Year 3. Project 5 Practice Makes Perfect!

Ted-Ed videos

Are Boys Smarter Than Girls?

1. Males have more connections _____ hemispheres, whereas women have more connections _____ hemispheres. 

A         Within/ Between

B          Between/ Within

A

 

2. IQ tests have found that women have better _____ abilities and men have had better _____ abilities.

Verbal and spatial

 

3. Why might women have performed better than men on the Program for International Student Assessment in Iceland?

Because of the cultural and environmental differences.

 

4. Briefly describe the stereotype threat phenomenon.

Gender differences: female and male not the same score.

No gender differences: female and male the same score.

 

5. What happened when science faculty from research university rated applications from female applicants vs. male applicants?

The male were competent, hirable, mentoring and the male starts with a higher salary.

The female were identical

 

Are Good Look People Jerks?

1. According to this video, what is the biggest factor in skewing your perceptions of people’s likability?

A         The people you find physically attractive

B         The people you find “nice”

C          The people you ignore

D         Your iPhone settings

C

 

2. How does this breakdown of dating relate to the idea that all foods that are good for you, taste bad?

A         You don’t even pay attention to foods that are bad for you and taste bad.

B          The delicious foods that are good for you are all taken.

C          Because it’s associated with un-ripeness, we are biologically predetermined to be repulsed by any food that’s green.

A

 

Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change

1. When do scientists predict the hole in the ozone layer will be healed?

A         Never

B         2200

C         3000

D         2050

D

 

2. Why does the researcher believe that if CO2 was black we would have dealt with it by now?

Because when CO2 is black you can see it.

 

3. According to these researchers, what is an effective way to encourage consumers to save energy?

A         Guilt

B         Research

C         Fear

D         Subtle Social Experiments

D

 

4. The Engage Project is trying to understand what types of messaging could convince people to change their behavior. What were some of the messaging angles they tried and which proved most effective?

Messages about saving money, environment and health. The health message was the most effective.

 

How An Igloo Keeps You Warm

1. What is a way you could make your igloo even warmer without building a fire or adding an artificial heat source?

Frozen sky water

 

2. What is happening to your body when you feel cold?

A         Cold is entering your body

B          Heat is leaving your body

C          Moisture is leaving your body

B

 

3. How is snow like otter hair?

Otter hair insulate air molecules and that is exactly what snowflakes do.

 

4. Which of these techniques is NOT used to make an igloo warmer?

A         Walls made of blocks of dense snow

B         Different levels inside the igloo that trap cold air

C         Blocks of solid ice

D         A thin layer of ice made from the inhabitant’s body heat

C

 

Why Do Dogs Smell Each Other’s Butts

1. An average dog’s nose is anywhere from ____ to ____ times more sensitive than a human’s nose.

A         5/ 500

B         100/ 5.000

C         10.000/ 100.000 

C

 

2. What chemical information is held in a dog’s anal sac?

Age, gender, health and scent

 

3. What is the name of the second olfactory system at play in a dog’s nose? What does it do?

Jacobson’s organ

The chemical information of a dog goes directly to the brain.

 

 

Ted-Ed videos with questions

Why are there so many types of apples?

1. How many apple varieties are there?

A         More than 7500

B         Less than 7500

 

2. What should breeders find to create apples with desirable characteristics?

 

3. How long does it takes for the seeds to grow into trees that produces apples?

A         8 months

B          1 year

C          11 years

D         5 years

 

4. What will happen with a seedling that bears fruit with the desired qualities?

 

5. Breeders study about traits, how many traits?

 

6. Name 3 traits where breeders look at.

 

7. Name 1 purpose of creating new apple varieties.

 

8. How long does it take for a new tree to produce the fruit that we can eat?

A         2 years

B         4 years

C         1 year

 

9. Who can create new cultivars? Call 1.

 

10. What is the last thing that a breeder needs to do?

 

Why are sharks so awesome?

1. Sharks have been celebrated as powerful gods by some native cultures. Name 1 culture.

 

2. How will sharks be recognized?

 

3. What stems from a unique set of biological traits?

 

4. Are their cartilaginous skeletons less dense or is there no difference with bony ones?

 

5. How many teeth can a shark produce?

A         10 teeth

B          50.000 teeth

C          36.784 teeth

 

6. How many teeth can a shark loose on average in a week?

A         1 tooth

B         3 teeth

 

7. For what function are the needle-like teeth of a mako shark?

 

8. From how many meters can sharks hear sounds?

A         620 meter

B          75 meter

C          100 meter

D         800 meter

 

9. What is the name of the reflective membranes of a shark?

 

10. Which part of the 500 shark species are threatened?

 

Why are sloths so slow?

1. Who received a box of bones in 1796?

 

2. When did the prehistoric ground sloths appeared?

A         20 million years ago

B          56 million years ago

C          35 million years ago

D         43 million years ago

 

3. Where lived the sloths?

 

4. For what reason have sloths strong arms and sharp claws?

 

5. What can a sloth do with an avocado what another animal can not do?

 

6. How many years ago started the sloths disappearing?

A         15.000 years ago

B          10.000 years ago

C          20.000 years ago

 

7. How many species are left?

 

8. What is good about hanging out in the trees?

 

9. What is so special about the sloth it’s stomach?

A         It is very small

B          Nothing is special

C          It is very big

D         It is multi-chambered

 

10. How long can a sloth do over processing a meal?

 

The history of Tea

1. How many times poisoned Shennong himself?

 

2. Is the original Chinese tea plant the same as earlier or is the plant different now?

 

3. When shifted tea from food to drink?

A         1.000 years ago

B          1.500 years ago

C          2.000 years ago

 

4. Tea was the subject of __1__ and poetry, the favorite drink of __2__ and a medium for __3__ .

 

5. What happened in the 9^th century during the Tang Dynasty?

 

6. What happened in the 14^th century during the Ming Dynasty?

 

7. When brought the Dutch traders tea to Europe?

 

8. Who made tea popular with the English aristocracy?

 

9. By 1700, tea in Europe was sold for ____ times the price of coffee.

 

10. What was the name of the fastest sailboat in the world?

A         The golden tea

B          The ship ahoy

C          The tea treat

D         The clipper ship

 

How does your body process medicine?

1. Medicine that slides down your throat can help treat ______ .

 

2. Where starts the process?

A         In your throat

B          In your mouth

C          In your digestive system

           

3. Where starts the tablet disintegrating?

 

4. Which organ is the next step?

A         Liver

B         Kidney

 

5. What are the enzymes doing when they react with the ibuprofen molecules?

 

6. What is the name of the damaged ibuprofen molecules?

 

7. Yes or no. Are metabolites still effective as painkillers?

 

8. What are painkillers doing when they are at the place where the pain is?

 

9. What is eventually filtered out by the kidneys in the urine?

 

10. What is really important if you use medicine?

 

 

Ted-Ed videos answers

Why are there so many types of apples?

