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Christmas shopping weekends (Can u afford 'em?)

New York

Why go?
With flurries of snow and a Father Christmas on every corner, New York knows how to exploit its movie star looks to the hilt. And despite the pound's slump against the dollar over the past month, there are still bargains to be had, particularly on those American brands which are so overpriced by the time they reach our high streets. Away from the shops, Manhattan's multi-sensory experience takes in a sing-a-long Messiah at the Lincoln Centre and the smaltzy Rockettes formation dancing at Radio City Hall as well as moonlit ice-skating sessions at the Wollman Rink in Central Park, chestnut sellers and alcoholic glasses of eggnog. The Rockefeller Centre, site of another of the city's skating rinks, also houses the city's largest Christmas tree.

What to buy
New York's shops are still bending over backwards to ensure that tourists keep shopping and most items, iPods apart, are still cheaper in the US. There's no sales tax on clothing and shoes that cost under $110 and moreover, at the moment, Bloomingdale's is offering visitors from the EU 11 per cent off all purchases. Macy's is also liberal with its discounts while Century 21, just off Wall Street, specialises in designer fashion at deeply discounted prices. The racks are full of European designers, with Alberta Ferretti coats currently reduced from $1,485 to $499. Calypso is a highly desirable New York fashion label. At 407 Broome there's an outlet branch, selling everything at between 30-70 per cent off. Currently, gold and brown velvet jackets cost $199, down from $450. The best New York shopping, however, manages to be both cheap and unique to the city. The stalls in SoHo are worth a trawl. Selling T-shirts, hand-knitted hats and jewellery, items usually hover around the $10 mark. For the culturally inclined, the Museum of Modern Art (moma.org) has a particularly fine shop attached to it; buy racing cars powered by balloons for $6.50. For the mini-naturalist, the Evolution Store in Spring Street, SoHo, is a treasure trove of animal skeletons and insects; a scorpion caught in resin costs $9.

How to do it
A quick search on expedia.co.uk turns up fares for mid-November for £275 with Air France, from Heathrow to JFK. Hotel rooms in New York are often scarce at this time of year but this autumn has seen some new hotels open, with steeply discounted soft-opening rates. Thompson Lower East Side (60thompson.com) is the newly opened sibling of the glamorous SoHo hotel 60 Thompson. With stellar views and a sleek modernist design, doubles until the end of November start at $229, rising to $399 in December (compared with $499 for 60 Thompson in November). The Cooper Square Hotel in the East Village, (thecoopersquarehotel.com), another striking glass'n'steel edifice should be open at the end of November and rooms should start at $300 a night.

OBAMA

Creating a comic

The Watchmen is a comic included by Time magazine among the best 100 novels of this century. The film is coming soon. To learn more about it click here

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/

I'm moving to Cartagena!!!!

Here's a nice comic about rings and particles and physics to say goodbye.

June 15: Father's Day

Interesting publicity campaign by unicef: Notice the structure

Last keys for the year

Here are the rest of the keys you were longing for. If there's something missing mail me

Mother's Day (Second Sunday in May)

writing activity + book

Next Wednesday writing activity page 146

Next Monday 19 we'll talk about the book

More keys

Earth Day

A new look at junk, or change the world, one bit a a time...

Things to discuss when it comes to saving resources...

Recycling is when an object can be shredded, melted or otherwise processed and then turned into new raw material -- for instance, aluminum cans can be melted down to make more cans, glass can make more glass, cardboard and paper make more cardboard and paper, plastic bags and containers can be turned into other plastic products. This takes some energy (very little for aluminum), but it is a good choice.

Reusing is when you find a use for an existing item - like decorating a bag and using it as a gift bag instead of buying wrapping paper; putting leftovers into a clean container from some other food; turning a used box into storage; decorating a can to hold pencils; saving packing peanuts and boxes and using them the next time you need to ship something or give a gift.

It is important to 'reuse' items wisely -- reusing packing peanuts to pack an item is by far the best way to use them. Recycling them, if it is available, would be the next best thing. Turning them into an art project would be the least effective, and eventually they will end up in the landfill. Now many of us love art projects, and would be using materials to make crafts anyway, and so using an item that would otherwise be discarded may still be a sensible choice, it depends on the project. Our Earth Day Messenger Card and Laundry Bottle Pet Food Scoop crafts are great ways of making art out of would-be "junk." For more great ideas on recycled crafts, check out our Earth Day Crafts section.

