Angela lee duckworth. Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

SUMMARY 

Angela lee duckworth left a good job to being a math teacher, and as a common teacher she made tests, she gave out homework and then she calculated de grades. But she realized that the only difference between her best and worst students wasn’t only the IQ. So she arrived to de conclusion that the really important thing is a much better understanding and learning from a motivational perspective, to prove this she started studying the progress of children in so much different context, and she realized that there was one characteristic emerged. The important thing wasn’t the IQ, it wasn’t good looking, and it wasn’t a good health, the thing really important is the grit, the passion and perseverance for very long-term goals, living a life like a marathon and not as a sprint.

VOCABULARY 

EMERGE: Sortir

GRIT: Determinació

INVERSELY: Inversa

MY OPINION

I totally agree with that, in my case I'm studynig second of batxillerat and I haven't known yet what I want to do next year I don't have a goal, and as Angela lee said I don't have grit to study and have a good mark to be what I want, I think that if I had a goal maybe I would have best marks. 

MY NEXT SUMMER

Summer is coming and like every summer I want to enjoy of this summer a lot. But this summer will be different than others because is the first summer that I’m going to work I’ll work in a summer camp during July and on August I will work in a book shop. But when I won’t be working I want to enjoy a lot, first of all on June 22 I will go with my friends to a camping to spend the first days of summer together.  And on September, I don’t know the dates exactly; I’m going to travel to New York with my family. I think that it’s going to be a really good summer.

MY DREAM

My dream is travel to India, I had this dream since I was I child, I always say that If I have to save money during all my like I’ll do it. Why it’s my dream? Well it’s my dream because I think that India it’s one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and because It’s a really different and amazing culture. If I can I will go to India when I finish the college, and I want go with one of my bests friends, Maria. I’ll go to do a volunteer with children or something social, because you see the reality of the country and because when I finish the career I wish do a lot of travels so I have to travel with the less money as possible.

MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD

My favourite place in the word I think that it’s at home. My house is the place where I feel most comfortable, where I can be totally me, where it’s not important be correctly, when I can do the thing how I want to do, well and how my mom want. It’s the place where I can pass all my time.

And other place that I love it’s my grandparent’s house ( my father parents) because the house it’s in the Rubina, next to the beach, in the middle of Els Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, it’s a magic place where if you stay there you know that you are alone, you are on de middle of nothing with no more civilization, and really near to the beach, one of the most relaxing places in the universe.  

WINDOOR

Last Monday I went to fly on the Windoor of Empuriabrava, I wanted to do that since they opened on 2011 and last month my dad gift me, so my sister, my cousin and I flew into the windoor. Was a really different experience, I was flying, I was free. But It was a think that doesn’t like me I close, there was a limit for my liberty so I want to go to the skydive and do skydiving because that it’s totally fly, and because the landscape of Alt Empordà it’s amazing, I want to see the place from where I come flying without a plane.  

MY COUSIN

My cousin Clàudia, is one of the most important people for me in the word, I love she like a sister, we spend a lot of time together, because our mothers have a really good relationship, and because we are neighbour, we have a door that communicates our houses, Clàudia, have brothers, but don`t live with she so she spend a lot of time with my sister and I. Clàudia it’s one of my sister bests friends because they born in the same year only with seventeen days of difference. We do a lot of travels together with our parents, we spend a lot of time together on my grandma’s house, we had a lot of good times and unfortunately bad times that we had to live, but with our family we overcame that, and we will over came together the things that the life gave prepare to us.   

MY TATTOO

My tattoo represents to birds flying, I have this tattoo with my sister because we wanted to do a tattoo together but we didn’t know exactly what to do, and on a TV series that I saw one girl explain meaning of her tattoo and were birds, she said that was because they always are back to home. So my sister and I decide to do the tattoo because they always are back to home, and home represents that we can go so far but we know that If we need help we always have one to the other, and because maybe sometimes we don’t have the same opinions, but we are flying always together, and I think that this tattoo represents all this things.

Donald Trump: Migrants treated better than US military veterans

Illegal immigrants in the US often get better care than the nation's military veterans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said.

"We're not going to allow that to happen any longer," he told a bikers' rally in Washington DC.

Mr Trump did not provide any evidence for his assertion.

Last year, the billionaire sparked anger by attacking the military record of Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war.

Mr Trump said Sen McCain was only considered a hero because he was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

He then added: "I like people who weren't captured."

Since then Mr Trump, who never served in the military, has tried to repair the damage by frequently honouring veterans at his rallies and holding fundraising events for them.

His latest comments came at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally on Sunday, which was dedicated to remembering POWs and those missing in action.

Despite previous criticism, many in the crowd cheered Mr Trump.

"What I like about Trump is that he is one of us. He's not a politician," 52-year-old Louis Naymik was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

Mr Trump - who has made controversial comments on a number of issues - was speaking ahead of the 7 June California primary.

He is running unopposed in California after his Republican rivals pulled out and he reached the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. It has yet to be formalised.

The Associated Press says Congress and many states have written an assortment of laws and policies designed to restrict government services to people in the 

MY OPINION

I don't do summarize of the new because I think that every word it's important. Donald Trump it's one of the candidates to being the new president of USA. He is a rich man, who is really radical with the immigrants concretely with the musulmans, but he is an immigrant his parents aren`t North Americans. The problem is that he has a lot of people who recolze his opinions. This situation doesn't happens only in USA , in Europe are radicals political groups which slowly are winning power, this have to stop because we don't know how can finish that. The religion, the colour and the opinions of every habitant of the world cannot be a problem.

