dimarts, 31 de març del 2009

3rd film; Hancock!


Hi! So today I’m going to talk about a film that I saw with Clara, so she will probably talk about it to! So don’t be surprised if she does…

I’m going to talk about a film called Hancock, it’s not a very old film and it came out recently in the summer. The main character in this film is a very famous actor called Will Smith and he’s got the power of a superhero.
Hancock is no ordinary superhero. He’s different from all the others just because he’s not the typical hero that saves the day, quite the other way around, he does save people in trouble but he doesn’t seem to respect society or the damage he does to the city, he’s a free man and he does what he wants.
He doesn’t wear an outfit and he is all day drinking bottles of whisky so when he flies into the sky he doesn’t really seem to go that straight.
Everyone in the city hates him because he doesn’t really help anyone he is just more trouble than needed in the city causing a lot of damage making the economy go down because they spend millions of dollars of damage every time he does something.
The problem with Hancock is that he feels alone because he is the only one of his kind that lives in planet Earth and he doesn’t have any kind of communication with anyone else but him self.
He also doesn’t really know who he is, he doesn’t know the purpose of him being there, he thinks to him self; Am I a God? An Angel? Or am I a Superhero? What am I? ..

Everything gets better when he comes across a man that he saves, he is a business man and he is trying to change the world for all the poor countries. This man is very polite to him and he invites him to have dinner at his. Once Hancock is there, he doesn’t get a good impression from the man’s wife (something between them is weird)! He does have a good bond with the man’s child. The child thinks the world of Hancock, like the best man in the world.
The man has a plan. Help Hancock being a better person and then that would help the man’s dream come true, so he does. The man makes Hancock go into prison and there he teaches him how to be a respectful hero and he even gets a costume for him that he first denies but then accepts, the people start to like Hancock

As the film goes on we realize that Hancock and the man’s wife, in the past had a life together thousands of years ago because they are immortal and they never ever get old. The woman was Hancock’s past wife and they both have the superpowers. Hancock cannot remember the past because 80 years ago, they beat him up so hard that he fell unconscious and once awake at the hospital he didn’t recognize the woman, so she left him there.
When they’re together they become immortal, and that allows them to live a normal life, the can love and grow old like normal people.
The film ends that Hancock is beaten up again and shot down by some criminals and like he is close to the woman he becomes mortal, Both Hancock and the woman start to die because what ever happens to Hancock happens to her as well…
The film ends when they are about to die, Hancock gets up and starts to run, jump and fly away from her in a lot of pain, but every step he takes the more life he gains because the further apart they are to each other the more immortal they become.

I really enjoyed this film; I think that it was great because it was very different from all the other superhero films and Will Smith made it very funny.

3 new words learnt; enrage,punk ass and a saying in America "Oh shoot" it's like "Oh S**t!"

divendres, 13 de març del 2009

3rd News!

'Coral lab' offers acidity insight

CO2 emissions are harming the world’s big oceans and most importantly the greatest coral reefs of the world. The acidity of the water has gone up to 7.9pH this means that many corals will die because of it. They are experimenting in laboratories is they can survive a high concentration of acidity. Some species of coral do seem to keep on living but the majority dies. That’s what the scientist worried about, they calculate that in 2025 many corals will end up dying and therefore many animals will die. They are trying to tell the government to cut down CO2 emissions.

Words learnt: steel table arrayed, people who rely on fish and most desirable



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7939452.stmn

Deep water fish decline concerns

There has been serious restriction of fishing in the East-North Atlantic because of the great decline of fish. There has been a study in Ireland of their stocks of fish since 1970 until 2006 and they recall that the great majority of deep sea fish, their numbers have decreased a great percent since the last decade. Also a lot of the times deep sea fishing catches fish not needed and kill them for nothing. Some fish live a 100 years and they don’t reproduce and they are coming to an end. Finally, our oceans are coming to an end and their species are threatened to disappear.

Words learnt: commercial trawling, surveying and fishery.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7935733.stm

Poached skins matched to tigers

A new device has been invented by the English and the Indian that is able to identify individual tigers by their stripes and patterns. It was originally used to see the marks of the seals. With this 3D device they are able to identify by computer any tiger that they would like to know about. This device will make it easier for Scientist to estimate how many tigers are left in the world and how many of them have some kind of disease like AIDS.

