Me.

WORK/COLLEGE: I’m studying Translation at the University of Valencia.

HOBBIES: I think that I have the hobbies of a common teenager: enjoy my free time with my friends, listening to music (I like so much kinds of music) and social networks.
Also I love the photography’s world, and draw and paint. I must confess that watch every match of my team, Barça, is one of my favourites hobbies.

TRAVEL: All the provinces of Spain, Andorra, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, France and UK.

AMBITION: Make the world a better place.

FAVOURITE ALBUM: In my opinion is very difficult to choose one album, because is improbably that you like all the songs of it. But I’ll say Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, or Els millors professors europeus by Manel.

FAVOURITE PLACE: Inside Spain, Barcelona, of course, and outside Paris.

FAVOURITE BOOK: I can’t decide, but I love Edgar Allan Poe and his literature. Also, I enjoy with the poesy of Miquel Martí i Pol.

MOST HATED EXPRESSION: I didn’t want do it, but…

Carmen M's profile

Work/college: student
Hobbies: I like reading, watching films and TV shows, music, languages...
Travel: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Ambition: travel around the world
Favourite place: Roma and Venice
Favourite music album: "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire
Favourite book: "Marina", Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Favourite movie: "Some like it hot", Billy Wilder
Most hated expresion: I warned you...

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Work/college: Student
Hobbies: Music,going out with friends,reading
Travel: Ireland,UK,Orlando,Italy,Punta Cana,Paris.
Ambition: Finish the degree at the moment
Favourite place: Dublin and Benidorm in Spain
Favourite music: Rock and blues from the 70´s,80´s and 90´s

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Patricia Morillas

female 18

work/college : student

hobbies: listen to music, play football,go to the cinema and go out with my friends!

travel: Italy,Ireland,Andorra.

ambition: get a good job and earn a lot of money!

favourite place: Kilkenny

favourite book: Memories of Idhún

favourite music album: "A las 5 en el Astoria" (La Oreja de Van Gogh)

most hated expression: You have to do that!!

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Josu Alcántara

Work / college: I'm studying traslation at UV. I also studied Physics along last three years at UV too.

Hobbies: I love learning about chinese culture. I like play blues harmonica and learn how to play ukelele (I bought one four months ago!). I also like to read and play videogames.

Ambitions: I hope some day I'll became a important chinese translator and I'll be able to visit (or live in) China very often.

Travelled to: Bordeaux, London and Oslo.


Favourite place: I really enjoyed my visit to Vigelandparken, in Oslo. It's stuatues are so realistic! :O


Favourite music album: I like a lot of authors and music bands, but if I have to pick some of them, I'd choose Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here" and all the discography of Soil&Pimp Sessions (a japanese death jazz group).


Favourite book: The end of "Of Mice and Men", by John Steinbeck shocked me. I recommend to read this book to all of you (in english if it's possible... their farmer accent is so funny hahaha)

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Alba Martínez

Female 18

Work/college: Student. I'm beginning a degree in Translation at the University of Valencia.

Hobbies: I enjoy watching subtitled version films, and also spanish movies, at cinema or in my cave, listening to rock music, singing in the shower, cooking foreign dishes, reading Eduardo Galeano, learning other lenguages, writtting nonsense, having an interesting conversation with my friends while having beer . But what I most like to do is meeting new people and places. Because of this I'd love to travel, if I had money.

Travel: Sadly I couldn't travel so much. I have shortly visited some places from Spain and Italy, and once I have been to Tunisse and Monaco.

Favourite place: Barcelona

Favourite music album: Mm...one of my favourites is Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" album.

Most hated expression: " Thank God"

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WORK/COLLEGE: I'm studying translation at Valencia's university.

HOBBIES: Listening to music, reading, travelling, languages and collecting postcards.

TRAVEL: Italy, United kingdom, France, Tunisia and Monaco.

AMBITION: I would like to travel all over the world and live in a foreign country.

FAVOURITE PLACE: Stonehenge, Amesbury.

FAVOURITE MUSIC ALBUM: Hybrid theory, Linkin Park.

FAVOURITE BOOK: "La voz dormida" Dulce Chacón.

