TOEFLE vs ESOL

Some different between this two important english exams are:

TOEFLE:
* The scoring system changes. Each of the four language skills are now rated on a scale of 0 to 30 and there is also a total score

* You are allowed to take notes throughout the test

* Combine your listening, reading, speaking and writing skill

ESOL:
* It´s made only for the Cambridge univerity
* All candidates will receive a Statement of Results five to seven weeks after sitting the exam

* In KET and PET, candidates must use pencil in all papers

THE FUTURE IN 30 YEARS

Well I think that the future talking about technology it could be amazing because day a day this bigger word change buy the work of scientifics and investigator that try to discover important fact in the world like creation new medicine, machines, cellphones and all kind of electronic machines that can be usefull to the humanity. Also the cities and worl could change, we can see flying cars, robots, interesting and moderns buildings, all the think can work with sensors and with smart technology.

" FREEDOM WRITERS "

Erin Gruwell, a new, excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown, Newport Beach, to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, a formerly high achieving school which has recently put an integration plan in place. Her enthusiasm is rapidly challenged when she realizes that her class are all "at-risk" high school students, also known as "unteachables", and not the eager college students she was expecting. The high school students assimilate into racial groups in the classroom, fights break out, and eventually most of the high school students stop attending class. Not only does Gruwell meet opposition from her high school students, but she also has a difficult time with her department head, who refuses to let her teach her high school students with books in case they get damaged and lost, and instead tells her to focus on training them discipline and obedience.

Answer the following questions:

1. What did Erin have to do to change her students' attitudes?

well she first try to speak with her students but seeing that they not pay attention to her, she decides to enter in their world so she try to teach his class with popular music that they know and heard.

2. What was the major problem Erin face in her new career?
that she think she is going to teach students with the desire to became a good person but the reality was that they put her in th worst class with bad students that not pay attention and fight each others.

3. Why did students behave in such way?
because their lives are complicated so they became like taht to survive.

4. What did you learn?
that you can make all the thigs that you want if you have the courage and the propose to make it.

5. What conception do you have of working with adolescents?
that most of them are so problematics and difficult but if you teach them in a correct way and thinking in theirs likes you can make them to appreciate the class and the learning.

6. Do you identify yourself with a character of the movie? if not, which would be the closest relation?
i think with the teacher because I like to make the thinks in a correct way, to never surrender until having the things I want.

7. Do you really think a student can change in such way?
yes, with love and compresion they can change in a good way

8. How did the life of Ana Frank change the life some students?

9. Why do students like bullying others?
because they think have a bad live and want to compensate the love and think they don´t have bullying others.

10. What kind of student are you?
I think IU am a good student, a responsable, sociable, happy, intelligent and generous girl.

The choristes

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a) Mention 10 fact of The Choristes

1.- The movie is a remake of " A cage of Nightingales".
2.- Was written by Christophe Barratier.
3.- Much of the actor in the real worl are singers or directors.
4.- the creator of the music in this movie also made the music for the movie "the nightmare for Christmas".
5.- Was recorded on Studio 1 Radio Nacional de Bulgaria. Sofía (Bulgaria)
6.- On the movie the National Burgarian Orchesta play for the chorus.
7.- This songs were played on the movie: Nous sommes de Fond-de-l’Etang, Vois sur ton chemin, Caresse sur l’océan, Lueur d’été, Cerf-volant.
8.- Was nominated as the best foreing movie by the Oscar
9.- the days of the film were made on very hot days unless was winter.
10.- The executive producer of music was Paul Lavergne para Madoro Music



b) Profile:

* Gérard Jugnot (Mathiew) : he was the co-producer of this movie, and now he is an director and actor

* Jean Baptiste Maunier(Pierre Morhange) : he twist his ankle doing the movie and he is a true singer in France.

* François Berléand (Rachin): he is an actor of films, television and France theaters.

* Maxence Perrin (PEpinot): he is an France actor and son of Jacques Perrin (an actor and director of France films)



2.- What are your expectation of the movie?
I think are good because this movie talk about interesting topics like music, friendship, education etc. Also is funny and show as France looks like.

TV or no TV?

1.- How many TVs do you have at home?
I have 4 televisions

2.- In which rooms do you have a TV?
in my room, my father´s room, at the living room and in my brother´s room.


3.- Do you have the TV turned on all the time?
More of the time

4.- In your home, who decides what to watch?
Each one because we have one television per person, so each one of my family watch they want.

5.- What is the most popular show in your family?
I think is the simpsons, the news and the soup opera

6.- How far do you sit from the TV?
Like 2 meters.

7.- How many hours a day on avarage do you watch TV?
More less like 4 hours but not followed.

8.- On which day do you watch the most TV?
On Monday and Wednesday

"Movie: THE CHORUS"

1.- Mention the contest of the movie
The movie is about a men that have a new work in and orphanage-school in France were many childrens study and lives because they don´t have an own house. But the shool has the method of punish the bad things with hits or makink them do extra work like cleaning the bathrooms etc.

2.- Make the profile of the teacher
He is a man around the forty years, he is bald, and a little fat, intelligent, elegant, compassive, sentimental, honest and a person that makes the things that he think are the correct.


3.- What problem does the profesor face at the beggining of the movie?
A joke that a child makes to a profesor making him became injured on his eye.

4.- Why do you think Mondain act in this way?
because he started to think about the childrens and the problem of not had family or parents. Also because he was solidary with the kinds and to annoy the director.


5.- Describe what happen in the first performance.
That the childrens and the teacher became more and more join singing and playing together. So this mean that the became to accept and aprreciate him.


6.- From who profesor Mathiew recive help and why?
from the male nurse of the school. An old man that is so kind and good with the childrens because he understanin them and think they need help and love not violence or damage.

"Video game adictions"

1.- In your opinion what makes a player being adictive?
I think the principal cause is because the game is so interesting and with good graphics so this make the owner cant stop playing itinto the game is finished at all.

2.- What is the mayor risk about playing videogame and why?
In many cases the person becomes addicted and violent since he thinks is still playing all time in a virtual world.

3.- Mention 3 positive and 3 negative aspects of playing videogames

POSITIVE
* You do not get bored in your spare time
* Develop your motor skills and reaction
* You can spend time with friends and family because it have the option to play as a group

NEGATIVE
* It can makes you to be adictive
* Cause eyes damage in a long time exposition
* You can confuse the reality with a virtual world.