Giving things in good condition that you no longer need to charity is another good way to reuse things like outgrown clothing or toys. Reusing is often the best way to save resources. This is something to consider year-round, not just around the winter holidays.

Shop Wisely to save resources. Can the container be easily recycled or reused? Will a larger container reduce the amount of packaging and perhaps cost less per serving? Is everything that can be recycled being recycled?

Save resources (and money) by asking yourself if the item is something you really need, and if it is well suited for the task, and if it will last. Not only can this save you money, it can save you space and work, too. Five toys that are loved an played with are more fun than 10 toys that are broken or are boring to play with. And it's quicker to pick up 5 toys and put them away than to pick up 10. Sometimes my kids and I imagine what it would be like if we bought everything we 'liked'..... and we realize that there wouldn't be any room left for us in the house.... and that really doesn't sound like that much fun, even to my kids.

And, when you're out shopping in the stores, bring your own reusable bag instead of taking a plastic bag you'll eventually just throw away.
Plant a Tree

Sally Sullivan writes:
I teach a 4 year old preschool class and one of the ways we celebrated Earth Day last year was to purchase trees through the National Arbor Day Foundation to be planted in honor of each child in our class. The trees last year were to be planted in the John Denver Memorial Grove in Aspen. It was only a $1 donation per tree.

We printed up a letter/document for each child telling them about the tree that was purchased on their behalf and how it would help our earth.

Plant-It 2020 is also a nonprofit tree-planting foundation. For every dollar contributed to this foundation a tree will be planted, and the contributor selects where the tree(s) will be planted from an international site list. (click here to visit the Plant-It 2020 site)


Clean Up and Beautify

Organize a project to clean up or beautify some area in your town. It could be at your school, or some other spot. Make sure to have a plan for how to take care of the spot after you've made it nice.

You can read about what some kids did in this International Center for Tropical Ecology Newsletter - scroll down and look for 'Windstar Kids at Broadview Elementary'


Other Ideas

Earth Hour - A world-wide initiative to have households, businesses, and schools turn off their electricity for at least one hour to reduce the impact on global climate changes on Earth.

Pennies for the Planet - Get a free teacher's guide for this fundraising and awareness event from the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth's Birthday Project - Butterfly and Moth Activity teaching kit, adopt and acre of rainforest, and read about Earth's Birthday with the Zwibble Dibbles.

Earth Day Groceries Project - Increase awareness of Earth Day by making special Earth Day grocery bags for your supermarket. Good school project.

Teachers.net has an Earth Day discussion board where folks are posting ideas.

Men, women and directions

If men are so good at directions then why can they never find anything around the house? I was pulled over to the computer the other night by the man I seem to have married. He was gloating quietly over something he found on the Internet. It was about men, and how good they are with maps.

‘Funny that,’ he said.

It was one of those brain-scan studies where they take nice coloured-y pictures of the brain during various Activities. Now it is well known that a man’s brain remains completely dead and grey when he’s asked to clean the toilet, but it lights up like a Christmas tree, apparently, when he is asked to read a map. They took the pictures as people made their way around a 3-D computer maze, and the results show that men navigate with some deep, limbic bit of their brain while women use a shallower, more cortical approach. We just look around us apparently and try to figure things out.

So what does this mean? It means men know the way, while women have to think about it. Does this explain why they never, ever ask for directions? Is this why they refuse - just refuse - I mean stall, balk at, dig their heels in, find themselves incapable of moving in any other direction than the one the have decided, nay intuit, in their deepest, truest self to be the Only Right Way?

They Know, that’s all. Deep down. They can not unknown. They can’t help it.

I have no particular man in mind here, you understand, I married a paragon of mildness and good sense, who just has to lift his nose and sniff to know where north is. You can’t argue with that. No, I’m talking about the more mediocre style of man, the kind other girls marry, who are always stubborn but not always right.

Because, even in this computer test, the men were wrong a good percent of the time. They were wrong in a very deep, very lit-up part of their brains. And who’s to say they’re not just better at computer simulations, having wasted more time with stupid games, lets face it, than their female counterparts. Though I am quite partial myself, to the occasional lost weekend of Tomb Raider 3.

Hang on. Does this mean I’m a boy really, deep down? Oh, never mind. I’ve always thought that the differences between men and women are much exaggerated – the only thing that I have found to be true, and absolutely true, is that men always, but ALWAYS, have more keys on their key rings. The other is that the person who makes the security gate bleep at the airport is ALWAYS a man. If it’s a woman holding the line up when you’re running for a flight, believe me, he’s in drag. It’s their bits that set it off. I’m convinced of it.

