Julius Ceaser

Today we watched the video 'The conspiracy of Julius Cesar'. They were talking about  power. If some man had too much power and if you were his closest friend would you try to stop him..The same thing happened in Rome in 44 BC. Rome first had an emperor than some men stopped this. They made a council so no man should have too much power. Julius  became a leader of Rome. He was winning wars, he bacame very rich. Rome was becoming big very big. The people built statues to honor him. They built buildings and they renamed a month Julius but today we call it July that month is for Julius Cesar. He died on the 15 of May when they stabbed him.He arranged a meting when he was going to the council and over 60 people with knifes killed him.They stabbed him from all sides.A close friend was with the killers and when Julius Cesare saw him he gave up the fight.Some say what the friend did was an act of betrayel but some people said what he didn't want Julius Cesare to be handling that much power.When Julius Cesare died his close friend Marcus Antony lead Rome but wasn't that powerful like Julius was.

My next animated movie

I'm making an animation movie. The movie is about the aliens, galaxies and the cosmos. When  I make the movie I will post it on my blog. So to make the animation movie you first need a story and drawings.I am sure that to make the movie it will take a while but it will be very soon.The story is about two aliens who are going on a mission in the galaxy and they have problems with there ship and they land on Earth.One man discovers their ship and is so afraid,and later the aliens tell him that they are not here to fight with the humans. They tell the man how they landed on Earth.The man belives them and helps the aliens to reper their ship.

Questions That Nobody Knows the Answers To

So today we are going to talk about questions  that  nobody knows the answers to. Some questions are very difficult and nobody on  this planet knows the answers . I got inspired from a video it is about the galaxy and there are two big questions. Do you think that multiple galaxies exist. I think yes they do oldolel  I’m not  very shure . Sientists don’t know the answers, we don’t  know the answers and how knows the answers. Maybe we will find the answers one day.

Yes every galaxy is made of atoms and if every atom containes  a galaxy of it’s  own and that proses repeats  then perhapse  there are a trillion galaxies . If so many galaxies existed  then maybe there  is a copy of you.   And that copy of you lives in some of those galaxies and it lives a difrent  live. Maybe your copy is more sucsesfulf   then you are. Maybe your copy has graguated and married the person you liked. That is a very difficult question.

The second question I am going to dicuss   is about life on the other planets. Some say that uefos and aliens land on the planet very often other people say there is no life in our galaxy. Life only exists on the planet Earth. This is a very intresting question  maybe life exists and the aliens have smarter  technology then ours. Maybe they don’t want to show it to us and they don’t  want to show them selfes.  Maybe they are flying in space with there space ships who knows?

Should We Eat Bugs?

link: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/should-we-eat-bugs-emma-bryce

How many people eat bugs worldwide?
The Romans historically enjoyed the Beetle larvae.
When did our attitude towards eating bugs begin to change?
How many different insect species do people eat around the world?
Which part of the world currently eats insects the most?
Some insects are made of up to 80% protein.
List some creative ways for changing people's perception of bugs as pests.
What negative environmental impacts could be associated with forging for and farming bugs.
How could insect farming address some of the problems associated with food insecurity?

Questions no one knows the answers

Tsunamis

Tsunami Strip

The Science of Tsunamis

Maths
inches, feet, yards, miles compared to millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers

Why you can’t see tsunamis far from shore?

Tsunamis are caused by energy originating under water from a volcanic eruption,a submarine landslide,or most commonly an earthquake on the ocean floor caused when the tectonic plates on the Earth's surface slip releasing a massive amount of energy into the water.When it's far from shore, a tsunamis can be barely detectable since it moves through the e of the entire depth of the water.But when it reaches shallow water something called wave shoaling occurs.Because there is water to move through this massive amount of energy is compress. 

The immense swell of a tsunami can grow up to 100 feet (35.6 meters), hitting speeds over 500 mph  (800) kmph-- a treacherous combination for anyone or anything in its path.
Scientists are seeking to reduce their destruction power in the future.

