Conference with Noa

The teachers of English of INS Castelló d'Empúries have prepared us a videoconference with Noa, an old student of the school. Currently she is in Sidney, Australia. With this videoconference we all could ask to her some questions to resolve our doubts, and moreover, this conference has opened us to other possibilities such as leaving the country to practice English as Noa.
We have been asking many questions, she seemed prepared for everything, she had an answer for everything. She seemed mature. And this has maked me think, because maybe I should do as she. Anyway, the conference with Noa has helped me, because it has maked me think a lot about my future.

Thank you teachers!

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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6krjPi4Osc
This advertisement is an old ad, but it's gorgeous see how together we can do incredible things. In fact, in this advertisement appears how a few persons with exercice bikes they can turn on some lights and recreate a story of a sexy cowboy. This is a publicity of Contrex, a trademark of water. It is a soft sell.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tKdWUPJ-w
This is one of the few advertisements that uses the hands to do wonderful things with shades and then use this splendor for the ad of a volkswagen car. It is a soft sell.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSn7c1uw1_A&list=PL6E1309B861F9A393&index=2 
It is a hard sell. It's a new invention that use the technology to sell shoes, to allow you to test how you would wear your shoes. It's an interesting add.



- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IcMTlwUwC4&index=3&list=PL6E1309B861F9A393 
This add is very strange, they have invented the guitar pee urinal, that allows you to compose music while you pee. It's an entertaining thing, very creative. It is a soft sell.

BBC News - 'No more room service' as Jeremy the koala returns to the wild

Jeremy Sparrow, a young koala was injured in bushfires in Australia's Adelaide Hills earlier this month.
He became a social media sensation after being pictured receiving treatment for his burnt paws, and now he has been related in to the wild.

The fires raged across some 12,500 hectares (30,888 acres) of land, about 30 minutes drive south east of Adelaide.

More than 100 people received hospital treatment, while at least 32 homes were destroyed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

Cirurgy dialogue

Two old women that are in the hospital because they're ill, are in front of the cirurgy room. They see how people change and how many people pass into the room. Moreover they are very gossip, and criticize so many people.

G- Hey! Have you seen the last man? He was very fat and he want a liposuction and the doctor said to him that he needed a nose operation, puajajajaja

L- Sure, I've seen him. He was ridiculous.

G- Yes, he was 200kg jajaja

L- This week a woman have done a nose operation, when she's gone she didn't seem the same person; I think that she’s more horrible than before. Don’t you?

G- I think so. And what about the doctor? He is operated from head to toes.

L- Oh,really? I think that he’s horrible! And when he enter with a lot of women… that’s hideous!!

G- He is very superficial, he isn’t kind or sympathetic, he is really hateful. He uses women for his interests, and then he disappears of their lives. He found girls and lowers their self-esteem to force them to be operated.

L- When he pass in front of us we can bump him into the floor.

G- But, he can be operated another time, it isn’t useful. I think we have to kill him, don’t you?..

BBC News - Office puts chips under staff's skin

The leader of a big company has implanted in his hand and in the hands of his stuff a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip about the size of a grain of rize. This chip is used to open closed doors and for use the photocopier, without any type of cards or codes, they only had to hold their hands against the door to open it.

The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group.

"We already interact with technology all the time. Today it's a bit messy - we need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be easy to just touch with your hand? That's really intuitive." - said Hannes Sjoblad. 

So here it is a new technology that some years ago we will never imagined.

Here it is the link to more information:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

How to make stress your friend

In this video, Kelly McGonigal, a psycologist, wants to change our prejudices about stress.
She's been teaching, during ten years, something that now she don't believe. She thought that stress was bad, she thought stress was harmful, that stress increases the possibility to have a heart attack. But now she knows that this is only true for that persons who believes that.
She discovered that people who have a lot of stress but they don't think that that is harmful, they're no more likely to die.
People dont' die by stress, but for the stress beliefs.
"When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's responses to stress"
Stress is helpful, you breath faster and your brain obtain more oxyge. 
At the end she thinks that stress helps you to be more sociable.

See here the video:  

 http://www.ted.com/playlists/158/graduation_now_what

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