Orals Presentations

Chanez and Fiona: they talked about universities of U.K.(the famous ones and the the others that aren't so famous). For example: University of Cambrdige, university of Oxford, Imperial College of London, university of Newcastle etc.

Alex Peña: He talked about his research project work: Pacfren.

Adrià Alfaro: He talked about his research project: Fantastic Spanish literature: history, carachteristics etc.

Bernardo: He talked about the immigration of the city of London. The immigration has made London one of the most important cities on Earth 300 languages spoken in London.

Marina Sarquella: She talked about her research project: Presence of English on TV advertising.

Jordi Lleixà and Adrià Carmona: they made a diary about our trip to London with a video of all places we visited.

Claudia and Carles: They talked about our trip to London with some picture about all places we visited there.

Anna and Miriam: they asked to some londoners about London. They made questions like: waht means London to you? or What future you wanted for London?

Laia Salo and Elisenda Llado: they made a summary about the trip in London: Globe Theatre, Tower Bridge, London Eye etc.

Oriol Oliva: he talked about his trip to London with his friends. they wento to visit a football stadium and last day they were shopping.

Marina Julià and Neus: They talked about some places of London: Buckingham Palace etc.

Baldiri and Iñaki: they talked about Picadilly Circus, British Museum, London Eye, Big Ben, Buckongham Palace.

Oral Presentation 2

Hello! I’m in front of British Museum, in London.
British Museum is a museum of human history and culture. Their collection is more than 7 million objects. It was established in 1753. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759. Since 2001 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.
It has a lot of different departments:
- Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan: the museum has the largest and comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiques. It includes objects of all periods and 140 mommies approximately. Example: Colossal bust of Ramesses II “the Younger Memnon” (1250aC).
- Department of Greek and Roman antiquities. It’s the largest collection from Classical art, with more than 100.000 objects. Example: a piece of the Parthenon on Athens.
- Department of the Middle East: it has 330.000 objects more or less. British Museum has the greatest collection of Mesopotamian culture. Example: the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II.
- Department of Prints and Drawings: it’s the one of the most important collections about prints. It was funded in 1808. There are magnificent groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Example: Study for the Phrygian Sibyl, Raphael.
- Department of Asia: it has over than 75.000 objects from all Asia. It covers the material and visual culture of Asia. Example: collection of Chinese Antiquities.
- Department of Africa, Oceania and Americas. It collections from African, Oceanian and American art and culture is over 350.000 objects about indigenous people. Example: Hoa Hakananai’a from Easter Island.
- Department of Coins and Medals: it has one of the most important numismatic collections, comprising about a million of objects.
- Department of Prehistory and Europe: The prehistoric collections cover Europe, Africa and Asia, the earliest African artefacts. Example: the Battersea Shield.
- Department of Conversation and Documentation and Science: it was created in 1920. Conversation has six areas: ceramics, metals, organic material, stone, wall paintings and mosaics. Science department has and continues analyse and identify materials. Example: Portland Vase.
- Libraries and Archives: it covers all levels of education. It has more than 350.000 books.

The youthful face of poverty

Almost a quarter of a milion children in Catalonia are living in poverty, a recent study reports. Study says that 1,3 million people are living below the poverty line. Of that number,240,000, are young people under the age of 16. This estadistic put Spain on the bottom of the list of the 15 original members of the European Union. A lot of immigrants that come from outside the E.U. are living in poverty.
The study is of the director Carme Gómez-Granell said taht:"Spain has made an effort to improve the situation of the elderly".
In conclusion, we have to reduce this numbers,

Baby's dead

A man found yesterday a babay's dead body next to a bin in Madrid. The baby still had the umbilical cord. The police went there five minuts later, but the man said when he found the body, it was already "purple" and he also said that the baby was into a plastic bag.

It breaks the Article 3 of the Declaration of Human Rights that says that everybody has de right of life, liberty and security of person.

