My last vacation!!!

MY FAVORITE SPORTS!!!

Tennis
Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt (most of the time yellowy-green, but can be any color or even two-tone) over a net into the opponent's court.
The modern game of tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis" and had heavy connections to the ancient game of real tennis. After its creation, tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population before spreading around the world. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in wheelchairs. In the United States, there is a collegiate circuit organized by the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
Except for the adoption of the tie-breaker in the 1970s, the rules of tennis have changed very little since the 1890s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of "instant replay" technology coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to challenge the official call of a point.
Along with its millions of players, millions of people worldwide follow tennis as a spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments (sometimes referred to as the "majors"): Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. The growth of tennis in Eastern Europe and the Far East has been especially notable in recent years
History
Tennis as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots. Between 1859 and 1865, Major Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined elements of rackets similar to the game of Poona or Badminton many British soldiers brought from being stationed in India and the Basque ball game pelota, which they played on Perera's croquet lawn in Birmingham, England.[2][3] In 1872, along with two local doctors, they founded the world's first tennis club in Leamington Spa.[4] The Courier of 23 July 1884 recorded one of the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.
In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed a similar game — which he called sphairistike (Greek σφάίρίστική, skill at playing at ball), and was soon known simply as "sticky" — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales. He based the game on the newer sport of outdoor tennis or real tennis. According to most tennis historians, modern tennis terminology also derives from this period, as Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French vocabulary of real tennis and applied them to his new game.
The first championships at Wimbledon, in London were played in 1877. On May 21, 1881, the United States National Lawn Tennis Association (now the United States Tennis Association) was formed to standardize the rules and organize competitions. The U.S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the U.S. Open, was first held in 1881 at Newport, Rhode Island. The U.S. National Women's Singles Championships were first held in 1887. Tennis was also popular in France, where the French Open dates to 1891. Thus, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open, and the Australian Open (dating to 1905) became and have remained the most prestigious events in tennis. Together these four events are called the Grand Slam (a term borrowed from bridge). The comprehensive International Lawn Tennis Federation rules promulgated in 1924 have remained remarkably stable in the ensuing eighty years, the one major change being the addition of the tie-breaker system designed by James Van Alen.[15] The Davis Cup, an annual competition between national teams, dates to 1900.In 1926, promoter C.C. Pyle established the first professional tennis tour with a group of American and French tennis players playing exhibition matches to paying audiences. The most notable of these early professionals were the American Vinnie Richards and the Frenchwoman Suzanne Lenglen.[13][18] Once a player turned pro he or she could not compete in the major (amateur) tournamentsIn 1968, commercial pressures and rumors of some amateurs taking money under the table led to the abandonment of this distinction, inaugurating the open era, in which all players could compete in all tournaments, and top players were able to make their living from tennis.[19] With the beginning of the open era, the establishment of an international professional tennis circuit, and revenues from the sale of television rights, tennis has spread all over the world and has lost its upper-class English-speaking image.
In 1954, Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island.[20] The building contains a large collection of tennis memorabilia as well as a hall of fame honoring prominent members and tennis players from all over the world. Each year, a grass-court tournament and an induction ceremony honoring new Hall of Fame members are hosted on its grounds
Manner of play


Tennis is played on a rectangular, flat surface, usually grass, clay, or a hardcourt of concrete and/or asphalt. The court is 78 feet (23.77 m) long, and its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 36 ft (10.97 m) for doubles matches. Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts and 3 feet (91.4 cm) high in the center.
Lines
The lines that delineate the width of the court are called the baseline (furthest back) and the service line (middle of the court). The short mark in the center of each baseline is referred to as either the hash mark or the center mark. The outermost lines that make up the length are both called the doubles sideline. These are the boundaries used when doubles is being played. The area between the doubles sideline and the lines next to them is called the doubles alley, which is considered playable in doubles play. These lines next to the doubles sideline are the singles sidelines, and used as boundaries in singles play. The line that runs across the center of a player's side of the court is called the service line because the serve must be delivered into the area between the service line and the net on the receiving side. Despite its name, this is not where a player legally stands when making a serve. The line dividing the service line in two is called the center line or center service line. The boxes this center line creates are called the service boxes; depending on a player's position, he will have to hit the ball into one of these when serving. A ball is out only if none of it has hit the line upon its first bounce. All the lines are required to be 2 inches (51 mm) in width. The baseline can be up to 5 inches (130 mm) wide if so desired.

My family!!!!

My family is small 4 people are my mother, my father, my younger sister and my.
I departed from my father 5 aunt and each is married and have their child, my mom departe d 4 aunt and I are married and each have their children, some of my cousins live outside the city in Caracas and a few others in the United States

Day of the Journalist, thousands of Venezuelans march united in a single outcry: Freedom!

The 27 of June of 1818, when the Mail of the Orinoco was published for the first time, ran by the national territory freedom airs, brought of the hand of seasoned and emancipatory Bolivar. In honor to that date, the Day of the Journalist is commemorated, a professional who by the nature of the exercise of his profession is a universal fighter by a righter world, plural and frees.

