Find a text that you want to share with the rest of the class, contextualize it (say where it belongs to, who its author was) and explain why you find it interesting. Then read it aloud for one minute. This is your oral activity for the second term. When you are done, post a short summary of your experience on the blog.
Your text may be a newspaper article, a poem, a song, a novel, a review, a personal letter, a biography… whatever will do as long as it is in English.
Hello Maribel!
I did my oral exposition about a song called When You’re Gone by Avril Lavigne. This song is about a girl who misses her boyfriend.
I chose this song because I always liked and is one of my favorite songs.
This is the lyrics and the song:
http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=1017996
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R95CkWaLNo
In my oral exposition I read a song.
The name of the song is Count on me, and the singer is Bruno Mars.
I choose this song because is one of my favorite songs, and the lyrics are very beautiful.
The song talks about the important of the friendship.
Connt on me:
If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea
I’ll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see
I’ll be the light to guide you
Find out what we’re made of
What we are called to help our friends in need
You can count on me like one, two, three
I’ll be there and I know when I need it
I can count on you like four, three, two
And you’ll be there ’cause that’s what friends
Are supposed to do, oh yeah, ooh, ooh
If you toss and you turn and you just can’t fall asleep
I’ll sing a song beside you
And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me
Everyday I will remind you
You’ll always have my shoulder when you cry
I’ll never let go, never say goodbye
You can count on me ’cause I can count on you.
In my oral exposition I wanted to share a text that belongs to this piece of a book called ”Anne Frank Diary”. I looked a piece of this book on the internet because I didn’t have the book. This diary talks about a girl called Anne and her family. They have to hide in attic of a store in Amsterdam because if the nazis see them, they will die. Anne have had a diary and she wrote all the experiencies that she and her family lived.
The round, clearly defined spot where we stand is still safe, but the clouds gather more closely about us and the circle which separates us from the approaching danger closes more and more tightly. Now we are so surrounded by danger and darkness that we bump against each other, as we search desperately for a means of escape. We all look down below, where people are fighting each other, we look above, where it is quiet and beautiful, and meanwhile we are cut off by the great dark mass, which will not let us go upwards, but which stands before us as an impenetrable wall; it tries to crush us, but cannot do so yet. I can only cry and implore: ‘Oh, if only the black circle could recede and open the way for us!’
Hello Maribel!
I did my oral exposition about a speech said by Dalai Lama when he won the Nobel peace prize. I chose this text because I find very interesting what he says in it and because I think that peace and respect are very important and two basic things that a society must have.
For my oral activity, I have decide to read one song by Avril lavigne, because, I chose this song because this is my favorite singer, of all the songs she has Inspired me in making oral exposure because was an easy matter at the time to do so and because that song inspires me for many other things The lyrics of the song is not difficult to understand why I chose it also besides that Avril Lavigne is a very famous singer, so that everyone would recognize
The song that i was read:
“I always needed time on my own
I never thought I’d need you there when I cried
And the days feel like years when I’m alone
And the bed where you lie
is made up on your side
When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you’re gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you’re gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you’re gone
All the words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you
I’ve never felt this way before
Everything that I do
Reminds me of you
And the clothes you left
they lie on the floor
And they smell just like you
I love the things that you do
When you walk away
I count the steps that you take
Do you see how much I need you right now?
When you’re gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you’re gone
The face I came to know is missing too
And when you’re gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you
We were made for each other
Out here forever
I know we were
Yeah Yeah
All I ever wanted was for you to know
Everything I do I give my heart and soul
I can hardly breathe I need to feel you here with me
Yeah
When you’re gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you’re gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you’re gone
The words I need to hear will always get me through the day
And make it OK
I miss you”
In my oral activity I speak about this book.
The title of this book is the curse of the mummy and the author is joyce hannam.
The argument of this book is the next: Howard Carter and his friends in 1922 search a tutankamun tomb and wrote a diary abaut everything that happened while they searched the tomb of tutankamun,
HI,
i put here the link of the text that i read in the class about M.Luther King.http://www.thequietman.org/?p=114
I chose this text because I think that it’s interesan and every body know the text and was more easy to talk in front of the class.Now i put the text that I pronuncied for mi oral exposition:
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin.He was amirican pastor who developed a crucial work in the United States at the forefront of the movement for civil rights for African Americans and, in addition, active as an activist in numerous protests against war Viet Nam and poverty .He recived the nobel in 1964.
