dollars.Computers are not only more practical than books. Just think of all the trees that will be saved. Computers are the future and will be an important part in future community.

Side of books:

Computers and the Internet, both with their own great storage capacities, are threatning to "endanger" books and the written/printed word. For hundreds of years, people have sat down, read, and have been amazed by what they found in the pages of that book. Not only are books more convienent size-wise, but they're also less trouble to worry about. All this trouble is really unnecessary when you're only trying to connect to the Internet so you can read the lastest John Grisham book. I'll agree that the Internet can be helpful for most quick information but, many users find that when they enter a simple topic into a search engine they come up with 121,432,68 sites that have everything but what they were looking for. With a book, all you would need to do for that particular question is to go to the section of the library that has information and look up the answer to your question. To summarize, the Internet may be easier to access (if you're at home, that is), but sometimes it's either a bother to go to, or more frustrating than simply finding out the answer in a book.

MY OPINION

I think that technology and computers are great, they have made our lifes easiler in many ways. Internet is a world wide web plenty of information and I think is much more practical than searching for somethimg in books. But in other side I think that books are also entertainig and you can feel many things that you can't with computers.

People think that if you like reading books you can't have fun with computers, but it's not like that because there lots of people that love new technologies (like our english teacher Maria) and also read a lot!

Credits:

http://www.greenlakelibrary.org/blog/archives/000142.html

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6654

XMAS

I spend christmas with my family and with my friends. First I go for a week to S.Sebastián, where my family lives and I spend christmas and new year there and then I turn back to Valencia for the magical kings.

The Christmas eve I have dinner with all my mum's family in my grandmother's house. The next day at Christmas we go to my Grandma's house to open the gifts from "Papa Noel" and then we go to eat with my dad's family, and there we have more gifts.

The best day of Xmas, for me was New years eve. First I had dinner at my aunt's house with my mum's family, and after the grapes I went to the centre with some friends and I had a lot of fun. And the next day, in new year we had lunch in my grandmother's house.

The last Saturday was the magical king's night, we had dinner in my house with friends of my parents and the next day we opened the gifts.

My Gifts:

a mobile phone, clothes, a perfume, money, and some other little things...

My friends

I have many friends but my best friends are my class friends. I know them since I was three years old. We are seven girls: Carla, Elisa, Marga, Carla, Valeria, Ana and me. They are very good friends, I enjoy a lot being with them.
I get very sad when I imagine that in two years we aren't going to be together any more. I have been with them all my life I we have been through many good and bad moments but we always support eachother. Although we live in different places we are always getting around. Even though we are seven I can only talk about some of them.

In school I have some other friends of different grades like susana, sofia and marina; three girls of ESO 3, they are very friendly. I laugh a lot with them because they are always making jokes. I like going with them because I have lots of fun and I also like to get around with other people.

Valeria: She is a very good friend of mine, she's always happy so I always feel good when you are with her. She's medium high and very thin. She has blonde straight hair and blue eyes. She's very funny and she has a very funny laugh so when she laughs everybody does. She's 13 years old as all of us. She was born in 1994. She lives in La Cañada. Her birthday is the 16th of june. I know her since I was three but I have only been a really good friend of her since only a few years because she had other friends in school. I love her.

Carla Dual: In the school we call her Duala.
She is a special person because she has a very strange character, because she changes humor very easily.
She is very funny and friendly with the people whom she likes to be.
She has 13 years old and her birthday is on the 16th of January.She was born in 1994 as all of us. She lives in Paterna.She's small,she has wavy brown hair with blonde highlights and brown eyes.I enjoy a lot being with her.

Carla Vela: She is my closest friend. We now eachother since we were little and our mums are also friends. I always tell everything to her because I know seh is going to listen and understand me and won't tell anybody of it. We haev a lot of things in common and I enjoy a lot when I'm with her. She likes playing voleyball, hang out with her friends, going shopping, playing with the computer and lots of other things...
She is very tall and thin. She has straight brown hair and blue eyes. And, I don't know what else can I write, I love her!

My Family

Hi! My name's Silvia and I'm going to present you to my family.

My mum: My mum's name is Elena, she's 46 years old. She's from S. Sebastian (Pais Vasco). She's an English teacher of ESO. She's medium high, blonde hair and brown eyes. I sometimes argue with her but I know she's a good mother. She cares about me and my brothers a lot and she always tries to make us happy. She likes children a lot and she loves her work because she can work with them. She also likes to travell and to spend time with her family.
In this video I present you to my mum:

My Dad: My dad's name is Jose Luis he's 46 years old, as well and he's from Navarra. He's a Spanish professor at the university in Castellón. He's tall, he has brown eyes and brown hair. I don't have as many arguements with him as I do with my mum, so I enjoy being with him because he is always happy and he doesn't get angry never, (unless it's something really bad). He's very funny and he's always making jokes. He likes to read every tipe of books and she loves music from classical to jazz. When he was little he didn't travell anywhere so now he always wants to visit places.

