divendres, 27 de febrer del 2009

Frankenstein: the films vs. the book

I’ve read Frankenstein by Mary Shalley and then I’ve seen the film based in the book. There are some differences and now I’m going to tell some of them to you.
- In the film Justin’s mother appears and in the book she doesn’t.
- In the book Victor’s mother dies of an illness, in the film she dies guing birth to William.
- In the film Victor receives a diary form her mother but not in the book.- In the book appears Ernest, the youngest brother of the family but in the film he doesn’t.
- In the film Victor meets Henry from University but in the book they met during childhood.- In the book, Victor’s laboratory is in one island in the lake, and in the film it’s near the University.
- In the film the experiment is not totally secret because Victor’s teacher and Henry know about it, but in the book nobody knows anything.
- In the film there is an epidemic.-In the film, Felix’s grandchild is a boy and in the book is a girl.
- In the film one man asks Felix for money and then he hits him. After the monster saves Felix and they go into the house. This doesn’t happen in the book. In the book the monster saves a girl from the river and this doesn’t happen in the film.
- The photo on the chain, in the book is of Victor’s mother and in the film is a Victor’s photo.
- In the film Justine has to pass a trial and in the book it doesn’t happen.
- The monster kills Victor’s father before the honeymoon in the film but, in the book, Victor’s father dies of sadness when Victor tells that Elisabeth is dead to him.
- In the film the monster plucks out the Elisabeth’s heart but in the book the monster drowns her.
- The body that Victor uses to make the second monster in the film is from Elizabeth and in the book the body is unknown.- In the film the monster dies with Victor’s body and in the book he doesn’t die.

dijous, 26 de febrer del 2009

The English project




Today I'm going to talk about a very interesting topic, the English project in which we are included. Well Gemma as you know I don’t like the project but I’ve never told you why it is and I hope that after this post you’ll understand better my point of view.

In one hand, I agree with you in that during the real life all is not going to be grammar and listening because what you need more is to talk properly and to write, and I think that doing oral expositions is a good idea to practice.

But in other hand, I don’t like to make a blog and I think that is not a good idea to improve my English. It’s true that we need to practice the writing of course, but a blog is a boring and repetitive mode to do that. I think that people shows less interest in this subject because they think as I do, that making a blog is a very boring task and we don’t like it so much.

Another thing that I don’t agree is that in the mark, are more important the blog and the oral presentations that the exams, because maybe doing oral presentations and writing helps us to improve our English but the most important thing in all subjects are the exams because it’s the way that you can show if you’ve learnt what you must and gives you an idea about the level of comprehension of the language by the student.

I don’t think that this post is going to change your point of view about this project, but I hope that it has served to help you to understand why some of the students don’t like this project so much and that you can compare the point of views of the teacher and of the student.

Crackovia




Today I’m going to talk about one TV program which is very famous, I’m talking about Crackovia. This program is emitted on TV-3 on monday night and it is a humoristic program about the sports in Catalonia. The name comes from another famous program which is also a humoristic program that goes about politics.

In Crackovia every week appear the most important things that have happened the last days in the Catalonian sports. All the program is a joke but it’s very funny and some of the actors are very good representing their paper. In Crackovia you can see gags about FC Barcelona’s team, about Real Madrid's problems, you can see the Gasol brother’s as well and some interesting images about the RCD Espanyol. There appear some other characters like Rafa Nadal, Johann Cruyff and some others. Some of the gags are very good and if you watch the program it’s sure you’ll smile a lot.

I think that this is one of the programs that I like more and I think that is very interesting because you can smile and you can know some things about the sports that maybe you didn’t know before as well.


Here you have one link where you are going to watch a very funny video about the program:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLaiWSDT_c

dimarts, 17 de febrer del 2009

The NBA all-star


Today I'm going to talk about one very spectacular event that is celebrated every year in United States. I'm referring to the all-star of the NBA. Every year people vote for the best players of the year and they play one wonderful basketball match with a lot of incredible plays. Apart from that, this event also has a rookie’s match and some competitions of slam dunk and 3-point shooting for example.
During these days people from around the world can see the best basketball players of the world doing very spectacular things which they can do with the ball. Around this event there's also a big market because people spend a lot of money during this event.
This year the all-star was celebrated in Phoenix the last weekend and they participated a lot of Spanish players. The west won the principal match and Nate Robinson got the Slam dunk.