Her most famous discourse has the discourse called “I have a dream”,pronuncied during the paceful march on Washington D.C.The march was about black american people rihgts.
on the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Good bye!
Hi Maribel,
I’ll explain my oral activity. I’m going to read a chapter of the book The Secret Garden. This book I read in 2n ESO in my previous school, the book is very interesting and I like much.
The book explain about a girl that comes to live with her uncle, after her parents dead. Mary will have to discover the secrets of a magic garden with the help of her ill cousin.
In chapter 1 that I read there is a illness that kills everybody in the house except Mary.
bye bye!
Hi Maribel!
In my oral activity I read a part of one book, The curse of the mummy. I read this book because when we read it in second of ESO I like it a lot. I read a part of protagonist diary:,
Today, a month after my nicht visit to the tomb, we opened the tomb door again, this time in front of everibody. Many important Egyptians came to de Valley of the Kings with lots of newspaper men and interested people from all over the world. Many people talked to us, but I said nothing about the golden treasures in the tomb. Only my father knows about them.
In the second line I put esay but the correct word is easy.
Sorry Maribel it’s to late, but I just remember that I have to publish my oral activity.
Two days ago I was loooking for english books from my other school, Apiària. I found five or six, but I choose this because is more esay than the others to read in front of the class. That’s The secret garden, it’s about Mary, her parents died from cholera and she had to go with her uncle. There Mary and her cousin discover a secret garden and have a lot of adventures.
Now I’m going to read the book.
Hello Maribel:
In this oral activity I don’t remember to do anything.So I’ve read a text of the “Student’s Book”.
This text talks about how long will be the life of Elena.She has a healty life, so some scientists predicts she will be live to be 87.
Another scientists disagree. They belive that another scientists will get to alter the DNA to prevent that she won’t ageing.Science can make anything possible.
This text is on page 42 of “Student’s Book”
Good bye!
hi maribe I’m Ferran,
For my oral activity I decide to look to english newspapers to do my exposition about a new, but i don’t find any interesting and I decided to do my oral activity about a book that i found in my house that is called ” The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. This book treats about one university teacher who explain to his boys a histories about his town. And axactly, returning of the job, he is chased by a gentelman without head, and this was a one of the legends of his town.
I chose the fragment of the pursuit of the teacher to expose in front of the class!!
no more at the moment, bye
Hi! Maribel.
This was my oral activity and my reading aloud.
I said that I had brouth one english studen’s book of my mother, that she was using that book few years ago.
But now she is studing upper-intermediate level.
And she borrow me his book.
Means in britain
A traditional English Breakfast is a very big meal-sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms…. But nowadays may poeple just have cereal with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Marmalade and jam are not the same! Maramalade is made from orenges and jam is made from other fruits. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffee, often instant coffee, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting!
Well, I was tolk about meal’s children too.
That’s all about my oral activity and reading aloud.
See you soon!
Daniel.
I brought one of my favourite songs, it’s name is Hurts-Stay and is a love song, that express a lot of sentiments, and i like a lot the lyrics and the ritm of the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFUqS6cngdY
My whole life waiting for the right time
To tell you how I feel
And though I tried to tell you that I need you
Here I am without you
I feel so lost but what can I do?
Because I know this love seems real
But I don´t know how to feel.
We say goodbye in the pouring rain
And I break down as you walk away
Stay,stay
Cause all my life I´ve felt this way
But I could never find the words to say
Stay,stay
Alright ,everything is alright
Since you came along
And before you
I had nowhere to run to
and nothing to hold on to
I came so close to giving it up
And I wonder if you know
How it feels to let you go?
