sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2008

V for Vendetta


In the year 2038, Britain has become totalitarian, ruled by the Norsefire regime. The story follows Evey Hammond, a young woman who is rescued from state police by a masked vigilante known as "V". He shows all her ideology to him and they share her life a time. He finishes for shaft makes it suffer the point that she deals and tries to help him in his aim: to destroy the parliament on November 5. By means of a messages for the television and the diffusion of her disguise for the whole population, it provokes the confusion in the authorities, and though finally he dies, she fulfills the aim.


V for Vendetta!

Computers have made the world a better place.

It’s evidence that the computers make better the world; we only have to do think in the world before of the computers.

On one hand, the computers make more easy the work, they let control the machines and the companies have to have the minimal workers to control the computers. It’s one advantage to win more money. Also, they can keep a lot of information in a minimum space, not as the books. And if we can develop specific programmes we can apply in a lot of other things and sciences.

On the other hand, the computers don’t let develop more the intelligent of the people. More over they spent a lot of first matters like the mercury or plastic, that comes fo the petrol: nowadays is expensive because there aren’t a lot.

In conclusion, I think that the computers are a good instrument for the society and the world to do a lot of things.

Is humour necessay to survive?

Humour is a quality which takes a lot of importance in our daily life.
For exemple, when you have sot bad experiences, different types of humour like laughing a little bit helps you a lot to forget the bad experiences, and it will help you to fell better. Also, people who tend to smile more than others seem more positive and it semms that they are the bosses of the world, because it seems like bad things can it affect them. Finally,¡ it's confirmed and proved that people work better if they are in a good mood that in a bad one. And this can be confirmed, because I've proved it a lot of times.
Although humour is a a great sense there're some situations where you can't laugh and you have to take the things serious because they aren't funny.
In conclusion, I believe that humour is essential in our life to survive, but we've to take care in some situations because it isn't always appropiate to take things in a funny way.

lunes, 24 de noviembre de 2008

domingo, 23 de noviembre de 2008

Citi dodges bullet

Government will guarantee losses on more than $300 billion in troubled assets and make a fresh $20 billion injection.


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The U.S. federal government on Sunday announced a massive money rescue for Citigroup, the latest banking giant that has failed in the past week.

The plan have two important features:

First, the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will give $300 billion to the bank.

Second, the government has injected $25 billion into Citigroup as part of the $700 billion bailout passed by Congress in October.



CNNMoney.com

miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2008

Hi Gemma!
I'm Daniel and this's my e-mail!
Well, I was born in Figueres the 23th of september of 1991. Now I live in Ampuriabrava and I must go with car to study to the IES Castelló d'Empúries every day.
My level of english isn't the best, but I think that if I work hard like the other years, I can improve and pass the terms with a normal mark!
So, I'm ready to do all the thinks that I can!

See you!


-I can not see any mistake, so it's okay. But I can improve the level of may english!

domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2008

sábado, 15 de noviembre de 2008

OBSERVATION OF MY ORAL PRESENTATION

1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:

NAME & TOPIC: The life in 19th century and it's exemple in the film(of Pride & Prejudice).

Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive? Yes, we use the power point which I tink that make more elegant the presentation.

Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I have been looking at the audience almost all the time.
-Did you read from your notes? Sometimes.
-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? Yes, I did some gestures with the hands according with what I was saying.

Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes, first the important information, and after the examples.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes: In relation with the previous thing, but, and, in general, also, normally, the second topic, the next topic.

Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Yes, I introduce things of the century that they can not underestand and for this reason after they ask me it, for exemple the work in relation with nowadays.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? Yes, the majority of information is of internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? Well, the our topic was really extensive and we explained the most important to underestand the life in this century, but we said concret things that are curious and original like the food that they eat.

Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? Yes, some irregular verb and times that I didn't remember.
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes, new words like bred (criada), horses cart (carro de cavalls), domestic devices (aparells domestics), top hats (sombrero de copa), etc.
-Did you use sentences linkers? Yes!(I put examples in a previous question: also, normally, but...).
-Did you use fillers? Yes!(I put examples in a previous question: well, for example...)

Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher? Yes I know, because I practise the pronuntiation with a english teacher before.
-Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions? Yes, sometimes I change my tone. Also, I have had some interruption, of course!

Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? Sincerely, a 7 or 8!


2- Now it's time to improve for next presentation. Write down a literal transcription of your presentation.
Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?

Hello class! I'm Daniel and he's Eudald, and today we will explain the life in 19th century and it's exemples in the film. Possible aspects: jobs, technology, housing, clothes...

(Eudald)

Wel, the technology:
In relation with the previous thing, the industrial revolution was still in development and there are machines that made more easy the work.
But in the houses there isn't a technology as the electricity, domestic devices, cars, and all the commodities that we can have nowadays(/today:in the moment I corrected).
In the film we can see that the family Bennet have candles and not light bulb, and they use horses cart to move.
Hear you can see a horses cart of the 19th century.

(...)

Housing:
In general, the houses of 19th century were big, with a lot of rooms and windows, one only for the lecture, the ceilling was high, and normally was plenty of decoration: paintings, furniture, etc.(bad pronunciation of two words)
Also, there were gardens in front of the entrance with a lot of plants or trees.
But that could be different deppending on the propiety house anies of poor people, like te family Bennet, or rich people that had a lot of luxury, having more bedrooms and breds and bigger gardens.
We can see in the Charlote's house and the information that say Mr. Collins when tehy arrive to the house that the windows was expensive, they have one bred for person...(some interruptions)
Normally, this houses were in the fields or around the cities, but in the cities there were apartments, normally smalls, where the poor(break)people lives and who worked in the factories.

(...)

The clothing:
In the 19th century the clothes were different: apart from cotton shirts, the men's clothes were trausers, waistcoats and coats/jacket. The people usually wore hats. The wealthy men wore top hats, like Mr Darcy. The people... The middle class men wore bowler hats and working men wore cloth caps like the breds of the house of Bennets.
The women wore light dresses(bad pronunciation), and broad skirts. Also, the women started wearing underwear, "roba interior".

(...)


_____

The countries and the crisis


The G20 want make a economic plan to confront the crisis.

But, divisions have emerged between Europe, which wants stricter market rules, and the US and other countries, which prefer more moderate reforms.

the president Bush said "This problem did not develop overnight and it will not be solved overnight, but with continued cooperation and determination it will be solved,", but Europe and the other important countries don't want quick solutions.


So, the negotiations continue!
-BBC News

miércoles, 24 de septiembre de 2008

Batasuna


Batasuna is a political party basque related to the terrorist band ETA. Lately the police has arrested of active leaders of the party. This take place in the French part Basque Country where now the party is legal, and in Spain it isn't legal. For this reason, now a days ETA don't have big commando groups, and make all the operations from French.
To answer to this detentions ETA put bombs in two places in Spain, but there wasn't victims.
The declarations.


















http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/414370/0/detenidos/batasuna/francia/

domingo, 8 de junio de 2008

Speaking!

Informal dialogue
with Mari and Alma

dialogue elma, dani mari.

dialogue elma, dan...

Hosted by eSnips

sábado, 7 de junio de 2008

Final evaluation

- Observing your portfolio, can you see an improvement on your level of english since september of 2007? Where for exemple?

Of course, I have more facility and expressiveness with the English, overcoat writing. For example, in new words or verbs, and longer phrases with new conectores.
I think that I'm evolutioning and I have to be still like that.

- Which activiy best shows your level of English?

According to my opinion, the best are the oral presentations, and the blog.

- Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

For me, the speakings with Anika, because this exercice forces you to improvise answers or explanations for that Anika asks.

