Back to the middle ages

"San Genesio in northern Italy has suffered a wave of burglaries and car-thefts recently. The village's mayor has decided to take desesperate action: he 's going to set up medieval style gates on three of the city's four entrances, which will be closed at dusk, and man the fourth gate with volunteer guards. Mayor Giampaolo Zetti justifies his plan by saying that villagers have taken to sleeping with guns by their beds and that someone is going to get hurt unless he takes some action."


Think in English, nº28; 4/01

Vocabulary:

Gate: porta

Burglary: lladre

Dusk: capvespre

The summary of a film

Million Dolar Baby

The film tells the history of Maggie, a waitress that is 31 years old, who would like to be a professionally boxer. Every day she trains in the gym of Frankie, a trainer whose desire is that Willie will be a champion. At the same gymnasium also there is employed Eddie "Scrap-Iron", who is a former blind boxer, and old friend of Frankie too.
At the beginin, Maggie would like that Frankie will be her trainer, but he didn’t accept, including when Dupris meddle in her favor.

Description of a friend

I’m going to describe David Marín, who is one of my best friends. He is sixteen years old and he is doing the humanistic first of batxillerat with me. He lives in Fortià with his parents in a big house.

David is a person whose his body is short, thin and fit because he plays football twice or more to the weeks. He is ginger and he has a short hair.
His face is very nice because he had round brown eyes and he doesn’t has any spots.
For two years ago, David has worn glasses but is not a problem because he looks good with theirs.
He wears very simple clothes and he doesn’t like wears smart, because it is very uncomfortable for he, so David isn’t a fashion victim. ;)

He is very sociable, friendly, kind, inteligent, ... but when he is angry, he is the worst lad in the world! David likes a lot meet with his friends in a parties and laugh very much with us, and they love drink too, for this reason he pass every Sunday with a hangover. Also, David is very organized and responsible with his work and with his life.

In my opinion he is a very good friend and we have a very good relationship, maybe because in some points we are very differents. =)

“Being a celebrity is a great thing? ”

Who doesn’t dream with be a celebrity? Now, everybody would like to be a celebrity but, is it a good thing, really?
As everything, it has got advantages and disadvantages, the problem is that the people only see the goods things.

On the one hand, we can see that the celebrities have a lot of money, so they have got a luxury life and we think that they always are very happy and they don’t have problems. Other advantage is that everyone can see the famous on the television and we know these cebrities if we see on the street.

On the other hand, be a famous is not very well, because they haven’t got a private life and the press do lies about these and their life, and it is very annoying for this person. Another disadvantage is that these people doesn’t do a degree because they din’t have time to do it in a past, so the celebrities must go to the TV programs to win some money. Not to mention the fans that cause inconvenience when they would like to take a photo with you.

For that reason, I wouldn’t like be a celebrity for the previously disadvantages, so I’m still with my life and I don’t complain about it, but if they would like to give me some money, I don’t turn down...