We say goodbye in the pouring rain
And I break down as you walk away
Stay,stay
Cause all my life I´ve felt this way
But I could never find the words to say
Stay ,stay
So change your mind
And say you´re mine
Don´t leave tonight
Stay
We say goodbye in the pouring rain
And I break down as you walk away
Stay,stay
Cause all my life I felt this way
But I could never find the words to say
Stay ,stay
bye Maribel!:)
Hello Maribel ,
This is teh first time that i writte here , i didn’t find the web adrees until now , and for this i hadn’t could writte before. I havn’t a very good memory , because the last day I forgot to prepare my oral exposition , and I made it spontaniously. I read a text from the book ,I’m not sure but i think that was from the pag 82 , talk abou a boy that had an accident. This boy became ill , and had problems to remember , he lost a bit of memory.He make a memory makeover , keeping photos about her family , friens , special days. And he is winning memory faster , he will be ill soon.
This is all maribel , see you tomorrow.
Ferran
Hi Maribel!!,
In my oral activity I’m going speak to the classe of a fragment of text that read does two years called the Chest of Samantha, the book dealts of love and of friendship between a few youngest and as she does not want to do feel badly to the people, writes it and saves it in his chest, until and a day his friend discovers it and reads and discovered his thoughts.
byee!
Hello Maribel, now I speak about Shakespeare, the most important dramatist in the world, and he is a very important influence for me.
“William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.”
hi maribel!
the text that i read in the class was a chapter of the book “romeo and juliet”.
it is the only book in inglish that i liket i was read in second of Eso.
In the class i was read a part of the book i was read the scene balcony.
For my oral exposition i chose a Pau Casal’s speech. I thought that it’s a very important text about peace and Catalonia.
Pau Casals was a catalan musician bornt in El Vendrell. Maybe he is known to compose ” El cant dels ocells ”, the song used in Camp Nou, when someone dies.
Here’s the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugrDYxWJDo&feature=related
See you Maribel
Now I don’t remember the day that I did the oral exposition, but I remember that we went to the library to see the film “Gran Torino”.
In my oral exposition I read a fragment of the book “Barça el millor any de la nostra vida” that explain the football match wich were disputed with two fantastics teams, Chelsea and Barça. Also explain, and is obviously, the moment of the match, the goal of Andrés Iniesta, the goal that took Barça to the final of Champions League in Rome.
I choose this text because I’m a fan of Barça, but also because few days before the match I said that the final result of the match was 1-1, and I guessed correctly the result.
Through a tiny crack in the oppposing defence, Andrés Iniesta threads an unforgettable goal. On 6th of May 2009, the beating heart of Fuentealbilla take us to Rome.
“I put my heart and soul into the shot and it came out perfect.” said Iniesta. Perseverance, effort, talent, luck: attributes of Guardiola’s Barça; attributes of the genius from La Mancha. After 183 minutes laying siege to the Chelsea goal, after more than three hours of persistence, reward comes in the end. At the same instant, all around the globe, thousands shout for the goal that is responsible for more lost voices than any other in Barça’s history.
In the first leg, neither Barça nor Chelsea can score. They try, but, as often happens, luck also has something to say about the result. In the return match, at Stamford Bridge, Essien scores a goal worthy of his team‘s high standard. A clash of strength, emotion, faith and pride; a clock counting down too fast until Iniesta works his 93rd minute miracle.
Hi Maribel !
In my oral activity i brought this book Tales of the supernatural and read a paragraph of one history . This history is A Shocking confessinons :
” Maybe he was mad . Maybe he had a sixth sense .
Or was he really haunted ? He told me yhe frist part of the story , and i saw the last part with my own eyes .
At school my friend Haldane and i hete a boy called Visger. When we did something wrong , he always told yhe teacher . One day we stole soe cherries from tree.
Do you know who did it , visger ? the teacher asked .
It was Haldane and Winston , he replied .
Later , Haldane asked him how he knew it was us .
I didn’t know , he said . Tjust felt certain . And I was rigth , Haldane and I grew up . Visger became a vegetarian and never drank alcohol .
He also became Sir George Visger .
Hi Maribel,
For the oral activity that I have done I brought a book which I read in my old school. I read the begining of the book. I took that book because it was one of the firsts that I read. The titel of it is aladdin. It is a known story and even there are some movies about this story.
This is all
see you teacher
Hy Maribel!
My reading text is about the song Summer Cat of Billie the Vision and the Dancers. It was the music that it televised in the advertisement of “Estrella Damm” two years ago approximately.
I choose this song because I like it and I remember good moments of last year with my friends. I also choose because I think in summer every time that I hear it.
