Times square

Times square is a must for visitors to New York City. 50 million people come here every year t go to the theatre, see the neon signs and just relax!

BROADWAY:
This street runs along Times Square. It has lots of theatres where you can see famous plays and musicals, like Mamma Mia! Broadway is actually a road that is 53 km long!!

HEY, TAXI:
Times Square is always full of yellow taxis. They drop people at the theatre and at the cinema at all hours of the day and night!

THE FAMOUS STEP:
These steps are in front of the theatre ticket office. People buy cheap tickets here, meet their friends or just sit down and relax.

The New car revolution

The new google car

When we started designing the world’s first fully self-driving vehicle, our goal was a vehicle that could shoulder the entire burden of driving. Vehicles that can take anyone from A to B at the push of a button could transform mobility for millions of people, whether by reducing the 94 percent of accidents caused by human error (PDF), reclaiming the billions of hours wasted in traffic, or bringing everyday destinations and new opportunities within reach of those who might otherwise be excluded by their inability to drive a car.

Now we’re announcing the next step for our project: this summer, a few of the prototype vehicles we’ve created will leave the test track and hit the familiar roads of Mountain View, Calif., with our safety drivers aboard.
Our safety drivers will test fully self-driving vehicle prototypes like this one on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., this summer.
We’ve been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities, and ensuring our software and sensors work as they’re supposed to on this new vehicle. The new prototypes will drive with the same software that our existing fleet of self-driving Lexus RX450h SUVs uses. That fleet has logged nearly a million autonomous miles on the roads since we started the project, and recently has been self-driving about 10,000 miles a week. So the new prototypes already have lots of experience to draw on—in fact, it’s the equivalent of about 75 years of typical American adult driving experience.

Each prototype’s speed is capped at a neighborhood-friendly 25mph, and during this next phase of our project we’ll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal that allow them to take over driving if needed. We’re looking forward to learning how the community perceives and interacts with the vehicles, and to uncovering challenges that are unique to a fully self-driving vehicle—e.g., where it should stop if it can’t stop at its exact destination due to construction or congestion. In the coming years, we’d like to run small pilot programs with our prototypes to learn what people would like to do with vehicles like this.

Writing about traveling abroad

Writing about travelling abroad

Dear Malcolm

Thanks for your message. I’m looking forward to your visit to Catalonia. I’ll come to the airport with my father to collect you on Friday, but we have to know your arriving flight time. Can you check and tell it to us, please?

So here’s some information about Catalonia. I’m only talking about Girona because it’s where my house is.

First of all, you should know that here, raining is not very common, I mean, it rains, but not too much, so you better take sunglasses and cloth like, trousers, sport shoes, T-shirts, caps, socks, and your own private things like the mobile phone, camera (if you want)…

If you like party, there are some discos here, but we can also go to Barcelona if you want, and you’ll meet my friends.

If you’re interested, we can try water sports like: rowing, kayaking…

See you on Friday.

Nicolai

Writing about a book: The alchimist

Writing about a book

Paulo Coelho wrote the alchemist in 1988. The book explains the history of a boy who wants to find the treasure he had dreamed twice. The dream shows him in the pyramids with a boy next to a church. When he’s going to open the treasure, he wakes up.

The book explains us with a story the importance of following a dream.

This type of work is typical of philosophical. It reflects the importance of the dreams. Characters are very good described. The comparisons, descriptions… of simple situation make you think a lot.

This book has sold 65 million copies all around the world in 63 languages, so this book has been, and is already a successful.

Nicolai

Airbus accident in Spain

Airbus remains committed to A400M despite crash

The chief executive of Airbus Group has said the company remains committed to its A400M military plane following Saturday's crash in Spain.

Four airbus employees were killed and two seriously injured when an A400M plane crashed on a test flight.

Shares in the aerospace and defence firm have fallen 4.5% in Paris to €60.54.

All A400M aircraft have been grounded but Airbus says it will press ahead with a test flight on Tuesday.

