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lunes, 28 de enero de 2013
Project 3: Team work: News Bulletin.
(Álvaro:)
Hello! Good morning welcome to the daily program of the Juan de Herrera news.
The headlines of the day are: Catalonia is finally getting separated from Spain, the US anounced the retirement of their troups from Afganistan,the latest economical news about facebook, the new Agatha Ruiz de la Prada collection and sports.
Now, we are conecting with our partner Kevin in Catalonia, Kevin it seems like Catalonia is finally getting independence isn´t she?
(Kevin:),
Hello, good evening from Barcelona. We can say now that Cataluña is independent from Spain, the population has voted and Artur Mas got the majority to make this famous independence real.
Now many people are asking themselves: Is this good for Spain? Will Cataluña survive out of the European Union?We will see, but for now that´s all we can say.Back to the Juan de Herrera news.
(Álvaro:)
Today at 12 am Obama announced the retirement of the U.S.A army from Afghanistan, now over to Kevin our coorrespondant in Washington:
(Kevin:)
Hello Alvaro, here in Washington Obama just finished his last speech of the year, and he surprisingly announced that the USA is going to retire their troops from Afghanistan. It´s planed that in April of 2013 there will be no more American troops left there, just the destruction and poorness that they caused these last years.
Some people are saying that due to this decision, he should get the next Peace Nobel Price.That’s all from here, we go back to the studio.
(Álvaro:) ...Thank you Kevin.
Well I know what most of you are wondering right know,How is possible for Kevin to be in the Spanish Congress and in Washington at the same time, but the truth is that we are having some financial issues in the public TV channels right know and we can´t afford the flight to Washington, so Kevin were standing in front of a whit wall with a static picture of the white house projected on it...
Anyways, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has presented her new collection today in the Puerta de America Hotel in Madrid, and finally we found one out of fifty one desings that was elegant and stylish. From here we want to thank you Agatha, we all know that you did a great efort.
And now over to Jack with the financial news...
(Alexandre:)
Alexandre:
Mike, tell me. What the first impression of Facebook in the stok market in Wall street?
Mike:
Good evening, Jack. Today at 9am hapends a horrible acted in Wall streat with the shares of facebook.Facebook is a social networking website, launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Marck Zuckerberg. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobil device .Now, we have problems with the new company, that his mane is facebook, is a social network what has joined in the world of the stok market.His shares has go down 1,37 points and people don´t buy this shares.Probably, Facebook close his doors and let his company. It´s horrible! We hope that people will buy this shares.
Alexandre:
Now back with Álvaro in the studio.
(Álvaro:)
Thank you Alexandre, Finally our partner Juan is going to tell us about the sports
(Juan:)
Hello! Good morning welcome to the daily program of the Juan de Herrera news.
The headlines of the day are: Catalonia is finally getting separated from Spain, the US anounced the retirement of their troups from Afganistan,the latest economical news about facebook, the new Agatha Ruiz de la Prada collection and sports.
Now, we are conecting with our partner Kevin in Catalonia, Kevin it seems like Catalonia is finally getting independence isn´t she?
(Kevin:),
Hello, good evening from Barcelona. We can say now that Cataluña is independent from Spain, the population has voted and Artur Mas got the majority to make this famous independence real.
Now many people are asking themselves: Is this good for Spain? Will Cataluña survive out of the European Union?We will see, but for now that´s all we can say.Back to the Juan de Herrera news.
(Álvaro:)
Today at 12 am Obama announced the retirement of the U.S.A army from Afghanistan, now over to Kevin our coorrespondant in Washington:
(Kevin:)
Hello Alvaro, here in Washington Obama just finished his last speech of the year, and he surprisingly announced that the USA is going to retire their troops from Afghanistan. It´s planed that in April of 2013 there will be no more American troops left there, just the destruction and poorness that they caused these last years.
Some people are saying that due to this decision, he should get the next Peace Nobel Price.That’s all from here, we go back to the studio.