It isn’t song difficult understand and by this reason I like it. Other songs are difficult understand because the singer sing very fast or abbreviate a lot.
This is the song: http://www.musicstarx.com/videos/video-y-letra-de-summercat-billie-the-vision-the-dancers/
Bye Maribel! See you tomorrow.
Hi Maribel, my oral exposition is about one music group: Simple Plan.
I will read some information about this group so explain something about these:
“Simple Plan is a French Canadian pop punk band originally from Montreal(Quebec), and formed in 1999, talking shape in 2000. Currently it’s members are Pierre Bouvier (vocals), David Desrosiers (bass), Sabastien Lefvre (guitar), Jeff Stinio (guitar) and Chuck Comeau (drums).
Ths band’s name is obscure. The band members have given various answers funny on this point, including the single from the band plan was to get a job at MacDonald’s, or similar entities in fast food. However, more likely, the name is derived from the film: “A simple plan”.
Earlier his carreer, Simple Plan have a strong relationship with “wath’s new scooby-Doo?”. They performed the song and appeared as themselves in the episode “Simple plan, and the mad invisible”, in wich excerpts from “Tje wost day ever” is heard twice. Also, “I’d do anything” can be heard in the episodi “That is, green mystery machine”.
Simple Plan appeared in the 2000 film “New York minute”, with “Vacation” song in a live concert as part of the film.
Official sourcees are known to the song “holding on track” will be like in the filme movie: “Ga’hoole. The guardian Legend”.
His musical style has been described as pop punk, rock pop rock and the new album is yet to dance out.
The first two discs are considered pop punk and rock, while the third is pop rock.”
And now, I will explain the awards which have been or where they have won:
“They have won 9 awards and 8 nominees in other vents (in the oral exposition, I said this awards, but i don’t write this because would be so long)”
And this is my oral exposition.~
See you soon!
Hi Maribel,
For my oral activity I have brought the book: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. I chose this book because this is my first book in English that I’ve had.
Jules Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is known for novels sach as:
– Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
– A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864).
– Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Now I’ll get a link from the beginning of the book:
fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/elt/catalogue/0-19-424336-2-a.pdf
Hi Maribel!
I’m Raimon and I’m going to speak about the fragment of the novel “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien. The part that I read, you cannot see it in the film, is the part between Bilbo Baggins found the ring and Frodo gave it.
Hello Maribel,
my oral exposition is about Josh Smith (a NBA player)
Josh Smith borned in December 5 1985 in College Park, Georgia. Is an American professional basketball player who plays with the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. His popular nickname is “J-Smoove”.
Smith attended John McEachern High School. For his senior year, Smith transferred to Oak Hill Academy. As a player for Oak Hill’s basketball team, he first earned his reputation as a consummate shot-blocker, which he would maintain in the NBA. He played alongside former Atlanta Hawk teammate Randolph Morris and the Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard on the highly regarded Atlanta Celtics AAU team in the summer of 2003.
Here I only put the introduccion of my oral exposition and here I put the link with the rest of the text I rode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Smith
Goodbye!
For my oral exposition I talk about the text off the british diary The Guardian. The text is for the brillant victory of F.C.Barcelona to Real Madrid ( 5-0 ).
I choose this tetxt becoause I love F.C.Barcelona and this victory is important because all of the Madrid’s reporters shut up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/29/barcelona-real-madrid-la-liga
This is the link of the web.
HELLOOO MARIBEL.
NOW I WRITE MY ORAL ACTIVITIE. tHIS ARTICLE TALKS ABOUT THE VICTORY IN THE WORLD CUP FOR SPAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA, AND NOW I WRITE THE ARTICLE.
Iniesta scored the dramatic winner, 27 minutes into extra time, to claim Spain’s biggest ever sporting achievement.
In a fiery game which always looked destined for extra time, English referee Howard Webb issued 13 bookings, while Holland’s Johnny Heitinga saw red in the second half of extra time after receiving a second booking.
The victory sees Spain become only the third nation to hold the European and world football crowns at the same time, two years on from their European Championships success in Vienna.
The result continues a history of Dutch failure on football’s greatest stage, having also been losing finalists in 1974 and 1978.
Iniesta’s winner was met with scenes of joy in Madrid, where over 200,000 fans gathered to watch the match on a big screen in the city centre.
