First Oral: http://deadriver91portfolio.blogspot.com/2008/03/5-first-oral-presentation.html Last Oral: http://portfolio2bat.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-07T04%3A58%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7 Last Good Oral: http://portfolio2bat.blogspot.com/2008/11/6-your-first-oral-presentation-video.html
Well. I think my orals haven't changed a lot. I've put the URL of my first oral, my last oral and the previous one of the last one but I think that the last one was very bad because I did it after Carnivals and although it doesn't seem it effected a lot (LOL), so I've also put de previous one. As I've just said my orals haven't changed a lot, because as I've do extra english classes out of the high school my level hasn't suffered lots of changes.
The last writing: http://portfolio2bat.blogspot.com/2009/05/psycologists.html The first writing: http://deadriver91portfolio.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-your-first-mail-to-teacher-your-level.html
In my first writing email to teacher I presented myself and my hobbies, family..., in the last one, I had to write my opinion about psychologists. Of course, it has been an improvement with my English, grammar, expression, mistakes... but I still do lots of mistakes. I think that in the last writing I improve and for this reason the structure, connectors, vocabulary, and majority things are better.
Nowadays, when someone has a problem, he or she goes with facility to tell his problems oh her problems to psychologists, this means that our society gives a lot of importance to psycologists, in my opinion, too much imporance is given to them. Psychologist are too well considered. In fact, they're so well considered because people think that they will solve all their problems and this is not always such an easy thing to do. It's true that lots of times psychologist help ua solving our psycholigucal necessities, but in my opinion I think that sometimes lots of the problems which psychologists solve could be solved by friend or by the familu and that takes place because we give too much importance to psychologist because what we really need is someone who listens to us and who understan us.
Since 1985 WrestleMania is the most successful, longest-running professional wrestling event in the world. It is held annually in late March or early April. WrestleMania has become one of the most prominent events in sports entertainment. Wrestlemania has facilitated the rise to stadorm of wrestler as Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Triple H, amongst others. Numerous celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Mr. T, Alice Cooper, Donald Trump and others have participated or made special appearances in the events. Participation in a WrestleMania match, and especially the main event, is considered by many wrestlers and fans alike as one of the greatest achievements and symbols of professional success.
One of the main events of this edition will be the match between Floyd "Money" Mayweather, who is the United States Boxing champion, vs. Big Show, who is a giant of 2 meters and 20 centimetres. But there will be other important matches, as the Triple Threat Match between Triple H, Randy Orton and John Cena for the WWE Championship, the Last Chance Match between The Undertaker and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship, the Career Treating Match between Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels or the Match of Leagues, where a fighter of Raw (Umaga) and a fighter of Smackdown! (Batista) will fight to see which league is the best one.
The scientist hopes to have the area, comprising some 15000 hectares.
The main character is Bruce Nolan and secondary ones are God and Grace Connelly. This film is a comedy film from United States.
“Como Dios” in Spanish is a film from 2003 where the main character is Bruce Nolan who is a TV news reporter who wants to become a news presenter.
He believes that he will be promoted but he is finally not promoted and he dismisses from the channel where he worked. He began to grumble against god, but one day God appears and says him if he wants to be god. And god gives his power to him. Bruce Nolan use his new power ti make lots of things, but he abuses of his power. Later he realises that also can help other people appart from him, so he begins to help other people.
But the powers effect the relationship with his girlfriend and Bruce Nolan undestands how difficult is to be a God, and that there's only won.
El passat mes de novembre, més de mil policies mexicans van participar en la detenció de més de 100 persones als pobles de Texcoco i San Salvador de Atenco. Durant l’acció policial, diverses dones van patir abusos sexuals, incloent diverses violacions.
The piece of news says that last November lots of people which were expressing their opinions were punished by the police, and lots of women were also sexually attacked and even more were violated.
The first human right which is violated is number 21, which says that all the people have the right to freedom of opinion and expression, this right includes not being punished because your own opinions, and in this case the government punished lots of people that were demanding a better way of life, because the government was taking their homes.
The other problem is that during the police repression, lots of women were violated and sexually attacked, so the police, which is the organization that should take care that Humar Rights are obeyed, was who make that women lost their right of having protection from other people.
