SOUTH AFRICA

KWAITO MUSIC - SOUTH AFRICA

THE MEDIA - ADVERTISEMENTS

YOU MUST FIND A WRITTEN AD AND PRESENT IT TO THE CLASS.YOU MAY ALSO CREATE ONE ON YOUR OWN.

YOU HAVE TO TELL WHAT THE AD CONSISTS OF AND WHY YOU CONSIDER NEWSPAPERS SHOULD PUBLISH IT.

HERE YOU HAVE SOME EXAMPLES.

CARNIVAL IS COMING!!!

Carnivals consist of games, rides, shows, feasting, and overall merriment, which developed from the traditional outdoor festivals of Europe in honor of seasonal changes or religious holidays that date back hundreds of years ago.

A famous American carnival is the Mardi Gras, which is held in late winter in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was introduced to America on March 3, 1699 by French explorer, Iberville. 

Games you play at a fair or carnival also go by the slang name, “joints”.

CLICK TO SEE PHOTOS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 

THE MEDIA

A Commercial or an advertisement or an ad.

BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.

Once we start unit 6, we will use newspaper articles to practice and learn. 

ISN'T IT CUTE?

                                                                       

By Daniel Sanz.

EVERYTHING FOR TEENS

EVERYTHING FOR TEENAGERS

Hello my friends!

This post is dedicated to these students who are in exam time (personally, I think that this time is all the time!) Apart from this,we want to say  that if we are here, it is because we have already finished for now.

I hope you'll pass all your exams, but everyone knows it’s necessary to study.

In our blog, you can publish comments like the jokes from some teacher in the exams ( this theorem can’t be in the exams, ZAS! First question, "this theorem", thanks teacher J) or in class ( I know that your Geography teacher is very funny! Tell us why he is so.) Also, students of Latin and Greek, we know that you have a lot of exams in a short time, here, you can leave your stress. This won’t help you to pass your exams, but it´s probable that you will  feel better (sometimes, hitting strongly the keyboard is funny and makes people feel more relaxed) here, you can do it but be careful because it’s important that you don’t break it.We need to add posts.

EXCURSIONS!

And remember, we also organize day trips.
This month, the trip will be to the mountains, where you can do many activities such as skiing, horseback riding, canoeing. The tour will last from Friday to Sunday and we will  sleep in a wonderful mountain lodge. So you know, if you need a relaxing weekend in your stressed life as a teenager, you cannot miss this fantastic tour!
And don´t forget to visit the blog because every month we'll have different excursions.
Don´t worry, be happy! :D

TOPICS FOR A WEEK.

Hello guys! Welcome to another topic for a week, today the topic is: Anorexia in young people.

Well, nowadays young people, more young girls than boys have problems about eating, with anorexia.
Many youngsters when asked about  anorexia, will answer that this issue is not very important but they think like that because they don't know the consequences of this illness.
One person with anorexia could die! But young people would never think about it. Why are you going to die because you are anorexic? noo, of course not! But YES. It's a very important illness.

The people who have this illness nowadays don't think that they are sick, they only say that they are fat, and the only thing they want is to be thin. If you ask them, they will say that they are fat, although they aren't, and you can insist, you can tell them that they are OK, they aren't fat, but all you say isn’t going to affect them, 
And this is very dangerous and important, and because of that, we, the healthy people, must help them and make them see their problem.

Furthermore, in our blog we have received a lot of emails with another teenager issue: the sexual problems. 

A lot of teens have told us that they don’t know how to work out many problems; for example an anonymous boy told me that after making love with his girlfriend he saw that the condom was broken. I advised him to go to buy a "day after pill".

Moreover, we frequently read that many girls are pregnant, erection problems and a lot of stupid questions too.

In spite of all, I advice every teen to tell someone their problem and  don’t forget that  there are always solutions and in the worst case, parents will always help.

This is all from our sex-problems section.

By Verónica díaz, Irene Escribano, Laura Parra and Cezar Tamas.

SOMETHING FUNNY.

IS IT A REAL LIFE?

We were surfing in internet and we have found these videos, we think that it’s very funny, and very easy to understand.

We want you to laugh with us!



