India (2)

-Moonson Weddings-

Monsoon wedding is a Indian film. Is a film of the director of Bollywood cinema Mira Nair. The history is about a tipical Indian's event (arranged married),one girl( Aiditi ) who meet her husband fiveteen days ago her wedding. She loves other boy, but he doesn't divorced with his wife to be with her.
This history is a tipical preparations of arranged weddinngs,In this film there are several love stories; the girl protagonist with the married man, the love between the boy who preparing the wedding and the servant..
The Indians films have a lot of musical scenes where the people dance like this film.

-Arranged Weddings-

The weddings are preparate by the parents of the girl and boy.The institution of marriage in India is considered a very important.Arranged marriages, which are so the norm here in India, always seem to faze the non-Indians. One simply can't fathom how practical strangers can be married to each other and settle down for a life together. No matter how westernised our country may have become, arranged marriages are still how a majority of the weddings in India.

-Differents in our weddings and Indian weddings-

The similar : the celebration is the same because one becomes a party with the guests and with the boyfriends.

The diffrence: In india do rituals and preparate the wedding with a lot of time

credits:

Wikipedia.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265343/

India (1)

Bollywood Indian films Mira Nair

-Bollywood-

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Bollywood is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema it is only a part of the Indian film industry. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in the world.Is like Hollywood(England) but this are in India.

-Indian films -

The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003 alone).

For example:



Hyderabad Blues,Monsoon weddings,Gandhi, Earth,Bollywood Calling,
Salaam Bombay,A Passage to India,etc...

-Mira Nair-

Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa to a civil servant in 1957.


She went on to attend the University of New Delhi where she studied Sociology and Theater.




Her production company is Mirabai films.




Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar .





Credits:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India




http://mundobollywood.blogspot.com/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood

Easter 2008

This year I stay easter's week with my father.

I didn't have nothung special because I was triped to madrid the last week

I was very,very tired and I want met with my friends.

the 25th of March Sofia,Susana,Angela,Leonor,Tatiana,Adriá,Pablo,Edu,Silvia,Marga,Valeria,

MªLuz,Paula's mother and me made a surprise party for her and and Paula liked

a lot.

This week I didn't have a lot of things like fallas beacuse I had do all the

homework.

This week I met more with my friends but Í didn't met with Marga,Carla and Ana.

Fallas 2008

This year I triped to madrid again, but this time I was with my family,
my mother, my sister and a friend of my mother.
I was in madrid for six days.I did many things: I was in the Prado,in the Retiro,
in "La puerta del Sol", in the village "El Escorial" and the most important that
I was in madrid is that I was in the musical "Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar"!!
I was very well in the travell.
When I arrive to Valencia I go to Silvia's house with Valeria beacuse
I have a lot of desires to see them.Also I meet with Sofia and Susana,and
with Elisa and Silvia too.
I didn't throw lots of "petardos" because I was in Madrid.

This year I like fallas very much!,I hope that next year would be better.

INDIA

ECONOMY

*India's population is estimated at more than 1.1 billion and is growing at 1.3% a year. It has the world's 12th largest economy--and the third largest in Asia behind Japan and China--with total GDP of around $1 trillion ($1,000 billion). Services, industry, and agriculture account for 55%, 27%, and 18% of GDP respectively. Nearly two-thirds of the population depends on agriculture for its livelihood. 700 million Indians live on $2 per day or less, but there is a large and growing middle class of 325-350 million with disposable income for consumer goods.

-Economy GDP (FY 2007): $1 trillion ($1,000 billion).
-Real growth rate (2006-2007 est.): 9.4%.
-Per capita GDP (FY 2006-2007): $909.
-Natural resources: Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, chromite, thorium, limestone, barite, titanium ore, diamonds, crude oil.
-Agriculture: 18% of GDP. Products--wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, sugar, cotton, jute, teaIndustry: 27% of GDP. -Products--textiles, jute, processed food, steel, machinery, transport equipment, cement, aluminum, fertilizers, mining, petroleum, chemicals, and computer software.
-Services and transportation: 55% of GDP.Trade: Exports (FY 2006-2007)--$127 billion; engineering goods, petroleum products, precious stones, cotton apparel and fabrics, gems and jewelry, handicrafts, tea. Software exports--$22 billion.
-Imports (FY 2006-2007)--$192 billion; petroleum, machinery and transport equipment, electronic goods, edible oils, fertilizers, chemicals, gold, textiles, iron and steel.
-Major trade partners--U.S., China, EU, Russia, Japan.



