Effective Communicator

For me this is mean people who can talk to you or explain you easily.
If you can understand what are people talking about you will always lose.

Video Blog's

The video I watched is about the time long long ago.People used to live very differently compared to the way they live today.Instead of moving from place to place using cars , airplanes or ships people back then used horses , ox-wagons or just walked. For example:The man in the video move from place to place on horseback . They lived in castles with high , stone walls all around them to keep them safe from their enemies. We notice in the video that people are either very wealthy or very poor .For example many of the poor people were slaves.

Woolworths starts closing down!

Just a few weeks after announcing it had run out of money, Woolworths is holding closing down sales in all of its 813 shops across the UK.

Last month, business experts called administrators were put in charge of the famous chain store after it admitted it was in trouble.Now they say some of the stores could close for good by Christmas as they can't find anyone to buy the business.It means thousands of people who work there could lose their jobs.

I hope people who lost their jobs can find the new job soon , the store can still open ,because Woolworths is open long time ago , maybe around 40 years.

New park to protect gorillas

A new game park has been open in Cameroon a country in Africa,they are hoping to save the gorilla ,because it is facing extinction.

I think people is fact , if gorilla is not facing extinction ,people will not open the new park for them . I hope gorilla will be fine.

Blast tears apart block of flats

An explosion has torn apart a block of flats in Wigan, injuring eight people.
It is really strange because no one know that why the house bone! I hope the people who's house has been bone can find the house soon!

Safety calls for railway crossing

There was a 56-year-old woman and the 7-year-old boy who were killed as they tried to cross the train track at Bestwood Village . A local councilor said the crossing had been "an accident waiting to happen".They couldn't find any problems with it .

Stranded whales swim back to sea

There were 64 whales swam stranded themselves on the beach last Saturday night but have already died.There were 11 survivors .They were kept alive using buckets of water and wet blankets before been to moved to deeper waters at a nearby beach to swim back out to sea.Some were fitted with tracking devices so scientists study where they go .

Poetry!

What is poetry?
There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets.
-What are some poetic devices that make poems strong (for example: metaphor, simile ...)?
Some example are metaphor,simile
is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities.
-What is an example of a rap song (in English) that is a poem? Why?
EX:"If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry"
-Why do people write poems?
Because they might like to used it in a song .

5 FAT QUESTIONS???

1.In what ways did Roman culture help Western Civilization to develop?
2.Who did the Romans base that culture on?
3.What was the culture that preceded the Hellenic culture?
4.In what period did Greek culture and expanded into the near and middle east?
5.When did Greece enter the period call the Dark Ages?

Second school collapses in Haiti

This time the people were luckier ,because most of student were outside when the part of building fell,there are nine people were injured .

Girl investigates family war history

The 11th November is the day every year that we remember the soldiers that had to fight for our country in past wars. A little girl named Stephanie wanted to know what her family did during both World Wars . Her grandfather was killed when a bomb hit the ambulance.

Hum8-Alex

A school in Haiti with 500 students inside collapsed for no apparent reason . The search for survivors was called off yesterday,because no one has been found for the last four days .
At least 92 people have died and 150 others were hurt. No-one knows why the building collapsed, but some were worried it wasn't strong enough. The owner of the school, has been arrested.

Hum8-Alex

A nine year old boy can face to face to the cheetah in his backyard yesterday , this is very unusual because Toby leaves in Cambridgeshire , England . The cheetah had escaped from a nearby zoo, but its keepers soon arrived with the police to capture it. They said the creature had escaped because of a broken electric fence, but wouldn't have harmed Toby.

Science 8 -Alex Hsieh

I learned to work better in a team , but I didn’t learn any new skills in the science experiment yesterday.

Hum8-Alex

Strong earthquake hits Pakistan

Who?
South-western Pakistan people.
What?
Strong earthquake hits Pakistan
Where?
South-western Pakistan.
When?
11 o' clock on Tuesday.
Why?
The people lived on the street because of the earthquake

The quake, measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale, struck 45 miles north of Quetta at around 11 o' clock on Tuesday. The people ran from their houses in the city,and hundreds of houses made from mud collapsed.After the quake a lot of people sat outside on the street because they had lost their houses. They huddled around fires wrapped up in blankets to keep warm.

Hum8 Alex's

Ronaldo named world's best player

Who?
Ronaldo is a soccer player for United .
What?
He received an award called the FifPro World Footballer of the Year.
Where?
United Kingdom .
When?
He has recently received this award .
Why?
Because he scored 42 goals last season and was voted for by other footballers from all over the world.

Humanities8 Alex's

U.S. Takes to Air to hit Militants Inside Pakistan

The White House has backed away from ground raids into Pakistan after furious complaints from its government, relying instead on strikes by drones.

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Prince Harry wants to be a pilot

He wants to be a pilot in the Army like his big William.
Army bosses say it's a very tough course, and around half of the soldiers who want to be pilots fail to make it. As well as Prince William, Harry's dad Prince Charles and uncle Prince Andrew have all flown helicopters in the military too.

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Five people have died after a crash on the M6 motorway in Cheshire in the north west of England.
Three lorries and two cars crash were involved in the collision .This accident is from 11 o'clock on Monday night.
A 46-year-old lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7680000/newsid_7681300/7681331.stm#top

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Trouble's in Myanmar after the Cyclone

A Cyclone badly damaged the Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar five months ago.
Many countries gave a lot of money to help these people who were hit by the big stone.
But other parts of Myanmar are also every poor , but these areas did not receive any money.
This has cause some problems.