BASEBALL IN THE USA

Baseball is a sport played between two teams of nine players each. It is a very famous sport in North America. The goal is to score runs by hitting a ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a square, or diamond.

Players on one team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. the teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

In North America, teams are divided into the National League and the American League. Each league has three divisions. East, West and Central.

HOW CAN I GO TO...?

If you visit a city, a town or a village you should know ask for some directions, such as a supermarket, the bank, the post offce, etc. And for that you must know several words: turn right, turn left, go straight, stop, take the first on the right,...

For example: if you go to Madrid and you want to go to the Royal Palace or the Wax Museum you´d ask: "Could you tell me how to get to the Royal Palace, please?" And depending on where you are they will answer: "you must go straight ahead, trun left and take the second one on the right. The Royal Palace is opposite the Newsagent´s"

To go to the Wax Museum if you are near the stadium you will go straight ahead, turn right and take the second on the left. The Wax Museum is very nice!!!

CHILDREN IN THE WORLD.

There are a lot of countries in the world and there are millions of people living in it. There are children in america, in Asia; in Australia, in Europe; they have different hair, eyes, languages, cultures, etc. But finally all of them are children; and this is the important things.

Nunyat lives in Africa. He is eight years old. He is very handsome. He hasn´t got long hair, he hasnt got green eyes, he hasn´t got moustache but he has got dark and curly hair. He has got black eyes and he has got white teeth. He is very kind and he likes playing with his friends although they haven´t got too many toys.

He is a child, like Ashar, like Anna, like John, like you, like me!!

JAPANESE TRADITIONAL CLOTHES

Each country has got its own culture, traditions, food and, of course, its own traditional clothes. In Japan many people wear clothes like in Europe: t-shirts, skirts, jeans, trousers, jumpers, scarfs, boots, shirts...

But people wear traditional clothes in Special Days such as weddings, parties, festivals, etc. Their traditional clothes are really different from those of Europe.

Women wear kimonos; the kimonos have got a belt. You can find kimonos of many colours, from yellow to green, black, white, orange or blue. They are very attractive and colourful.

They also wear "geta", a kind of sandals made of wood.

Men wear black clothes which are quite interesting but not like women´s. They wear sandals.

We like Japanese clothes.

AN ITALIAN RECIPE

I like cooking; and I like tasting many different dishes from many countries in the world. In Italy there are many different recipes but the most typical are pasta and pizza.

If you want to know how to cook Neapolitan pizza take note:

You will need dough, oil, tomato sauce, oregano, cheese, olives and anchovies.

Put the tomato sauce on the dough and add the cheese and the oregano; then put the anchovies and the olives and bake it for twenty-five minutes.

It will be delicious and as you can see it is really easy to cook.