SOCIETY

* The ethnic and linguistic diversity of Indian civilization is more like the diversity of an area as variable as Europe than like that of any other single nation-state. Living within the embrace of the Indian nation are vast numbers of different regional, social, and economic groups, each with different cultural practices. Particularly noteworthy are differences between social structures in the north and the south, especially in the realm of kinship systems. Throughout the country, religious differences can be significant, especially between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority; and other Indian groups--Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Jews, Parsis, Sikhs, and practitioners of tribal religions--all pride themselves on being unlike members of other faiths.



HISTORY OF INDIA

India earned its independence from the British on the 15/8/47. But the British army left India ultimately in 1950. The Indians celebrate 26/1/1950 as the Republic Day of India. On this day the Indian constitution was adopted. Until its independence in 1947, other countries which neighbor India today; Pakistan, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Myanmar (formerly Burma) and distant places like Aden in present day Yemen; were all parts of British India and were all considered as India. Until then (including the British era) India was never one single country but a collection of kingdoms and authorities with no sense of unity. In this sense India as one single country is mainly a result of British rule. Before that the word India was not used to indicate the present day India, but any kingdom, culture or community that existed between present day Afganistan, in the west, up to China and Myanmar in the east.


CREDITS:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

Past Continuous



FORM: [was/were + present participle]





The past continuous of any verb is composed of two parts : the past tense of the verb to be (was/were), and the base of the main verb +ing





The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and was still going on at the time of speaking.





It is used:



- Often, to describe the background in a story written in the past tense.





- To describe an unfinished action that was interrupted by another event or action: "I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang."



- To express a change of mind: e.g. "I was going to spend the day at the beach but I've decided to go on an excursion instead."

Afirmative:

* I was studying when she called

Negative:

*I wasn't studing when she called

Interrogative:

*Was I studing when she called?

It is important to remember that non-continuous verbs can't be used in any continuous tenses. Also, certain non-continuous meanings for mixed verbs can't be used in continuous tenses. Instead of using Past Continuous with these verbs, you must use simple past.

- Jane was being at my house when you arrived. Not Correct
- Jane was at my house when you arrived. Correct

Credits: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfectcontinuous.html

Tanzania

Tanzania is a country in East Africa,on the Indian Ocean.

Languages: Swahili, English ,Arabic; many local languages.

Religions: Christian 30%, Islam 35%, indigenous 35%; Zanzibar: more than 99% Islam

Area: 945,000 sq. km.

Population: 39.3 million.

The United Republic of Tanzania was formed out of the union of two sovereign states namely Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika became a sovereign state on 9th December, 1961 and became a Republic the following year. Zanzibar became independent on 10th December, 1963 and the People's Republic of Zanzibar was established after the revolution of 12th January, 1964. The two sovereign republics formed the United Republic of Tanzania on 26th April, 1964. However, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is a unitary republic consisting of the Union Government and the Zanzibar Revol

utionary Government.

Credits :

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2843.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania

Present Perfect

Form
have/has + past participle

We use the present perfect to refer an action happened at an unspecified time before now.



For example : yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child,etc...



or with an unspecific time expressions.



For example : ever, never, once, many times, several times, before,etc...





Examples:



Has there ever been a war in the United States?
I think I have met him once before.
There have been many earthquakes in California.
People have traveled to the Moon.




How do you actually use the present perfect?


The concept of "unspecified time" can be very confusing to English learners. It is best to associate Present Perfect with the following topics.







Topic 1 - Experience







You can use the present perfect to describe an experience,The Present Perfect isn't used to describe a specific event.







example:





I have been to France.


(This sentence means that you have had the experience of being in France,maybe you have been there once, or several times.)



I have been to France three times.


(You can add the number of times at the end of the sentence. )



I have never been to France.


(This sentence means that you have not had the experience of going to France. )
I think I have seen that movie before.

topic 2- Change Over Time

Sometimes we use the past perfect to talk about change that has happened over a period of time.

Examples:

The government has become more interested in arts education.
Japanese has become one of the most popular courses at the university since the Asian studies program was established.
My English has really improved since I moved to Australia.

Tropic 3- Accomplishments

We often use the past perfect to talk about accomplishments of the humanity .

Examples:

Our son has learned how to read.
Doctors have cured many deadly diseases.
Scientists have split the atom.

