Film answers ( Les choristes )

1) they predict that boys are difficults, troublemakers and rebels but they want to become them diciplened boys.
2) The come from families with problems like divorced and other difficulties
3) I think they were there because their parents wanted to correct their behavior and some of them didn’t have another place to go.
4) Action- reaction. But This method obviously doesn’t work.
5) That there are different ways of teaching one subject . because people think that there is only one way of teaching but that’s not true. And one of them is through music.
6) Perhaps in the past he failed and he felt frustrated.
7) He seemed to be a good boy but he was a truoblemaker but he felt frustrated for the method that the school had. In the begining he was rebel because he didn’t like that Mr Mathieu felt special feelings for his mother but in the end he could show what he really liked singing music
8) He doesn’t like Mathieu’s method.
9) I think that method doesn’t work
10) Maybe he doesn’t want to change his attitude of teaching because he though that it was the right one and when Mr Mathieu came he didn’t want to lose the control.
11) Values: teamwork, be respectful to other people, be helpful and be patient.
12) That noone noticed that he exists.
13) I think it was a way of scaping from Rachin’s bad treatment and a new way to do what they really want but with music.
14) I don’t think he is a failed teacher because he loves what he does music and in his personal life maybe he was not known too much but He was a good teacher.
15) Pepinot thinks Mathieu keeps everything for himself.
16) Because with music you can learn work in team and you can express what you feel and what you want and develop through the music.
17) Of course you can use music as a tool to teach English and special with kids and aslo adults. Because you can catch their interest and they can learn the lenguage in a different way.

Thanks for being patient a read my answers. ;-)

Hung up lyrics

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Hung-Up-lyrics-Madonna/FEA12422320A4B834825709A00214660

Maddona's video activity

Maddona Louise Ciccone was born on August 16, 1958, in Bay City, Michigan. Her father Tony Ciccone is an Italian-American and her mother Maddona louise Fortin was French-Canadian. She was raised in a catholic family in the Detroit suburbs. Maddona's mother died of breast cancer at age thirty on december 1, 1963, and Maddona has frequently discussed the impact her mother's dead had on her life and career, calling it " one of the hardest things I've faced in my life."

Tony Ciccone required his children to take music lessons; however, after a few months piano lessons, Maddona convinced him to allow her to take ballet classes instead. Christopher Flynn, mentored her in dance and provided maddona with her exposure to gay discotheques, a scene that would later have impact on her music and style. She attended Rochester Adams high school, where she was a straight-A student, excelled at sports, and was a member of the cheerleading squad. Maddona received a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan; however, in 1978 with Flynn's encouragement, Maddona letf at the end her sophomore year in 1978 and moved to New York, Maddona has said: when I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever take a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with $35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

I chose this video "hung up" for my presentation

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les choristes summary

the movies begins in the present, Pierre Morhange. He recieves a call from France informing him of his mother's death, Morhange returns to france for the funeral. while at his french house, a man appears at his door. He doesn't know who the man is, the man reveals himself to be Pepinot. One of his old classmates at the correctional school fond de L'etang they attended in 1949. then pepinot shows Morhange the journal of Mathieu, their supervisor and unofficial choir conductor. they start reading the rest of the journal.

It's 1949 and Mathieu has taken the position of supervisor at the Fond L'etang, a school for troubled boys. He resigned to giving up his dream of composing music, he doesn't care about the attitude of his predecessor as supervisor. he tries to warn him about dangerous students at the school.

the unsympathetic headmaster Rachin who had imposed a prhase " Action equals reaction" in the school. he and another man, Chabert, liberally administer.

Mathieu can't control his students and decides to try and get through to them with music. he manages to capture his students' interest. Pierre Morhange joins the chorus with Mondain a special case from the local mental institute, he is borderline case with an extremaly violent and anti-social attitude.

Mondain refuses to obey Mathieu's order, he is disobedient and Morhange refuses to participate in the choir too, Because Mr. Mathieu has developed romantic feelings for his mother Violette.

Mondain is accused because Rachin thougth that he stoled 200,000 Francs and Mondain is arrested by the police. Maxance finds the money along with a pupil's harmonica, so is revealed who is the real thief. Rachin who is not told about the thief's identity, refuses to accept Mondain again.

Rachin goes to a ceremony to receive a medal, but it's interrupted as terrible news from Fond de L'etang telling him that the school was burning. But the students had gone out with Maxence and Mathieu in the forest, Rachin is angry with both of them because they neglected their responsability by leaving the school. then Rachin fires Mathieu but the film closes when pepinot asks Mr Mathieu to go with him and Mr. Mathieu says yes.

Pierre and his mother soon leave her fiance after he tries to send pierre to another boarding school.

