Across the universe quiz

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE QUIZ

1. What type of film is “Across the universe” and who are the main characters?

2. Where are they from?

3. What was Jude’s job before leaving Britain?

4. Where is Jude’s father from? How did he meet Jude’s mother?

5. What happened to Lucy’s boyfriend? When did the famous Vietnam war start and when did it end?


6. Who is Max and what happened to him?

7. Who was Martin Luther King and how did he die? When?


8. Why did Jude and Lucy start having arguments?

9. Write down the first three Beatles songs that come to your mind. Do you like them? Have you got a favourite?


10. Write a short review for a newspaper and give your opinion about the film.


Send your answers to
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WONDERFUL PRIZES!
(for the first three students with the correct answers)

Shopping, shopping, shopping!

Here we are again! Christmas has just arrived at “El corte Inglés” once more! And we are ready to spend our money on things we don’t really need.
Presents, objects,clothes and perfumes, bags and jewellery, electronic devices, new mobiles and computers... We need them!

But when you grow older you realize that, sometimes, things and objects can become a real burden... At the moment I’m in the process of getting rid of things I don’t really use... Too many CDs, too many books, too many clothes...


I love Japanese classical home decoration... I need emptiness... I need a place with no images, a white wall... an empty space in my living room, to dance, to rest, to get some refreshing air for my soul...


Xmas is here again! What can we do?



“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

This is my inspirational quote at this stage of my life.




When I was a teenager I wanted to train my body (sports, martials arts and so on). I loved Aikido and Taichi (I learnt to be really fast and flexible with the former, and to be calm and relaxed when facing a problem with the latter )




















In my youth years I started training my emotions. Difficult task! We are full of contradictions: love and hate, joy and fear, activity and laziness. Sometimes it seems that the opposite forces can make your boat sink... I gave up martial arts and I started dancing...to express my emotions... we are like waves... going up and down, up and down restlessly...


And then it came a time when I started training my mind. And I was lucky to see a beautiful lighthouse in the distance and ... I followed the light...



I am a really curious person and I want to understand things at a deeper level, life and death, purpose of life, and so on...
And one day I realized I couldn’t understand everthing using just my mind.



“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

You cannot measure the water of the ocean using a tiny bucket (our individual minds). So why are we wasting our time instead of enjoying the beauty of the sea??











WRITING 3

I would like you to go shopping in a very special way: I don’t want you to spend money on things we don’t really need.
I’d like you to share 3 presents with your classmates. The first one is for your mind, the second for your emotions and the third one is for your body.

1.Tell us about your favourite inspirational quote at the moment. Explain.

2. Your favourite song. A song with a special meaning... Share the you tube video and the lyrics.

3. A place where you would like to be right now. Post the image and explain. (Save the image because you will need it in the future, for writing 5 in April, a description of a place)

Next to the image I ‘d like you to write a poem called “the five senses poem”
Start the lines with

I can see..........................
I can hear........................
I can smell..........................
I can taste.........................
I can feel................................

Merry Christmas and a happy new 2010!

JOBS (Aina Fabiano)

My parents work in a restaurant.I wouldn't like to work in the same place.Though in summer,I usually work there to help them. To work in restaurants is a family tradition,since my grandparents also worked in restaurants but I'm going to break with the tradition.

I think that i have a good personality, I'm very practical,patient,persistent,strong-hearted and above all reliable. In the negative side,I can be a bit lazy,inflexible,possesive and traditional.

I have a lot of dreams but it's necessary to be realistic , I would like to be a teacher and work in an important school.

In ten years time I will be working in an important school in Barcelona,teaching children from six to ten. I will live in a flat near the school with my husband and my children.
I will work from Monday to Friday and I will finish my working day at five o'clock, I will get paid a lot of money because I will do my job very well.

In addition,I have the right qualities for this job: patience,I like teaching children,confidence in what I teach and work in a job that I like,not only to make money.

So yes,I will work long enough to have a good life and not to have to depend on anyone.

JOBS ( Tami Moragues )

My grandfather, my mother's dad, was a baker since he was young. First he worked, as an employee, at a bakery in Palma. When he got married and had children he decided to start his own business. My grandfather was the owner of a bakery in Calvià. When my mother was 18 years old, she began working as a clerk in the bakery. My grandmother did not work. When my mother got married she stopped working in the bakery, also set up her own business, an office supply store.
My father's dad was a master builder ans my father worked as a bricklayer with him. But when my grandfather died, my father began working in the sports center of Calvià.