MOST HATED EXPRESSION: " You can't do it"

PATRICIA BLASCO HERNÁNDEZ

PROFILE:

Work/college: I'm studying translation at university of Valencia

Hobbies: I like reading, listening to music and ridinga bike

Travel: inside Spain, Galicia and Barcelona. Outside Spain, England

Ambition: be happy

Favourite place: my village, Ademuz

Favourite music album: Fácil by Maldita Nerea

Favourite book: El juego del ángel by C.R. Zafón

Most hated espression: Eat!!

Paloma Navarro

Work/College: I am studying Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation at University of Valencia/ I work as a hostess and I'm a teacher too.

Hobbies: languages, travelling, going out with friends, the party, shopping, sightseeing, reading, electronic music, the beach, swimming, skiing, BB, watching on tv Sex and The City...

Travel: inside Spain, I really enjoyed Barna, Andalucía, I. Canarias, Madrid, Mallorca...Outside Spain, Andorra, UK, Italy and France.

Ambition: work as a translator at some international institution and travel all over the world.

Favourite place: Rome, Italy in general.

Favourite music album: I don't have a favourite music album but I love La playa (LODVG).

Favourite book: Marina - C.R. Zafón

Most hated expression: "Wake up"

Silvia Martorell

PROFILE:

WORK/COLLEGE: Studying Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation and Italian filology at University of Valencia.

HOBBIES: Dancing, art, languages, travelling, listening to music, reading...

TRAVEL: Italy, Germany, Ireland


AMBITION: Travel around the world


FAVOURITE PLACE: Rome, Italy


FAVOURITE MUSIC ALBUM: I couldn't choose a music album as my favourite, but I'm always listening to music like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Lady gaga...

FAVOURITE BOOK: Cabinet of curiosities (Douglas Presnton & Lincoln Child)


MOST HATED EXPRESSION: I told you so...

Jaime Francés Martínez

PROFILE

Work/college: Translation student at Valencia's university.

Hobbies: Theatre, listening to music, drawing and painting, social networks, ... I think I'm a very versatile person.

Travel: Inside Spain, I've been in Formentera, Granada and Teruel, for exemple, and outside Spain, I've only been in Holland and Belgium. I love to travel and know other countries.

Ambition: In this moment, I only want to pass my degree and start to work as a translator in other country.

Favourite place: I haven't got a favourite place because I think every places has got great and different sites to be.

Favourite music album: As before, I think every type of music and song has got great matters but, I love to listen to R&B, electronic and pop music.

Most hated expression: "What can we do?".

ALEJANDRO RUIZ

work / college: University of Valencia. Translation student
hobbies: reading, cinema, photography, music... art in general.
travel:Sicily, Tunis, England, Monaco, Italy ...

favourite place: London 
favourite music album:I'm into some different music styles, but I love The Suburbs- Arcade Fire
Most hated expression: "I told you so"

Carolina Vicent Garcia

Carolina Vicent

Work/college: I'm studying Translation at the University of Valencia

Hobbies: I love travelling, listening to music, reading and learning languages.

Travel: I've been to France, Germany, Austria, UK, Andorra, Italy and Spain

Ambition: work as a famous translator in an international institution!

Favourite place: Austria

Favourite music album: I couldn't choose a music album as my favourite, but lately I've been listening to Between the Devil and the deep blue sea, by Black Stone Cherry.

Most hated expression: "WAKE UP, OR YOU'LL MISS THE BUS!", a common expression of my mum.

Picture: This is me in the King's Tower, in Oropesa (Castellón).

Sara Vázquez

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Work/college: I'm studying Translation at the University of Valencia.

Hobbies: music, literature and travel, I dream on visiting many places of the World to meet people from different cultures and learn how they live.

Travel: France, Germany, Ireland and Spain, of course.

Ambition: I'd like to work at a international institution such as the United Nations.

Favourite place: Menorca.

Favourite music album: I don't have a favourite music album, I'm into many kinds of music and I can't choose only one album.

Favourite book: La sombra del viento - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Most hated expression: "Your room seems a hospital during a war".

Sara Navarro

Work / college: I study Translation at University of Valencia.

