Questions for preparing Martin Luther King's text:
1. What rigths did black people have in the UThew werSA in the 1960's?
They didn't have any rights.
2. What was "segregation"?
Black and White people must be repartated in a lot of places: buses, beaches, churchs... and when a black person was found in a place for white people, he was arrested. In the train and buses black people must leave their seat to white people.
3. What did states as Georgia, Mississippi or Alabama have in common in the 1960's?
They were segregationit states.
4. Who were the "Piligrims"?
They were the irst english people who arrived in America.
5. What is a "spiritual"?
A spiritual is a song that sing black people in their religions congregations.
VOCABULARY:
Rooted: radical
Rise up: Aixecar
Creed: creença
Hold: aguantar
Swelter: acalorar
Heat: calor
Rough: aspre
Crooked: encurvat
Straight: en línia recta
Flesh: gènere humà
Despair: desesperança
Hope: esperança
Questions for preparing Barack Obama's text:
1. When did women get the right to vote in the United States?
Women get the right to vote in 1917.
2. What was the "New Deal"?
Is an slogan used by Roasvelt as a creed in electrons in 1932.
3. Paragraph 6 refers to "the bombs" fallin on "our harbor". Which bombs and which harbor is B. Obama referring to?
Japanese bombs in Pearlt harbor.
4. What was the "Montgomery bus boycott"?
Black people didn't catch buses because police had arrested a black woman who didn't want give her seat to a white man.
5. To know who the "preacher form Atlanta" was, check.
The Preacher from Atlanta was Martin Luther King.
6. When did the Berlin wall fall down?
The Berlin wall felt down in 1989.
7. What happened in the Edmund Pettus Bridge, outside Selma, in 1965?
It was here that rights marchers were vidently confronted by law enforcement on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.
8. To understand the reference to the Birmingham hoses, check:
The Birmingham hoses were used to protect themselves from firemen with hight pressure water hoses.
VOCABULARY:
Ballot: papereta de votar
Cast a ballot: tirar el seu vot
Slavery: esclavitud
Creed: creença
Despair: desesperança
Conquer: vencer
Witness: testimoni
Preacher: predicador
Sum up: recapitular/resumir
diumenge, 30 de novembre del 2008
dimecres, 19 de novembre del 2008
PIRATES.
This Wednesday, an official said that an Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden.
The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 525 kilometers southwest of Oman's Salalah port.
The Saudi owners of a hijacked oil supertanker carrying an oil cargo worth up to $100 million, which pirates Tuesday anchored off the Somali coast, said they were negotiating with its captors.
The ministry said that the pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel, with guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
On wednesday, it wasn't clear, that if the mother ship sank afther the naval fighting.
The assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau in London, said that they never seen a situation like this with the pirates.
On Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Thai fishing vessel and a Chinese-flagged Iranian cargo shio carrying wheat in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
Noel choong, said that 95 pirate attacks have taken place so far this year in the Gulf of Aden.
Of those 95, 39 resulted in successful captures; 17 of those vessels and their crews remain in the hands of the pirates (a total of about 300 sailors).
But the seizure of the 300.000-ton supertanker Sirius Star took place well sout of the gulf, in the Indian Ocean of Kenya.
Pirate attacks are spreading farther north to the Gulf of Aden and farther soutf of the Kenyan coast.
This notice is taken from this link.
The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 525 kilometers southwest of Oman's Salalah port.
The Saudi owners of a hijacked oil supertanker carrying an oil cargo worth up to $100 million, which pirates Tuesday anchored off the Somali coast, said they were negotiating with its captors.
The ministry said that the pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel, with guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
On wednesday, it wasn't clear, that if the mother ship sank afther the naval fighting.
The assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau in London, said that they never seen a situation like this with the pirates.
On Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Thai fishing vessel and a Chinese-flagged Iranian cargo shio carrying wheat in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
Noel choong, said that 95 pirate attacks have taken place so far this year in the Gulf of Aden.
Of those 95, 39 resulted in successful captures; 17 of those vessels and their crews remain in the hands of the pirates (a total of about 300 sailors).
But the seizure of the 300.000-ton supertanker Sirius Star took place well sout of the gulf, in the Indian Ocean of Kenya.
Pirate attacks are spreading farther north to the Gulf of Aden and farther soutf of the Kenyan coast.
This notice is taken from this link.
NEW VOCABULARY:
Hijacking: segrestador/segrest.
Skirmish: escaramussa.
Deck: coberta del vaixell.
Vessel: embarcació.