This is a film of teenagers from the 60’s more or lees, when to be popular and the most beautiful of the school were the most important things.
The film tell the story of a fat girl who takes part in a competition of Miss Hairspray, this is the most watched programe of the city, in that program you must know dance and have a great voice, and of course, you must be slim. But one day the most popular boy of the program (and also from the school) saw how Tracy Turnblad (the fat girl) is dancing and singing, for this he invites her to go to the program. She becomes famous, because it’s strange that a person like her wins a program like that, for thiat reason the girl who was the champion before the fat girl was become jealous about her. When arrives the day that the audience choose Miss Hairspray Tracy doesn’t win, whereas a black girl wins. The audience choose a black girl, but this is also strange because in the 60’s black people are seen as a poor class, and thanks to Tracy black people are mixed with normal people.
I chose this film because I love musical :P, yes, although it doesn't seem I like musicals a lot, and in this one appeared John Travolta as Tracy, the fat girl, who also worked in Greace, so I thought it could be great, is not as good as Greace, but it's also great:)
Some scientist said in the newspaper: Occupational and Environmental Medicine. That the people who hasn’t sleep can do the same physics and mental problems than the excess of alcohol. The time of reaction, precision, and coordination of the people who only sleep 5 or 6 hours are the same or worse than the people who have a 0,55% of alcohol in the blood.
Oragn Donor Scheme:
Spain has a very high number of organ donors, more than other European countries. It is dues to the fact that there are people that work on liaise the people and also, because you are always able to change your opinion if you said that you wanted it. In Spain the views of relatives are respected, in Austria they ignore it and in Britain you must carry a card to indicate your desire to donate. In UK, to be a donor you have to register with the NHS Organ donor register that have a database shared between European countries. In Spain you can sing up with the ONT, but this only informe relatives of your wishes.
An article of Lilly Allen:
In the Newspaper called Catalonia Today I red an article about Lilly Allen, a singer.
Sumary: Before have an album out, Lilly Allen uploaded her songs in myspace (a social networking site) and had been played close to half million times. Her music is influenced by ska, reggae and calypso. qhen she did a concert in Barcelona people could see she is a rash and confident young woman.
Questions for preparing Martin Luther King’s text: 1. What rights did black people have in the USA in the 1960’s? They haven't any rights.
2. What was “segregation”? The separation between black and white people.
3. What did states as Georgia, Mississippi or Alabama have in common in the 1960’s? That they were the states where the racism was more pronounced.
4. Who were the “Pilgrims”? A pilgrim is one who undertakes a pilgrimage (long journey or search of great moral significance).
4. What is a “spiritual”? This word comes from the word: Spirit, which means the soul, the natural part of being and it's identificate with the mind or the brain.
Vocabulary
Rooted: arrelat. Rise up: aixacar. Creed: ideologia. Hold: celebrar/aguantar. Swelter: cansar-se. Heat: calor. Rough: aspre. Crooked: tort. Straight: recte. Flesh: carn. Despair: desesperació. Hope: esperança. Swelter: cansar-se pel sol i no poder fer res per remediar-ho.
Questions for preparing Barack Obama’s text: 1. When did women get the right to vote in the United States? (par. 2) In 1920.
2. What was the “New Deal”? (par. 5) The state encouraged people to buy things.
3. Paragraph 6 refers to “the bombs” falling on “our harbor”. Which bombs and which harbor is B. Obama referring to? (par. 6) He refears to Pearl Harbor.
4. What was the “Montgomery bus boycott”? (par. 7) It was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation.
7. What happened in the Edmund Pettus Bridge, outside Selma, in 1965? There, the voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.
Vocabulary to look up: Ballot: vot. Cast a ballot: emetre un vot. Slavery: esclavitud. Creed: credo. Despair: desesperar. Conquer: conquerir. Witness: testimoni. Preacher: predicador. Sum up: resumir.
Okay, in this Oral Presentation I’m going to talk about a famous sitcom you’ve surely seen one time in your life minimum... The Simpsons! I’m going to talk about this sitcom because I’ve been watching them on TV all my life, and I’ve laughed a lot, so I think it’s related with the topic of humour.