I think I am a person with great energy, I like to try new things. I'm brave, intelligent, and self confident. Normally I do not often get angry with any body, but when I do, it takes a long time to reconcile. I do not like lying, I always say what I feel. I'm impatient and a bit moody.

I am a person with initiative, I like working in groups, but I am also good acting alone. I like finishing what I start, and do it well. I always do my best to win in a competition, I love challenges, but I can also accept defeat.

I would like to study at the university. I'm still not sure what I want to study, but have been thinking about studying psychology, advertising, business, fashion and design... I still don't know!
I love to work in a fashion magazine, and to become the director! As you can see I am really ambitious!

In ten years I imagine myself living in a house farther from the city, between the city ans the mountains. I will live with my boyfriend. I won't have children, I don't like them. Each day I will go to work with my car or my motobike, I love motorbikes. I will work in a fashion magazine, one that I lead.

HEALTH (Tami Moragues)

Health, in my opinion, in indispensable to be happy. For me, a healthy person, is who is psychologically and physically well. I think that a person who doesn't like his body, or who has some diseases can't be completely happy. I believe that it is important to have a balance between the body and the mind.

I try to play sports every day to feel well with myself. In addition, while you are practising a sport you forget your problems and allow your mind to rest for a time. It is a very good sensation. But it is not necessary to do sport only to be thinner or to have a perfect body, also we have to play sports to avoid diseases. There are many young people who don't exercise, they prefer watching television, playing with their playstation or chat on line with their friends.

Another important area ir that of the nourishment. We have to feed ourselves correctly to be healthy and strong. People, especially teenegers, eat lots of junk food, food that don't have vitamins and make our bogy get fat. I know that many people don't like vegetables, I don't like them, but I eat them because they are good for my body. Fruit is also very important and it is also very healthy.

Besides practising exercise and eating healthy, you should avoid habits like smoking or drinkig too much. The truth is that they are totally unnecessary things for us, in the end, they only cause diseases.

Wild horses (ESMEE YNTEMA)

Horses (Esmee Yntema)

I wanted to post something about my horse cause I want you to know that I also like sports and animals a lot... so here is my horse :)

His name is Windson and he is 5 years old so he is very young . Sometimes when I'm riding him he is very happy and start to jump and does crazy things and I look like a cowgirl on my horse!

But he is very peaceful with children and when a child gets near him he goes down and closes his eyes so that they can touch him!

He loves playing with me.When I let him run he follows me . I run away and he comes after me !!!

He's learning how to jump and do pirouettes and all that stuff!! Next year I'd like to take place in a competition with him. I am sure he will do very good , he comes from a family with very "good blood" and I think this is important .

These two pictures were taken by S ade ,she is very good taking pictures . One day we decided to take some beautiful pictures of him and this is it.

I go horseriding every day (as a sport of course) and also because I love it !!! I have lots of friends there in the club and sometimes when the weather is ok we go with 10 more horses and we go to the beach in Santa Ponsa,we go into the water, the horses go wild and run really fast !! we have lots of fun!

JOBS (by Valentin Moranelli)

My mother's name is Alejandra, and she has worked in a lot of places, and in a lot of countries. (Argentina, Spain, Belgium, USA,...) Now she is working organizing parties. My father is not working at the moment. I don't want to have the same job as my parents, I want to be a policeman. I don't know why, but I think it's going to be fun.

I am a very energetic boy, but sometimes I'm too impulsive, impatient and agressive; I try to control my self. Then, I also have good things, patience with people, so I think that I'm a good boy and I always try to do the best things for the people who deserve it.

My dream is to love a wonderful woman, and have a lot of children with her, be happy and healthy. In the future I want to have a normal job, and would like to live in Argentina, so I can go to see all the matches of Racing de Avellaneda.
If I have all things that I have mentioned, I will be happy, and my dreams will be fulfilled!

JOBS ( by Alexandra Gómez)

Hello, my name is Alexandra and this is my writing project about jobs.
My grandfather used to work as a miner a long time ago, and I am not really intested in working as a miner when I'm older because it doesn't go with me and actually there aren't many miners now.

On the other side my grandmother has never had a job because she had to take care of her children because she had 8 kids.

My mother came here from England when se was just 18 years old and here she met my father who had a jewellery shop. Since they met my mother has been working in the shop,and obviously I admire and love her but I would really like to do a career instead.


