After reading about "Argentine Culture" (Meeting Cultures-Páginas para el alumno - Aportes para la enseñanza- Nivel Medio- Gobierno de la Cdad de Bs. As- Ministerio de Educación)
Students created some videos.
Jean Pierre Martinez 1º 4
Rocío Aguilera 1º4
Have you ever travelled to Spain ?
If you want to go to Spain you have to know the following:
The best
place to go on vacation is Costa Teguise.
The traditional
food in Spain is paella.
The weather
is warm.
The spanish
bar is the traditional sport.
Lucas Díaz 1º 4
Argentina is in south Amèrica. There are
twenty tree ands antonomous city (Caba) provinces .
There are a lot of different lan dscapes. My
flag is light blue and withe.
Buenos Aires is one of the most important cities
in the world. There are a lot of Buildings, Skyscrapers , Parks, Monuments.
f you go to Palermo you can visit “El planetario”
If you go to Tigre you can visit “El parque de la costa”
We read "Gulliver in Lilliput" and then students created different stories!!
Story 1
Lautaro s´ dream
Lautaro is a Gardener and chef. He likes flowers and cooking One day he sees
a broken cooker He repairs it and starts
cooking
One day,Lautaro participiates in a cooking contest but he is eliminated
in the first round
He promises to be the best chef in the world . His promise is real now. He is very famous all over the world
Albino Ramirez 1º 4 ta
Story 2
Fernando is
a doctor . He likes helping people . One day he sees a ship in the port.
There are sick people He goes to
speak to the captain
“Excuse me
, sir , do you want a doctor? asks Fernando.
“Yes , we
do, “ says the captain
Where are
you from? asks Fernando
I’ m from Italy.
Fernando
helps all the people on the ship
Thank you, doctor! said the people.
Valentina Pruyas 1º 4
Story 3
Marcos and his bus
Marcos is a lawyer(1) and a bus driver(2).He likes the city very much.1_Lawyer 2_ Bus driver He travels every day. One day he sees a special bus in the parking lot(1).1_Parking lot Marcos goes to speak to the
driver.Thebus is a long way from England(1). “Look at the clouds”. says the driver.1_EnglandThe street is very rough. The
bus rocksand rolls. The passengers(1) are afraidand they feel
sick.1_Passengers Lucas Díaz 1º 4 Story 4
Giuliano is a vet and teacher.
He likes animals. He tells a woman: "Your dog is in very serious condition. He may die.
He needs medication."
Florencia Dominguez 1º 4
Story 5
Carlos is a taxidriver and
dancer
He likes driving and dancing.
One Day, He sees a
theater.A big theater
Carlos promises to be the
best dancer in the world. Now, He is Very Famous all over the world.
Germany,Brazil,Japan,Sweeden,England. Rocío Aguilera 1º 4 Story 6
Set in northern Italy in 1628, during the oppressive years of direct Spanish rule, it is sometimes seen as a veiled attack on the Austrian Empire, which controlled the region at the time the novel was written. (The definitive version was published in 1842). It is also noted for the extraordinary description of the plague that struck Milan around 1630.
It deals with a variety of themes, from the cowardly, hypocritical nature of one prelate (Don Abbondio) and the heroic sainthood of other priests (Padre Cristoforo, Federico Borromeo), to the unwavering strength of love (the relationship between Renzo and Lucia, and their struggle to finally meet again and be married), and offers some keen insights into the meanderings of the human mind.
I promessi sposi was made into an opera of the same name by Amilcare Ponchielli in 1856 and by Errico Petrella in 1869. There have been many film versions of I promessi sposi, including I Promessi Sposi, 1908. The Betrothed 1941 The Betrothed, 1990, and Renzo and Lucia, made for television in 2004.
In May 2015, at a weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis asked engaged couples to read the novel for edification before marriage.
Answer these questions, please
1- Who wrote this novel?
2- What nationality is this novel?
3- When was the novel published for the first time?
4- What kind of novel is it?
5- Can you mention the most important themes of the novel?
In 1930Italy, Guido Orefice is a young Jewish man who is leaving his old life and going to work in the city where his uncle lives. Guido is comical and sharp, making the best from each situation he encounters. He falls in love with a girl Dora. Later he sees her again in the city where she is a teacher. Dora is set to be engaged to a rich but arrogant man, a local government official with whom Guido has some quarrels Guido sets up many "coincidental" incidents to show his interest in Dora. Finally Dora sees Guido's affection and promise and gives in against her better judgement. He steals her from her engagement party on a horse, humiliating her fiancé and mother. By the year 1939 they get married and have a son, Giosuè.
Through the first part, the film depicts the changing political climate in Italy: . Later during World War II, after Dora and her mother have reconciled, Guido, his Uncle Eliseo, and Giosuè are seized on Giosuè's birthday. They and many other Jews are forced onto a train and taken to aconcentration camp. After confronting a guard about her husband and son and being told there is no mistake, Dora volunteers to get on the train in order to be close to her family. However, as men and women are separated in the camp, Dora and Guido never see each other during the internment. Thus, Guido pulls off stunts, such as using the camp's loudspeaker, to send messages, symbolic or literal, to Dora to assure her that he and their son are safe. Eliseo is executed in a gas chamber shortly after their arrival. Giosuè barely avoids being gassed himself as he hates to take baths and showers, and did not follow the other children when they had been ordered to enter the gas chambers.
