No Big News

Here we have the radio programme which complements the written job .

Written by: Ana Rodriguez and Euquesei CollegeDegrees360: "A student is overwhelmed with all her studying." (CC BY-SA 2.0) Children of today don’t work hard because they don’t find interest to the subjects that are taught in the school. The great amount of homework, the stress before an exam and the fatigue of the academic routine, create discomfort on the students. The school failure is considered one of the great barriers that prevent students’ formation in our country, since everyone has left some pending subject or we weren’t able to solve conflicts and problems at the time of dealing with studies. At first, we need a change of education system with the support of teachers, parents and mothers, since the great cause of failure is lack of interest and self-confidence, because students have fear of defrauding teacher or parents . It’s also true that  interest is lost as the course progresses. It happens because we usually have better things to think about, or n

Aspirin was one of the first medicines. It’s composed of acetylsalicylic acid.This acid is extracted from willow’s bark and leaves. The world consumes 2500 aspirins per second and 40000 tonnes per year. History:   Mosesofmason,  A bottle of Bayer brand coated aspirin tablets ,  CC BY-SA 3.0 c3000 – 1500 BC: Willow is used as a medicine by ancient civilisations like the Sumerians and Egyptians. The Ebers papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text, refers to willow as an anti-inflammatory or pain reliever for non-specific aches and pains. c400 BC: In Greece, Hippocrates administers willow leaf tea, which contains the natural compound from which aspirin is derived, to women to ease the pain of childbirth. The actual drug that we know was discovered in Germany in 1899, a scientist of Bayer invented it. But this ancient aspirin was a lot of secondary effects. Medical uses: Aspirin is used in the treatment, including fever pain, rheumatic fever, inflammatory d

 By Pablo Gallego & Claudia Ares, 3ºB In this programme of "No Big News", we've interviewed Claudia Ares. She's a student of IES Xoán Montes, in Lugo. This teenager has told us many things about how she uses her mobile phone, and what does she think about the addiction to new technologies. No Big News, by Pablo Gallego Arias and Claudia Ares Vila. Sound Cloud By Pablo Gallego & Claudia Ares, 3ºB

                                                                                             We all have heard the word “Brexit”. It is because is a new that is getting a lot of importance these last days. With this document we will try to answer some questions to understand better this topic. Like “what is it” and its consequences. Let’s begin! Max Pixel , Problem United Kingdom Eu England 2016, CC0 Public Domain 1.What "Brexit" means? Brexit it is a contraction of the words “Britain” and “exit”. 2.What is Brexit? On Thursday 23 June, 2016 people in UK  voted in a referendum to decide if quit or not from the European Union. 3.Why Brexit has been created? This began because people in UK think that they can get better if they don’t belong any more to European Union. For example, to get a better life, to earn more money… And also there’s one more reason:  they don’t want foreigners in their country. 4.What is the opinion of the people who is affected f

                                                                                   Written by Pablo Gallego & Claudia Ares, 3ºB Technologies resolve our problems and individual or collective needs. It’s amazing how technologies have grown in a few years. Some inventions like drones, mobile phones or robots make our life more easy. The most developed cities in the world are Seul (South Corea), Tokyo (Japan), Hong Kong (China), New York (USA)… In this places, the technological industry is very developed, so they are world powers. Technologies have a lot of advantages, but they also have many disadvantages: Advantages:     They help us to resolve our daily problems.     They’ve improved the communication.     New technologies have also improved entertainment;  now we can play video games, listen to music…     They have changed the health industry with scientific researchs.     Modern technologies have also developed the education and they make learning more easy