Maths Problem to solve
If you are interested to compare a tsunami with this building you can see the diference. Or post a comment here and tell me: How many times is this building higher that the tsunami wave.

The highest building in the world is Burj Khalifa

Skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2,717' (828 m), 2,722' (830 m)

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How Big is the Ocean

Present Simple or Present Continous

Oxford's Grammar
Present Simple Positive with 'be'
Present Simple Negative with 'be' 

Present Simple Form (with the verb 'be'):

• 'Be' positive form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' negative form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' 'yes / no' question form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' 'wh' question form (easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' mixed exercise 1 (quite easy) (download in PDF)
• 'Be' mixed exercise 2 (quite easy) (download in PDF)

Present Simple Form (with all verbs except 'be'):

• Other verbs positive form, exercise 1 (very easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs positive form, exercise 2 (very easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs negative form, exercise 1 (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs negative form, exercise 2 (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs 'yes / no' questions (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs 'wh' questions (easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 1 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 2 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)
• Other verbs mixed exercise 3 (fairly easy) (download in PDF)

Mixed exercises with all verbs (be and other verbs):

• Mixed exercise 1 with be and other verbs (fairly easy) (download in PDF)

Here's an exercise about spelling changes in this tense:

• Spelling changes (easy) (download in PDF)

Practice exercises about how we use the present simple:

• Choose the present simple or present continuous 1 (medium) (download in PDF)
• Choose the present simple or present continuous 2 (medium) (download in PDF)
• Choose the present simple or present continuous 3 (medium) (download in PDF)
• Stative verbs 1 (medium) (download in PDF here)
• Choose the present simple or the future simple (medium) (download in PDF here)

 How to choose: Present Simple or Present Continuous?
Practise making 'wh' and 'yes / no' questions (exercise 1)
Practise making 'wh' and 'yes / no' questions (exercise 2)

Mixed Exercise 1 (includes positive, negative, and questions)
Mixed Exercise 2
Mixed Exercise 3

Click here if you'd like to learn how to USE the Present Continuous

Christopher Columbus- What Really Happened

Children in the US learn that  Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492 but since there were millions of people living on the American continents when he arrived what is Columbus's real importance in history this video will show what really happened during   his voyages between two worlds and how they helped shape the two worlds we know today 1451 Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. there his sailing career but in 1477 he was hired as a merchant mariner or  King John second of Portugal. Portugal steam power on the seas colonizing Atlantic islands and  establishing trade with African kingdoms but the 1480s there naibors found out the Indian Ocean was on the other side in Africa. This discovery gave them a fast and cheap route to the rich goods of Asia. During Portugal's rise in power a curb of European scholars Stobbart was smaller then what previously believed this man  one could reach Asia by sale West because in the newly invented printing pres.Columbus read about these recent theories and wasn't thrilled with the idea of sail for riches. He tried to get funding for an expedition from Portugal, but king John didn't believe in theory.  He then  tried France, England and Spain. No luck until 1492, when the Spanish sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella decided to help find three ships for a voyage. They saw Columbus as a means to compete against  Portugal susses. The NEA Peter and Santa Maria set sail on August 3rd 1492 after stopping gran canary the rest of the trip took five weeks on October twelfth land was spotted  it was an island and at dawn Columbus wanna sure because he believed in the small earth theory Columbus thought he was near Japan 's he called the natives the silent  Indians because India was what many Europeans  called Asia at the time the natives who really called but I emailed Taino . Trade began between the two parties but it was clear that the taino did not possess the fabled britches of East Asia however some of them were called this jewelry Columbus 's hungry for gold to bring back to Spain.He wandered around  searching for large amount of gold to the Santa Maria until it crashed into  a reef Hispaniola. Columbus left 39 men at the site to build a colony.
He promised that he would return for them and sailed back to Spain.
When he arrived in Europe he was famous. He had sailed into the unknown and returned to tell the tale
 