HISTORY:
Well, first of all I’m going to talk about its history. The Simpsons, which were created by Matt Groening, began being emitted as a part of The Tracy Ullman Show, but the emission of the family shorts became so popular that Fox TV Channel developed in a half-hour prime time show, which supposed the first Fox Series to land in the TOP 30 of most watched emissions in USA.
The Simpsons is a satirical parody of the middle class American lifestyle.
Since the sitcom began 20 seasons have been emitted and 1 film has been realised.
MAIN CHARACTERS:
-Homer: He’s the father of the family, but the most irresponsible member. He’s very stupid, an alcoholic, lazy… but although it seems it can’t be true he works as the Safety Inspector of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. It’s so stupid that he’s the only person who suffers the Syndrome of Homer.
-Marge: She’s homer’s wife, but also the opposite of her husband. She’s clever, responsible and it’s shown as the Stereotypical American Housewife.
-Bart: He’s 10 years old and a great troublemaker, he’s always in problems. It’s like his father, so he’s an irresponsible.
-Lisa: She’s 8 years old and the opposite of Bart. She’s very intelligent and an activist: she’s always defending the nature.
-Maggie: She’s 1 year old. Apart from the film she has only said one word in all the 20 seasons: “Daddy”. And she loves guns.
SECONDARY GUNS:
As there’re approximately 200 secondary characters I’m only going to talk about my favourite ones.
-Abraham Simpson: He’s Homer’s farther, and he’s always explaining ridiculous stories from the Second World War.
-Barney Gamble: He’s Homer’s best friend and also an alcoholic. He’s always belching.
-Lenny & Carl: They’re Homer job colleagues. Homer never knows who the black is and who the “white” is. To me they’re in love each one of each other but they don’t admit.
-Moe: He’s the owner of Moe’s Tavern, which is the bar where Homer goes to drink, and also the victim of Bart & Lisa telephone jokes.
SPRINGFIELD:
Springfield is the town where the great part of the episodes takes place. Matt Groening chose this name because is the one which is most repeated between the different towns in USA. There’s a Springfield minimum in every state of USA. But recently Matt Groening told that’s inspired in his natal city: Portland, Oregon.
CURIOSITIES:
-The major part of the characters are yellow, and all the characters, it doesn’t matter if they’re yellow, black…, have only four fingers in each hand.
-The major part of the characters have an own sentence:
-Homer: “Dough!”
-Bart: “Ay caramba”
-Lisa: “If someone needs me will find me in my bedroom”
-Mr. Burns: “Excellent”
-Nelson Muntz: “Ha, haaa!”
-Apu: “Thank you for your purchase, come back another time”
-etcetera
-Every season begins with a Halloween Special Episode, which are formed by three short stories each one, which try to be frightening but they finally are very funny.
-The Simpsons are known as “The Most Famous Family of America”.
HOMER FUNNIEST MOMENTS:
And finally I’m going to show you a video I found it where appear some of the best moments of Homer who is my favourite character. You’ll see that is really stupid.
In 1846, in Lower Manhattan's Five Points district, a territorial war raging for years between the gangs of the Nativist faction (comprising those born in the United States from earlier English & Dutch Protestant immigrants) and the recently arrived, predominantly Irish Catholic immigrants, is about to come to a head in Paradise Square.
The Nativists are led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting. The leader of the immigrant Irish, the Dead Rabbits is Priest Vallon, who has a young son, Amsterdam. Cutting and Vallon meet with their respective gangs in a horrific battle, concluding when Bill kills Priest Vallon, which Amsterdam sees. Cutting declares the Dead Rabbits outlawed and orders Vallon's body buried with honor. Amsterdam is found and taken to the orphanage at Hellgate. Sixteen years later, Amsterdam returns to New York. Arriving in Five Points, he reunites with an old friend, Johnny Sirocco. Johnny, now a member of a clan of pickpockets and thieves introduces Amsterdam to Bill the Butcher, for whom the group steals. Amsterdam finds that many of his father's old loyalists are now under Bill's control. Amsterdam soon works his way into the Butcher's inner circle. Amsterdam learns that each year, on the anniversary of the Five Points battle (February 16), Bill leads the city in saluting the victory over the Dead Rabbits, and he makes plans to kill the Butcher during this ceremony, in front of the entire Five Points community, in order to exact public revenge.
