Why do we feel better about having our money in a bank than we do having it under a mattress? Is it just because they pay interest on some of our account? Is it because we know that if we have the cash in our pockets, we'll spend it? Or, is it simply because we prefer to write checks and use credit cards rather than carry cash? Any and all of these may be the answer. Now, we don't even have to write a check; we can just present a credit card or, in some countries, click the "pay" button on the bant's Web site.

Banks are useful to our economy. The first function of banks is to make money «move» by lending it toothers who can then use it to buy homes, bisinesses, snd kids to college and do other things.

When you deposit your money in the bank, your money goes into a big pool along with everyone else’s, and your account is credited with the amount is deducted from your account balance. The interest you earn on your balance is also added to your account.

Banking is all about trust. We trust. We trust the bank because i twill have aur money for us when we go to get it. Besides, it will honour the checks we write to pay our bills. The thing that’s hard to grasp is while people are putting money into the bank every day, the bank is lending that same money and more to other people every day. That’s little scary. But if you go to the bank and demand your money, you’ll get it. however ? If everyone goes to the bank at the sametime and demands their money, there might be a problem.

 

 

What's a Bank?

Transport in London

 In London, there are different means of transport.

The red buses are an important public means of transport. A lot of poeple usa them to go to work or travel around the capital. The double deckers (see photo) are very popular and poeple who visit the city use them to go on tours and see many interesting places. They are also cheap.

 Another maens of public transport is the underground. It isn’t very expensive. It is very fast and people who use it are never late for work.

 But thy are expensive and slow.

Marrakesh

 It’s a wonderful city,Seductive and full of life. Tere are many tourists from diffirent continents, Europe, Asia, America, Australlia and Africa. People speak English every where ; in hotels, in the shops, in restaurants and in the streets. The Marrakshis are nice, helpful, social and hospitable.

 You can also tour the city in a nice, comfortable green coach drawn by three horses.

 You can visit a lot of place for example La koutoubia, Bahia place, El Manara, Al Monsour Mosque, … etc

 And of cours Jamaà El Fna. Everybody who visits Marrakesh visits this fabuluos place. It’s tellers, local and regional folklore.etc

 There are so many things to see.

 

Big chages  in  technology

The new centurywill bring big changes in communication. Cell phones may become smaller and smaller. Even now, videophones let you see the person you are talking to. Tiny hand size computers may become very popular. The Internet and E-mail will be everywhere.  

Also in the near futur, small wireless boxes will probably be able to pick up informaition from satellites. In 5 years time, computers may not need to be connected through wires. In 20 years time, you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it. This will good for remot rural areas and countries that don’t have telephone lines or electricity.

 If people us E-mail and the  Internet more, it could writers. The reason for communication is to make people understand each other better. Is technology going make that easier?

Some day, everything may be connected to the Internet. Your refrigerator will add mik to your Internet grocery list when the date on the carton has expired. Light bulbs will be ordered before they burn out.

It’s fun to try to guess the future. But preditions are usually wrong. The one thing we know for sure is that we can’t imagine how technology will change.

Moroccan dishes

  Here is a recipe for a popular soup people usually cook in Essaouira.

1-Ingredients.

 You need one onione, one carrot, one leek, one potato, and some celery sticks. You also need: 25g butter, 25g flour, 1 vegetable stock cube, and 500 ml boiling water, a chopping board, a knife, a vegetable peeler and a saucepan.

2-Preparation.

 To prepare the soup, you peel and chop the onion. You cut the top and bottom off the carrot, then you peel it and cuti t into small pieces.

3-Method.

 Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry all the vegetables, excet the potatoes, for 5 minutes. Mix in the fiour and cook for 2 minutes. Dissove the stock cube in the boiling water. Add the water to the saucepan and add the potatoes for 30 minutes and serve.

Titanic

James Carmeron’s Titanic quickly became the most expensive movie. Costing over 200 million dollars. Who’s going to pay to see a 194 minute historical romance with a known ending and no stars?

 At the box office, Titanic made over 25 million dollars and lasted on screens for up to seven weeks.

 It’s a love story. Loenardo Dicaprio plays a poor boy who wins a ticket aboard the Titanic in a game of poker. Kate Winslet plays an unhappy member of a rich family who is bored by social rules. She runs into Dicaprio and then begins a romance as grand and glorious as the Titanic itself. But there’s Billy Zane, Wenslet’s cold family member, and Wenslet’s mother, extremely afraid of losing her social status. The two main characters, they are both deeply human.

 The special effects are amazing, and they help the story and its characters. That’s how movies should be. Films should be about their characters, not about their special effects or action sequences.

 The tragic sinking, when it comes, is brutal and frightening. It’s also very well constructed. And how brutal ! The many people who die when the Titanic sinks look real.



food for thought

Kenyan foob

People in rich counties often eat too many calories. too much animal fat, and many sweet thangs. They eat too littlefibre. In poor countries, diets are too low in calories, animal products, vitamins and minerals. But these diets are usually high in cereals.

The effects of these diets vary from country to country. The Japanese now live longer: more  than 74 years for men and 80 years for women.

Japanese food

british food 

Heart disease is not very common in Japan. About 27% of people die of heart disease in many european contries, compared to fewer than 7% of the japanese. The Japanese diet is a healthy one because it is low  in  animal fats and includes many vegetables and fish. They eat twice as many vegetables as the british.

kenyan food     

Vegetables have a soluble fibre which helps  to lower cholesterol. It also lowers the risk of heart disease, cancer and ulcers. Another advantage is that the Japanese eat a lot of seafood. each Japanese person eats about 89 g of seafood everyday.