Writing Final Test: 10%

Tryst, you might not be for me

It was a day like the others. Then, come the night where me and others students went to see Tryst, a play impose by our teacher. And as i am looking forward to this experience I do not really think that I might be the best person to tell if whether it should win the best play of the year or not. First, because I do not think that the play was actually for us and second, because to give an award we need special viewer’s circumstances that were not granted to us.

First of all, in every way I could see this play, I do not think it was for us, young adults. When a play or anything creative really touched us it is because we feel a connection or something that related to something we know, we understand or that acted on us. But with two protagonists of a well-advanced age, set in the Victorian years, it is clear we would not found a lot of ourselves in it. Then, despite the fine and classy staging and the well-intended performances, the story was not enough captivating for a Tuesday night of school. This old-age womanizer’s con and this poor blocked-in-her-life woman with her sad past story, had nothing to capture my attention during two hours. And even if in a way we can try to related in any of those characters, for younger story about aging people is never something really captivating. That is why I do not think I could pronounced myself on if it should win or not because it was not the best play for people of our age.

Secondly, there are circumstances to choose a winner and we were not under them. Someone who has to watch a play, a movie or anything else for a special purpose, would not do it the same way other people will do. To give an award we need to know the criteria of evaluation first. And then, we need to compare it to other candidates, something we have not do. . Yes, I could evaluated this play individually by the too much intense performances, by the simple but in a way interesting staging. I could criticized the strange projections they tried to insert and that add nothing else to it. I could also talked about my own appreciation of the play, stating the finely written dialogues. But, it is an old play so what we are rating here is this peculiar adaptation and it had nothing to truly impressed. So in any case I would issued my judgement on that question.

To sum up, I am really not qualify to give any judgement on whether it should win an award or not because I do not think I was part of the audience they were targeting and because I did not watch the play with the circumstances someone who got to choose a winner would have done it. So, winners are never general one, they are part of a majority but we too often forget the circumstances case and in any way, it is what influenced everything else.

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Reading Final Test: 10%

Read the text: “Genetically Modified Foods.” Answer the following questions. /50 A.

Match the synonym or definition below with the word from the paragraph. The (number) in parenthesis refers to the paragraph number. / 16
(1) interfering - meddling
(2) Amount of food collected from a field - crops
(3) person who grows plants - breeder
(4) make better - improve
(5) things that are planned - obvious
(6) freedom from harm or danger - safety
(7) occurring in many places - outcry
(8) amount by which something is deficient B. - shortages

Comprehension / 3
1. State the thesis or main point of the text as a whole.
GM foods are not as bad as we might think, or as people wants us to believe it.

2. How, well in your opinion, does the author support her point of view? / 3
Well, she's supporting my point of view by saying that we shouldn't criticized too fast and that we should always show both side of every story. Too often things are hidden to people things or only the side that will makes us support the point of view they want is showed. So in that way, the author really relied to what I think. Saying especially that everything has good and bad sides.

3. How does this text relate to the readings in our textbook in the unit, GMF? / 4
Well both of them we're talking of GM food but with a different opposition. In our textbook it was talking more about the bad sides of it, but in this text they tried to show the good sides of it, a part that we hardly know actually.

4. In one or two sentences, write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words. / 24
Paragraph 1: Interfering with nature is something that has been made since the age of time.

Paragraph 2 : What is the process to gros food and always have the best crops.

Paragraph 3: How they used a way to accelerate the growing of food.

Paragraph 4: Besides what critics might say it's something really natural if we compare to reality.

Paragraph 5: Two great and positive achievements of GM foods that we don't read in the newspaper.

Paragraph 6: Gm foods don't increase the danger related to food more than anything else in reality. With or without, there are as many dangers.

Paragraph 7: The food growing from GM nature are not a threat to environnement or animal or insect or everything in it. Based on the Monarch case, experience were really positive to it.

Paragraph 8: GM foods is not the only solution, but there's a lot of problem to stop in the world and while people tried to stop GM foods it has gain more positive solution than a lot of other bad things.


