Mónico Sánchez, an inspiration for us all!!! Mónico, The Spanish Tesla !!!

Mónico Sánchez , the innovator, hard worker and an example to live by!

Mónico Sánchez: 

X-RAY Pioneer

Mobile Phone first Inventor for the Collins Wireless Telephone Company

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English student

Self-taught student in the 19th century

Mónico Sánchez was born on a day like today, May 4th 1881, (Piedrabuena (Spain). He was radiology and electrotherapy pioneer who worked in New York for The Collins Wireless Telephone between 1909 and 1910. He invented a High Frequency and X-Ray Apparatus. The Collins Co. and his merged The Continental Wireless and Telegraph, Co. was involved in a worthless stocks sell campaign and many others. It describes the Collins' wireless phone, the sell campaign and the troubles with the law. Only Marconi's company survived. Sánchez returned to Spain to found the Laboratorio Electrico Sánchez with a great success.

Believe it or not, we have here at the Sagasta, a real High Frequency and X-Ray Apparatus. You can check it out at the exhibition cases on the first floor.  Don´t miss it!!!

If you think the mobile phone is an American/Asian invention.... Think twice!

The first mobile phone ever!

You can search for more information about the Electrotherapy museum .

Advertising

Advertising jargon!

FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996- causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths- and the improbable group of people  who decided to fight back!

A book review

Please visit the following websites for useful tips on book review writing.
A Book Review (Tim Warre).
Writing Book Reviews (Indiana University).

Below you will find an example of a book review. You can also use it to revise vocabulary related to diseases and health.
Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive (The Guardian).

Remember to bring your assignments on Friday (you will have to finish watching The World's End at home!).

Time clauses

Remember to do the exercises at the end of the document.

Future tenses

This is the prezi that we couldn't see this morning due to technical difficulties.
Check the examples and let me know if you have any questions. Remember that you can zoom in with the mouse to enlarge the images.

PAU_La Rioja_2012 July English exam

Homework:

http://www.unirioja.es/estudiantes/acceso_admision/PAU/Pau_bachiller/Examenes/julio2012/Ingles.pdf