Tropic 4- An Uncompleted Action You Are Expecting

We often use the Present Perfect to say that an action which we expected has not happened. Using the Present Perfect suggests that we are still waiting for the action to happen.

Examples:

Susan hasn't mastered Japanese, but she can communicate.
Bill has still not arrived.
The rain hasn't stopped.

Tropic 5- Multiple Actions at Different Times

When we use the Present Perfect it means that something has happened at some point in our lives before now. Remember, the exact time the action happened is not important.

Sometimes, we want to limit the time we are looking in for an experience.We can do this with expressions such as: in the last week, in the last year, this week, this month, so far, up to now, etc.

Examples:
Have you been to Mexico in the last year?
I have seen that movie six times in the last month.
They have had three tests in the last week.

Credits:

http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blpresperfect.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/pres_perf.htm

Simple Present.

We use Simple present to refer to an action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event, a scheduled event or something that often happens. It can also be something a person often forgets or usually doesn't do.

Examples:

The train does not leave at 9 AM.
When does the train usually leave?
She always forgets her purse.
He never forgets his wallet.
Every twelve months, the Earth circles the Sun.
Does the Sun circle the Earth?

Can also indicate the speaker when believes that a fact was true before, is true now or will be true in the future. It is also used to make generalizations about people or things.

Examples:

Do pigs like milk?
California is in America.

New York is a small city

Speakers occasionally use Simple Present to talk about scheduled events in the near future.

Examples:

The train leaves tonight at 6 PM.
The bus does not arrive at 11 AM, it arrives at 11 PM.
When do we board the plane?

Speakers sometimes use the Simple Present to express the idea that an action is happening or is not happening now.

Examples:

He has his passport in his hand.
Do you have your passport with you?

I am here now.

The diference between present simple and present continous is that the present simple is used to talk about things that you do usually and the present continous is used to talk about things that happen in this moment

Credits:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresent.html
http://www.curso-ingles.com/gramatica-inglesa/psimple.php
http://www.languageguide.org/english/grammar/esp/part1/simple_present.jsp

Computers Vs. Books


There are many who believe that the traditional book is being phased out in favour of the computer.
the television was becoming the norm in homes, when appeared the new technologies people no longer read so much because they have another greater entertainment (the computer, the television set, etc...). It is paper which disappearing little by little.
In many ways, this is a good thing, because paper comes from trees and trees are becoming scarce and that be a wonderful advance for the environment.
The people think that is more funny play and talk with the computer than read because the people say that read is very boring.


Difrents Opinions:

The San Francisco Examiner has this article about the renovation of San Francisco libraries and decisions to have more floor space for computers and less for book stacks. It is wonderful to see people in the community pushing for room for more books! But as in any library everything is a balancing act, and I don't believe that any librarian is seeing this as a technology vs. books decision. As someone who has increased the number of computers without losing book space, I am grateful for not having to make this type of decision. Posted by Tasha Saecker

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Technologie that for only ten years ago seamed impossible is now an important part of the modern community. Comptuers are getting more and more advanced and it has now been built computers with 1000 gigabyte (one terabyte). And who nows, soon we proboly will build computers with tons of petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes and so on...An earlier problem with computers was their size and prize, they was to large and to expensive, but as time has gone they have shrinked both in size an prize. In the future we will proboly have computers with tons of terabytes, so small that you can put it in your pocket, which only cost you 5 dollars.Computers are not only more practical than books. Just think of all the trees that will be saved. In this debate I will debate for that computers are the future and that computers will be an important part of the in future community. Posted by Immortal Norway.



My personal opinion:

I think that the technology has come far in recent years ,the progress society is making, some of us can't help but wonder if newer is always better.
Mainly young people,let read because they prefer to spend his time in amusing itself of another way mainly in THE TECHNOLOGY, for that reason it has been let read.
before it was read more because the technology wasn't so outpost.

credits:
http://www.civitas.org.uk/blog/2006/05/books_vs_computers.html

http://www.articlesalley.com/article.detail.php/49751/178/Education/Culture_and_Society/32/Computers_vs_Books_in_Home_Schooling

My friends


I have many friends but my best friends are my class friends. I know them since I was three years old. We are seven girls: Carla, Elisa, Marga, Carla, Valeria, Ana and me.
They are very good friends, I enjoy a lot being with them.