1. A
2. Parent apples
3. D
4. It will be selected for further evaluation.
5. 45

• When it ripens
• Texture
• How long it stays fresh

7. To create an apple that is disease resistant.
8. B
9. For example universities.
10. Naming the fruit.

 

Why are sharks so awesome?

1. Fijians
2. As apex predators of the world’s ocean.
3. Much of their hunting prowess.
4. Less dense
5. B
6. A
7. For gripping fish.
8. D
9. Tapeta Lucida
10. 1/3

 

Why are sloths so slow?

1. Thomas Jefferson
2. C
3. North, Central and South America.
4. To uproot plants and climb trees.
5. The sloth could swallow the huge seed of the avocado.
6. B
7. 6
8. They avoid predators.
9. D
10. 5 to 7 days, or even weeks.

 

The history of Tea

1. 72 times
2. The Chinese tea plant is still the same.
3. B
4. 1. Books     2. Emperors     3. Artists
5. A Japanese monk brought the first tea plant to Japan.
6. The Chinese emperor shifted the standard from tea pressed into cakes to loose leaf tea.
7. Around the early 1600s
8. Queen Catherine of Braganza
9. 10
10. D

 

How does your body process medicine?

1. A headache, a sore back or a throbbing sprained ankle.
2. C
3. In your stomach.
4. A
5. They neutralize them.
6. Metabolites
7. No
8. They block the production of compounds that helps the body transmit pain signals.
9. The metabolites
10. Getting the dose right.

 

 

Podcast-videos with questions

Life on Mars

1. Is Mars our closest neighbor in the solar system?

 

2. Is Mars further or closer by the sun than us?

A         Further

B          Closer

 

3. Mars is similar to the Earth in some important ways. Name 1.

 

4. True or false. Scientists think that liquid water is not essential for life.

 

5. What means tantalizing?

 

6. Why has the Earth a strong magnetic field?

 

7. Mars does not have a magnetic field anymore, how many years ago happened that?

            A         4 million years ago

            B          16 billion year ago

            C          4 billion year ago     

            D         16 million years ago

 

8. What is a meteorite?

 

9. Yes or no. Is it possible that life-forms from Earth travelled to Mars and perhaps existed there?

 

10. Do you think that Martians might be humans or we might be Martians?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-160303

 

Mermaids – Fact or fiction?

1. What is a mermaid?

A         A human that is really good in swimming

B         A fish that can speak

C         A half-human and half-fish

 

2. What has a mermaid instead of legs?

 

3. What is the male name for a mermaid?

A         Mermen/ Merman

B          Mermale

C          Merboy

 

4. What is the name of the Disney story that is going about a mermaid?

 

5. Before The Little Mermaid was an animated movie, it was a fairy-tale written by __1__ , first published in __2__

 

6. What are human mermaids wearing?

 

7. True or false. Being a mermaid/ merman is a source of income.

 

8. What means serene?

 

9. Where did the most recent alleged mermaid sighting take place?

 

10. Do you want to be a mermaid for 1 day?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-170309

 

Food waste

1. Many people around the world throw away food that is still good enough to eat. How many people can we feed with that food?

A         Millions of other people

B         Billions of other people

C         Thousands of other people

D         Nobody

 

2. In which continent, people throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year.

 

3. The food just ends up rotting in ____ .

 

4. In which country is food waste a huge issue?

A         Germany

B          America

C          China

D         Brazil

 

5. Why are onions thrown away even though they are good enough to eat?

 

6. Name another issue about wasting food.

 

7. What think customers about the ‘sell by’ date?

 

8. Why buy people too much food?

 

9. What is really difficult for people to walk pass?

 

10. Who found that there is enough food for everyone?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-09102014

 

Diabetes

1. Cola is full of sugar, but how many teaspoons of sugar is in each can?

A         8 teaspoons

B         1 teaspoon

C         6 teaspoons

D         3 teaspoons

 

2. What is diabetes?

 

3. Name 3 complications of diabetes.

 

4. Which type of diabetes is on the rise all over the world?

 

5. Why are people taking less exercise than they used to?

 

6. What is processed food?

A         Food that has been changed from it’s natural state.

B          Food that looks different.

C          Genetic modification food.

 

7. What is the biggest difference with children of the past and children from now.

 

8. Who are at higher risk of developing diabetes if they are overweight?

 

9. Diabetes is a kind of ____ .

 

10. Where worked the sugar tax?

A         Canada

B          Belgium

C          US

D         Mexico

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-160707

 

Women’s right to vote

1. Who are suffragettes?

 

2. When won Britain the right for all women to vote?

A         1928

B          1885

C          1953

D         1914

 

3. Why did it take so long?

 

4. Who gave women a voice?

A         The go women go Movement

B          The Suffragette Movement

C          The give us a voice Movement

 

5. Who was the most famous several activist?

 

6. Make the sentence right. She was a very charismatic leader, one of the great women of the ____ century.

 

7. What means plight?

 

8. Women did have a really hard time back then. Who especially?

 

9. Name 2 actions what the Suffragettes Movement did.

 

10. When did the war break out in Europe?

A         1912

B          1918

C          1916

D         1914

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-161124

 

 

Podcast-videos answers

Life on Mars

1. Mars
2. A
3. Temperature is in the right zone.
4. False
5. Something you want that is almost, but not quite, within reach.
6. To protect us from the Sun’s harmful solar winds.
7. C
8. A piece of rock from outer space.
9. Yes
10. Own answer. (I think yes)

 

Mermaids – Fact or fiction?

1. C
2. The tail of a fish.
3. A
4. The Little Mermaid
5. 1. Hans Christian Andersen     2. 1837
6. A waist-high latex tail.
7. True
8. Calm and peaceful
9. In Zimbabwe.
10. Own answer. (My answer is yes)

 

Food waste

1. A
2. Europe
3. Landfill sites
4. B
5. For example: They are the wrong size, than they can not be sold.
6. The ‘sell by’ and ‘use by’ dates printed on food packaging.
7. They think that it is old, but in fact it is just the date supermarkets want to sell it.
8. Because they want to be sure that there is enough food.
9. Two-for-one offers
10. The UN’ s Food and Agricultural Organisation

 

Diabetes

1. C
2. It is a condition where the body can’t control the amount of glucose or sugar in the blood.
3. 1. Heart attack     2. Stroke     3. Kidney failure
4. Type 2
5. Because of lifestyle changes.
6. A
7. Children of the past were playing outside and children from now are playing inside with tablets.
8. Adults and children
9. Continuum
10. D

 

Women’s right to vote

1. Women who campaigned for the right for women to vote.
2. A
3. Because parliament did not see votes for women as a priority.
4. B
5. Emmeline Pankhurst
6. 19^th
7. A bad situation.
8. Working class women.
9. 1. Chained themselves to railings     2. Broke shop windows
10. D

Year 3. Project 4 Awesome Reading And Writing

It is killing me

Euthanasia, is it a right to live or a right to die? There are so many opinions about it. Some people say that life is a gift and you should be happy with it. But when you are so sick and you suffer so much, do you still think the same? Hope you will never need it, but be glad the option is there.