Hello Maribel, three weeks ago In my oral exposition I said:
I have chosen I don’t want to miss a thing from Aerosmith because it is a very beautiful love song and it is very important for me. Aerosmith is an American heavy band that has sold a lot of CD’s in the world.
This song is the sound track of Armageddon. When I watched the film I loved the song, this song talks about love and desire between a boy and a girl.
When I’m very sad and alone I put this wonderful song and I listen to it. Then I forget all my problems.
I’ll give you the link of the lyrics of the song.
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/armageddon/idontwanttomissathing.htm
See you soon
Good bye teacher
The last thing it’s that the compositor of the song it’s Elton Jonh
here i leave the song
It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside
I’m not one of those who can easily hide
I don’t have much money but boy if I did
I’d buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one’s for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they’ve got me quite cross
But the sun’s been quite kind while I wrote this song
It’s for people like you that keep it turned on
So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I’ve forgotten if they’re green or they’re blue
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen
Hellooooo
I brought one of my favourite songs, it’s name is Your song, the first time that i listened this song was when i was 10 years and i saw the film Moulin Rouge. Also Moulin Rouge it’s one of my favourite film. Your song it’s a love song, my favourite sentence is : how wonderfull life is now you are in the world, i think that it’s very very nice! The protagonist of the film is Nicole Kidman that she’s my favourite actress too.
Well, this is all
good bye maribel!
Hi I’m Jordi and I’ll do my oral exposition of the The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I choose this novel because is one of the bests that I have read never. Also one of the reasons are that I love the time that is envolved. There is a book of the novelist Johhn Boyne, and is a history of a boy that lives in the Nazi’s times in German . The novel descrives the period of time that the Nazis impose his power in a point of view of a soon of a Nazi’s coronel that dies for an accident in a concentration camp. The argument is a completly criticize of the situation that who lives at the time.
Now I post a part of the first chapter:
Bruno nodded. Always many visitors came to the house (great men and women in uniform with machines is to write that he could not play with dirty hands), and all were very polite with her father, commenting that he was a man with a future and that Furyhad big plans for him.
“Well, sometimes when someone is very important, “continued Mother, your boss asks you to go somewhere to make a very special job.
– What kind of work? Asked Bruno, because frankly (and he always tried to be honestwith himself) was not entirely sure what it was the work of the Father.
Hello!
The text that I read was a chapter of the book “Tales of the supernatural” that contains some horror tales written by authors like E.A Poe, Charles Dickens and others.
In the first part there are descriptions talking about the authors, explaining their lifes , borns , etc.
The fragment that I read was a part of the tale “The signalman”, written by C.Dickens that talks about an haunted railwayman.
Well maribel , I don´t know if is necessary to write the fragment that I read. If it was necessary , please let me know as soon as you can to write it!
bye teacher!
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
when mountains crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
Our love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
Inspiration’s what you are to me, inspiration, look… see.
And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness….I’m glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.
I chose this song because Led zeppelin is my favouritte rock goup: they have very good lyrics and music too, and I think that this song is the best to see the love side which Led zeppelin hides deep in side it self, the strong side of the gorup is known for everybody who knows a little bit Led zeppelin. And I want to say that they’re not a rock group or heavy metal, it’s impossible to say what they play, they’re just Led zeppelin, no, sorry, better: They’re just the best, it’s a pitty not be borned in the seventies.
Bye, bye Maribel
God shave the queen!
Hi Maribel.
My oral activity speak about one song to Seconhand Serenade. This song is Fall for you and speak that one boy lose her love. But she returns with him.
This song is very important for my because when listen it, I see that when commit error’s, don´t turning back, the past is the present and future. For this reason it’s very important for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKi125iqnFg
http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=1216346
Bye Teacher =)
Hi!
I didn’t know what to talk about or read, and searching at the internet I found a page where there were some texts which talked about typical English things or things from London or England. But I thought that talking about Big Ben or the Queen was boring, so finally I found the ‘Fish and chips’ text, and although I don’t like this dish I thought that it was a typical thing and a original idea.