“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer.
Kevin Schawinski, an astrophysicist, and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies; they never foresaw the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.The Dutch school teacher, a volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project, discovered a mysterious object some observers are calling a “cosmic ghost.”Van Arkel toke an image of a strange, one gaseous object with a hole in the center. Quickly, Astronomers who run the site began to investigate and soon realized van Arkel might have found a new class of astronomical object.Any person had idea what it was, and for this reason scientists working at telescopes around the world and with satellites in space were asked to take a look at the mysterious Voorwerp. The acientists and astronomers never found any reliable explanation of this mysterious object.
A US couple is suing McDonald's for $3m (£2m) after nude photos of the woman, which were on her husband's mobile phone, ended up on the internet. Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the photos, at a McDonald's and promised to secure the phone until he could retrieve it. Tina Sherman, who she had to move to a new home after the woman's name, address, and phone number appeared online along with the photos, says she began receiving offensive calls and text messages about the pictures from her husband's mobile phone after he left it at the McDonald's. The nude pictures have been removed from the website that had posted them and McDonald's Corp, the franchise owner and the manager have so far refused to comment on the case. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The night club Pacha in Valencia gives an operation for breast augmention of the amount of 4500 euros.
The nightclub Pacha in Valencia gifts an operation for breast augmentation of the amount of 4,500 Euros. As said today the manager of the establishment, Carlos Monsell. He also explained that in case the person who touches the draw prefers to undergo another type of aesthetics operation can change the growth of breasts by another intervention, in which you can also choose "the photoepilation or injections of Botox." The draws for this type of operation have emerged this year in Argentina, where in some provinces, after the heated controversy unleashed on this issue this operations were prohibited. The festival, organized for next 5 of December, under the name of Pretty Woman, in the promotional poster there is a woman who is going to tear the bandages after being operated.
It seems that the technologies are extremely necessary in our daily life. In fact, one of these technologies has become indispensable: Personal Computers, well known as PCs. I believe that computers have made the world a better place where we can live but however I have some opinions against PCs.
I think that machines are a great human invention, for example in this century we can do everything with them: homework, search information in a way more easy and comfortable or communicate with people from an other side of the world with the internet, an element that now is very attached to the computers.
But this is where begins the problems, consequently of this comfort our habits are changing. This makes us lazier, because PCs are substituting all the work we had to do till the moment. You know, like everything, PCs have become a problem when we have abused of them, in this case of the technology, concretely Personal Computers.
In conclusion I would say that this machines are necessary and useful, because NOW we depend completely of them.
Humour is a quality which is takes a lot of importance in our daily life.
For example, firstly when you’ve got bad experiences, types of humour like laugh a little bit helps you a lot to forget the bad experiences, and will help you to feel better. Also, people who tends to smile more than other people seems that are more positive and it seems that they’re the bosses of the world, because it’s like bad things can’t affect them. Finally it’s confirmed and proved that people works better if they’re in a good mood that in a bad one. And this can be confirmed, because I’ve proved a lot of times.
Although humour is a great sense there’re some situations where you can’t laugh and you have to take seriously because they aren’t funny situations.
In conclusion, I believe humour is essential in our life to survive, but we’ve to take care in some situations because isn’t always appropriate to take things in a funny way.
I'm Adrià Alfaro, I'm 17 years. I live in Castelló d'Empúries. I play the guitar. I love listen to music, my favourite music is “Oi!”, but I enjoy more types of music, such as rock and reggae. Other of my hobbies is playing with computer and Play Station 2/3.
But I'm a student so I've to study. Now I’m doing second of batxillerat, and I think that’s a little bit difficult, but it doesn’t matter if I fail the next year I will repeat and no problems!XD
What’s sure is that I’m going to pass batxillerat because I want to go to the school of officials of the army and I need the selectivity, so I have to study!