Apple fights call to block Facetime and iMessage

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A patent-licensing firm is seeking to force Apple to suspend its Facetime and iMessage services claiming it has suffered "irreparable harm" as a result of the tech giant's actions.

The Texas-based firm is now seeking further damages and says Apple should be blocked from using its technologies to power its video and text chat apps.

Apple is contesting the case.

It wants the court to disregard the verdict because the US Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated VirnetX's claim to the inventions - but such action by the USPTO is being challenged in a separate case before the Supreme Court.

Apple has argued that its customers would be harmed if it were forced to stop offering Facetime and iMessage to iPhone, iPad and Mac owners.

But VirnetX claims the step is warranted as its own secure messaging and video conferencing app - Gabriel Collaboration Suite - is suffering as a consequence.

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"Apple is very happy to use technology owned by other parties and just wait to be sued once they have pocketed the profits," one of VirnetX's UK-based shareholders - who asked not to be named - told the BBC.

Apple declined to comment.

Olympiakos footballer Alan Pulido kidnapped in Mexico

Mexican footballer Alan Pulido has been kidnapped in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, officials say.

The 25-year-old striker was reportedly kidnapped on Sunday near his home in Ciudad Victoria after leaving a party.

He plays for the Greek team Olympiakos and has made several appearances for Mexico's national team.

Mexico has the one of the world's highest kidnapping rates, with government figures saying some 1,000 people are taken every year.

Others argue that the true figure could be almost ten times as high.

Six masked men reportedly took the striker away "by force" while his girlfriend was left unharmed in the car park where the incident took place.

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IT'S A REAL PROBLEM THE CRISIS?

The crisis is a habitual problem in the time when we live. The people are without work, they do not pay at the end of month, have obligations.... This problem is very hard and very serious for the society where we live because today the people would like to have everything but now isn’t possible this because we go short of money and have sufficient work to come at the end of month.

But I don’t think that there is so many crisis as they say because if you go on Saturday evening to anyone center of a city is full of people who is buying of shop in shop, if you go to a travel agency is full of people who wants go to holidays, there are people who buys a new car, a new mobile....

Probably yes there are a part of the population who is in crisis really and who needs help but there is a good part of people who is living similar than before the crisis. The part of the population that is in crisis are the majority immigrants and I think that they are very well helped for the part of the State and the villages associations  because they help and give food, clothes or other necessary things for living.

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Barack Obama in Cuba at start of historic visit

President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for a historic visit to the island and talks with its communist leader.

He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility.

Mr Obama  will meet President Raul Castro, but not retired revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and the pair will discuss trade and political reform.

The US president emerged smiling from Air Force One with First Lady Michelle and their daughters Sasha and Malia.

President Obama's visit is the highpoint of a recent easing of ties, which included the opening of embassies last year.

But only hours before his arrival, protesters calling for the release of political prisoners were arrested in the capital, Havana.

Police took away dozens of demonstrators from the Ladies in White group, formed of political prisoners' wives, from outside a church where they attempt to hold weekly protests.

Now students have to be shown how to use the toilets: Top university puts up bizarre warning signs in campus loos after complaints about 'awful' mess 
Their students may be among some of the brightest in the country.

But that hasn't stopped the University of Sheffield from telling their scholars how to use the toilet.

The signs explain basic toilet techniques, such as: 'Do not put toilet paper on the floor' and 'put toilet paper in the toilet bowl and flush.'

Some also demonstrate the rules through graphics.

The post received hundreds of responses and the seriousness of the signs was questioned by disbelieving students.

One person commented: 'Please tell me this was made by a student as a joke.' 

Another source explained the reasoning behind the cards. 

'These cards are clearly designed for international students. But they're all over campus - and it's raising quite a few laughs.'

The University of Sheffield declined to comment.  

He's completely lost his head! Photographer captures perfectly timed shot of fish eagle just as it looks backwards

The bird of prey was merely the subject of a perfectly timed photograph captured in Chobe, Botswana.

The picture appears to show the fish eagle has been decapitated while sitting on a branch next to a friend.

But according to Mark Drysdale, who took the one-of-a-kind photograph, the bird threw its head back theatrically just as he pressed the camera shutter.

The 55-year-old photographer said the eagle was attempting to call another bird behind him at that very moment and its head completely disappeared from view.

This resulted in one very peculiar photograph capturing the abilities of the flexible bird.
Mark, from Johannesburg, South Africa, said: 'I was on a photographic tour taking pictures of the fish eagle when it threw its head back to call.

'I just happened to capture a photo at that precise moment.' 

WHAT IS A GAP YEAR FOR ME

I will talk about the gap year because it’s a dream for me and because I Love travel and descover new countries, new cultures, new pelpole, new food...

A gap year for me is take a break of your routine, sine we are little we always do more or less the same things: go to the school, extras activities during nine months and then summer three months and then come back to the routine, so sometimes we are tied of that and we need a time to disvover ourselves . 

I want to have a gap year after I’ll finish the college because this means that  I have  a profession , so I don’t have students problems, if I go to a gap year I’ll go to Australia, India or USA If  I can I’d like to go to all the places that I’ve said. 

PHRASAL VERBS

LAURA'S GAP YEAR
I am going to make up a story because I don't have anithing interesting to explain. 
laura was really happy because she was going to have a Gap year in India. She was really nervous too, so seh had calmed down. She had to give up her life in Catalonia andtake off the plane.
For her this was an opportunity to grow up and to go out of his routine.
So she packed up her stuff, and went with her family to eat out.
The day after was when Laura left all her problems behind and she carried on with her gap year.