Vasco de Gama

Vasco de Gama

Vasco De Gama, The 15th Century Mariner

Listen here
Vasco de Gama is representing the Portuguese exploration. A couple of things about Portugal in the 15th century.
1. It was resource poor.
2. It had a fair bit of coast line.
This meant that Portugal relied upon trade to grow.
Also the Iberian peninsula was the only place in Europe where Muslims can be found in large numbers in the 15th century, which meant that the Christian Crusading spirit was quite strong there, presumably because Muslims had brought so much stability and prosperity to the region.The chief among these would-be crusaders  was prince Henry the Navigator. And all that knowledge gave Portuguese sailors a huge competitive advantage when it came to exploration.
He was, however, a patron  not only of sailors themselves, but of a special school at Sagres  in which nautical knowledge was collected and new maps were made and all kinds of awesome stuff happened.
Henry commissioned sailors to search for two things. First a path to the Indian ocean so that they could get in on the lucrative spice trade, and second to find the kingdom of Prestor John, a mythical Christian king who was supposed to live in Africa somewhere, so that he could have the help of Prestor Johnn in the crusade.
The Gama was the king Henry's protegese to make it around Africa and into the Indian Ocean. In 1498, he landed at Calicut, a major trading center on India's West coast. And when he got there merchants asked him what he was looking for.
He answered with three words: Goald and Christians, which basically sups up Portugal's reasons for exploration.
So once the Portugese bridged the Indian Ocean, they didn't create like huge colonies, because they were already powerful empires in the region. apparently they sat in the middle of the Indian Ocean doing nothing. Actually they were able to capture and control a number of coastal cities, creating what historians call a "trading post empire". They could do this thanks to their armed ships, which captured cities by firing cannons into city walls like IRL Angry Birds.
So since the Portuguese didn't have enough people or boats to run the Indian Ocean trade, they had to rely on extortion. So Portuguese merchant ships would capture other ships and force them to purchase a permit to trade called a cartaz and without the cartaz, a merchant could not trade in any of the towns Portugal controlled. To merchants who sailed the Indian Ocean for years in relative freedom the Portugese were just glorified pirates, extracting value from trade without adding to its efficiency or volume. So the Cartaz strategy worked for a while, but Portugal never really took control over the Indian Ocean trade. They were successful enough that their neighbors Spain, became interested in their own route to the Indies.

Christopher Columbus

Zheng He, the 15th Century Mariner

Researching the Ocean Life

Hi everybody,

Here is a new drawing today. The man, dressed in a wet-suit is me, because I am exploring  the ocean. I am a scientist.

You can also see a big blue shark, an octopus, a big yellow fish, some colorful little fish swimming in groups, a sea star, a crab, some water plans and how the ocean's bed looks like.

The ocean is beautiful because it has many creatures. The humans threaten the lives of these creatures by throwing garbage, toxic waste and oil spiels destroy their habitats.

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The secret lives of baby fish

Today, over half of the world’s reefs are threatened by human activities. How do you think the complex early life of coral reef fish might complicate reef conservation?

With oil spills, toxic waste and garbage .Those things  kill the fish  and destroy their home in the oceans, seas lakes and rivers.

Over 90% of the coral reef fish kept in saltwater aquariums and sold at pet stores in the US and Europe are collected from the wild. Why might these fish be wild-caught rather than farmed in captivity.
It may be cheaper for the saltwater aquariums owners to get them from the wild.
   

If you were a biologist interested in coral reefs, how might you study the large-scale geographic movements of tiny baby fish?


If I were a biologist interested in coral reefs,  I might  study the large-scale geographic movements of tiny baby fish by submarine,  suit and chip attached to some larvae and camera connected to a computer, like GPS.

Why do honeybees love hexagons?

