HALLOWEEN.

WHAT HALLOWEEN MEANS?
Halloween means ''All hallow's eve'', it's the day before all the saints, the 31st of October. However, the English custom has robbed its religious sense to celebrate in his place the terror's night, the witches and ghosts.

HALLOWEEN'S ORIGINS
It was celebrated 3000 years before by the Celts. They were a warrior village, and they lived in Ireland, England, Scotland and France.
The 31st of October, Celt people celebrated the en of the year with the Samhain, a pagan holiday.
The European immigration, especially English and Catholic people went to the United States and the tradition arrived to the American continent.
When we talk of Halloween, we think in costumes, pumpkins, parties, sweets and children, but the tradition show that this celebration wasn't always festive and happy and the rites that were practised at night had a character purifier and religious.

TODAY'S HALLOWEEN

DEAR JOHN

I'm going to talk you about a film called 'Dear John'. 














It's a romantic film but at the same time it's sad. The director of the film is Lasse Hallström.

* The plot is:

Savannah is with her friends and her bag fell dawn to the sea. One soldier called John swim to catch it and in this moment, when he returned the wet bag to her, both fell in love with each other and they start to talk.
He had just two weeks of holidays because then he had to continue working in the Army and Savannah had to study in the university.
In those two weeks they dind't keep away even one day.

Two months later they promise when he came back and finish with his two years of service, they will stay together. They didn't stop sending letters until she met another old and ill man. She be forced to marry and to take care of him. When John was notticed, he was very angry and sad at the same time, and his two years of service were finishing.

John came home because his father was in the hospital, he went to say him good bye, his father died.

AND WHEN HE ARRIVES HOME... WILL HE SEE SAVANNAH? WILL HE TALK TO HER? WILL SHE APOLOGIZE AND START TOGETHER A NEW LIFE? WILL JOHN MEET ANOTHER GIRL? WILL THEM STILL LOVE WITH EACH OTHER?

YOU WILL HAVE TO SEE THIS FILM TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN :)

* The main characters are:

> Channing Tatum: John Tyree.

> Amanda Seyfried: Savannah Lynn Curtis.

> You can see the film's trailer here:

I hope you'll watch it, you'll enjoy and like it;)

BOB MARLEY'S BIOGRAPHY.

Bob Marley was born on the 6th February 1945 in Nine Miles in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. Cedella Booker's son, an eighteen year old African woman, and a fifty year old white man, captain of the Army called Norval Marley.

He recorded his first record in Kingston, called 'Judge Not'. In 1963, the Wailers joined. When Haile Sellasie visited Jamaica, Bob and the Wailers became 'Rastafaris'. He became famous and he was a great reagge singer.

The year after the attempt on Bob's life, doctors diagnosed cancer in his toe.

He gave his last concert en Pittsburg, at the Stanley Theatre.

His cancer was treated in New York but doctors coudn't do anything for him.

The 1st of May 1981, Bob Marley died at the age of 36, in Miami.

His body was returned to Jamaica, where it was placed in a specially constructed mausoleum at his birthplace, Nine Miles.

Here you've a video of one of is famous songs, hope you like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WlCdiU9IzA

MUSIC IN MY LIFE.

Music isn't very important to me. I don't play any instrument. When I was 8 years old I wanted to play the oboe but to play it I had to do some years of solfeo and I didn't like it, so I didn't play the oboe bacause of that.

I don't listen to music very often, only when I'm traveling or when I love specially a song.

I always listen on the radio 'Los 40 principales', pop music in general.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH

Here there's a list of some words that it depends where you are, there are said and write of one form or of other one:                          
             

  BRITISH                AMERICAN

TIN	CAN
TO POST	TO MAIL
RUBBER	ERASER
LORRY	TRUCK
FLAT	APARTMENT
DISTRICT	PRECINT
FIRST FLOOR	SECOND FLOOR
QUEUE	LINE
BANK NOTE	BILL
TORCH	FLASHLIGHT
GASOLINE	PETROL
PARKING LOT	CAR PARK
MAD	CRAZY
PUB	BAR
SWEET	CANDY
CELLAR	BASEMENT
TAXI	CAB
TUBE/UNDERGROUND	SUBWAY
FILM	MOVIE
PAVEMENT	SIDEWALK
TROUSERS	PANTS
BISCUIT	COOKIE
AUTUMN	FALL
HOLIDAY	VACATION
LIFT	ELEVATOR