HOW TO PLAY FOTBALL

To play football you need to wear special clothes for example booths and a t-shirt of a club.

To do it you have to sign for a club. Then you have to train two times a week and a match.

In football we have different leagues and rules, if you are in the first league you are one of the bests clubs in your town and if you are in the last one you are one of the badly clubs.

The rules of football are very simple:

-you can’t touch the ball with the hands(only the goalkeeper).

-there are targets, the red car and the yellow car, if the referee put you a yellow card he said you are ammonised and if he put it a red car, you are expelled for the rest of the match and the next match.

-The offside it serves  to don’t do goal, if the defenders are more advanced then the attackers, this is offside.

-A football match is played by two teams, with each allowed no more than 11 players on the field at any one time, one of whom is a goalkeeper.

-A match is played in two 45 minute halves.

-The game begins with the toss of a coin, and the winning captain decides which goal to defend or to take the first kick off.

-All players must use their feet head or chest to play the ball. Only the goalkeeper is allowed to use their hands, and only within their designated goal area.

-The aim of the game is to score a goal, which is achieved by kicking or heading the ball into the opposition team's goal.

-If the ball touches or crosses the side line, it is thrown back in by the team that was not the last to touch the ball.

-The game is controlled by a central referee, and two linesmen. They award free kicks and penalties when rules are broken. For continual breaking of rules or for a bad foul, the player may be sent off.

by Eric

FUTURE PLANS

My future plans are the same as the ones I thought  when I was little. 

For me the most important future plan of all, is to have a stable job which I can win the necessary money for all my family and for having a comfortable and happy life. And other future plan I have is having a very big family with which I can comfort and be safe and happy with them and love them very much.

And I know that I’m going to achieve all this future plans with effort because with effort you can do anything that you want.

But I have more future plans, like for example become a professional dancer and make real my dreams and compete with all my team and win the most competitions we can.

And another future plan I have, as I think that most people have it, is to be happy with my life. Because I think that is the most important thing in the world as having healthy.

And I don’t want to repeat myself either, but I think these future plans are those that will make me the person I want and those who are going to make me happy and be able to be calm having a quiet life with everything I want.

by Aida

Writing an informal email

Hi Sophie!,

How are you? I know I haven’t written you for ages, but I have an explanation: this holidays I’ve been away (I went skiing) and I didn’t have network connection so that’s why I couldn’t write you.

It was great to hear that you are coming to Barcelona in two weeks, can’t wait to see you! It’s been a while since we last saw eachother this summer.

You’re are coming to Barcelona with that exchange you told me, right? To improve your Spanish speaking and to visit the city. As you probably know, in Catalonia we talk Catalan but everyone knows Spanish so don’t worry, you’ll be able to talk perfectly in Spanish. But I’ll teach you some easy common expressions in Catalan as ‘Adéu’ or ‘Gràcies’ that mean ‘Goodbye’ and ‘thank you’ (I’ll show you the pronunciation personally when you come here because it’s very difficult to write it in an email) then you’ll be able to talk a bit with local people.

About the local accent you told me, I don’t notice any local accent because I live here but you might notice it.

It’s important to remember, when you come here, some typical gestures we daily do; for example: when we met a new person we kiss that person in each cheek once (I don’t know if you do that in Switzerland). About our local behaviour… here people don’t respect queues too much or the traffic lights, etc.

Anyway, you’ll have a lot of fun here and I hope that you won’t have to do many classes here so then we’ll be able to spend more time together. Text me when you arrive and have a safe flight, see you in two weeks!

Hugs and kisses,

Ariadna.

WHEN HISTORY WAS MADE

It was 8th of March and Barça was playing an important match, which was going to make them classify at the quarter finals of Champions League or get eliminated. The team had to score at least 5 goals to pass because of the bad performance they offered at the Parc des Princes.

After being all day nervous for waiting, the moment arrived. The referee whistled, and the ball started moving when Suarez scored the first goal. The match was in Barça’s hands, they were doing everything to remount that 4-0. It was 2-0 for Barça when the first half ended. As soon as the second half started the third goal arrived. But afterwards Cavani scored for the Parisian team and that was when we all started losing hope, because at that moment we had to score six. The match was nearly at the end when Neymar scored a free-kick and a few moments later a penalty. There were five minutes remaining, the whole world was looking at that match when Neymar putted the ball at the heart of the area and Sergi Roberto scored the sixth goal. The euphoria in the Camp Nou was unbelievable.

They made history and I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy! The match started well and exciting and ended the same way.

by Aleix

VISITING NEW YORK

Everybody says going to New York is a great thing to do, but have you ever thought about what is it that makes this city so special?

Well, most people think it’s because of the people that live in it, others think that it’s its decoration, but the main reason is, the monuments and the buildings that are in it. This is to show you the best 5 places to visit in New York:

 1. The Statue of Liberty, it’s a sculpture on Liberty Island and was built by Gustave Eiffel. This is the most common  place to visit because of the special place it is in and the amazing views you have got into the city once you are there. You cannot miss it!

   

 2. Central Park, a park in middle of the city in which loads of people go to do some sport or even to spend the day, you must go there if you visit New York because, honestly, it’s amazing. You cannot imagine how beautiful it is walking around there. And if you are tired, you can always hire bikes!!

 3. Memorial Museum 11S, a very heart-moving place to go certainly, but it’s a very curious and fascinating museum to go because it explains what happened that day, the day that many fire-fighters lost their life.

4.  Top of the Rock, the best place you can go if you want to experience the best views you’ve ever seen from such a high height!

WARNING: if you’re afraid of heights, don’t go, you won’t have a ‘great’ time.

5. The 5th Avenue, a great place to visit in the city if you want to buy anything but specially because of how this avenue is decorated. Although it is very nice, it’s very expensive but despite that you should go because you won’t see anything like that ever, it’s an amazing Street even to walk in!!

by Nicole

List of things I want to do before death

Today I’m going to talk about of some things I want to do before I death

-The first thing is going to California, I love it. I want to go there since I was a chill and with my best friend. 

Riding a water scooter is one of the things I want to do too. I don’t like scooters on the road but I do on the water

I want to adopt an abandoned dog, because there are animals that need a lot of love and they have gone through to very bad things.

Before I die I want to find some who loves me just as I am, someone that I can explain all my things to and I wouldn't like this person judging me. And be me 100%

Another thing is making a videoclip, because I love dancing and singing. But I think this is very difficult because I don’t sing very well.

It would be great to be able to speak more than 4 languages and know al the words of them. Like there were my mother tongue.

by Aina

3 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO IMPROVE YOUR EATING HABITS

Over 33% of American adults are obese, and the percentage of obesity in America has increased by at least a 20% in the last 10 years. That’s a problem that we want to resolve but, how we can do it?

1.      Control the way of eating

It’s been found that eating fast or nervously is bad for your health and too many times makes you get fat easier than eating relaxed and without pressure.

2.      Have a Balanced diet

In America, it’s very common to see lots of places of fast food which when is used excessively make you fat. That’s why nutritionists always recommend having a variety of food in our diets.

3.      Respecting meal times

Have you ever open the fridge between meals just to pick something and not to be hungry? If your answer is yes you mustn’t do that again. It’s wrong because it alters your stomach and when you really need to eat you’re not hungry.

Personally, I believe that eating fast food or between meals is bad. But it doesn’t matter if you occasionally break the rules for a day to have fun with friends eating what you really want!

by Martí