dimecres, 27 de novembre del 2013

ORAL PRESENTATION




Hello, good morning, we are Julia and Judith and now I will talk about Humor.
To begin with I will ask you if you know what humor is?  Humor is the quality that makes something laughable or amusing.
Humor is really important in our lifes because it helps us to deal with the difficult moments. Apart from this laughing it’s very important for everyone, doctors discovered that optimistic people live longer than others, and of course a happier life is better than miserable life.
This title that we have wrote here “Laugh for not cry” it’s a popular topic that people say when they are sad or in a bad situation and they want to face problems with optimism.
Most of the people don't want to express their sad feelings, so they laugh to hide their real feelings.
We have searched in internet opinions of different people about why they like to make other people laugh. We have found an interesting answer from a boy, he said that he likes to make laugh because he loves to see other people happy. When he sees someone sad the first thing he does is trying to make him smile, what this boy does it by telling them his problems with optimism so they don’t feel that they are alone.
In conclusion he said that he wouldn’t be happy if he couldn’t make other people laugh.
With this example we can see that majority of humans are happier if they have people to love and be aprecied from others, too, a person needs to be loved by others.
Now we will show you different types of humor that we can utilize, there are lots.
We will explain you a few examples:
Types of humor :
-Whitemood: this type of humor is driven by surprise factors
-Hacker mood: this humor is exclusive for informatics experts, they usually enter in codes of official pages and do jokes for companies and others.
-Crudemood: This is characterized by producing laughter from the shame of others
-Black mood: tries to make people laugh from death issues and similars
- Green mood: however, is linked to sexuality and often touching obscenity.
Finally we will center our project in an absurd mood, to make this presentacion a little bit more funny we tell you 3 different areas where people can uploade videos and show you examples.
The absurdmood is mainly doing absurd things (as the name says) to make fun on others
The different areas we will show your are: youtube, ads and funny movies.
YOUTUBE:
This is an internet space where people can upload videos, there are many people that put funny videos to make other people laugh and to be a little more popular.
Here is an example from a girl who has become really famous by loading her funny videos in internet.
Sometimes the videos can be thematic and talk about issues that concern the majority and laugh about them. We could say that it would be an optimistic view of things.
youtuber: one who spends much time uploading youtube videos that they have made.
ADS:
The advertisement is to sell a product, service, company or character. Take the idea of ​​getting immersed in the minds of consumers and make them believe that they are offering to buy it.
One of their strategies is to make absurd ads to capt the atencion of the consumers, for example the coca-cola ad
How we have seen this ad has nothing related to cocacola it only tries to be funny.
Doing this they capt a lot of consumers. Another thing what they do a lot is creating a simple mealody in which sticks to people.
MOVIES:
In the adult movies the main resourse to make people laugh is when the characters go wrong or go to anunconfortable situation.
On the other hand in the kids movies they use imaginary characters and make them look stupid and they include parts where the characters sing and dance in ridiculous ways.
Now we can watch a pice of film Madagascar.
To conclude our presentacion we think that life is really hard but if we take it with humor it will be easier and we will be happier.





In general, I think that we have a good job with this oral presentation. We have always tried to look to the public and focus well our voices. We have tried to pronunce as best as possible to make it easier to understand. I personally would be more relaxed so, I speak more fluidly. But as I said before, Overall presentation was good. 

dimarts, 5 de novembre del 2013

CHESNUT MAKER

In my country we celebrate the "Chesnut Maker". This special day is on 1st November and it's a very ordinary day. In the school, the children get dressed like a farmer or rural person and bring the chesnuts to the school, where cooked. In this celebration children sing, dance and eat a lot os chesuts and some years the teachers make hot chocolate to go with the chesnuts. 
In some schools the theachers and the students go to the woods to collect chesnuts and after this eat them in the school. 
The most popular way of preparing the chesnuts is with the frying pan with holes. 


FRACKING

The new official report informs to us that the risks to public health from fracking for shale gas are low. The majority of the problems related with fracking are the result of operations failure or regulation. The Public Health England and an agency of the Department of Health did a study to investigate if the risks from fracking are really low. And it seems they were right. Even so enviromental campaigners opposed to fracking. 
Fracking is the technique to extract gas or oil. The greatest risk is the possibility of toxic filtration of the products to aquifers and for this reason I think that this technique is dangerous because if some of this toxics gases contaminated the water of this aquifers could cause great environmental catastrophy. 



