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

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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.