(Álvaro:) ...Thank you Kevin.
Well I know what most of you are wondering right know,How is possible for Kevin to be in the Spanish Congress and in Washington at the same time, but the truth is that we are having some financial issues in the public TV channels right know and we can´t afford the flight to Washington, so Kevin were standing in front of a whit wall with a static picture of the white house projected on it...
Anyways, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada has presented her new collection today in the Puerta de America Hotel in Madrid, and finally we found one out of fifty one desings that was elegant and stylish. From here we want to thank you Agatha, we all know that you did a great efort.
And now over to Jack with the financial news...
(Alexandre:)
Alexandre:
Mike, tell me. What the first impression of Facebook in the stok market in Wall street?
Mike:
Good evening, Jack. Today at 9am hapends a horrible acted in Wall streat with the shares of facebook.Facebook is a social networking website, launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Marck Zuckerberg. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobil device .Now, we have problems with the new company, that his mane is facebook, is a social network what has joined in the world of the stok market.His shares has go down 1,37 points and people don´t buy this shares.Probably, Facebook close his doors and let his company. It´s horrible! We hope that people will buy this shares.
Alexandre:
Now back with Álvaro in the studio.
(Álvaro:)
Thank you Alexandre, Finally our partner Juan is going to tell us about the sports
(Juan:)
José Callejón takes the ball home after making a hat-trick on his first debut with the Spanish National team against Germany. The player played a perfect match giving a goal assist and scoring three goals. Del Bosque said that it’s a possibility to play the World Cup of Brazil next 2014 but that there’s very much time left.
The ball with Sergio Ramos sent to the space in the penalty against Bayern Múnich finally arrives to Saturn, how expected. This fact Is going to bring the interesting possibility of explore this planet never visited before due to the fact that we have to go to take the ball back to Earth.
domingo, 20 de enero de 2013
Project 4: English through literature.
JAMES JOYCE. "Two Gallants"
James Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882, in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar and died the on the 13th of January 1941 in Zurich after ulcer surgery.
His best known novel is "Ulysses"(1922). He studied English, French and Italian at University College Dublin. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he set most of his novels in Dublin. He lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, where he had to moveto due to the fact that the Nazis had conquered France.
Other titles inhis bibliography are: "Chamber Music"(poems,1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914) and "Exiles"(1918).
Two Gallantsis a short story written by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1914 in ananthology of short stories called "Dubliners".
This story is about two friends that are walking around the city, whose names are Corley and Lenehan, and Corley is telling Lenehan about her new relationship with a girl, and he is talking about her in a very disrespectfulway, being proud of the fact that she stole things from the house where she works just to give them to him, like cigarettes.
Then the readerrealizesthat they are going to an appointment with this girl, and Lenehan is just accompanying Corley to the date, then they see the girl in the end of the street near a lamp and they looked at her from a distance. Corley continues walking to meet the girl whilstLenehan goes to dinnerpeas while he is waiting for Corley. Finally Corley came
back and met Leneham and shows him a gold coin that the girl had just stolen
from the house where she works.
At the end you realize that both men were planning that from the beginning.
My personal opinion about the story is thatit is hard to understand all the details in a second of bachillerato good level of English, I mean in my case after reading it slowly twiceyou get the main point but you missed most of the shades, the aspects of the novel. I think that if I had a better level of EnglishI would have gotten all of the nuances and would have appreciated the story or the writer more
I think that an averageEnglishperson would have the same problems if he or she reads a text written by Unamuno.
In conclusion, I think that maybe that kind of stories are higher than our current level, and that the presence of two bilingual people in the class doesn´t mean that the rest of us are able to read pure English literature. It´s great reading great writers such as Joyce, and it significantly increases our understanding of culturebesides our level of English, however I think that I would enjoy the storymore if I had the knowledge to enjoy every aspect.
James Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882, in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar and died the on the 13th of January 1941 in Zurich after ulcer surgery.
