Maripaz B2.1: November 2011

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Television and radio

Listen to six speakers. Which topics are they discussing?

Monday 28 November 2011

For or against alternative medicine

Listen to four people giving their opinion about alternative medicine. Are they in favour or against? what is their main argument?

Superyoung

Listen to an interview with Dr David Weeks, who is talking about "superyoung people". Note down which factors are important for eternal youth.

Once, it was difficult to imagine morning without a newspaper. We wake up, drink a cup of coffee and read newspapers in order to find latest news in the country and around the world. Today the world has changed. Every hour there is news, every minute something happens. In order to get the latest news, just go to the internet. And if you prefer, you can even get updates (the results of football games, for example), directly to the mobile phone. And this, of course, without any mention of television news channels, which broadcast 24 hours a day. So who really needs the newspapers and there is still the future of this industry?

First of all, many people read newspapers from the habit. Indeed, why, to change anything? Why switch on a computer or TV, if tomorrow morning we will find a newspaper at the door. And if there has been something abnormal sooner, we will probably hear about it on TV. The feeling of reading the newspaper like reading books, and it is rooted in many people. You can read during meals, in bed before sleep, or even in the bathroom. You can certainly use the laptop in these places, but it is far less convenient.

Major newspapers around the world have already noticed this problem a long time. They understand that the news on the Internet is the future. It should also join this trend and this will help in particular to promote the newspaper. Who does not do so, will be left behind. Creating new and popular site with interesting material is not detrimental to the newspaper, but also expands the sources of funding. Many of those who advertise on the Internet are not always advertised in the newspapers. Thus, a circle, in which newspaper promotes the website and the website, brings new readers to the newspaper. Of course, the web site which belongs to well-known newspaper has an excellent starting point on the Internet.

Statistics around the world shows that the number of readers of newspapers is falling every year, and this is very reasonable. The younger generation does not have a natural attraction to the paper, newspapers and books and they are more drawn to the buttons and screens. Therefore, it is clear that slowly, most of the budget of papers will move on to the Internet. During this transition period, they must retain its best reporters, or their level falls, and they will lose many readers.

Personally, I and my family have long ceased to read newspapers, and it happened as soon as I realized that all the news that I read there, I already knew from websites or TV. If the newspaper does not give new information, so why buy it and spend precious time. Online news sites saves time, allows you to filter content, and make information retrieval comfortable and efficient. I like sites that collect the latest news from different sources. This way you can get convenient and most reliable objective information.

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Sunday 27 November 2011

To all my students who follow this blog:
I'm sorry but I haven't been able to upload the listening exercises we did in class, because I forgot the CD at school. I'll try to do it tomorrow evening. Sorry about it!

Thursday 24 November 2011

Exercises for Healing, Rejuvenation, and Longevity

The Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises reported to be more than 2,500 years old used by Tibetan monks to live long, vibrant and healthy. The Tibetans claim that these exercises activate the seven key chakras that in turn stimulate all the glands of the endocrine system. Performing the Five Rites stimulates essential life energy circulation of the body and mind.The Five Tibetan Rites benefits include looking much younger; sleeping soundly; waking up feeling refreshed and energetic; release from difficulties with spine and joints; better memory; arthritis relief; weight loss; improved vision; youthing instead of aging; greatly improved physical strength, endurance and vigor; improved emotional and mental health; enhanced sense of well being and harmony and very high overall energy.

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The Eye of Revelation by Peter KelderThe Five Tibetan Rites is a system of exercises reported to be more than 2,500 years old which were first publicized by Peter Kelder in a 1939 publication entitled The Eye of Revelation Although practically nothing is known about Kelder, one source reports that Kelder was raised as an adopted child in the midwestern United States, and left home while still in his teens in search of adventure. In the 1930s, Kelder claims to have met, in southern California, a retired British army colonel who shared with him stories of travel and the subsequent discovery of the Rites. Originally written as a 32-page booklet. the publication is the result of Kelder's conversations with the colonel.The Rites are said to be a form of Tibetan yoga similar to the more well-known yoga series that originated in India.However, the Five Rites and traditional Tibetan yoga both emphasize "a continuous sequence of movement" (Sanskrit: vinyasa), whereas Indian forms focus on "static positions". Although the Rites have circulated amongst yogis for decades, skeptics say that Tibetans have never recognized them as being authentic Tibetan practices.The Five Tibetan Rites are also referred to as "The Five Rites", "The Five Tibetans", "The Five Rites of Rejuvenation" and most recently "T5T"

Carolinda Witt wrote a book about the 5 Tibetan exercise rites. Listen to the interview.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Ageing population

According to the United Nations, 11% of the world's current population is over 60 years old. In this programme Alice and Abdu talk about the increase in the number of older people and what this will mean for pensions in the future.