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.


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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!