A woman who was 59 years old has died this friday afternoon. She was dragged by a wave in Roses. This woman, Sylvie S., was there with the husband and her grandson, ho is 12 years old.The police received the SOS 19 hours later. The man and the child could go out of the water but later, the police went there and helped the woman. She was already dead.
I have talked about this news because it's something that has happened here and the same afternoon I went to see the sea, and it was really angry. It was incredible. I don't understand how someone can go near the water with this waves.
Presentation: I think it's a good presentation because it was original, with a lot of images and funny.We used the Prezi that it's easier to manage and its more beautiful than the powerpoint.
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Body language and eye contact: I have to stop touching my hair because sometimes the audience can't understand what I'm saying. 7%
Structure: we started with the history, that it's the boring part and then we talked about different things. I think it's a good structure. 10%
Content: We found different information and we used it. If people weren't interested on this topic maybe didn't like what we were saying, but I think it was good. 30%
Language: I explained everything with my words, I only studied the principal idea and then I developed the topic with my words, trying to be as clear as possible. 17%
Pronunciation and intonation: I think I don't have many problems in this part. Maybe there's some words I don't pronounce good, but I think it's not my biggest problem. 18%
Self-evaluation: In my opinion, I need to improve my eye contact and some pronunciation.
FINAL MARK: 9'2
PRESENTATION
VOGUE MAGAZINE INTRODUCTION Hi, we are Ona and Irene and we are going to introduce you our presentation. We’re going to talk about this magazine, the American Vogue, because we thought that it was an interesting topic to talk about and it was related with the film “The devil wears prada”, that we’ll talk about this later, and with the last unit where we studied fashion.Vogue is a fashion magazine and it’s one of the most important magazine in the whole world. I’m sure you all have heard about that., and maybe, some of you use to buy this magazine. HISTORY The Vogue's history started in 1892 when Arthur Baldwin Turnure founded the first issue from this magazine in New York. His objectives were speaking about life's styles and the interests for New York's elite. In this time Vogue was a weekly journal.In 1909 Mr. Turnure died and Conde Nast publications bought Vogue. The company wanted to be bigger and in 1916 he established separate British Vogue and later French Vogue and the Spanish one. Today Conde Nast publications owns many magazines such as Glamour, Allure, W, Self, GQ, Details, Elegant Bride, House and Garden, Domino, Lucky, Golf Digest, and The New Yorker, just to name a few.Conde Nast transformed Vogue's advertising base and thanks that he made Vogue a completely women's fashion magazine. He also pushed for the covers of Vogue to be done by the best illustrators and photographers.Conde Nast died in 1942, but Conde Nast Corporation still lives on today.In 1973, American Vogue became a monthly publication.The other most important person who has been working in the magazine is Anne Wintour. She has been the editor in chief since 1988. She transformed this magazine in the most fashion's magazine in the world. Today some people called it "The fashion bible". Until this moment, on the magazine's covers only appeared the face from famous people. Wintours changed it, and her covers appeared all the body, unknown models and famous women. Like Michele Obama, Hilary Clinton, Kate Moss, Anne Hathaway, Sara Jessica Parker, Sienna Miller and others.In one year it’s possible to sell 132 millions copies.In 2007 they presented some photos from their magazine in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.Nowadays, it's published in more than twenty countries, like Italy, Spain, China, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico... CURIOSITIES On the one hand, we can say that in this magazine only appeared 4 males on the cover: LeBron James, a basketball player, George Clooney and Richard Gere, who were actors and Ryan Lochte. They always appeared with a woman. Some observers criticized the cover as a prejudicial depiction of James because he was like King Kong.Does anyone knows about the relation between the film and the magazine? As we said before, the devil wears prada’s related with Vogue. Lauren Weisberger, the author of the book, was Anne Wintour secretary, and we can see on the film how Anne was (Miranda Presley on the film or book). This film is based in real facts, the experience from Lauren.The september issue:The September issue is a 2009 American documentary film about Anne Wintour and her staff during the production in 2007 issue of American Vogue. In this documentary we can see the longest issue in the world, that had 840 pages and it’s weight was about 2’5 kg. But this changed the last September that the magazine was bigger than the other, that had 970 pages. COVERS As you can see here, at the beginning the covers were draws, later only appeared the face from famous models, and when Anne arrived, started appearing famous women in general, and showing the body, not only the face.This cover is from Dali, and he drew it in 1944. We think it’s surrealist and original. CONCLUSION To finish this presentation we want to say that it’s possible that you weren’t interested on this topic, we understand you! but we thought that it could be a little bit interesting because we watched on the class the film and we studied the vocabulary related on it. These are the reasons we have presented this to you.In our opinion, we can’t realize how they manage all this, because we think that it’s only buying some clothes, but behind this, there is a lot of money and people working to make it better.We hope you liked our presentation. Do you have any questions?
