Tuesday, October 13, 2009
EXAM REMINDER
Remember: We have the exam next class.
Internet links to study:
http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/adjcompsup.php
http://englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
http://www.elllo.org/search.htm?cx=partner-pub-2937913171317519%3Atohjct-ra9r&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=house&sa=Search#1060
Monday, October 12, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
italy
Italy did not exist as a state until the country's unification in 1861. Due to this comparatively late unification, and the historical autonomy of the regions that comprise the Italian Peninsula, many traditions and customs that are now recognized as distinctly Italian can be identified by their regions of origin. Despite the political and social isolation of these regions, Italy's contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of Europe remain immense. Italy is home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (44) to date.Visual Art
Italian painting is traditionally characterized by a warmth of colour and light, as exemplified in the works of Caravaggio and Titian, and a preoccupation with religious figures and motifs. Italian painting enjoyed preeminence in Europe for hundreds of years, from the Romanesque and Gothic periods, and through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the latter two of which saw fruition in Italy. Notable artists who fall within these periods include Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian and Raphael. Thereafter, Italy was to experience a continual subjection to foreign powers which caused a shift of focus to political matters, leading to its decline as the artistic authority in Europe. Not until 20th century Futurism, primarily through the works of Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla, would Italy recapture any of its former prestige as a seminal place of artistic evolution. Futurism was succeeded by the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, who exerted a strong influence on the Surrealists and generations of artists to follow.LiteratureDante Alighieri.
The basis of the modern Italian language was established by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, whose greatest work, the Divine Comedy, is considered amongst the foremost literary statements produced in Europe during the Middle Ages. There is no shortage of celebrated literary figures in Italy: Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni, Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and Petrarch, whose best-known vehicle of expression, the sonnet, was invented in Italy. Prominent philosophers include Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giambattista Vico. Modern literary figures and Nobel laureates are nationalist poet Giosuè Carducci in 1906, realist writer Grazia Deledda in 1926, modern theatre author Luigi Pirandello in 1936, poets Salvatore Quasimodo in 1959 and Eugenio Montale in 1975, satirist and theatre author Dario Fo in 1997.[66] Regarding the Italian theatre, it can be traced back to the Roman tradition which was heavily influenced by the Greek; as with many other literary genres, Roman dramatists tended to adapt and translate from the Greek. For example, Seneca's Phaedra was based on that of Euripides, and many of the comedies of Plautus were direct translations of works by Menander. During the 16th century and on into the 18th century, Commedia dell'arte was a form of improvisational theatre, and it is still performed today. Travelling troupes of players would set up an outdoor stage and provide amusement in the form of juggling, acrobatics, and, more typically, humorous plays based on a repertoire of established characters with a rough storyline, called canovaccio.ScienceEnrico Fermi.
Through the centuries, Italy has given birth to some notable scientific minds. Amongst them, and perhaps the most famous polymath in history, Leonardo da Vinci made several contributions to a variety of fields including art, biology, and technology. Galileo Galilei was a physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. The physicist Enrico Fermi, a Nobel prize laureate, was the leader of the team that built the first nuclear reactor and is also noted for his many other contributions to physics, including the co-development of the quantum theory. A brief overview of some other notable figures includes the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who made many important discoveries about the Solar System; the physicist Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery; the mathematicians Lagrange, Fibonacci, and Gerolamo Cardano, whose Ars Magna is generally recognized as the first modern treatment on mathematics, made fundamental advances to the field; Marcello Malpighi, a doctor and founder of microscopic anatomy; the biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani, who conducted important research in bodily functions, animal reproduction, and cellular theory; the physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate Camillo Golgi, whose many achievements include the discovery of the Golgi complex, and his role in paving the way to the acceptance of the Neuron doctrine; and Guglielmo Marconi, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of radio.MusicMain article: Music of ItalyGiacomo Puccini.