My sister: My sister is called Paula, she's 10 years old and she goes to Escuela 2, like me. She is in 5th of Primary. She's medium high, she has brown eyes and brown hair. She likes to make me angry but I get well along with her. She likes watching T.V and playing with the nintedo D.S.

My brother: My brother is called Javier he's 17 years old and he is in 2nd of bachillerato. He's tall, thin, he has brown hair and green eyes. I love him, he's always trying to make me feel better when I'm sad and he's very funny. He´s a very kind person with a great sense of humour. Although sometimes he gets a little bit annoying. He loves going to parties and staying out with his friends , he also likes hip hop music and watching T.V a lot.

MY BOOK

Strange tales

I've read a book on summer that is called strange tales about Great Britain. It has lots of different stories. Some places or villages have become famous because strange things happened a long time ago and people from the village tell these stories like a legend.

I've really liked this book a lot, all the stories, but I think that the best story is,

The Loch Ness Monster so I'm going to write a little bit about it.

The Loch Ness Monster is the most famous monster in the world. The Loch Ness is in Scotland and its very famous for his monster, called Nessie by the Scotland people.

Some people believe there is a monster at the Loch (lake) but others don't.

The first time anyone saw the monster was in the year 565. Someone was walking around the lake and saw a man swimming in the water and an enormous monster behind him. Later, in 1827 and in 1930 there were people who saw the monster, but for the last time. Lots of groups of investigators have tried to locate him but they didn't find anything in the Loch.

Credits: My book

Present Simple

the present simple has three main uses: · General Truths used when mentioning: · facts of science -> example: The earth is round · facts of nature -> example: Everybody needs love (indicates permanence) · Habitual activity used when mentioning: ·habits ·skills ------------> when we talk about these we usually use frequency adverbs. ·customs Examples: I usually work 9 to 5. He often plays golf on Saturday. We always eat dinner together. Frequently, we have lunch out. We never eat breakfast together. (indicates permanence) · Stative Verbs used when talking about: · thoughts · attitudes · emotion Examples: I think you are correct. Common mistake: I am thinking that . . . I forgot your birthday! I love you. I like your top! used when talking about: ·states of "being" ·existence Examples: He is tired. He seems tired. He appears tired. used for: ·possession-> I have a car. ·ownership-> This car belongs to me. used for: · senses Examples: The skunk smells bad.(He stinks!) This soup tastes awful! I see her looking at me all the time Credits: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresent.html http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blpresentsimple.htm

My Enviroment

In my neighbourhood there are a lot of dogs, and I like it because I love dogs but one thing I can't stand is that when their owners take them out they don't pick up their poop so the street gets very ugly.

I think it's not that difficult to take bag, pick it up and throw it to the trash can.

I've lived in the united states for some time and there ANYONE leave their dog's poop in the streets, it's forbidden.

I think that here in Spain they could do the same and the streets would be cleaner.

In this photo I show you how my street looks like.

iPod

The Ipod is a digital music player created by Apple Inc.
The line of products iPod, with the exception of iPod Shuffle and iPod Touch, is well-known because of its easy handling based on the use of a single "tactile wheel", called Apple Click Wheel, as the only form of navigation.

At the moment, the line of products iPod is made up of four series:

iPod classic: with possibility of reproduction of equipped video and with a hard disk of 80 or 160 GB. (in black or white)

iPod nano: equipped with a flash memory of 4 GB (in silver-plated color) or 8 GB (blue, red, green and black).

iPod shuffle: without screen and with a flash memory of 1 GB (in pink color, orange, silver, blue and green).

iPod Touch: equipped with memory of 8Gb or 16Gb, touch screen and Wi-Fi.(in black color).

At the moment it's the best selling audio players in the world. Until September of 2006, with each unit of iPod was included a copy of the program iTunes (a library multimedia) to organize the songs, videos, photos and audiobooks of the user. Also it can extract songs from music albums.

Credits:

www.apple.com

www.ipodnoticias.com

www.wikipedia.org

Fall Out Boy is an American band from Chicago that was formed in 2001. The members of the band are:
-Patrick Stump (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and composer).
-Pete Wentz (bass guitar, backup vocals, and primary lyricist).
-Joe Trohman (lead guitar).
-Andy Hurley (drums).
The four were friends from childhood and liked the same kind of music. They started playing in various bands in the Chicago area and later they decided to do something more serious
Fall Out Boy is considered a pop punk and rock band, and is often described as emo.
Fall Out Boy has won several awards for its major label debut album “From Under the Cork Tree”.
These are their six albums; from the first to the last.