I've known her since we were little. She's medium height, green-eyed and she's got wavy hair. As our parents always say, when we were extremely little we were always pulling out our hair and maybe we hated each other. But nowadays, I think she's one of my best friends.
She's a bit special, I think she has a mature mentality to be 16 years old, but I find it special. The most relevant feature about her is that she's really strong-willed in everything, especially on the studies. The other thing I can say about her is that she's very shy (sometimes I get surprised even knowing her). If she meets a person, she's not going to be chatty with him, but if she particularly knows you, she can never stop talking. And thats what I like about her.
I admire her because she shows you how important is a person to her, and that's something I really love. Sometimes we argue about stupid things because we both are stubborn. But she's my friend.
Evernote, the notes app, has been hacked and this fact has forced to the company to ask the users to change their account passwords.
There's one message on the official Blog of Evernote and it says that the hackers didn't take key words from the users or information about online payments. However, they have recomended to all them to reset the passwords as a caution.The team from Evernote say: "In our investigation we haven't found evidence that they really entered, changed or lost some content kept in Evernote. We don't have any evidence that some information about payments to Evernote Premium or Evernote Business had been achieved."Another important thing, is that the hackers could be able to get information like user names, passwords and e-mails.For all this reasons, Evernote will request all the users to change the password the next time they login this app.
In my opinion I think that this news was expected... Nowadays everything is getting hacked and it's better not keeping a lot of things on the Internet, because any day you can get scared. I don't use this app but I have it on my mobile phone, and now that I know that, I'm sure I'm not going to use it!
As we did the oral presentation about a topic related with The Devil Wears Prada, I though that I could talk about The Horse Whisperer. This film is based in a book wrote by Nicholas Evans and it's made in USA.
All start when the little girl takes the horse on the night and everything is snowy. She's with a friend walking across the forest when the horses suddenly scare of the sound of a truck, and after falling down the horse because of the snow (they slide off) and the friend and her horse died, while the protagonist's horse is really hurt. This horse suffers a psychological trauma and he become crazy. The mother brings the horse to a whisperer and with the time, the horse gets better and the girl can ride him again.
For me, the hardest part of the film is when the horse gets hurted, because I imagine if one day this happens to me. It's extremely painful for me if a horse suffers because of my fault, it's horrible. People that never have had any bad experience with the health of an animal to love, they probably won't understand this feelings.
This is one of the last post of this term, and
as you can see on this blog I’m more telling information about me than anything
else. I prefer writing about things I feel.
Today at english class we have described a
person from the class, and I’ve described Ona (you can see it on the blog that
it’s posted). This hour finished and I went to my class. David Costa’s sitting
next to me, and he immediatly said: who have you described? And I told him that
I described Ona, and he became sad. He was because he described me, and I knew
that when Sonia, the teacher, gave me and Ona (I think she was there) Jaume and
David’s compositions. I read David’s description and it was me.
I think this boy doesn’t express his feelings,
because he wrote something that really impressed me: he said that when he’s
sad, I always try to make him feel better and that I’m always with a happy
face, with a smile. And that’s what he loves about me. Finally, in my opinion,
the only think we can say is that he isn’t an easy person, it’s only that you
have to know how to manage him.
As you can see in this picture, we are some
friends together in Eloi’s House. We were celebrating Ferran and David’s
birthday but the last one isn’t on the photo because he had to leave at home.
This party was organized by the guys, and it
was clearly that they don’t know how to manage anything, it was everything out
of control. They didn’t planned to make any cake, so Berta, Robyn and Caspin
had to make it two hours before meet there.
We had so fun, especially when we remembered
some times when we were child, it was incredible. You can’t imagine how we
laughed this moment.
Eventually, I only can say that they’re really
good friends and we can have very good times together.
That’s it! I’m going to write about two people
I really love. As you can see on the photo, they are Ona and Laura. Laura left
this course to study in Roses, and we don’t use to meet if it’s not on the
weekend. It was yesterday, we went to have breakfast infront of the beach. It
was precious. There were some ships on the see, little ships. But it doesn’t
really mind. We were talking about serious things, personal things, and later
we went to take some photos, and that’s one of this day. I like to spend some
time with them, they’re lovely people and they’re few people with who I can
really rely on.
The friends are always there, and you finally
learn to chose which one is friend or not.
This year, I started the course not fantastic
but not bad at all. This term I’m more applied in my work because I know that I
need a good mark to do the degree I want. Sometimes I don’t have time to do
everything, because as you know I spend a lot of time with my horse, almost
everyday, and it makes difficult to have a regular schedule of study. I try to
go to the gym twice a week, but now it’s impossible, I’ve got a lot of things
to do and I thing that it’s more important to have a good mark than doing
something else. I don’t really like studying but it’s what I have to do to have
a good future. I don’t really want to miss the oportunity to go to the
University.
