NEWS!! NASA discovers that dunes in Mart have movement!

The dunes on Mars are more dynamic than we previously believed and they can move up to several meters, as a group of scientists said through the images of NASA MRO.

"We used to think that the sand on Mars is relatively immobile, so these new observations are changing our perspective," said Nathan Bridges, planetary scientist at the Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.


According to Bridges, "Or Mars have faster and more powerful winds, or the winds can carry more sand."

The atmosphere of Mars is very thin (about 1% that of Earth), so you need much stronger winds to move a grain of sand.


You need 130 kilometers per hour winds to move the small particles of Mart. On Earth they would move with winds around 16 mph.

The dunes where movement isn't seen suggests that it may be bigger sand grains or more adhesioned to the surface layers.



Paula.

NEWS!! Discovered a nest with rests of baby dinosaurs!

A nest with the fossils of 15 young dinosaurs inside, which apparently were buried by a landslide when they were still alive, was discovered by a group of scientists and paleontologists.

The discovery has been in a cave in Tugrikinshire, Mongolia, and they were 'baby dinosaurs' of gender 'Protoceratops'.

After relevant studies and reviews, scientists and paleontologists have calculated that the nest had a measure of a meter in diameter and their shape was round.

The researchers also succeeded in establishing that the young dinosaur species 'Protoceratops' shared a lot of time with their parents, specially during the early stages of growth, as was discovered the nest with their fossil remains.

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I think that all this discoveres are so important because a lot species that we have now in our planet come from all this dinosaurs, and my opinion about this is that we have to learn a lot about the past, to build a predictible future about species.


Paula.

INFORMAL DIALOG... TO BE OLD?

Natàlia: Grandpa, why are you so old?

Adrian: Cause I was born too many years ago!

Natàlia: And you Grandma, too?

Paula: Yes my Dear.

Adrian: You´ll also get older Paula, wrinkles will grow on your face, and your hair will get whiter and will fall out.

Natàlia: No, that´s not true!

Paula: Yes darling. I was young like you! All my life I was looking for a solution for be ever young!

Natàlia: And did you find it?

Paula: No, I didn´t.

Adrian: But become an adult and get older isn´t so bad. You learn a lot of things and you live good moments that you can remember for ever.

Natàlia: So become an adult is good!

Paula: Yes, it is. But life is not a bed of roses!

Natàlia: Anyway, I want to live it. And in this moment get older doesn´t frightens me! I love you grandparents!



Paula.

My email to the teacher... My future...??

Hi Sonia,

First, tell you that this year I’ll put all my effort in study a lot this year, because all my future is condicionated with this marks. I hope I’ll fit in the class. I’ll try to meet my goal in English: the first certificate. I want to enter to the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), where I’ll study maybe environmental biology, or genetic studies, I’m not sure yet. Then I’ll do an Erasmus exchange, probably I’ll go to United States of America, Belgium, or Germany.

After the university studies I’ll fight with all my strength and power to stop the nuclear power, and before this I’ll discover and develope other energies. One of my dreams is to minimize the human impact in the earth and their species as fast as I can, but I can’t do it alone. I think that saving our planet is a task of all of us.

But I have another type of objectives, like going to all my favourite bands concerts before I die: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Airbourne, Sisters of Mercy… A lot of them are already reached, and I’m very proud of it.

PD: I think that the video you showed us today in class was the prove that there in USA the people are more prepared that here in Spain, and my opinion is that if someone motivates us, we can do incredible things.

Paula.

MY ORAL PRESENTATION: BRITISH HUMOR (1st term)

MR. BEAN:

Mr. Bean is a British comedy of 14 half-hour episodes, written by Rowan Atkinson. The first episode was broadcast on ITV on 1 January 1984, and the last on October 2006 in United Kingdom.

The series has been the recipient of a number of international awards. The show has been sold in 245 territories of the world.

Mr. Bean is a man that’s “a child in a grown man’s body”, and he has to solve various problems presented by everyday tasks. He rarely speaks, and his humor is derived from his unusual solutions and interactions with other people, his pettiness, and occasional malevolence.

He has got a teddy bear named Teddy, his best friend. It’s inanimate, but Mr. Bean always pretends it’s alive. He buys it Christmas presents or he tries not to wake it in the mornings.

He has a mini (car), and he also has got a girlfriend, Irma Gobb, that seems to be only a friend, no more. However, Bean becomes jealous when she dances with another man at the disco, or things like that.

THE YOUNG ONES:

The Young Ones is a british sitcom, broadcasted in 1982. A programme where characters are sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue. It’s anarchic, and in the 80’s made a little funnier the television.

The main characters are four undergraduate students sharing a house:
- Vyvyan: a violent punk.
- Rick: a pompous would-be anarchist.
- Neil: a long-suffering hippie.
- Mike: the posh of the group.

The show combines traditional british humor style with violent moments, and surrealism.

LITTLE BRITAIN:

Little Britain is a British comedy, a sketch show (consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long).

The show are some parodies of British people from all walks of life in various situations familiar to the British. It can be described like a guide of ways of British lifes, really accentuated.

There are many characters, most of them played by Lucas and Walliams with varying degrees of costume and makeup.
The programme has become increasingly popular with children, despite being shown after the watershed. There has also been criticism from teachers that the programme leads to copycat behaviour in the playground.


MY SELF EVALUATION:

In my opinion I have to improve my security in front of other people, and read less. However, I think I'm good with some other things. Also, it's good to see that at first, I was soooo nervous and embarrassed, but when the presentation went on, I was more secure, and stable ;)



Paula.