NEWS #1

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-329518927

SUMMARY:
UK doctors have discovered two new drugs that can shrink tumours. These drugs are called ipilimumab and volunab.

The immune system is a defence against infection. Our body has some “brakes” in its system that let cancer protect itself from the attacks of the immune system. These drugs have the function of taking the brakes off. It has been demonstrated that this drugs can shrink the cancer a third part in the 58% of the people who did the trial.

Dr James Larking told us that by giving these drugs together the immune system is able to recognise tumours and destroy them. Even though these drugs produce some side effects, some people hopes this will have a big future for the treatment of cancer.

Cait Chalwin, 43, had been diagnosed with melanoma in 2013. At first doctors told her she would have 18-24 months to live, but with these drugs we have been talking about, she is alive and feels better than when she didn’t take the medicine.

OPINION:

I think this medicine or drug has been a big step in medicine because it has worked in so many cases so we probably can trust it. If scientists will investigate more about these medicines, they could find the way to change them to quit the side effects and improve the treatment. If this have helped one life, it can help to prolong others, even if the effects are different in each person.

Some people would say no because of the damage, but at the end medicine is improving because of failures and successes. We should let the process continue, willing to lose the less people possible. 

VOCABULARY: Rash, boost, harnessing.

ELECTIONS

Every four years elections are held to change the mayor in every town and the president in every country. When election time arrives, at least in towns, the ones who are in charge start to change things like repairing the roads, open new places and they try to be kind to everybody to gain votes. Politicians try to fulfil the things they said they would do, but they really didn’t. When elections approach, they became a wolf in sheep’s clothing. 

Most of the times, people in towns vote more the person itself than the political party, because normally people know the people who are presenting to be mayor and they don’t read the information but vote for the person.

Nowadays I’m not able to vote, but I think a lot of people who are 18 years, aren’t aware enough to vote. Some people just don’t care or don’t like politics, so they vote the first one that comes to their mind, and that’s why I think some people shouldn’t to vote at 18 years old; even though there are many adults that have the same problem. 

STRIKE

In 1^st of batxillerat, if you want to go on strike you have to present a document to the headmistress asking for it and they have to accept it. We can decide to go on strike, but I think it’s a stupid thing to do and stay at home sleeping. When you want to go on strike it’s because you want to demonstrate for something and you want to do justice or change something in the society that isn’t doing well. Most students just want to go on strike to stay at home sleeping and watching TV. This isn’t fair, because many people organize these events because they want people to take part in them to show to society that students are capable enough to express themselves even to defend their opinions and try to change things.

And also, if you go on strike, you would have to believe in the cause, because if not, you’re doing nothing and you’re wasting time that you could be using for something else more important.

OPINION ESSAY- IS LAW FAIR FOR UNDER-FOURTEEN IN SPAIN?

Today we have heard about a new, a teacher have been murdered by a student. This boy, who is 13 years old, isn’t going to be judged by the society because he is too young.

In my opinion, this boy should be judged, even if he is too young, because he had murdered a person and injured some others. High schools don’t need to have more security, because people normally didn’t act like this, but exceptions make the difference.

Nowadays high schools don’t have much security because here, in Spain, guns are illegal, and people don’t expect a boy to enter and start hurting people like this boy did. But, even though this boy is under-eighteen, he would have to be punished or sent to an under-eighteen centre. It isn’t fair to let a boy kill somebody and then let him live like nothing has happened.

I do believe that this boy has to live in very bad and/or violent conditions, or probably he has a depression or something, because the social and family background affects in everybody’s behaviour. As far as I am concerned, law would have to change some aspects referred to under-eighteen people. To sum up, I think this boy would have to be punished and judged by society and their parents would have to be submitted to a mental test.