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My superhero is a woman. She is quite small and she is a bit fat. She has a round face, short brown hair, a long nose and almond-shaped yellow eyes. She has a really big smile and she is extremely beautiful. She wears a green mask and a purple costume, with a pink hat. She is very generous and intelligent and she has many powers, so she must protect people and save the planet from the various supervillains. She has two big wings, so she can fly. She can also swim very fast and she can shoot lasers with her eyes. Oh, and she can also control the weather, it’s really cool! She can change the temperature for example, and decide to turn the sunny weather into a snow tempest. She is scared of spiders, so she cannot work with Spiderman! And she can’t walk through walls. But apart from that, she can do almost everything. She is the best!

Twitter to ban all political advertising, raising pressure on Facebook
By Julia Carrie Wong. The Guardian.
Wed 30 Oct 2019

Social network’s move comes as Facebook faces controversy over ads that promote misinformation.

Twitter will ban all political advertising, the company’s CEO has announced, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook over its controversial stance to allow politicians to advertise false statements. The new policy was announced via Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account on Wednesday and will come into effect on 22 November.
The announcement comes as Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over its decision to exempt ads by politicians from third-party factchecking and from a policy that bans false statements from paid advertisements.
The organic spread of political messages online “should not be compromised by money”, he wrote. The advanced state of digital advertising technology, including “machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting” and deepfakes – fake or manipulated videos that appear real – combined with the pollution of the online information ecosystem with misinformation, “present entirely new challenges to civic discourse”.
“This isn’t about free expression,” he added, in a seeming riposte to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent defense of online political advertising in a speech billed as a “stand for voice and free expression”. “This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.”
Dorsey tweeted another counter-argument to Facebook with an accompanying winking emoji, writing: “It’s not credible for us to say: ‘We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want!’”
That argument appears to mock Facebook’s recent attempts to justify its decisions to exempt posts by politicians from its third-party factchecking program, and ads by politicians from a policy that bans false statements from paid advertisements.
Together, the policies have created a situation in which Facebook is simultaneously asserting its commitment to reducing misinformation while allowing incumbent politicians and political candidates to lie in paid campaign ads.
Dorsey called for “forward-looking political ad regulation”, noting that transparency requirements that have been proposed by US lawmakers are “progress but not enough.” “The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field,” he said.
Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, called Twitter’s decision “another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives” while Hillary Clinton called it “the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world”.

Welcome to the Superheroes academy. This is not an ordinary school so the rules are very different from your former school.

You must always wear your outfit
You mustn’t come to the academy with a dirty suit.
You must always keep your identity secret.
You must have all your weapons for practice.
You mustn’t play with your gadgets them in class.
You mustn’t be rude or aggressive.
You mustn’t use your superpowers for no reasons

Good luck and enjoy the academy!

instruction: work your pronunciation. Listen to the verbs and repeat

1. To protect the people and the property
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2. To conduct patrols
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3. To walk facilities
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4. To patrol
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5. To manage disputes
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6. To control IDs and public access
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7. To monitor video systems
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8. To identify fro suspicsious behaviours
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9. To enforce the rules
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10. To enforce the Covid protocol
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11. To aprrehend offenders
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12. To report an incident
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13. To complete a daily activity report
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14. To communicate messages
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15. To watch a shop
1. To protect the people and the property
(…)
2. To conduct patrols
(…)
3. To walk facilities
(…)
4. To patrol
(…)
5. To manage disputes
(…)
6. To control IDs and public access
(…)
7. To monitor video systems
(…)
8. To identify fro suspicsious behaviours
(…)
9. To enforce the rules
(…)
10. To enforce the Covid protocol
(…)
11. To aprrehend offenders
(…)
12. To report an incident
(…)
13. To complete a daily activity report
(…)
14. To communicate messages
(…)
15. To watch a shop

16. To guard the merchandise

2 months ago my boyfriend Sam and I decided to go somewhere on holiday for a week. What we were thinking about for a long time was a country we wanted to visit. Sam wanted to go to Germany, but I was just dreaming about Italy. So we finally agreed with the following: Germany first and then we’ll go to Italy.
Everything began great! We booked a room for two in a luxurious hotel in Bremen. It was midnight, so we went there at once. The next day we walked in the center of the city and saw such attractions as Bremen Town Musicians, Roland statue and Town hall. These places were just exciting! But I couldn't stop thinking about going to Italy!
Then we went to Hamburg for two days because Sam wanted to see that city most of all. The weather was surprisingly good for Germany. It was really sunny and warm all the time. The city was so clean; people were very friendly there but when we went to a hotel in Hamburg Sam realized that he didn’t have his backpack anymore. And we were running out of cash. Thanks God, we didn’t lose our documents! But on our credit cards we had very little money. So we tried to find the backpack but we couldn’t. We stayed in Germany for two more days saving money. We had to stay in a badly furnished cheap hostel and came back home. I wish we decided to go to Italy first! But now I remember those days with a smile. It was a great time anyway.

Sarah 26, a musician

https://voca.ro/1aiHDL25C5kA

Hi there ! I’m Sean ! I come from Clare Island, a very small island where only 150 people live. Come with me and I will show you lovely places… places where I love to play …
We have a celebrity on the island : an incredible woman whose name is Grace O’Malley. But you won’t be able to meet her. She was the first Irish woman who became a pirate. It was in 1542.
I’ll show you the place where she lived. This is Grace’s castle.
Where is her treasure ? Nobody knows.
If you come in May or June, we will search for Grace’s treasure and we will have a great time at the festival.

action movies are movies that have high energy, race, fights and spectacular rhythm
animation movies offer the illusion of motion by images created by hand or on a computer
comedy movies are films that provoke laughter
fantasy movies are movies that contain magical extraordinary elements
horror movies are films that provoke fear in the audience
martial arts films are movies that contain numerous fights with particular fighting styles like kung fu or tae kwan do
super hero movies are films that contain characters with amazing powers
romance movies are films that centre on love relationships
thriller films are movies that provoke nervous tension in the audience
documentaries are movies that show real events
science fiction films are movies that show futuristic elements such as space exploration

Hello I am Luke i like red and i like to read.

Hello my name is Bob, I don't like playing soccer and I like pink.

Hello my name is Harry, I like watching TV and I like purple

Hello my names is Arthur, I don't like watching TV and I like brown.

Hello, my name is Victor, I like swimming and I like blue.

Hello, my name is Paul, I like painting and I like green and red.

Hello, I am Sarah, I like playing soccer and I like yellow.

Hello, my name is Jane. I like singing and I like orange.

Hello my name is Mary. I like cooking and i like green