” “Fish and chips” is deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes, and a popular take-away food. Fish and chips is originally from the United Kingdom, but also very popular in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and some coastal towns of the Netherlands and Norway; and also increasingly so in the United States and elsewhere. For decades it was the dominant (if not the only) take-away food in the United Kingdom. The fried potatoes are called chips in British and international usage; and while American English calls them french fries, the combination is still called “fish and chips”. (Potato chips, an American innovation, are a different potato-derived food, and are known as crisps in the United Kingdom.) Fish and chips have separately been eaten for many years – though the potato was not introduced to Europe until the 17th century. The originally Sephardi dish Pescado frito, or deep-fried fish, came to Netherlands and England with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the 17th and 18th centuries. The dish became popular in more widespread circles in London and the south-east in the middle of the 19th century (Charles Dickens mentions a “fried fish warehouse” in Oliver Twist) whilst in the north of England a trade in deep-fried “chipped” potatoes developed. It is unclear when and where these two trades were merged to become the fish and chip shop industry we know today. The first combined fish and chip shop was probably the one opened in London by Joseph Malin in 1860. During World War II, fish and chips were one of the few foods that were not rationed in the UK. ”
see you!
Hi Maribel!
Today I have done my oral activity. I had read the four last paragraphs of the last chapter of the book Cold Mountain. First I was going to read the first chapter, but I realised that the vocabulary was a bit dificult so I went to the end of the story and I saw that the last part was better to read in front of the class.
Cold Mountain is a love story. Inman is in love with Ada, but he has to leave the town and go to fight in the American Civil war. The book explains all that happens since he decides that he wants to return to Cold Mountain and see Ada again from… (I won’t explain how the love story ends)
Byee! see you
Hello maribel,
my oral activity is about michael jordan.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in New York on 17 February of1963, known as Michael Jordan and nicknamed “Air”, “His Majesty the air” or “Air Jordan” is a former professional basketball player U.S.. At present, HE
itis the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA franchise. He is considered by most fans and experts as the best basketball player in history. He retired permanently in 2003, having done so on two previous occasions in 1993 and 1999.He won six rings with the Chicago Bulls, averaging 30.1 points per game in his career, the highest average in league history. In addition, he won 10 scoring titles, MVP of the season 5, 6 Finals MVP, named to the NBA the NBA ten times, nine times on the defensive leader in steals for three years and a award for best defense of the season.
Since 1983, has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine 50 times, a record, in addition to being named “Sportsman of the Year in 1991. He was named “best athlete of the twentieth century” by ESPN and second behind Babe Ruth on the Associated Press.
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THANKS FOR YOUR TEXT DARIEL, YOU SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN THE TEXT YOURSELF THOUGH
I brought the second part of my favourite novel. It’s a impossible love story about two teenagers. It IS callED “I want you” by Federico Moccia. He wrote the first part in 1992 and it IS callED “Three meters above the sky”. In 2004 he wrote the second part.
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rideREAD the two books lasT summer on holidays and I really like it.On the one hand , we can see in the first novel a lot of feelings. On the other hand “I want you” mixES love with originality. In my opinion, I prefer the first one, but bo
uth are very good.The story happens in Italy. This novels had a great success among yoUng people.
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rideREAD a short descriptions of the characters:Step
Stefano Mancini,also called Step.Is the male protagonist of” tre metri sopra il cielo”(in English “Three meters above the sky”. Step is very handsome,he has got brown,curly hair,fantastic green eyes,is tall and slim. He’s the typical bully-boy who all the girls love. He enjoys riding morbikes and going out with his friends.Only when he meet Babi,he will show some very difficult aspects of his character.
In deed Step is not so violent and bossy, the truth is that he is a sad person,who has had a difficult past and only Babi is able to change the nasty character of Step and makes him fall in love.
Babi
Roberta Gervasi,also called Babi is the female protagonist of”tre metri sopra il cielo” Babi is very beautiful,she has got blond and straight hair,with two wonderful blue eyes,she’s tall with a perfect body. Babi is a perfect daughter and student. She will fall in love with Step,even if they’re totally different.
In fact she will cause big changes in his character and for her parents she will be unrecognizable.