The bees are beautiful creatures. Bees don't have hands or beaks. They live in hives. Because when they make the honey they need a place to store it. Their hive is made out of wax. They make the wax from honey. The inside of the hive is with hexagons. Honeybees are great mathematicians. The honeybees store their honey inside them.

A Bird Attacks

A Bird Attacks
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Scrambled Sentences

The Animal Kingdom

Crosswords

Hello!
 It's me again. So today is my birthday and I wanted to do some thing  but I didn't have time, so I decided to work on a crossword about my last post motorcycles.
You can see it and like it.

Don't forget to comment please.

The Motorcycle Rider

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Objects of Desire on TED

An iconic painting. An ancient manuscript. A cylinder with 2600 years of history. Learn about artifacts and images that have intrigued humans for centuries, and why we find them so alluring.

Earth-Like Planets

How to discover Earth-like planets

The Weather

Grab your umbrellas

New to America

New to America

A Haircut

A Haircut

Past and Present

Similarities and Differences
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OLD ROME

5 Exercises to Practice The Present Simple Tense

Episode 1: Returning to New York, Ninja Teenage Mutant Turtles

1.       Now we’re going to make a story for the animation film we were promising.

2.       When the teenage mutant ninja turtles last encountered with the Shredder Leonardo, he was seriously   injured.   

3.       The turtles   couldn't go on with the battle because they were   out-numbered.   

4.       They escaped in the room.  

5.       They thought   he couldn't come in there.  But, the Shredder trapped them there.

6.       He exploded the   building but the turtles April Case and Splinter escaped   through a hole in the wall.

7.       Shredder thought they were dead, but he wasn't   sure. 

8.       So he arranged Buster Stockton to go and find a proof that they were dead for exchange of the robot suit.

9.       There was a new proof that they were dead.

10.   Stockton made a fake proof.

11.   The ninja turtles escaped on a farm and waited for Leo to wake up from the coma.

12.   They were waiting for Leo to wake up from the coma.

13.   They were very sad.

14.   They were telling stories of their lives.

15.   Leo always helped them.

16.   He woke up.

17.   They were happy.

18.   After he woke up they waited for him to be better.

19.   The Shredder forgot about them.

20.   They could go back to New York and defeat Shredder once and for all.

21.   When Leo got better, they went back to their home in New York.

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My Hobby: Collecting Ninja Cards

Hello people! Here on this post, I'm going to tell you about my hobby collecting teenage mutant ninja turtle cards. The turtles are good guys. Their names are Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo and Leonardo. They fight crime in New York. Donatello has a ninja stick for a weapon and he uses other weapons like smoke bombs. He knows computers and machines very well. Raphael is a turtle, too. He has huge forks for a weapon. He never backs out of a fight. Michelangelo and Leonardo are good guys. Leonardo has two blades to fight. With these ninja turtle cards you can play games with your friends. If your character on your card is stronger you win and take his card. If you are interested, you can find these cards in Chipicao croissants. By the way, they are very tasty.

50 Cent Microscope

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Perhaps you've punched out a paper doll or folded an origami swan? Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bio-engineering at Stanford University, and his team have created a microscope made of paper that's just as easy to fold and use. This demo shows how the Foldscope could revolutionize healthcare in developing countries ... and turn almost anything into a fun, hands-on science experiment.

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5 Positive Personality Traits

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Never, ever give up

Powerful story: Never, ever give up. 

Grammar Links

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Grammar Exercises

• Verbs
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Robots with Soul

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The Old Egyptians

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The Japanese Samurai Civilization

The samurais are very cool. The samurais are from the old Japan. Here, on my drawing,  the yellow sign, you can see the samurai code written in Japanese. I got  the inspiration for this drawing  from the movie 'The last samurai' which is very exciting. You can download it, because I think  that you can't see it in the cinemas, at least here. First of all, because it is an old movie. The  movie  'The last samurai' was played by Tom Cruse, whom you probably know  from his many movies. The samurais are ancient Japanese warriors who lived in the 12th  century.

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