ELEPHANT SOCIETY

This news talks about the difficulties of the elephant herds that lost adults to cull during the 1970s and 1980s. According to Karen Mc Comb, social understanding had been impaired by the loss of adults, this is the first evidence that fundament social skills may be significantly impaired by man-made disruption.The researches compared the behaviour of two herds of elephants, one of them have been relatively undisturbed by culling operations and the other was made up of young orphaned elephants after management culls of adult and older juvenile animals. There is alredy evidence that the loss of these adult elephants had dramatic social consequences. 
In my view I believe that these culls are really harmful to the development of the herds of elephants because if the elephants can't be related among themselves can be the end of these species, because they can't defended each other. 



PUSSY RIOT "OUT OF SIGHT"

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot protest band has vanished from sight since she was moved to a new prison ten days ago. She was jailed over at a protest a Moscow cathedral. The husband hasn't recived any news about her and her current location since the 24 October. He knows that she had been on a hunger strike at the penal colony in Mordovia and he acussed the authorities of trying to punish her because of her protests. 
I'm really disappointed in connection with this fact, because I believe that you have the right to express your opinion, as and when you want. It's true that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was jailed but this isn't a reason to repress her, she have the same duty that the others. 



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24786119

RARE SOLAR ECLIPSE

In the southern United States, in the east across the Atlantic Ocean and the African continent, a rare solar eclipse has ocurred. This solar eclipse allowing a view of the Sun that is totally or partially blocked by the Moon. The first place where it was visible was the southmen United States but one of the best places views was in northern Kenya. 
This solar eclipse was rare because it was an "hybrid" (Switching between an anular and total eclipse). In a total ecplipse, the Moon completly covers the Sun, while an annular eclipse happen when the Moon is at its farthest from the Earth and doesn't block out the Sun completely. 
It's really fascinating for me, as the nature can make all of this espectacle as worthy of admiration. I would have liked to stay there and be able to see the solar eclipse, because I like very much all of the phenomena related with the sun and the moon too. 


RIHANNA MAKES CHART HISTORY

Rihanna has made history, with Eminem hit, and has joined The Beatles ans Elvis Presley as one of just three acts to top the UK singles. The singer Rihanna has become a numbre one The Monster song, the track is taken from his latests album Marshall Mathers LP 2. A previous collaboration with Rihanna, Love the way you lie, made it to number two in the UK charts in 2010. Rihanna has become many songs in numbers one.
In my view, Rihanna is a very good singer and all of the successes demonstrate it. Since Rihanna began to be famous, all of his songs have been hits or have remained at the top of the lists and I hope it stays that way.




HIV ANTIBODIES

A potential new HIV tratament has a profund impact on the virus, acording to animal studies. According to some experiments, potent antibodies were able to wipe a hybrid of human and monkey immunodeficiency viruses from the bloodstream of monkeys within days. The immune system produces precisely targeted antibodies to take out HIV, but the virus is able to rapidly mutate to evade the immune assault, but some antibodies have been discovered that will be "conserved" parts of HIV.
This new discovery can be really good for advancing against the disease, might supposed the end of this horrible disease. I hope that the scientists will continue with the research of aspects of this virus and may some day, find a cure.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24745611

dijous, 17 d’octubre del 2013

A LUCKY ESCAPE

The other day I went to the bank to do some things from work. In the bank there were a lot of people, as usual. There were people in the cash, people im the queve... When I was waitting for my turn, suddenly two strange man went came into the bank, and after two more. Finally, I finished my work in the bank and went out. At the night, when I was cooking and watching TV I saw that when I went out of the bank, The four men that were there with me, where thieves. This news surprice me because I was there at the same time that the thieves, and I left the bank just before the theft occurred.


dijous, 10 d’octubre del 2013

SUMMER DAY

Today I get up at eight o'clock because I go a class in Castelló d'Empúries at nine o'clock. I get up, get dressed, do my breakfast and I go to Castelló d'Empúries. After an infinite hour of maths I return to my house. My mother works hard, for this reason I try to help her in the house. My mother and sister go to hospital in Figueras with my grandad. I continue doing thing in the house. When they arrive, my mum go to work. After lunch, I do my TDR before going to work. I'm a babysitter. After a long walk with Pol, the baby, I go with his mother, Lourdes. When It's closing time, I go a little time to a bar with a friend and after I go home for diner. I have dinner with my dad, my sister and my grandad. Finally I watch TV and go to sleep.  


dimarts, 8 d’octubre del 2013

THE DEAD BODY

The story that I'm going to tell you is something that happened in my vilage Castelló d'Empúries. One day a man who is 34 years old, aproximatley, jumped into a house to steal some Marihuana plants. In this house there were a lot of plants and he thought that if he took some plants, the proprietor of the house and plants wouldn't realise. But when he jumped out the house, the propietor saw him and said: "If you enter again and steal my more plants I'm going to killed you"
The thief didn't take any notice and another day he returned to the house, the propietorsaw him and kill him. The dead body was thrown to the River Muga. The dead body was discovered earlier while the woman was walking the dog.