From folk music to classical, music has always played an important role in Italian culture. Having given birth to opera, Italy provides many of the foundations of the classical music tradition. Instruments associated with classical music, including the piano and violin, were invented in Italy, and many of the prevailing classical music forms, such as the symphony, concerto, and sonata, can trace their roots back to innovations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian music. Italy's most famous composers include the Renaissance composers Palestrina and Monteverdi, the Baroque composers Alessandro Scarlatti, Corelli and Vivaldi, the Classical composers Paganini and Rossini, and the Romantic composers Verdi and Puccini. Modern Italian composers such as Berio and Nono proved significant in the development of experimental and electronic music. While the classical music tradition still holds strong in Italy, as evidenced by the fame of its innumerable opera houses, such as La Scala of Milan and San Carlo of Naples, and performers such as the pianist Maurizio Pollini and the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti, Italians have been no less appreciative of their thriving contemporary music scene. Introduced in the early 1920s, jazz took a particularly strong foothold in Italy, and remained popular despite the anti-American cultural policies of the Fascist regime. Today, the most notable centers of jazz music in Italy include Milan, Rome, and Sicily. Later, Italy was at the forefront of the progressive rock movement of the 1970s, with bands like PFM and Goblin. Today, Italian pop music is represented annually with the Sanremo Music Festival, which served as inspiration for the Eurovision song contest, and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Singers such as pop diva Mina, classical crossover artist Andrea Bocelli, Grammy winner Laura Pausini, and European chart-topper Eros Ramazzotti have attained international acclaim.CinemaMain article: Cinema of ItalyFederico Fellini.
The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture exhibitions. The first Italian film was a few seconds long, showing Pope Leo XIII giving a blessing to the camera. The Italian film industry was born between 1903 and 1908 with three companies: the Roman Cines, the Ambrosio of Turin and the Itala Film. Other companies soon followed in Milan and in Naples. In a short time these first companies reached a fair producing quality, and films were soon sold outside Italy. The cinema was later used by Benito Mussolini as a form of propaganda until the World War II.
After the war, Italian film was widely recognised and exported until an artistic decline around the 1980s. World-famous Italian film directors from this period include Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Dario Argento. Movies include world cinema treasures such as La dolce vita, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo and Ladri di biciclette. In recent years, the Italian scene has received only occasional international attention, with movies like La vita è bella directed by Roberto Benigni and Il postino with Massimo Trois
italy
Roma, the capital of Italy, is a heady blend of artistic and architectural masterpieces, classical ruins, piazzas, baroque churches and wasteful.Rome was built on seven hills - Capitoline (commonly known as Campidoglio), Palatino, Esquilino, Viminale, Celio, Quirinale, and Aventine. Two of these historic hills, the center of ancient Rome, the center of the civilized world (hence, the true meaning of the words “All roads lead to Rome”) was formed.
It is difficult to say what you will find in the Eternal City, the arrogant opulence of the Vatican, the timelessness of the discussion forum, the speed of the local golf club, millions of cats at the Coliseum, or the many galleries and museums.
This is a city that will fill your senses too. Sera architecture, food, the timelessness of the site, its monuments and people. Just that, Rome, where it has always been, is a monument to the beauty, history and eternity.
TRADITIONAL JAPAN
TYPES OF FAMILY
For the Japanese she is of extreme importante, because they forge dependency relations to look for of certain way approval from his relatives. He is peculiar to know this, because in
JAPANESE GODS
AIZEN-MYO OR AYZEN-MYOO
Japanese god of the love adored by prostitutes, singers and musicians. In spit of his ferocious appearance (he vertically owns a third eye placed between his other eyes and head of lion) a beneficial being with the human sort is considered originally it was a god of the shingon and tended and represented desires of the love.
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The Japanese god of the thunderclap, one of several. It was boin noisy and when it grew it did even more noisy. In order to shut up it, the gods they took to stars it raised so that it and it would lower.
Some families worshiped these gods as they were as the heads for them at that time.
SPORTS OF
The famous sport of
VIDEO GAMES
Video games are an attraction of Japan as they very good teamwork and good build for fun between these objects are Takeshi, Naruto, Mario factory among others and with these families enjoy playing with their children..
history of japan
Prehistoric Japan
During the Jomon period, which began around 10,000 BC, the inhabitants of Japan lived by fishing, hunting, and gathering. The period is named after the cord-markings (jomon) on the pottery they produced. In the Yayoi period, beginning around 300 BC, rice cultivation was introduced from the Korean Peninsula. An account of Japan in a Chinese historical document of the third century AD describes a queen named Himiko ruling over a country called Yamatai.
