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Hello, I'm Carla and now I explain Supermarkets..

First I'm going to talk about the supermarkets in London, second I'm going to talk about the supermarkets in Banyoles.

Let's start!

Supermarkets are an important part of daily life in Britain.

The five biggest supermarkets sell 80% of all groceries food and drink.

Tesco and Asda are the big supermarkets.

In the larger supermarkets you can buy foods, drinks, sports equipament, bicycles, books, toys, games, CD's, DVD's and petrol (car).

Many supermarkets are open 24 houus a day and seven days a week, so people can shop 24/7. But not on Sundays when shops can only open for five hours.

Now there are more supermarkets than 20 years ago in London.

How about shopping online?

It's even more convenient to shop from home. A lot of people now use online shopping.

In Banyoles today we do these with Caprabo, but people dont' usually go shopping Online, in Banyoles most people prefer small shops.

Small shops in towns and villages are closing because supermarkets can sell the same things cheaper...

Computers

Computers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us about delays to transport.
They drive trains, analyses evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60% of homes in Britain have got a PC (a personal computer)?

The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and switch on lights ready for you to come back home.

Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. The smart home will provide TV and Internet sockets in every room so you'll be able to do what you want wherever you want.

Are computers taking over our lives? In a survey, 44 % of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Twenty % said they were happier at their computer than spending time with family or friends. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading e-mails that they no longer have time for conversation. What do you think about that?

BRITISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Some people have medical insurance but most people can't afford it and rely on the national Health Service, the NHS. This is provided by the governament in Britain.
The NHS has sent everybody in Britain a Self-Help Guide. This will help you diagnose what is wrong and find the best treatment. It covers things like headaches, coughs and colds, having a temperature or stomach ache. For many people it could be all they need.
You may need to go to the chemist to buy cough mixture or pills for a headche.

If you can't get to a doctor, there are two other NHS services you could try. The first is NHS Direct. This is a phone service where are trainded nurse will suggest the best way to treat you.
The NHS also provides Walk-in Centres in more than 60 locations in Britain.

For accidents or emergencies you should go to a hospital which has got a specific Accident and Emergencies departament.
Doctors and medical staff can cure lots of illnesses now using sugery and treatment with drugs.

But many people prefer alternative medecine. The best way to avoid getting ill is to have a healthy diet, get lots of exercise and take good care of yourself. You shouldn'tthen need to use the healthcare system at all!

Transport

Exploring Mars is going to be very exciting, but for now.
We're going to follow Freddie as he explores all the different kinds of transport in London.
He's a television researcher and he's going to find out about all the different ways of traveling in London. He starts out from his home on his bicycle.
His bike at the station and gets on a train. Trains travel into London from all over the country. They are very important for people who live in the subrubs or outside London and travel into London for work. 1.8 million people travel into the centre of London by train every day.

The next part of Freddie's journey is on another kind of train called the Docklands Light Railway .
For many people the journey by train takes them to a convenient Underground station. London Underground, usually called the Tube, was the first in the world when it opened in 1893.
The different kinds of transport link up pretty well but sometimes you have to walk from one point in the journey to the next.

People use lots of other froms of transport in London. Some people use boats on the River Thames to go to work. There is one kind of transport that isn't very good in London.
The buses and taxis travel more quickly because they have got special lanes on the road. Freddie's in a hurry now so he's taking a London taxi to a meeting.

Shipping in Britain

In England no town is more than 170 kilometres from the sea. So it's no surprise that Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.
The British Navy was the biggest navy in the world at one time. Now it's smaller, but many other ships are still used for importing and exporting goods and for taking people on business or holiday.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history. It's got several ships in the docks outside. In side it shows what it was like to be on some of the ships.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.
In the early twentieth century there were large numbers of very elegant passenger ships.
They crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool or Southampton to New York in five or six days.
The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1,500 people drowned. It was the worst disaster in maritime history. You probably know about if from one of the most expensive films ever made -Titanic!

One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York.
The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for moving goods.
These metal boxes, or cantainers, are packed with clothes, television sets, computers, furniture and toys.
The Southampton Container Terminal the unload more than one and a half milion containers each year.

British horror stories

People like to be scared. They love reading horror stories and watching horror movies. Some of the most famous horror stories were written by British writers. The first was published by Mary Shelly in 1818 - Frankenstein. Many films have featured Frankenstein over the years.

One of them put two great horror characters together when Frankenstein met Count Dracula. Dracula contra Frankenstein was made by the Spanish director Jesús Franco in 1970. Count Dracula was a vampire created in 1897 by the Irish writer Bram Stoker.
Since then Dracula has always been in print.

Bram Stoker got the idea for Dracula while he was sitting in Highgate Cemetery in North London. Sunlight fell on a crack in the lid of a tomb. Stoker wondered what would happen if the light woke up the dead body in the tomb. Count Dracula the vampire was created.
Dracula is so popular that visitors to London can go on a guided Dracula tour.
The tours usually take place just when it's getting dark ...

The bedroom window was wide open and moonlight was shining into the room. Mina was on the balcony and a dark shape was leaning over her. It was Count Dracula!
Dracula was holding Mina's face to a long cut on his chest. He was making her drink his blood!
The vampire turned his head. His eyes burned with a terrible red light. Blood was dripping form his red lips and long white teeth.

THE LAW

The most famous police station in Britain is New Scotland Yard in London, but there are police stations all over the country. They've all got a blue light outside to show they are police stations.

The custody room is on the police station. A suspected criminal is being charged with a crime. He must hand over everything he's carrying or has got in his pockets.
Next they take fingerprints to check the person's identity. This machine scans fingerprints electronically and compares them with the national police database. they also take mouth swabs for analysis of DNA.
Suspects can be kept in the cells at the police station for several hours.

Next day he went to cout. Here three magistrates listen to evidence from the police and witnesses. They then decide if the person is guilty or not guilty.

The evidence that the police collect from a crime scene is analyzed in laboratories like this.

Fingerprints are a good way of identifying people but DNA is more reliable. A person's identity can be found from a single hair! Each person has got a unique DNA profile. DNA profiles can be matched on these computers.
Forensic scientists provide the evidence that helps the courts decide whether a suspect is guily of a crime or not. The courts then decide on the sentence.