Summer work and crisis

Now it’s time to find a job for this summer because eighteen years old teenagers waste a lot of money:

First of all, they have to pay the college (and if it’s private more money), so it’s an important expense; secondlly, the driving licence which costs a lot of money and when they have it, the often have to buy a car.

In conclusion, all of this is a great expense.

So, teenagers have to look for a job, usually in bars, restaurants, camp sites, supermarkets... And it means that we spend a lot of hours working and with a low salary.

But nowadays, it’s so hard! We have an economic crisis which complicates the matter.

In addition, people who have businesses want their workers to be more than eighteen years old or minimum twenty, maybe because they have more experiance than boys or girls who are sixteen of seventeen years old.

So, in my opinion it is so complicated of difficult to find a job and if you get one, maybe you don’t earn so much money because in their place there are more people who want to do their work.

And everything is caused because of the crisis.

New (1)

Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant faces new reactor problem

 

 

The emergency cooling system is no longer functioning at the No.3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, requiring the facility to urgently secure a means to supply water to the reactor, an official of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told a news conference.

On Saturday, an explosion blew off the roof and upper walls of the building housing the facility's No. 1 reactor, stirring alarm over a possible major radiation release, although the government later said the explosion had not affected the reactor's core vessel and that only a small amount of radiation had been released.

The nuclear safety agency official said there was a possibility that at least nine individuals had been exposed to radiation, according to information gathered from municipal governments and other sources.

Summary:

A quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant reeling from an explosion at one of its reactors has also lost its emergency cooling system of another reactor.

Japan’s nuclear power safety agency said on Sunday.

Personal opinion:

The earthquake that happened in Japan caused two reactions: on the one hand, it caused a terrible tsunami which destroyed a lot of buildings, cars and the worst is that people died.

And on the other hand, it caused a nuclear power accident which hasn’t cause an immediate problem for the society (only a low percent of people have radioactivity) but this could generate illness now and later.

Home

"It’s time to come together. What’s important is not what’s gone, but what remains."

This sentence means that all we have to do is to be concious about what we are doing with our planet.

But we don’t have to think about the past but only think how the Earth was before we started to destroy the forests, some animals species...

The documentary talks about the developement that we do in a lot of ways: science, tecnology... but this doesn’t bring a moral developement.

So, what we have to do is to work together to try to improve our world.

From now, we live without thinking about the bad consecuences of the buildings, cars, motorbikes, desforestation... So, all the world are in extreme situation because of that.

We have to think about the future and to encourage the renewable energies, to try to clean our planet, also we have to reduce the toxic waste, the residues... and to try that the new cars and buildings respect our environment more.

In my point of view, if everybody gets concious that we can’t continue wasting and deterioring the Earth, we’ll live in a clean world. But this only could be possible if all the people in the world help each other and want to change our situation so that the future generations have a good life without pollution, contamination, toxic waste...

We can change, but only if we try to!

Formal Letter

Ponent Street, 23

Castelló d’Empúries

17486

14th April 2011

John Ritch

World Nuclear Organitzation

Director General

128 East Avenue

London

OX49XP

Dear Mr. Ritch,

My name is Maria and I’m studying second of Batxillerat in IES Castelló d’Empúries. In the English class, we have been talking about Nuclear Power and the consecuences that it could have to this country and the countries that are near Japan.

First of all, I’m writing this letter to express my views about the earthquake, tsunami and the Nuclear Power problems which Japan suffers.

On the one hand, the thing that shocked me a lot was the terrible earthquak which destroyed some buildings, even if buildings in Japan are prepared to suffer high intensity earthquakes. This caused a tsunami that had very bad consequences for the population.

On the other hand, there are other problems with the Nuclear Power. There are some scientists who say that the nuclear reactor, from the Nuclear Station, isn’t dangerous. Others, say that the refrigeration problems can’t be solved, and the radiation could spread to nearby countries.

In conclusion, I think that this is a great problem for Japan, not only for the problems that I mention before, besides: they have now (and on the future too) global warming, famine, greenhouse gases...

I hope that if they help each other and you, Mr.Ritch, can have some influence, because you have a lot of power to be able to solve this problem as soon as posible, everything will get back to normal.

Your sincerely,

Maria.

Song

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (L)

I like this song so much beause of its author, Bruno Mars. He is a very good singer and I love his voice.

I chose this song for the lyrics, because it arouses a lot of good feelings. It talks about a couple. The boy sings this song to his girlfriend and he thinks that she’s perfect, although she thinks that she doesn’t look well. I identify myself with it because I live this situation everyday with my boyfriend.

My favourite moment in the song is this:

“When I see your facethere’s not a thing that I would changeCause you are amazing
Just the way you are.
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you are amazingJust the way you are”

I think it is wonderful to find the perfect partner. Everybody knows that nobody is complete and we all have faults and defects but I think that there is nothing nicer than to find the person you love beautiful even though the years go by.

I hope that even when I am seventy years old and I don’t love the person so much, I will still find him as perfect as ever.