Talking about myself I think I am a positive and happy person.On my bright side, I should say that i think I am a good friend to my friends because I worry about them and I always try to be nice to them.
But as a normal person I have a dark side too,I know I am quite moody sometimes especially when I'm tired. Another thing is that I always want to be right. And finally another thing,that doesn't affect other people but me is that I push myself too far,I always like to have everything organized and if things don't turn up as I wanted ,I get really stressed.


In the future i would like to be an English teacher or work as a journalist.I have really thought about this and i think i got to the decision that i prefer being an english teacher. In the future,I would like to be an english teacher in a college because i am not really a children's fan!

I don't know where i'll be in 10 years time,if i'll work in Spain, here in Mallorca or maybe in another country. I don't really know ,I just want to be in a good place,with my life all sorted out and be happy.

HEALTH (Valentín Moranelli)

Hello! My name is Valentin Nicolas Moranelli Siegrist. Y was born in 1991, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now I live in Maglluf, Mallorca. My mum decided to come here with me to start a new life far from our home. My life had a radical change. But now I'm very happy here and very confortable with all the people. Here, I have made a lot of friends and now I'm meeting very nice people. With them I play football, go to dance and go out....

I think I have healthy habits.
Health is very important for people. If you aren't healthy, you could have diseases and things like that. I think I'm a healthy man. In my free time I play football with my team, Playas de Calvia {Magalluf}, I eat vegetables, fruit, fish, etc.

I don't usually drink alcohol, the only problems I have is that I like smoking and I eat a lot of sweets. For me, to be a healthy person, you have to do some sports.
Football is my favourite, but I watch tennis and rugby inTV channels too.

Before training I got to the gym, and one day, a man said to me - "You have to eat rice and chicken" but I didn't listen to him and I usually eat meat, pasta, piza, salads... I never eat fast/food {McDonalds, KFC, Burger King,...} I prefer no to eat in those places, because in my opinion they are not healthy . So I don't got to these restaurants and I don't drink alcohol, I only smoke. I know that smoking is not good for me, but I can't give it up!

HEALTH (by Alexandra Gómez)

I think health is very important and people underestimate the importance of good health. Our society seem to give more importance to wealth, but wealth is not much good to anyone if they don't have good health and people don't realize what is feeling well until they fell bad.

How to be healthy? there are number of factors.


1.DIET:We have to eat well. That means to have a varied diet and try to include a little bit of everything each day.These are the things that we need:
-Meat,fish,chicken or eggs for our daily protein
-Bread,rice,pasta for carbs and enery
-Vegetables and frut for vitamins
-Milk and cheese for calcium

Nowadays there is a lot of temptation to eat the wrong type of food for example: fast-food,chocolate, biscuits, cakes...If you overindulge in these things they can lead you to obesity and other internal problems. Obviously, we don't need to get obsessed with our diet because this can cause other problems such as anorexia and bulimia.



2.EXERCISE: Another factor that helps you being healthy and fit is to do some exercise, probably 30 min a day would be enough to make your heart beat a little faster.



3.WATER: It's important to drink a lot of water.You should drink 2 litres of water a day to keep kidneys healthy.
In my opinion I consider myself a healthy person even though I don't do all the things I have mentioned.



4.POSITIVITY. And last but not least, try to be a positive person instead of a negative one because it also makes a big difference.So just be happy ad you will be healthy!

Health (name......???)

In many internet pages or magazines you can find different definitions of health. But in my opinion it isn't possible to find a exact definition of health because there are so many facts involveld and I also think that for each person "health" means something different.
For me the main aspects to take into account for a healthy life are:a healthy diet, daily exercise and general welfare.

Daily exercise doesn't mean going to the gym every day and make the maximum exercise during a short period of time and then don't attend anymore. Part of the daily exercise is just going for a walk with the dog, sweep the garden or the daily chores.
But this isn't enough. It's also necessary to keep fit doing some sport in the evening or just jogging a bir everyday.

An healthy diet is also very important to have an healthy life. A healthy diet means a balanced diet and this includes to all type of food but not in excess.

HEALTH (Marina Amengual)

Hello! My name is Marina, I'm eighteen years old. I was born in Palma of Mallorca and at the moment I live in Calvià (Portals)

I like football, music(pop, rock etc...)My favourite singer is Chenoa and my favourite football team es R.C.D. Mallorca and I like dogs. I also think that yoga is the best way to relax.

I think health is very important in my life because I had four heart operations and consequently health is the most important thing in my life.