In the fourth century, ancestors of the present imperial family established Japan's first unified state under what is known as the Yamato court. During this period, manufactured articles, weapons, and agricultural tools were introduced fr
Saturday, September 19, 2009
katerine arias hoyos
the flag of france is a tricolour blue, write and red
the music of france
france has long been considered acenter for european art and music. the country has a wide variety iundigenous folk music, as well as styles played immgrants from africa France has long been considered a center for European art and music. The country has a wide variety of indigenous folk music, as well as styles played by immigrants from Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the field of classical music, France has produced a number of legendary composers, while modern pop music has seen the rise of popular French hip hop, techno/funk, and pop performers.
the food of france
The written history of what is now Argentina, began with the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516 the Rio de la Plata, a fact which marks the beginning of Spanish domination in this region. In 1776 the Spanish crown created the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, umbrella organization of territories from which, with the revolution of May 1810, beginning a gradual process of formation of several independent states, including that carried the name United Provinces of Río de la Plata. With the declaration of independence on 9 July 1816 and the military defeat of the Spanish Empire of Manolito in 1824, which was formalized from the organization as a federal state in 1853-1861 Confederation is now known as Argentina or Republic Argentina
ARGENTINA´S FOOD
Bifé de Chorizo
It's a cut meat cutlets or adjacent to the thoracic cavity before being separated from the bone and cut into steaks or fillets have a cylindrical shape between triangular and so is called chorizo. Their meat has no internal fat is narrow or medium without bone, because of its shape is called chorizo. His way of working are roasted or grilled and served with mashed otato fries or salad.Locro
The black slaves in Argentina before the revolution, had great dishes that made things pulling the animals in slaughterhouses, and sell their food in a common places was the soup that was made with veal legs, corn and vegetables. Today is a traditional food in Argentina and throughout the region as its preparation varies, but what is not lost and vegetables are very slow cooking, meats are cooked separately and then added to the vegetables that are usually squash, corn kernels and is seasoned with hot saucep
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) was established in 1893. It is the eighth oldest in the world. The league tournament, played since that year, is the third oldest in the world, behind the British leagues and holandesa.5 Argentina is one of seven countries that became the World Cup, winning twice (1978 and 1986 ) and reaching the runner-up in two (1930 and 1990). Also won two Olympic gold medals (2004 and 2008) and two silvers (1928 and 1996), fourteen times the Copa America, and six times World Cup FIFA U-20. Argentine football clubs are those that have achieved greater number of times the Intercontinental Cup (9) and Libertadores de America (22). Adding the sporting success of the national representative and clubs, Argentine football is the most successful men in the world
The testimonies of the practice dates back to 1610 and was not without controversy, since there are several references to chronic risk associated with this diversion. As an example, a car ecclesiastical late seventeenth century warning that those who participate in such exercises would be excommunicated and in 1822 the governor of Buenos Aires, Martín Rodríguez, banned this game initiative which fail Juan Manuel de Rosas and other rulers.
The duck survived in the Argentine countryside and in 1937 Alberto Castillo Posse decided to transform it into a sport and drafted its first regulation. A year later, the ban was repealed in 1941 and the areas in which it was practiced joined to found the Federación Argentina de Pato.
In 1953, a decree of the Executive Department declared the National Sport
The choreography, designed from the embrace of the couple, is extremely sensual and complex. The letters are made on the basis of a local slang known as slang and generally express the sadness, especially "in the things of love, 2 felt by men and women in town, a fact that somehow he ties with the blues, without are therefore chosen for the treatment of other themes, including humorous and political.
Enrique Santos Discepolo, one of its greatest poets, defined the tango as "a sad thought that is danced"
FRANCE
*opera
*romantic era and hector berlioz
*20th century
*folk music
MEXICO BY TATIANA
MEXICO
The United MexStatesican ,The United Mexican States.
is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.