Writing Final Test: 10%

Final Listening test 20%

FINAL LISTENING EXAM: Blowin’ in the Wind /50 (20%)

1- What is Percy Schmeiser’s problem? /4

He had been in farming industry for fifty years and winds always been his worst enemy and now it has brought a new threat: Monsanto's DNA.

2- What is Roundup used for? /4

It's used to killed everything growing on a field, but they invent a special Canola that can resist to it.

3- How did the chemical company invent Roundup? /4

They invent it with special toxic products, but with their special Canola that can resist it, they assure themselves to have something to back them.

4- What has Monsanto accused Schmeiser of doing? /4

They accused him of stealing their special DNA because they found some in his seeds and he's not paying the rights for it.

5- Why are the farmers pissed off? /4

The farmers are pissed off because they don't think it's ethical to pay for this kind of things. they souldn't pay and change the way they've been doing agriculture for centuries and more.

6- How did Monsanto initially learn about Schmeiser? /4

Somebody told them and they trapped him.

7- Did the company respect its policy on dealing with the farmer? Yes or no. Give a reason. /4

No. Their playing the rough game and since their bigger than everything and everyone else, they don't let a tiny bit of chance to the others. Looking on the situation, Justice don't seem to be an option. The biggest win.

8- What tactics did the company use with another farmer? /4

They ask if they can have an excerpt of his plantation/seeds and since they've got it, they analyze it.

9- How did another farmer, Zilinski, get Monsanto’s DNA in his crops? /4

He trade his seeds with another farmer (something realy common) but sadly for him the seeds he got were having Monsanto's DNA. He was accused and penalized after.

10- How did the company treat Zilinski? /4

They shoot and spray their product on his fields with an helicopter to see if the Canola were resisting to te product, to finally discover that it was having nothing to do with it.

11- What is Schmeiser’s next step? /4

Continue fighting because he believe in what he's fighting for and he won't let them win so easily.

12- The narrator ends the segment with this question: “But the real question is this, can Monsanto or anybody put a patent on a piece of nature?” What do you think? /6

It goes along with the ultimate question: what about selling water? It's an hard question because yes of course those elements of nature are brought near us and supervised by people, but if it's to start a war or something violent or bad, I don't think it's the right solution. We need to know the borderline and not cross them, and actually it's always the question of power and human are good to exaggerate with it and abused of it too. But ultimately there's this idealized world really "Peace and Love" where everything belongs to everybody and we can all share and everything. Sadly the world is not like that and it's a question too elaborate in too much directions to really tell here. There's a lot of sides (good and bad) to it and it's all about circumstances. Really is a big opening question.

Pascua Lama Role Card

Title of special interest group: CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

Your name: Yeng Li

Biographical information (CV)
Your Life and history : I was born in 1980

Your Personal Job and work experiences : I always been interested by news since my youth. But for

Your Schooling Information : Had studied International journalism in England at University College Falmouth.

Your achievements in life : Working at central news agency.

Your abilities and competencies : I can talk about anything that passionate me. I'm very voluble.

Position statement (for, against or neutral): state three reasons with specific facts or examples (see Persuasive Map).

As a news reporter my job is to state news and to tell everything we have to and everything we can say. I don,t want to put my own judgement in the mind of everyone and there's a lot of good and bad sides so I can't really divide myself.

GM foods

1. GM foods involve altering the appearance of food. -- True -> FALSE

2. The genetic modifications of food is not a new phenomenon. -- True

3. Technology exists to make plants resistant to insects. -- True

4. Health Canada has accepted or approved hundreds of GM food. -- True -> FALSE

5. Some approve GM food include bananas and oranges. -- True -> FALSE

6. Health Canada has a strict process for evaluating the safety of GM food. -- True

7. It takes over 10 years to approve GM food. -- True -> FALSE

8. Health Canada used many sciences to assess GM food including chemistry. -- True

9. GM food can cure allergies. -- True. -> FALSE

10. Critics of GM food are worried about superweeds. -- True.

Pascua lama

Who? Chile and Argentina

What? Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining proyect of gold, silver, copper and other minerals.

