Basketball

Basket is a kind of sport. In this sport you need a ball and a basket. It must have five players for team and they have to wear trainers, shorts and a T-shirt.

If you want to make a point you have to put the ball into the basket with the hands. There are three types of points: free shot(1 point), normal shot( 2 point) and triple( 3 points).

There are differents players:

-Base: Is the most important player and controls the situation in the game.

-Pivot:Is the highest player in the team and normally he makes the point.

-Scolt:Helps the base to control the situation.

-Ala-pivot:Helps the pivot to the rebounds.

-Winger:This player gives the ball to the pivot and he plays in a side of the basketball court.

Our Christmas Holidays

yThis Christmas holidays, we went to a party, the day of Christmas, 25th of December.
On Christmas holidays we had lunch with our family.
The 26th we went to Baqueira-Beret to skii.
The 27th we went to the cinema and later we went to the McDonald's.
The New Year's Eve, we went also to a party and we arrived home at 06:30a.m.
We slept until 20:00p.m. of the night.
It was very funny, and the best New Year's Eve of my live.
The 8th of the January we started the classes again.

BASKETBALL

Basketball was created by James Naismith.

Basketball is a sport that is played with two teams and each team there are more or less twelve basketball players. Basketball consist on putting the ball into a basket. The team which has more points in a match wins.

Around the world there are a lot of leagues and a lot of teams. Here, in Spain, there is A.C.B (Association Clubs Basket). In this league there are some important teams of the world, for example: F.C.Barcelona, Real Madrid, D.K.V Joventut, and more...

Out of Spain there are more leagues and in America, in U.S.A, there is the most important league, N.B.A (National Basket Association).

Some of the most important players of the history were playing in the N.B.A: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and more...

Today, there are some important players too and they play in L.A.Lakers, Boston Celtics,...

We think that basketball is a very good sport.

ZARA

Zara is one of the most fashion shops in Lleida. It's located in the Major Street next the Woman Secret's. Armancio Ortega is the creator of this fashion shop. At firts he had a small shop but he wasn't famous. Now a day, he became more famous because he had increased on his shop, opening nwe shops around the world. Armancio Ortega apart from having Zara shop, has got other shops like: Bershka, Stradivarious, Pull and Bear, Pimkie, Mango, H&M, Oysho...

More or less he has around more than 500 shops in Spain and more than 5.000 around the world. Moreover he is a very intelligent man because he has to think a lot to increase the job and to be famous like this.

anorexia

People who have anorexia present different symptoms . It is a disease that affects the body and self-esteem.
You think you are a fat person but you really are very thin. you can have anorexia if a person tells you are fat or the fashion and the society can influence too.
Fashion designers, modify photos and reduce the waist.
Ralph Lauren modifies the waist and the top model italian report the team of Ralph Lauren(a fashion designer of fashion) because they we a program to modify photos and videos very simply with a computer (photoshop) , reduced the waist of the model.

Christmas

At christmas we have a lot of celebrations, for example on the 24th of December at night in Catalonia we do "Caga Tió" or "Christmas father".

We celebrate the birth of Jesus on the 25th of December.

On the 28th, people usually makes jokes to their friends.

The 31st of December is the last day of the year and at night, people meet with their family and at 12 o'clock they eat twelve grapes. That night is called "New Years Eve".

The last celebration is the 6th of January. When the three wise men come to all houses and leave presents to children.

Christmas holidays are days for people to meet their family and have lunch, give presents...

soldier boys

A soldier boy is a young person who participates in an armed activity.

Now there are 300.000 soldier boys around the world , they are fighting in more than 35 countries in all continents .

Aproximately , 200.000 soldier boys live in africa and the other 100.000 live in Asia (+40%) ,

America (south) (50%) , and in Europe 10 %.

In England the boys can enlist to the army when they are 16 years old .

A lot of them now , are drug addicts or suffer mental problems , because they force them to abandon their families , and enlist to the army .

Sometimes, these boys are not doing the job of soldier , they use to do bait , or shield to protect the other soldiers to attack enemies .