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Donald Trump warns that US "Will solve" the nuclear problem of Nort Korea"with or withoutChina"

US President Donald Trump warned that the United States will "solve" the North Korean nuclear threat "with or without the help of China."

"If China does not solve North Korea, we will. That's all I tell you," he said in an interview with the British newspaper The Financial Times published Monday.

Asked if he thought he could succeed alone, he replied, "Totally."

North Korea launches a ballistic missile to the waters of Japan

Trump made the remarks just before a scheduled visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the US.

"China has a strong influence over North Korea, and it can decide whether to help us with North Korea or not. If they do, it will be very good for China, and if they do not, it will not be good for any," Trump told Financial Times.

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Trump's brief comments, issued a few days before the key meeting with Xi at Trump's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida scheduled for Thursday, are the latest in a series of warnings about North Korea's nuclear development.

Absolute Location - Cross curricular Focus History/Social Sciences

 Navigators use lines of latitude and lines of longitude to locate places. Lines of latitude run east and west around Earth. On a map or globe, these lines appear as running sideways or horizontally. Lines of longitude run north and south around Earth. These lines go up and down or vertically on a map or globe. These lines create an imaginary graph paper on the Earth. They make it possible to fi nd an absolute, or exact, location on Earth. They even allow us to give an absolute location to a place out in the middle of the ocean. Lines of latitude tell us how far north or south of the Equator we are. Sailors have used primitive navigation tools, like astrolabes, since ancient times.

 

The astrolabe uses the sun and stars to fi nd an approximate location. Using such tools, they have been able to approximate their distance from the equator. Although their instruments may not have been the high quality we have now, they were incredibly accurate for their time. Lines of longitude tell us how far east or west of the prime meridian we are. Sailors constantly looked for new ways to increase their navigation skills. Still, it wasn’t until the 18th century they were able to measure degrees of longitude. They would have been very envious of the technology available to us today. 

Questions

1) What is the function of lines of latitude and longitude? 

R= To allow us to fi nd an absolute location of a point on Earth

2) Which imaginary lines run north and south?  

R= Longitude

3) Which imaginary lines are based on the Equator? 

R=Latitude

4) Explain what is meant by an absolute location.

R=It is an address of longitude and latitude of a place on Earth

5) In your opinion, which invention was more important: the astrolabe or the magnetic compass? Why?

R= Student´s choice  e places on Earth tod

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Study: Moon Is 4.51 Billion Years Old

For almost as long as people have walked on Earth, they have looked up at the moon and wondered: How did the moon get there? How long has it been there?Scientists have studied these questions. And now, a group of researchers from California have an answer. Based on their studies, they think the moon is 4.51 billion years old. For years, researchers have been studying the many rocks American astronauts brought back from the moon between 1969 and 1972. The early rock studies led many scientists to think the moon was formed long ago -- about 4.3 billion years ago.

Scientists believe the moon was created when a huge rocky object about the size of Mars struck a very young Earth.  Then some of the pieces from that violent crash came together in space to form the moon. But that estimated age, 4.3 billion years, created a problem for scientists.

 That is because it does not leave much time for life to get started and develop on planet Earth. Melanie Barboni is a researcher in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). "Here at UCLA, there has been this study that has found that life could have appeared as early as 4.1 billion years old. So now if you believe the giant impact occurred at 4.3, it doesn't leave you a long time between the impact and basically the Earth being half destroyed and then the Earth acquiring all the conditions you need for life."

Future Will & Future Going To

Will future expresses a spontaneous decision, an assumption with regard to the future or an action in the future that cannot be influenced.

Form of will Future

	positive	negative	question
no differences	I will speak.	I will not speak.	Will I speak?

Use of will Future

• a spontaneous decision
  example: Wait, I will help you.
• an opinion, hope, uncertainty or assumption regarding the future
  example: He will probably come back tomorrow.
• a promise
  example: I will not watch TV tonight.
• an action in the future that cannot be influenced
  example: It will rain tomorrow.
• conditional clauses type I
  example: If I arrive late, I will call you.

Going to future expresses a conclusion regarding the immediate future or an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared.

Form of going to Future

	positive	negative	question
I	I am going to speak.	I am not going to speak.	Am I going to speak?
you / we / they	You are going to speak.	You are not going to speak.	Are you going to speak?
he / she / it	He is going to speak.	He is not going to speak.	Is he going to speak?

Use of going to Future

• an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared
  example: I am going to study harder next year.
• a conclusion regarding the immediate future
  example: The sky is absolutely dark. It is going to rain.

Present Perfect-Present Perfect Continuo

Barack Obama 

Obama did not have a relationship with his father. When his son was still an infant, Obama Sr. relocated to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University and pursue a Ph.D. Obama's parents officially separated several months later and ultimately divorced in March 1964, when their son was two. Soon after, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya.

In 1965, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a University of Hawaii student from Indonesia. A year later, the family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in 1970. Several incidents in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's safety and education so, at the age of 10, Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. His mother and half-sister later joined them.He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979.

Present perfect

-A Girl Like You-
I've never known a girl like you before
Now just like in a song from days of yore
Here you come a-knockin', knockin' on my door
And I've never met a girl like you before
You give me just a taste, so I want more
Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw
'Cause now you've got me
Crawlin' crawlin' on the floor
And I've never known a girl like you before
You've made me acknowledge the devil in me
I hope to God I'm talkin' metaphorically
I hope that I'm talkin' allegorically
Know that I'm talkin' about the way I feel
And I've never known a girl like you before
Never, never, never, never
Never known a girl like you before
This old town's changed so much
Don't feel that I belong
Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs
And now you've come along, yes, you've come along
And I never met a girl like you before
Yeah, it's all right
Yeah, it's all right

Present Perfect

The present perfect tense serves to express an action that happened in a moment of the past, or that was repeated many times in the past, or an action that began in the past and continues to the present. To form the perfect present is written have or has according to the subject and the main verb in participle. The participle of regular verbs is formed with the ending -ed:


1-. I have worked

2-.How many times have you been to Tokyo?

3-.She has learned to speak Russian. 

4-.Stacy has become very successful. 

5-.How has she done it?

6-.They have never eaten there before.

7-.You have changed so much! 

8-.I haven't changed one bit.