NEWS UK

CAT CAFÉ 
London 

Happy new for cat lovers - London is to get its first cat café after Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium finally secured planning permission. Inspired by Tokyo's popular cat cafés, The Emporium will offer Londoners the chance to play with its resident felines over tea or a latté. The café already has a waiting list of 6,000...and that's before it has any cats! 

COMMENT: A cat cafe in east London has moved a step closer to opening after planning permission was granted. At Lady Dinah’s, visitors will have the opportunity to kick back and relax with a cup of tea and spend time in the soothing company of our purring feline friends. We are currently preparing our exciting new venue in Shoreditch, East London.

We are a home for our rescued cats. Our greatest and most important duty is to ensure the happiness and well-being of London’s soon to be most loved felines.

Our venue is designed with the emotional and physical needs of our resident rescue cats in mind and our induction process for the cats is long and gradual to help give them the time, space and resources they need to form a harmonious household. We provide a safe, comfortable place to live and a home where they can exhibit their full range of natural behaviours. Cats will have free choice at all times to stay indoors with patrons, or relax outside for some time-out in their private two-story, cats-only garden.

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What's the headline? Cat Café 

Is there a video/image you can include? Yes. (Down) 

Can you explain it in your own words? In London there is the first Cat Café called Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium and it have a big waiting list and it's before it has any cats! 

Add 3 new words you have learnt
1. Waiting list: llista d'espera
2. Permission: permís 
3. Purr: ronc

Why is it relevant to you? Because is a strange notice. 

How is this connected with other news that have an impact on our world? It connects to the world because now the animals are more in the human world and there is more consideration for them. 

NEWS USA

BANSKY FOR SALE 
Beverly Hils, California

Banky's "Flower Girl" mural is to be sold at an auction in Beverly Hills this month, along with four earlier works. The piece, wich appeared on a Los Angeles gas station wall in 2008, is expected to go for $300,000. The final price, though, could be much more. Another mural by the British artist, "Slave Labour", found behind a shop in London, sold recently for 750,000 pounds. 

COMMENT: Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based, graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.

His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world

Asked about his technique, Banksy said:

I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key.

Peter Gibson, a spokesman for Keep Britain Kiddy , asserts that Banksy's work is simple vandalism, and Diane Shakespeare, an official for the same organisation, was quoted as saying: "We are concerned that Banksy's street art glorifies what is essentially vandalism."In his column for The Guardian, satirist Charlie Brooker wrote of Banksy "…his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots."

"Flower girl"

A mural taken from the side of a Hollywood gas station by famed street artist Banksy has fetched more than $200,000 at a Beverly Hills auction.

The 9-by-8 foot artwork titled "Flower Girl" sold for $209,000 at Julien's Beverly Hills Gallery on Thursday. The winning bid came from a Los Angeles buyer who requested anonymity.

The mural shows a little girl holding a flower basket under a surveillance camera planted atop a tall stalk. The work was painstakingly removed from its original location and placed in an aluminum frame. 

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What's the headline? "Banky for sale"

Is there a video/image you can include? Yes. (Down) 

Can you explain it in your own words? Banky is a famous graffiti artist wich is famous for the style of graffiti that he paints. One of the most famous works is "The Flower Gril (mural)". He finally sold it for  $ 300.000. 
Add 3 new words you have learnt
1. Fech: anar a buscar
2. Surveillance: vigilància
3. Atop: a sobre

Why is it relevant to you? Because is different from the other artists, and he paint diferent and ironic themes for each work. 

How is this connected with other news that have an impact on our world? Because he paints ironic themes of reality and he criticizes society. 

HALLOWEEN 2013

1. When is Halloween celebrated? And why?

Is it celebrated in 31st. Because that is the day the Celts believed that the boundaries from dead and the undead was the thinnest and when the spirits could come ino the living world.

2. What does "Halloween" mean? 

A contraction is a shortened version of All Hallows Eve, i.e., the evening before All Hallows Day, wich is always November 1.

3. How the people celebrated? 

- Watching a horror film.
-Set jack o' lanterns in you windows
-Load up on candy
-Decorate your house in the spirit of Halloween
-Have a halloween preparty 
-Welcome in the tricks or treaters
-Buy a new costume each year
-Carve a pumpkin.

4. Where is it celebrated? Germany, Asia, Australia, Central and South America, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, Saint Helena. 

MAGAZINE:

Music:  

-LMFAO
If you like the Balck Eyed Peas and Michael Jackso, or the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, you might like Lmfao. 
The group say they have been influenced by many different styles of music, from rap and hip hop to rock. The result is a new style of music: "party rock". The album Sorry For Party Rocking, with the single "Party Rock Anthem", is a big hit and now Lmfao are working on a Party Rock clothing line. Do you like party rock? 

-JESSIE J
English singer Jessie J has had a great few months. Her debut album, Who Are You, has been a big hit. It has the singles "Do It Like a Dude", "Prince Tag" and "Nobody's Perfect". Jessie, age 23, sings pop, soul and R&B, but she became famous as a songwriter for Miley Cyrus! 

MAGAZINE: 

Nature story: 

-Koko, a female gorilla, lives at a research centre in California. Scientist Francine Patterson taught her to use sign language used by deaf people. One day, Koko met a kitten and became attached to it. When a car ran over the kitten Koko expressed her sadness by making the "sad" sign and staying on her own. 














-A Piglet sleeps on a tiger at Sriracha zoo in Thailand. Staff at the zoo encourage different animals to live together soon after they are born.

MAGAZINE: 

Cow Jumping: 

This is 15-year-old German girl, Regina Mayer and her cow, Luna. Regina loves horses but her parents did not have the money to buy her one. So she decided to train her cow to jump! Now Luna understands the  commands "go", "stand" and "gallop". Regina still wants a horse, but she loves her cow. "She'll stay my darling", Regina says. Watch REgina and Luna here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=18UPCJdt08k

WRITING 

AN ACCOUNT OF A DECADE

The 2000's was a decade wich people will remember for many reasons. Specially for the new music, a lot of good things happened in football, and unfortunately, for many important disasters, too. 

In the world of music, there were a lot of pop artists in the charts, for example Avril Lavigne, Michael Jackson, Shakira, Beyoncé...About the sports there were a lot of important wins. For example FC Barcelona won six titles in the same season, including his firs Intercontinental Cup. The three most popular films in the decade of 2000 were: The Lord of the Kings, Gladiator and The Dark Knight.

On fashion women prefer fresh fashion but with a modern twist, little makeup, natural hair but combining structured hairstyles fashion little 1960 and the men more adventurous and fun.

And finally, a lot of disasters happened. In 2003 earthquake in Iran, in 2005 attack on the London underground, in 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocena, in 2006 the war crisis between Israel and Lebanon...