I really like fruit and vegetables when I was younger I used to swim.
I also like watching football on TV but I don't do any sport because of the problems I have with my heart.

I have a healthy diet and I eat lots of pasta and eggs, I like pizza but I eat fruit and vegetables too. My favourite fruit is the orange!

HEALTH (Raúl Sánchez)

My name is Raul Sanchez but some people call me "Rulo". I'm 17 years old, and the date of my birthday is 24th oof March. I was born in Valencia, but now i live in Mallorca with all my family. I've played football for 12 years, and it's my favourite sport. I haven't got a lot of hobbies but i like going out with my friends, I also like reading and going to the cinema.

Health for me is one of the most important things in life, because if aren't healthy your life can be miserable. I need health in my life to continue doing sport. To be healthy you need to do some sport, eat good food and some other important things, but the first is to be happy with your body.

I play football, but this isn't the only sport that I like, my second favourite sport is tennis, because when I was little I used to play it. I love watching tennis matches because they're so different from football!

I think I follow a healthy diet because in my family these things are taken very seriously. We usually eat fish, meat, vegetables, eggs and other important foods. Maybe I eat in fast-food restaurants once in a month because I don't like tehm much. I don't drink alcohol and don't smoke I think smoking is really bad for our health.

Jobs (Jose de Lacour)

My father is the director of the port of Valencia, and my mother studied at the law school but now she is unemployed.

I want to be like my father because he is a well known man and very hard working.

But I think that is really difficult because I´m very lazy to study. But, on the other hand I am sure that I will work really hard if I get a job I really like.

When I am older I would like to be like my father, I love him so much, all the people that work with him admire him and he is really important in his job.

I know that i have to work really hard to be like him one day but i will try hard!

JOBS (by Naika Mendívil)

My grandfather studied tourism and he had been the manager of different hotels and he had also worked in jobs which need that degree. His daughter, my mother, studied the same but she had worked in something that has a relation with her degree only for a few years.

In my opinion I am an extroverted person but depending on the ocasion I am a bit shy. I think I am very funny with my friends but serious when I have to be serious. I am sometimes too responsible, and it can become a defect. I can be untidy but clean. I am a good listener an I like to help people. I consider myself insecure but I try not to show it. I always need to have the situation "under control ".

Next year I would like to study journalism and criminology at any universitiy in Madrid or maybe in Barcelona. In the future I would like to work in a very important company investigating crimes or something similar or if I can't do that, I would do something as international journalism. I would travel around the world and I would help people in the developing countries.

Jobs (Alejandro Silvestre )

I'm going to write about my parents jobs

My mother is a lawyer and she works everyday.In my opinion it is a very complicated work. She had to study hard to be a professional.
My grandfather was a lawyer too, but unfortunately he died las year. My mother has five sisters and four of them are lawyers too.

My father is a hotel manager . He likes his job but he has to spend 3 days of a week in Madrid because the company is there.
For this reason my sister, my mother and I dont like his job because we never see him. Because of my father' s job we lived in Madrid 10 years ago and then we moved to Mallorca.
My grandfathe also worked in a big company and my two granmathers was housewives .They used to work at home.

Now, I'm going to write about myself. I think I am friendly, honest and healthy bacause I like doing sports.
But sometimes I can be sturborn and moody.

I enjoy playing football everyday and I would like to play football in the future.
I have played it since I was five. I would like to became a football player.
I also want to study journalism in Valencia or Madrid.
One day I would like to make my own football TV program!

Health (Alba Carrasco)

If you want to feel good, your health has to be good.That is posible with a balanced diet, and doing some physical activity.
I don't watch my weight but I have to lose weight .I followed a diet 2 years ago. I lost weight and appetite.This isn't good because we need to eat but with healthy food .
Lots of people do not usually eat nutritius food because they like fast food.
And fast food is bad for us because this food has lots of choresterol , sugar...and we can gain weight.
So we have to do sports and avoid smoking.
Young people don't usually watch their weight and when they are older they have a poor health .Then they start having a balanced diet.
So we should have a good nutritious diet since we are little.
In conclusion,you should eat healthy food if you want to have a good life.

Jobs (Bruno Larruscain)

A HARD WORKING YOUNG MAN

First of all, my grandparents are retired but before they used to work at a petrol station. This is a family business but I do not want to work there because I want to be independent.
First of all I want to finish 2nd Batxillerat and then start a "cicle formatiu" in electricity. I want a good job as an electrician to make money and to buy a house.

