Pau Gasol in the All-Star 2016 game in Toronto!!

Some articles to read:

- Pau Gasol added to NBA All-Star Game

- Pau Gassol and his Spanish supporters to play in the All-Star Game

Pau Gasol Sáez is a Spanish professional basketaball player who plays for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Jimmy Butter is Chicago Bulls swingman. Currently, he has got a strained left knee, so he will miss three or four weeks. The NBA has announced that Bulls big man Pau Gasol will take the place of Butler in the All-Star Game. Pau is very lucky because it's the sixth time that he has gone to this game.

But what's the All-Star Game?
It's an exhibition basketball game that will be played today. It will be the 65th edition and it will be the first time that the game will be held outside the USA, that is, in Toronto(Canada).

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario. In 2011, Toronto had a population of 2,615,060,making it the fourth most populous city in North America, after Mexico City, New York City and Los Angeles.

MY ELDER SON IS A COMMUTER!!

What does commuter mean?
Do you know what's the meaning of 'Day in day out'?
Are you or any of your family a commuter? 

'Day in day out'is a habitual action that we do everyday. In Spanish it means 'Un dia sí, otro no'.
A 'Commuter' is a person who travels everyday for going to work, school or university.

There are lots of people who spend about two hours in subways, trains, buses, bikes everyday. But there are also about 900,000 people called 'Supercommuters' who are on route for more than four hours. In my opinion it's very hard! You spend almost the same hours working than the hours you spend going to work.

I reckon this happens especially in cities, because I live in a village and I spend only ten minutes to go to school. However, I remember when I was in Bath that we spent more than an hour in the bus to go to the school.

A FORMAL LETTER

                           
                                 

                             
                                                                                                              34 Whitehouse Rd                                                                                                               Oxford OX5 55K

                                                                                                              31st January 2016

Peter Bridges

Starlight Café

54 Market St

Oxford OX4 35D

Dear Mr. Bridges,

I saw your advertisement for part-time staff in the local paper, 'The world' last Saturday and I am writing to apply for a job as a kitchen helper in your café "Starlight Café" on Oxford.

I am seventeen years old and I am a student at the Mediterranean Sea School! I am responsible, intelligent and very friendly. Most people that have tasted one of my dishes have said that I am very good at cooking. I have worked as a chef in a restaurant twice and as a kitchen helper in a bar, so I know how to do the work and I am used to teamwork.

At the moment, I am working in a post office. It's too small and a bit boring, so I want to change my job to do something more interesting that I really love. The earliest date I could start working at the Starlight Café is Friday, 12th February.

I am sending you my photo, and I look foward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

María José García.

SEPARATE LIVES

Antonio Banderas was born in 1960 in Malaga, Spain. Neither his mother nor his father was actors, but Antonio loved acting a lot. At the age of eighteen he moved to Madrid to become an actor. There, he acted in small theatres until he started in the world of cinema. His first role was in 1982, in a film directed by Pablo Almodóvar. I was called 'Laverinto de Pasiones'. Before getting married with Melanie Griffith, he had a relationship with the actress, Ana Laza, but finally they Split up. Melanie Griffith was born in 1957, in Nw York, USA. Her mother, Tippi Hedren was an actress. Melani, in her neraly forty years of career , has worked as a model and she's performed a good number of roles of supporting actress. Her first rolewas in 'La noche se mueve', in 1975. She was married with Dan Johnson twice, and she has a daughter with him. She was also married with Steven Bauer, who she had a son with, Alexander. Antonio and Melanie first met in 1995, in the filming of 'Two Much'. They got married in May,1996. This same year Stella del Carmen, their daughter, was born. They got divorced in 2014.

PREZZI: RABBIT-PROOF FENCE

WHAT 35 LONG YEARS!!

35 years have passed since the murder of John Lennon. This and all the gender-based violence cases we hear everyday on the news have reminded me of this beautiful song by John Lennon.

John Lennon was an English musician who became very famous as one of the members of the Beatles. He died on 8th December, 1980, when David Chapman shot him five times in the archway of the building where he lived, the Dakota building, in New York City.
That morning was very frantic for both John and her wife, Yoko Ono. It's because that morning they had attended journalists, they had been to the barber's and Anne Leibovitz did a photo shoot for him.
John and Ono were strolling to The Hit Factory. In the Dakota's archway, Chapman first saw Lennon and he showed him a copy of 'Double Fantasy' on which he wrote: John Lennon, 1980.
At 22.45h, Lennon and his wife arrived at the Dakota building by limousine.Chapman was waiting. Suddenly, he shot Lennon, killing him.

This ex-Beatle was reported dead at The Roosevelt hospital. He was forty years old. Ono didn't want to organize him a funeral.

I don't like John Lennon's songs very much, but the song I like the most is IMAGINE by John Lennon, obviously.

FREE WILLY! WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

- JAPANESE WHALING SHIPS DEPART FOR ANTARTIC HUNT (BBC NEWS)






The piece of news says that Japanese whaling ships have departed for the Antartic hunt. They have resumed the programme after a year.
Japan says that they hunt whales for scientific research, which is one of the exception in which whaling hunt is allowed.
But in 2014, the International Court of Justice said its Antartic hunt wasn't scientific and it should finish.
Now, Japan is trying to show that there are lots of whales in the sea, and because of it, they don't mind hunting them.

I'm totally against it. I think this programme is inhuman and unsustainable and in my opinion, they don't use whales for scientist researches.

RESUME means 'Reanudar'.