I want to talk about this sentence: Hope you will never need it, but be glad the option is there. This sentence is not right, because there are so many countries where euthanasia is illegal. I think that is not good, euthanasia should be a choice for everyone! The full euthanasia is legal in the countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia and Luxemburg. Then I think why only there? There are two kinds of euthanasia, namely passive and active euthanasia. The rules about euthanasia are confusing, for example India. In India is passive euthanasia and forms of active euthanasia legal and the rest illegal. I think that we need to make clear rules where many people are happy with, but that is very difficult.

But what is euthanasia? Euthanasia is the intentionally ending of a life in order to relieve pain and suffering, a doctor needs to do it. Euthanasia means: good death. But you can not just do euthanasia, you need to have a hopeless and untreatable situation. You have voluntary and involuntary euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is that the patient wants to die and say so. Involuntary euthanasia is that the patient can not make a decision or can not make their wishes known, for example when a patient is in a coma or when the person is severely brain damaged. Then I think that the doctor needs to do what is best for the patient. Also you have active and passive euthanasia. In active euthanasia the doctor takes an action with the intention that the patient dies. In passive euthanasia the doctor let the patient die, for example to disconnect the feeding tube.

Some people want to die in their sleep and painless but sometimes they kept alive by the doctor. Even when they do not want that. That is ridiculous! You need to have control of your own life. Of course the doctor must be confinced about the euthanasia, the doctor can refuse it when he thinks that euthanasia is not necessary. For example the doctors conception about medical ethics or religious conviction.

There are many religions so also many opinions. The doctors opinion can be determined by the religion conviction. I think it is okay, but it should not be bad for the patient. The Christians are against euthanasia, their arguments are based on their beliefs in God. Like: All life is given by God, Jezus did not walk away from his suffer. There are also arguments against it like: They can not help it that they are ill and that they need to live their life with pain. I think that they all have a point but that changes nothing. The Roman Catholics view is that pain and suffering are not reasons for ending a life. The church believes that each person should enter their dying process with all their trust in God. The Jews are against euthanasia. The Muslims are not totally against it but it is not justified. There are two Hindu views on euthanasia: Helping to end a painful life is good and they think that you need to live that life again like karma, because you were too weak to live your painful life, it is like a circle of death and rebirth. I am more like the humanism, it is your own choice to live or die! I respect all the religions and all the people who do not think like me but that does not change my idea about euthanasia.

 

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/euthanasiaandassistedsuicide/pages/introduction.aspx

 

 

 

Year 3. Project 3 American And British Film

Short report

My films are: Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can and my theme is the actor Tom Hanks.

My first films was; Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a slow-witted but kind hearted man and has a very low IQ. He always sits on a bench at the bus stop and than he tells his life stories to people who are waiting for the bus. He was bullied, but he had three friends Jenny, Bubba and Dan. Also he was in love with Jenny but Jenny was not in love with him. He experienced all kinds of special moments without realizing it, for example he went in the Army and fight in the Vietnam war. Forrest was really good at pingpong, he meeted John F. Kennedy and a lot more of that kind of moments. At the end of the movie Forrest found out that he had a son with Jenny named also Forrest. Jenny was sick and she died. Forrest is always waiting at the school bus stop for his son. There is a famous quote of Forrest: Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates you never now what you’re gonna get. I saw this movie at school and a part at home. I saw the movie without subtitles. The name title Forrest Gump is logical because the movie is about Forrest Gump. I saw the movie at 123movies

Now about Saving Private Ryan, this is a war movie. At the beginning you saw the old Ryan and he is with his family by the grave of captain Miller (Tom Hanks). It began at the D-day on the 6th of July in the second World War. The first thirty minutes were fierce, it was only about fighting, shooting and the death. The three brothers of soldier James Ryan died on a battlefield so Ryan could go home. Captain Miller and a few other soldiers were instructed to search for Ryan. But there was one problem soldier Ryan was dropped at France and the the group that needed to find him were in Germany. A few times they found a Ryan but that was not the right Ryan. They began to doubt to continue search, because the group became smaller and smaller for one soldier. But in the end they found him and captain Miller died. Also I saw this movie at school and at home. The title Saving Private Ryan is also a logical title because the movie is going about Saving Private Ryan. I saw this movie without subtitles at 123movies.

My last movie was Catch Me If You Can, this movie is about Frank Abagnale Junior. When his parents divorced he ran away, when he runs out of money he began to defraud. Frank imitated an airline pilot to use the Pan Am payroll to fake checkes. Also he imitated a doctor but he had no medical knowledge and he imitated a lawyer because the father of the girl he was in love with was a lawyer. Frank faked his name by each profession. And than you had Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) he is an FBI-agent and he was always searching for Frank. When Carl was really close to catch him, he escaped again. When Carl finally had Frank he had to go to jail for stealing of approximately $2,5 million. During Frank’s jail time he worked at the FBI as a specialist at fraud cases. The title Catch Me If You Can make sense because it is a kind of a cat and mouse story. Frank escaped many times but at the end Carl catched him. I saw this movie at home. I saw this movie in the holiday without subtitles on Netflix.

https://123movies.is

https://www.netflix.com/nl/

 

Discuss the movies you want to watch with your parents

I discussed the movies that I chose with my parents. Forrest Gump is for 12 year or older so that was allowed. Also both my parents saw this movie so they know a lot about it. Saving Private Ryan is for 16 year or older and I am 14 but my parents said that I could watch the movie because it it was for a English project and it is a really good movie. My father saw this movie and he had a lot of facts about the movie. Then Catch Me If You Can, this movie is also for 12 year or older so I could watch it. Both of my parents did not see this movie so this time I could tell them about it.

 

Read widely on your topic

Forrest Gump:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65840/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-forrest-gump

Saving Private Ryan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/

http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2016/07/facts-about-saving-private-ryan.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65611/15-fascinating-facts-about-saving-private-ryan

Catch Me If You Can:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/88435/12-fast-facts-about-catch-me-if-you-can

http://thelistlove.com/10-catch-me-if-you-can-facts-that-are-trying-to-run-away/

 

Script for my vlog

Hello everyone I am going to tell about my three movies: Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can with the same actor Tom Hanks.

The three movies that I have chosen are three very different movies. Forrest Gump is a comedy-drama movie, Saving Private Ryan is a drama and war movie and Catch Me If You Can is a biography, crime and drama movie. If you compare the three movies with the genre, you see that they have all the the same genre drama but the other genre’s are different.

