LECTURE/ LE TOUR DU MONDE EN 80 JOURS, JULES VERNE

Salut tout le monde, on va continuer la lecture de Jules Verne "Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours". 

Hola a todo el mundo, vamos a seguir con la lectura de Julio Verne "La Vuelta al mundo en 80 días".

.../...  Ce n'est pas sérieux, dit Mr Fallentin, pour faire le tour du monde en 80 jours, il faudra sauter du bateau dands le train et du train dans le bateau.

-Alors, messieurs, Je sauterai!!!  Aujourd'hui c'est mercredi 2 octobre, je reviendrai le samedi 21 décembre à huit heures quarante-cinq du soir dans cette même salle!  Mais si je ne suis pas revenu, chacun de vous gagnera 4.000 livres sterling.  Comme vous êtes cinq, je vous laisse donc un chèque de 20.000 livres.  Vous garderez cet argent jusqu'au soir du 21 décembre.  Si je ne suis pas à Londres ce jour-là, vous pourrez aller à la banque le lundi pour prendre l'argent.
Êtes-vous d'accord?

-Oui, bien sûr, répondent les cinq amis.  Si au contraire vous réussissez, c'est nous qui vous donnerons chacun 4.000 livres sterling.

Cette fois, Mr. Fogg ne joue pas pour gagner de l'argent.  Il sait que ce voyage autour du monde lui coûtera près de 20.000 livres sterling.  S'il entre à Londres le jour dit, il retrouvera justement ce qu'il aura dépensé, sans rien gagner de plus.  Mais, s'il a du retard, il perdra le double de cette somme:  le prix du voyage et le chèque laissé à ses amis!

Il est sept heures du soir.  Phileas Fogg a décidé de prendre à huit heures quarante-cinq le train de Londres à Douvres.

Quand il arrive chez lui, il appelle Passepartout:
-"Nous partons tout de suite pour la France".
- Monsieur s'en va?
- Oui, nous allons faire LE TOUR DU MONDE!

Passepartout ouvre de grands yeux et répète sans rien comprende: "le tour du monde..."
- " En 80 jours.  Ainsi nous n'avons pas un minute à perdre.
- Mais les valises...?
- Pas de valises.  Un  sac seulement.  Deux chemises et des chaussettes.  Nous acheterons le reste pendant le voyage.

Passepartout ne répond pas.  Il se demande: "Mon maître est fou?  Je n'ai pas de chance!

À huit heures tout est prêt:
- Bien, dit Phileas Fogg.  "Prenez aussi cet autre sac et ne le perdez pas" : C'EST L'ARGENT DU VOYAGE!

Passepartout et son maître montent dans une voiture qui les conduit à la gare de Charing-Cross.
Quand ils  y arrivent, une vieille femme très pauvre, pieds nus et avec un enfant, leur demande un peu d'argent.  Phileas Fogg tire de sa poche tout ce qu'il a gagné au jeu, 21 livres sterling.
- "Tenez, ma pauvre femme, dit-il, je suis très content de vous avoir rencontrée avant de partir!"

Sur le quai de la gare, les messieurs du Reform Club sont venus pour lui dire au revoir.  Ils sont un peu gênés parce qu'ils sont cinq contre un, et parce que son ami va jouer un jeu très difficile. Ce n'est pas juste!

-Messieurs, dit Mr Fogg, je pars.  Les signatures des polices étrangères sur mon passeport vous montreront si j'ai vraiment fait le tour du monde."

Cinq minutes après, le train roule dans la nuit.  Il tombe une pluie très fine.  Phileas Fogg ne parle pas et Passepartout ne comprend pas encore ce qui se passe. Ils sont assis à leurs places et Passepartout serre sur lui le sac plein d'argent.

...  À SUIVRE    

SECRETS OF BEAUTY / Secretos de Belleza

Hi my dear friends and followers, today we're going to look at some Secrets of Beauty because in Autumn our skin  suffers a lot.  We will look at our hands.

Hola mis queridos amigos y seguidores, hoy vamos a ver algunos Secretos de Belleza porque en otoño nuestra piel sufre mucho. Miraremos a nuestras manos.

OUR BODY / Nuestro cuerpo.
HANDS  / Manos.

As our face, our hands are less protected than other parts of our body.  They are vulnerable and  exposed to  physical agents, to  bad weather and many more things, for example, chemical agents, soaps, detergents which are a real risk for them.

The result of all this is: a dry  and  chapped (agrietada) skin.  We have got some creams which give us softness, moisturize our hands, and provide us from an extra-protection.

Nowadays, we can find plenty of different cosmetic products specifically for our hands.  All these products have got a very good absorption, an excellent perspiration (transpiración) for the skin and excellent results too.