Where? Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains, south of Atacama, straddling the border between Chile and Argentina at an altitude of over 4,500 metres.

When? Since 1991

Why? Lots of controversy

How?

LEL #4 Reading Skills Diagnostic 1: Persuasive Text

1. Interest level: This course was really boring (great; okay; loosy; boring)
2. Difficulty level: It was dunno level

3. What I learned: It was really precise and all the questions were helpful about everythings. I was evaluate on many things such as:
Distinguish Fact from Opinion
Draw Conclusions
Draw Inferences
Identify Author's Purpose
Identify Main Idea
Identify Organizational Patterns
Identify Vocabulary in Context
Predict Meaning
Recognize Point of View
Recognize Supporting Details
But the problem was I didn't rely on te text and he really bored me more than interest me. So the persuasion wasn't really effective and it didn't catch my attention to answer with precision.

4. My score: 65%

5. Rating (on 10): 4/10

Bias

An opinion or point of view

It could be based on who you are or where you live or what you believe or value or what is your job.

- Bias in the media aims to persuade you that they are right.

- Examples: Includes or excluding information : By headline; by terms you use (ex. Terrorists vs Freedom fighters)

Summarizing

Putting a text in your own words in a shortened form in a shortened form (Table of contents / Index)

What to do first
1. Skim the text (table of contents / index)
2. Pick out the main ideas
3. Find Topic sentence (main idea of Paragraph)

Questions to ask yourself?
1. What happened? (Where?) (When?) (Why?)
2. What is involved?
3. What was the outcome / consequence?
4. Is the essential piece of information included?

LEL #3 Reading Comprehension Course 2: Structure

1. Interest level: This course was really boring. It was interesting or anything else to catch my attention.

2. Difficulty level: It was dunno level

3. What I learned: It was kind of weird and long, it was divided in four lessons and it wasn't on things that I didn't know. They were showing the differend kind of structure of a text such as

Lesson 1: Chronological order. Ideas are arranged in the order in which they occurred (or in the order in which they should occur).

Lesson 2: Order of importance. Ideas are arranged in order of increasing importance (least important idea to most important idea) or in order of decreasing importance (most important idea to least important idea).

Lesson 3: Compare and contrast. Ideas are arranged so that parallel aspects of item A and item B are compared and contrasted either in block style (AAAABBBB) or point-by-point style (ABABABAB).

Lesson 4: Cause and effect. Ideas are arranged so that readers can see what event or series of events caused something to take place or what effect an event or series of events had.

But well, I read a lot and I knoew thoses kinds of things and I didn,t found that the practise exercise was really helpful for me.
So I don't think it was really helpful.

4. My score: Hum well I didn't found it?

5. Rating (on 10): 4/10

Brand loyalty

- In how many stages is the brand loyalty measured? What are those stages?

- What is brand recognition?

- Can loyalty to a product fade?

- What can a brand offer to tempt their customers?

- What situation is considered as a marketer's dream?

- What is the task of the marketer?

- What are the four variables that are consisting the Brand quity?

- Are their Canadian Brands in the top 100 global brands?

- Is it more difficult to convert a new customer or to retain a current customer?

Tryst post-viewing activities

Activity 1. Vocabulary study - use a dictionary to define the following words.
cad: seemingly/apparently charming
wits: ? by his brain
woo: seduces
fleece: steal
desert:
drop names: pretending
fabricate: inventing
pull off:
seamstress:
milliner:
plain-looking:
feigns: pretends to be surprise
taken aback:
reel in:
blandishments:
blanch:
comsummate:
brooch: a jewel

