6. FIRST ORAL PRESENTATION.

I have problems to upload my oral because it was recorded with a Mobil phone (of one member of my class) and I can’t see my video in the computer. I told to Gemma.
I’m sorry; I hope that I'll can put in my portfolio my next oral presentation.

5. SUMMARY OF THE FILM

The new first minister is in love with a member of her department. A writer elopes to French for reposing his life, and he felt in love again. A happy woman who is married thinks that she has losing her husband. A recently woman married interpret erroneously the attitude of the best friend of her husband. A child boy would like attract the attention of one girl very beautiful. A stepfather who had been widow tries to connect with a daughter who can’t meet… Love stories and lack of love in the Christmas dates.

4. NEWS SUMMARY

“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer.

Kevin Schawinski, an astrophysicist, and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies; they never foresaw the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.The Dutch school teacher, a volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project, discovered a mysterious object some observers are calling a “cosmic ghost.”Van Arkel toke an image of a strange, one gaseous object with a hole in the center. Quickly, Astronomers who run the site began to investigate and soon realized van Arkel might have found a new class of astronomical object.Any person had idea what it was, and for this reason scientists working at telescopes around the world and with satellites in space were asked to take a look at the mysterious Voorwerp. The acientists and astronomers never found any reliable explanation of this mysterious object.

http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=5934

4. NEWS SUMMARY

The pitfalls of Africa's aid addiction.

Most African countries have now been independent for over 40 years. Most are blessed with all the elements to help compete on a global stage (abundant natural resources, a young population and the climate and conditions to be a major agricultural force). The symptoms of corruption are:

- Teachers demand bribes from their students because they cannot get by on their wages.
- Government officials, doctors and nurses steal drugs meant for their patients to sell on the black market.
- African leaders have property portfolios across the globe, while their citizens live on $1 a day or less.

Until these gifted and enterprising people can be attracted to return, most of the world's peacekeeping efforts, on the continent, and certainly most of its aid, will have little effect.

http://http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7742426.stm

4. NEWS SUMMARY

MERRY NADAL.

Christmas in Catalonia has a special set of traditions.
December us upon one more and the frantic contradiction to Christmas is clouding everyone’s judgment.
Mental checklists of presents over whelm all other thoughts, turning innocent day dreams into gift wrapped nightmares.
To start with the “dies festius” begin for earlier than December 25^th. The All Saints celebration pn November 1^st still sits recently in the collective memory, along with its “panallet” cakes, muscatel sweet wine, “castanyes” (chestnuts) and boniatos (sweet potatoes).
The days more importants are 25^th, 31^st, 24^th (“caga tió”), 28^th (lit Innocent Saints’ day) and 6^th (“dia de reis”). It’s a really funny tradition of Catalonia.

RESIDENT
Desember 2007
nº 28

2. OPINION ESSAY.

- Is humor necessary to survive?

In my country, Catalonia, humor it’s a thing very usual and for example, it’s a form to connect the TV with audients, create programs of comedians, humor cartoons, sitcoms…
In my opinion, the humor in the TV it’s a great thing, because transmit happiness to people who like this programs.

First of all, there exist different types of humor according to the country. The Spain humor is different to the American humor. The people who live in Spain, generally, hate the American humor, and vice versa. There are humors for each age, too.

Secondly, I think that the humor is the better remedy, the better therapy and the better mechanism for make smiles and spread positivity. Furthermore, I think that’s a great thing to unite and socialize people.

To sum up, I would say that humor it’s necessary to survive because I thin k that’s a drug: We can’t live in peace without.

2. DISCUSSION ESSAY.

Computers have made the world a better place.

I think that’s a good affirmation. The computers and technology have made the world in a better place because offered a lot of resources and facilities day a day.
Before, the people consulted something in the books or some documents, and now, for example, we can consult all that we need in “Internet” (one system that we can including in the computer).

In one hand, the computer it’s a really good thing in all the aspects. It transforms a lot of things that we can make with our hands and make more facilities of search of all the topics. Nowadays it’s a think that unconsciously we need.

In the other hand, computers are an addiction for some people, and all the addictions are bad. So, for this reason I think too that the computers contribute bad things and bad costumes. At this moment in time, we can’t live without computers.

In conclusion, I would say that in our world the technology is very important and the progress too. The computers have good and bad things, but…as all. For this reasons I think that the computer have made the world a better place.