Project Rocket 2002

Evening Out With Your Girlfriend 2003

Take This To Your Grave 2003

My Heart Will Always Be... 2004

From Under The Cork Tree 2005

Infinity On High 2007

Credits:

http://www.falloutboyrock.com/falloutboy/blog.php (official website)

The Diary of Anne Frank

This summer I’ve read this book because I heard that it was really good.
The Diary of Anne Frank is the story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.
The book is based on the diary written by Anne Frank while she and her family plus four more jewish people were hiding for two years; from 1942 to 1944 in the Atic of her father’s office, in the city of Amsterdam.
In August 1944 they were sent to a concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen, which was one of the worse. Of the group of eight, only Otto Frank (his father) survived the war.
Her diary, was saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, and her father published the diary in 1947, to make her daughter’s dream come true; become a writer.
Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.

My opinion: I really liked this book and I really enjoyed reading it because the way she write’s it makes your feel like you’re the one who’s there hiding and feeling that horrible pain for two years; but in another way, sometimes she gets so detailled with something so it gets a little boring.
I really recommend this book to anyone, I think it’s worth reading it.

Credits: http://www.annefrank.com/
Credits: me!

...My SumMer HoliDayS...

This summer has been very cool; I’ve enjoyed it very much.
On July first I went to a french summer camp with Elisa. It lasted three weeks, I had a lot of because I met a lot of people from all spain, did many friends and I also a lot type of things. On July 21st the summer camp was finished!

My next trip was London. I had never been there. I went with my parents, brother and sister from the 22 of July to the second of August. We did a house exchange; we do it very often, the english people went to stay a few weeks in our house of valencia while we were at their house in London. It rained very much but I really liked it. I think London is a very beautifull city and it’s worth visiting it.
I saw: the big ben, the london eye, the parlament, london bridge, the british museum and many more things!
I also visited Cambridge, Stratford and Oxford. We stayed at London for ten days.

When I got back from London; at the second of August I went two weeks to San Sebastian, where my grandma lives. And then I got back here to get ready to school!

Credits: me!!
Photo: London by night

TRIP TO MADRID & TOLEDO(2)

I think this trip has a lots of objectives that we have reached. The principal objective was to be more autonomous. Another one was to learn to manage ourselfs in a big city like Madrid. Also we have learned to travell by metre, bus train… and and at least myself, I think I have achieved it.

19 promotion the best!!!

Podcasting

A podcast is like a blog but instead of written articles, you make media files. The term "podcast" comes from the name of Apple's portable music player, the iPod, and broadcast.

But to create a podcast or even to listen to one, you don't need to own an iPod, or any portable music player .Podcasting is a new type of online media delivery. You publish selected audio files via the internet and allow your users to subscribe via an RSS feed to automatically receive new files. Podcasting lets you create your own online talkshow or radio program.

For a quick example of the latest podcasts, check out: http://audio.weblogs.com/.

TRIP TO MADRID & TOLEDO

Last month we went five days to Madrid it was a fantastic trip, in fact I think one of the best trips I've ever done. We had a great time all thanks to Maria.G., Maria.S and Eva. I also liked very much the trip because usually we go to the mountain and this was something different. I'm going to tell what we did each day!!

First day (7th of May):

We started our trip!! We went from Valencia to Madrid by bus. It took us four hours aproximatly. We arrived to the hostel “Casa de Campo” which was very good. Then we left our packages and we went to see Madrid. First we saw the museum “Reina Sofia”, It was very good. Later, we saw the “Plaza Mayor” and we had dinner there. We got back by metre.

Second Day (8th of May):):

First, we saw the "Puerta del sol" and we walked a little bit around Madrid. At lunch we went to eat to the restaurant "Hylogi" and we ate very well!! the food was delicius!! Then we went to the museum Thyssen, I liked it but less than the "Reina Sofia".

Third Day (9th of May): ):

This day was a little crazy xD... We should have taken the train to Toledo at 10'45 but we arrived late, so we had to wait untill 12'00 to go. The trip was very exciting and fast!! we were in Toledo in 25 minutes!! when we arrived there it was very hot so we took a bus that left us in the centre. We walked for a while to see Toledo, we saw the "Sinagoga judía" then we had lunch, and the teachers left us some free time to buy things for our family and see Toledo. At 9'00 we took the train again to Madrid.

Fourth Day (10th of May): ):

This day we did a lot of things!! We went to the famous "Prado museum" I liked it but the security guards were very unfriendly with us, so Maria.G and Eva filled in a form to complain about it. Later we had lunch in the Prado's gardens. We had lots of fun that day. We had dinner at the hostel and we didn't sleep much!!

Last Day (11th of May): ):

Bye Madrid!! Today was the day to go back to Valencia!!, we had lunch at the bus and we were at school by 4'00.

It was an amazing trip, I will never forget it!!!
Thanks another time!!!

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, and second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometres, it is almost as large as the United States.
The traduction of Sahara in arab is tuareg of tenere
The majority og the people in the Sahara are nomads, witch means that they travel from place to place.
The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. During the last ice age, the Sahara was bigger than it is today
The composition is grave, sand and dunes. Three quarters of the desert is grave, and the other quarter is sand and dunes.

Credits: wikipedia