Across the universe

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(by Susana Chen)

My parents were both born in China.My father has been living in Spain for 21 years,my mother has been living Spain since 1990.Now,my parents have a restaurant in Magalluf,my father is a chef and my mother is a waitress.My father doesn't work,he only cooks when the restaurant is very busy.

My granfather on my mum's side was a Maths teacher in a primary school. I don't know what is the job of my granmother,because I almost never see her and my mum doesn't tell me about things like this. I don't know where I liked to work when I was little,because nobody asked me about where I'd like to work in the future. I think eighty per cent of girls,wanted to be teachers,actresses or singers when they were little and eighty per cent of boys wanted to be policemen or firefighters.

I think,I am really hard-working. I almost always do the homework for all the subjects,but sometimes I am lazy,I don't want to do my homework and study for the exams,but I will still do it...
I am very calm,if I have some urgent problem,I am always calm.In my opinion,it is good,because when you are nervous,you can't solve the problem.The negative side of my personality is that I am a careless person and I am very shy. At maths tests,I never get 10 points,because I am very careless,I always get 8,9points for small failures. I am a strong-minded person.I think it is a good thing, I want to do things and I don't mind about people's opinion.

My dream is to help people design their hair,clothes....I would like to work in China or New York,I would like to work in New York,because it is a fashionable city.
10 years later,I think I will have just finished my degree in architecture.I will be looking for work in Spain,I don't care about high wages or low wages,because I think I don't need a lot of money.The only thing I need is experience.

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................

Jobs (Lina Quiroga)

I'm Lina Quiroga and I'm from Colombia. I came here with my sister when I was 9 years old. When I arrived to Mallorca, my dad picked us up at the airoport because he had already been living here for a year.

My parents decided to go to another country because they wanted to change our lifestyle. The working world in Colombia was bad and they needed to get enough money to make our lives better.

In Colombia, my mum worked in an office as an acountant and my dad worked in a work shop, it was like a family bussines.
In Mallorca, my dad has worked in many places (we lived before in Cala Ratjada) but now he works as a technician in a company in Palma.

My mum works in a supermarket in Club de Mar in Palma.

About my grandparents, I can't say many things about their jobs, because I only have three grandparents and I've never asked them about their past lives. But I know that my only grandfather worked in a railway company. His wife (my grandmother) worked in different houses as a nanny, cooking, cleaning and looking after the kids.
They are my father's parents.

About my mother's parents I only know my grandmother and she worked first in the countryside and then in the city as a cleaning lady.

In my opinion,I have to say that I apreciate their effort, but I wouldn't like to work in the jobs that I've just mentioned, because I have a dream that is to have a degree in architecture and also to be an actress.
About my personality, I have to say that I seem cold and serious, because sometimes I really am. I can be harsh and pessimistic but regarding work I'm disciplined, hard working, ambitious and determined.

I think that the positive side of my character is that I realize my mistakes and I always try to get what I want if I really want it.

And the negative side is that sometimes people can feel bad with my decisions and I know it, but I don't look back or even apologize, because if I make a decision it's because I think that I'm right.
By the way I think I'm very sympathetic and there are very few times that I have been so tough. I always try to understand people arround me.

If I have to look to the future, I would like to do a lot of things.
Firstly I want to live in America. I would like to work in Los Angeles as an actress and I also would like to have a big house there. I want to have a very big family and help my parents to live better.
If I imagine myself in ten years, I can see myself doing all that I have mentioned, working with famous people and working everyday to be better.

About money, I have to say that I don't really care about how much I would get in my future job. I just want to get enough money to live well and to help people who need it. I would like to work a lot of hours if I can achieve the goals in the jobs I have just mentioned.

A meatball a day... (Tom Lombardi)

Hi my name is Tom Lombardi, I'm 17 years old, I'm French and I live in Mallorca. Today you will be able to see how healthy and delicious are the meat balls from Mercadona! (only 0.74 euros !!). In this video, you'll see the way in which, a delicate French Chef prepares his fresh, expensive meal.
Hope you enjoy it.

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 my teacher, 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 some slogans for the Comenius project, "Drinking and driving, no thanks".