Now I am going to tell something about the three movies.

First Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is a slow-witted but kind hearted man and has a very low IQ. He always sits on a bench at the bus stop and than he tells his life stories to people who are waiting for the bus. He was bullied, but he had three friends Jenny, Bubba and Dan. He experienced all kinds of special moments without realizing it, for example he went in the Army and fight in the Vietnam war. Forrest was really good at pingpong, he met John F. Kennedy and a lot more of that kind of moments. At the end of the movie Forrest found out that he had a son with Jenny named also Forrest. Jenny was sick and she died. Forrest always waits at the school bus stop for his son. There is a famous quote of Forrest: Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates you never now what you’re gonna get.

My second movie is Saving Private Ryan, this movie is going about the Second World War. It is a movie with much violence and shooting to each other. Captain Miller and a few other soldiers are instructed to find the soldier James Ryan because his brothers died so he could go home. But there is one problem Ryan was dropped at France and the group that needed to find him were in Germany. A few times they found a Ryan but that was not the right Ryan. They began to doubt to continue search because the group became smaller and smaller for one soldier. Captain Miller and his group are going to a lot of misery to find one guy. At the end Captain Miller died and James Ryan is safe.

My last movie is Catch Me If You Can and is going about Frank Abagnele Junior and he imitated an airline pilot to use the Pan Am payroll tho fake checkes. He did that because his parents divorced and he ran away so he did not have much money. Also  Frank imitated a doctor and a lawyer. He faked his name by each profession. Than you have Carl Hanratty he is a FBI-agent and he is going to catch Frank, but Frank escaped all the times. At the end Carl finally catched him and he asked Frank to work at the FBI as a specialist at fraud cases.

If you compare the three movies you see one thing namely he is always the good guy. By Forrest Gump he is always nice, by Saving Private Ryan he is the one who is going to Saving Private Ryan and by Catch Me If You Can he is trying to catch a criminal and at the end he is helping Frank to give him a job. And by Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump he is in the Army.

There are also differences between the movies. By Forrest Gump he is very stupid but by Catch Me If You Can he is really smart.

Tom Hanks played the parts: Forrest Gump, Captain Miller and Carl Hanratty.

I find it amazing that Tom Hanks can play such different roles. I thought that Forrest Gump was the best movie because Tom Hanks was very convincing as Forrest Gump. He was Forrest Gump and not Tom Hanks anymore. I saw that with the way he talked and how he did things. By Saving Private Ryan was I a little bit convinced because sometimes I did not see that he was afraid at the parts where I would be terrified. And by Catch Me If You Can there was no convincing. Carl Hanratty could be Tom Hanks but I don’t know why I was not convinced.

This was my vlog about my three movies with Tom Hanks. I hope you liked it! Bye!

Year 3. Project 2 Something Novel Diary

Day 1 Monday the 24th of October

This day we got a new project: Project 2, Something Novel. Also we got a book named Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley. Mrs Stolk said that we need to do a presentation with a particular topic of this book. The presentation needs to be at least two minutes. We could ask our questions if we had questions about this project. On this day I started with the book, but I did not understand anything of it. So I did a research on the internet. After the research I did understand it a little bit more. I did not liked the book at the beginning because I did not find it interesting. But after I read some pages I began to like it a little bit more and I did understand it better than when I began. After approximately  seven pages, my opinion was: I find it a bit weird with all of the bottles and groupes with Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc.

Day 2 Tuesday the 25th of October

On this day I continued with reading the book Brave New World. I did not read very much because I am very slow with reading. But I did understand it better than before. I did not read the whole lesson I also made some exercises on English4U (http://www.english-4u.de/). I made especially exercises of A of An and Plural. At the beginning of the Plural I pulled everything together but later it went well. After a few pages of reading I started to understand better, but it all went very slowly. Anyway better than nothing! I also read at home. My opinion was: actually the same as yesterday, but now I was reading about the embryoes and that was really interesting. So I read a lot better than yesterday!

Day 3 Thursday the 27th of October

This day we had to choose a subject for the presentation about the book Brave New World. I chose the subject: Genetic Modefied Food (GM). I did not know what Genetic Modified Food was so I did a research. After the research I already knew wat it was. I wrote all the important things on a paper because I need that for my presentation. In the book they do not say anything about it. It was focused on the GM people and not the food. This day I also read in my book, not in the lesson but at home. I was approximately just before the half so it went well. I also read at home when we did not have a English lesson that day! My opinion was: again the same as all the days before today, I found the book not exciting but it was not that bad.

Day 4 Monday the 31st of October

This day I read in the book and I made a start on my presentation. Now about the book; I began to like it more and more. I like the parts that the writer is talking about the embryoes and the conditioning. It is really interesting how they make their babies out bottles and how they learn the babies something with electric shocks.  Also I like the characters Linda and John but I did not know why I like them. I think because the relationship between Linda and her son John. You do not see that kind of relationships in de ‘real’ world. The death of Linda was very interesting to read, and there were a lot of emotions. Now about my presentation; I made a part of my prezi. It went well but it was hard to find information that you can explain for other people. GM is an subject what is hard to explain. I searched on the internet for a good explanation in English but I couldn’t find. Also I searched in Dutch and there I came on a site of a feeding center, they talk about the subject that I had. After that site I had a lot of information.

Day 5 Wednesday the 2nd of November

On this day I read again in my book at home, because thursday we have to be done with the book. I had to read one chapter and  I will be done. I did not really like the book but it was oke. Sometimes I got confused because the writer talked about different things. Also I was working on my prezi, I found very nice pictures for in my presentation. I had to tell something about Brave New World in my presentation but they do not say anything about it in the blok. I was again searching, but now for something about the connection of Brave New World and GM but I found nothing. They are talking about the GM people and not about the GM food. So I had to tell a lot about the information that I found earlier like the process.

Day 6 Thurday the 3rd of November

This day we have to finish the book. So I was done with the book. Somethings I liked in the book and somthing I did not like. I found it cool that you could look in the future. Maybe this world become also a Brave New World. My favorite characters were: Linda and John because the relationship is so strange but also so (I do not know how to say it) beautiful. You do not see that families are like that and that met each other like that. I just wanna say somthing about the sexual contact in the book. They find it normal to have sex with anyone. There is also a drugs thing named soma, people in the book take drugs to think about nothing. That is also in this world but in the book it is normal to take drugs and in this world is it not so very normal to do that. Also I worked in the green grammar book.

Day 7 Monday the 7th of November

This day we had to do the presentations about your subject. I was really nervous because I could not do it without my paper with the whole presentation. I could not learn it out of my head because the explanations and the process had a lot of difficult words. Also my pronunciation was not so very good. I was really happy that I was not selected for this day, so I could practice at home. At the beginning of the presentations it went well but sometimes my classmates were also forgotten their text and I could understand that completely. On this day we online have done the presentations in the lesson. I learned about the subjects that my classmates had to do.

