We have almost learnt to respect our world. What do you think?

At one time, people lived without paying attention to the consequences of their actions. Nowadays, we’ve received the results of it, and we think we can correct it, but it’s too late.
In the past, lots of factories were constructed and they produced a lot of waste and chemical gasses that remains toxic for centuries. Because of that, the atmosphere has been affected and there are some holes on the ozone layer. But nobody has seen how dangerous all these actions were. And now who can sort it out, and how? The answer is evident: nobody can solve it. Those factories also throw all the waste to the sea, thinking that they aren’t detrimental to the ocean. But all that dirt they throw away, will stay in the water an on the beaches for years, centuries, damaging fauna, flora, and environment.
People in their home also contribute to environment pollution. Normally, people don’t care about recycle paper, plastics or organic matter and they mix all together. They go trekking or picnic to the mountain and they leave their rubbish there, so it stay to that mountain for years, contributing as well to pollution. You go to the beach and you find cans, tins…
What’s more, for our needs we are contributing to deforestation and we’re destroying animal’s habitat. If we destroy some animal’s habitat, we’re killing them, and we broke the alimentary chain too, so we are guilty of animal extinction.
In my opinion, humans will never learn how to respect our world. We’ve been created, I think, to destroy the Earth and until we get it, we won’t stop. Maybe, next step will be colonize Mars, but I think our way of live will be different.

Final evaluation.

We’ve arrived to the end of the school year. I think we all can see an improvement in our level of English observing our portfolios or blogs. In my writing I see some vocabulary improvements because now I know more link words and verbs, because when I was doing my posts, I needed some words I didn’t know, so I must search them. I can also see a change in my accent because I searched it as well.
I think the activity which best shows my level of English is speaking. Well, I don’t like too much my accent, because I think I don’t have a real English accent (like some of my friends), but I think I’ve improved a lot in it!
As I’m saying all the time, the best activity for me has been speaking, because I’ve had to search the pronounce of some words and I’ve been saying them lots of times since I’ve pronounced them correctly. And I try to seem an English person while I speak it; I don’t know if I get it!
I’m sorry, but I think all the activities were useful to improve our English. Some people may think that news weren’t useful, but I think they were, because I’ve seen how to redact a fact. Maybe the less useful has been the summary of the film we watched, because the useful part of that activity was only watch the film.
I’ve enjoyed the entire project. Although some of my friends think that it has been a waste of time I’m very happy with it! I’ve enjoyed doing my orals, even I’ve been very nervous, and my posts, because I’ve talked about what I liked. I’d like to read a book again, because I like improve my vocabulary doing something I love: reading.

Climate change.

Do you think we’ve got any evidence for climate change? Well, of course we have! Hum, evidences for climate change are taken for a variety of sources that can be used to reconstruct climate. Most of these evidences are indirect and climate changes are inferred form changes in indicators that reflect climate, such as vegetation, ice cores, dendrochronology, glacial geology, sea level change or mosquitoes.

Any change in the climate can produce a change in the type, distribution and coverage of vegetation. In any given scenario a wild change in the climate may result in increased precipitation and warmth, resulting in improved plant growth and the subsequent sequestration of airborne CO₂. More radical changes, however, may result can result in vegetation stress, plants loss or, in certain circumstances, desertification.

Analysis of ice cores drilled from a permafrost area, as the Antarctic, can show a link between the temperature and the global sea level variation. The air trapped in bubbles can show the variation of the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere from the distant past. The study of this ice cores has been a significant indicator of the changes in CO₂ and provides important information to show the differences between ancient and modern atmospheric conditions. Here you can see the link between temperature and the CO₂ concentration.

Dendrochronology is the analysis of the tree ring patterns to determine the age of a tree. It can also determine the climatic conditions for a given number of years. Wide and thick rings determine fertile and well-watered growing conditions, while narrow and thin rings determine less than ideal conditions and a time of lower rainfall.

Glaciers are the most sensitive indicators of climate change, advancing during time cooling and retreating during climate warming on moderate time scales. Glaciers grow and shrink; both contributing to natural variability and amplifying externally forced changes. And now, if you’ve got any question, we’ll try to answer it.

The Baby Shaker.

A new iPhone app has been created this week, the Baby Shaker. In that program appears a baby crying and by shaking the phone the baby goes silent… and dead.
The promotional text of this application says that babies are crying everywhere and before that app there was nothing we could do about it. It also adds that we never must shake a baby.
Not all iPhone apps are the height of sophistication. There’s one about a naughty nurse which scolds other soft-core bikini apps and a lot of that kind of applications. But it has never been a program about children violence. However it was only an app, so don’t do it at home!
At first, Apple approved that violent app, but Baby Shaker was removed by the App Store. But where a lot of copies downloaded before the App Store removed it?

Brief: breu.
Complaints: queixes.
To scold: retar.

Times Online, Thursday 23 April.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/alphamummy/2009/04/the-most-tasteless-iphone-app-the-baby-shaker.html

Informal letter.

C/Toribi Duran II, 14

17486 Castelló d’Empúries

April 15, 2009

Hi Will,

I’m just writing to tell you some places you can visit when you’re in Barcelona. I’m so proud to receive you; it’s a lot of time I don’t see you!
What about you? When are you going to arrive at the airport? You can take a taxi to go to the hotel or you can rent a car to move around Barcelona. It’s a little bit expensive but it’s more economic than go by taxi!
Anyway, you can always go by tube or train, because all monuments are connected. I recommend you to go to Sagrada Familia, I love it! I’ve hear too, that there’s a comedy play in the Liceu’s theatre, so you could get a ticket for it!
One more thing: the food in your hotel isn’t very good; you can go to any restaurant to have dinner; I suppose you’ll have some sandwiches for lunch and you can go to a bar to have breakfast.

See you soon,
Clàudia.

PS. I look forward to see you, so I’ll come to Barcelona one day and we can go for a walk.

Malaysia mistake?

Malaysian GP could switch time after rain debacle.

Last Sunday’s race at Sepang was suspend after just 33 laps. There was a torrential rain that made the race too dangerous for the drivers.

Jenson Button, the winner, thinks that it was a good decision to cancel the race although is difficult for the managers decide when they must stop a race. He remembers that last year, in Fuji it was the same weather.

A man said that the authorities were advised about the latest time to start the race and avoid the rain, because it’s not usual to rain between 17.00 and 18.00 in Malaysia.

The Prime Minister Najib Raza says that next year Grand Prix in Malaysia takes place at a different time, earlier if it’s possible.

The problem has been to the winner classifica

tion. Would it count as a normal race for Button?

Jenson Button, the winner.

Emerged: descobert.

To avoid: evitar.

To be aware: ser conscients.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12538_5153060,00.html

Sky sports, Monday 6 April.