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                                                                      CARNIVAL Hello I'm Abde and I'm going to talk about the carnival from my town and other nearby towns.  The carnival in Roses is celebrated on February 21 and 22. But the carnival of my town, Castelló d'Empúries is celebrated on February 29.  In carnival, teenage boys and girls drink alcohol and disguise themselves, but normally people go in floats disguised as a group. In Castelló d'Empúries in the pavilion the carnival night at 12 at night they make a party with dj that you can only enter if you are dressed. My friend Marti's father has a paintball company, and he leaves us paintball suits and we use them as costumes. I go to carnival only with my real friends. In carnival people will usually find love, but it is true that there are many fights.

CHARMIAN GOOCH: MEET GLOBAL CORRUPTION’S HIDDEN PLAYERS Summary When we imagine corruption it tends to be a minister or despot of a small overseas nation, living in fabulous luxury. Charmian lists a few perfect examples of this behaviour. However, these people cannot operate without support from the rest of the world. Their mansions and art purchases are arranged through global banks, and despots in oil-rich nations must do deals with the largest oil companies. My OPINION There were a lot of examples throughout this talk, and I struggled to find a take-away message from it. The main point was that corruption is everywhere – involving companies that are household names, and they are part of the corruption instigated by international despots. VOCABULARY STRUGGLED HOUSEHOLD

NEWS IN LEVELS Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash SUMMARY Last Sunday, basketball star Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashes in Calabasas, California. The families of the  victims  say who else is with him. The crash kills him, his daughter, a basketball coach, a baseball coach, his wife, his daughter, another mother, her daughter, and the pilot. OPINION I feel very sorry, but I didn't watch their games. I am angry that the helicopter driver is not talked about, because he has also lost his life. WORDS LEARNT: crashes else Dangerous Insect SUMMARY East Africa is experiencing the worst  locust  invasion in the last 25 years. Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are among the most affected countries. The insects are roughly the length of a finger, and a single  swarm  can measure 60 kilometers long to 40 kilometers wide OPINION I think that these poor citizens need some medicine to protect themselves from the insect WORDS LEARNT: Swarm

THE GOTHIC NOVEL 1. Who invented the G.N?   Horace Walpole What was the title of the first G.N?   The Castle of Otranto When was it first published? 1764 2 . Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Use strong, pervasive tone, read widely in your genre, use the core elements of tragedy, t ap into common human fears to frighten, l earn the difference between terror and horror,  the Villain, the plot and the place, conclusion. Frankenstein: graveyards, scientific experiments and bodysnatchers Frankenstein  is one of the most unusual and important novels of the 19th century, as well as one of the most famous. Written in the form of letters, the story is told from several different points of view, which means that the reader learns to see events in complex ways, not always from the same angle as the narrator. It is probably the first ever science fiction novel, too.