Activity 2. Plot: put the events in the proper sequence.
Plot
Act I
4____ A. Georgia(?) and Adelaide talk in separate monologues - George describes his role as a gigolo and Adelaide talks about her inheritance.
9____ B. The next day they meet in the park and things happen fast - Georgia(?) declares his love, asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts without much questioning.
7____ C. The next day, George bumps into her by chance and invites her to lunch as he plays the perfect gentleman.
2____ D. He says that his suits are attractive to women.
6____ E. George enters the shop behind her and asks about the green hat in the window - the seduction of Adelaide has begun.
10____ F. They are married in a coastal resort, book into a hotel, play cards the whole night long but do not make love because Adelaide carries a lot of emotional baggage from the past.
8____ G. Adelaide is touched and accepts his invitation.
1____ H. We first meet George who tells us he wears expensive clothes, just like those worn by the upper class of England.
5____ I. The action really starts with George walking down Edgeware Road and coming face to face with Adelaide outside the clothing shop.
3____ J. We meet Adelaide who tells us she works in the back room of a clothing store as a milliner.

Act II.
7____ A. She dreams about opening a clothing store together; it would be the perfect fit for them.
4____ B. George makes excuses and convinces Adelaide to take a bath.
2____ C. Saying he has a headache, George does not go to the post office with Adelaide, but returns to the room, hoping to escape with the money and brooch.
10____ D. Unfortunately for her George does the unthinkable.
8____ E. George hesitates, Adelaide prepares to leave, he tries to get her money back, and he becomes angry.
5____ F. Adelaide realizes her brooch is not there and confronts George about his lies, telling him to stop pretending.
6____ G. She takes on an assertive role: she wants to stay with him rather than her parents and proposes a plan to him.
3____ H. But for some unknown reason, George returns to the room to leave the brooch and as he is leaving a second time comes face-to-face with Adelaide.
9____ I. Adelaide decides to stay when she learns about George's troubled past.
1____J. After Adelaide wakes up, she and George head to the bank to withdraw her inheritance and she writes a letter to her family.

Activity 3. Writing and discussion: in small groups.
The elements of plot, theme, character, setting, point of view and style contribute to the overall effect of the play:
What is the writer's purpose? to entertain? to be thought provoking? to state an opinion? to play on the reader's emotions?
What is the writer's tone? Is the writer being ironic? sarcastic? humorous? serious? tongue in cheek?
How does the story begin? Does the writer establish setting or emphasise the background of the situation? Is the character given more emphasis than the setting? How much detail is supplied?
How does the story develop? Is it told through a series of blocks moving rapidly through time and space, like flash backs and flash forwards? Is it being told chronologically?
How does the story end? With a twist or surprise? With a build up to an inevitable climax or are you left hanging, being forced to supply your own ending based on your reading of the little blocks of action the writer supplied?
Who tells the story? Is the story being told through the eyes of a character involved in the action? Is the author standing outside of the action and observing? Is the author observing but within the action?Check the use of the pronoun... if it is I, me, my, our, we then the author is a character within the story. The story is being told in the first person.If the pronouns are: he, she, it, hers, his, they, them, their the author is outside of the action and observing as if he/she was God. This is known as the Eye of God technique.Another way of telling a story is as a series of thoughts, each thought block building up an impression or action. The thoughts can be told in a logical order or as they seemingly occur to the character... at random. This is known as the stream of consciousness technique.
What is the language and style like? The impression the writer wants in the story will be affected by the language he/she tells the story in or has the characters use. The language is important to develop the character and action. The realism of the dialogue will influence our reading of the story and our attitudes to the characters involved.
What images are used? In order to rapidly develop a story the writer relies on the reader recognising particular symbols and references and understanding what he/she intends them to mean, eg. in Maurice Gee's story Schooldays (Maurice Gee - Collected Stories. Penguin Books) the lead character's red hair becomes a symbol for rebellion, challenge and freedom.
What are the characters like? The characters don't have to be fully developed. They need not have a name. They can be identified simply as "the boy", "the girl". "the mother." In other stories it is essential that the characters have fully developed personalities and motivations.
How important is the setting in conveying the ideas and mood of the story?

Activity 4. Work in groups of three and write a different ending to the play lasting approximatey 3 minutes.

