Why the French are turning to fast food

Food in France is really appreciated, and there are some of the important restaurants which are well known around the world. 

But nowadays, 54% of total restaurants are becoming fast food and sandwich shops because people don’t want to spend a lot of money with food. There is the example of Balthazar de la Boude who opened a sandwich shop four years ago and he said that the crisis had been what has caused this change. 

A lot of people prefer to eat in an ordinary restaurant paying a low cost than to go to a good qualified and at the same time expensive one. Also, there are a lot of people who prefers to eat in the office and to don’t waste time at work.

On the other hand, the prices on the fast food restaurants have raised but it doesn't seem to affect the level of business.

MY OPINION

It’s true that sometimes we prefer to go to a fast food restaurant than to an expensive and well known one. Maybe because we are living a bad economic moment and we’re looking for cheap prices, or maybe because of the time.

We live in a stressed world and everybody wants to do their issues in a minimum time as possible. During the week, we don’t have time to go to a restaurant and sit down for a long time for eat, so we prefer to eat fast and in a cheap way. 

All in all, I think it’s not such a strange thing to read this type of news, but I agree fast food restaurants are not good for the health.

  

Rare: poc cuit
Bargain: oportunitat “ganga”

Outstripped: superar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25111208

HUMOR PRESENTATION

For this term we had to do a presentation about: beauty, humor, or new technologies. I’ve done this task with Tura and Marina and we chose the humor as a topic. 

I think we did a good presentation and I’m proud of our job. Like always there are things we can improve:

- We did some grammar mistakes. Also we have to improve our pronuntation because it’s an important thing we have to consider on an oral presentation. 

- About myself, I want to improve my movements. I have to learn and practice how to pose in front of the audience. 

- And finally, I want to say I would like to do another kind of topics. For example, things which are common on the teenagers’ life, or well…, I know it’s a difficult task to find a good topic to talk about in front of a group of classmates I think. 

FINAL MARK: 8.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyYZvSuWLzc

Body piercing controls wheelchair

A group of American scientist has come up with an incredible idea. The development is about the control of the movement of that kind of people who can’t walk or haven’t a normal life. They think they can transform the way people who has a paralysis live. 

Body piercings have been the solution, because it could be the way to control wheelchairs and computers. Especially they talk about the tongue piercings, because they think they the tongue it’s an amazing part of the body and a piercings on it could get important solutions.

The researchers believe they will be able to have a command for every tooth in the mouth. They say the piercing in the tongue produces an effect that changes the tongue movement.  

MY OPINION 

Every day I’m more and more fascinated by a huge number of scientists and researchers can get these impressive things. It’s really amazing how far they can go with the science and how many solutions they can discover. 

It’s not easy to find out something like what I have talked about, and I think we have to be so thankful to those groups of doctors and professionals who are working hard to solve some problems nowadays we have in our society. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25118896

Reticence: desconfiança
Charity: caritat 
Harnessing: arnès 

Protective measures are a 'death sentence' for rare dolphin say campaigners

Last 30 November of 2013, it was told that one of the world’s smallest and rarest type dolphins needs an extremely protection. It’s an important breed, even though there is a lot of people who isn’t conscious about that and they try to capture the animals.

Days ago some scientist found that there were approximately 55 Maui's left (it’s the name of the dolphin breed) above the age of one. This news is really alarming because it shows that the Maui's could be extinct within 20 years.

Maui’s dolphins are known to habit on the coast of New Zealand, but there, there is a huge number of people who goes there to fishing. But the New Zealand government has decided to make new restrictions on this activity.

“New Zealand's failure to protect the world's smallest and rarest dolphin is a bitter blow to marine conservation”, said Dr Barbara Maas. 

MY OPINION 

I think one of the worst things the humans can do is to destroy what we have on earth. I can’t imagine being a person who only want to get what he or she wants, without to think about the consequences or just about what can get hurt.

