NEWS: ORIONID METEOR SHOWER 2015

Every year, between the 21st ans 22nd of October the Orionid Meteor Shower lights up the sky offering everyone the chance to catch nature at its best. 

What's the Orionid Meteor Shower?

This meteor is made up of ice and dust fragments from the Halley's Comet. 

The name comes from the Orian constellation, one of the most visible constellation in the sky. 

When can I watch it?

The newspaper recomends that the best day to see the meteor shower will be on Tuesday morning just before dawn.

Where can I watch it? 

The best areas are the ones which usually have little light pollution, not the best news for city dwellers. However, there are a number of sites around the UK when the night sky is not affected too badly by light pollution.

What will I need?

You only need your eyes yo see the Orian Meteor Shower and staring peacefully at the sky. 

My opinion:

I believe that I've never seen a meteor on live with my own eyes. I have just seen it on TV or on the computer. I would like to see it one live at least once in my life.

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YOUR-SAY: APPLE PIE

Once I met a woman who loves cooking. In fact, she loves baking cakes. She showed me how to make a traditional English cake called "Apple Pie". She told me that when she used to have one of those days she was feeling a bit depressed, she just went into the kitchen and started preparing something sweet. I find this bake very easy to prepare. 

Here, you will find the recipe: 

Ingredients:

• 180 gr flour
• 80 gr sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 envolope baking soda
• a pinch of salt
• 2 Granny Smith apples cut into small pieces
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 1 coffeespoon of nutmeg

Preheat the oven to 200ºC. In a bolw, pour the flour, the eggs, the sugar, the butter, the lemon juice and the nutmeg. Blend it for 5 minutes until the mixture is soft. Then, add the apple, cut into small pieces, and finally add the baking soda. Then, mix the batter mixture with a spatule until everything is well mixed. Pour the batter into a greased pan and bake it for 40 to 45 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and remove it from the pan. 

If you prefer you can serve it with some vainilla cream. Enjoy it!

NEWS: 11 SURPRISING HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP

Sleep makes you feel better. Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and can benefit your heart, weight, mind and more. These are the 11 benefits you get if you have a good slep.

• Improve memory: During sleep you can strenghten memories or "practice" skills learned while you were awake (it's a process called consolidation).
• Live longer?: Sleep too much or too little is associated with a shortes lifespan. Sleep also affects quality of live. If you sleep better, you can certainly live better. 
• Curb inflamation: People who sleep less than six or fewer hours a night have higher blood levels of inflammatory proteins than those who get more hours sleep. 
• Spur creativity: People seem to strenghten the emotional components of a memory during sleep, which may help spur the creative process. 
• Be a winner: Sleep is good to improve your performance.
• Improve your grades: Children between the ages of 10 and 16 who have sleep disordered are more likely to have problems with attention and learning, Also if you didn't get enough sleep had worse grades than those who did.
• Sharpen attention: Children between the ages of seven and eight who sleep less than eight hours a night were more likely to be hyperactive, inattentive and impulsive.
• Have a healthy weight: Dieters who sleep well loses more fat than those who don't sleep enough hours. Dieters also feel more hungry when they get less sleep.
• Lower stress: Sleep can reduce levels of stress and people can have better control of their blood presure. It's also believed that sleep effects cholesterol levels.
• Avoid accidents: Sleepiness affects reaction time and decision making. Insuficient sleep can be as detrimental to your driving ability as having an alcoholic drink. 
• Steer clear of depression: Good night's sleep can really help a moody person decrease their anxiety. You get more emotional stability with good sleep. 

My opinion:

I think that it was an interesting piece of news to read. I have learnt more about this topic and I also realised that we should give more importance the way we sleep. 

                                                                  

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NEWS: WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU: 3 REASONS I'M PROUD OF THE PAIN I'VE EXPERIENCED

This piece of news was written by a 21 year old girl. She tell us her experience in her relationship and what she learned from it. 

Falling in love is a scary and beautiful thing. When you begin in a relationship you know that one day it might finish and one of the couple might be hurt. She gave all she had in that relationship, but one day, he just ended with her. She was completely heartbroken and she cried a lot until she finally realized that he had lost more than her. She learned a few things about herself. The most important one was that she would honestly rather get hurt never again. 

1. Getting your heart broken helps you grow: All people should experience a heart break in their liver because it teaches humility to you. Once you have your heart broken you understand the pain, and you most likely won't do that to someone else. Also you will be more compassionate in future relationships. 
2. It makes me feel alive: Feeling hurt means you're able to feel. A life without feeling joy, pay or any other feelings is not the way one should live. It's like you are just existing, but you're not really living. Feeling pain makes you feel alive because it means you can feel things deeply, and you can grow from it. 
3. Feeling pain means you're vulnerable: Being vulnerable is the hardest thing to do in the world. You're opening yourself up and handing someone you heart you're trusting that person as well. 

The writer will never stop believing in love and she thinks that one day she will find the man of her dreams. 

My opinion:

I agree with what the writer says. I also think that you should experience a heart broken in your life because it makes you learn a lot about life and love. A life without love is not a good life. Moreover, sometimes is better be alone before be in a toxic relationship because the real love don't hurt.

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IS HUMOUR NECESSARY?

After doing some research, I definitely agree that humour is absolutely necessary in our life for many reasons.

All people say that humour is good for our health. But why? There are many reasons to prove this thought. Laughter relaxes the whole body, boosts the immune system, increases the production of salivary immunoglubin A, which defends against infectious organisms... Also protects the heart by improving the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help you against a heart attack or other cardiovascular problems. 

Futhermore, laughter has social benefits as well. The action of laughing strengthens relationships, promotes group bonding and helps you to defuse conflict. Moreover, laughter and mental health are connected because laughter dissolves distressing emotions and helps you relax and recharge. 

In conclusion, we can prove that humour is clearly necessary in our life. You must include humour in our life and also in our relationships because it allows us to be more spontaneous, ge rid of defensiveness and more. 

ORAL PRESENTATION

Here there is the oral presentation about Mr. Bean that we did with my friend Míriam for our English classroom. 

THE KEY TO SUCCESS? GRIT

When she was 27 years old, she left her job in consulting to become a teacher of Math to seventh graders students in a New York public school. After five years teaching, she realised that the students' IQ is not the most important when talking about academic results. What was much more important was an understanding of the students themselves and their learning process from a phsycological and motivational prespective. So, she decided to go back to university to study phsycology. 

She and her research team studied how students and even adults behave in life. After their ressearch, they came to the point that there are important things to take into account to success in life but these things are not having a  good look or having a great social intelligence... She believes that the word GRIT is the key. 

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals, grit is stiking with your future, day in and day out, not just for a week, not just for a month but for years and working really hard to make that future a reality. She started studying the term grit and passed grit questionnaires among her students. In the video she states  that the most shocking thing about grit is being concious how we built it. 

My opinion:

I definitely agree with what she says in her talk. I agree that passing the IQ test with a high mark is not the most important aim. I think that you may have a high level of knowledgements but you may not be practical enough to face life. I think that growing students' grid is very important to help them to cope with their future. However, I know that it's a hard work for teachers to reach it. 

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