Tuesday 18 December 2012

Braveheart

What do you know abut Scotland?


Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occuping the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the Nort Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to ther north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to thesouthwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland is made up of more than 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Herbrides.

Population

The population distinguishes itself from the English through it's own language and literature, jurisdiction, education and organisation of the church. The Scots have a strong historical consciousness. The greater part of the population springs from the original Scottish population, which in fact is a jumble of Picts, Celts and Normans.
Contrary to the rest of the UK, less people live in the cities and more in the countryside. With a population density of 66 people per square kilometer it is fairly quiet. Yet the distribution is very uneven: more than 1.5 of the 5 million inhabitants lives in one of the 4 big cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee.
Our experiences have shown us that the people are very friendly and helpful, but they seem to have an inferiority complex in relation to the English; they still feel being dominated by them. It is almost, after centuries of British rule, as if it is genetically determined.

Languages

English is the official language of Scotland, but one can clearly discern a Scottish kind of english, a dialect. In the Highlands there are still people who speak Gaelic. Gaelic springs from the various (6) Celtic languages of the past and nowadays 3 forms have survived: Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge), Manx Gaelic (Gailck) and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig). These 3 languages are being spoken in Ireland, on the island Man and in Scotland. The speakers of these languages are called Gaels (formerly Celts). About 60.000 people in Scotland still speak it, so not more than 1% of the total population!
A few centuries ago there were 3 more languages besides English: Pictic, Gaelic and Norwegian. In the present Scottish language many words pop up from these 3 languages.

History

For an extensive survey on Scottish history have a look at our special Scotland history page.
Since there are already so many sources on the internet we will give you a few links with more information about Scotland history:
Complete contents of books about Scottish history At first difficult to navigate, but apart from that an outstanding website with much informationTimeline of Scottish history Nice site with orderly information


Thursday 13 December 2012

Crash

FILM 3: Crash

A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. An African-American TV director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two carjackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple...

They all live in LA. and during the next 36 hours, 

they will all collide.

STEP 1: THE TITLE: CRASH

The introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in this movie.  People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without any kind of human contact.  They need to collide in order to make that necessary human contact everybody needs.

Why do you thing the title is crash?

Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads. Talk about the different thinks, and everything have a double meaning. At the final of the film you see that the topics are related and finally all do a CRASH.

STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE

1. (2.51 – 5.54) Read the opening monologue.

Graham has just crashed.  The car is now stopped.  This is what he says:

“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people. People bump into you.

In L.A., nobody touches you.  We're always behind this metal and glass.

I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel something.”

 

1.1.*Discuss the meaning of these words.  

Graham says that the people in L.A. only crash and they don't touch, and we miss that touch.

 

1.2.*How do you think the woman sitting right next to him (the driver) is going to respond to this?

She don't give importance to what he says.

 

1.3.The woman sitting next to Graham leaves the car and goes to where the police officer and the other driver are.  What kind of problem do you perceive in the conversation you hear?  Choose one and explain.

-       an age gap problem

-       a racial issue

-       tension due to unsolved problems these two women had before

 

Is a racial issue because one woman is black and she thinks that the other one is racist and she crash with her because it.

 

1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working.  What have they found?  How does Graham react to that?

 They found a shoe. Graham got nervous because he know it is his brother's shoe.


2. (35:01- 36:48) Check the problems these two men are having:

The locksmith doesn’t know how to do his job. False

The locksmith wants to overcharge for his job. True

The locksmith didn’t replace the lock for a new one. True

The store owner doesn’t understand English well enough. False

The locksmith cannot find a way to communicate effectively with the store owner. False

The locksmith has a friend who fixes doors; so, he wants to persuade the store owner to have his door fixed by this friend. True

The store owner has a door lock in his store that needs to be replaced. False

The store owner has a door in his store that needs to be replaced.True

The locksmith doesn’t want to be insulted any more.True

The locksmith leaves without getting any pay.True

The store owner believes he’s been cheated. True

 

STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY
Write down the characters' names
and the different stories in the film.

STEP 4: WRITING THE  STORY

Choose 1 story IN THE FILM and write a summary
 in the  CRASH WIKI 

You'll have 1 of the stories.
Write a summary of the story.
Describe the characters in the story:
How do they look like?
describe them using adjectives like: naïve, responsible, ambitious...
What's the relationship between them?mother-son, husband-wife...
How do they feel at the beginning?
How do they react in the story?
Do they change? Why? Why not?


STEP 5: CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Choose one character you like
Describe this character 
physical description
personality
evolution in the story.





Thursday 15 November 2012

Worksheet 1: Scenes from the Film

c) The picture shows Jess with her football team. They won the football game, and they win a trophy. They stay in the football field. the girls are very happy for the victory. They were the same couth, wite t-shirt and read fants




e) The picture shows Jess playing football with her friends in the park. Her
friends are smiling because she plays very well. Two of these boys aren't wearing the t-shirt. Jess wears a white t-shirt and white pants.







Tuesday 16 October 2012

3. The Plot

writing 2
IMAGINE YOU'RE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS.
EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU.
USE THE PAST SIMPLE/CONTINUOUS.
PODCAST IT!
speaking
IN GROUPS: CAMERA.....ACTION!
ROLEPLAY
CHOOSE ONE SCENE YOU LIKED
COPY THE SCRIPT
PRACTISE THE PRONOUNCIATION/intonation
ROLEPLAY IT and record yourselves!!!!!!