Previewing Tryst

Women's Suffrage:
- The Pacific colony of Franceville, declaring independence in 1889, became the first self-governing nation to practice universal suffrage without distinction of sex or color.
- Voting rights for women were introduced into international law in 1948 when the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- New Jersey women, along with "aliens...persons of color, or negroes," lost the vote in 1807, when the franchise was restricted to white males, partly in order, ostensibly at least, to combat electoral fraud by simplifying the conditions for eligibility.

Melodrama:
- English melodrama was influenced by German Sturm und Drang drama and Parisian melodrama of the post-Revolutionary period.
- Beginning in the second half of the 18th century, melodrama was a technique of combining spoken recitation with short pieces of accompanying music.
- The villain was always the central character in melodrama and crime was a favorite theme.

Realism:
- Realism was first crafted into the works of Shakespeare and other early 16th century writers.
- The realist movement began with Henrik Ibsen
- Realism began earlier in the 19th century in Russia than elsewhere in Europe and took a more uncompromising form.

Naturalism:
- Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, including poverty, racism, sex, prejudice, disease, prostitution, and filth.
- It refers to theatre that attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies
- Naturalistic performance is often unsuitable for the performance of other types of theatre

Mid-term writing test W09 Final version

"We are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss"

2008 is certainly a shocking year for movie celebration. As we go by the top 10 lists and all prestigious prizes that are given through many galas, I was surprise that it was not necessarily the best movie that was winning. Surely, all movies in nomination were great ones (altough many amazing ones were still missing), but in my opinion, The curious case of Benjamin Button was deserving Best picture more than anything. I will try to persuade you by his content and technical qualities.

First of all, The curious case of Benjamin Button is incredible in his content. The movie, who is actually about time itself, is amazingly timeless. It's an awesome film that will surely pass through time, in comparison of Slumdog Millionaire who is to me the flavor of the months more than the movie of the decade. It is the kind of movie that will affect everyone but in a different way. It is an observation about life and every themes related. Some people will see age, love, time, memory, relation, etc. as the main one, while it is hard to tell because mainly all of this is about life and the beauty related to. The rythm is slow, contemplative and really moving too, something really exceptional in a way, while they do the exploit of doing a 166 minutes movie based on a short story! It is an affecting story that can relied to anyone, going with the fact that it is about life from start to end, so anyone can relied in a way or another.

Secondly, The curious case of Benjamin Button got undeniable technical qualities that make the unusual circumstances of the movie more than plausible. The technology they used for Benjamin Button was amazing and surely a model that will be followed in the future. They also shown their expertise in recreating time and places. Moreover, most of the artisans under thoses effects were Montrealers, a fact that we can be honored of. Fortunately, the movie was rewarded in thoses categories during the last Academy Awards ceremony. Some people may say that it was categories where Slumdog was not even in nomination, but this is rubbish, Benjamin Button would have won thoses anyway.

In conclusion, The curious case of Benjamin Button, following his content and his technical particularities, was more than exceptional. So as the movie says, we are defined by opportunities, but even if the Academy does not want to see it, Benjamin Button had certainly not miss his. So let just hope that time will change things for the best.

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Mid-term writing test W09 original

"We are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss"

2008 is certainly a shocking year for movie celebration. As we go by the top 10 lists and all prestigious prizes that are given through many galas, I was surprise that it was not necessarily the best movie that was wining. Surely, all movies in nomination were great ones (altough many amazing ones were still missing), but in my opinion, The curious case of Benjamin Button was deserving Best picture more than anything. I will try to persuade you by telling some reasons that may have influenced voters instead of cinematographic qualities and by what makes this movie so amazing to my eyes.

