Abla de ti Buenas tardes, me llamo Giulia y soy Italiana. nací en Cerdeña, en 1994, por tanto tiengo 23 anos. mi padre es siciliano y mi madre es sarda. Tengo una hermana que tiene 33 anos. Vivo en el campus, en las north Towers, con otros 14 compañeros de piso. Estudio Traduction, Interpretation y subtitulado, y soy estudiante de master. En mi tiempo libre me gusta muchisimo leer y escribir. Tiengo un blog en el que escribo de mis esperiencias y de los libros que leé. Aora estoy leyendo un libro que se llama The circle, que abla de una compañia en un futuro proximo que tiene el monopolio de todas la compañias del mundo. No me esta gustando mucho, la historia es un poco lenta. Empiezé a escribir mi blog hace tres años y aora tiengo muchos artuculos. El primero fue sobre Venecia. Este año empiezé a escribir sobre esta universidad, de mi curso y de mi esperiencia aqui. https://collectingpages.wordpress.com/

Describe your favourite object Everyone knows the brand Moleskine: they product rather expensive notebooks and other fancy stationery. The object I am going to talk about is the Moleskine Travel Journal. A travel journal, as the name itself says, it’s a notebook you use to write down your feelings and thoughts when you travel. The notebook itself doesn’t look to have nothing special: the cover is simply black, and on the inside all the pages are black and grey. It has an imprint on the cover, that shows an airport departure display in the front, while it has just the moleskine logo in the back. It come with an elastic strap, three different coloured bookmarks and a double pocket in the back with some stickers. It is divided into 5 different sessions/tabs according to the length of the trip (weekends to long trips) and two extra blanc session you can customise however you want. At the end you have an index page, where you can record the information: you can do this because all the pages comes already numbered. You can customise this Travel Journal in a very personal way, as you can see from these examples: the fact that the notebook itself is not personalised in any way, on the contrary, it is all black and white is not a problem. I put some stamps on the front page, and I add another one every time I go into a different place

Translation exercice #2 History must not disappear from school The consideration recognised to Ocse's academic performance tests can suggest that the most easily verifiable subjects in to a international comparative perspective (use of the language, compute capability, scientific notions) are the also most important. We risk to put other subjects, like history, in the shadow. This, if it happens, it is a big mistake. History's offer, that must not be limited to the hour dedicated to this subject, has a major significance for intellectual and civil education. It has been reminded by Antonio Augenti, a man of long-term school, in his book, which has been recently published. However, teaching difficulties thicken right when, as Augenti's book suggests, we get closer to burning issues, to the historical geography of the closer years. Therefore, it is clear the welcome that brings devoted historians in France to accept history and geography tests on this year's bac. (Si capisce dunque il favore con cui in Francia storici attenti hanno accolto le prove di storia e geografia del bac di quest’anno. ) Interviewed by Le Monde, B.F., historian and educator, admired that, this year, “sensitive” issues have been proposed to high school students: debate the middle eastern conflict flashpoints from the end of the second World War, how to govern Europe after Maastricht. And then, point-blank, complete a mute map of Africa with its border states, without having their names. It could be possible to export this kind of test. The comparative results will be interesting. (read the original article on http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/tullio-de-mauro/2016/07/01/scuola-insegnamento-storia)

Translation exercice TRANSLATION: Rights refused to women: Trapani seems like Brazil Having an abortion has become more and more difficult in Sud America. And in the south of Italy it's almost impossible to apply the 194 Act. The 5th July 1982, in Barcelona, in the Sarrià stadium it was played the historic game Italy-Brazil 3-2. It was the Spain's World Cup and Brazil was eliminated. It's just an association, nothing more. Maybe it's just because we are immerse on the European World Cup right while Europe seems to be falling in to pieces, or maybe it's just because of a news that talks about Brazil, illegal abortion, Zika virus and that it's also, ultimately, about Italy. Since Zika virus spread, in Brazil and other Latin America's states, demands of abortion has dizzily increased. Abortion's procedure does not take place in public hospitals, except on rare cases and women mostly turn to websites to buy mifepristone and misoprostol pills that provoke a pharmaceutical abortions. The Guardian indicates Women on Web as reference website, which has a very particular history. Women on Web originally was a boat moored off countries where abortion was illegal; women, to have an abortion, had to reach it by raft. Now, it's a website that offers online medical consultation, indicate where to buy the pills or directly sends it: it's the less worts option because those who do not have access to the web has intensive procedure, in illegal structures. (read the intere article on http://espresso.repubblica.it/opinioni/l-antitaliano/2016/06/30/news/diritti-negati-alle-donne-trapani-come-il-brasile-1.275460)

Random questions: Can we say: The possession of computers has faced an upward tendency for the entire period. It is spotted how more than one single method is preferred among others. People who take more than 31 minutes to arrive to their office are stricktly less (=it is obvious, clear, that the amount is less). Let me know what it would/will be possible to do about this problem. An amount can be less? Do you PUT/SET/MAKE/DO... a wi fi in a house?

Men vs Women in education The chart shows the amount of men and women in further education in Britain in three periods from 1970/71 to 1990/91. The chart also underline the differences between the number of people who studied whether in full-time or part-time courses. It is firstly clear that the number of bot men and women studying as full-time students is significally minor than the amount of students who attended part-time courses. This amount is generally growing through the years for men and women. However, the amount of students in part-time courses see a constant rise just on the female case. Men studying on part-time education in the 1970s were 1000 thousands. Ten years after, in the 1980s, the number decreased of at least 100 thousands units. Even if the amount slowly rose during the last decade (1990s), it barely reached the 900/950 thousands units. Thanks to this different grew, in 1990/91 the number of women studying on part-time education is higher than the number of men, while the amount of people studying on full-time education is more or less the same for both men and women. Except from corrections I would also like to have some suggestions of how I could improve my text (vocabulary, grammar). Thank you so much.

House or apartment? Since I was a child, I've always been living in the same house. Growing up, playing with my friends that, instead, lived in an apartment, I've always noticed that living in an apartment has a lot of disadvantages. First of all, you have to keep quiet during some specific moment of the day, especially if you live in the first floor or higher. I remember that my friends couldn't run or play with the ball at home because of the noise, while I was free to do whatever I wanted. Secondly, you have to ask to the inquilines of the building for every change you want to apply to the property. Nothing is really your property, while a house is completely under your free will. If you live in a flat, you don't have your own garden. I would really like to have a proper garden when I will have my own house. For all of these reasons, I'm sure I will always prefer to live in a house rather than in an apartment. However, I know that sometimes, living in an apartment has its advantages. For example, my parents are now leaving the house where I've used to live my entire life, for moving in an apartment. An apartment is smaller, easier to clean and more comfortable for elderly that are not comfortable to do the stairs. That's why I'm happy that my parents are moving, now: I do believe that every house or apartment has its advantages and disadvantages, but all depends on the household.

Coffee or Sandwiches? The table shows the sales made by a coffee shop on a typical weekend. It clearly represent the variation of the sales of four different products every two hours from 7:30 to 5:30 pm. As expected, the sales change in relation to the hour. During breakfast time (7:30-10:30), coffee, tea, and pastries are the best sold items, reaching at least 110 units( tea), while sandwiches reach just 50 units. However, during lunch time (10:30-2:30), the amount od sandwiches sold is four times more than the previous amount, and so, the best sold product. In the afternoon (2:30-5:30), all the products sales see a slight fall: sandwiches, for example, loose 160 units. In the evening (5:30-8:30), coffee is the best sold product. In general, even if it sourmont the other items' sales just once, coffee is the best sold product during the entire day: its sales never comes under the 145 units.