David Guetta

The world's Number One DJ

French dance music was not a major export unit David Guetta appeared. Meet the superstar DJ who's making the world dance!

David Guetta always wanted to mix music. At age 13, the French teenger mixed his first albums at home, and at 14 he started organizing parties in his home. He thought: "I want to be a DJ - I don't need to be good at Maths!" On 1984, at only age 17, David got a job as a DJ in a club in Paris. He soon got a reputation for being a good DJ with a talent for mixing music.

Friends...

Today, David's club night in Ibiza is famous around the world. He goes there on his private jet and stays in his luxury villa: it's the sort of place you see in a James Bond film. That is because David is now superstar DJ: he plays dance festivals to 80,000 fans, earns more than 3 million euros a year and makes albums featuring stars like Rihanna and Flo Rida.

The Titanic

"100 years after the Titanic tragedy, the world's most famous ship* still fascinates us. This April, discover the legend in the new 3D version of James Cameron's film Titanic".

Titanic, the 1997 film by James Cameron, is out in 3D. The story is about Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet), two passengers from different social classes who meet on the Titanic's first voyage. Rose is a first-class passenger and she shouldn't speak to Jack, who is in third-class. But then they fall* in love. It's an emotional film with a tragic ending*.

Help!

Ship* : Vaixell
Fall* : Enamorar
Ending* : Final

Music

 BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley is a legend around the world. But it was a long journey from the poverty of Jamaica to international success. When he was a boy in the 1959s, Jamaica was still a British colony. It became independent in 1962. The culture was a mix of African traditions and British customs, but there were few opportunities for AfroJamaicans. One of them was music!

Cinema

HUGO

Hugo Cabret is an orphan boy who repair clocks in a Paris train station in 1930. He meets a firl and she helps him repair a broken robot. Then Hugo and his friend go on a magical adventure...

Music

James Blunt

When people think of English singer James Blunt, they probably think of the sad song "You're Beautiful". James, age 36, makes acoustic-pop, rock and folk. Now he has a new album called Some Kind of Trouble. It is James' third album, and it's more optimistic than his others. "Now I don't write sad songs about poor old me", he says.

Music

Jessie J

English singer Jessie J has had a great few months. Her debut album, Who Are You, has been a big hit. It has the singles "Do It Like a Dude", "Price Tag" and "Nobody's Perfect". Jessie, age 23, sings pop, soul and R&B, but she became fomuos as a songwriter for Miley Cyrus.

Music

Pitbull

Pitbull is a Cuban-American rapper and performer who sings in English and Spanish. In his 2011album Planet Pit, he sang with T-Pain and Ne-Yo. He also sang with Jennifer Lopez on her single "On the Floor". It's good to have famous friends.

CINEMA

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

On Stranger Tides 
Johnny Depp is back as the world's favourite pirate, Jack Sparrow. In the fourth Pirates film, Jack meets Angelica, a woman from his past, played by Penelope Cruz. He is not sure if she loves him or if she wants to find the Fountain* of Youth. When Angelica takes Jack onto pirate Blackbeard's ship*, Jack goes on another adventure. But who should he fear*: Blackbeard or Angelica?


Vocabulary:

Fountain: Font
Ship: Enviar
Fear: Por

MUSIC

ADELE

English singer Adele has a fantastic voice*. Her 2011 album, 21, was an international Number One, and her single "Rolling in the Deep" was a big hit too. Adela has won* lots of awards and she is only 22 years old. She started singing aged four and discovered the famous American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald when she was a teenager. Soon, Adele will be as* famous as her idol!

Vocabulary:

Voice: Veu
Won: Bestiar
Be as: Ser tan

MUSIC

CODY SIMPSON

Could this be the new Justin Bieber? Some people think so! 14-year-old Cody Simpson from Australia started recording* songs in his bedroom in 2009. He put some songs on YouTube and was discovered by a record* producer. His album 4U was Number Four in the USA. Not bad, Cody!

VOCABULARY:

Recording: Gravació

Record: Registre

MUSIC

  ONE DIRECTION

One Direction are a British-Irish boy-band who have become starts in the UK. The public discovered One Direction on the British talent show, The X Factor. They didn't win but their songs have been top of the charts*. Watch the music videos of songs from their album Up All Night on: youtube.com/OneDirectionVEVO

VOCABULARY*: 

Charts*: Llistes d'éxit.

NEW YORK Ten years after the tragedy

On 11 September 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York were destroyed in a terrorist attack. Four young people from the USA, the UK and France remember that terrible day...

Lyle, age 25, Memphis, USA.

"I was 15 on the day pf the attack. I was at school, and saw rhe second plane* hit the Twin Tower live* on TV. We didn't feel* the trauma in the same way as the people of New York, but we were angry. I also felt* scared*. My country was under attack and I thought I was going to see armies* in the streets".

Olivia, age 25, France.

"I was 15 on the day of the attack. I watched it on TV in France. Cameras were doing close-ups* on the people who were jumping* from the Twin Towers. I felt* shocked and sad when I understood what had happend. But I wasn't worried* about France. They cleared* the Montparnasse Tower because it's the highest* point in Paris. It didn't seem safe*".

THE ATTACKS

On September 11, four planes* were hijacked* by terrorist. Two crashed* into the Word Trade Center in New York, one hit the Pentagon and another crashed in Pennsylvania. 2,996 people died in the country's worst terrorist attack in history.

VOCABULARY*:

Plane - Avió

Live - En directe

Feel - Sentirse

Felt - Sentirse

Scared - Asustat

Armies - Ejercit

Close-ups - Primer pla

Jumping - Saltar

Worried - Preocupat

Cleared - Desalotjar

Highest - Més alt

Safe - Segur

Hijacked - Secuastrat

Crashed - Estrallarse