In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son. Guido explains to Giosuè that the camp is a complicated game in which he must perform the tasks Guido gives him. Each of the tasks will earn them points and whoever gets to one thousand points first will win a tank. He tells him that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother, or says that he is hungry, he will lose points, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn extra points. Giosuè is at times reluctant to go along with the game, but Guido convinces him each time to continue on. Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be frightening for a young child: the guards are mean only because they want the tank for themselves; the dwindling numbers of children (who are being killed in gas chambers) are only hiding in order to score more points than Giosuè so they can win the game. He puts off Giosuè's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank, and need only wait a short while before they can return home with their tank.
Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness, and death at the camp, Giosuè does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence. Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos of shutting down the camp as the Allied forces approach, he tells his son to stay in a box until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. As the camp is in chaos Guido goes off to find Dora, but while he is out he is caught by a German soldier. An officer makes the decision to execute Guido. Guido is led off by the soldier to be executed. While he is walking to his death, Guido passes by Giosuè one last time, still in character and playing the game. He winks at Giosuè and Giosuè winks back as Guido is led away to be shot. The next morning, Giosuè emerges from the sweatbox, just as a U.S. Army unit led by aSherman tankarrives and the camp is liberated. Giosuè is elated and is convinced he has won the game and the prize. The captives in the concentration camp also emerge from hiding. The prisoners travel to safety, accompanied by the Americans. While they are traveling, the soldiers allow Giosuè to ride on the tank with them. Giosuè soon spots Dora in the procession leaving the camp. Giosuè and Dora are reunited and are extremely happy to see each other. In the film, Giosuè is a young boy; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Giosuè recalling his father's story of sacrifice for his family https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vida_es_bella
.A)Design your own exercises.
1. True or False
2. Ask and answer questions
3. Complete
4. Describe each character
5. Vocabulary exercise
B). Write information about the movie. For example: The movie was directed by.....The music was composed by..........
C). Give your opinion about the movie. For example:
In my opinion, the movie is...............
I think, the movie...........................
This movie is really............................... Options: fantastic, very good, excellent, very sad, bad, boring, interesting, beautiful, terrific, terrible.
In Rome, in the 1980s, a famous Italian film director called Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, His girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called him to say someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily for 30 years. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.
It is a few years after World War II. Six-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow. His nickname is Toto, He discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the movie house Cinema Paradiso with Alfredo, the guy who is in charge of showing the movies. Although they initially start off on tense terms, Toto and Alfredo become friends. Alfredo often lets him watch movies from the projection booth. During the shows, the audience can be heard booing when there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing a critical romantic kiss or embrace. The local priest aalways orders Alfredo to delete these sections and the deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor. At first, Alfredo considers Toto a bit of a pest, but eventually he teaches the kid to operate the film projector.
The montage ends as the movie house catches fire (highly flammable nitrate film was in routine use at the time). Salvatore saves Alfredo's life, but not before some film reels explode in Alfredo's face, leaving him permanently blind. The Cinema Paradiso is rebuilt by a town citizen, Ciccio, who invests his football lottery winnings. Salvatore, yet a child, is hired as the new projectionist, as he is the only person who knows how to run the machines.
About a decade later, Salvatore, now in high school, is still operating the projector at the Cinema Paradiso. His relationship with Alfredo who is blind, has strengthened, and Salvatore often asks him for help or some advice. Alfredo often quotes phrases from classic films.
Salvatore has been experimenting with film, using a home movie camera, and one day he meets a girl and films her. Her name is Elena. She is a wealthy banker´s daughter. Salvatore falls in love with her. He wins Elena's heart but Elena and her family move away, Salvatore leaves town for compulsory military service. His attempts to write to Elena are fruitless; his letters are returned as undeliverable.
Upon his return from the military service, Alfredo urges Salvatore to leave Giancaldo permanently, telling him that the town is too small for Salvatore to ever find his dreams. Moreover, the old man tells Salvadore to leave for ever. He advises him not to look back or come back. He must never give in to nostalgia or even write or think about them. They tearfully embrace, and Salvatore leaves town to pursue his future, as a filmmaker.
Salvatore obeys Alfredo, but he returns home to attend the funeral. . Alfredo's widow tells him that the old man followed Salvatore's success with pride, and he left him something — an unlabeled film reel and the old stool that Salvatore once stood on to operate the projector. Salvatore learns that Cinema Paradiso is to be demolished to make way to a parking lot. At the funeral, he recognizes the faces of many people who attended the cinema when he was the projectionist.
Salvatore returns to Rome. He watches Alfredo's reel and discovers that it comprises a very special montage. It contains all the romantic scenes the priest had ordered Alfredo to cut from movies; Alfredo put the sequences together to form a single film. Salvatore has made peace with his past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso
1-Choose one exercise and post it. Each exercise must have three or five sentences.
a) True or False
b) Answer these questions, please.
c) Ask questions, please
d) Interview Alfredo / Toto/ / Elena/
e) Complete these sentences
f) Match these lists.
2- Give your opinion, please
a- The movie is about friendship
b The movie is about love
c- The movie is about progress
d- The movie is about human errors.
e- The movie is about wrong decisions.
f- The movie is about the importance of movies in our life
