Can you imagine a world without energy or technology?

I think we would live but with fewer resources, the planet does not contaminate more. No good transport would we go riding, boat or on foot.

 

We would have no light and would have to use torches. Would use simple materials, such as wood to fire instead of electricity for cooking on a ceramic hob.

END OF YEAR STUDENTS' ASSESSMENT

Class work is very good and we always work in pairs. 
We have to put up with all the activities and individual work is very good too. 
The work of the blog I really like because we have the opportunity to use the pc in class. 

Videos that makes the teacher is very good and very interesting, I also like, I feel very well in class. 

We focus on occasions classwork, auditions, readings, etc. .. 
The class is very nice and has a good atmosphere, I miss him!

Elasmotherium.

The elasmoterio (Elasmotherium, gr. "Flat Siberian beast") is an extinct species of mammal Perissodactyla Rhinoceros family.

 It was a huge Asian rhino could be the origin of the legend of the unicorn, it had a single horn 2 meters long, sharp and exceptionally thick, from the merger of the usual two rhino horns. Because of this, it is also often called giant unicorn. 

The elasmoterios disappear from the fossil record in the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, along with much of the megafauna of the Northern Hemisphere, so this is considered as the most probable date of its extinction.However, some argue that some populations could survive a few millennia,leading to some beasts of folklore from the steppes of Eurasia.

 Possible mythological beasts inspired by this animal that have been identified, apart from the European unicorn, is a huge black bull with a single horn front.

1.  The Elasmotherium is a type of bird.                                          
     TRUE    FALSE
2.  It was a huge Asian rhino.                                                           
     TRUE    FALSE
3.  It was the origin of the legend of the unicorn.                                 
     TRUE    FALSE
4.  The horn is 2 metres long.                                                             
     TRUE   FALSE
5.  Is also call the small unicorn.                                                        
     TRUE   FALSE
6.  This animal disappeared 10,000 ago.                                              
     TRUE   FALSE
7.  Some argue that some populations could survive a few millennia.    
     TRUE   FALSE
8.  Is a huge black bull with a single horn front.                                    
     TRUE  FALSE
9.  This animal is from China.                                                               
     TRUE  FALSE
10.This animal is a rhino with a lot of hair.                                            
     TRUE  FALSE

                       

Palace Of The Parliament, Bucharest

Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament has emerged as an unlikely pillar of Romania's nascent democracy.

And while it remains one of the most controversial projects of Ceausescu's 25-year rule it's also now a tourist attraction, visited by tens of thousands of Romanians and foreigners every year.

The palace, so big it can be seen from space opened its doors in early 1990. Described by some as a giant Stalinist wedding cake, it's the world's second-largest administrative building after the Pentagon, at 350,000 square meters (3.77 million square feet).

Parliament and the Constitutional Court are housed inside. But over time the palace has become as much a magnet for glamorous events and celebrity photo-ops as it is a site for government affairs.

Brides pose in front of the yellow-stoned facade, while weddings, balls, movies and fashion shows and shoots take place inside. It's hosted celebrities – Michael Jackson moonwalked in front of the building after a press conference, Colombian pop star Shakira sang outside in the pouring rain, and Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke attending a ball there to raise money for disadvantaged children. Visiting politicians have included former U.S. President George Bush, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and in October, German chancellor Angela Merkel, who made a speech to 16 European prime ministers.

Construction on the grandiose project began in the early 1980s, when food rationing and power cuts were common. Some 9,000 homes were demolished, residents were given just days to vacate their homes, churches and synagogues were razed or moved, and two mountains of marble were hacked down for the 84-meter (275-foot) high palace to be built.

Ceausescu designed the palace to house the government and Parliament after the devastating earthquake of 1977 where swaths of buildings crumbled in the capital and more than1,500 people died. A semi-literate son of a peasant, Ceausescu was nothing if not ambitious: He wanted the new building to withstand any earthquake and last 500 years.

A million Romanians, including thousands of soldiers, were enlisted to work around the clock on the construction. Today's tours sample only parts of the building and last just one to two hours, but it would take a day to visit all the rooms and almost an hour just to walk around the perimeter.

Petrescu, the chief architect, insists that Buckingham Palace and Versailles were her artistic inspirations, not North Korean architecture, even though Ceausescu sent architects on a visit to Pyongyang to study architecture there after he was inspired during a 1971 visit. She says it's neo-classic in in style, while others diplomatically call the style `'eclectic."

"This building ended up such big due to a technical reason," she insisted. "There were supposed to be three big institutions in here: the presidency, the executive and the legislative corps.

She said that if Ceausescu – who was tried and executed Dec. 25, 1989 – were alive to see what had become of it, he "would make the sign of the cross" – a Romanian expression that means he'd be horrified.

Valentina Lupan, one of 2,000 architects who worked on the project says Ceausescu "was demented. Why did he want the biggest building? Like Hitler, like Mussolini, dictators love architects. Trust me on this. They, the dictators, imagine themselves as architects of the new world."

          

TASK 1 - READ the text about Bucarest's Parliament and REDUCE it to a 120 words.

Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament has emerged as an unlikely pillar of Romania's nascent democracy.

And while it remains one of the most controversial projects of Ceausescu's 25-year rule it's also now a tourist attraction, visited by tens of thousands of Romanians and foreigners every year.

Parliament and the Constitutional Court are housed inside. But over time the palace has become as much a magnet for glamorous events and celebrity photo-ops as it is a site for government affairs. Brides pose in front of the yellow-stoned facade, while weddings, balls, movies and fashion shows and shoots take place inside. It's hosted celebrities – Michael Jackson moonwalked in front of the building after a press conference, Colombian pop star Shakira sang outside in the pouring rain...

A million Romanians, including thousands of soldiers, were enlisted to work around the clock on the construction.

Valentina Lupan, one of 2,000 architects who worked on the project says Ceausescu "was demented. Why did he want the biggest building? Like Hitler, like Mussolini, dictators love architects. Trust me on this. They, the dictators, imagine themselves as architects of the new world."

TASK 3 - Questions.

       1 Do you like the house?
       2 Where is it?
       3 Do you want a house like that?
       4 What is the most important part of the text?
       5 What person has this house?
       6 How many times a year visit this person the house?
       7 Why him stop visiting the house?
       8 How many bedrooms has the house?
       9 And the bathrooms?
       10 Do you prefer live in you house or in hala ranch, why?

TASK 4 - Find textual information and a video about one of the following:

   

                 Hala Ranch

The Hala Ranch located just north of Aspen, Colorado, originally purchased and given its name by Prince Bandar bin Sultan. The main house on the property was designed by the architectural firm of Hagman Yaw and built by Hansen Construction of Aspen, Colorado, in 1991.

The Saudi Prince purchased the land while he served as ambassador to the United States, and originally visited about three times a year. The Prince's visits, which were always announced to local officials for security reasons, became less frequent after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Contains 15 bedrooms, all with patios, and 16 bathrooms. There is also an interior elevator. The master wing has a room set aside for grooming, while guest rooms open into a courtyard with a reflecting pool and waterfall. Other amenities of the estate include a commercial kitchen, a fishing pond, a racquetball court...

Hecho por María Durán y Paula Romero