Topic:
First term.
dissabte, 15 de novembre del 2008
ORAL PRESENTATION.
TOPIC: HAPINESS.
Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, powerpoint.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes.
Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? Not most of the time, but yes.
4. Did you read from your notes? A little.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? A little.
Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? A little.
Content:
8. Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Yes.
9. Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books? Yes.
10. Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? A little of everything.
Language:
11. Did you use check your grammar? Yes.
12. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes.
13. Did you use sentence linkers? A little.
14. Did you use fillers? A little.
Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words? Yes.
Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Yes, all of them.
16. Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? The same tone all the time.
Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks and interruptions.
Self-Evaluation:
If I was the teacher, I would put a maximum of 6.
Write down a LITERAL TRNASCRIPTION of your presentation.
Hello, my name is Laura and I'm gonna want to speak about Hapiness. I'm the first of do the oral presentation so I'm a little nervous.
Well, I will start with the definition of happiness that it's my topic.
Hapiness is an emotion that express your feelings in a concret moment of your life with laughs and good moments.
We are sometimes happy because we like the world around us or we feel good with ourselves for example when we stay with our friends, when we pass a hard exam, when happens something that make us very satisfaid.
We can't be always in a permanent state of happiness or sadness. Our brain alows short moments of hapiness or sadness. He can't tolerate be happy or sadness forever.
As you can see in the graphic I think that it's incorrect because we can stay sad and two minutes later stat very happy... I'm not saying that it's impossible, but I don't believe in it.
I think that it's the best state of mind because you aren't happy but your aren't sad.
We can't live in a roller coaster of emotions, we need a medium state.
Usually happiness drives to the optimist. I think that it's better to be optimist than pessimist because you can look you life in another point of view and everything could be better.
If you think I can, I can, I can... you would can, and if you think I can't, I can't, I can't you would can't.
In the world, not all the countries have the same degree of happiness, as you can see in the map, the countries that have green and blue colors, are happiness than the others, like Australia, New Zeland, Canada, United States are more happiness than subdeveloped countries.
I think that the people that are from developed countries are happy because they mustn't worry about necessities like food or a place to sleep everynight.
I think that the money doesn't drive to the happines, but you feel better thinking that you mustn't worry about it.
I choose to talk about this topic because now we are in the one of the best periodes of our lives.
Because we don't have any preocupation, we must study, enjoy ourselves and be happy.
Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, powerpoint.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes.
Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? Not most of the time, but yes.
4. Did you read from your notes? A little.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? A little.
Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? A little.
Content:
8. Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Yes.
9. Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books? Yes.
10. Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? A little of everything.
Language:
11. Did you use check your grammar? Yes.
12. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes.
13. Did you use sentence linkers? A little.
14. Did you use fillers? A little.
Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words? Yes.
Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Yes, all of them.
16. Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? The same tone all the time.
Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks and interruptions.
Self-Evaluation:
If I was the teacher, I would put a maximum of 6.
Write down a LITERAL TRNASCRIPTION of your presentation.
Hello, my name is Laura and I'm gonna want to speak about Hapiness. I'm the first of do the oral presentation so I'm a little nervous.
Well, I will start with the definition of happiness that it's my topic.
Hapiness is an emotion that express your feelings in a concret moment of your life with laughs and good moments.
We are sometimes happy because we like the world around us or we feel good with ourselves for example when we stay with our friends, when we pass a hard exam, when happens something that make us very satisfaid.
We can't be always in a permanent state of happiness or sadness. Our brain alows short moments of hapiness or sadness. He can't tolerate be happy or sadness forever.
As you can see in the graphic I think that it's incorrect because we can stay sad and two minutes later stat very happy... I'm not saying that it's impossible, but I don't believe in it.
I think that it's the best state of mind because you aren't happy but your aren't sad.
We can't live in a roller coaster of emotions, we need a medium state.
Usually happiness drives to the optimist. I think that it's better to be optimist than pessimist because you can look you life in another point of view and everything could be better.
If you think I can, I can, I can... you would can, and if you think I can't, I can't, I can't you would can't.
In the world, not all the countries have the same degree of happiness, as you can see in the map, the countries that have green and blue colors, are happiness than the others, like Australia, New Zeland, Canada, United States are more happiness than subdeveloped countries.
I think that the people that are from developed countries are happy because they mustn't worry about necessities like food or a place to sleep everynight.
I think that the money doesn't drive to the happines, but you feel better thinking that you mustn't worry about it.
I choose to talk about this topic because now we are in the one of the best periodes of our lives.
Because we don't have any preocupation, we must study, enjoy ourselves and be happy.
Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?