Pollo
Pollo is Step’s best friend and Pallina’s boyfreind. He’s a boy,of average height,almost bald,he has got brown eyes and nice body. He’s very funny and sweet. Like his best friend,he loves spending time at the bar with his friends,in the gym and riding motorbikes.(He will lose his life during a motorbike race)
Pallina
Pallina is Babi’s best friend but they’re exactly the opposite.Unlike Babi,Pallina, is very impulsive and she enjoys amusing herself without rules.
She’s very nice.she’s got brown hair,brown eyes and she’s short.She will become Pollo’s girlfriend.
That’s all.See you!
Laura
Hello Maribel,
for my oral activity I choose a speech made by Kimi Raikkonen after winning
theirHIS first World Formula 1 Championship in 2007, at “Intergalos International Circuit” (Brazil) withScuderiaFerrari TEAM.AtIN this speech, Kimi taltks abouttheHIS sensations and feelings after winning the World F1 Championship and thanks everyone for their support.Then, I leave the speech.
“I am so happy it almost hurts! This is like a dream come true. This is something I wanted to reach since I’ve been a child. I was seven years old when I first saw a race track: it was an old, small kart circuit called Bembole; just five kilometres from where I lived. It was like a second home for me.
“Now, 22 years later, I have many favourite race tracks, but the most important one is Interlagos, more than 5,000 kilometres away from home! I’ve always said that the aim of my career is to become world champion. I came very close a couple of times and in the end everything turned out fine.
“We have always given our best to try to win. Doing that in sport you have to always push to the max until the end. You never know what may happen in a race; you only have to look at the last three races and you know what I’m talking about. Fuji was really terrible for us: we were at the back of the pack and our race was over almost immediately.
We left Japan and were 17 points behind, without the possibility to fight back. I think I can say that not more than ten people outside of the team would have bet on us. But we didn’t give up. In a certain sense we believe in miracles.
China was our joker: we won and the driver on the top of the standings didn’t make any points. That gave us some hope, but there weren’t many chances for us left. The last race was really emotional. The first four drivers in the field didn’t retire, but there was a tough fight for positions between us and our competitors.
“Maybe I had the best start of the season and maybe I could have passed also Felipe at the first corner, but I had a plan and it didn’t involve a fight with my teammate. I could see in my mirrors that Hamilton was next to Alonso in turn 3 and that he had a problem. I realised that we had the chance we had hoped for: this first lap seemed to be decisive for the whole championship.
“It was a great race and I think that I’ve never experienced such emotions in the cockpit. Everything worked perfectly fine. It was like a birthday present from heaven! We could have had more pace and I want to thank Felipe again for his support: he did what he could do, just like a perfect team-mate.
“As a team we couldn’t do more than a double-win, but when I had crossed the line the most important thing to know was what Hamilton had done. I asked for information over the radio but there was just silence for a couple of seconds: finally Chris told me that he came in seventh and my heart nearly went into flames due to happiness! This is it: now we’re World Champions!
“I want to thank all those who have been close to me over all these years, all my fans. Thanks to the team: it is fantastic being a part of the greatest team of all times. This year I really enjoyed Formula One more than ever before. I dreamt about winning the title with Ferrari and I bet that this is every driver’s dream.
“This team never stops: they work at the max and never give up. We had some difficult moments, but we always managed to come back. And this shows the quality of the people working there. Thanks again! But I also want to thank the sponsors and partners: together with them we really have the package of a World Champion!
“Now I go to the Finali Mondiali at Mugello, to celebrate with all of Ferrari: it’s my first time there and it’s the perfect moment to get there. And then it’s time for a holiday, the first as World Champion.”
Bye!
ALEX, THE SPEECH IS OK, BUT YOUR TEXT IS QUITE SHORT.
I have chosen this text correspondig to the lyrics of Katy Perry “firework” because it is a song that brings joy, encouragement for those who are sad, etc.
IT talkS about
thatpeople unique and original LIKEto beourselves and nobody can replace us so we have a light inside us that makes us shine. Then I leave a fragment of the song:Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting throught the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in
Do you ever feel already buried deep
Six feet under scream
But no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there’s still a chance for you
Cause there’s a spark in you
You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine
Just own the night
Like the Fourth of July
Cause baby you’re a firework
Come on show ’em what you’re worth
Make ’em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you’re a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make ’em go “Oh, oh, oh!”
You’re gunna leave ’em fallin’ down-own-own
I ho