Day 8 Wednesday the 9th of November

On this day we had also the presentations. This day I had to present. I was nervous but I knew what I had to say. After Monday the 7th I practiced a lot, how I practiced? Well, several times I presented it to my father and a few times I presented it to my wall. My presentation went well, but I shook very much and my voice hit on. One time I had forgotten my text and it takes a long time before I hesitating myself. I was happy that my presentation was done. And I am also happy with my mark: a 7.5.

Day 9 Thursday the 10th of November

This day we had to prepare the grammer of this project. I already practiced in the green grammar book and on english4u. I practiced especially with the adverbs and the adjectives, past simple, present perfect, present continuous, past continuous. Because I found it a bit difficult. I also took a moment for the irregular verbs. In the lesson I practiced on english4u. Also we needed to learn for the vocabulary test for Monday the 14th. The plural and the adjectives words are not difficult to learn but the phrasal verbs were very difficult. I could not remember the words, but with a little bit help of my dad it went a lot better!

Day 10 Monday the 14th of November

On this day we had the vocabulary test, I learned well. I had the feeling that I forgot every thing what I learned. When we started with the test was it a little bit better. At the end of the test I had a few words not. At this moment I started to got everything together. I have the problem that I am doubting. But the biggest part of the test went well. I had mixed feelings about it. After the vocabulary test we had to work on the grammar  for the grammer test. I worked to all the subjects, a kind of a recap. I understood adjective and adverbs not quite so I practiced that more. After a couple times reading the explanations and have practiced it went a lot better. I had a good feeling about it!

One thing that I just wanna say: Sometimes I did not read in the book or I did not practice for my presentation. That is because I also read and practice in the days that we did not had a English lesson!

This was my diary of project 2 something novel!

Year 3. Project 1 Music Was My First Love

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Single by U2 (Irish rock band) from the album War, released March 1983

One of U2’s most overtly political songs. The lyrics describe the horror felt by an observer of the troubles in North Ireland, mainly focusing on the bloody Sunday incident in Derry, where British troops shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders who were there to rally against operation Demetrius-related. The IRA means; Irish Republican Army and they wanted that hole Island called Ireland without connections with the Unted Kingdom. They fought many years against the British Army and also against the Protestans in Northern Ireland, mostly in the cities Ulster, Belfast and Londonderry (Derry). Fact: Sunday Bloody Sunday is played in a tempo of 103 beats per minute in a 4/4 time signature. Today it is considered one of U2’s signature songs and is one of the bands’s most performed tracks.

My opinion: I chose this song because what happend on the bloody sunday is very interesting. I think that this song will be played in the future because people my never forget this incident.

 

 

Hotel California

Single by The Eagles, released February 1977

There are all kinds of different theories about this song but The Eagles deny everything. Walsh said that the title refers to the many artists who went to California for the most art movements. Hotel California is one of the most famous songs of the modern music history and the most famous song of The Eagles. The song is about a tired traveller who wants to stay a night in the beautiful hotel. The hotel looks very luxurious and hospitable, but later it seems to be a horrible place you never come out.

My opinion: I chose this song because I recognize it and I have heard it a lot on the radio. I think that this song will be played in the future because this song have really nice tune what stays in tour head.

 

 

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Single by Nirvana, released September 1991

The American band Nirvana began in 1987 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. They got famous in the music-scene in Seattle and played the style ‘grunge’. Actually they founded this sort of music. Smells Like Teen Spirit was released on the album ‘Nevermind’, well known by the cover of the very little, naked boy in the swimming-pool! The songs of Nirvana have themes like boring, blunting, alienation, depression and identity-problems. Singing about these themes were hidden under a surface of anger and madness. Kurt Cobain wanted to be famous and successful, but at the same time, also independent. Nirvana broke up by the death of Kurt. He committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. So, he placed himself in the row of the 27-years old suicide but by some artists it was an overdose, artists like Jimi Hendrixx, Jim Morrison of  the band The Doors, Janis Joplin, Michael Hutchence of the band Inxs and, more recently, Amy Winehouse ; All famous artists with the talent to sing and entertain. But also they where very unhappy.

My opinion: I chose this song because I know the band Nirvana and I was curious about the song. I think that this song will be played in the future because this band is so big and so famous that it is a big part of the music history.

 

Stairway to Heaven

Single by Led Zeppelin (British Band), released November 1971

Actually this song is one big poetry, written by Jimmy Page, guitar player and Robert Plant, the lead singer of the band. With John Bonham, drummer and John Paul Jones, guitar player they formed this band. The song Stairway to Heaven, during almost 8 minutes, starts easy and climbs up to the most magnificent guitar-solo’s ever played. Maybe that’s why this song is still very popular. Fact: Jimmy Page played on a double guitar, very unique those days. Until today the song stands high in various hit-charts and is one of the best rock songs. It was released in the time of Flower Power and much weed and hard- drugs like heroine and LSD were used by the public. This song has been played by many famous artists but the very best version was the act of Heart in the Kennedy Centre. It was a tribute to Led Zeppelin in presence of the President of the United States, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The drummer in the band, behind the singers Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, was the son of John Bonham.

My opinion: I chose this song because my dad told me that this song was really good and interesting. I think that this song will be played in the future because this is a song that generations gives to ohter generations. To be short: timeless.

 

 

I don’t like mondays

Single by Boomtown Rats (Irish Band), released in  Juli 1979

The Boomtown Rats (former name the Nightlife Thugs) was formed in 1975 by the singer Bob Geldof. Fact: Bob Geldof started in 1986 Band Aid and USA for Africa and the song “We are the world” became number 1 in the charts. Band Aid was formed by many great artists and most of the benefits were given to the hungry people in Africa. The song “I don’t like Mondays” was written because of the shooting nearby the Grover Elementary School in San Diego on January 29^th 1979. The one who did this, the 16 year old student Brenda Ann Spencer, shot two adults and wounded eight children and one police officer. She did this because she didn’t like Mondays.

My opinion: I chose this song because I really like the title because I don’t like mondays either. I think that this song will be played in the future because here was also an accident what people my never forget. This kind of accidents are still happening namly, people shooting on people.

 

 

Jolene

Single by Dolly Parton, released in October 1973

“Jolene” tells the tale of a woman confronting Jolene, a stunningly beautiful woman, who she believes is trying to steal away her lover and begging her “please don’t take my man”. Throughout the song, the woman implores Jolene “please don’t take him just because you can”.  The song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch around time they were newly married. Jolene was Dolly Parton’s second number one hit in America. There are many covers from this song. The cover from Miley Cyrus and from Pentatonix are the most famous. Pentotonix is an a capella band. Dolly and Pentatonix have sung the song together in a capella. When you think about Dolly you think about country music.

