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"

#links

thank you professor

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

Travel to Europe 1



Comprehension questions by Ruth Monfort Juanes, CP2



QUESTIONS:
1. What are the things that Prague exports?
2. What is the name of the most important theatre?
3. How is also known the city of Prague?
4. How did is the Castle Town?
5. The old town with his magnificate ____ square.
6. What famous square is there in the new town?
7. What is the name given to the famous freedom building?
8. What is flouring Prague?
9. Everytime I come to Prague, my ____ friend Lida tries to teach me a little more.

VIDEOSCRIPT
Hi, I’m Rick Steves. Back with more of the best of Europe. This time we return to the Czech Republic for a close up look at Prague, the hottest city in Eastern Europe.It is amazing what a few years of freedom can do.Prague is always been beautiful now it’s fun too. The streets are filled with young people who seem which determined to make up for their parents stolen their childhoods. We’ll explore Prague. Slinky with art nouveau facades. Perpetually playing Mozart and Vivaldi and brewing the best beer in Europe.We will see Europe’s most interesting jewish quarter. Prague’s in love with life, Light Charles Bridge and it’s unique clack light theatre after the classy street music.We’ll venture into the Czech countryside to tour a Silver mine and check out some bony decor.The Czech Republic, a quick and easy side trip from western Europe, is the western half of what was Czechoslovakia. It’s about the size of Mariland. From Prague we side trip to ‘’Kutna Hora’’.Prague is the capital of Czech Republic. Since it scaped the bombs of last century’s war, it’s one of Europe’s best preserved cities. It’s nickname: the golden city of a hundred spires.Until about 1800, Prague was four separate and hortified towns, each straddling the ‘’Ultava River’’.The castle town, for a thousand years the home of the Czech ruler.The Little town, where nobles would live to be close to the king.The old town, with it’s magnificent market square.And the new town, with the grand Wenceslas Square providing a stage for this country’s tumultuous 20th century history.After a generation under communist control the city is bursting with pent up entrepreneurial energy, even the buildings like this one ‘’the dancing house’’ seems to celebrate Czech freedom. Under capitalism, Prague is flouring with inviting restaurants and vibrant markets. Today, as it has since medieval times, Prague’s central market keeps both hungry locals and vagabonds well fed.-‘’ Every time I come to Prague my tour guide friend Lida tries to teach me a little more Czech.’’-You have known me fourteen years and you still speak no Czech (not a word). I will show you some words. Remember just five key words in Czech.Good day, please, good, thank you and the last one, good bye… but we are friends and so we can say good bye and hello...Prague’s old town square, now the heart of the city, was once a similar market, but today the commerce is tourism..

Gandhi's non-violence speech





Estefania Ferrer Lopez, CP2

Kilkenny, Ireland Travel Video Guide




Comprehension test and script by Sandra Lozano Gonzalez, AP2

I'm next heading to the _______ _______ city of Kilkenny.
Kilkenny is an interesting ________ study for how a _______ can establish establish itself on the ________ ________.
In the middle _____ Kilkenny became _______ by the Kilkenny design ____________...in the _______ Kilkenny castle.
The semi _____ ______ bought about the _______ good craft design inIreland.
I worked for the _______ company Kilkenny ______ at ____ ______ and ...I was just an ______, I didn't any _____ but I had a friendly ____________
..... I took a _____ When I took over in the _____'s,we had had maybe ______ or ______staff.....a fantastic _____ over looking the castle _______
It's something very ____ that we have in Ireland and the _______ is going to came full _______ and people are going to come back to thing ____ with ________.

1.Why is so special to buy Irish hand-made products?
2.Do you think Kilkenny is a traditional city? Explain why.

VIDEOSCRIPT

I'm next heading to the quaint historic city of Kilkenny. Now Kilkenny is an interesting case study for how a location can establish itself on a tourism map. In the mid 1960's Kilkenny became based by the Kilkenny Design workshops. The semi state body brought about to proper the good craft design in Ireland. The workshops were set up in the stables and coach houses of the impressive Kilkenny castle. In the mid 1980 s the design workshops were privatised and in an interesting twist of fate was taken over by former employee Kathleen Moran. Kathleen Moran 'I worked for the original company Kilkenny Design at workshops and that was a great experience and it was privatised I saw the opportunity to maybe to put in a bin to become and have my own business. I was just an employee so I didn't have any money but I had a friendly bank manager and I worked on him and I was very fortunate that he gave me the funds and I took a risk but I had a great fate in the product and the place. When I took over in the mid 1980's we would have had 5 or 6 staff. We now have over 30 staff, we would have had 14 or 15 pottery companies we now have up to 200 suppliers all over Ireland. We have extended the square footage of the shops maybe twice the amount and put in a fantastic restaurant upstairs overlooking the castle with beautiful old beams. So, we have put a lot of investment in but we have done it very much true to the integrity of the building'. NarratorKilkenny is now well established as Ireland's craft capital. This has a flow on effect to other local business; the constant influx of tourists means Kilkenny boasts some of Ireland's finest restaurants and an accommodation. Kathleen believes a lot of Kilkenny's charm also comes from the fact the city has maintained its historic link to the days when it was a medieval merchant town.Kathleen We, the rest of Ireland were pulling down there lovely old shops fronts and putting up very modern plastic ones. Kilkenny were retaining all of theirs and they were retaining and making sure that the locals retained things that linked us to our past and heritage and that was something we should be proud of, where the bigger cities is were modernising. Kilkenny has modernised but has managed to retain wonderful shop fronts, the old lane ways so that has been very good for Kilkenny. There is something wonderful about hand made product, a product that's seen through right from the beginning to the end by the same person. I think people are kind of going to suffer from chain store fatigue or fatigue from seeing the same thing. No matter what country you go to now you see the same product. What's wonderful about Irish craft is how unique and how different it is and how beautifully made it is and we have a very high standard of craft in Ireland across of different areas and I think that is something very special that we have in Ireland. It is something, that I think the wheel will come full circle and people are going to come back to things that are made with tradition ..