Charlie: Laia Ramírez
Juliette: Laura Solà
Waiter: Marta Oliver
Kate: Elena Moncayola

C: Kate!
K:Hi, Hi! Can I sit with you guys? 
J: But,of course! please have a sit.
K: Pardonez-moi, pay no attention to me. So...you must be Juliette.
J:Yes, I'm Juliette. Nice to meet you.
K: Let me take a good look at the woman who stole my Charlie's little heart.
J: I did not steal anything that didn't want to be stolen.
K: she's smart Charlie, and beautiful and provably great at everything...
C:Look Kate...
K: relax! I didn't come here for fight.
C: Hello waiter!
W: Hi!
C:I dont' speak much French, so ...
J: Do you want a fizzy drink? It's my favorite drink!
C: yes, of course.
W: Ok. I'll give it to you in a minute bye!
C: thanks!

Tuesday 9 October 2012

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Characters: 







LUC: He's a typical Frenchman. He's very romantic and he'll help Kate to join Charlie's love.





KATE: She's quite beautiful and she's really in love with Charlie. And she'll fight for this love.



 




JULIETTE: She's the new French, beautiful, rich and young Charlie's girlfriend. She's from Paris.



 

CHARLIE: He's Canadian. He's Kate's ex-boyfriend. He travels to Paris for work and he fell in love with Juliette.







Compare the characters Kate-Juliette and Charlie-Luc:

Kate-Juliette: Juliette is more beautiful than Kate. But Kate is more seduictive. Kate loves Charlie and she tries to fight for this love, Juliette doesn't want to "fight".
Charlie-Luc: Luce is more romantic than Charlie. Luc has helped Kate and finally kate decides to stay with him. Charlie decides to stay with Juliette.


Juliette:

Juliette: I'm a glamorous and elegant French woman.
One day in París I met a handsome Canadian man, called Charlie. We were in live. But he was engaged with kate, she was a Canadian woman. He talked to her and left his fiancé. He was in love with me. 
One day, Kate, came to París to talk to him and destroyed our relationship. But she couldn't, because of her fault I finally had and argument.

Summary- French Kiss
 
Characters: Kate, Luc, Charlie and Juliette.

Kate and Charlie was a Canadian couple. Kate wanted to married Charlie and bought a beautiful house for them.
One day, Charlie needs to went to Paris for the work, but Kate hate fly and only Charlie went to Paris.
In there, Charlie fallen in love with another girl, who is Juliette. Then he calls her and he explains what happened.
Kate decided to went to Paris and took a plane. In there she met a French man who was very strange, he's name is Luc. He had a plant with a beautiful necklace in there. When the plane lands he put it inside the Kate's bag because he didn't want that the police took him.
Kate went to Charlie's hotel, and in there, she asks to receptionist what Charlie’s room is, but the receptionist didn't say anything about it. Kate decided to wait Charlie in the hall. Then she met a man. When she saw Charlie with Juliette in the lift, she fainted. When she was faint, the men who had known took Kate's bag and he went to his flat.
Then when she got up Charlie and Juliette had disappeared and the strange boy too, but Luc was with her. Then Kate remember the man who sat next her could took her bags. Luc know where the man lived and they went to his house, when they arrived, Kate found her bag but didn't found the passport and the money, he found his plant but the necklace wasn't in there.
Luc went to found Kate because she had his necklace and then he saw her in the train and he went with her.
In the train Luc will tried took Kate's bag but she all the time control it.
Kate though, when she was sleeping, that the person next to her was Charlie but the person who stayed to her was Luc and she kissed him.
In the morning Kate ate cheese for breakfast, but she is lactose intolerance, and they need to get off the train at Luc's hometown. They stay at Luc's family home with a beautiful vineyard where Kate learns about about his past. Kate also learns that Luc knows a lot about wines.
At Cannes, the inspector tell Kate that she need to convince Luc to return to stolen necklace anonymously to avoid jail. Luc, who is planning to sell the necklace at Cartier, agrees to Kate's plan to have her sell the necklace. To make Charlie jealous, Luc pretend to be Kate's lover when they met Charlie and Juliette on the beach, and the deception works.
At dinner, Charlie apologizes to Kate and later tries to seduce her in his room, but she didn't want it and stop him. Meanwhile Luc pretends to seduce Juliette, but it didn't works because he calls her Kate in the bed when they are sleeping together.
The following morning at Cartier, Kate returns the stolen necklace to the inspector and purchases a Cartier check for $45,782.
After giving the check to Luc, Kate leaves for the airport pretending to meet Charlie. Soon after, the inspector approaches Luc and reveals the true and all that Kate has done for him. Then Luc rushes to the airport, boards the airplane, and confesses that he's in love with her and wants her to stay with him. Sometime later, Luc and Kate embrace each other in their beautiful new vineyard.
And they lived happily ever after.


Vocabulary 10 words:
-Approaches: enfocaments
-Apologizes: disculpa
-Avoid: evitar
-Necklace: collaret
-Rushes: precipitar-se
-Couple: parella
-Fainted: desmaiar-se
- Anonymously: anònima
-Lands: aterrar
-Lactose intolerance: intolerant a la lactosa