My opinion: I chose this song because I really like this song and I recognize it from the many covers. I think that this song will be played in the future because Dolly Parton is a countrymusic hero and because people still maken covers from this song but than in a moderner version.

 

 

Candle in the wind

Single by Elton John, released in 1973

The song Candle in the wind was originally written in 1973 by Elton John and Bernie Taupin to honor Marilyn Monroe. In 1997 Elton John performed a rewritten version of the song as a tribute to Princess Diana. The opening lines Goodbye Norma Jeane were adapted to Goodbye England’s Rose. Elton John sung this version at the funeral of Princess Diana. This version reached number one in many countries and was a greater success than the original. It is the second best selling single of all time behind White Christmas from Bing Crosby and even won a Grammy Award. Elton John has played over 3000 concerts in over 75 countries all around the world since 1970. Fact: when Elton John sings the song Candle in the wind during his concerts he always sings the originally version from 1973. The reason why he used this song for Marilyn Monroe and Lady Diana was they were both a candle in the wind because they have been exploited by the people surrounding them in their lives. Both ladies died under suspicious circumstances.

My opinion: I chose this song because I didn’t know anything about this song so I wantend to find out what this was going about. I think that this song will be played in the future because this song is so special that it will be continued all the time.

Diana’s version:

 

 

I feel good

Single by James Brown, released in 1965

This song of James Brown was his highest charting song and one of his most known records, next to ‘it is a man’s world’. It was the second version that got famous. The first song was recorded with a different arrangement. The scream at the beginning and at the end of the song has been sampled a number of times for hip hop and dance songs. That everybody knows this record is because it is a good song and it appeared in numerous film-soundtracks. Most recently it was used in the film Paddington in 2015!! It is a love-song, because he sings that he is very happy with his love for someone. The fact that it is a very good song for many, many years until now and that it was sung by James Brown makes it very special: he was one of the most important artists of the 20^th century and his contribution in developing the soul-music and funk. In spite of his difficult youth and life, he made it to become a famous and special artist!!

My opinion: I chose this song because when I heard it it make me happy. I think that this song will be played in the future because it make a lot of people happy and it’s so great to listen this song.

 

 

Super Trouper

Single by ABBA, released in November 1980

ABBA was a Swedish pop group. Super Trouper was the title track from their album Super Trouper. Super Trouper is included on the Gold Greatest Hits complication, as well in the musical Mamma Mia. The name of Super Trouper referred to the spotlight in stadium concerts. The song used the largest number of artists that ABBA ever used in a music video. The first letter of their first name of the members of the group; A = Agnetha, B = Björn, B = Benny and A = Anni-Frid. They became famous by winning The Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, that was in 1973. In 1983 there was a break because they had no privacy and they were overwhelmed by the success. This year (June 2016) there was a revival of the band. They celebrated in Stockholm that Björn and Benny met each other 50 years ago. That was the beginning of their friendship and indirectly the start of the band. The song tells about a star surrounded by thousands of people but she still feels lonely in spite of the beam of the super trouper shining on her.

My opinion: I chose this song because I have heard about it but I have never listened it.  I think that this song will be played in the future because ABBA was one of the most popular bands in the seventies and eightties and ABBA make people very happy.

 

 

Saturday Night

Single by Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, released in 1978.

Saturday night was written by Herman Brood and Danny Lademacher, who conceived the determining guitar riff. The song is about a man who is bored and starts a fight to ensure that something happens on the Saturday Night. Herman was a Dutch musician but also an art painter, actor and an auteur. When you think of Herman you think of sex, drugs and rock and roll. The drugs and the alcohol destroyed his body. When he was 55 years old he jumped of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. On the Herman Brood Academy you can learn to be an artist, musician, rapper, disk jockey or producer. The Academy celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. Fact: Herman Brood was color blind that is why he always used primary colors in his paintings. His signature was an important part of his paintings.

My opinion: I chose this song because Herman Brood was a Dutch musician and I like that. I think that this song will be played in the future because what Herman did and has done will we never forget en this song is one of his most popular songs.

 

Year 2. Project 5 Kings And Queens Of Britain

This project we worked in pairs, Myra and I worked together. We could choose from all the Kings and Queens of Britian. We chose queen Elizabeth the second.

We told this in the film.

Youth

Elizabeth was born at 21th of April in 1926 in London. She was a very intelligent girl and was modest. Elizabeth has experienced the second World War. She and her sister Margaret evacuated to the Windsor Castle. When she was 18 years old she became at the Woman´s land Army. She wanted to be like the other girls of her age. When her father died on the 6th of February in 1952 she was 25 years old. From then had Elizabeth to reign. But when Elizabeth´s father died she wasn´t there, she was with her husband Philip. When she heard the really bad news she came right back.

Family

Elizabeth is the daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes – Lyon, also she has a sister Margaret. Elizabeth was named after her mother. When Elizabeth was 21 years old she married with Philip Mountbatten on the 6th of November in 1947 at the Westminster Abbey at London. Elizabeth has 4 children with Philip: Charles Prince of Wales, Anne, Andrew Duke of York and Edward Earl of Wessex. Also she has grandchildren and behindgrandchildren. Her family says that Elizabeth loves her family. She goes with her family to the Scottisch Highlands, she says it’s a beautiful place. When her family comes to stay she leaves a gift for the children.

Leisure

Actually has Elizabeth almost none leisure, she’s always busy with her monarchy. But if she has some time she goes to the horses, Elizabeth loves them. When Elizabeth was young she was busy with horses also she rode them. Now is Elizabeth 90 years old and she still rides horses. if she has a longer leisure she goes to the Scottisch Highlands it’s magic there. In the Scottisch Highlands she stayed in the Balmoral Castle. Also there she rides horses. Every year Elizabeth goes to the Scottisch Highland games. It’s very confused because everything is mixed. But she likes it.

Reign

Elizabeth is since 1952 queen of 12 continions. Elizabeth is since her accession in 1952 queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and head of the commonwealth.She is also queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession. She is the oldest reigning monarch. There is little chance that Elizabeth will resign only physical or mental problems would her can incitement to resign.

Facts

• Elizabeth’s her full name is: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.
• Queen Elizabeth the second is the longest serving monarch of Britian.
• She’s 64 years on the throne.
• The annual queen`s speech is in the House of Lords in London.
• She has visited more than 115 countries.
• Elizabeth doesn`t need a passport to travel internationally.
• The queen celebrates her birthday twice: One when it´s really her birthday and one when she became at the throne.
• Elizabeth the second has a lot of humor.
• She loves horses and rides them.