First of all, I must say that I really appreciate Slumdog millionaire that was an amazing feel-good movie, altough very manipulator to what it express, what it shows and what he wants us to feel. But well, let say it, the world is not in a good shape. We are in a period of constant changes and reflexions, we are putting more and more attention to our faith and our mistakes and as we go by the failures of our society (following recession and things of that kind), people need to be remind in a way (with dark and depressing movies just like Cloverfield, There will be blood, The dark knight, Revolutionary road, etc.), but they also need to be given hope. That is why feel-good movies exists and normally, thoses types of movies are leads by great message underline with big emphasis (just think of WALL-E (amazing movie by the way) with his ecological message, or Tropic thunder that criticize the failure of the hollywood industry, or the musical Hairspray that was talking about racism). Yes, in bad times, we can not hide it, we all love to watch a feel-good movie to comfort us, and that may be one of the reasons that influenced the voters of the academy. In the same direction, the academy always comes to a point where talented icons needs to be honoured following many past efforts that never got mentionned. Scorsese is a great examples, who finally got recognition in 2007 with The Departed, while it was not necessarily the best film of this year or the best one in his career. Slumdog is following this idea by taking the special place that the academy is now showing: the feel-good movie, let's think of Little miss sunshine or Juno, far better, who had both take this case without ending with the ultimate prize. Well let's say that it was perfect time to let this kind of movie gaining the recognition they were needing.

Secondly, to my eyes The curious case of Benjamin Button, who is actually about time itself, is amazingly timeless. It's an awesome film that will surely pass through time, in comparison of Slumdog Millionaire who is to me the flavor of the months more than the movie of the decade. It is the kind of movie that will affect everyone but in a different way. It is a movie about life itselfs and every theme related. Some people will see age, love, time, memory, relation, etc. as the main theme of the movie, while it is hard to tell because mainly all of this is about life and the beauty related to. The rythm is slow and contemplative, really moving too, something really exceptional in a way, while they do the exploit of doing a 166 minutes movie with a short story! It is an affecting story that can relied to anyone, going by the fact that it is about life from start to end, so anyone can relied in a way or another. In the same point of view, The curious case of Benjamin Button got undeniable technical qualities that make the unusual circumstances of the movie more than plausible. The technology they used for Benjamin Button was amazing and surely a model that will be follow in the future. They also shown their expertise in recreating time and places. Moreover, most of the artisan under thoses effects were Montrealers, a fact that we can be honored of. Fortunately, The curious case of Benjamin Button was honoured in thoses categories at the last academy awards ceremony. Some people may say that it was categories where Slumdog was not even in nomination, but this is rubbish, Benjamin Button would have won thoses anyway.

In conclusion, Best picture does not necessarily means best movie. Slumdog wins becauses following our era we are in, it was meant to, but well, The curious case of Benjamin Button was actually showing a lot more qualities following his content and his technical particularities. So as the movie says, we are defined by opportunities, but even if the Academy does not want to see it, Benjamin Button had certainly not miss his. So let just hope that time will change things for the best.

Unit 3, Consumer Behaviour

1. What factors are included as cultural influences on consumer behaviour?

The culture, the subculture and the social class.

2. What is culture?

It is the set of basic values, perceptions, wants, and behavious learned by a member of society from family and other important institutions.

3. What are some of the main characteristics of Canadian culture as identified by Maclean's 1999 and 2000 polls?

That 90% of Canadians believe that we have a distinct culture and distinct values and that almost 80% of Canadians believe that our identity is based on the importance of our history and by the fact that we don't want to be American.

4. Why is it important to identifiy cultural shift?

It will help increase demands on product we want more or less.

5. What is subculture?

It is a group of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations.

6.What are three Canadian subcultures mentioned in this text?

Native Canadians, Canada's ethnic consumers and internet users.

7. How has Scotiabank targeted Native - or Aboriginal - Canadians?

They maintained their relationship with them through 3 on-reserve branches and 24 Aboriginal banking centers. They also uses grassroots marketing and public relation efforts such as many sponsorship and annual scholarship for youngers. Things they did to targeted them continue into a full paragraph.

8. Why are ethnic consumers important to marketers?

Because they have to follow what they want, what they need and what they love to respond to thoses needs.

9. How do ethnic groups feel about marketing and advertisements?

Many of them believe that they have been neglected or misrepresented by them.

10. Why are internet users an attractive market for advertisements?

Because more and more people pass time their instead of real life or normal shop.

