Vacations

Hi, Alexa!
How´s your life going? Mine is going great; actually, I´m in Italy. It´s so gorgeous! This island has a very fresh weather in this time of the year. I´m staying in a winery and I have learned a lot of things! It´s amazing all they have to do to make a grat wine. Lately, I´ve done a lot of horse ridding and sightseeing. And the food! It´s so delicious! I have eaten everything you can imagine: pizza, spaguetti, all kinds of pasta, fish, bread, cheese, more pizza! I´m having such a great time here. You should come once. Tell me more about you, how have you been?
Your friend, Glenda.

Swiss superstitions

Some superstitions about Switzerland are:

• You must melt lead and put water on Christmas Eve to predict the future.
• A pregnant woman should go against arrodilarse stable and respect for the child Jesus before going to Mass.
• At Christmas housewives must hide her sewing machine , because they bring bad luck.

Typical food in Switzerland

Swiss cuisine combines influences from the German, French and North Italian cuisine. However, it varies greatly from region to region with the language divisions constituting a rough boundary outline. Some typical dishes and foods are:

Cheese fondue          

Melted cheese with bread cubes. The bread cubes are picked up on the fork and swivelled in the melted cheese, which is served in a traditional ceramic fondue pot called ‘caquelon’. 

Raclette

Melted cheese served with "Gschwellti" (jacket potatoes), cocktail gherkins and onions as well as pickled fruit. 

Älplermagronen

A kind of gratin with potatoes, macaroni, cheese, cream and onions. And most importantly, stewed apple on the side. 

Rösti

A flat, hot cake made of grated, cooked jacket or raw potatoes and fried in hot butter or fat. The dish is bound by nothing apart from the starch contained in the potatoes.

Birchermüesli

Developed around about 1900 by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Brenner, it contains oat flakes, lemon juice, condensed milk, grated apples, hazelnuts or almonds.

Swiss chocolate

Chocolate came to Europe in the course of the 16th century, by the 17th century at the very latest it became known and was produced in Switzerland as well. In the second half of the 19th century Swiss chocolate started to gain a reputation abroad. The invention of milk chocolate by Daniel Peter as well as the development of conching (fondant chocolate) by Rodolphe Lindt were closely connected with the rise of Swiss chocolate's renown. But Switzerland not only exported chocolate, its chocolatiers went abroad as well and their names remain well-known to this day.

Swiss cheese

One could quite easily explore Switzerland travelling from cheese dairy to cheese dairy. Each area of the country, each region has its own types of cheese – the diversity of products created from one single base ingredient – good Swiss milk – is quite astonishing! Such as, for example, the soft and melting Vacherin cheese. The aromatic Appenzeller. The full-flavoured Sbrinz. The Emmentaler, famous for its big holes. The world-famous Gruyère. Or the Tête de Moine which is shaved into decorative rosettes. All of these – and their round about 450 other cheese siblings – make a fondue, a raclette, an «afternoon snack platter» a culinary experience. By the way, the stalls of farmers and cheese merchants at the weekly markets are a true treasure trove. Many of the cheeses sold there come straight from the Alpine pastures and are cut from the wheel. The many demonstration cheese dairies and Alpine cheese cellars are also well worth a visit.

What you need to travel to Switzerland

Here are some things that you´ll probably need if you are planning to travel to Switzerland:

Practice some basics of the language that predominates on the region of Switzerland you´re visiting, it could be french, italian, german or english.

If you are planning to travel on winter be prepared with lots of warm clothes, the weather is very cold so you must take with you sweaters, jackets, globes, etc.

If you are planning a visit on summer then take normal clothes, the weather won’t be hot and it won’t be too cold.

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In case you are going to ski, you must be prepared with a skiing set.

Chains or winter tires

Change your money to Swiss francs.

A passport and maybe you´ll need Schengen visa.

Personal things

Self-care articles

3.10 Write an email suggesting ways to help Jeff.

Dear Jeff, I think that schools make their students think about the environment. Here are some ideas you can use. You could use public transportation, this way less cars will be used. you can recycle old newspapers and plastic, then there won´t be to much garbage. You can plant trees so there is more clean air. Hope my sugfestions help. Glenda.

3.9 Write about how to ride your bike safely.

1) Never ride against the trafic. 2) Don´t ride near trucks or cars. 3) Wear always a helmet or something to protect yourself. 4) If you can, wear bright colors. 5) Be careful with people opening their car door or blasting a horn.

3.8 Gather signs and say what they mean and where you can see them.

This is a fire sign. you can find it almost everywhere.

This is a first aid sign. You can find in schools, restaurants, almost every building.

This a construction sign. You can find in places where men are working in a building.

This a warning sign. You can find in the city, in places that are dangerous.

This is a bathroom sign. It points where is a bathroom.