At the moment, almost all the moisturizing creams for hands include sun protection and  Vitamins that,  not only protect the skin but avoid marks.  A hand with marks  (manchas)  looks older than other without them, so this is what we have to prevent.

CREAMS RECOMMENDATIONS

** "Hand Therapy" by Rituals.  This soft cream takes care of our hands with karité oil, ginseng and gingo biloba. At the same time it stimulates our blood circulation, recovering at once (en seguida) the elasticity and softness of our hands.  And it is not expensive!  €10,90.

**"ALMENDRA" intensive hands cream by OLEADA.  This special cream is nourishing and moisturizing. And you are not going to believe the price :€5,90 (exclusively sold in EL CORTE INGLÉS)

** "PH5 HANDS CREAM"  by Eucerín.  Specially aimed to sensitive skins.  With vitamin E and anti-oxide elements, this cream protects against free radicals and initiates the skin regeneration.  Marvellous price! €7   in   PARAFARMACIAS.



** "CRÈME SUBLIME BOIS D'ORANGE" by Roger Gallet.  It repairs hands and nails.  It protects from the sun and it is very nourishing . This special French cream rejuvenates the hands look.  It has got an orange scent (aroma).  The price: €9,75  .  It is sold in PARAFARMACIAS.

WE MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR HANDS, DON'T FORGET IT.
Debemos cuidar nuestras manos, ¡no lo olvidés!

IT IS A PART OF OUR BODY SEEN BY EVERYBODY AT ANY TIME!!
Es una parte de nuestro cuerpo que todo el mundo ve en cualquier momento.

A HEALTHY AND NICE LOOK SAYS A LOT ABOUT US!!
Un aspecto saludable y bonito dice mucho de nosotras/os

THESE ADVICES ARE NOT ONLY FOR WOMEN BUT FOR MEN TOO!
Estos consejos son no solo para mujeres si no para hombres también.

HAVE A NICE DAY!
SEE YOU!

ENGLISH EXERCISES / EJERCICIOS DE INGLÉS

Hi my dear friends, as there are more things in life than travels (what a pity!) , here you are some English exercises for you to practise.

Hola mis queridos amigos, como en la vida hay más cosas que viajes (¡qué pena!) aquí tenéis unos ejercicios de Inglés para que practiquéis.

REVISION
EXERCISE 1.  WRITE THE COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE OF. ESCRIBID EL COMPARATIVO Y EL SUPERLATIVO DE:
1- pretty >                          
2- cold >
3- young >
4- rude >
5- red>
6- talkative>
7- cheerful>
8- terrible>
9- tall>
10- thirsty>
11- large>
12- warm>
13- hot>
14- long>

EXERCISE 2.  CHANGE THE SENTENCES AS IN THE EXAMPLE / CAMBIAD LAS FRASES COMO EN EL EJEMPLO.
Example:  I'm older than me >  He's younger than me.
1.- I'm taller than her >
2.- She's bigger than me >
3.- He's heavier than her >
4.- She's darker than me >
5.- They're shorter than us >
6.- Chinese is more difficult than Italian >

EXERCISE 3.  MAKE QUESTIONS. I GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS AND USE THE WORDS IN BRACKETS.  HACED PREGUNTAS.  OS DOY LAS RESPUESTAS . UTILIZAD LAS PALABRAS ENTRE PARÉNTESIS.
Example:  I run 5,000 metres every day (your sister)
Question:  Does your sister run 5,000 metres every day?

1.- I can cook very well. (your brother)
Question:
2.- I can run 200 metres. (swim)
question:
3.- My friend Susan came to see me on Sunday. (by car)
question:
4.- My mother was a dancer when she was younger. (your father)
question:
5.- My friends will arrive in Madrid on Wednesday. (Lucy)
question:
6.- I have already seen that film. (this play)
question:
7.- Peter and Paul went to Miami yesterday. (last summer)
question:
8.- Mary plays tennis marvellously. (your sister)
question:
9.- I go to the gym twice a week. (how many times)
question:
10.- I have been a teacher for 16 years. (how long)
question.

EXERCISE 4.  READ AND TRANSLATE THE TEXT  INTO YOUR LANGUAGE.  Leed y traducid el texto a vuestro idioma.

(from "The Spy who came in from the Cold" by John Le Carré)
... Leamas was a short man with close, iron-grey hair, and the physique of a swimmer.  He was very strong.  This strengh was discernible in his back and shoulders, in his neck, and in the stubby formation of his hands and fingers.

He had a utilitarian approach to clothes, as he did to most other things, and even the spectacles he occasionally wore had steel rims.  Most of his suits were of artificial fibre, none of them had waistcoats.  He favoured shirts of the American kind with buttons on the points of the collars, and suede shoes with rubber soles.

