J A M A I C A !!

history
Is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola
Christopher Columbus arrived in 1494 there were over 200 villages ruled by chiefs or caciques, with the south coast of Jamaica being the most populated, especially around what is now known as Old Harbour
During the 1650s, the British captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
After almost five hundred years of European occupation and governance, Jamaica gained its independence from Britain on August 6, 1962.

Two important and significant changes – universal adult suffrage in 1944 and independence from Britain in 1962 - set the stage for a people once conquered, controlled and constrained, to become themselves the architects of a new nation.
Our Flag
A diagonal gold cross divides the flag into two black triangles and two green ones. Opposite triangles have the same colours. "Hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth"

The National Fruit and Dish
Although ackee is not indigenous to Jamaica, we have embraced it as our own, making it our national fruit, and a key ingredient of our national dish - ackee and saltfish, which is usually served for breakfast or brunch. A delicious fruit and a local favourite, it is also a part of our everyday diet.

Our National Anthem

Eternal Father, bless our land

Guard us with Thy mighty hand

Keep us free from evil powers

Be our Light through countless hours

To our leaders, Great Defender

Grant true wisdom from above

Justice, truth, be ours forever

Jamaica, land we love

Jamaica, Jamaica

Jamaica, land we love
Teach us true respect for all

Stir response to duty's call

Strengthen us, the weak, to cherish

Give us vision, lest we perish

Knowledge send us, Heavenly Father

Grant true wisdom from above

Justice, truth be ours forever

jamaica, land we love
Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, land we love

Credits

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090208/lead/lead1.html

Jamaica Information Service

Gleaner Online

Jamaica Observer

lucas masciano

It is for my a clear example of overcoming, he started by far projects of cantautor in Argentinean and today in the 2009 already has four discs. he publish her first disc in Argentinean and then came to Spain to Barcelona and there startig singing in the meter, calling to all the existing discograficas and living in a okupa house. A day they saw in tele the song of El canto del loco (Spanish group of music) and to it is had left in mind david otero (guitarist os El canto del loco), soon go to sing in the street and david is there, that he helped to lucas very much.

I dont knew his songs, but a day i listened a song of with that he singin with El canto del loco("me gustas cuando") that I like very much that needed to know something on this fantastic cantautor. =)

Lucas's web page

El canto del loco web page

Elections of the USA

The 4th of november were celebrated the elections of the USA.
The elections in the United States are different from Spain, in the United States the president is not chosen directly.
The elections are divided in primary and general, the primary ones are celebrated before and in them it is decided who will be the candidate to the general elections, a primary election means that the candidate will be named by that political party for the general election.
In the general election, the voters make the final decision , choosing between the candidates of the parties that appear in the vote .
In the lists of the general election they can also appear independent candidates (those who aren’t affiliates to any political party)
The general election of the president of the United States is placed every four years , the first Tuesday following to the first Monday of November. Before that general election, the United State celebrates primaries elections that take place between January and june. This year the candidates for the general elections have been Obama and John Mccain, but in primary in the democratic party the candidates were: Mike Gravel, Dennos Kucinich, chris dodd, joen biden, Hill Richardson, john Edwards
But the more named were Barack Obama & Hillary clinton these two last ones were the change, because he was or the first president of colour in the United States, or the first woman president, at the end Obama gained the elections



CREDITS:

www.elpais.com/especial/elecciones-eeuu/
www.rtve.es/noticias/elecciones_eeuu_08/
http://obama-mccain.info/index-obama-mccain.php

spanair accident

The greater flight accident of last the 25 years


The Spanair MD82 was flying from Madrid to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands when it encountered problems on take off shortly after 2.30pm The plane was all broken apart - it was full of bodies," an eyewitness told Sky.
The aircraft, emblazoned with the orange, blue and white livery of Spain's second-largest airline, was carrying 175 people.
The accident occurred at 14:45 local time during takeoff, according to Spanair. Several other sources give 14:25 as the actual time when the incident happened.
Video taken by the Spanish airport authority AENA shows the engines neither exploded nor caught fire while the Spanair MD-82 was taking off.The aircraft then rolled to the right,was unable to maintain adequate airspeed to prevent altitude loss and crashed in the vicinity of the runway, breaking into at least two parts which were engulfed by the subsequent explosion

credits:

www.adn.es/etiqueta/accidente%20barajas%20spanair/ - 100k -

www.microsiervos.com/archivo/aerotrastorno/accidente-avion-spanair-barajas.html

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4579249.ece

www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3585810,00.html - 40k -

Present perfect simple & present perfect continius

P P Simple

It's use for:

• To speak of an action that began in the past and still continuous



• To speak of a very recent past action and for which any reference of time does not occur



• To speak about a past action whose results are reflected in the present

It's form:

• AFIRMATIVE:
  forms with the present of the verb; to have' and the past of the verb that is conjugated [I have played tennis]


• NEGATIVE:
  In the negative form ' is placed; not' after verb ' to have' [He has not played ]


• INTERROGATIVE:
  the interrogatory form forms later putting the first aid and the subject [ have you played ]

p p continius

It's use for:

• It is used when it is wanted to express the sense of the continuity of an action that has begun in the past, which it still lasts in the present and that even can continue in the future.

