Simoca - Escaba - Taco Ralo - Ibatín

*Simoca
Location:
simoca city is situated in the southeast from the province of Tucuman, about 50km from San Miguel de Tucumán in 157 national road
Simoca town is known in our country as “The cradle of tradition and folklore” or “The national capital of sulky”. Here it`s placed the most ancient and picturesque event that you can visit in the province: The Simoca Street Market”.
In 1700 Simoca was a very important town. The roads` reformation - because of San Miguel de Tucumán relocation to his current location- originated one route that crossed the town. For the travellers who were passing in the North of the country, Simoca was an obligatory stop, which turned her into a national stop.
It caused, already in the 19th century, the Saturday´s meetings, in which The Simoca steet market was consolidated as an impostergable event.

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*Escaba
*Taco Ralo
*Ibatin

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clue 17

Daniel and Mr Fairfax started to watch a tv programme after the game of cars finished at 11 o`clock. they were still watching it at five past eleven when Alice Fairfax came in and joined them.

Clue 13

In the drawer of the desk was a will. The will left $1.000.000 to Daniel

Brazil against violence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6956089.stm

"Brazil against violence"

VOCABULARY
grim: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
boosting: the act of giving hope or support to someone
grants: the act of providing a subsidy
shantytown: a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties

MAIN IDEAS
Brazil`s president, Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new plan to reduce the high level of crime in the country's cities.
The programme has been built to reduce the highest murder rates of Brazil, which is around 45.000 people killed each year and is the highest murder rates in the world.
This plan cost over $3bn (£1.5bn) and includes new prisons, because the ones that exist are overcrowded, with special facilities to provide jobs and education for convicts. They also want to improve the quality of policing.

PERSONAL COMMENTS
I really love Rio but it`s something so sad that a place so beautiful like this, the perfect place for me, is so dangerous! a shame! :(
This plan seems to be the first step to something that needs years of hard work to be fixed. I hope that Lula, or the others politicians, go on with this kind of activities to help Rio to shine again, as he always did it.

Julls eating ( sooo strange!)

Amazon river 'longer than Nile'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm

Amazon river 'longer than Nile'

Main ideas

Scientists from Brazil and Peru are doing new and important researches to show the world that the largest river in the world is The Amazon, and not The Nilo as it´s said. Actually, the Amazon is 6,800km compared to the Nile that is 6,695km.

They said that they made and expedition and they discovered that in the North side of the river, in Peru the river begins in an ice-covered mountain in southern Peru called Mismi. I was a very difficult job for scientists because they had to be in very cold places and at an altitude of 5000m

Personal reaction

It`s something strange for me... let me tell you: honestly I had ever thought that the Nilo was the largest river! that´s why I have chosen that article because maybe someone is so ignorant as me! and I study Tourism! soooo saaaddd jejej

I think that those researches made by scientists are very important not just for stadisticals purposes, for example they are very important for tourism because turists want to visit "the largest river in the world" and the most important is that scientists have to try to give us the most exactly information

Julls.

The most memorable summer of my childhood

When I was younger I used to love going to my aunt´s fields with my cousins and my elder sister Mariana, generally on sundays after the typical barbecue with my family , because for us it was an amazing place full of magic and strange things, of course those things were created by our minds. We loved going there because during the summer there were manies mangos, strawberries, oranges and other fruits and we also liked collecting some neals in a river near by.

I remember that after finishing the barbecue we used to "dissapper" magically from the table one by one and the most important thing was that my little sister Daniela (now she is 15) didn`t have to see us because she used to tell our secrets to our parents and she was bottering and crying all day long, so that`s why we had decided not to include her in our "adventures".

Once, we were climbing a tree with my cousins, and my sister Euge (my eldest cousin) was on the top of the tree because she was trying to show us that she was the best climber but... she didn`t realize that above her head there was a very big bee hive and they were going to sting her, we began to shout and when she realized about her situation she saw that there were many bees around her and she was desperated, so she tryed to get down fromm the tree very quickly and she fall down in the river that was under the tree... it was so funny!

Julls

Julls

Let me see... I´m easy going when I really want it: one day I´m really simpathy and anohter one I´m all day very quite and sometimes shy, I think it´s my defect but I think that I just need some "air" for myself; I´m very meticulous and a solidary person.

Tourists brave Chad's wild territory

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6702259.stm

Tourists brave Chad's wild territory

Vocabulary

spillover: to cause or allow to run or fall from a container.
allure: fascination; charm; appeal
bumpy: having many difficulties or failures; full of ups and downs
herds: A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants.
Darfur: a province in the W Sudan
Ivory: the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus, etc.
Poacher: someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
Rotting: the state of being rotten; decay; putrefaction
Tusk: An elongated pointed tooth, usually one of a pair, extending outside of the mouth in certain animals such as the walrus, elephant, or wild.
Turget: to direct toward a target
Bona fide: Made or carried out in good faith; sincere .

Main Ideas

Chad, a country in Africa is growing in popularity with foreign visitors althought the conflicts in Sudan.
A very important place for tourists that want to have new and different adventures are placed in the Zakouma National Park but you have to now that it`s not easy to get there. The most interesting and beautiful in that park are ELEPHANTS! they are in the whole park in massive herds but there`s a big problem that is killing them: poachers.
Poachers began to kill elephants because they want to sell their ivory so, in the park, as a solution and to protect the animals they have created an anti-poaching rangers to deal with the attackers. The killers are also killing giraffes just to make bracelets of giraffe tails.
It´s a really sad reality and anti-poachers are doing their best to win this real "war". Those killers don´t realize that if they kill the animals they will disappear very soon!

personal opinion

It´s a shame! poacher...don´t they realize that people and other tourists prefer to see a giraffe or an elephant in their real environment than to see them in just a bracelet or other kind of jewellery? they prefer 50 dollars more than to see a giraffe running or an elephant having a shower with his charming little elephants?
I think that those people do that kind of things because maybe they don´t value it because for them elephants and giraffes are just animals that they see very often, maybre like cows are for us!!! but it´s not a justification

Murder in Zakouma National Park

The Zakouma National Park, in Chad and is a beautiful place to visit. The most interesting here are ELEPHANTS and GIRAFFES they are in the whole park in massive herds but poachers are killing them. That´s why there is an anti-poacher team to avoid it.

Julls from Luleslandia

Here, just in the English class ... and this just a short "introduction" (as Charly asked us) about what is it going to be about. I hope you can can read mi opinion about different topics and discuss about them, just to know other opinions. I also hope to receive some opinion about something interesting you read and sth you want to share with me and others...
OK ... "see you" in other "online meeting" because I want to go to buy some chocolate because it´s very cold...

many things to talk about... there´s time!

hugs

Julls