CHRISTMAS QUOTES (FREE)

-Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

-Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

-Christmas is a state of mind.

-'Let's just say that on this day, a million years ago, a dude was born who most of us think was magic. But others don't, and that's cool. But we're probably right. Amen' ~ Homer Simpson.

-Forgive? Forget? What? It’s Christmas time so, whatever it was, forget about it. 

-Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.

-Christmas makes any wishes come true.

CORRECTED PUNTUATION- PRACTICE 12 (OBLIGATORY)

1. The men in question ( Harold Keene, Jim Peterson and Gerald Greene) deserve awards.

2. Several countries participed in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France and Luxembourg.

3.'Only one course was open to us surrender', said the ex-major, 'and we did'.

4. Judge Carswell- later to be nominate for the Supreme Court- had ruled against civil rights.

5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favourites magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article 'How  Not To Go Camping'.

6. 'Yes', Jim said, ' I'll be home by ten.'

7. There was only one thing to do: study till dawn.

8. Montaigne wrote the following: 'A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.'

9. The following are the primary colours: red, blue and, yellow.

10. Arriving on the 8:10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate; her husband; and Tim, their son.

11. When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lyn replied, 'All the members of my family are poor spellers. Why not me?'

12. He used the phrase 'you know' so often that I finally said, 'No, I don't know.'

13. The automobile dealer handled three males of cars: Volkswagens, Porsches, and Mercedes Benz.

14. Though Phil said he would arrive on the 9:19 flight, he came instead in the 10:36 flight.

15. 'Whoever thought,' said Helen, 'that Jack would be elected class president?'

16. In baseball, a 'show boat' is a man who shows off.

17. The minister quoted Isaiah 5:21 in last Sunday's sermon.

18. There wa a very interesting article entitled 'The New Rage for Folk Singing' in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper.

19. 'Whoever is elected secretary of the club- Ashley, or Chandra, or Aisha- must be prepared to do a great deal f work', said Jumita, the previous secretary.

20. Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) caused a great controversy when it appeared.

21. We had a great time in France- the kids really enjoyed it.

22. Some people work best in the mornings; others do better in the evenings.

23. What are you doing nex weekend?

24. Mother had to do into hospital: she had heart problems.

25. Did you understand why I was upset?

26. It is a fin idea; let us hope that it is going to work.

27. We will be arriving on Monday morning, at least, I think so.

28. A textbook can be a 'wall' between teacher and class.

29. The girl's father sat in a corner.

30. In the worlds of Murphy's Law: 'Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.'

JENNIFER ANISTON (FREE)

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born on February 11, 1969, in Sherman Oaks, California. Her father is Greek while her mother was born in New York City and has two half-brothers.

As a child, Aniston lived in Greece for a year with her family. They then moved to  Pennsylvania, where they lived with her grandmother. While living in Eddystone, Aniston was enrolled at a local elementary school. She and her family later moved to New York City.

After several minor film and television roles, Aniston hit Hollywood gold by playing Rachel Green on the hit Friends. She started to became very famous and after that her profesional career grew up. This celebrity has participated in several films like ‘Just Go With It’, ‘Marley & Me’, ‘The break-up’…

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in terms of her courtships, her most famous exes are Gerard Butler, Bradley Cooper, John Mayer and Brad Pitt.

Nowadays, Jennifer Aniston, 46, married longtime love, Justin Theroux, 44, in August, but that’s not all the couple has to be happy about. Actually, after almost a year of in vitro fertilization treatments, Jen had learned just before her wedding day that she was expecting twins.

THE GREEN TOURISM GURU(FREE)

Situated at the foot of the Tatra Mountains, the Slovakian town of Poprad is home yo AquaCity- a luxury spa and leisure complex recently voted the world's greenest resort. By exploting the geothermla properties of a nearby underground lake, the resort is able to provide renewable energy for the whole area. Perhaps the only thing more remarkable than AquaCuty itself is the man behind it, Jan Telensky.

Initially, he trained as a locksmith, a job he excelled at, and tried to better himself by taking a series of evening classes, studying Maths, Russian, Physics and Biology.
In 1969, he moved to England.

At first, his lack of English presented numerous problems. Despite this, he was determined to succeed. During s string of menial jobs, he improved his linguistic skills and saved enough to buy a delicatessen. Tekensky then built the business up and eventually sold it on for 200.000 pounds.
The profit was ploughed into a new venture-property- and before too long, he had built up a substantial portfolio. He quickly became restless again, though, and took part-time job at a secretarial training institute.

He climbed the corporate ladder and became UK sales manager, before raising sufficient capital to set up a rival company. This was soon doing so well that in 1989 he put his former employers out of business, buying them for a sum of around 75000 pounds!

He then returned to his native country and established a plastic recycling business, whilst continuing to expand his operations both at home and abroad, Telensky now employs over 1500 people, with an annual turnover of 70 million pounds.

He married in 1998, and his wife, Alena, originated from Poprad! As a result, he came to love the area- and this led directly to his newest and most incredible venture!

COLDPLAY (FREE)

An icon I am interested in could be one of my favourite groups : Coldplay.

A general public may know Coldplay for their big hits such us ‘Yellow’, ‘Paradise’,

‘Clocks’or ‘Fix You’. But what this group make so special is that despite of their

worldwide popularity, the band has remained protective of how their music is in the

media. So I want to show you a bit more of this band and how they make music with

meaning and emotion.

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland

under the name of Pectoralz at the University College of London. After that, Guy

Berryman joined the group and they decided to change their group name as Starfish.

Finally, Will Champion completed the line-up. The band renamed themselves

‘Coldplay’ in 1998.

This group has since released six albums: Parachutes in 2000; A Rush of Blood to the

Head in 2002; X&Y in 2005; Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends in 2008; Mylo

Xyloto in 2011 and finally Ghost Stories and A Head full of Dreams in 2014.

Coldplay has received 43 awards from 117 nominations and they also receive eight

MTV awards. They have also won five Q and received the award for best album by

three of their four albums.

Today Coldplay continue being one of the most popular band in the world. Maybe it is

because how their four complemented personalities show the music they created

together.

From my point of view Coldplay’s music is so amazing and it is one of the few bands

that can make me cry instantly when I am depressed or not and nowadays there are few

bands that can do this.

BRAINSTORMING (OBLIGATORY) Practica 11

-I believe that university exams focused on the right way since sometimes it cost a lot to pass them.

-Nowadays we are living in a world that without technologies we cannot communicate with the mankind.

-Reading a novel is better than watching films but many consider this a waste of time.

-Poetry it is difficult to understand and nowadays is old-fashioned  but if you like it, you will have a amazing time since you admire the way that you can tell something.

-Some people are still believing in God. For me, we have to believe in something to be happy in someone life.

-Felipe VI King was coronated last year with his wife Leticia in Madrid. Since this time, his rule as king has been very important in our country.

-Catalonia is attempting to be independent although it has many problems to achieve this goal in these days.

LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE(FREE)

Researchers have found that laughter has important health benefits because it can relieve stress by releasing endorphins and also by reducing levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline. In addition, laughter can help to clean out the lungs and to exercise a large number of muscles and organs in the body. Non-stop laughing for an hour would burn 500 calories. It is even claimed that laughing can make you live longer. However, for that to happen, Norwegian Sven Svebak says that the outward signs of cheerfulness are less important than a sense of humour. A sense of humour is more of an attitude- an ability to see the funny side of things in all situations. A sense of humour is not genetic, it is something we develop and work on with others. This may be why, Svebak suggests, country people have a bettee-developed sense of humour than people in the city: they have closer communities.