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Past perfect and past perfect continuous

(Past perfect and past perfect continuous) http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/pastperfect01.html

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/pastperf01.html

If conditionals

Grammar:http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/if_type1.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/if_type2.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/if_type3.htm

Exercises: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/if_clauses1/index.php

Relative clauses ( language reference and exercises )

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

Exercises:http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/who_which.htm

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Designed by the North American architect Frank O. Gehry, this unique Museum built on a 32,500 square meter site in the center of Bilbao represents an amazing construction feat. On one side it runs down to the waterside of the Nervión River, 16 meters below the level of the rest of the city of Bilbao. One end is pierced through by the huge Puente de La Salve, one of the main access routes into the city.


The perfect setting: architecture for art´s sakeThe building itself is an extraordinary combination of interconnecting shapes. Orthogonal blocks in limestone contrast with curved and bent forms covered in titanium. Glass curtain walls provide the building with the light and transparency it needs. Owing to their mathematical complexity, the sinuous stone, glass, and titanium curves were designed with the aid of computers. The glass walls were made and installed to protect the works of art from heat and radiation. The half-millimeter thick "fish-scale" titanium panels covering most of the building are guaranteed to last one hundred years. As a whole, Gehry's design creates a spectacular, eminently visible structure that has the presence of a huge sculpture set against the backdrop of the city.

A new urban centerPeople coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the Museum hall although descending flights of stairs are not a frequent feature of institutional buildings. This is an inspired response to the differences in height between the level of the river and the level of the city center. It also enables a building with a surface area of 24,000 square meters and more than 50 meters high to be slotted into the city landscape without it towering over the neighboring buildings.

A city within anotherVisitors passing through the hall to the exhibition areas come immediately to the atrium, the real heart of the Museum and one of the most idiosyncratic features of Gehry's design, which has a sort of metal flower skylight at the top that allows a stream of light to illuminate the warm, inviting space. From the Atrium, the visitor is given the opportunity to access a terrace covered by a canopy supported by a single stone pillar. The canopy serves a function (better appreciated perhaps from the other bank of the river, which offers observers an excellent view of the entire rear façade of the Museum) that is both protective and aesthetic at one and the same time. The broad flight of stairs that goes up to the sculptural tower, conceived as a device to absorb and integrate the Puente de La Salve into the overall architectural scheme of the building, is also a public access way that connects pedestrians with the rest of the city.Exhibition galleries are organized on three levels around the central atrium and are connected by a system of curving walkways suspended from the roof, glass elevators and stair turrets. All in all, a spectacular vision that one critic has described as a metaphorical city, where the panels of glass that cover the elevator-well evoke the scales of a fish that leaps and spins, the walkways that climb the interior walls are like vertical motorways, and the plaster curves crowning the atrium suggest the molded ribbing of a drawing by Willem de Kooning. In short, a glimpse of artifice in architectural design taken to its uttermost limits.

The space of artEleven thousand square meters of exhibition space are distributed in 19 galleries. Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the covering of titanium. By playing with volumes and perspectives, these galleries provide huge interior spaces that somehow manage not to overwhelm the visitor. Large-scale artworks are housed in an exceptional 30 meter wide, 130 meter long gallery free of columns and with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the walkways that link one gallery with another - showing different perspectives of the exhibitional spaces - facilitate the location of galleries and services at any time. As visitors enter the Museum they learn that under the external complex appearance of the architectural shapes, there lies a neat, clear world where it is easy to find one's way around.

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A Trip To Mount Rainier National Park

I'm having a great time here. The scenery is spectacular, and the weather has been pretty nice. Believe it or not, it hasn't rained the whole time I've been here. The other day I took a trip to Mt. Rainier National Park with a couple of friends. It's about a 2-hour drive from Seattle. Actually, on clear days you can see Mt. Rainier from the city. (There's a great view from the UW campus by the way.) It's over 4,000 meters high and it looks enormous!
The park itself is great. There are lots of streams, waterfalls and lakes. Most of it is thick forest. There are even some parts where the trees are over a thousand years old. You can drive up out of the forest to a place called Paradise, where you can get great views of the mountain and the glaciers. Up there, there's still snow on the ground and it's the middle of summer! We did a bit of hiking, saw a bunch of ground squirrels and took tons of pictures. Didn't see any bears, though. There are supposed to be some in the park!

Anyway, it was a really fun trip and I'm already planning my next one!

Take care,

George

The topic is the cuture vulture: is a person who takes life in this trip, who likes to be well-informed about the place after going there and who can be fairly humorless at times.

those are verbs with dynamic meanings: walk, knock, play, sing, run, write, eat, swin, cry, read, find, talk, vote, die, open, give, joy, dance, fight, sell, ask, go, spend, spell, drink, buy, bring, tell, carry, break, draw, do, shop, shoot, dress, kill, hide, ride, drive, send, bend, make, cook, throw, catch, set, wear, mix, teach, cut and build.
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