And this is the same video but  David’s voice has been changed into Spanish.

                                                    By  Laura Parra and Irene Escribano.

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO?

Choose a place.

ARAB COUNTRIES ARE BOILING.

Young Arabs who can't wait to throw off shackles of tradition.

The frustrated generation at the heart of the protests tell how their progress is being stifled by unemployment and corruption.

Read more about young people.

And follow the link if you want to know why they are so upset. As we have 

seen in Egypt.

And click if you want to know more about Egypt.

 

 

DUMB LAWS IN AMERICA

These are some example of dumb laws in America:

-Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.

Incestuous marriages are legal

-It is illegal to impersonate a person of the clergy.

-It is illegal to maim oneself to escape duty.

It is considered an offense to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of spooking horses.

- It is illegal to sell peanuts in Lee County after sundown on Wednesday.
 

-Dominoes may not be played on Sunday.


 

It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

 -Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.

-Boogers may not be flicked into the wind.

-It is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

-You must have windshield wipers on your car.

You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket

-Masks may not be worn in public.

-Women are able to retain all property they owned prior to marriage in the case of divorce. However, this provision does not apply to men.

-It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle.

If an animal control officer is in uniform, it means to the public that he is an animal control officer. 

-Women may not wear a ‘lewd dress’ in public.

-No one may use a ‘funk ball’ within the city limits.

-Bathing in city fountains is prohibited.

-No person within the city may possess confetti.

-It is illegal to spit orange peels on the sidewalk.

-‘Spray String’ is banned.

-Most locales do not have this problem, but Mobile found it necessary to ban bicycles from the interstate highways.

-If one wishes to read palms in the city, they must first pay $10 for a permit.

-It is illegal to howl at ladies within the city limits.

-It is unlawful to wear women’s pumps with sharp, high heels.

If you want to know why these laws exist you can visit this page:

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/alabama?page=0

                                                                   By Carlos Bayo,Belén García  and  Jesús Gallego.

NOTHING LIKE AUSTRALIA

Would you like to go on holiday? I'd love it.

AN ANIMATED CANADIAN FILM

This touching short animation tells the story of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to life in Canada after being uprooted from her wartorn homeland. She has come to seek a quieter and safer life, although memories of war and death linger, memories that are awakened when the children at her new school prepare for a scary Halloween. From Far Away speaks to the power within us all to adapt like this little girl and to welcome a newcomer.  

A VIDEO QUIZ

I still haven't found what I'm looking for. U2

A SONG FOR VALENTINE'S DAY

WITH LYRICS

VALENTINE'S DAY

Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 to celebrate love and affection between the members of a couple. 

While sending cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts is traditional in the UK, Valentine's Day has various regional customs.

In Norfolk, a character called 'Jack' Valentine knocks on the back door of houses leaving sweets and presents for children.

In Saudi Arabia, in 2002 and 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, as the day is considered a Christian holiday. In 2008 this ban created a black market of roses and wrapping paper. 

In Wales, many people celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen (St Dwynwen's Day) on January 25 instead of (or as well as) Valentine's Day.

In Spain Valentine's Day is known as "San Valentín" and is celebrated the same way as in the UK.

Japan launched a successful campaign to make March 14 a "reply day", where men are expected to return the favour to those who gave them chocolates on Valentine's Day, calling it White Day for the color of the chocolates offered; and the same way in South Corea where the women give chocolates to men in Valentine’s day.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL OF YOU!

                                                                   By Julia López and Macarena Navarro.

MUSICSLIFE

Hey there! This is a new blog created to talk about music and share whatever you want related to that topic. To start with it, here we have the #1 of different countries:

->USA and Sweden: Grenade – Bruno Mars

->Argentina: Lo mejor de mi vida eres tú – Ricky Martin

->Brazil: We R who we R – Ke$ha

->Portugal: Loca – Shakira

->Chile: Hey, soul sister – Train

->Italy and Belgium: Rolling in the deep – Adele

->Japan: Ecstasy – Kumi Koda

->Russia: Ya Prosto Lyublyu Tebya – Dima Bilan 

    

->Iralnd and UK: Price tag – Jessie J ft. B.o.B

->Spain: Hold my hand –Michael Jackson ft. Akon

Enjoy it! And we hope to see you soon! xx

By Cristina Alonso, Marina Jiménez,Julia López and Macarena Navarro.