If you want to have a look at my rhymes click on the red words

Health (By Diego Rosso)

My name is Diego Rosso Broyad, I'm seventeen years old (turning eighteen soon!) and right now I'm studying 12th grade (and then college!). I was born on 24th of January in 1992 in Majorca. About my hobbies, I love playing videogames (currently playing CoD 6), going out with friends, going to the cinema (a bit expensive lately), reading manga and sleeping! (I also like going to the beach in summer).

In my opinion health is not only important for me, health should be important for everyone. The trick to be a healthy person is to eat everything(vegetables, meat, fish, cereals...) in small amounts or one food everyday.

When I was young I used to play football but at the moment I trying to go to the gym or sometimes I go to swim. The "coolest" sport I find to watch is rugby but I hardly ever watch sports on TV now (I hardly ever watch TV now).

If you ask me about a healthy diet, yes I've got a healthy diet (not the healthiest in the world because it would be too boring but I can't regret) and that's thanks to my mother, if it wasn't for my mother I would be fat like a cow because I love food.

Personally I love pasta but I usually have sandwiches to eat ( easy and fast). I only eat fast food when I go to the cinema or when I'm out with friends and we are hungry.

I drink alcohol when I go out at night with friends or sometimes in bestfriend's houses.

I don't smoke and don't plan to do it. I feel sorry for the people who drink too much and the people who smoke, they are doing a lot of damage to their bodies and get bad opinions as well.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't know why people keeps smoking, I still haven't found a good reason to do it and I'm sure I won't find one.

P.S: At least I could find some free time to write this again =)P

I want a positive mark for this teacher =P

Health (Lina Quiroga)

My name is Lina Quiroga, my birthday is on 30th of December and I was born in Colombia.

Well, for me, to talk about health means talking about having a good lifestyle, don't feel any pains in your body, eat regularly and feel good with your life and yourself.

Obviously, to carry out all this, you must eat the three meals of a day, which are breaksfast, lunch and dinner, and avoid fast food or anything that could contain much fat or sugar.

If I have to talk about my example, I should say that I'm not really healthy, because I don't usually eat those three meals at their corresponding hours. I always eat when I'm hungry and whatever I find to eat.

I think health is important, and to do some exercise too.

I don't play any sport, but I would like to. When I was in my country, I was in a basketball team and I loved it. Actually basketball is my favourite sport. I think that comes from my mum, because she used to play it too.

And talking about diet, as I said, I eat when I'm hungry and I don't follow any diet. When I'm at home, I eat my mum's food, which is more Colombian than Spanish, but sometimes, at weekends, my dad cooks and his food is more like a mix of flavours.

And focusing on types of food that people eat in different countries, I would like to show you two dishes that have caught my attention.

In Alaska for example:

There is a dish called:"Oogruk flippers and fresh whale blubber". They put the flippers in the fresh blubber and leave them for two weeks, then they get the loose skin of the flippers out and then they eat the meat that's left.
(the oogruk is a kind of walrus).

And in Guatemala, there's a dish called: "Cockerel in chicha".
(chicha is a type of drink that contains corn and alcohol)

However I don't need to go so far away to find weird food, because when we go to Colombia, my dad usually buys and then eats roasted ants. I've never tasted them because I think they're disgusting, but he says that they taste like peanuts.

HEALTH(by Susana Chen)

My name is Jinlan Chen,and I have a Spanish name too,my Spanish name is Susana .I'm 17 years old,I think I'm very old,my birthday is on 27th of July.I was born in Salamanca,but I went to China when I was 2 years old.I was in China until 12 years old.I wanted go to the place where I was born born, because every body said that it's a very beatiful town.
My hobbies are listening to music and reading Chinese books.

Health is important in my life, I think health is important for every body because if you are unhealthy you can't do anything.In my opinion it is important to be a healthy person.

First you have to eat healthy food.For example:grapes.A lot of people don't eat the skin and the seeds,this isn't good,because the skin has a lot of vitamins and the seeds are good for the heart.To eat more vegetables and more fruits is good for your health.

The second thing is daily exercise,every day you should run five or ten minutes.I think I am an unhealthy person,because I don't do any exercise and I don't eat three meals a day.I always eat two meals a day,luch and dinner.I never eat breakfast,because I'm lazy,I don't want to get up early. But I follow a healthy diet. I don't eat fast food,I eat a lot of vegetables,fruits and shellfish and it also contain a lot of protein,multi-vitamins,calcium,which we need to maintain every part of our bodies.