His best known novel is "Ulysses"(1922). He studied English, French and Italian at University College Dublin. Although he spent most of his life abroad, he set most of his novels in Dublin. He lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich, where he had to moveto due to the fact that the Nazis had conquered France.
Other titles inhis bibliography are: "Chamber Music"(poems,1907), Dubliners (short story collection, 1914) and "Exiles"(1918).
Two Gallantsis a short story written by the Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1914 in ananthology of short stories called "Dubliners".
This story is about two friends that are walking around the city, whose names are Corley and Lenehan, and Corley is telling Lenehan about her new relationship with a girl, and he is talking about her in a very disrespectfulway, being proud of the fact that she stole things from the house where she works just to give them to him, like cigarettes.
Then the readerrealizesthat they are going to an appointment with this girl, and Lenehan is just accompanying Corley to the date, then they see the girl in the end of the street near a lamp and they looked at her from a distance. Corley continues walking to meet the girl whilstLenehan goes to dinner
At the end you realize that both men were planning that from the beginning.
My personal opinion about the story is thatit is hard to understand all the details in a second of bachillerato good level of English, I mean in my case after reading it slowly twiceyou get the main point but you missed most of the shades, the aspects of the novel. I think that if I had a better level of EnglishI would have gotten all of the nuances and would have appreciated the story or the writer more
I think that an averageEnglishperson would have the same problems if he or she reads a text written by Unamuno.
In conclusion, I think that maybe that kind of stories are higher than our current level, and that the presence of two bilingual people in the class doesn´t mean that the rest of us are able to read pure English literature. It´s great reading great writers such as Joyce, and it significantly increases our understanding of culturebesides our level of English, however I think that I would enjoy the storymore if I had the knowledge to enjoy every aspect.
Project 1: Presentation: Arquitecture (script)
Frank Lloyd
Wright was born in 1867 in Wisconsin EEUU and he died in 1959.
He
developed a new concept in modern architecture called organic architecture,
that was created as a point of union between humans and nature.
The better
example is Falling Water House:
Falling
Water House or Kaufman´s residence was designed in 1935 for the bussines man
Edgar Kaufman.
Is in Mill
Run Pensylvania, besides the Bear Run river and it cost 155.000$: 75000$ the
main house, 22000$ finishing and furnishing it, 50000$the guests house,the
servant quarters and the garage, and 8000$ the architect fee.
The main
problem about building it was that the north bank of the bear run river was not
large enough to provide the necessary space for a typically house, so Frank
solve it by using a modular structure with the help of two engineers to
distribute the weight.
Falling
Water House was the Kaufman´s family weekend home from 1937 to 1963, when
Kaufman decided to donate the property to the state of Pensylvania. Now it´s
open to the public as a museum.
The other
Frank Lloyd Wrigt´s best known building is the Guggenheim museum of New York:
The museum
is located in the 5 avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, just in front
of central park, and it permantly host a collection of impressionist,
postimpressionist, early modern and contemporary art.
The
building was opened the 21st of October of 1959.
The museum
had two different reforms, the first one was in 1993 annexing a rectangular
tower behind the main building to expand the spaces for the exhibition, and the
last one that started in 2005 and finished in 2008 annexing a clompletely new
building behind it for the same reason.
The main
building consist in a central tower hat is support by a spiral that goes from
floor to top all around the central dome in the roof, the spiral consist in a
ramp about 500 meters long.
The sad
story about the building is that Wright, couldn´t see it finished owing to the
fact that he died six months before the building was opened.
Project 2: Creative writing.
The Little girl story. part II
-Eli-
Finally her sister stops crying, " she´ll have fallen asleep" she thought. She can enjoy the party know, the party of the year, all the high school were there, her friends Gina and Dana, and even Michael, but she was trying to look indiferent to the fact that he was there, she was vain enought to don´t do that.