But otherwise I am wary of studies and statistics. The scientists have found that women’s brain have a bigger bit for sadness. Is this why we cry at the pictures? They have found the place where we believe in god – it’s in our frontal lobes apparently. And a place for laughter, in the motor cortex.

Scientists.

My favourite scientific statistic is that men who help around the house get more sex. Now that’s what I call a good statistic – it’s true, it makes sense, and it was researched by a woman.
Meanwhile they keep banging on about boy toddlers spatial awareness, how boys learn by running around a lot, how girls learn by doing bloody embroidery. But if men are so spatially aware, if they are so wonderfully 3-D, how come they never know where anything is around the house? Where’s that book? It’s on the third shelf down. Where’s my bag? It’s where you left it. Where’s the saucepan? It’s in my back pocket.

Well yes, says my man, but what about all the time you spend looking for your goddamn keys!! Yeah but that’s just psychological, isn’t it? I don’t want to find my keys. I know where every book in the house is. I know where the plastic cutlery is for going camping! I know where the hair-dryer is, if either of us decided to grow our hair, or sweat the fat off a duck. I know where I put my feather boa. I know where the cleaner is, for suede shoes. Do you know where the cleaner is for suede shoes?

Up a bit…left a bit…right a bit…down a bit. Oh, if it was a dog, it would bite you.

Eating disorders

Living with an eating disorder is a miserable, lonely experience. For most people, food is one of life's pleasures and an important social event. So if your feelings about food aren't relaxed, an important part of life becomes extremely stressed. This stress may add to other enormous stresses that may have led to the eating disorder in the first place.
When someone you know and love develops an eating disorder, it's easy to feel confused about what to do, and even threatened or angry.
Unfortunately, many health professionals are just as much at sea. Although eating disorders are increasing, we still know very little about their causes. Worse still, there aren't any quick or easy treatments.

A few things are clear. People with eating disorders aren't:
* Bad or being defiant
* Going through a 'teenage phase'
* The result of poor or inadequate parenting
* The product of modern stresses and obsession with weight
* Able to snap out of it

What is known about eating disorders?

Many things about eating disorders aren't fully understood, but we do know the following:
* Eating disorders have been around for centuries
* Diets don't cause eating disorders, but research has shown young women who diet at a severe level are 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder than those who don't and those who diet at a moderate level are five times more likely
* Severe psychological problems, such as obsessive compulsive behaviour and depression, increase the risk of developing eating disorders

How common are they?
The most common form of disordered eating is obesity
Eating disorders include a range of different conditions where people have an abnormal attitude towards food, altered appetite control and unhealthy eating habits that affect their health and ability to function normally. The most common form of disordered eating is obesity, which affects more than one in ten people.

Bulimia nervosa, or binge eating and purging, is twice as common as anorexia.

Men and boys also have eating disorders, but less often than girls or women.
What are the causes?
Families often blame themselves, but they shouldn't. None of the research shows much difference between the ways that families of anorexics work compared with other families.

The causes of eating disorders are complex. They're probably the result of several factors, including:
* A genetic tendency
* Learned responses and habits, especially to stress
* Cultural and social pressures, for example to be slim
* Psychological factors, such as perfectionism and lack self-esteem, although it's not known whether this is a cause or effect of disorders

What can families do?
Treating eating disorders usually involves years of hard work
The first thing is to accept that there's no quick fix - treating eating disorders usually involves years of hard work. During this time, there can be huge tension and communication can be terrible, but families can play a critical role in helping their relative through the worst.

Families need expert help for this, so talk to your doctor or contact one of the organisations given in our links.

How to help:
1. Help the person affected recognise they have a problem. Try to avoid head-to-head confrontation because it will only end in rebellion, tears and failure.
2. Be prepared to raid all your reserves of optimism and enthusiasm.
3. Try to remain sympathetic, no matter how bad the person's outer expression of their inner turmoil becomes.
4. Don't forget other members of the family and their needs, and don't let your own life, career and enjoyments become swamped or you'll become unable to give support.
5. Keep communication going with the patient and health professionals. What your loved one needs is a cohesive team supporting them.

It's a long road to recovery. After five years, about half of people with eating disorders have recovered, although many remain preoccupied with food, eating and their weight for many more years.

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Technology gifts

We are back on Monday 31

Hope you're enjoying your Easter holiday. By now you should all be reading the book Best Detective Stories of Agatha Christhie. Remember there's homework: Exam practice 3 p. 94, 95 & 96. You should also do exercise 6 on page 103. Get ready for hard work when we're back. We've got to rush!