My food preferences are Chinese, I like nearly all type of food.Specially spicy,I've started eating spicy food since I was 6 years old. I'm really love the typical vegetarian restaurants in Shanghai.The dishes have beautiful names. The food looks like fish,chicken,duck,beef...but all the food is made of vegetables.It's really nice!

I usually eat white rice with chinese vegetables,tofu,meat...and I sometimes eat chinese buffet,my parents have a restaurant,so I can eat there when I want to.I always drink water,because water is better than soft drinks and it's necessary to drink 2 litres of water every day. I never drink alcohol at weekends and I never smoke.I only drink alcohol when I go to parties. Drinking lots of alcohol is very bad for your health,but if you drink a glass of wine every day you won't have problems in your heart.

Japanese movement

Japanese are crazy people! I really liked the boy and the fat sumo wrestler!

Drugs and driving

I found it really funny!

The swam lake

I really love this video!

Roller skating babies

Awesome!

Health (Carol Pérez)

THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING FRUIT EVERY DAY.

Hi, I'm Carol. I'm going to write about the importance of eating fruit.

I think everybody should include fruits in their daily diet. Fruit is one of the healthiest foods, but it seems like we don't really know it. In my opinion parents should force their children to eat more fruit, because every day children eat more sugar and chocolate and less healthy food. Nowadays children are used to eat fast food in places such as McDonalds or Burguer King, and that's not good for their health. Kids are becoming fatter every day

HEALTH (by Ana Carcaño)

My name is Ana and I was born in Palma on 9th of January 1992, I am 17 years old. In my free time I like going out with my friends or my boyfriend. I also like to practise some sport and going shopping.

I think that health is something very important in life. If you are unhealthy when you are young it will be worse when you're older!
To be a healthy person I like to eat a bit of all sorts of food but sometimes it's difficult for me because I dont like fruits and vegetables very much. I try not to eat a lot of sweets or fats. To keep fit I like to go to the gym and I like cycling too. In summer I love water sports such as sailing, kayaking and swimming in the sea.(For me swimming in a pool is boring)

I try to have a healthy diet but as I said before, it's difficult for me because I am very limited. My favourite food is pasta and what I dislike the most are tomatoes, I hate them!
I dont like eating in fast food restaurants because, in my opinion, food there looks like plastic. I eat i fast food restaurants very few times a year, and not because I want to but because my friends want to go there.

Ana Carcaño

Health (by Willy Wu-He) I'm the first, oh yes, man!

My name's William Wu He and i'm 17 years old. I was born in Mallorca, on 24th of september 1992. I've got one brother, he's younger than me, he's nine years old.

I think that health is very important in my life. When I was younger, I was very fat, I didn't like that and I decided to change it.
I started to play sports, like tennis, and eat more healthy food and in less quantities. This "diet" was succesful and in a few months I lost a lot of weight. At the moment I don't play tennis, now i go to gym. I go to there four times a week. It's so hardcore baby!
I like watching footbal, "the king sport". I support Footbal Club Barcelona, the best team of the european scene in the last season, so Madrid supporters suck!
I like golf too, I like Tiger Woods so much, he's so sexy! When he takes the position to hit the ball I get so excited!

I think that to have a healthy diet is very important to be a healthy person. In my diet, there are a lot of things, I'm a person who likes to eat everything, well not everything... I only eat FOOD.
I eat vegetables, fish... but like everybody, I love fast food, it's unhealthy, but it tastes so good that you can't resist, like a huge and delicious... sausage!
I always drink water but on weekends you can find some alcohol running throught my veins. I think that drinking alcohol and smoking is a very big piece of shit, it's unhealthy, but if a person drinks and smokes a little bit, it's not bad. If a person does that all the day and for a long time, that person has a problem. These things are like all the thingsin life, you can do them, but with some moderation, if you abuse you'll get into trouble!!

Willy Boy

Apple crumble

I love apple crumble!


Dessert Pies:
How To Make Apple Crumble

Fruits and vegetables

Someone sent me this link. I found it really interesting!

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

Instructions 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 Batx.E

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.
God luck!
Linis

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