MY TRIP TO ITALY

BANSKY FOR SALE

Banksy's "Flower Girl" mural is to be sold at an auction in Beverly Hills this month, along with four earlier works. The piece, which appeared on a Los Angeles has station wall in 2008, is expected to go for $300,000. The final price, though, could be much more. Another mural by the British artist, "Slave Labour", found behind a shop in London, sold recently for 750,000 pounds. 

Banksy is a graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. Hiss satritical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffitti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

 

GERMANWINGS CO-PILOT PRACTICED DESCENT ON OUTBOUND FLIGHT

Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot suspected of deliberately flying a German airliner into the French Alps, appears to have rehearsed preparations for the plane’s fatal dive during an earlier flight on the day of the crash, the French authorities said in a preliminary reportpublished on Wednesday.

The initial findings by the Bureau of Investigations and Analyses show that the co-pilot repeatedly adjusted the Germanwings plane’s altitude dial to 100 feet during its outbound flight to Barcelona, Spain, from Düsseldorf, Germany, on March 24.

The maneuvers, which were captured by the plane’s flight data recorder, took place while the captain had left the cockpit temporarily.

“To us, it is clear that this was some kind of rehearsal,” said Rémi Jouty, the bureau’s director. “We see the same actions being taken in the same circumstances, at a moment when the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit.”

WRITING UNIT 9

Write a narrative with dialogue

Something happened a couple of weeks ago which was a real test of my honesly. I was with some friends and we were staying a bar. In the table, exactly in my chair, appeared envelope with €1000. With friends were gobsmacked did not know what to do or whom to give him or if we had to stay.

"What are this, people?" I asked. "Did you see anything?" We looked at each other, then my friend said.

I'm not sure what happened, I have not seen anything" he said. “Probably, it is someone who what has forgotten it. It would be best to give to the proprietary from the bar and if the owner of the money appears, will go here.”

The idea he gave me, I found it correct right, so we didn't.

In the end, nothing happened about the money. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but at least I felt that I'd done the right thing.

WRITING UNIT 8

Write about an experience

Last year, I have went been to in London. On the first days it was very difficult there because i didn't understand a lot of people. But after some time, I met girls and boys at the shopping centers or at the cinema. We had a very good time.

One day, In my free time, I was chosen to be a dancer in a competition. I accepted but I was frightened because there was a lot of competitivity among the players.

I found a job as a waitress in a restaurant although I was not sure they would give me the job but they took me up. I worked there for three weeks and I learnt new things.

These days, I feel much happier and I think this has been an incredible year, because I have learned the language and I have made new friends. I've worked and I've had new experiences.

WRITING UNIT 7

Giving an opinion

The government plans to introduce a new law which is about introducing school on Saturday mornings in order to imporve the level of education. In my view, this would have some negative consequences for the teenagers and a lot of people will complain to the government.

In the first place, I believe that it won’t work because the children will be very tired doing six school days and angry because Saturday and Sunday are their days for relax, to do their homework, or to stay with their family...

Furthermore I think that it will be unfair because there are more other ways to improve the level of education and five days studying at school is enough. I have no doubt that a lot of families will have a lot of problems to bring their children at school (because they are working) if this law is introduced.

In conclusion, if the aim of the government is to improve the level of the education, it seems to me that there’s a better alternative: if they spend more hours on the subject that they want to improve during the five days of the school, the children will learn more and their education will be better.

WRITING UNIT 6

Spending my time…

My name is Carlota Omedes and I’m student in Casa Nostra School in Banyoles, Catalonia. Nowadays, I'm interested in studies and the friends. But the persons who are most important in my life are those who devote part of their time with me. For example, my parents, my sister, my best friend and my boyfriend. The thing which I like best is sitting on any place with my friends and talking of all.

I don’t think that the world is a bad place, but I don’t think that is the better. There are some things that make me angry, example, when the people kicks the ground papers or when the people are rude or ignorant.

As far as the future is concerned, it sometimes worries me that we won't have peace or tranquility. I find it a bit frightening that there's always a war somewhere in the world or also, gadgets electronic that increasingly have more importance to people's lives. I'm fairly optimistic about my own future though. But in a few years' time, I don't see me anywhere, because I prefer that the time decides.