Covering almost 2 million square kilometres.Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas.
by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 109 million.
it is the 11th most populous country. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
JAPAN
Rome To Revolution
Friday, September 11, 2009
unit 4 part 1
they try to print the newletters the printer did not work and comes one of them
unit 2
each tries to print the newletters
unit 5 part 1
they are in a restaurant then called the waitrees
part 2
they say that this very delicious dessert but a problem to start because they have to diet
unit 6 part 1
bob exercise for your vacations, passing from office to office
part 2
bob asks each person if you exercise and everyone tells him
unit 7
the two girls want Bob to help them choose
Friday, September 4, 2009
video
the scenes
esc 1
they are trying to fix the printer
esc 2
were all together at a restaurant table and went to beg for food
uni 5
as knew not to eat in the restaurant, began to criticize the food
uni 6
he is training in the office with book and directory
.he invite the girl go out
uni 7
they are choosing the best clothes
The workers are in the office see the printer, the protagonists are silly .After the friends go to cinema and sit in the restaurant, ask the food.
Followed a worker big and fat make his ejercices and eat a cake of chocolat, is really funny.
I LIKE THE VIDEOS ARE GOOD AND FOR ME ARE INTERESTING BECAUSE ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS VIDEOS
luis da vid 67
the scenes
Thursday, September 3, 2009
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Friday, August 7, 2009
my family tatiana
My family is samll my dad,my mom,my brother. in the morning my dad sleeps and whacahes tv, my mom gets up at 5:30 ,makes the breakfast,my brother gets up at 6:00 am ,eats breakfast at 6:30am and takes a shower and gets dress and goes to school every day, before my dad goes to work,after eats breakfast,waches tv,takes shower,gets dress and goes to work till at 7:00 pm.
I get up at 9:00 am every day,wacht tv clean the house,take a shower,get dress,before have lunch and go to school,back at 6:45 pm,have dinner,do you homework,wacht tv and slepp at 11:00 pm my mom goes sleep at 10:00 pm my brother at 9:30 pm and my dad 12:00 am
Family's Rutine
* My mom is called OLGA
* My dad is called Norbey
* My brother is called CAMILO
* My other brother is called SANTIAGO
And my dog is called Lupita
each have different personalities, tastes and routines ...
My mom is in school and transportation is his routine:
* She gets up at 5:00 A.M
* She take a shower at 5:05 A.M
* she serve breakfast at 5:20 A.M
* she goes to work at 5:30 A.M
* she Return home at 2:20 p.m.
* she lunch and rest until 5:00 p.m
* Then comes the food we
* she goes to bed at 9:00 p.m.
My dad is police and his routine is:
* he gets up at 4:00 A.M
* he take a shower 4:10 A.M
* He has Breakfast at 4:30 A.M
* He goes to work at 4:55 A.M
* He Comes to work at 10:00 p.m
* He Goes to bed at 11:00 p.m.
My little brother is a student AND ROUTINE IS:
* He gets up at 5:15 A.M
* he takes a shower at 5:15 A.M
* He has Breakfast at 5:20 A.M
* He goes to study at 5:55 A.M
* Comes from study at 1:45 p.m
* He has lunch Lunch
* makes the homeworks
* he eats at 7:00 p.m and sometimes doesn't eat
* finally he goes to bed anytime
My older brother is a student and his routine is:
* he get up at 5:25 A.M
* he take a shower at 5:25 A.M
* he has Breakfast at 5:40 A.M
* he goes to study at 5:55 A.M
* he Arrives at 1:45 to study p.m
* he has Lunch
* he makes homeworks
* he eats at 7:00
* he goes to bed anytime
My routine is:
* I get up at 5:00 and sometimes at 4:30 A.M
* I take a shower at 5:00 A.M bath
* I have breakfast at 5:20 A.M
* I'm going to study at 5:55 A.M
* I Arrival at 1:45 p.m
* I Lunch
* I Sleep
* I make homeworks
* I go to bed as at 7:00
my mother name is alba
my father name is ivan
my uncles names is juan, gerardo, maria, willian, lucia, luis, gloria, and gustavo
my cousins names is daniel, valentina, valeria, valentina, susana, santiago and brian
my grandmons names is teresa and amparo
my grandfather name is octavio
My father and my mother they wake-up and eat breakfast, they shower and go to work.My father to the UBA Coomeva because he is a doctor, and my mother to the differents hospitals because she is a professional nurse.
My brother is a student of Luis Amigó school, in the morning he wake-up,eats breakfast after showers, he dresses and he goes to Luis Amigó School.
After go back to our home, eat together and watch T.V and other things.
My dad is a great person and very very intelligent.
My mom is a great person and very happy also intelligent.
My brother he likes the rock metal, and play World Of Warcraft (WOW).