 

Logbook

Day	Description
Tuesday 17 May 2016	Mrs Stolk explained the project. We could choose of all the kings and queens from United Kingdom. We did research about all the kings and queens and we chose queen Elizabeth the second for our project. She is the longest serving monarch and became this year 90 years.
Thursday 19 May 2016	We did research about queen Elizabeth the second. We found out what she did when she was young and things about her family and wrote this on a paper.
Monday 23 May 2016	We did research again and we read the paper because there was an article about queen Elizabeth with the queen’s speech for the government.
Tuesdag 24 May 2016	We went to see facts about Elizabeth on Wikipedia and other sites. We sort out the family tree. It was very interesting. Elizabeth has already behindgrand-children. She has a big family.
Saturday 28 May 2016	I saw the first part of the documentary: The queen at nineties on NPO 2 about Elizabeth the second. Her family told how special she is and we saw what the queen does when she is not working. But actually she is always working.
Monday 30 May 2016	We thaught about ideas for our film. We had several ideas. Our first idea was to film outside with chalk on the street. We had an idea to do it on the beach with transition from waves.
Tuesdag 31 May 2016	We made the story to tell the film. The subjects youth and family we worked out. I searched for some nice pictures of the queen and I saved them on the computer.
Thursday 2 June 2016	We worked out the other subjects: reign and facts. The reign was the most difficult. We don’t like this subject because it is very complicated.
Friday 3 June 2016	We worked out the last subject Leisure. Leisure was more fun because there were a lot of examples in the paper and the documentary. She loves the Scottisch Highlands.
Sunday 5 June 2016	We printed the pictures for our film. We tried several ideas outside but the wind was too hard. We couldn’t hear eachother. So we must think something new.
Tuesday 7 June 2016	We decided to make a film with a transition on the stair with the titles youth, family, leisure, reign and facts.
Friday 10 June 2016	We put the stories, we told in the film wordpress. We could not put our film on wordpress. The film is standing on you tube anyway. I made my part of the logbook. Myra makes her own logbook.

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2. Project 4 Recipes

 

Healthy milkshake

 Ingredients:

• One and a half cup skimmed milk  
• One cup skimmed yogurt
• The juice of one orange
• One big banana in slices
• One teaspoon honey
• One teaspoon wheat barley

Skimmed milk and skimmed yogurt is low fat and contains calcium and vitamin D. The banana is full with potassium. The juice contains vitamin C. Vitamin is good for you because it protects you from heart diseases.

 

Healthy salad

Ingredients:

• Salad
• Tomatoes
• Beans
• Dressing with onion, olive oil, honey, mustard, vinegar and herbs
• Sunflower seeds
• Paprika
• Radish

Salad contain fiber, antioxidants (vitamin C and E). Tomatoes contain vitamin A, C and K, folate and potassium. Beans are chock – full fiber, magnesium and potassium. Sunflower seed is a great source of magnesium. Paprika and radish both contains a lot of vitamin C and potassium.  

 

French toast

Ingredients:

• Two eggs        
• Skimmed milk
• Wholegrain bread
• Butter
• Cinnamon powder
• Strawberries
• Blueberries

Skimmed milk is low fat and contains calcium and vitamin D. Wholegrain bread contains fiber, vitamins and minerals. The strawberries and blueberries are rich of vitamin C and is source of antioxidants.

 

Veal cutlet with spinach and baked white potatoes

Ingredients:

• Veal cutlet
• Spinach
• Baked white potatoes
• Butter

Veal cutlet is lean meat and contains vitamin B12 and omega 3. Spinach is high in fiber and contains potassium, folate and magnesium. The baked white potatoes are rich in both magnesium and potassium.

Year 2. Project 4 High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

High blood pressure (hypertension)

What is high blood pressure?

When your heart beats, it pumps blood round your body. The blood pushes against the side of the blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure. When the pressure is too high, it puts extra strain on your arteries and heart. High blood pressure is a common disease. 16 million people have high blood pressure in the UK. The disease is a silent killer. It has no obvious symptoms but is very dangerous, 62000 people died in the UK in a year. It increases the risk of heart attack, kidney disease, early death and stroke. It can be caused by an unhealthy diet and lifestyle.

 

Joan in the foodhospital

However Joan, the lady in the season 1 episode 7 of the food hospital, has a healthy lifestyle and a lot of exercise. Yet she has a high blood pressure. Joan has weekly zumba lessons to exercise and for lowering stress, she likes Zumba because it is not so difficult. People from African origin have a higher risk of high blood pressure. By Joan the disease occurs in the family. Her parents passed away at the age of 50 and her younger brother has brain damage. Joan had to take medication to lower her blood pressure. She is also afraid for her kids to get the disease. When she returns to the food hospital her hard work has paid off. Her blood pressure was lowered from 143/92 mmHg to 130/90 mmHg. She stays under medical supervision and has to continue her diet. She did a great job!

Her diet

Do eat	Don’t eat
Wholegrain bread Nuts & pulses Fruits & veg Skimmed milk Lean meat (magnesium, calcium and potassium)	Salt (salt is into much of foods especially in processed foods) Transfats Caffeine Alcohol Sugary drinks

 When is the blood pressure to high?

Abnormal increases in blood pressure are defined as having blood pressures higher than 130/80 mmHg. The first (on top) number is the systolic blood pressure. It is the highest level your blood pressure reaches when your heart beats. The second (or bottom) number is your diastolic blood pressure. It is the lowest level your blood pressure reaches as your heart relaxes between beats.

 

Treatment

Medication is very important by high blood pressure but also a healthy lifestyle. You can do a lot to lower the blood pressure by yourself:

Eat a healthy diet

Three main nutrients help to lower blood pressure are:

Magnesium: found in whole grains, spinach, broccoli, courgettes, halibut, nuts and seeds.

Calcium: found in dairy foods, leafy green veg, almonds.

Potassium: helps flush excess salt from the body. Potatoes, apricots, bananas and oranges have it.

Reduce sodium in your diet

Even a small reduction in the sodium can reduce your blood pressure.

No smoking

Each cigarette you smoke increases your blood pressure for many minutes after you finish.

Limit the amount of alcohol you drink

Drinking more than moderate amounts of alcohol (1 for a woman and 2 for a man) can raise blood pressure by several points. It can also reduce the effectiveness of the medication.

Enough sleep

Sleeping seven to eight hours a night is good for your body. Sleeping fewer than 5/6 hours a night can increase the blood pressure.

Reduce stress

Stress is an important contributor to high blood pressure. It is important to know what is causing your stress and to consider how you can reduce stress. You must make time to relax and do activities you enjoy.

Regularly exercise

Regular activity – at least 30 minutes most days of the week – can lower the blood pressure. The best types of exercise are walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, dancing and strength training.

Healthy weight              

Weight loss is one of the most effective lifestyle changes for controlling blood pressure. The body mass index must be between 20 and 25 for a healthy weight. The waistline is also very important. Men are at risk if their waist measurement is more than 40 inches (102 cm). For women it is 35 inches (89 cm). Despite a healthy lifestyle you often should still take medication. And you must check your blood pressure regularly.