I get very sad when I imagine that in two years we aren't going to be together any more. I have been with them all my life I we have been through many good and bad moments but we always support eachother. Although we live in different places we are always getting around. Even though we are seven I can only talk about some of them.

In school I have some other friends of different grades like susana, sofia and marina; three girls of ESO 3, they are very friendly. I laugh a lot with them because they are always making jokes. I like going with them because I have lots of fun and I also like to get around with other people.


Valeria: She is a very good friend of mine, she's always happy so I always feel good when you are with her. She's medium high and very thin. She has blonde straight hair and blue eyes. She's very funny and she has a very funny laugh so when she laughs everybody does. She's 13 years old as all of us. She was born in 1994. She lives in La Cañada. Her birthday is the 16th of june. I know her since I was three but I have only been a really good friend of her since only a few years because she had other friends in school. I love her.


Carla Dual: In the school we call her Duala.
She is a special person because she has a very strange character, because she changes humor very easily.
She is very funny and friendly with the people whom she likes to be.
she has 13 years old and her birthday is on the 16th of January.She was born in 1994 as all of us.
She lives in Paterna.She's small,she has wavy brown hair with blonde highlights and brown eyes.I enjoy a lot being with her.

Silvia: she is a shy person but I laugh a lot with her.
She is my best friend because we have been together all our lifes and we have a lot of things in common.We met Silvia in our school when we had three years old.She is medium high,
she has a curly brown hair and brown eyes.She has 13 years old,her brithday is on the 21st of March.She was born in 1994 as all of us .I love her.

Christmas

These Christmas I didn't travel ,I spend one week with my mother and one week with my father.
In Christmas Eve I dinner with my father's family in my grandparent's house.
In Christmas I went with my motehr's family and we lunch in my mother's village,Corbera.
The next day are "Papá Noel" and we get up in my father's house to open the gifts and after my sister and my went with my mother's house to open the gifts .
And after the day of The Magic Kings I get up in my father's house and I open the gifts,after I went to my family's house: my grandparent's house,my aunt and oncle's house and etc..





New Year Eve


This year I celebrate New year with the friends of my mother,the Valverde's family. We went to infantile park of traficl in Santo Espiritu,where we make a party. we made many things: we mounted in motorbike, we played the one, we laughed very many, we choked ourselves with the grapes, we had dinner and many things more.

My family

I'm Carla Vela Alba.
I've got one sister,her name is Sara.
Most of the alive time with my mother because my parents are separated.

My mum

Her name is MªJose but she prefers that they call to him Josa.
She is tall and thin,she have a blond hair and blue eyes.
She is 46 years old.
My mum works in the Ayuntamiento of Valencia like social worker.
He was born in 27th of november,1960 in Valencia.
My mum likes to play, to help, to speak, to cook ,to dream, to dance, and many things more.
She's intelligent,friendly.. I love my mum!










My sister Sara

I've got single one sister, but it is worth with three!! xD
She has nine years old.
I discuss enough with her but I know that I love her.
My sister is tall for your age and she have a dark blonde hair and she have one eye blue and one eye green.
She likes to swim, to discuss with me, to play tennis, to sleep with my mum, to do tricks, and eat cookies.xD
She goes to Escuela 2 like me.













My Dad

His name is Alfredo.
He has 47 years old.
He was born in 9th of february ,1960 in Valencia.
He has a black hair and blue eyes.
He is very,very high, people say that like me!! (:
My dady is very graceful,I laugh much with he!!
My father lives in a very great house in Riba-roja i go with he on wednesday and every fifteen days.

My cat

Her name is Gatuf.
He has a 4th months.
In holidays I travel from France and me bring of there.
He's Black cat and he have blue eyes.
I like very,very,very much this cat!! I love it.

Girl against the jungle

I read this book in summer and I don't like very much.

This book is about one girl who travel with her mother from Lima back to their home in Pucallpa on Christmas Eve.
But the plane have an accident (crashes)in South America jungle and Suzanne's mother died.
Suzanne is lost in the jungle for old the time but in the end she found a boat and found one house.

I think that this book is very,very borring because it happens the same sort of things all the time. the beginning is the best.

Credits:

http://www.scholieren.com/boekverslagen/17389

http://www.amazon.de/Girl-against-Jungle-Monica
-Vincent/dp/3526074984

Our enviroment -too many buildings

I live in

San Antanio de Bebageber.