11. Why are Internet users concerned about making online purchases?
They fear a lot of things. Such as the recourse they gonna get if the product is not the right one, isn't delivered or arrives broken. They are also concerned that when they make a purchase or request information, it might be sold or given to another organization without permissions. Thoses fears don't help them.


12. What is social class?

It is a relatively permanent and ordered divisions in a society whose members share similar values, interets, and behaviours.

Sentence variety in movie reviews

More movie question

• Storyline - Is the storyline believeable? Did you find yourself lost in it as if you were there? Yes - yes
  
• Screenplay - Was the dialogue forced? Was it believeable? No - yes
  
• Acting - Which actors / actresses stand out and which don't? Why, in either case? They all did actually, it's one of the movie strenght or standout: the performances.
  
• Special effects - Are they realistic? Do they blow you away, or are they only mildly effective? Well..
  
• Music - Was it overpowering/distracting? Did it evoke emotion? No, well I didn't really attached to the movie.
  
• Editing - Was the movie's pace slow? Was it over-edited? middle.
  
• Main theme/purpose - Do you agree with it? Why or why not? I don,t really know, it wasn't a subject that I was close to.
  
• Overall apprecation - What specifically did you like/dislike? Did the author/actors/director do a good job? Why or why not? How could the film be improved? Why would particular changes help? I didn't really appreciate a lot the movie, but I know that he was REALLY great it's just that it wasn't a subject close to me or that relied to me, so I cannot really tell.
  

Movie reviews [Frost/Nixon]

Washington Post

"The writing is so good, the acting so powerful, that the film goes well beyond the courtroom drama into the territory of the classic history play."

The review is only positive.

Los Angeles Times

"Langella will deservedly get the lion's share of good notices for this film. His Nixon is not an impersonation but an exceptional performance, a great actor's take on an unnerving character that, especially in an invented scene of a late-night phone call to Frost, rises to remarkable levels of artistry."

""Frost/Nixon," however, turns out to be formidably involving, and the reasons start not with expert costars Langella and Michael Sheen or their strong supporting cast or even the skills of Howard, but with the gifts and vision of Morgan, who wrote the screenplay as well as the play."

This review is again really positive.

LEL #2 Vocabulary & Spelling 1: Strategies for Complex Words

1. Interest level: This course was really boring.

2. Difficulty level: It was intermediate level

3. What I learned: Nothing really special, I didn,t really get why they choose thoses specific words. I didn't feel like they were efficient.

4. My score: I didn't found it?

5. Rating (on 10):5

LEL #1 Synonym & Antonym Practice Exercise 1

1. Interest level: This course was really Okay

2. Difficulty level: It was intermediate level

3. What I learned: Inscrutable means mysterious, someone improvident is not cautious and someone irascible is not reasonable

4. My score: 65%

5. Rating (on 10): 8/10

Survey project

1. Choose a topic related to a field of interest (Team of 3 (or 4)) ARTS
2. Think of questions you about the topic.

1 - How much you interested by ARTS? (level rate question)
2 - Wich kind of ARTS are you interested in? (multiple choices)
3 - WHY? (develop-style question)
4 - Do you practice ART? (Y/N question)
5 - If yes, wich one? (short development question)
6 - How often do you go out for art entertainment (cinema, theater, museum, concert, etc) (level rate question)
7 - What do you think of people that want an artistic career? (develop-type question)
8- Do you think that people in ARTS have as many chances to get a nice career than people in other programs? (multiple choices: y, n, don't know, don't care........)

3. Research the topic - why is it important?
4. Come up with a Hypothesis - comparing 2 groups. People in a art program and people not in a an artistic program.
5. Learn the question types in surveymonkey.com (10 or more choices)
6. Write your questions in monkey. Make 2 questionnaires.
7. Email questionnaire to at least 10 people in each group.

Sentence variety

IC: Independent clause = subject / verb / full thought
DC: Dependent clause = subordination / conjunction + S + V /incomplete thought
P: Phrase = preposition / incomplete thought

1. During this term 3200 students are registered at CSL. [Phrase + IC]

2. DC + IC + subordinating conjunction (P.31 in LEAP) = Because I like the students, I enjoy teaching at CSL.

ex. Even though CSL is not near my home, I enjoy studying there.

