What's my opinion about Christmas?

I think that Christmas is the most important event of the year. I think that because it have a magical ambient that covers the air. Is the time when the families meet all toghether during the holidays and celebrate that is Christmas!

On the origins, Christmas was a religious celebration, but I think that now is a celebration that unite the families, and it has nothing to do with the religion. Usually the people have big dinners in this event, and open presents of Sant Nick, of the Three Magic Kings, or of  the "el tió" (typical in Catalonia). The kids feel that magic is real, and sing Christmas Carols.

It's true that somentimes when somebody have lost someone in the family it's hard to confront this event, because everybody meet with the family, and the loss, feels stronger.

But definitely, I like Christmas and as I said in the begining, I think that Christmas holidays are the most beautiful ones of the year. 

Underwater Hockey

History

The Underwater Hockey is an acuatic sport. It was invented on 1954 by Alan Blake in the United Kingdom. He dove with a couple of other divers, so that's why he create this sport, to practise his apnea and be better as a diver. On 1996 the Underwater Hockey arrived in Barcelona for Laurent Alquier, and from there it was moved to the rest of Spain.

Rules

The Underwater Hockey consists in two opponent teams that have to score, carrying a puck with a stick for the bottom of the pool, in the others goal. The team with more goals at the end, win the match. The teams are of 10 players (6 playing and 4 reserves). The matches have two parts of 15 minuts each other, with a small brake of 3 minuts between them.

Basic material

The basic material that you need is:

        1. A snorkel
        2. A cap
        3. A mask
        4. A pair of fins
        5. A stick
        6. A puck
        7. A glove

Why I love this sport?

I love Underwater Hockey because it's a minority sport, and the people who plays is usually open-minded. I like it too because I enjoy a lot being in the water, I can move my body very well. Another reason of why I love this sport is because if you are a bit good at this, you can be part of something big, like the Catalan Selection or something like that. And above all these reasons, I love Underwater Hockey beacause when I play, I feel happy and full, and I forget all the problems that I have.

The Psychological Horror Story

What is the story of tell-tale heart about?

The story is about a murder that kills a man. Then he broke his body into pieces and he hid it. Later some investigators come into the house and the murder is calmed, but next he get nervous.  At last he confess his crime.

Who wrote the tell heart and invented the first macabre stories?

Edgar Allan Poe.

What was the first P.H.S?

It was "Matzengerstein"

When was it first published?

On 1832.

What other story types did the author also invent?

Edgar Allan Poe also invent the romantic poems, the modern detective stories, the sience-fiction stories and the gothic fiction stories.

The Gothic Novel

1. Who invented the G.N.?

Horace Walpole was the inventor of the gothic novel.

2. What was the first G.N.?

The Castle of Otranto was the first gothic novel.

3. When was it first published?  

It first published in 1764.

4. Wich basic elements of horror didn't you include in your list?

Settings in a castle, omens, visions, an ancient prophecy, women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, 
darkness, necromancer, dismal, melancholy, goblins, prophecy, spectre, zombies, the wind blowing...


Vocabulary

- foreboding
- watered
- foreshadowing
- bluring
- breathlessness
- metonymy

A Horror Movie

Hi! I'm going to talk you about a horror movie that I saw 2 years ago. I like watching horror movies with friends, but I get scared very fast.
The horror movie opens when a couple that lives in a house far away the civilisation, discover a blood message on the mirror it says "you're next", after they get murdered. Then the members of a family go to a house near there, where they have a family reunion. When they arrive everithing is normal, but a few time later, when they are having the dinner, suddenly an arrow brakes a window and kill a boy. Then they realise that someone is out the house observing them, like a lion observe his prey. The family closes all the doors and the windows of the house, and then they call the police. There are 2 or 3 people with animal masks. Although what the family do, the people with maks can go into the house, and one for one the family starts being murdered. The film is more a thriller movie than a horror movie, but I think that both of this styles go often togheter. The movie ends when the murders kill everybody, and next they go out the house. After this the policemans come, and one of them die with a trap that the family put to defend theirselves.