Israel vs. Palestina

ISRAEL vs. PALESTINA

tv host: Hello everybody !!!! :):):)
In Middle East there are problems, and one of the most importants is the war between Israel and Paslestina. Today, here, tere is an israelian who will explain us what happen and how she defend her religion and her land. Hello Sarah!
Sarah: Hello Tim! Yes, it's true, we have a lot of problems but I think we are right. All our lives we had been discriminated and mistreated. Hitler and nazis began a genocide and the survivors had no place to go. I don't think that Israel has the militar power to kick the palestinans out of our land.
Tim: Ok. This is an israelians opinion about this issue. Now, we'll gonna hear a palestinian one!
Shiva: Hello Tim! Yes that's true, but we have the same problems that they have. Genocide is alsi familiar for us. Anyway, I undestand that you are angry that we are in Jerusalem too. But for both it represents our country, our promissed land and religious influences both sides. Both see Jerusalem like a holy place and everyone wants to defend what's for them . But I am sure that there us an alternative to resche the conflict.
Sarah: I agree with you that there's an alternative. But I think that Jewish people don't have any other place to go. We went to Europe and they killed all that they could. And because of that we decided to return to our promissed land and now palestinians wants to kich us out. And they have a lot of islamic countries to go, whereas we can't leave elsewhere.
Shiva: Yes that's true, but we were raced. We were born here it's also ower home!
Sarah: I do eather. But you also have to understand us. Yet you believe in the Coran so do we in the Torah. And it says that Yahvé promissed us a land and that was Jerusalem, and it still is.
Shiva: But Mahoma, when he ran away from Mecca he also talked about this our Jerusalem. Mecca is a place where we go for devotion, but Jerusalem is our home, a holy place for us eather.
Sarah: I know what you mean, of course. And you say it now, you have two or more holy places to go and we only have Jerusalem:our place and the one of our ancestores.
Shiva: But being your holy country and our's too. Don't you think it's possbile to live together in peace there? Respecting each other beliefs. In the end, Torah, Coran and Bible talk and predicts about respecting each other.
Sarah: I think that we can't live together in the same place. This isn't the solution for the problem. But I'm sure that we can find a solution but it will be really difficult because we are fighting for our believe, and the religious fights are very difficult to resolve.
Tim: And now the time is over. That was a really interesting discussion. Next week we'll continue . . .

A film I watched, 21 Black Jack

21 BLACK JACK
It's a film that talks about a group of young people who are experts counting carts. They play in Las Vegas. The protagonist of the film is Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a shy and brilliant student from the MIT. He can't pay the registration of the university, and because of that the decides to play with his friends the casinos. Their teatcher of Maths, Micky Rosa, is their teatcher of this "extra school activity" that brings them every weekend to Las Vegas. But Ben starts to go too far of the line. But he and his friends have to be careful with the security guard Cole Williams.
Ben will have problems with the policieman and the teatcher...
but I won't explain it to you because I want you to watch the film.
I really like this film, I don't know why, perhaps because this can happen to everybody, and I can identify with him. And also, I really like the protagonist, Jim Sturgess (L)(L) xDDDD

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J.K. Rowling has written a new book which's called The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
This book is a collection of fives fables mentioned in Rowling's saga, after Dumbeldore's dead.
The expectations of the new book are really high. Before it publication the book was ranked the Number 1 on Amazon's British and U.S Web sites.
Also J.K.Rowling was launching the book with a tea party for a local of children in Edinburgh, in Scotland, where she lives.
The book is published on behalf of the charity by Harry Potter's traditional publishers. Rowling has said she hopes the book will "not only be a welcome present to Harry Potter fans, but an opportunity to give these abandoned children a voice."
J.K. Rowling has written the Harry Potter books and has sold 400 million copies and been translated into 67 languages.
I have read all the books of Harry Potter and I have seen all the films and it is fantastic. I really like J.K. Rowling and I want to read this book too. I think it will be also fantastic than the others!! :)