I would also like to work as a firefighter because firefighters have many days off. Firefightrs are brave people who put out fires and rescue people and animals. Firefighters work one day and thena rest three days and their salary is two thousand euros.
I think I am optimist, open minded, sincere, frank, versatile and brave but I can also be tactless, careless, and restless. This is the dark side of my personality.

To sum up, I hope to have lots of money, a healthy life, a girlfriend who loves me and a good retirement plan.

A beautiful song

Yearbook

I found a very funny page. I would like you to visit it and try to create your own "Yearbook" with the funny pictures.
If you want to share some of them, please, do...

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

Have fun!

German Coast guard

What is success?

The Circle of Life

What is Success? . . .
A Simple Explanation

1. At the age of 3, Success means :
Not shitting in your pants.

2. At the age of 12, Success means :
Having friends.
3. At the age of 18, Success means :
Having a driver‘s licence.
4. At the age of 20, Success means :
Having sex.
5. At the age of 35, Success means :
Having money
6. At the age of 50, Success means :
Having money
7. At the age of 60, Success means :
Having sex.
8. At the age of 70, Success means :
Having a driver‘s licence.
9. At the age of 75, Success means :
Having friends.
10. At the age of 80, Success means :
Not shitting in your pants.

There you have it . . .Enjoy Success !

"Coca d'auberginis" every Saturday

I invented "Coca d'auberginis" last year and since then , Ana, my daughter, wants me to prepare it every Saturday for lunch.
It is an adaptation of a very sophisticated Greek recipe, which was much more complicated.

I hope you like it! Enjoy your meal! Bon profit!


Ingredients
A medium aubergine (egg plant in US)
A big leek (or two small ones)
15o gr. of walnuts
Shortbread pastry (Masa quebrada from Mercadona)
Salt, cumin, pepper and nutmeg

Chop the leeks and the aubergines finely (in tiny dice) and fry them in a frying pan for 5-10 minutes. They are seasoned with salt, nutmeg, pepper and lots of cumin. Chop the walnuts finely with a knife (media luna), take the frying pan off the heat and add the walnuts to the leeks+aubergines. Stir and mix.

Switch on the oven and bake the pastry for 5-10 minutes. When it is half done take it out from the oven and cover it with the ingredients you have just cooked. Bake it again for 5-10 minutes and enjoy your meal!

(I think the secret of this "coca" is the cumin, which gives its mediterranean flavour and the walnuts, which give some "crunchiness" to the coca...)

Crunchy, munchy and mmmmm................

Health, (Bruno Larruskain )

Nowadays, obesity is a big problem in today´s society due to the capitalism and to the new fast food industries .This produces an unhealthy life in a big part of the world, but also, there are some steps to consider refering to a healthy life.

I am going to write about what you need to have a healthy life:
From my point of view, sports are important because they help you to have a completed life and , of course, they are good for your body and for your mind too.
Another important aspect to considerer is the type of diet that we follow, and the different nutrients that are good for our body, and, on the other hand the nutrients that produce illness or that help you to keep a balance. It´s clear that the mediterranean diet is the best because it contains a variety of food nutrients and also tastes very good.

I don´t want to write about drinking or smoking ( or cosuming another type of drugs ), but it´s clear that everyone knows about the existence of drugs .I only want to say that with a balance you can enjoy your free time.
Finally to sum up, good nutrition , sports and spare time are important to be a healthy person.

Chinese acupuncture

If I were a doctor I would like to study Chinese acupuncture. I have been into Taichi for a long time and I discovered the five element theory through one of my teachers, Tew Bunnag. I found it really interesting!

Click on these words and have a look at the chart of correspondences

I have always liked sour tastes, I love vinegar, and I think this has a connection with the liver. Chinese medicine says that you can become ill due to lack of energy or due to an excess of energy...
If you don't have enough energy in one of the five organs, than you are attracted to the corresponding taste... I love vinegar because I think I need more energy for my liver...

There is a wonderful film by Zhang Yimou called "Hero" I think it is based on the five elements theory ( five seasons, five colours, five organs and so on...) I love the film!

Jobs

Writing number 2 has four steps but it is not necessary to post the formal letter (step four)

1. PAST: Write about your parents’ jobs and about what your grandparents did for a living . Would you like to work in some of the jobs you have just mentioned? Explain.

2. PRESENT: Think about your character and describe yourself using pesonality adjectives. Write about the positive and the negative side of your personality.