In San Antonio they have many buildings in these years.

before San Antonio it was a small town where few inhabitants lived and that nobody knew it, but now there are many houses (mainly urbanizations) by all part of there.

For example when I look for internet things about San Antonio single found things like...
Sale of house, Wend my house etc...

the policy of this governed population at the moment and for many years by the PP, after the growth of this town I have been thinking that it is reversed mainly in the operation of the land over everything.

For example: they prefer to invest in the land that in cultural activities partner and things that favor the population.

luckily they have realized and they have constructed to a school of primary education and this in march plans and an institute.

Credits: http://www.gva.es/sabenageber/

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_de_Benagéber

http://www.fvmp.es/fvmp3/guia/4.0.guia-municipio.html?codine=46903

Past Simple

We use the simple past to refer to an action in the past that is finished.

In the positive form, for regular verbs, add an -ed but when the verb ends in consonant change the -y to -ied.

Example: fly - flied


Use the conjugated helping verb 'did' not (didn't) the base form of the verb to make negatives.

Example: (I,You,He,She,It,We,You,They) didn't go to New York last week.

Use the conjugated helping verb 'did' subject the base form of the verb in question forms.

Example: When Did (I,You,He,She,It,We,You,They) leave yesterday?



Credits:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/simple-past
http://www.wikilearning.com/past_simple_pasado_simple-wkccp-3405-8.htm

Antonio Puertas

He was a spanish football player of Sevilla c.f. who was died last 28-8-2007.
he had 22 years old and He was going to have a baby in a month.
He was born in sevilla .

Last 25-8-2007 he had a heart attack in Sevilla-Getafe match. He was go to Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio ICU.

Three Days later he died at the hospital because he had an ARVD



Credits:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Puerta

http://usuarios.lycos.es/antoniopuertas/ç

http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/sevilla/puerta_fallece/dn_53388.htm

Rihanna

Rihanna is a pop singer from US and Her first single from the album, “Pon De Replay” was released in June 2005, before the album was released An accompanying video was released in 2005 and included scenes of this woman singing the song. The single has also been nomitated for the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Summer Song. Rihanna's sophomore album, A Girl Like Me was released in April 2006 to much initial success and has quickly gone gold. Rihanna is releasing her third album in 2007 called Good Girl Gone Bad .
Also Rihanna Nominated In EMA, Is In Top Three Hollywood's Richest Teenagers List





Credits:
http://www.rihannanow.com/
http://www.rihannasite.com/
http://www.ines-sastre.es/links/ver_estadisticas_url.asp?id=123
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4X7eFbP3u4

Bras & Broomsticks
-Authoress: MLYNOWSKI, SARAH
- Publisher: Salamara

This summer I’ve read a book because I was boring.
Bras & broomsticks is a book about one girl called Rachel and she noticed that
Her mother and her sister were witches.
She like the idea but she wanted that her wishes come true.
She wanted that her parent be together again or for example that the boy, who is in love with, love her.
Rachel promise her mother that didn’t use the magic of her sister.(but didn’t keep it)
When she got all the wishes her mother find out and break off .


My personal opinion:

Ilike this book because is very enjoy and interesting.

I like this book also because is made for people of my age
I recommend this to other people.

Credits:

http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/brasandbroomsticks/

http://www.sarahmlynowski.com/YA%20Site/YA_sm4_details_bras.htm

MadeleiNe miSsinG

On may 3rd,a little 4 year old kid called Madeleine was abdupted in praia da luz (portugal) when her parents were having dinner in a restaurant.
They left the three kids, Madeleine and her brother and sister which are twins.
they go back for the restaurant they noticed that Madeleine was missing but her brother and sister were slepping.
trained dogs who were sent to portugal by the english police and detected that it smellt like a corps and little blood remains in the Mccann hotel apartment where Madeleine dissapeard, they also found tracks in their car and other efects of her parents.
The newspaper says that the portuguese police found a syringe in the bedroom's closet were Madeleine was seen for last time. They investigated the possibylity, that her parents injected to Madeleine a lot of sleeping pills to get Madie slept while they were having dinner.
Madeleine is 4 months missing, and their parents will stay in Praia da Luz till Madeleine's body appears.

Credits:

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/235982/0/madeleine/secuestro/portugal/

http://blogs.europapress.es/social/archive/2007/08/07/madeleine-desaparicion-o-asesinato.aspx

http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/madeleine/desaparicion/prensa/dn_55056.htm