Today, 189 years later, this 27 of June of 2007, other Venezuelans integrated by students, journalists, intellectuals, artists, mothers of family, representatives of unions and professionals, among others citizen, have been sent to the streets, of pacific way but it signs, demanding respect by the fundamental rights of freedom, justice and democracy. And it never is behind schedule when the cause is right.

President Hugo Chavez, has eight long years cornering to all citizen or institution that “he has dared” to dissent of his aims. Their “targets” are of ample phantom: political parties, educative institutions, professional and enterprise unions, unions, Churches, companies, and by mainly, mass media, workers of the press, signallers and journalists. In these eight years the freedom balance is negative for the country: Several workers of the communication have been assassinated. In the jails there are prisoners to think and hundreds of journalists confront judgments in slanted courts. The radioelectric space of RCTV was confiscated. And while means survive folds the official jaw, on others the explicit threat of the President hangs to close them if they do not submit to the regime.

In his scaling to limit the citizen liberties and rights the agent chief executive uses of grotesque way the electrical phantom radio to his free will and arbitrarily he imposes interminable “chains” with obligatory transmissions on national scale, except for the abundant obligatory transmissions of official propaganda. Another perverse mechanism of pressure is the obstruction, and even impediment, to independent mass media to the access to the sources of intelligence of the public sector, soon to label them as parcializados to omit “truthful and opportune” information.

The Government has managed to criminalize the divergent opinion and the objective and impartial information. On the one hand, the reform of the Penal Code in 2005, turned into crime the minimum insult to the President, who is punished with prison sentence of six to 30 months, without right to guarantee. And even, the disrespect to civil servants of smaller rank grieves. On the other hand, with the Law Jaw, the content, the messages, the structure and schedule of the programming of all the radioelectric means was affected. Apart from which this law, like so many others by this Government, takes implicit measures that oppose with the private property and the economic freedom. And even though the same have still not been applied in all their rigor, they are there like Sword of Damocles, seized and to the delay to dominate discretionarily to whatever it differs of the regime. Today - yesterday, Day of the Journalist, thousands of Venezuelans march united in a single outcry: Freedom!

International day against the use and drug traffic

The 26 of June are celebrated the international Day against the use and drug traffic. From very remote times, the human being discovered natural substances that they were useful in medical subjects, being also used with ceremonial and social reasons, since they altered, and alter, the sensorial perception of consumes that them.

To much it began them people to use by the pleasure to undergo sensations other people's to the normal ones; unfortunately, the drugs only cause to please at the outset, since later, with the habitual use, they bring about severe damages to the mental and physical health of consumes that them. By such reason one became necessary to prohibit them, to avoid that the people are damaged to themselves and to the others.

Before, the drugs were obtained from natural way, which made less injurious than at present, in which drugs by means of complicated chemical processes are elaborated turn that them into very dangerous

The consumption of drugs is derived from the serious social, political and economic problems of the humanity; much people, in her eagerness to escape of the oppression of the modern life, resort to drugs, doing still more burdens her situation. On the other hand, the great amounts of money that moves the drug trafficking have caused that the same authorities of the involved countries participate clandestinely in that dirty business.

It is important to avoid the drug consumption, already are drugs, cocaine, heroin, crack and many more. We cannot nor we must exclude from this list of injurious substances the tobacco and the alcohol, since although they are not prohibited, if they cause serious damages to consume those who them, getting to a great extent to affect much people who do not consume them.

It is very important to avoid the drug consumption, because these only cause to pain and suffering to the people. Please it remembers always: THE DRUGS DESTROY, I GAVE NOT DRUGS

My friend

Name: Luis Romero
Like: play video games and watch anime.
Dislike:wait for something
Dreams:be a director
Opinion: is a good class

Name: Rene Velasquez
Like: soccer and my team real madrid.
Dislike:brocoli and father in love
Dreams:play soccer professional in Venezuela
Opinion: is very important


Name: Yovanny Moreno.
Age: 23 yeard old.
Study engineering
Love: fish, chocolate, caraota.
Opinion : very important.

Name : Dariana.
Age:19 years old.
Study engineering
My favorite subjects is English
Im working at CUNIBE.
I love: dacing, chocolate, pizza
I hate: violence

Hi, there! My name’s Humberto Rincon but you can call me Humber. I’m from USA, originally. I live in Maracaibo, in La lago. I’m 20 years old and I study mass communication at URBE. My favotite subjects are Grafica and English. Iam level 3 S321

I love music, playing tennis, driving my car , studying English, talking on the phone with my friends, pizza, sushi, my family, my country and my girlfriends

I hate smoking, listening to techno, getting up early on the weekend, violence, war, injustice, and washing the dishes.

My dream is to travel around the world, to visit Chinese and Japan


About English, I love to learn new languages. I think English is very important. I listen to music and watch TV in English. It’s a good exercise. I also chat on the internet and have friends in many countries. I can write well, but I need to practice more. The most difficult for me is speaking. I need to practice more. I hope I can make a lot of friends and practice speaking in this class