EXPRESS YOURSELF AS AN ANIMAL!!

Scientific facts:

Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to write about the existence of emotions in nonhuman animals. No great cognitive powers are needed to feel hunger or pain and  the  capacity  to  feel  emotions  is  widespread  in  the  animal  kingdom.  Recent research suggests that animals experience emotions like joy, anger and grief. They also feel pain and experience stress.

Similarities with humans:

They produce facial expressions which sometimes bear clear resemblance to the facial expressions seen in humans. So, it’s clear that we aren’t so different. Just look at the following pictures of animals showing its emotions and you will realize that they seem just like humans. Even they look like if they talk like humans!

Have you understood all the expressions?

Let’s check it! Try to match each English expression with its Spanish meaning:

1.  Here we go again…	A.  ¿Que qué?
2.  I’ve got a bone to pick with you	B.  Tenemos que ajustar cuentas
3.  I’m blown away!	C.  Estoy hecho polvo
4.  I just chilled out	D.  ¡Estoy loco de contento!
5.  Come again?	E.   Partirse de risa
6.  Laugh out Loud (LOL)	F.   ¡Me cago de miedo!
7.  I’m feeling down in the dumps	G.  Me pillas en mal momento
8.  You’ve caught me at a bad time	H.  Estoy depre
9.  I’m scared shitless!	I.    Ya estamos otra vez…
10. I’m knackered	J.   Estoy relajado

Solutions:

1-I, 2-B, 3-D, 4-J, 5-A, 6-E, 7-H, 8-G, 9-F, 10-C

THE DARKEST MINDS by Alexandra Bracken

“Revealing your true colours could get you killed”

Book information:

Title: The Darkest Minds (English) / Mentes Poderosas (Spanish).

Author: Alexandra Bracken

Nºpages:475

Editorial: RBA Molino

Approximately price: 18'00€

ISBN*: 9781423157373

*This number helps to find the book in the databases of the bookstores.

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.

The children are classified in different colours, depending on their ability:

Now she is sixteen and is one of the dangerous ones.

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes from Thurmond. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped from their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling in love with Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close.

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, especially its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.

This trilogy is formed by:

 

  

1.The Darkest Minds / Mentes Poderosas

1.5.In Time* (A short story that connects The  Darkest Minds with Never Fade, only in eBook)

2.The Darkest Minds: Never Fade / Mentes Poderosas: Nunca Olvidan

2.5. Sparks Rise*.(A short story that connects Never Fade with In the After Light, only in eBook)

3. The Darkest Minds :In the After Light.(By now, it can only be  read in English)

* There are three books and two e-novellas, which you don't need to read in order to understand what's happening in the novels.

Celia Martín

Science Fiction. Our young writers' tales

Hey there!
Where's the limit? What's the next challenge? Time, Space, Intelligence...?
After reading a passage of H.G. Wells' "War of the worlds" in class, I made a proposal: "Why don't you make some teams to write a short four-or-six-hand sci-fi tale?" That was the challenge and they accepted! When I say "they" I refer to my class of 4ºESO B-C bilingual (the loudest class ever but the one you can't help loving).
They had one week to squeeze their brains, loose their imagination, work effectively in teams and to give birth a short tale... and so they did!
I had promised them to have a winner but I can't! you can take my word for this; so I have decided to ask them for permission to upload the tales to our magazine and let the readers decide.
I have uploaded the three first stories but I will upload them all as the students send them to me.
Hope you can enjoy the tales as much as I did.  Just click the page "THE TALES" above to ckeck it out and please, We will open a poll gadget next Dec.19th for the readers to vote; we hope that all the writers will have handed their masterpieces in by then.