INTRODUCING PACO JHONS

Paco Jhons is a man, who is 32 years old and lives with his mother and his two cats(charlot and blaky).

He never goes out and we are lucky because he will come here to our radio programme.

He has studied computer engineering,he hates phylosophy and politics and he loves criticising celebrities.

The last work that he has written, talks about Justin Bieber and it is having the same success that he had with the tokkio hotel criticism.


This is Paco Jhons(on the right) with his fans.

 Paco Jhons

                                                                                   By Lidia Enciso, Sandra Artigas and Daniel Sanz.

BBOYING

Break Dancing - Battle of the year.

 

The bboying appeared in the mid-1970s in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Bronx, because of the musical hits of James Brown. In a party, the DJ Kool Herc, seeing people became excited when they heard the “breaks” (parts of a song whithout lyrics) of James Brown's songs, use two disks of the same album to play only these breaks all the time.

The most enthusiastic dancers started to dancing in the floor, making spins on their backs, heads, elbows, knees, etc. This kind of dance was called bboying (or breakdance, but this is the comercial name used by the media) because dancers used the “breaks” of the song to dance, and dancers were called bboys (break boys).The residents of this neighborhoods, were more time in parties dancing and enjoying music than on the streets.

Later, the DJ Afrika Bambaataa, inspired by DJ Kool Herc, became famous in the Bronx, and years later, around the world. He noticed the change that music, dance, and painting were causing to the youths in his neighborhood. These elements (music, dance, and painting) were an alternative escape way to gangs, drugs and bad life so sadly common in poor neighborhoods like the Bronx orBrooklyn. Hence the fast expansion among youth from different districts. In an attempt to define what was happening in his own neighborhood, Afrika Bambaataa decided to give the name of HipHop to this new movement, which included dance (Hustle, Lyndi Hop, Up-rocking, Bboying...), music (salsa, funk, rap,...) and painting (aerosol, bombing, murals, political graffitti,...). Years later, KRS One (also from the Bronx) attempted unify all elements of HipHop into four groups: Djing, Mcing, Graffiti and Bboying.It was a new culture with very different roots and everyone was welcome. Its only rule: "Peace, Love, Unity, and Having Fun".

Four basic elements form the foundation of breaking. The first is Toprock, a term referring to the upright dancing and shuffles. The second element is Downrock or Footworks which refers to dancing performed on the floor. The third element is the Freeze, the poses that breakers throw into their dance sets to add punctuation to certain beats and end their routines. The fourth element is the Power Moves. These are the most impressive acrobatic movements normally made up of circular motions where the dancer will spin on the floor or in the air.

In 1977, the group Rock Steady Crew (RSC) was formed. They were one of the groups that popularized the Bboying worldwide thanks to its appearance in several films and her performance at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984.

Some known bboys are Crazy Legs (RSC) or Bboy Crazy Smooth (Breaks Kru).

                                                      By Pablo Lerma and Carlos González.

AMISH COMMUNITY

 Do you remember we have mentioned sometime, a community who live as in the past?
Well, here you have a video about  them.

Newsy Video: New York City Bans Smoking in Public Places

WATCH


COMMENT
Since most classes will contain a mix of smokers and non-smokers, the question of smoking bans is always a good topic for discussion or debate.

Smoking ban extended to parks and coastlines

( BBC news)

Unit 5 SPEAKING TASK.

 SPEAKING ABOUT...

1.GROUPS OF FOUR (maximun)

2.SET UP A BLOG ON THE TOPIC YOU CHOOSE. WRITE THE FIRST POST.

3. PREPARE AN INTERVIEW TO MAKE  TO THE BLOGGERS ON A RADIO STATION (name it).

4. PRESENT YOUR WORK TO THE CLASS.

I am going to include here some links to different blogs.

Travelling,  

 Australia

A BRAND NEW BLOG

NOW WE ARE ABOUT TO CREATE A BLOG FOR OUR CLASS.

LET'S BEGIN....