SUMMARY ABOUT "COLUMBUS DAY IN THE US SEES CELEBRATION AND PROTEST

In the 2nd Monday of every Octobers is Christopher Columbus day and there is no work and no school. It's a national holiday and people celebrate that Christopher Columbus discovered America. For this reason, in the US, Columbus means America.
However, there are different point of views from the people on the US about Christopher Columbus days. It’s a day commemorating two narratives of history with two different ideas of how Columbus achieved the western development of the Americas. For Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere, the landing of Columbus in the new world has another meaning; one that welcomes protests every year. They say sentences like: “To show to Latin Americans and other people, that we don’t all celebrate Columbus, we don’t think he did good things. He brought a lot of suffering to the indigenous here,” and “People here say he discovered America, what they did was conquer the Americas,"
But in the other hand, there's people against it. They say that Columbus is part of our history.  

WRITING 3: OPINION ESSAY

MOVIES AND TELEVISION INFLUENCE PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR

Nowadays, television is an important technological set which influences society in general.
Television always broadcasts movies and programs and it is easy that everyone watches TV at some moment during their day. From my point of views, it is true that television influence people's behavior.
I think that society believe that people who work on the TV world are more important than people who don't. For this reason, we tend to copy their behavior in order to improve our personality, but not always is it like this. For example, there are studies which show that people who see violence programs tend to be more agressive in their life than people who never watch these programs. They say more insults and can get to be violent.
However, there are also very interesting programs which help people to discover and learn a lot of things and show the best of us. For example solidary programs, documentaries...
In conclusion, I believe that TV is a good invention if people know how to use it correctly because television can help people become better persons. But if you don't know how to use it correctly, you can change your behavior and become a bad person. 

GRAN TORINO

CLINT EASTWOOD

• American actor, film director, producer, musician and political figure.

• He got famous with his role as Man with No Name in “Spaghetti Western”

With films like “Unforgiven” and “Millon Dollar Baby”, he won many Academy Awards. His greatest social succes was with the adventure comedy “Every Which Way But Loose”.

STORY SETTING

• This film take place in Highland Park, Detroit, in a neighbourhood which was familiar and simple, but it has become to an asian poor neighbourhood, where the crime is seen every day.

• The main carachters are Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a retired police and a Korean war veteran, and Thao Vang Lor (Bee Vang), an asian teenager. It really important Walt’s car, a  Ford Torino, which is really loved by his owner, who takes care of it every day.

PLOT SUMMARY

Walt had lost his wife a few time back, and he was living alone with his dog, Daisy. Since that he has felt really sad and he doesn’t care about his life. He prefers loneliness. One day Walt caught Thao trying to steal his Gran Torino. Thao explained that he was doing this so that he could be accepted on his cousin gang.From here begin their relationship, and Walt helps the boy to get away from this crime life.


MAIN CHARACTERS

The film Gran Torino features several characters

• Walt Kowalski

Walt Kowalski is the main character of the film Gran Torino. He becomes embroiled in a conflict involving a Hmong family and a gang. 
He is a retiree who worked at a Ford automobile plant for much of his life, and he owns a Gran Torino he had personally built. 
Clint Eastwood plays this character.

• Thao Vang Lor

Thao Vang Lor is a young American boy who is pressed by his cousin to steal the Gran Torino of Walt.  Walt often calls Thao "Toad."

• Sue Lor

Sue Lor is a American girl who is Thao's older sister. She has a streetwise and witty personality. Ahney Her plays Sue.

OPINION

• Gran Torino is a beautiful movie and one of the best films that we have seen.

• The characters are really believable and resonate true human emotion.

• Kowalski, hates the Vietnamese immigrants that have moved next door to him. As time goes on, he gets to know them, and the bond that forms is wonderful.

• Although not end very well, we liked for different reasons. For example:

• Kowalski is a very great actor.

• In this movie there are issues of today such as racism.

RECOMMENDATION

This movie will have you laughing so hard yourself while at the same time breaking your heart and making you cry. It is true that the movie takes you on a roller-coaster ride.

This is a wonderful story, one that you will love and tell your friends to see.

If you're looking for one of those great movie experiences, you'll not find a better film to see than this. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N-60tCnIi8UELzSpvNm6swosc8ftH-V7BX5_lqEcdq8/edit?usp=sharing

MY PERSONAL VALUES

http://padlet.com/julia_olive_11/jeppukskuodb

WEATHER

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ohidfk956jakJyMU9YZ3AyaDg/view?ts=565acea4

WRITING 2: OFFICIAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL BANYOLES CELEBRATES ITS 10th BIRTHDAY

Las thursday, 8th of October, the official language school celebrated its 10th birthday.

The celebration took place to the auditotium l'Ataneu, situated in Banyoles, at 6:00 PM. 

The official language school is situated at 155 Llibertat street and it was inagurated in September 2005. It's a public school and right now there are about 400 adult students.

This school offers two foreign languages: English and French and for this reason there are 4 english teachers and 2 French teachers. 

The event started when Annie Gili, the principal of the school, talked, first of all, about the school success. In general, she did a positive evaluation and she remarked: "we ran the risck but now the schoool is filled up."

After Anna Gili, the director of the educational department in Girona, Albert Bayot, talked about new projects in the future. For example, he said he would like to introduce other languages.

Miquel Noguer, the mayor of the town, was in the celebration too. He congratulated the school and the teachers. 

In the end, Sebastià Serrano made a speech: "communication in the third millenium."

In general the celebration was fantastic and a lot of people attended the event. The official language school is important to our future because nowadays languages are necessary!

WRITING 1: AN INFORMAL LETTER

Hi Jana!

How are things? Sorry, I couldn’t reply you before, but I was very busy with my school homework. This year I start “second of batchillerat” and teachers give us a lot of homework. In addition, this saturday I spent all day at a basketball competition. First of all, I inform you about Pla de l’Estany.

Pla de l’Estany is a small but an amazing area. I have lived there for all my life and I really love this place.

Our house is situated in the center of banyoles, exactly near my school. It’s very easy to find it because my father painted it red.

In my house there live my parents, my grandma, my two little brothers and me. As soon as you arrive, you will be another member of my family. The most famous tourist place is the lake which is situated in the middle of Banyoles and around it there are pubs and restaurants to get some things to eat and drink. So, you can spend a nice time with your family or perhaps, friends.

If you prefer doing sport, you can go to “Club Natació Banyoles” and there you can swim in the lake or in the swimming pool. If you don’t like swimming, there are more options. For example: riding a bike, a horse or a boat around the lake.

In general, you’ll see that people in Banyoles love doing sport.

I can’t wait to see you.

Love,

Maria.