Words learnt: laborious process, trip wires and discerning shapes.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7935661.stm

dimarts, 3 de març del 2009

Oral presentation transcrition!

Hi guys, today in our oral presentation we are going to talk about Australia. Fist of all I would like to say that Australia as you know is an English talking country. Its official language has been for hundreds of years since the British colonized Australia and we have also chose Australia because it seems to be, nature there seems to be very important and it’s something that fascinates both. The exotic animals and the vegetation there is so different form ours and it’s incredible to think there’s such diversity. So very we start I would like to ask you if you know anything about Australia? What? Do you know what they eat? No? Okay, you know something about Australia… Okay so it’s located right at the bottom here, right bellow Indonesia and it’s situated on the Indian Ocean and as you can see here there’s New Zealand that it is also an English talking country, as you know I think someone will do an Oral Presentation of New Zealand later on… Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world and it’s actually the only country that occupies the whole of the continent. Okay, this is how it’s divided, it’s divided in six continental states; Victoria, South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia and one Island of Australia. Each of these states has their own government, their own politics, so yeah… So Australia was first seen by the Dutch in the 17th century and the first possible theory of the possible discovery of Australia, is from Cristoval de Mendoza that he discovered it in 1522 and form there has been ongoing wars against the European countries that wanted a piece of Australia against the Indigenous Australians that has already lived there 42.000 years ago. The first British man that went there was James Cook in 1770, he was navigating and he drew a picture of the east cost of Australia. Later when he went on the land he reclaimed the piece of the east cost and form there he was able to colonize slowly but gradually the whole continent. So, where does the name of Australia come from? It comes form the Latin, Australis, which it’s meaning is “ the unknown land of the south, as you can see finding a new continent it would explain the unknown land of the South. And this is the climate and the vegetation. Africa is known for its extends lands of deserts, well mainly deserts and very flat opened spaces but this depends on the climate. If we look at the North of Australia it’s were it’s the hottest, very hot, and its vegetation is very dry as we can see here… Very dry, very low grass and mainly deserts. And more down to the south the weather is milder; it’s neither hot nor cold and its vegetation is better, there are jungles, there are woods… There are two important rivers in Australia but there isn’t many because Australia is a very dry continent and I think they’re only aloud to shower everyday two minutes for each person… This is Darling and this is the river Murray



Critic about our Oral Presentation…

I must say that me and Clara had already prepared and structured our Power Point many days before the actual day of the oral presentation, so I think that we were well organized and we had the sufficient information for all of you to learn a bit more about Australia. We has to look at many web sites at internet because we didn’t really know a lot about Australia, that’s why we chose it, to learn something new and somewhere that interested us.

Our oral presentation was very visual and there was hardly no information on our power point, there just was a lot of images that went passing by when we were talking about Australia. It was a very simple Power point but it was also an attractive one.

Things that I could improve in are, first of all, I always get nervous and that causes me to speak faster when I talk but anyway I think that I do make myself understandable. I think that I do make eye contact with everyone no only at one person but all, and apart from trying to improve my nervousness I think that everything else was quite good.

I think that the oral presentation went well and that I was well explained by I and Clara so I expect a 9 in this oral presentation!

News!

9 Year old Girl Likely to abort twins

When I first read the title, I thought, how can a nine year old girl think about having sex and then later on being pregnant? But, as I read the news I felt sick to think that her own step-father had raped her. This just goes to show how sick and pathetic people can be in this world! I mean how could you rape a nine year old step-daughter? You have to be sick, this is a bit harsh but he should be shot dead.

Learnt words: -gestation



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,503025,00.html

Is High cholesterol harming your sex life?

High cholesterol is very bad for our bodies because it can block an artery which later on reduces the blood passing through your vanes and causing a heart-attack or a stroke.
But it also causes the dysfunction of the male and the female sexual parts of the body.
Men have problems with erectile dysfunction and on women the cholesterol deposits on their lubrication making sexual intercourse very painful.

Learnt words: - dysfunction, coronary artery and “trigger” a heart attack.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403384,00.html?sPage=fnc/health/cholesterol