OPTIONAL: ASK FOR ADVICE ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP

Hi Judit, how are you?

We've been on holiday here in England for a week now and I've just met this guy, Harry. He's absolutely georgeous and simpathetic, I really like him, but I'm not sure how I feel about him. I really need your advice.

I met him on the shopping centre and he invited me to go bowling. Both of us were having a real laugh and then Harry invited me to go with him and his friends to the cinema. When we were there, he basically ignored me and started flirting with an English girl who was at his side. But when I said goodbye, he walked to the bus stop with me and neither of us could stop talking.

I've been thinking about things a lot since then. I'll probably see him later, but I'm not sure what to do if he asks me out. He seems very different when he's with friends and I don't know if he's as interested in me as I am with him. What do you reckon? I need your help!

Mònica. 

NEWS!

CAT CAFÉ
Happy news for cat lovers-London is to get its first cat café after Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium finally secured planning permission. Inspired by Tokyo's popular cat cafés, The Emporium will offer Londoners the chance to play with its resident felines over tea or a latté. The café already has a waiting list of 6,000... and that's before it has any cats!

I don't know exactly what's Cat Café so I can't give an opinion. 

MORE MONEY FOR QUEEN
Thanks to a hot property portfolio, the Queen is to get a 22 per cent pay rise. Over the next two years, Her Majesty will have 38 pounds million to run her household, up from 31 pounds m in 2012-2013. The reason is that her Crown Estate posted a record income of 253 pounds million. The land and building portfolio- owned by the Queen- is worth 8 pounds billion, but its profits all went to the Treasury until a recent agreement.


BANSKY FOR SALE
Beverly Hills, California.
Bansky's "Flower Girl" mural is to be sold at an auction in Beverly Hills this month, along with four earlier works. The piece, which appeared on a Los Angeles gas station wall in 2008, is expected to go for 300,000. The final price, though, could be much more. Another mural by the British artist, "Slave Labour", found behind a shop in London, sold recently for 750,000 dollars.

I love art so I think it's a good way to spent money on. 

CHOOSE ONE ITEM OF NEWS and...
What's the headline? BANSKY FOR SALE
Is there a video/image you can include? Yes, I've included an image.
Can you explain it in your own words? Yes. This new is about a mural which will be sold at an auction.
Add 3 new words you have learnt.
-Auction.
-Along
-Slave LabourWhy is it relevant to you? Because it's about art, and I'm interested in it.
How is this connected with other news that have an impact on our world? I'ts connectet between the money which will be spent on the auction. 

LET THERE BE LIGHTSABERS
Good news for wannabe Jedi Knights: scientist have come a little closer to making George Lucas's famous lightsabers. Physicists from Harvard and MIT say they have found a way to bind photons together to form molecules that behave just like the deadly weapons. Bizarrely, however, they still haven't tried using the technology to build actual lightsaber style devices....

I really like this kind of films so I hope this project will be useful in the future. 

SAVING SPACE
Nasa is to send the first 3D printer to the international space station to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools. The space agency hopes to avoid emergencies such as teh one that ocurred on Apollo 13 in 1970. Then, astronauts had to make their own carbon dioxide filter using a plastic bag and duct tape!

I think it's really good to innovate in topics like space. 

VOCABULARY

• Auction: subasta
• Injury: ferida
• Mural: pintura de paret
• Muppet: marioneta

HALLOWEN

When and where is it celebrated?
Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.
Why is it celebrated on the 31st October?
Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
Is it a religious celebration?
Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. 
What does the word 'Halloween' mean?
all Hallows Eve
Name 2 typical games.
 eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands.
When did it become a dangerous celebration?Why?
How do people celebrate it today?
 Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films!!