In a letter to staff seen by the Reuters news agency, Tom Enders said testing would go ahead as planned to "demonstrate to our customers, the air forces, that we fully trust this great transport plane and are as committed to the programme and the further ramp-up of deliveries and capabilities as ever".

Mr Enders asked staff to observe a minute's silence at midday for the two test pilots and two engineers who lost their lives on Saturday.

The A400M was developed at a cost of €20bn ($22.3bn; £14.5bn) to give Europe's NATO partner independent access to heavy aircraft for military and humanitarian operations.

But it has been hit by delays and cost overruns.

European governments injected more money into the project in 2010. But further delays and technical problems resurfaced last year, leading to management changes.

In February, Airbus reported €551m in additional costs relating to the new A400M delays. The total written off over the lifetime of the project is now more than €4.75bn.

Analysts Berenberg warned further delays would "almost certainly" hamper Airbus Group's ability to sell the A400M in the export markets, which it said was the only way the aircraft would "ever make any money".

The crashed aircraft was due to be delivered to Turkey and was on its maiden test flight when it ploughed into a field one mile north of Seville's San Pablo airport.

Spain said it had recovered the two flight recorders.

13 year-old boy shoots a teacher

Horror in Spanish school as boy, 13, shoots teacher dead with a crossbow and fires an arrow into another's face after drawing up 'list of 25 he wanted to kill'

• Boy, 13, arrested after deadly attack at secondary school in Barcelona
• The teenager allegedly shot and killed a teacher using a crossbow
• Teen had written a 'kill list' of 25 teachers and students, classmates say
• Two students and two teachers were injured in the attack this morning
• Attack took place on 16th anniversary of Columbine school massacre

A teenage boy who shot and killed a teacher and wounded several others in an attack inside a school in Barcelona had a 'hit list', local media reports.

The 13-year-old boy is said to have listed 25 names of teachers and pupils he intended to kill and had told classmates of his plans as recent as last week, but none had taken him seriously.

The teenager reportedly walked into the school armed with a machete and crossbow around 9.15am this morning, killing a male teacher and injuring two students and two teachers.

The teenager is said to have launched the attack in his own classroom, targeting his female Catalan teacher and her daughter, also a student at the school, Spanish media reports.

According to a witness, the boy had been late for class and shot and injured the female teacher in the face, before stabbing her 13-year-old daughter.

Student Gemma Jarque said she and her classmates barricaded themselves into their classroom when they heard the attack.

'We were just starting the class and suddenly we heard screams... so we shut ourselves inside our classroom in order to be safe', she said.

'We saw the teacher lying on the floor in a pool of blood.'

Information from this link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046772/Youth-detained-deadly-school-attack-Spain.html

Romeo and Juliet activities

CHAPTER1: THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES

When the story begins we see both families fighting in the street...

1.1. Who wanted peace and who wanted to fight?

The Motagues and the capulets were fitghting but the king of Verona wanted the peace.

1.2. What was considered to be a great insult at that time?

It was considered an insult that Sampson bit the thumb of a sirvaint.

1.3. When the Prince arrived , what did he decide ?

He decided that if the two families fight again, they will both die.

2. What was happening to Romeo at the beginning of the play? How did he feel? Why?

Romeo was sad because he was in love with Rosaline, but she didin't love him, so he was so sad.

3.They discovered that the Capulets were going to celebrate a party...

3.1. How did Romeo find out about it?

He discovered it because he meet a sevant in the street. This servant didn't know they were Montagues and asked them for help. Meanwhile they were helping him, they saw that Rosaline would be there. 

3.2. Why did he want to go there?

Because he knew that Rosaline would be there.

3.3. Why did they decide to wear masks?

Because Montagues weren't invited, so, to not being discovered, the decided to put masks.

4.At the Capulets' house, Lady Capulet was talking to her daughter. What did she tell her?

Juliet said that he was too young to get married.