LOTTERY LUCK

Mary Shammas, a grandmother from Brooklyn, was on the bus when her left hand started to itch*. Remembering an old superstition that an itchy left palm signifies that money is coming, she decided to buy a lottery ticket. On that week's draw, her ticket won the $64 million jackpot. Mary, who has lung cancer, is giving the money to family. 'It's the best feeling in the world anyone could have, because I'd like to see them have a better life than I had', she says.

Itch:2to feel an irritating sensation on the skin

Chad Michael Murray

Chad Michael Murray wanted to be a football player when he was younger, but after a football injury he decided to be a model. He modelled for Tommy Hilfiger and Gucci.
He then decided to become an actor. He got roles in different TV series: first he played in "Glimore Girls", then, in 2001, he played Charlie Todd in "Dawson's Creek", and finally in "One Tree Hill".He also played in the films Freaky Friday, A Cindarella Story and the horror film House of Wax.
Chad's next film, Home of the Brave, is about three soldiers who return from the war in Iraq and who have to try to live a normal life in the USA.

NEW PORTFOLIO

Hi people! Welcome to my new portfolio. I will post here all my 4th of ESO work.

comments of the orals presentations

Tània and Sergi
What is about?It is about the characters of the film Avatar
It was interesting? Why? No much, because they sayd they gonna talk about Avatar, but they only speaked about the mine characters.

Eugeni
What is about? Is about the Facebook
It was interesting? Why? Yes, because I'm interested in the topic. He talk about the caracteristiques of it.

Guillem i Pau
What is about? It is about the tennis
It was interesting? Why? Yes, I'm interested with the topic too, they talked about the tournaments, the most important players... And they have had a good preparation

Adrià
What is about? It is about True Blood (the books and the serie)
It was interesting? Why? Yes. It's about my favourite serie!

Sílvia
What is about? It's about Lady Gaga
It was interesting? Why? Yes, because Laidy Gaga is an interesting singer, she's misterious...

Oral presentation

Hi, I’m Blanca. I study in Casa Nostra school in 3rd of ESO.
I’m going to talk about DANCE, exactly about the BALLET.
TIPES OF DANCE:
Classic dance or Ballet
Modern Jazz Dance
Contemporary Dance
Flamenco Dance
Latin Dance
Swing
Tango
Oriental Dance
African dance
Hip Hop (Break-dance, New Style ...)
Commercial Dance
House Dance
THE HISTORY OF BALLET:
It is not possible to say when dance became part of human culture. Dance has been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment since before the modern human civilizations.
The classic dance was born in the 15th century in Italy ( in the renaissance) and was spread to the rest of Europe and in diverse countries.
Catherine de Médicis who was from an important family of Florence was the first one to introduce his type of dance.
After his success in France, the ballet started coming to other Europa's countries and then in the rest of the world. Paris was the world capital of the classic dance.
The ballet was consisting of dance, music, songs and sometimes of poems. The actions took place in the gardens or inside the castles. At the beginning of century, the women obtained an important paper in the ballet.
The ballet constitutes the base of many dances with his tecnic. It can find in the jazz dance and other types of dance.
BASIC POSITIONS:
ADAGE: Slow.
ALLEGRO: Fast.
ARABESQUE: Position on a leg with another stuck-up leg behind and with the body curled prettily.
ATTITUDE: Position on a leg: the sleeping leg, lightly double, raised ahead or behind.
BATTEMENT: Action to strike the leg that works, that is tense or double
DEMI-PLIÉ: Position in which the knees are doubled. They are realized in five positions of feet.
DÉVELOPPÉ: slow and constant Movement in which the leg that gets up doubles, mounts along the leg of land later, behind, or on the side.
ENTRECHAT: I jump which the dancer strikes his heels in the air.
GRAND PLIÉ: Position in which the legs are doubled completely.
JETÉ: Jump of a foot on another foot.
BOURRÉE's PAS: Compound of three successive steps.
CHAT's PAS: Jump that looks like the movements of a cat.
PLIER: The fact of doubling a knee or the two.
POSITIONS: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th.
THE MOST FAMOUS DANCERS OF THE HISTORY:
MERY WIGMAN: She was A dancer and choreograph of modern dance German. She create an school on 1920, it was the first and the best school European of modern dance, which wasn’t based with the classical tecnic, until it was closed by the Nazy.
The best choreographies: The seven dances of the life, the spring ritual.
ANNA PAVLOVA: She was a famous Russian dancer of beginnings of the 20th century. She changed the ballerina's ideal for the moment: muscular and compact body, because she was thin, of delicate aspect, perfect for the romantic papers. His feet were extremely arched.

3RD TERM REFLECTION

LEARNING

1. DID YOU WORK HARD?
Yes, I did
2. DID YOU ORGANIZE YOUR WORK WEEK BY WEEK?
Not exactly... I had to work more these lasts weeks.
3. WHAT WAS MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU?
The more difficult for me was the oral presentation
4. WHAT DID YOU LEARN?
I learned a new vocabulary
5. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE?
I must speak more, to improve my accent...

ACTIVITIES

I liked to do the role-play, it was cool! I learned more with the writings than the dialogues.

CONCLUSION

WHAT'S YOUR BEST ACTIVITY/ACTIVITIES THIS COURSE? The recipe and the role-play
LINK: RECIPE
LINK: ROLE-PLAY
DID YOU LIKE WORKING IN THE LANGUAGE ROOM? Yes!

WHY/WHY NOT? Because all is more visual and funny. And you have to put in practice all that you learn in the book.

Palacio Ducale

The Palacio Ducale is situated in San Marco square, Italy. It was built between the centuries X and XI, we don’t know who designed it. The palace is made of white marble. The palace was the residence of the Dux, an important family of the govern and of the court of justice and prison. From the outside, we can see, on the first floor, an arches gallery, and big windows on the second floor. Inside there’s a renaissance style court. I’ve visited the palace once now, and the things which I like the best are the thirty six arches, and the big windows.