domingo, 24 de agosto de 2008

Independent work No. 9

A tragic end full of emotions, you can feel sadness and powerlessness. The cast is great, over all Angelina Jolie. In critics commentarys, Angelina's best perfomance and it was taken away the Oscar nomination because the american actress wasn't nominates to the Academy Awards 2008.

This movie is avaliable on DVD, rent it. It will change what you thing about tolerance and foreing cultures. You'll cry and feel contradictory feelings. It's close to be a masterpiece, so don't miss it!

Independent work No. 8

This film is set in Krachi, Pakistan and it was produced by Brad Pitt, Andrew Eaton and Dede Gardener.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi.

The film is based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Nominated for Golden Globe and an award for Angelina Jolie in the category of Outstanding Performance Award in Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Independent work No. 7


A mighty hearth

Plot:
the story begings when Daniel Pearl, a war journalist, tries to interview a dangerous islamic extremist for the Wall Street Journal. Daniel's jew American and he's married to Jane, a french journalist, and both try to cover middle-east threat. janes is pregnant. Everything goes wrong when daniel is kidnapped by Islamic fanatic bacause they think he's a North american spy. Then, jane tries to give back the freedoom to her husband

Information:

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi.
The film is based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Nominated for Golden Globe and an award for Angelina Jolie in the category of Outstanding Performance Award in Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Independent work No. 6

When I was around seventeen, and I was in my first semester, I was taking part in communication week, including a quiz show called: “who wants to be a qualified?” This competition was about communication and general culture themes. In this case there were three finalists, including me. In this moment, I wasn’t thinking in anything, my mind was in white. The firsts two failed and I was the next one. I remember, the question was: a universal truth is called… and I said: “Axiom” and it was right. The presenter told me “you’re the winner and you won a diploma course, congratulations”. It was awesome



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Independent work No. 5

  • I always have a walk, everyday, 'cause I love it.
  • I never have a holiday, I'm always bussy.
  • Really, I don´t have a expecific hour fot to have breakfast or an ice cream; if fact, I cannot eat ice cream.
  • Obviously, everybody have got a flu and a bad back, whenevera and wherever. So, I've had flus and bad backs.
  • I don't have got blue eyes or blond hair

Independent work No. 4

Do they know each other?

Which topics they talk about?

Conversation 1

They’re meeting

Family and home, interests and tastes and work/Studies

Conversation 2

They’re acquaintance

Family and home and work/Studies

Independent work No. 3

Vocabulary
  • The Turners live in a small town, so they're many acquaintances.
  • I've heard in this enterprise there's a younger boss.
  • My cousin and me were at the coolest place around the world, Canada.
  • For unkown reasons, the headteacher was fired
  • My neighbour is so noisy, this bother me so much. I think I need to call to Police
  • This party smells, there are many unkown relatives for me.
  • My friend's aunt will get married with my relative's acquaintance.
  • This group is very small, I've few classmates
  • His ex-girlfriend was rejected by the boss
  • Her husband went out for to buy food but he was kidnapped on the road
  • My nice is so cute, and she's growing up more and more everyday. She's three years old
  • The Cinderella's stepmother is a witch and her daughters are the ugliest women in the kingdom
  • My best friend is communist because he believes in equality and loves Russia too.
  • I don't think that the entertainment presenters are my colleagues, they are just very beautiful gossip gross
  • Many people prefers don't have flatmates and live alone
  • In many cases, the mother-in-law is a monster-in-law. In fact, there's a movie with the same title, it's starring by JLo
  • In La Sabana, 28% of students don't live with either both parents, 45% live with only one of the two and the other porcent live with both.
  • The first rule for kids is: "You don't should to talk to strangers"



Independent work No. 2

Speakin' practice

Right Intonation



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Independent work No. 1

Correction:

Prepositions:

I´d like to get a dog but it depends on the size of our new flat

Examples:

We chose to move into the Paramour so we could focus on music and not have to deal with and be affected by the outside world

Ultimately, we all needed to face whatever our fears were on this record

We grant solo concerts and clips of the actor for free broadcasting on TV channels of your countries.

Lena Katina was born in Moscow on October 04th, 1984 in the family of the famous musician - Sergey Katin -

Articles

Listen to music helps me relax

Examples:

Julia Volkova was born in the family of a successful businessman in Moscow on February 20th, 1985

In fact, I’m not sure that’s even a worthy concern… We rock today, and that’s what’s cool.

“Century Dream - Welcome to Olympics - 2008” is event of a national level and huge evening show which takes place in Beijing on July, 29.

Vitas is intensively preparing a new album for the release.


Vocabulary

I´m taking the children swimming this afternoon as reward for being good

Can I borrow your car for the afternoon? I´ll bring it back around 6 p.m.

Examples:

Detectives investigating the murders of a Chinese couple in Newcastle offer a £5000 reward to bring their killers to justice.

A £20000 reward is offered for the return of the lost child benefit discs as several data "incidents" are revealed.

You can borrow as a Guest or become a Member and save 20% off borrowing rates.

The government has decided to control its expenditure by not unnecessarily borrowing from the central bank which had earlier announced a tight monetary policy.

Some people on the left are also starting to argue that character might matter as much as resources in improving life chances.

Doctors argue however that some items on the list need to be reworked as they fil to take into account

Must I file taxes in New York even though I won't be living here? Do I have to file state tax returns in other states I've worked in?

Such a change would raise taxes on light vehicles and will probably meet resistance from carmakers, according to the report.