Hobbies: I really love doing sports specially swimming. I enjoy travelling, dancing, reading and going out with my friend.

Travel: England, Italy, Belgium, France, Portugal.

Ambition: I would love to travel around the world.

Favourite place: When I visited Venice, i fell in love with the city.

Favourite music album: F.A.M.E (Chris Brown)

Most loved book : El alquimista of Paulo Coelho.

Laura Carceller

Work / college: I studied Architecture at UPV last year, but currently I study Translation at University of Valencia.
Hobbies: I love travelling, visiting my father’s birthplace whenever I can, listening to every kind of music, going out with my friends…

Travel: Germany and England.

Ambition: I would like to be happy doing what I want to do.

Favourite place: I really love staying in Benidorm, the town I born, but I would like to go to New York.
Favourite music album: “Un día en el mundo”- Vetusta Morla.
Most hated expression: “I told you”.

Raquel Pastor

Work/college: I'm studying 1st of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valencia.

Hobbies: I love travelling around the world to know new cultures, playing the saxophone, going out...

Travel: I've been in England and in Malta.

Ambition: Be something in the life

Favourite place: Canterbury

Favourite group of music: I don't have any favourite album or group of music, since I really like different types of music.

Most hated expression: ''Don't do that''

Lara Domingo

work/college: valencia university. First course of english translation.

hobbies: playing instruments,mainly the guitar and cello; skating and going out.

travel: Italy, France, Greece, Croate and UK.

ambition: stop the time and be happy.

favourite place: Altea and my bed.

favourite music album: plays metallica by four cellos(apocalyptica)

most hated expression: all the expressions that say belen esteban

Almudena Aragón

work / college: I studied Tourism and now I study Translation, both at University of Valencia.
hobbies: travelling, reading, going out...
travel: Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, USA, France, Italy, Holland.
favourite place: Times Square, in New York.
favourite music album: "La ley innata", by Extremoduro.
Most hated expression: "Nano"

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Santi garcia

work/college: university of valencia/ student of traduction

hobbies: read, study strategy, play videogames

travel: rome, paris, bruselles, holland

favourite place: the colloseum

favourite music album:

metallica' s master of puppets

most hated expression: peace and love guy!

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day is a film directed by James Ivory in 1993 and based on the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The author of the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro, was born and raised in Nagasaki (Japan) until 1960, when his family moved to Surrey (England). He took his studies and became a novelist at the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia.

In 1989 wrote The Remains of the Day, his most famous novel and the one which won the Man Booker Prize.

Nowadays, Ishiguro is considered one of the best fiction authors in the English-speaking world.

The Remains of the Day tells the story of Mr Stevens, an English butler who dedicates his entire life to the service of Lord Darlington, and his frustrated love to a colleague, Miss Kenton, the housekeeper, in the history background of the Second World War.

In 1993 Merchant Ivory Productions adapted a film based on the Ishiguro's novel. It was directed by James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala made the adaptation of the novel.

The director, James Ivory, is an American film director best-known for his films A Room with a View (1985), Mr and Mrs Bridge (1990) and Howards End (1992), which received nominations to the Academy Awards and won a few of them.

The film starred Anthony Hopkins as Mr Stevens, Emma Tompson as Miss Kenton, James Fox as Lord Darlington, Christopher Reeve as Congressman Trent Lewis and Hugh Grant as Cardinal.

The Remains of the Day

Dear all,

As we were talking today of the film based on Ishiguro's novel, I thought it'd be a good idea to watch the trailer of the movie. I'm sure you'll enjoy the book!

By the way, has anyone seen the film or already read the book?

Could you please look for information on the author, the film director, the actors and actresses ...and publish the info in the blog?

You can reply to this entry either by clicking on "comments" or BETTER STILL, by creating a new entry.

Best,

Patricia

WELCOME

WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BLOG



Dear all,

Welcome to the class blog. This year you'll become authors of this blog.

I hope you find here lots of interesting information, exercises and English language games.

And, above all, I hope this becomes an enjoyable common space where you can share your ideas and opinions and publish some of the activities we do in class.

Learn and enjoy English!

Patricia