PLASTIC, the menace!!!!

Listening exercise: The impact of plastic (BBC Learning English)

Articles to read:

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch (National Geographic)

• How big is the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch? (Office of Response and Restauration)

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  Trash-mapping expedition sheds light on 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' (The Guardian)

• Pacific 'garbage patch' changing insect mating habits  (The Guardian)

SOLUTION: How to recycle old plastic bags (Wiki How to do anything)  

LINGOHACK:

Episode 151104 / 04 Nov 2015   >>>  Expressions presented: investigated, to secure, artisans & donations.

NO SMOKING: Drive me home, Daddy!

Here's a new law that has come into effect:

• Smoking in cars with children banned in England and Wales (BBC)

• Car smoking ban comes into force (BBC)

• UK smoking ban: smoking in cars with kids illegal from October 1st (Autoexpress)

• Police plan grace period for ban on smoking in cars with children (The Guardian)

  

  Glossary: harzadous, smoking ban, second-hand smoke, they are being exposed to, inhaling smoke, vulnerable, their lungs are still developing, the findings, on the spot fine, come into force, the new rules apply to any driver or passenger, on board, to break the law, grace period, offenders, unlikely to be fined, concern, raise/rise, spokeswoman, public awareness, ultimately

Eating less meat could save 45,000 lives a year, experts claim

Some articles to read about the issue:

• WHO links processed meat consumption to cancer (Aljazeera)

• Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes – WHO (The Guardian)

However, read about the reactions in Argentina:

• Argentinians react to report linking meat to cancer: 'I'd rather die than give it up' (The Guardian)

What does WHO stand for? 

And some time ago we posted this in this blog:

• Eating less meat could save 45,000 lives a year, experts claim.

Joint of honey roast ham

 Read the article and write a comment about your eating habits or anything about the issue.

And finally. LINGOHACK:   Episode 151028 / 28 Oct 2015

What will happen in the future? Here's an exercise on the FUTURE PERFECT tense.

Who was Mo Malone?

Also known as Big Mo, Moses Malone has died of a heart attack, but who was he?
Here are some articles to read about this NBA basketball player:
Rest in peace Big Mo  (Daily Mail)
Sudden death of Moses Malone... (New York Daily News)
Moses Malone (Wikipedia)

However, a happy moment to end; the 70th birthday of 'Slowhand'. Who is it?

My village-50 years ago and now by Alex (Writing Unit2)

               I live in a small village in the south of Granada, called Ítrabo. I really like myvillage because it has improved a lot in the last 50 years, and in my opinion  it's better now. My parents and my uncles have told me some things of the past of the village to do this writing exercise.

               Ítrabo was much smaller and all of the buildings were built with stones and cement. Its population is roughly the same as 50 years ago. There are 1,000 inhabitants approximately. In Ítrabo, there didn't use to be many shops, there was only a small shop, now there are more, actually, there are just two. However, many people go shopping in big shopping centres outside the village to save some money. What stingy people!

               Transport is very different too. Fifty years ago, there used to be many dirt roads, but they aren't there now, most of them are  built with cement now and others have already disappeared. People used to use donkeys, mules,etc... to move and specially to transpot things, for that reason, most of the population got this type of animals. Now, most people have got a car or a motorcycle because they are both so fast. However, we can also move by plane, bus, train, taxi, ship....

               My grandparents lived in the village 50 years ago. They say that there was much to do them. There was  an enormous cinema on the outskirst of the village and my grandparents used to go there everyday. they also say that there was a cementery where there's the school now. What an strange thing!

               In conclusion, life was quieter  then, but in my opinion  it's better now because life is
easier.

This is me by Alex (writing Unit 1)

          What can I say about my image?I think I'm particularly trendy. I usually wear  fashionable trainers, short jeans, fashionable T-shirts and jackets. In fact, I sometimes wear very trendy clothes on special occasions, like New Year, New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve, thanks to my mother because there are times that I don't know what to wear and she gives me some advice. I never wear sunglasses because they don't suit me, but I sometimes wear bracelets.
   
          There are three things I like. I really like getting up at the weekend and making my breakfast with a glass of milk, two pieces of toast and a banana. I also love waking up on Saturday and knowing that I still don't have to do homework, because I can do it tomorrow. It´s  a great feeling, although I don't mind doing them. In fact, I want to do a university degree in science. The third thing I love is football! If it's sunny, I go out with a big group of friends to play football in the sports center. Last year, we were in Motril and Salobreña to compete in a league. 
  

          There are  three things I hate. I don't like mean people who never lend anything to other people, because I think they look antisocial people. The second thing I hate is the people who protest about their marks and it's like this. The third  thing I hate is reality shows on television, although my parents and my brother, always watch them, and they hardly ever let me watch programmes that I like because if I watch a sports programme, they put the reality show that they like!


 

Writing exercise(Introduction unit)

García and me              

To begin with, I'm going to describe me and my friend García. We have been friends since 2008, we went to the same Primary School and both of us go to the same Secondary School now.

Our personalities are different. My friend García is very active, shy, intelligent and funny. I'm a quiet, active, intelligent and honest person. García is always laughing because I'm always making him laugh. He's always talking, I'm not, because it can be annoying. García is tall, he has got black eyes and he is slim, and so am I slim, I've got brown hair and I'm a dark-skinned person. We are both strong because we both practise karate.

We've got similar interests. We both like music, football, cars, motorcycles and girls. García plays the tuba in his band and I play the saxophone at the Music School of Motril and the trumpet in my band.

Finally, I'm going to say things that we've got in commmon. We are both good at sports and studies, but neither of us is good at basketball and we both study the same subjects in the school.

Joaquín Alejandro España Sánchez  4ESO.B