Hearing this type of news for me it’s horrible and I can’t express what I feel. It’s something I get really upset about, even I can’t do anything. Well, I suppose I can do something, at least I can inform around the world and to make everybody to be noticed about that. Luckily there are a big number of associations and groups which are doing this task really well. 

To feel threatened: sentir-se amenaçat

Cetacean: animal de mar

Seismic: sísmic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25145805

Dreams in life

In my point of view, it's not easy to find or to shout out which are my dreams. There are a lot of things in life but they are very important to me or just I really love, but I think to choose one of them as a dream it’s a difficult work. Otherwise, like everybody can say, to live a good and healthy life, around people I really love and to work or do whatever I can enjoy doing it, they could be (or I can confirm they are) one of my important dreams in my life. I’m 17 and now, my short term goals are clear, to pass batxillerat with good marks and to find an university degree I really could enjoy.

I’m one of those persons who always want to meet different people, discover new places and at the most, live a lot of different kind of experiences. So in life, I would like to travel around the world with a special person, maybe that person I can be for hours with and never get tired of.  

“There is no excuse to not try”, it’s one of the sentences Barack Obama says on the speech and I want to comment on. I’m a stubborn person and I try to don’t give up if something goes wrong. Everybody can do everything they want if they really fight until the end, face challenges and put their best effort. So, personally I want to say if there’s someone who really wants to get something, he has to work hard as far as he could, and it’s very important to don’t give up.. If you never try it’s obvious you’ll never succeed, and I think that’s what I think it’s a failure. So, I will try until I get it.  

Dreams in life are essentials, it’s important to have challenges and goals to fight for, and I think we don’t have to get obsessed if now we don’t have met our dreams yet. One day we will find something special we can consider as an important dream, in that moment we will begin a new “life” with new challenges and experiences.  

Beauty and youth

I think in life there are more important things than youth and beauty. It's true most of the times when you get older you lose this sense of beauty, but I don't think it's so horrible and something you have to be upset about. 

As the time goes by, we change and that's something we have to accept. Well, if you don't want to accept it or you can't, you can visit a surgeon, but I don't think it's the best choice.

We're made to be changed by the time and to be prepared to live in a different ways.

Nowadays, we live in a world where is an important thing and something we would have, and I really don't agree with this idea. I would prefer to live in a world where honesty, for example, would be the most important thing in our lives.  

Nip-tuck dialogue

Scenario: a married in a consulting room

Characters: Doctor, Vanessa (20 years old), Charles (50 years old)

- Doctor: Hello, I’m Dr. James, tell me your problem.

- Vanessa: Well… Can you appreciate my boobs? I think they’re right, but my husband doesn’t agree with it.

- Charles: You’re wrong, I only said that you could improve them…

-Doctor: My view as a doctor is that these boobs are right for her age, of course it can be better, but I can’t do an operation if she doesn’t want new boobs.

-Vanessa: He’s packed, he would pay my surgery… you know what I mean, darling.

-Charles: yep, I think this plastic surgeon can change our relationship and I’m not talking only about our sexual life… (he made a racy look at her).

-Vanessa: Doctor, what are the risks on it?

-Doctor: It isn’t a complicate operation, I have done a lot of them. But when you enter in a surgery you ever have the probability to…(interrupted by Charles)

-Charles: Shut up, you!!

-Vanessa: What’s wrong with you?

-Charles: I want you to get a bigger boobs, so…

-Vanessa: And if I told you I didn’t want? What’s about me? Do you think I’m a doll?

-Charles: Not exactly a doll…

-Doctor: Please, can you argument it at your home, or better with a psychologist, please? Cause I’m not your psychologist!

(Vanessa stands up and she leaves).

- Charles: doctor… I want to tell you something.

- Doctor: tell me!

- Charles: mmm.. I want to take advantage of this situation to talk about my…

- Doctor: Your what?

- Charles: You know what I’m talking about…

- Doctor: Penis surgeon?

- Charles: (He embarasses himself) Yes..

- Doctor: Can we meet another day and talk about this?

-Charles: Yes, thank you.