3. FUTURE: Write about your dreams, hopes and ambitions. What would you like to do in the future? Where would you like to work?
Imagine yourself in ten years time: What will you be doing? Where will you be working? Describe the place and your job: How much do you get paid? How many hours a day/week do you work? What qualities helped you to get the job?

4. Write a formal letter applying for a job as a ...............................
(Invent a name for the company, an address and a country)
Use four paragraphs:
Reason for writing
Relevant personal details (name, age, studies)
Positive personality characteristics
A request for a response

Drinking and driving, no thanks

A few days ago I had to write a few slogans for the Comenius project "Drinking and driving, no thanks"

I you want to have a look at my rhymes click on the following red words.

Health (Magdalena Puigserver)

My name is Magdalena but everybody calls me ''Bebi''. I'm seventeen years old, my birthday is on 14th of August. I was born in s'Arracó. I've got a lot of hobbies. I love cinema, specially classic cinema, I love animals, horse riding, music (specially JAZZ, soul and blues) art, travelling, nature, adventures...

Heath is important for me, but I don't know if I'm a healthy person because I'm healthy in some seasons and unhealthy in others. For example, in winter I'm a healthy person because I eat healthy food, I sleep the necessary hours and I do sports of course, without counting the weekends...In summer I'm an unhealthy person, because all the days are weekends. I don't sleep many hours, I don't do any sports, I go to a lot of parties...and I sunbathe too much.

But in conclusion I think I'm a healthy person although I have some bad habits, but I know where the limit is! I've always done sports, like basketball, horse ridding, gymnatics, running...

And I think I have a balanced diet.

I think I eat better now than when I was younger.

Every winter I go to the gym, but this one I prefer to go to dancing classes, I want to change because I think its funnier and nicer, I hope dancing will be a good activity to keep fit.

I have a healthy diet because I go to a dietician who teaches me food habits. Now I eat all kinds of food, with measure and alternation. Thanks to this doctor now I love vegetables. ( Before I hated them!!)

I can't stand fast food restaurants, I eat there once a year.

To finish up I will show you a photo of myself participating in a competition:

Health (AINA FABIANO)

My name is Aina,I'm seventeen years old and I was born in Palma. I like dancing, going out with my friends, playing tennis..
To bebin with, I'm going to write about the importance of health in my life; it is indispensable to live and to be happy. It depends on several things: have a balanced diet ( the necessary vitamins and proteins that the body needs), and play a sport or exercise at least three days a week.

Smoking and drinking would be two factors that wouldn't help to have a good and healthy life.
I don't do any sport, but in the evening, sometimes, I go running with my mother or I go to the gym when I have free time.I like to play sports instead of watching them on television.

Normally I have four meals a day.For breakfast I have some toasts and a glass of milk; for lunch any type of pasta,fish or meat; in the evening I have some fruit and some cookies and for dinner something light, as a yoghurt or a salad.
If I have to go a restaurant, I don't choose a fast food restaurant , but when I go out with my friends for a meal we always go to fast food restaurants because they're cheaper an the food isn't bad.
I think that vegetarian people don't have a healthy diet because most of them don't eat anything which has to do with animals, as meats or eggs, and in my opinion this food is necessary for us, and if we don't eat proteins we could have some illnesses.

In conclusion, to be healthy, you need to eat good food, play sports and avoid smoking.

HEALTH (by Naika Mendívil)

To start I want to introduce myself. My name is Naika, I am seventeen years old and I was born on 20th of January in Palma de Mallorca.

I’ve got a lot of hobbies as reading, dancing or meeting friends but what I like the most is going to drink a hot chocolate in a rainy day. I think I am on the age of doing that whenever I want because in a few years I will have to control strictly what eat.

From my point if view, health is one of the most important things in the life of a person. I think that healthy eating and daily exercise are very important to keep fit and to have a good health.

I believe that following a varied diet is necessary because according to the experts on nourishment every type of food from the nourishment pyramid brings something different to our organism. For example: bread and pasta are carbohydrates which help us to be more energetic, fruit and vegetables have vitamins and fibre which helps us to digest better the food and so on.

In my opinion doing exercise every day is necessary too to have good health. Doing a sport frequently or running half an hour every day is a good way of keeping fit. But it exists the other face of the coin, when I say that I am referring to that people who are obsessed with practising sport. I think that is as unhealthy doing too much sport as not doing it at all.

