CALENDAR

WHAT DAY IS TODAY?

NOVEMBER, 22

In a day like today the President John Kennedy died. We remember him by telling you something about his life and work.

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.
Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.
Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.
He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained.
Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.
Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

WEIRD BUT TRUE

CHECK OUT THESE 10 OUTRAGEOUS FACTS.

1) THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IN AUSTRALIA IS THE BIGGEST LIVING STRUCTURE ON EARTH.

2) SOME ROBOTS CAN IDENTIFY DIFFERENT CHEESES.

3) JELLYFISH CAN STING EVEN WHEN DEAD.

4) NEWBORN DOLPHINS DON´T SLEEP FOR MORE THAN A FEW SECONDS.

5) GIANT ANTEATERS CAN EAT MORE THAN 30.000 INSECTS IN A DAY.

6) A COCKROACH CAN LIVE FOR WEEKS WITHOUT AHEAD.

7) A TIGER´S STRIPES ARE DIFFERENT ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES OF ITS BODY.

8) CATS CAN´T TASTE SWEETS.

9) YOU CAN BUY A PIECE OF METEORITE ON EBAY.

10) SALT HAS BEEN USED AS MONEY.

ACTIVITIES

This activity will help you to improve your vocabulary!
Technology and Means of Communication.
a) Find a word or a phrase that means:

1. a piece of electronic equipment, either inside a computer or connected to it, which connects a computer to a phone line, and is used for sendind e- mails and using the Internet.
2. textual drawings of a facial expression.
3. thestudey of technology related to the transfer of information (computers, digital electronics, communications)
4. a handheld electronic device used for e- book reading.
5. to move information or programs from one computer system to another.
6. brief text messages that are transmitted via mobile phones.
7. using a mixture of sound, pictures, film,and writing to transfer information via computers.
8. a set of computers connected to each other that can be used for sending and sharing information or messages.

You can send a message for the solution!!

LITTLE RED RINGING TONE

Little Red Ringing Tone

Little Red Ringing Tone is a little girl who lives near the forest. She is very happy with her new mobile phone. One spring morning she hears “Beep- Click- Beep”. It is her fax machine. There is a long list of groceries her grandma needs: cookies, sugar, ink and some washing powder, too.


So Little Red Ringing Tone sends Granny a text message: “Dear Granny, don´t worry. I will be at your door with the groceries very soon.”

But, oh,no! Her small finger presses a wrong number and hungry Wicked Pierced Wolf picks her message! Wicked Pierced Wolf quickly writes: “Honey dear, I´d like some flowers, too. So please take the long path and pick them on your way.”

Little Red Ringing Tone buys the groceries, and sets off down the long path to pick the flowers for Granny.

Meanwhile, Wicked Pierced Wolf takes the short path and he soon arrives at Granny´s house. When the wolf knocks at the door, Granny´s chatting with her good friend, the Woodcutter.

“Who is it?” she asks.

“It´s me, Granny. Little Red Ringing Tone.”

When Granny opens the door, Wicked Pierced Wolf falls on her. He ties her, hides her into the wardrobe, puts her clothes on and gets into her bed. Luckily, Granny´s webcam is on and good Woodcutter can see everythingh!

When Little Red Ringing Tone knocks at the door, Wicked Pierced Wolf is very warm in bed, listening to the radio, watching the news on Tv and reading Granny´s newspaper. He´s having fun and thinking “I want to have all these things in my home.”
“Who is it?” he asks.

“It´s me, Granny, Little Red Ringing Tone.”

When Little Red Ringing Tone opens the door, Wicked Pierced Wolf falls on her. He ties her up and hides her into the wardrobe with Granny.

But, while Wicked Pierced Wolf is putting Granny´s things in a big bag, the good Woodcutter calls the police.

They arrive just in time to catch the greedy Wicked Pierced Wolf. They free Little Red Ringing Tone and her granny and take Wicked Pierced Wolf to prison.

In the end, Little Red Ringing Tone and Granny thank the good Woodcutter. They are all very happy again.

THE END