- Which activities did you not fins useful to learn English? Why not?

The exercices of pure grammar you show since it is but though you practise the exercises it allows you neither spontaneity nor facility for the practice of the language, and often you don't remember it to write since you don't use it orally and he doesn't remain memorized.

- Which activities did you enjoy doing at would like to do again next year?

The most practicle classes like the lenguage room, and the blog.

Moto GP

The official trainings of today have been a bit irregular: Jorje Lorenzo to suffered a fall and he can't run tomorrow, Dani Pedrosa has remained second, and Rossi has not had one of his better days with a ninth position in the gridiron.

Regardless, Rossi continues at the top of points, and Pedrosa continues him behind.

viernes, 6 de junio de 2008

Spain


This is the best year for the spanish selection because have same of the best players of Europe as Fernando Torres, or one of the two news of the spanish team: Cesc Fàbregas, a football player of Arsenal. The other new in the team is a spanish player: Santiago Cazorla.

Spain believe en do a good position and be winners of the competition.

United States


In these moments in The United States, the first world power, it is in elections to choose the new president: the republican Hillary, or the democrat Obama, who if desire will turn into the first american black president.According to the presidency it can influence throughout the world, since this country has relations with all the countries of the world and even the task dependent on Iraq stays.

At the moment, it seems that the winner will be the republican, and probably his opponent turns into the vice-president of United States of America.

Too much important is given to taking exams at school. Do you agree?

The exams are tests, that all the schools do to the pupils, to study and learn the topics and the pupils can pass or not, and the teachers can say the level of them. For this reason, normally, the exams are more important than the exercices.

The system of the schools to say the level of the pupils is logical because it's necessary to know that the pupils can pass and do the next topic or a school, like the exam of selectivitat to pass of batxillerat to university and can take a deagree.

If we don'thave exams we wan't be able to learn and study and do the homework. Also the importance of the exams depend on the teacher, because if we work a lot, but you don't have very good marks, you can pass the term.

So, the conclusion acording to my opinion, is that the exams are necessary to became more intelligent and have the basic knowledge of things.

jueves, 17 de abril de 2008

The Tibet

Between China and the Tibet there's a conflict because China submits and doesn't recognizes it any of his rights. Since the next Olympic games are celebrated in China, the tibetans to take revenge for China impede the step of the Olympic torch there where they can, because of it in New Dheli 180 have been detained tibetans.
The international organizations should intervene to solve this conflict.



www.actualidad.terra.es!

martes, 15 de abril de 2008

MSN UK NewsRoyal 'gay sex tape' blackmail jury hears

Caroline Gammell a married member of the Royal Family was subject to an attempted by two men over claims he had performed a sex act on one of his senior male aides on a kitchen floor, a court has heard.

lunes, 14 de abril de 2008







Do you know

Anyone like me

No one I think

I'm the best


Please go to the

Underground

Jumping and playing

Or better

Look inside yourself.

miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2008

THE DESCRIPTION

My mother

My mum is quite young. Normaly, the mothers have between fourty and fivety years old, but she's thirty six years old.
Her skin is tarned for the sun. She's rather tall for be a women, and she's dark-eyed with long brown hair and curled. Her body is abit fad, but not very.

She's a normal person when any person see my mum, but as all people has different things for know. When you talk qith she, is really funny and always she has topic for speak. She's inteligent, but sometimes she haven't arguments to defend a decision, for exemple when she wan't to let me go to a disco.

So, after of different things of my mum, I think in general is a good mother to do one's duty. Also, in important moments she help me.





Now that I see the description, I would like correct things, but no I can't!

lunes, 24 de marzo de 2008

Europass!

5 Summary

An implacable warrior

There're many references of Tamerlán's merciless character. For example when Isfahán's city gave up itself and left his her garrison there, they finished with it. He it returned to assault the city and ordered that each of the seventies thousand soldiers should bring a head of an habitant of the city, with which he constructed a pyramid in the entry of the city. All that un 1387. In 1398, in the conquest of the India, odered to execut approximately hundred thousand indian prisoners for not retarding the march.