 

Why did I choose high blood pressure

I choose the condition high blood pressure because my mother has got this when I was born. When she was 36 weeks pregnant she became ill. She had pregnancy poisoning and she must stay into the hospital. By pregnancy poisoning the blood pressure is very high and the liver and kidney do not work well. My mother got medicines and every day they took blood to look how the liver and kidney works. My mother got a caesarean when I was 36 weeks. After my birth the danger was gone and the blood pressure became lower. However she had to take medication.

 

Sources:

www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/…/…

www.medicinenet.com/high_blood_pressure…/article..

www.heart.org/…/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBlo…

www.joybauer.com/high–blood–pressure/best-foods-f

 

Year 2. Project 4 The Food Hospital Episodes

The Food Hospital, Season 1, Episode 4

Condition	Name/age	Description	Do eat	Don’t eat
Gout	Garret (36)	Disorder with arthritic pain and swelling of joint	Tofu Fresh vegetables Fruit rich in vitamin C Low fat dairy	Red meat Game Shell fish Fried food Alcohol
Depression	Debby (26)	Disorder with mood swings, insomnia, poor concentration, low self esteem and reduce sex drive	Brown rice Chicken Eggs Cheese Oily fish
Overweight and chronic eczema	Tristan (31)	For eczema see Season 1 Episode 5. Because of the overweight the eczema increases	Olive oil Nuts & seeds Vegetables & fruit Oily fish Ginger
Selective eating	Suzi (30)	Disorder with nausea, vomiting and weight loss (can cause anxiety and depression)	All foods from the five food groups in small amounts – fruit & veg – rice & potatoes – dairy – meat and good fat – olive oil

 

 

The Food Hospital, Season 1, Episode 5

Condition	Name/age	Description	Do eat	Don’t eat
Fish odour syndrome	Ellie (42)	Disorder by which you have a strong odour (you smell like rotting fish).	Egg whites Bread Oats Rice Coconut milk Sausages Cereals	(Shell)fish Red meat Egg yolk Beans Peas
Eczema	Toby (16)	Disorder by which you have a dry cracked skin which itchiness and infections.	Meat Fish/seafood Vegetables Salad Pulses	Grains Dairy Yeasts Citrus fruits Chocolate
Hangover	Johny, Billy and James (young man)	When you have drunk too much. You can have headaches, dehydration and dizziness.	Milk Banana	Coffee Sugary drinks More alcohol
Gallstones	Michelle (30)	A stone in the gallbladder which causes intense abdominal pain	Fresh fish Olive oil Fibre rich fruit & veg Vitamine C Low fat dairy	Refind foods Processed foods Saturated foods

 

 

The Food Hospital, Season 1, Episode 6

Condition	Name/age	Description	Do eat	Don’t eat
Menopausal hot flushes	Anne (55)	When you have a sudden high temperature, sweating, insomnia and a rapid heartbeat	Tofu Edamame beans Soya milk & yoghurt Chickpeas Calcium – rich foods (estrogen)	Alcohol Caffeine Chilli
Ankylosing spondylitis	Kate (39)	When you have stiff joints and a limited flexibility, spinal curvature and a fusion of vertebrae	Beans Pulses Bananas Fruit & vegetables Meat & fish Dairy Nuts & seeds	Potatoes Starchy – Vegetables Rice Pasta Wheat – products
Malnutrition	Taigh (19)	When you have bloating, unhealthy dull eyes and skin problems	(healthy) colour full – food Fruit Greens	Beige coloured foods Sausages Chips Bread Pancakes
Proteine overdosis	Rob & Vanda	They eat too much proteine and meat 4000 calories (bodybuilders)

 

 

 The Food Hospital, Season 1, Episode 7

Condition	Name/age	Description	Do eat	Don’t eat
Bloating but also Metabolic syndrome	Alan (47)	Bloating, high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure	Fresh fruits & veg Lean meat & fish Nuts Wholegrain cereals	Refined white flour Sweets & crisps Cakes & biscuits Sugary breakfast – Cereals Breads Fermentable fruits Beans & pulses cabbage
Bad breath (halitosis)	Dawn (23)	When you have a very bad breath	Citrus fruit Probiotics (green) Tea Milk	Sugary foods Garlic & onion Alcohol
Chronic fatigue syndrome (M E)	Steph (25)	Disorder with extreme tiredness, aching joints, depression, headaches and insomnia	Regularly eat small portions Chocolate
High blood pressure (hyperten – sion)	Joan (about 50)	When your pressure in your blood is too high.	Wholegrain breads Nuts & pulses Fruits & veg Skimmed milk Lean meat (magnesium, calcium and potassium)	Salt Transfats Caffeine Alcohol Sugary drinks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2. Project 3 Books

Hello everyone, this is my article about The Stolen Letter

On a very dark and windy evening in Paris C. Auguste Dupin and the teller of this story were sitting in Dupins library smoking pipes. Monsieur G the Chief of the Paris Police suddenly walked into the room. He wanted help from Monsieur G with a very strange and important matter.

The story is about a stolen letter from an very important person. That lady was reading the letter in her bedroom when another important person suddenly came in. This person may never ever know about the letter so she left the letter on her table. When Minister D came also suddenly in he noticed the letter immediately and stole the letter because he knew there was a secret in the letter. He left another letter in stead. The woman saw what he was doing but could not do anything because of the other important person. The woman was totally desperate and pleaded the chief for help to find back the very important letter. But the chief and the police looked in the furniture, behind the walls, under the floor, everywhere!! in the room from the Minister they had done everything to find it. But they found nothing. Dupin advised the chief to look again. The chief said that the letter was worth a lot of money. When the thief uses the letter he will lose his very strong position.

Dupin knew the Minister, he had an argument with him a few years ago. Dupin knows the Minister was very smart and very intelligent man and maybe he had used a simple hiding place and was everybody looking too far. He decided to look at the minister’s place himself. He put on a pair of dark glasses so he could look around carefully. When he saw a dirty envelope in a rack he knew he was right! He forgot his hat on purpose so he could come back the day after. When the minister walked to the window because of very loud gunshot (arranged by a friend of Dupin who was in the plot) and than he changed the letter very quick. In the letter he left he wrote; Your trick was brave but mine was braver. So the Minister would surely know that it was him !!!

After a month the chief came again and the teller of the story asked if he had found the letter. The chief did not and he said that the person who helps to find the letter becomes a check for half off the amount. Dupin said if you write the check you get the letter. The chief could not believe it and his mouth was open and his eyes were very wide. He was really happy and ran out the room with the letter!!

Mr. Dupin is very smart he looked so easy that’s why he could discover more. The police looked too far that and they were holding everything upside down, but found nothing. The detective looked so much better and easier that he was better than the police.