Passport to romance

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,
Just the way you look to-night.

Year 4: Binge drinking

Nota: He añadido la traducción a la canción de Amy.

Test on Animal Farm

On Wednesday 20 we are doing the text plus a little talking on the book.
Hope you've enjoyed it.

Happy St Valentine's Day

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REHAB (or sex,drugs & rock &roll)

AMY WINEHOUSE fears she is on the verge of suicide ? but still won’t go to rehab, I can exclusively reveal.
I can also disclose the disturbing development that the star had been smoking HEROIN on the night she overdosed.
Contrary to reports, Amy, who collapsed this week following a three-day drug and booze binge, is desperately ill.
She has been holed up in the £3,000-a-night Four Seasons Hotel in Hook, Hants, ever since she was released from hospital where she was treated for the overdose. She has been unable to eat and has been vomiting non-stop.
She has been visited by doctors and a PSYCHIATRIST is due to see her today.
Since her collapse the troubled star has told mum Janis she is convinced she is destined for an early grave.
Last night a family friend said: “Amy has told her mum she is often suicidal and she knows she will die young.
“Janis and the rest of the family persuaded Amy to go to the hotel to recover after her overdose. They hope that by getting her out of the scene around Camden she will be able to see what she is doing to herself.
“But Amy is determined that she will NOT go to rehab.
“She has no idea how close she came to dying. She has barely eaten anything and keeps being sick. She is in an incredibly fragile state, both physically and mentally.”





REHAB
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' (Intentaron hacerme ir a rehabilitación pero dije 'no, no,no')

Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
(Si, he estado mal, pero ya te haré saber cuando esté de vuelta)

I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine (porque no tengo tiempo, y si mi papá piensa que estoy bien)
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go (Ha intentado hacerme ir a rehabilitacion pero no ire.)

I'd rather be at home with ray (Prefiero estar en casa con Ray [Quiere decir escuchando a Ray Charles]
I ain't got seventy days (no tengo setenta dias)
Cause there's nothing (porque no hay nada)
There's nothing you can teach me (No hay nada que puedas enseñarme)
That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway (que no pueda aprender del señor Hathaway) [Otro músico de R&B]

I didn't get a lot in class( No aprendí gran cosa en clase)
But I know it don't come in a shot glass( pero se que nada viene en chupitos.) [Nada bueno viene del alcohol]

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' (Intentaron hacerme ir a rehabilitación pero dije 'no, no,no')
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know (Si, he estado mal, pero ya te haré saber cuando esté de vuelta)
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine ( porque no tengo tiempo, y si mi papá piensa que estoy bien)
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go( Ha intentado hacerme ir a rehabilitacion pero no ire.)

The man said 'why do you think you here' (El hombre dijo "¿Por qué piensas que estas aqui?")
I said 'I got no idea (Le dije "No tengo ni idea")
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby (voy a perder, voy a perder a mi nene)
so I always keep a bottle near' (asi que siempre mantengo cerca una botella")
He said 'I just think your depressed, (Dijo "Creo que estas deprimida)
this me, yeah baby, and the rest' (Lo creo yo, y todo el mundo")


They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' (Intentaron hacerme ir a rehabilitación pero dije 'no, no,no')
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know (Si, he estado mal, pero ya te haré saber cuando esté de vuelta)

I don't ever wanna drink again
( No quiero volver a beber)
I just ooh I just need a friend
(simplemente necesito un amigo)
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks (No voy a tirarme diez semanas )[La duración de la clínica de rehabilitacion]
have everyone think I'm on the mend
(Y dejar que todo el piense que me estoy enmendando)


It's not just my pride (No es solo mi orgullo)
It's just 'til these tears have dried (es simplemente que se me han secado las lagrimas)

They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no' I(Intentaron hacerme ir a rehabilitación pero dije 'no, no,no')
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know (Si, he estado mal, pero ya te haré saber cuando esté de vuelta)
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine (porque no tengo tiempo, y si mi papá piensa que estoy bien)
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go (Ha intentado hacerme ir a rehabilitacion pero no ire.)

Bad weather

Drivers stranded as storms hit UK
Severe weather and heavy storms have been battering much of the UK, causing disruption and delay for travellers.

Durham police have launched a rescue operation after at least 150 motorists became stuck in snow on the A66.

A rescue operation has been launched after the captain of a cargo ship was seriously injured off the Scilly Isles during a force 10 gale.

