8-Happy ending

This time last year, things weren't going too well for me. I'd failed one exam at school, and I also had an argument with my best friend. Friends invited me out, but I didn't really want to see them. I spent a lot of time on the computer playing games.

Everything changed for me the day I saw a programme about the people of the third world . The programme talks about poverty. When I saw this I realized that I should be a bit more positive.

These days, I fell much happier. If I hadn't seen the programme, I'd never had the opportunity.

11-Summary Gladiator

In AD 180, Maximus leads the Roman army to a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes. Marcos Aurelius is old and dies, although he has a son, Commodus, he asks Maximus to succeed him as a regent and turn Rome back to a republic. When the emperor speaks with Commodus and he explained the decision, Commodus decided to kill the emperor.

Commodus decided to kill Maximus wife and son. Maximus managed to escape his own execution, but he finds his wife and son dead. Maximus is taken to Zucchabar, where is sold to a man called Proximo, who uses him as a gladiator.

Maximus is forced to fight in local tournaments. When he fights in the Coliseum, he upset their opponents. He wins a lot of battles day by day and he showed how corrupt Commodous was. He inspired roman people to rediscover their values and hoping. These actions ended with a fight in the Coliseum between Commodus and Maximus. Finally, the miserable Commodus died on the hands of Maximus.

10 new words:

Leads: go before

Decisive: conclusive

Succeed: triumph

Regent: Acting like a monarch

Manage to escape: Try to escape

Execution: Killing

Upset: emotionally disturbed

Corrupt: who takes bribes.

Values: worth

Hoping: desire

The world's strongest beam of light

The luxor Pyramid. A sphinx and obelisk welcome you to this giant hotel inspired by the ancient Egyptian pyramids. At night, a beam of lights is projected from the top of the pyramid.
It is the world's trongest beam.
On a clear night, it can be seen from hundreds of kilometres away!

1- Summer holidays

MY LAST SUMMER HOLYDAYS:

Hello my name is Jordi, I'm fifteen, and today I'm going to talk about my last summer holydays. First I went to London, second I went to Bordeaux, finally I stayed at home and I prepared for the school.

First of all I went to London; I stayed three days, with my cousin and my uncle. There I visited a lot of monuments and museums like: Big Ben, Buckingham palace, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, Tate and the British museum. My favorite museum is the British museum, because I like the mummies. There I practiced my English.

After that, I went fishing with Enric in my uncle boat. We started at 8 o’clock and we finished at 2 o’clock. We spent all the morning fishing. Then we had breakfast. After that we swam into the sea. We had a lot of fun, we have to repeat it.

Then I went to Bordeaux with my family. There I visited the largest dune in Europe: It was amazing, because the dune is between the forest and the Atlantic Ocean. It was the best thing that I visited in Bordeaux. I also visited the Garonne River. After that I visited two Chateaus. In the Chateaus I saw how they made the famous Bordeaux wine. Then I visited the Bordeaux centre: the Bordeaux opera, the cathedral and the biggest square in Europe.

Finally I stayed in Banyoles and I met my friends every day in the tennis club or in Banyoles Lake. After that I prepared for school I bought the new school material including the new English books.

9-Trip to Italy

Two weeks ago we spent five days in Italy, we visited: Pisa, Firenze and Rome.

When we arrived in Pisa's airport (Galileo Galilei), we took a bus to the center. Then we saw the Cathedral, the baptisteries and the liening tower. These three monuments are in the Piazza del Miracoli. After that we went to have lunch. In the afternoon we caught a bus to Firenze.

When we arrived there we saw the Firenze sight.Then we went to the center, where we saw: The Duomo, the Ponte Veccio and the Piazza della Signoria. After that we had dinner . Then we had a walk around the center. Finally we went to the hotel and we went to bed. The second day in Firenze, we visited the Uffzi Gallery, the cathedral l and the “David” in the Academy. In the afternoon we had free time. In the night we had dinner and we went to walk around the center.

The next day we caught an express train to Rome. We stayed there for three days. The first day There we saw the Piazza della Republica, the typing machine, Fontana di Trevi, and the Pantheon. The second day we visited the Vatican Museum, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Basilica, including the copula. Then we visited la Piazza Spagna, and we went shooping in La Via Condotti. The third day we visited the Coliseum, and we had lunch in front of the Coliseum. Finally we took a bus and we went to the Rome airport. There we take a flight to Barcelona.

Magma mia!

A supervolcano under Yellowstone national park is 2,5 times bigger than previously thought and could be "catastrophic" for the planet if it were to erupt. With a 90 km-long magma chamber, geologists say it could produce ans ash cloud that would make two-thirs of the US uninhabitable. Luckily, scientsts say no eruption is imminent, but they will be keeeping a close eye on it!

Google robots

BigDog (pictured), a four-legged all-terrain robot developed for the US military, and cheetah, a robot that can outrun the fastest human, now belong to Google. The internet giant has just bought Boston Dynamics, a company known for building robots that look like they belong in science-fiction film. The question is, what will it do with them?