COMPARATIVES and SUPERLATIVES: The New Halloween Costume.

Whoever said bigger equals badder hasn't seen this video. This time, the largest dog in the world became the biggest baby when he saw the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

This mother loves to trick her Great Dane every year on Halloween. Every year, she dresses up in a new Halloween costume and surprises Luke (named after Luke Skywalker). His reaction is usually a combination of fear, wonder and excitement.

DRESS UP = disfrazarse, vestirse elegante
COSTUME = disfraz, traje
WONDER = asombro

....................................................From:Viralnova, your stories delivered daily.

Superlatives in Real Life

(CNN) -- One stands as tall as a red British phone booth. The other is the height of six stacked cans of baked beans.

On Thursday, for the first time, the man with the tallest recorded height in the world and the shortest man in the world met at an event in London, where they posed for photos and stretched for an awkward handshake.

AWKARD = extraño, raro

HANDSHAKE = apretón de manos

The occasion was the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day, which celebrates record-setting achievements around the globe. The Guinness folks flew the two men, Sultan Kosen of Turkey and Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal, to London for the unique photo op.

ACHIEVEMENT = logro

Kosen, 31, is a part-time farmer who measures 8 feet, 3 inches tall and can reach a basketball hoop without jumping. He became the world's tallest living man in 2009, overtaking China's Xi Shun, who stood a mere 7 feet 9 inches.

Dangi, 74, is just 21½ inches tall and is the shortest adult human ever verified by Guinness World Records. A weaver who also helps look after buffaloes and cows in his remote village of Reemkholi, he weighs just 32 pounds.

"To be able to finally meet Chandra after all this time is amazing," Kosen said at the event. "Even though he is short and I am tall, we have had similar struggles throughout our lives, and when I look into Chandra's eyes, I can see he's a good man."

STRUGGLE = lucha, pelea

The Power of Love.

Lil’ Drac is a little orphaned short-tailed bat (murciélago de rabo corto). This little baby bat was very lucky as it got rescued by Weatherford, Texas Bat World Sanctuary. It is a no-profit organization dedicated towards the preservation of hundreds of bats.

Bat World Sanctuary offers rehabilitation and release programs and even lifelong sanctuary programs to non releasable bats. Bat population is in a rapid decline. More than half of the native bats of USA are endangered. Watch this man giving a loving care to this baby bat.

RELEASE PROGRAM = programa de puesta en libertad

LIFELONG = para toda la vida

BAT POPULATION = población de murciélagos

ENDAGERED = en peligro

................

II CONCURSO NEWLINK DE NARRACIÓN CORTA EN INGLÉS

Do you like writing stories?

Would you like to win a two-week course in Hull? Check this out!

Rules and conditions of the contest.

GO FOR IT!

ESO TRIVIA WINNERS

Who fought with a method based on courage, non-violence and truth? What was the major achievement of this spiritual leader? 

3º ESO: Elsa Vázquez Rodríguez
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Gandhi.
He got freedom for India, which was being oppressed by the British people with a political movement (a pacifist movement) called Satyagraha. So he is known for this, he's a role model and "The father of the Indian Nation".
I think he's an amazing person because he promoted disobedience without violence and that is something hard to get.

4º ESO: Miguel Ángel González Diz

- That person was Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi). He used the courage, nonviolence and truth, which were the principles of his method of action was called Satyagrana. 

- His major achievement was leading the campaign for Indian Independence from Britain. He became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement at the age of 15, and he used the principles of Satyagrana to get the Independence.

......................................WELL DONE!  you've got an extra 0'25 in your term grades

CNN World: Spanish nurse's assistant leaves hospital after beating Ebola

(CNN) -- A Spanish nurse's assistant who left the hospital Wednesday after beating Ebola said she was still weak but gave thanks to God and the health workers who cared for her that she was still alive.

Looking frail but happy, Teresa Romero Ramos was greeted by cheers as she spoke to journalists, flanked by her husband, Javier Limon.

FRAIL= frágil

Romero, who described her recovery as a "miracle" from God, said she was ready to do whatever she could to help others infected with Ebola.

And she indicated that she still doesn't know how she contracted the virus.

"I don't know what went wrong. I don't even know if anything went wrong. All I know is that I hold no resentment, but if getting this disease serves a purpose to anyone, to better study the disease, to help find a cure, or if my blood helps cure another person, then here I am."

RESENTMENT = resentimiento

She added that she was "willing to try, even if it means risking my life."

Romero spent 30 days at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the same hospital where she contracted the illness while helping to care for an infected missionary who had been brought back from West Africa.

She praised the care she received while there.

PRAISE = alabar