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jueves, 28 de abril de 2016

7. PREPARATION - CC'S

Day 1:

I've just joined an activity called Elderly Care, a volunteering group of young people who wanted to meet and to learn a lot of things about old people who wanted their company. I spent the first day in a kind of meeting in my residence. The old people were amazing and a bit shy but the teachers assigned each other. As I said, everyone was a bit shy but at the end of the class, we were talking alot each and I enjoyed that a lot. I admit I was a bit nervous at the begining but I could feel their affection so it became easyier for me.

Day 2:

We met each other again at the residence. They recived us with a big smile and in the morning we did a kind of activity or a game togheter. I had a lot of fun and they seemed happy too! Then we had lunch and in the afternoon we talk and they explained to me their life and their chilhood and I explained my life in general: how old am I, where do I live, which is my school,... After that we had dinner and then we said goodbye to each other because we had to leave. Fortunatly, we'll see them at 9:00 o'clock in the morning.

Day 3:

The last day we did a trip around the lake and we saw the animals and how did they lived there. It was a great experience because I've seen many times the lake but I've never seen it that way!
We did all the round in 1h and 45 min because they walked very slowly. I didn't mind that because if we walk to fast sometimes we don't see things clearly. They enjoyed the trip a lot too!
Elderly Care group believe that if you love old people and you want to know them and learn from them you must spent time with them because not a lot of people know them the way I do now.
At the end of the day we had to leave for a couple of weeks. They were really sad and I was a bit too because I had a great experience with them and they showed me many things in a short time. We'll keep contact by cards and I hope I could see them soon!


Clàudia Guilana Mach

4t ESO

jueves, 29 de octubre de 2015

SLEEPY HOLLOW

SUMMARY

In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Cran (Johhny Depp) is facing imprisonment for going against traditional methods and favoring forensic investigation techniques, such as autopsies, considered unorthodox and unimportant at the time. Ichabood submits to deployment with his bad of tools to the Western Country of Sleepy Hollow, which has beed plagued by a series of brutal slaying in which the victims have been found decapitaded: Peter Van Garret, wealthy farmar and landower; his son Dirk; and the widow Emily Windship. Arriving in Sleepy Hollow, Crane is informed by headless mercenary from the American Revolutionary War who rides at night on a massive black steed in search of missing head.

CHARACTERS:

  • Ichabood Crane
  • Katrina Van Tassel
  • Young Masbath
  • Brom Van Brunt
  • Lady Van Tassel
  • Reverend Steenwych
  • Magistrate Samuel Philipse
  • Dr. Thomas Lancaster
  • Notary Jame Hardenbrook
  • Killian, Beth's husband
  • Beth Killian, the Midwife
  • Peter Van Garret

VOCABULARY:

- Imprisonment: empresonament
- Unorthodox: unusual
-Submits: sometre
-Deployment: desplegament
-Tools: instruments
- Widow: víuda
- Headles: sense cap
- Elders: gent gran
- Flesh: carn
- Rises: s'eleva
- Summoned: convocat
- Concerned: preocupat
- Spree: gresca
- Witnes: testimoni
- Embark: embarcar
- Source: font
- Thus: per tant



lunes, 27 de octubre de 2014

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

All began with the Celts. The Celts were the people who lived in England two thousand years ago. In the 31th of October they celebrated the end of the harvest season called Samhain. That day it was also their New Year Eve's and it is intresting because they thought it was the day that de ghost from de hell came to the Earth! In the night of that they the Celts did some sprituals rituals to throw ghosts away and after some centuries, the Christians named the 1st of October "All Saints Day" because they celebrated that they could throw to the hell the ghosts again. All Saints Day was also named as Hallomas. Christians also called the 31th the All Hallows' Eve which finally was called Halloween.

If we move to the present, Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on the 31th of October, where the children and some adults dress up in monsters, witches, ghosts, vampires,... and they go from the first house in the town untill the last one to ask: Treak or treat? Which means that the people who live in the house must give to them some sweets or otherwise they're going to do a bad joke in that house!

In Catalonia not many people celebrate it but in my school we watch an English film about Halloween.




MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN:


The part that I enjoyed a lot was:

Victor spends months working on creating a living, breathing creature, giving it dead body parts from various sources, including the body of the murderer, Waldman's own brain, a new leg in place of the missing one and a new eye to replace the damaged one. He is so obsessed with his work that not even a cholera outbreak tears him from it. Late one night, Victor finally gives his creation life, but he recoils from it in horror and renounces his experiments.
That night, the creature escapes, running off to the wilderness. He spends months hiding in the woods, living in an unwitting family's barn. As time progresses, the creature learns to read and speak, and even tries to win the family's love, but his efforts are in vain. Through a journal that the creature finds in the coat that he fled with, he learns of the circumstances of his creation and that Victor Frankenstein is responsible. He then burns down the family's abandoned cottage and heads to Geneva, vowing revenge on his creator.


Vocabulary:

Brink: Vora de, aprop de 

Trapped: atrapat

Alongside: al costat de Knowledge: coneixement

Dawn: Clarejar

Crew: tripulació

Reaching: Aconseguir

Moaning: gemegant

Voyage: Viatge

Vows:vot/veu

Venture: Empresa 

Beg: Demenar

Strike: Vaga 

Indulge: complaure

Rod: Barra

Pox: Verola

Among: Entre

Foolish: Ximple