In conclusion, for me, health is a mix of different of things: daily exercise, healthy eating, getting enough sleep, positive thinking, etc.
We only have one body and it is for all our life so we must take care of it.

Rollerskating babies

Awesome!

Drugs and driving

I found it really funny!!

Japanese movements!

Japanese people are a bit crazy... I love the boy and the fat sumo wrestler...

Swan lake

I hope you like this video...

Health ( Isabel Mendoza)

My name is Isabel and I'm seventeen years old. My birthday is on 21st of April. I live in Palma with my mum, my sister and my brother.

I like doing sports, I used to swim and ride a horse, but now I haven't got time to do any sports, because I have to study a lot.

Now I will tell you about my health, because health is the most inportant thing in my life, it is inportant to be healthy in order to realize all the goals that we propose in our lives. To be healthy you have to look after yourself without bad influences, because it's your life and it must be taken seriously.

Now, I don't do any sports, but I have always practised sports, although I haven't got time now, but a few years ago, I used to go swimming lessons for five years, four hours per day, I practised synchronized swimming, and I loved it, but a new sport appeared in my life, horse riding, I rode five years. These are the two most inportant sports in my life.

I eat healthy food, because at home we don't eat any junk food. At home we eat a bit of everything although we eat more vegetables than meat.

I don't often eat at fast food restaurants. Only, occasionally when I go out with my friends, because they're cheaper than other restaurants!

Sometimes I drink, when I go to a party or to the disco, but I don't smoke.

Today, we live in a society where teenagers tend easily to adopt unhealthy habits (smoking, drinking, drugs...). which spoil our health a lot.

The main reason why teens engage in sports is not for the pleasure it brings, or the fact of it being beneficial to their health, the youth of today that practises physical exercise, does it because of competitivety and in most cases, with the goals of being a figure in sports, and earn a lots of money.

A solution for young people in order to avoid alcohol, drugs... is to establish healthy habits in children, such as physical activity.

Apple crumble

I love apple crumble!


Dessert Pies:
How To Make Apple Crumble

Fruits and vegetables

A friend sent me this beautiful link. I found it really interesting.

YUMMY-YUMMY! (Arturo Pascual)

My name's Arturo Pascual,I was born in Palma de Mallorca and I live in Palmanova(Calvià),my favorite activity is photography I have an artistic name,Arthur Leblanc.In the future,I would like to be a profesional photographer!

This year i won two competitions of photography(In March and in May),the first was in Ajuntament de Calvià (Objetiu dona) and the second was in IES Llompart School.

Jo no J'Adore París,Arthur Leblanc-Ajuntament de Calvià(Mallorca)

THE TIMES THEY ARE THE A-CHANGIN,Arthur Leblanc(IES Llompart)

I think that health and happiness are the most important things in this world. Now, I don't play any sport but five years ago I used to do archery. When I was a child I used to swim every week until I was ten years old. After this, my father forced me to learn how to swim every summer but I didn't like it!I gave up swimming and began to play with my playstation.The only sport that I like to watch on T.V is syncronized swimming.

I don't like diets but at home we usually eat mediterranean food and a lot of rice(my father is from Valencia),I love pasta(raviolis,pizza...) and I'm addicted to strong chocolate.
I also like fast food but I prefer good restaurants. I only eat in fast food restaurants twice a month.
I don't usually drink alcohol but sometimes I have Tequila or Absinthe shots ...I don't like smoking!
In my opinion,people should take care of themselves specially at weekends.

HEALTH ( ANA SASTRE)

My name is Ana Sastre but everybody calls me Ana.I am sixteen years old.My birthday is on 16th of november.Very soon! I was born here,in Palma. I live in Bendinat with my family.

First of all I have to say that health is the most important thing in my life.The combination of doing sports and have a good diet is very important to be healthy.In my opinion I think I am a healthy person. I eat well even though I don't practise any sport.I'm a bit lazy.I admit it.
For breakfast I usualy have milk and toasts with butter and jam. For lunch something like fish with salad , potatoes, vegetables, beans. I like this kind of food. For dinner pasta,salad or just nothing.It depends.

In my house there are two types of food. When I am with my mum there is a lot of normal food like pasta,chiken,soup and fish but when I'm with my dad there is too much vegetarian food. He loves tofu, mushrooms,beans,carrots. He buys all food at " biological supermarkets" I don't know how to explain it. He is completely vegeterian and he tries to make me vegetarian too. But the point is that I can't. I don't really each much meat , just chicken! but that doesn't mean I am vegetarian.
If I got to parties I drink much alcohol, just a couple of drinks. I drink but I never come to the point of being drunk.Of course I don't smoke.I hate the smell of tobacco. It's horrible.That's all what I think.