Earlier crew and passengers had to be rescued from two ships off the coast of Blackpool and on St Kilda.

Blizzards have affected much of Scotland and northern England, with snow recorded as deep as 15cm (5.9ins).

A coach carrying 40 pensioners was among the vehicles stranded on the A66, Neil Sterio of the Highways Agency told BBC News 24.

"There are about 100 people still there," he said.

Emergency services are evacuating rescued motorists to a hall and a pub in the village of Bowes, County Durham.

Ch Insp Graham Rankin said: "Police and volunteers are trying to make sure that vulnerable people are kept warm and fed and watered."

Robert Campbell, 32, from Penicuik, Midlothian, is a passenger in one lorry stuck on the road.

Freak wave
Grounded ferry on beach near Blackpool

He told the BBC News website: "The snowdrifts cover my boots when I go outside. They seem to have got the cars off the road, but the lorries are still stranded."

Motorists elsewhere have been hit by high winds which have caused several accidents, and two filling stations in Cumbria have had parts of their roofs blown off.

RAF helicopters will attempt to airlift the skipper of the Horn Cliff cargo vessel after he was seriously injured in a storm, Falmouth Coastguard said.

Airlift attempt

One passenger on board suffered a broken hand and another sustained head injuries, but a spokesman said neither was serious. The ship lost about 90 containers but is not thought to be in danger of sinking.

A helicopter from RAF Chivenor in Devon is refuelling at Cork, in the Republic of Ireland, and will attempt to airlift the captain at around 2000 GMT.

The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings across the UK with the exception of south-east England.

Adverse weather has left almost 3,000 homes in North Yorkshire and some 2,500 homes in East Yorkshire without power. A further 1,300 have also been affected in northern Lincolnshire. CE Electrics say they are currently unsure when power will be restored.

The coastguard

Earlier, rescuers airlifted 23 passengers and crew from the Riverdance freight ferry which was beached by a freak wave at Cleveleys near Blackpool on Thursday night.

The freight vessel which had been taking trucks from Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland to the port of Heysham in Lancashire began listing at an angle of 60 degrees off the coast.

It is being closely monitored by the coastguard in case of any oil spills. The ferry is carrying 150 tonnes of fuel.

One of those involved in the recovery operation praised the rescue crews and the Riverdance's captain.

John Matthews, from Fleetwood RNLI, said: "The conditions were terrible. I've got to say that the two lifeboat crews and the helicopters did a wonderful job.

"Listening to it on the radio, everything was very calm and professional. I was quite amazed by how calm the master of the ship was."

Environment fears

In a separate incident, a helicopter winched 14 people to safety from the stricken trawler off St Kilda.

The Spanish crew of the British-registered Spinningdale trawler have now been flown to Stornoway. Four were taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia.

Their vessel ran aground on rocks on one of the islands of the St Kilda archipelago - 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides.

They were unable to evacuate to a life raft because of Force 9 winds.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch will launch an investigation into the incident amid fears the trawler could pose an environmental risk to the archipelago, which is a twice-listed World Heritage Site.

Jamie Ralston, the rescue centre co-ordinator at Stornoway Coastguard, told the BBC: "Our main concern ... if the vessel does break up, there was 8,000 litres of fuel oil and 450 litres of lube oil on board the vessel, is what damage that might do to the surrounding coastline and wildlife."

Cimate change

First click here for a brief, nice to look at definition.

Now read the following text, pay extra attention to the words in bold.

What is Climate Change?

The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. Nowadays, however, the term climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our climate which have been identified since the early part of the 1900's. The changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted over the next 80 years are thought to be mainly as a result of human behaviour rather than due to natural changes in the atmosphere.

The greenhouse effect is very important when we talk about climate change as it relates to the gases which keep the Earth warm. It is the extra greenhouse gases which humans have released which are thought to pose the strongest threat.

Impacts

Scientists in the UK and across the World are looking at the evidence of climate change and are also using computer models to come up with predictions for our future environment and weather.

However, the next stage of that work, which is just as important, is looking at the knock-on effects of potential changes.

Water is an enormous consideration. As we are likely to see an increase in precipitation and sea level rises, does that mean an increase in flooding? What can we do to protect ourselves from that and how will it affect us financially?

Also, how will our health be affected by global warming, how will agricultural practices change, how will wildlife cope and what will the effects on coral be?

As for opportunities, well there will certainly be some positives of climate change as well as negatives so it is worth us considering those too.