In my next oral presentation I think that I must be more calm, and don't be nervous.
I must look more the people that are listening me, and use more sentence linkers, more fillers...
I think that if my oral presentation was more longer, it can be better.
I believe that these are the big mistakes in my oral presentation, so in the next, I will try to improve them in the maximum as I can.
Now, if you want, you can look my PowerPoint.
I must look more the people that are listening me, and use more sentence linkers, more fillers...
I think that if my oral presentation was more longer, it can be better.
I believe that these are the big mistakes in my oral presentation, so in the next, I will try to improve them in the maximum as I can.
Now, if you want, you can look my PowerPoint.
Topic:
First term.
dijous, 13 de novembre del 2008
HORROR STORY (CORRECTION).
Julia and Peter,they were a couple of Catalan people who went to New York for work. They spend two weeks searching a flat, but they didn't find anything. Meanwhile they stayed in a cheap hotel in the suburbs of New York, when their work was in the middle of the city.
One day, when the couple went to work, they saw in the newspaper an interesting advertising. A big flat in the centre of New York, in the most popular district, was offered for a very low price. They were surprised and they phoned to the state agent immediately.
They moved to the flat quickly, and they were very happy.
Everything began when thet went to sleep. During the night, they heard a little noise in their bedroom. the first weels, they didn't worryy about it. Every night, the sound was higher. Julia was afraid, but Peter laughed. One day, when Peter was having a shower, Julia wanted to discover the origin of the noise. She searched around the bedroom, and when she looked under the bed, she began to cry. Peter heard her, and when he wanted to went out of the bathroom, suddenly, the door was closed. He couldn't open it. Julia was crying a lot because she saw an awful elf playing with little glass balls. He looke her with eyes full of hate. she didn't stop crying, and the elf started running around and throwing the little glass balls to her. The elf put into the balls all of his hate, and they killed Julia. The elf returned under the bed and Pere could open the door. In the bedroom he saw Julia dead on the floor covered of blood.
One day, when the couple went to work, they saw in the newspaper an interesting advertising. A big flat in the centre of New York, in the most popular district, was offered for a very low price. They were surprised and they phoned to the state agent immediately.
They moved to the flat quickly, and they were very happy.
Everything began when thet went to sleep. During the night, they heard a little noise in their bedroom. the first weels, they didn't worryy about it. Every night, the sound was higher. Julia was afraid, but Peter laughed. One day, when Peter was having a shower, Julia wanted to discover the origin of the noise. She searched around the bedroom, and when she looked under the bed, she began to cry. Peter heard her, and when he wanted to went out of the bathroom, suddenly, the door was closed. He couldn't open it. Julia was crying a lot because she saw an awful elf playing with little glass balls. He looke her with eyes full of hate. she didn't stop crying, and the elf started running around and throwing the little glass balls to her. The elf put into the balls all of his hate, and they killed Julia. The elf returned under the bed and Pere could open the door. In the bedroom he saw Julia dead on the floor covered of blood.
- Words in red are those I've corrected.
Topic:
First term.
dissabte, 8 de novembre del 2008
THIRTEEN & ADRIAN MOLE.
About the life of the two teenagers, I think that Tracy, it's harder than Adrian Mole.
Tracy at the begining of the film, was a really good student, she had two friends, a normal friends, but later, she began to go with Evie, a false friend, because she was involved in drugs, smoke, alcohol... but Adrian, didn't change during the book. Adrian was a typical adolescent, with his problems in house, with his spots, with girlfriends... Adrian was an hypocondriac, a shy person who had bulling at school, trough the fault of Barry Kent, that hurt him.
Both have one common problem, the divorce of their parents.
Tracy, during the film suffered saveran changes, like passing of dressing as a 13-year-old girl to dress as one of 19, consuming drugs, smoking, and the worst thing: cutting herself. Tracy was anorexic.
I think that if Evie didn't appear in the Tracy's life, Tracy didn't change, because the only that Tracy wants, was be like Evie, a very beautiful girl that the boys were behind yours and have many boyfriends to choose, but the plan to being a popular girl, proved badly.
I don't know anybody who has gone through the same experiences, but if I'll see someone, I'll help him in everything that he need:)
I disagree with the sentence "If you're not that way, you're nothing", because someone can be a kind person even if he isn't a fashion victim.
I think that you don't have to do a thing that you never will do to be friend of another people, who in the end, will be harmful for you.
I don't think that Tracy is a fashion victim, I think that she does it to be a friend of Evie, like stole a purse and then bought a lot of clothes with her friends.