Health (by Myllisen Serrano)

Nowadays there's more and more people worrying about their diet. Not only because of their appearence but also for ethical reasons.

I have been a vegetarian for almost 4 years. I started for ethical reasons. I feel that it's something that makes me feel better with myself so, why do I have to eat meat and feel bad if there are so many options for eating?

Some people think that we don't have many options when choosing food. If you ask me, sometimes I think the same. I dont' like eating out and seeing there are only two vegetarian dishes on the menu.

But I love eating at home, in my opinion it's healthy to eat with your family.

There are places where you can buy a lot of vegetarian products like soja, tofu, seitan, tempeh, miso.. with these products you can cook hamburgers, meatballs, "tacos", "bolognese", and many more.

There is a shop in Porto Pi, in front of Mcdonals, that is very good. A supermarket in Costa d'en Blanes called "Nice Price" and a Chinese supermarket in Porto Pi too, but I don't really like it. In that supermarket you can buy spices, seaweeds, etc.

I'm a person who really loves eating and I eat too much so it seems to me that vegetarian people have multiple choices. When I stopped eating meat I discovered another world. As I see it, it's more appetizing to see a colourful plate.

In my opinion, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and my favourite one. On school days I usually eat a toast with cheese or jam with a glass of fruit juice. But at weekends I usually eat a youghurt or milk, fruit (usually kiwi or banana),and if I'm lucky "crepes with nutella".

At eleven o'clock I can have a vegetable baguette, a piece of fruit or sometimes, nothing.

For lunch I usually have lentils, pasta,hamburgers, soup, rice, etc.

At seven o'clock some fruit and a yoghurt and sometimes a chocolate piece.

And finally for dinner I like to eat a good salad.

In conclusion, I think everyone can choose what to eat, but always respecting nature.

"Chicken a-la-carte"

I received this video a few days ago and it made me cry...

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte

Health (by Frida Fuchs)

HEALTH
By Frida Fuchs

Health is the over all state of physicl, mental and social well being and not just the absence of disease. Wich may also be known as : THE HEALTH TRIANGLE
Physical Refers to body health and is the result of REGULAR EXERCISE, PROPER DIET and NUTRTION
Mental and Emotional health describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder.

10 Best Foods for Your Heart

1. Oatmeal

2. Salmon

3. Avocado

4. Olive oil

5. Nuts

6. Berries

7. Legumes

8. Spinach

9. Flaxseed

10. Soy

In my opinion the combination of sleep, sport and healthy food is just the perfect and healthy combination!

Intructions for your first writing

As you already know your first writing is going to be about HEALTH.

Please, follow the instructions carefully,

1. Title: Health (write your name in brackets)

2. Label: Opinion essay

3. Use paragraphs in your writing.

First paragraph: Introduce yourself: name, birthday, place you were born+ photo

Second paragraph: Is health important in your life? What do you do ir order to be a healthy person? Do you play any sport? What do you do to keep fit?Write about a sport you play or about a sport you like watching (but don't play)

Third paragraph: do you have a healthy diet? What do you usually eat? Write about your food preferences. How often do you eat in fast food restaurants? What about drinking? Do you usually drink alcohol at weekends? do you smoke? give your opinion about drinking and smoking .

Optional (1): Share a photo, a video, a song, a poem, (or a recipe) related to sport and/or food.

Optional (2) : Imagine you were a doctor: What type of advice would you give to a person with a problem of overweight? and to a really thin person suffering from anorexia?

Welcome to the blog of 2nd Batxillerat B

Welcome to the blog for students of 2 º Bachillerato from IES Bendinat!

The purpose of this blog is to share our writings, essays and compositions about the different topics that we are going to study in this school year 2009-2010.
We may also share videos, songs, quotations, poems, recipes, tales, and so on ...
And remember, if you want to get a good mark, it is important to read what your classmates have posted and then write a comment at the end of the post.
For this reason it is very important to sign (write your name) when you have finished your writing (or comment)

You can use all the colors of the rainbow to write in this blog, EXCEPT purple (or violet), because this is the color I am going to use.
You can now read my second post for instructions.
Good luck!
Linis

(The photo was taken in Kamakura - Japan in April 2007 by Linis)