New (2)

Bin Laden's body buried at sea

The dilemma of what to do with Osama bin Laden's body appears to have been quickly resolved if reports that he has been buried at sea prove correct.
Burying him on land could have led to his grave becoming a centre of contention as well as raising questions about where he should be buried.
"Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult," a US official said, adding: "So the US decided to bury him at sea."
Fears about Bin Laden's burial place turning into a shrine for Islamists were probably unfounded, since the Wahhabi/Salafi tradition rejects such things. Even Saudi kings are buried in unmarked graves.
Senior US officials initially told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours.
Although the swift burial complies with Islamic custom and should therefore avoid causing any offence in Muslim countries, the apparent haste could lead to claims that the person killed was not really Bin Laden – though the US authorities have taken DNA samples and appear to have no doubts.
The 24-hour rule has not always been applied by the US in the past. For example, the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein – sons of the Iraqi dictator – were held for 11 days before being released for burial.
Burial at sea is rare in Islam, though several Muslim websites say it is permitted in certain circumstances.
One is on a long voyage where the body may decay before the ship reaches land. The other is if there is a risk of enemies digging up a land grave and exhuming or mutilating the body – a rule that could plausibly be applied in Bin Laden's case.
For sea burial, according to alislam.org, the body should be lowered into the water "in a vessel of clay or with a weight tied to its feet". The website adds: "As far as possible it should not be lowered at a point where it is eaten up immediately by the sea predators."

Summary:

The new talks about Bin Laden’s death. The US soldiers killed him and they buried his body at sea.

Seniro US officials told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition. But Muslim countries think that this is an offence.

Somebody thinks that the person killed was not really Bin Laden.

Personal opinion:

In my opinion this is an international news item and everybody knows what happened to Bin Laden.

The US soldiers looked for him since the different attemps that Al-Qaeda did.

I think that Osama Bin Laden uses the religion to do terrorists attemps and to dominate the people who are in his group (in my point of view, it’s a sect).

I really don’t know if Osama Bin Laden is dead or not, but I hop so, because he’s maybe the worst person in the world.

Reader exam

1.Can you summarize the book in two minutes?

The story starts when the chairman of Elgood Ceramics, Dick, comes at the police office to talk with Peter Pascoe (Inspector and detective) because he feels that Patrick Aldermann killed Blumer and Eagles (two employers of Elgood Ceramics) and Dick thinks that Patrick wants to kill him too, so the inspectors (Pascoe and Dalziel) started to investigate.

Actually, Patrick and his family live in his greats- uncle’s house and the most important thing in his life is his garden of roses.

Ellie (Pascoe’s wife) and Daphne (Patrick’s wife) become friends. But Daphne gets angry with Ellie because she is the wife of the inspector who investigates her husband. After, the two women solved their problems.

But moreover, there are more deaths around Patrick: the mysterious death of Reverend Somerton (Daphne's father), the buyer of the house of Rosemont (Patrick loves this house, and actually lives here) and their workmates.

During the investigation the detectives discover that Daphne has a relationship with Dick, so this is one of the reasons for Patrick to want to kill him. But after, they break off.

Also, the policemen discovered that the will of the Mr.Florence Aldermann was change and also that Eddie Aldermann was Patrick’s really father. Dick Elgood wants to meet Patrick and (fer-li sentatge) because he has a will that could be interesting to him.

On day, Dick makes a party and invites all of his friends (Patrick and the policemen are also here). Some days later, someone finds the death body of Dick Elgood.

Patrick kills him with a ladder and the other people, but the police can’t discover him because they haven’t any (proves) and all crimes seams an accident.

2.Is there a mystery sentence or a turning point in the story?

Yes. When Mr.Pascoe went to talked with Herbert Capstick to talked about Patrick Aldermann.

The two men were talking when Mr.Capstick said: Patrick said the old must give way to the new, but the new must deserved their place. This is a turning point in the story because it may means that Patrick was the murder and he did this to replace his workmates because his goal was to do their work.

3.When and where does the story take place?

The story takes place at the end of the 20 century in Rosemont.

4.Who are the main characters in the story? What’s their role?

Patrick Aldermannà He’s a handsome man, who is married with Daphne and had two sons: David and Diana. His hobby is to look after  his garden of roses, but he’s implicated in some cases of murder.

When he was a child he lives with his mother and his great-aunt, Florence, because she was ill and his great-uncle (name) still died.

After Mrs.Florence death, Patrick was implicated in some murders: first of all, the buyer of the Rosemont’s house; secondly, the Reverend Somerton death and after, the death of the employers of Elgood Ceramics.

5.Choose one character (main or secondary) and describe him/her.

Daphneà She’s the typical wife submitted to her husband. She has two sons: David and Diana and she get married when she was 17 with Patrick Aldermann. Her father doesn’t happy about the marriage. 

Her parents died: her mother died when she was a child and her father was death because a stone falls on him.   

She lives like all the people want to live and she feels very happy with her family but, to tell the truth, she really doesn’t know her husband.

6.Can you identify with any character? Why?

No I can’t. Because the characters of the story behaviour depending of the deaths that happened.

7.Choose your favourite moment in the story.

My favourite moment on the story is when everybody was happy in the Dick’s party on the cottage and all seem to be good: Daphne is very happy with Patrick and their relation is so good, Daphne and Ellie are very good friends, Patrick and Dick also are friends, everybody is swimming on the beach…

And, in my opinion, this is the only good moment on the story.

8.Which new key words have you learnt to understand the story?

This book has a high level. But, I don’t have to look for a lot of words, only some, because I often understand the words depending on their context.

The new words for me are: bloody, blue moon, bush, flu, nose around, wander, will…

9.Provide an alternative ending.

The ending of the novel doesn’t like me so much, because the police and investigators don’t know anything about Patrick murders.

So, in my opinion, the end of the story

10.Would you recommend this book? Why?

Yes, but it depends on the person. Personally, I’m a very fearful person, so in some moments, I have a little bit fear. But if the people who read this book love crime and mystery stories, they will enjoy it a lot.