It's form:

• AFIRMATIVE:
  subject + present perfect of ' to be' + gerund [I have been playing]


• NEGATIVE:
  In the negative form ' is placed; not' after the aid [ I have not been playing ]


• INTERROGATIVE:
  The interrogatory form, forms investing to the position of the subject and the aid [Have I been playing? ]

credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/

www.better-english.com/

www.inglesmadrid.com/

www.geocities.com/

my favourite writer

Sarah Mlynowski started writing books when she was three years old.They were all about Princesses named Sarah.she continued scribbling stories throughout elementary and high school, and studied English literature in college.When she was twenty-four she published her first novel, MILKRUN.Since then she has written four novels in the Magic in Manhattan series, four additional novels for adults, and been featured in the short story collections.


Sarah also contributed a novella to the book FIREWORKS, and co-edited the USA Today.

Present continius

It's use for:

• something that is happening at the moment at you say it.
• Changes and developments in march.
• A current activity but that not necessarily is happening at the moment at you mention which it.

It's form :

• AFIRMATIVE:
  The continuous present forms with the present of the verb ' to be' and the gerund of the verb that is wanted to conjugate [verb + -ing]. [He is playing football]


• NEGATIVE:
  The negative form adds to the particle 'not' to the verb "to be". [ He isn't playing football
  
• INTERROGATIVE:
  The interrogatory form changes the subject by the aid. [ Is he playing football ?]

Credits:

www.aprende-gratis.com/

www.madridteacher.com/

www.curso-ingles.com/

www.auladiez.com/

www.aulafacil.com/

Last twelve of may we went to the north of Spain and Andorra of travel.
We visit Saragossa, Pamplona and we did a section of the way of Santiago The way began it in Roncesvalles and tried to finish in Zubiri but it was too far and we end a few villages before, something very enjoy of the encamped it was when we did rafting that nobody had done and was very exciting we crossed the laughed hardly 45 minutes and started by raining and the very cold water but we finish with desire of doing other 45 minutes more.
And last day we were to Caldea it warms to relaxing and it was very entertaining, it was a great swimming pool with Jacuzzis incorporated and that was connecting with other one out, also it had saunas and Turkish baths.
From the encamped one we all came the very satisfied ones though we were more in the bus that in the youth hostel we liked to be in the bus to see movie after movie and to sleep the hours that we weren’t sleeping in the nights, also our menu of the encamped was consisting of macaroni and chicken with fried potatoes (that it was what we have lunch / sup on three days of four that we were), regardless it the encamped one was loves it and we it miss, for my it would return again!!

Credits!

http://www.caldea.com/en/--> caldea

http://www.roncesvalles.es/index.asp?lg=eng--> Roncsvalles

http://www.hosteriadezubiri.com/ --> Zubiri

http://www.esports10.com/eng/--> rafting

http://www.autocarescanfauli.com/contactar.htm--> the bus

present simple

It's use for...

• for speak habital actions [ I study englih ]
• for speak to the future actions planned [ I leave Madrid tomorrow morning]
• for the general pesent [ I play tennis ]
• for natural law
• for actions that it isn't necesary be happening in this moment

It's forms...

AFIRMATIVE:

• the verb least " to " and in the 3 th person in singular adds "s" [ He plays tennis]
• If the verb finish in " s, ss, sh, ch, x, o " in the 3th person adds "-es" [ He brushes his dog every day]

NEGATIVE:

• It's forms wuith DO

- Don't for " I, you, we, they"

- Doesn´t for "he, she it"

INTERIGATIVE:

• It's forms with Do in the start sentences

-Do... ? with the persons " I, you we they"

- Does... ? with the persons " he, she it"

pages with inforamtion...

• http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresent.html
• http://endrino.cnice.mecd.es/~hotp0056/Carmen_martinez/PRESENT%20SIMPLE%20TENSE.htm
• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pres.htm

past simple & past continius

past simple:

Is used for speak to accions to happened in a moment and is specific for expressions to last time...(yesterday, the day before yesterday, last night, last week, last year...)