I think that Thirteen is a shocking film because see that a girl of thirteen years old is changing to bad, and it's starting to go with "bad" people, isn't very agreeable...
The most shocking of the film for me was when Tracy began to cut herself. I think that you must be very bad to do things like that.
Finally, I have liked both, the book and the film.
In comparision, I think that they are different points of view to see the adolescence. Thirteen it's harder than Adrian Mole, but both have problems of the adolescenthood.
Tracy at the begining of the film, was a really good student, she had two friends, a normal friends, but later, she began to go with Evie, a false friend, because she was involved in drugs, smoke, alcohol... but Adrian, didn't change during the book. Adrian was a typical adolescent, with his problems in house, with his spots, with girlfriends... Adrian was an hypocondriac, a shy person who had bulling at school, trough the fault of Barry Kent, that hurt him.
Both have one common problem, the divorce of their parents.
Tracy, during the film suffered saveran changes, like passing of dressing as a 13-year-old girl to dress as one of 19, consuming drugs, smoking, and the worst thing: cutting herself. Tracy was anorexic.
I think that if Evie didn't appear in the Tracy's life, Tracy didn't change, because the only that Tracy wants, was be like Evie, a very beautiful girl that the boys were behind yours and have many boyfriends to choose, but the plan to being a popular girl, proved badly.
I don't know anybody who has gone through the same experiences, but if I'll see someone, I'll help him in everything that he need:)
I disagree with the sentence "If you're not that way, you're nothing", because someone can be a kind person even if he isn't a fashion victim.
I think that you don't have to do a thing that you never will do to be friend of another people, who in the end, will be harmful for you.
I don't think that Tracy is a fashion victim, I think that she does it to be a friend of Evie, like stole a purse and then bought a lot of clothes with her friends.
I think that Thirteen is a shocking film because see that a girl of thirteen years old is changing to bad, and it's starting to go with "bad" people, isn't very agreeable...
The most shocking of the film for me was when Tracy began to cut herself. I think that you must be very bad to do things like that.
Finally, I have liked both, the book and the film.
In comparision, I think that they are different points of view to see the adolescence. Thirteen it's harder than Adrian Mole, but both have problems of the adolescenthood.
Topic:
First term.
divendres, 7 de novembre del 2008
ADRIAN MOLE.
Adrian Mole, is an hypochondriac adolescent.
He has many problems with his spots. He has a lot of spots, and he believes that it's for not eating vitamins.
In his spare time, he helps Bert Baxter, an old man.
Adrian is in love with Pandora, a new girl in his class. Time later, Pandora start to going out with Nigel, and Adrian is so angry, apart from that Nigel has a new bicycle, the same that Adrian wants.
His parents have a divorce. His mother go up with his neighbour, Mr.Lucas, and his father it's lonely, with he, in his house.
The father of Adrian losts his job, and they haven't any money to pay the telephone and light bills.
Adrian has problems in his school. There is a boy who hurts him; Barry Kent. He tells everything to his grandmother and his grandmother go to hurt him, and Barry Kent stops to hurt Adrian.
Nigel and Pandora have broken up, and Adrian is very happy.
His father starts to going out with Doren, who will be his girlfriend.
Adrian must go to the hospital, because he has tonsils, and he must remove it.
Adrian was a time going out with Pandora, but she wouldn't have sex with Adrian, and Adrian was worried.
Finally his parents going out again, because his mother says that Mr. Lucas treat her like a sex object, and Adrian is very happy.
Topic:
First term.
dilluns, 3 de novembre del 2008
E-MAIL.
Hi!
My name is Laura. Now I want to tell you my Summer.
This Summer I was working in my town, Sant Pere Pescador in a place where my family has always know called Mas Gusó.
I stayed on the bar. I did ice-creams, cocktails and prepare the drink because the waiters can serve this in the terrace.
I began to work on 1st of July and finished on 11th of September.
I enjoyed so much with the people that I worked. We went to party so much and we smiled a lot!:)
I think that fifty words are few to explain my big Summer!=)
See you.
XXX
Laura.
My name is Laura. Now I want to tell you my Summer.
This Summer I was working in my town, Sant Pere Pescador in a place where my family has always know called Mas Gusó.
I stayed on the bar. I did ice-creams, cocktails and prepare the drink because the waiters can serve this in the terrace.
I began to work on 1st of July and finished on 11th of September.
I enjoyed so much with the people that I worked. We went to party so much and we smiled a lot!:)
I think that fifty words are few to explain my big Summer!=)
See you.
XXX
Laura.
Topic:
First term.
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