History, National Geographic n. 51 p. 14

domingo, 23 de marzo de 2008

4 Summary

A Druid of the 6th century

The first model of Magician (Merlín) goes back in Myrddin's name in orals Welsh legends. Actually it's a question of a double figure: one son of the devil, and nordic other one that according to Welsh poems fought against the king Rhydderch of Dunbarton and went mad in a battle, retinring as prophet to the Caledonian Forest. In this poems, he appears as a Celtic Druid proided wih prophetic and divinatory power. The historian Geoffrey Ashe says that it was a british prehistoric god, but her arguments aren't convincing.



History, National Geographic n. 50 p. 80

3 Summary

Marriages to construct an empire

In a great empire as Macedonia, the marriages for political reasones were normal. Filipo, who's the father of "Alexandre el Gran", contracted seven matrimonial links to establish aliances with the territories about the empire as Epiro, wherefrom the mother of Alexandre, up to Tracia. After rising to the throne, Alexandre also used the marriages to consolidate his power in regions separated as Bactria, or o be the successor of dynasties who demolished, as his marriage in Susa with the daughter of Darío, Estatira.



History, National Geographic n. 50.

sábado, 22 de marzo de 2008

2 Summary

The trip to "El País de Punt"

During the reign of Hatshepsut, there was a big expedition to the fantastic country of "Punt", probably placed on the coast of Somalia and that was providing Egypt of exotic products and luxury as the incense and the myrrh, considered the perfume of the gods. The trip lasted almost one year.
One was not agreeing that the magazines were of HISTORY of National Geographic, and that of the first summary to the number 50.

1 Summary

Sir Robin Hood

In the novel Ivanhoe of the author Walter Scott, Robin Hood was turning out to be alone as a secundary personage, but he has the two princial characteristics of the modern personage: he was noble and Saxon. Noble because was a innovation of the century XVI. And Saxon because it was the big important contribution of Scott, that in her novels he imagined the conflict between the saxons and the normans. The revolt of Robin Hood want the peace between the "races".

Summaries

Well, I love the history, and only I've magazines of history, I do old the summaries of this magazines.

Differents between the book and the film of Frankenstein

In the film Frankenstein’s mother dies having William and in the book she has from an illness.
An other, is that in the book Victor have two brothers, and in the film only one: William.
In the film Elisabeth go to the laboratory of Frnakenstein, and in the book no.
In the book Henry dies strangle for the monster but in the film we don’t know.
Frankenstein in the book doesn’t revive Elisabeth but in the film he does.

First Mail!

This's the first mail that I sent to Lourdes:

Dear Lourdes
Hi! I'm Dani! I live in Empuriabrava.I'm sexteen, because the last week was my birthday. I love sport, before I played handbol, but this year I decided that I don't want go more, and I finished last week, I think that is so boring.
About inglish class, weel, I don't like this assignature but I know that is very important for my future, and now too, because if I know a lot of inglish I can travel alone and learn more.



Dani


Even I can see the difference when I've read it, believe that I've improved enough in this time and that I'll continue doing it. I don't have an english vey good level, but I'm progressing and learning new things.

martes, 4 de marzo de 2008

miércoles, 27 de febrero de 2008

First speaking!

grabació.wav

speaking with Mari and Alma!
We told about the final school year trip

jueves, 21 de febrero de 2008

The second oral presentation



This presentation was the first that I did in pairs. Always I did only I, and I like but ater of which, I think that the best is in pairs, because for me there's more confidence. I have been more confortable with my companion Isaac. Thought I had nerves, I did good. The last day, I was two hours for learn old my part of the presentation.

I'm thinking the next topic yet, but I have desire of doing the next presentation, only I or in pairs, I don't mind.