He had an attractive face, muscular, and a stubborn line to his thin mouth.  His eyes were brown and small;  Irish, some said.  He looked like a man who could make a trouble, a man who looked after his money, a man who was not quite a gentleman.

The air hostess thought he was interesting.  She guessed he was North Country, which he might have been, and rich, which he was not.  She put his age at about fifty, which was about right.  She guessed he was single, which was half true.  Somewhere long ago there had been a divorce;  somewhere there were children, now in their teens.
"If you want another whisky," said the air hostess, "you'd better hurry.  We will be at London Airport in twenty minutes."
"No more."  He didn't look at her;  he was looking out of the window at the grey-green field of Kent.
.../...

VOCABULARY
- DISCERNIBLE:  perceptible
- STUBBY:  fuerte
- UTILITARIAN:  cercano, utilitario.
- SPECTACLES:  gafas, anteojos.
- STEEL RIMS:  bordes de acero.
- COLLARS: cuellos
- SUEDE SHOES: zapatos de gamuza
- RUBBER SOLES: suelas de goma.
- STUBBORN:  testarudo, cabezota.
- AIR HOSTESS:  azafata.
- GUESS:  adivinar.
- SOMEWHERE: en algún sitio, en alguna parte.
- IN THEIR TEENS:  adolescente.

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***HAVE A NICE DAY MY FRIENDS!!!

SOLUTIONS

EXERCISE 1
1 prettier  /  the prettiest
2 colder  /  the coldest
3 younger  /  the youngest
4 rudder  /  the ruddest
5 redder  /  the reddest
6 more talkative  / the most talkative
7 more cheerful  /  the most cheerful
8 more terrible  /  the most terrible
9 taller  /  the tallest
10 thirstier  /  the thirtiest
11 larger  /  the largest
12 warmer  /  the warmest
13 hotter  /  the hottest
14 longer  /  the longest

EXERCISE 2
1 She is shorter than me.
2 I am smaller than her.
3 She is lighter than him.
4 I'm lighter than her.
5 We are taller than them.
6 Italian is easier than Chinese.

EXERCISE 3
1 Can your brother cook well?
2 Can you swim 200 metres?
3 How did your friend Susan come to see you on Sunday?
4 Was your father a dancer when he was younger?
5 Will Lucy arrive on Wednesday?
6 Have you already seen this play?
7 Did they go to Miami last summer?
8 Does your sister play tennis?
9 How many times a week do you go to the gym?
10 How long have you been a teacher?

SEE YOU!

CINEMA / EMMA THOMPSON / CINE

Hi again my dear friends, I'm back from my Chinese travel, I have some adjectives to define it:  great, spectacular, exciting, surprising, marvellous, amazing, astonishing, and very very beautiful!
To start again, here you are a text about the actress Emma Thompson.  She is, in my personal opinion, a very good actress and she has made a lot of good films.  Surely you have seen some of her films!

Hola otra vez mis queridos amigos, de vuelta de mi viaje por China, tengo algunos adjetivos para definirlo: genial, espectacular, emocionante, sorprendente, maravilloso, fantástico, asombroso y muy muy bonito.
Para empezar de nuevo, aquí tenéis un texto sobre la actriz Emma Thompson.  Es, en mi opinión personal, una actriz muy buena y ha hecho muchas películas. Seguramente que habéis visto algunas de ellas.

EMMA THOMPSON   /  SCREEN AND STAGE.
EMMA THOMPSON  /   PANTALLA Y ESCENARIO.


**Emma Thompson was born on April 15th 1959 in a family of actors.
**Her father is well known for writing and narrating a children's TV series called "THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT" (La isla mágica).
**Her mother has appeared with her daughter in films like "Peter's Friends" (1992) and "Much Ado(sin más) About Nothing" (1993) a screen version of the  Shakespeare's play.

**Emma has lived most of her life in London but she has visited her mother's homeland in Scotland many times so she says that she feels Scottish.

**Thompson has attended (asistir) a State-run   comprehensive school (instituto público) for girls and then she was accepted to the University of Cambridge in which she studied English.  Afterwards, she entered an amateur theatre club "The Footlights Dramatic Club" that was established in 1883 and  which is still run (dirigido) by the university.   Many of Thompson's fellow student actors leapt from (saltaron de) the boards (tablas) to TV or to cinema, including Hugh Laurie (Dr. House).

**As an amateur actress, Thompson impressed theatrical agent Richard Armitage who signed her up two years before she graduated.

**Thompson's career has been very prolific and she has performed many diverse roles.  Some of her films:
*The Tall Guy (1989)
*Henry V
*Dead Again
*Sense and Sensibility
*Harry Potter
*Howards End
*The Reminds of the Day
            
**She married the also actor Kenneth Branagh but they divorced in 1994.
**Thompson is now married to actor Greg Wise.

**She won an Oscar for her adaptation of Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

SEE YOU!!