When I was young I lived in Madrid

past continius:

it's forms with the past of the verb sees + the gerund of the verb that is wanted to conjugate.

and it's used for:

• In order to express an action that was being developed in the past but and we do not have information of its end [It was raining]
• In order to express two actions that are developed simultaneously [I was reading the newspaper while I was walking home ]
• In order to express two actions that are developed in the past, one of which had its beginning before the other [When I arrived John was talking on the phone]

credits:

english.baladre.org/sedaviwebfront/pastsimplecontinuous.htm

www.lamansiondelingles.com

problems our planet

geenhouse effect- the earth is heats because the small part of solar energy is absorbed and other is returned to sapce and the last part arrived to earth and heats to the superficie.

ozone layer- the ozone layer protec the word for the ultra violet rai. the layer is affected
Chlorofluorocarbons and for the polucion.

radiation nuclear- nuclear plant produce small pieces of waste. But the principal danger is nuclera accident chernobyl .

credits: wikipedia, wikipedia (greenhouse effect)

my street

My streetººº

The name of my street is 550 but the area is called “entre cruces” , it is in " la cañada" and it is very long .

I live in the street 550 crossing with 560 and with 569.

It’s a very calm street and it is near a Ravine. La canyada belongs to paterna.
In my street there are many houses in each side of the street , and in summer some neighbours have supper in the street, with long tables all together , each one cook a food and take it to the table,this is at the end of the day 15 of agust, because this day we do a party , the name is "escobina", and in the afternoon, we do typical valencians games for the children, and for the adults too .

credits:

city council of Paterna

mi sChooL**

my school is escuela 2.Is in La Canyada (Valencia), there are approximately 350 studients of 3 to 16 years.
I study many subjets( english, french, maths,fisica and quimica, Castilian, muscia, plastica, tecnologia...), I like very much mathematics and I do not like english.

I like very much my school because it's diferent and the most important in escuela 2 is that the studients learn to coexist better.

credits:
map of my school
page of my school

information:
La cañada (valencia)
street: 578
telephone: 961329017
fax:961329157
e-amil:escuela2@escuela2.es

biRmaNia

birmania is a country of Asian southeast.

The country are governed by a military regime from 1962, after seventeen years, in 2007 the Military Meeting has affected by massive protests directed by monks Buddhists.

A diverse range of indigenous cultures exist in Burma, the majority culture is primarily Buddhist and Bamar.Bamar culture has been influenced by the cultures of neighbouring countries. This is manifested in its language, cuisine, music, dance and theatre.

leguage

Burmese, the mother tongue of the Bamar and official language of Burma, is linguistically related to Tibetan and to the Chinese languages.It is written in a script consisting of circular and semi-circular letters

The ship of ibiza

the ship Don Pedro thaat was going to valencia sank in front of Ibiza port in the early morning on wednesday 11 th july. the beach of Talamanca, Figueretes and D'en Bossa have had to be closed because the fuel the balear government and rescure maritime fough yesterday fot controling the fuel and to avoid that the fuelk will arrive to the natural parc of Salinas.

it has been collected 10 tons of fuel.

the fuel is three and a half milles long and half milles wide.

the ecologist organitation gree pace announced that they are going to a complaint offence againts the maritime evapronment agains the responsibles of the waster of fuel in Ibiza and they also denunced the absence of resouces of the govenment for this kind emergency.

credits: http://www.lasprovincias.es/

A power cut has affected from mondaymorning of 23 rd of july to 9 of 10 districts of Barcelona the abstence of electricity has stoped the subway and the cause has been the fall of a cable of high tensonin the electrical power stationof collbanc (Barcelona) 350.000 people have been affected in Barcelona except "ciutat vella"

credits: http://www.elmundo.es/

Bullying is a type of mistreat physical and/or psychological that usually becomes during the age of the adolescence. There are many types of harassment, can be:

Verbals such as insults, alias, to speak badly of somebody, rumors, etc.

Psychological: threats to obtain something of the victim, to exert to be able on her.

Physical aggressions: fights, beatings, small insignificant actions but that exerts pressure on the individual when becoming of reiterated form, small thefts, etc.

Social Asolation: marginalizing, ignoring its presence and not counting with he/she in the normal activities.

These aggressions do not make only the one that beats to him or it insults to him, since the people who laugh or support this type of actions, also become author of Bullying.
The punishments to make Bullying on a person, are almost insignificant, since the aggressors nothing else do not have to do that to go to the psychologist. Also it is spoken of which the aggressors also are victims, since it means that they need psychological help.


wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying
Foto: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bullying/gfx/titlephoto.jpg