Emily, the new student was there too, as queen of the high school she had to show benevolence with all the "inhabitants" of her kingdom. She didn´t know what was the fact that annoys her the most of Emily, maybe it was the fact that since she walked through the doors of the high school Michael was a kind of servant to her, she better pick him up and carry him like a chihuahua, or the fact that they came together to her party. "Honestly she isn´t even pretty, not ugly at best, i´m hotter than her, he´s stupid" She tought just like every other day, then she realized that the chihuahua and his Emily were trying to reach her through the crowd. one drink before they finally get where she was, and thanked her for inviting them, she smiled and replyed some nice words like a totally empty of emotions "thank you for comming, have fun" while she was thinking "stupid chihuahua", she pours into her plastic cup what was left in the Eristoff bottle that was in front of her....
The music beat was entering loudly into her head, while the stupid chihuahua was still licking her lips, without realising that she was unconscious, her thought "stupid chihuahua" was her last memory of the night.
-Eli-
Finally her sister stops crying, " she´ll have fallen asleep" she thought. She can enjoy the party know, the party of the year, all the high school were there, her friends Gina and Dana, and even Michael, but she was trying to look indiferent to the fact that he was there, she was vain enought to don´t do that.
Emily, the new student was there too, as queen of the high school she had to show benevolence with all the "inhabitants" of her kingdom. She didn´t know what was the fact that annoys her the most of Emily, maybe it was the fact that since she walked through the doors of the high school Michael was a kind of servant to her, she better pick him up and carry him like a chihuahua, or the fact that they came together to her party. "Honestly she isn´t even pretty, not ugly at best, i´m hotter than her, he´s stupid" She tought just like every other day, then she realized that the chihuahua and his Emily were trying to reach her through the crowd. one drink before they finally get where she was, and thanked her for inviting them, she smiled and replyed some nice words like a totally empty of emotions "thank you for comming, have fun" while she was thinking "stupid chihuahua", she pours into her plastic cup what was left in the Eristoff bottle that was in front of her....
The music beat was entering loudly into her head, while the stupid chihuahua was still licking her lips, without realising that she was unconscious, her thought "stupid chihuahua" was her last memory of the night.
lunes, 14 de enero de 2013
Project 2: Creative writing.
Little girl story. Part 1:
Her older sister was taking care of her while their parents were having dinner in the city center, but instead she had a party in the house with all her teenager friends, and she locked the little girl in her bedroom.
The little girl was really scared, the cold darkness of the room was horrifying, and she could hear the loud techno music coming from downstairs, and also loud noises like furniture breaking, she couldn´t believe her sister was doing that to her, to the house, to their parents. She knew that by that time she was probably drunk puking in the toilet bowl, just like she did every day after dinner when she think´s noone´s looking.
She was really pissed off her older sister, she was done. So she decided to escape from those dark walls, that didn´t feel like home anymore, and go search for her parents. She grabbed her teddy bear so she wouldn´t go alone and jumped through the window of her bedroom landing on the wet frozen grass of the garden. She jumped the steel fence of the property and started running.
Any pedestrian who could have been in that street would have seen a little girl running down the street with a light brown teddy bear strongly grabbed between her tiny hands, at 3 o´clock in the morning.
Her older sister was taking care of her while their parents were having dinner in the city center, but instead she had a party in the house with all her teenager friends, and she locked the little girl in her bedroom.
The little girl was really scared, the cold darkness of the room was horrifying, and she could hear the loud techno music coming from downstairs, and also loud noises like furniture breaking, she couldn´t believe her sister was doing that to her, to the house, to their parents. She knew that by that time she was probably drunk puking in the toilet bowl, just like she did every day after dinner when she think´s noone´s looking.
She was really pissed off her older sister, she was done. So she decided to escape from those dark walls, that didn´t feel like home anymore, and go search for her parents. She grabbed her teddy bear so she wouldn´t go alone and jumped through the window of her bedroom landing on the wet frozen grass of the garden. She jumped the steel fence of the property and started running.
Any pedestrian who could have been in that street would have seen a little girl running down the street with a light brown teddy bear strongly grabbed between her tiny hands, at 3 o´clock in the morning.
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