Adaptation

The list of things we need to think about which will be affected by climate change is endless. In this section we give you a few examples of how we will need to change the way we live in order to cope with changes to our climate.

The regular use of renewable energy is becoming increasingly popular. Have a look at the possibilities for alternative energy sources, including solar power, wind power, geothermal, water power and even nuclear energy.

Policies

Car fumes Bonn Conference

In 1997 the Kyoto treaty was set-up to consider what can be done to reduce Global warming. The treaty was established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) involving most world countries with the exception of America.

Almost one decade later, as climate change increases and global warming continues to worsen, a number of nations have approved an addition to the treaty the Kyoto Protocol, in order to standardise a number of more powerful and legally binding measures.

In May 2006 the Bonn Conference saw delegates from 165 countries meet to discuss how to further strengthen international cooperation to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases and to respond to climate change impacts.

Much emphasis has been put on the promotion of economic incentives to promote action to reduce emissions - for both industrialized and developing countries.

The wide-ranging presentations of possible approaches included incentives for developing countries to mitigate climate change, ensuring cooperation on research and development and the transfer of cleaner technologies. Delegates expressed strong support for the role of the carbon market and the need to find new ways to involve the private sector in climate protection.

The Conference also highlighted issues faced by less industrialised countries who also face problems related to climate change. In Canada's Arctic region, the changes noted by the Inuit community - such as melting permafrost, changes in sea ice and the arrival of new migratory animal species - has raised the need to address adaptation measures.

It is crucial that such measures are introduced if we are are to cope with Global warming. The latest evidence collated by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that the global average temperature will rise by between 1.5C and 4.5C if human activities double the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

Fortunately talks on Climate Change between the 165 countries involved are set to continue until at least 2012 when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.

Persepolis

Persepolis is, first of all, a comic on fundamentalism, and secondly, a French animated film that represents France in the best foreign film category, though it's also a candidate as best animated film, competing for the Oscar with films such as Ratatouille. The author is a woman: Marjane Satrapi, she is Irani and explains how she had to flee her country. In the link you've got a comic version of an interesting interview, so, what are you waiting for? Click here

And to learn more here

Language development 3 & exam practice 2: Key

Click on the images to enlarge and check your results.

Year 4: Key to previous use of English, language development..

Use of English 1 p.46

1a course book p.218
2c 1- have
2- them(selves)
3- to
4- by
5- more
6- of
7- had
8- too
9- the
10- in
11- since
12- for
13- it
14- which/that
15- be

Language development 2 p.47

1b 1- to settle
2- sleeping
3- fly
4- noticing
5- solving
6- go
7- not bringing
8- feel
9- to talk
10- not to drive

2a- 1a- He remembered that he needed to wear them, and then put them on.
1b- " " " " had worn them at some point before then.
2a- She experimented with using one to see if it would work or was a good idea.
2c- She physically attempted to do it. Maybe she didn't succeed.
3a- He stopped doing sth in order to look at the lights.
3b- He was looking at the lights and then he didn't look at them.
2b to buy
to get
drinking
to post
calling
adding
3b of seeing
to going
in getting
on putting up
for not helping
to go
to her going
on walking
her from doing
of getting lost

Use of English 2 p. 48

2b- b, c, b, c, a, b, b, c, a, d, a, b, a, c

Language development 3 p.48

3a 1- c e g
2- b c e g
3- a f
4- b c e g
5- f
6- a b e f
7- d
8- f
9- e
10- r
11- f
+ chilly cool faint fresh gentle (s)light strong (breeze)
+ cool electric heavy (shower)
+ distant (thunder)
+ light (rain)
+ chill cold icy ill offshore prevailing (wind)
+ big electrical fierce freak great terrible violent (storm)
4a- d c e a b
+ bad friendly good normal impeccable professional (manner)
+ brief detailed full informal open public serious (discussion)
+ casual close direct good persona special strong (relationship)
+ back blindly fixedly hard blankly (stare)

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1- commercial shrink fragile affordable growth cope remarkable achiement
2a- surprisingly interestingly hard late fast
2b- 1- (a) quite...a large 2- a fairly (a) large 3- extremely 4- (a) pretty
5- (very) freezing
5- in of to of from on
6- clear gentle heated high heavy torrential loud

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My favourite music: The Sound of Music

In italics American English spelling.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
brown paper packages tied up with strings,
these are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,
door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles.
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.
these are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
silver white winters that melt into springs,
these are a few of my favorite things.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings,
when I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
and then I don't feel so bad.

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