3. IC + IC + coordinating conjunctions (p.31 in LEAP) = Jimmy listens well, and he likes to correct mistakes.

ex. Francis is tall, but he doesn't speak loud enough for the local we are in.

4. IC + IC + semicolon (;) = CSL is a great school ; it offers many arts and science programs.

ex. It was a beautiful sunny day ; it was really cold for the end of April.

5. IC + IC + semicolon (;) + adverb conjunction (p.32 in LEAP) = Most students at CSL are hard working ; however, some are not.

ex. Julie is wearing a beautiful green dress ; in fact, green is her favorite color.

Movie Project Questions 1

1. What questions.
What are you reviewing? Frost/Nixon
What is it about? It's about the historical interview of Richard Nixon by David Frost
What is the plot or storyline? David Frost, a famous british entertainer and show host, wants to interview Richard Nixon the 37th president of the USA, full of controversy.
What is the theme? Politics
What is the director's purpose? Show everything behind this extraordinary interview.
What genre or classification does it fit? Supense, drama, comedy, historical, always refering to politics.
What is the tone? What is the point of view? What is the mood. The tone change through the evolution of the movie being while around ironic, funny, dramatic, serious and some others, the movie is very versatile on a lot of ways. The point of view is mainly from Frost and Nixon sides like the title said so. The mood is really sympathic. It never too deep, too big, too.. It's a good mood with a great rythm.

2. Who questions.
Who wrote, directed, or acted it? What else have they done? Directed by Ron Howard (A beautiful mind, Da vinci code, Cinderella man, How the grinch stole Christmas), written by Peter Morgan (The play version of Frost/Nixon, the Queen, the last king of Scotland, the other Boleyn girl) with Michael Sheen (The Queen, Underworld), Frank Langhella (Good night and good luck, Stardom, Superman returns), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The prestige), Kevin Bacon (The woodsman, Where the truth lies, Mystic river), Sam Rockwell (The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, Matchstick men, The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy) and much more (dah).
Who are the main characters in the story? David Frost and Richard Nixon
Who is the intended audience? Mostly adult, people who are familiar with thoses events and person interest by politics.
Who has said what about this? Why? Actually the movie was really appreciate by the critics and the public. He has been on many top ten of 2008 lists (13): Los Angeles times, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Chronicles and others ans he's actually number 242 in the top 250 of IMDB. The USA today give it full grade saying that: "It's hard to imagine how a film built around one-on-one interviews could be entertaining, but Frost/Nixon could not be more enthralling.". Because everything is well builded, well created and the suspense, the tension are extraordinary, mainly by the amazing performances. Well I don't want to put here a lot of excerpt of reviews, but well critics were really good.

3. Where and when questions.
When does the action take place? Mainly summer 1977
Where does the action take place? California (Some moments in England or other places..)

Asking questions

LEAP p.27
Modal-Question word / Auxiliary / Subject / Verb / Rest

Yes/No questions

Was Elizabeth loud enough ?
Is Valentine's day the same in England ?
Has everyone spoken ?
Do safaris have real wild animals ?
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Can I ask a question ?
Should I be afraid of rhinoceroses ?
Would you dare to jump from a parachute ?
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Information questions

What did Gabrielle talk about ?
Where would you like to travel?
Who would you like to be your valentine ?
When did Valerie visit PhiPhi ?

LEL #

1. Interest level: This course was really _____ (great; okay; loosy; boring)

2. Difficulty level: It was intermediate level

3. What I learned: Specific examples (I learned that commas (,) are really important)

4. My score: 60% - 80% ....

5. Rating (on 10):

Wiki treasure hunt

What is the Learning Express Library? It's the site of the Grande bibliothèque.

Where is Mr. B's office? C-150

What percentage of the course is reading and listening worth? 30%

How many students are registered in the class? 39 students are registered in this class

What are Mr. B's office hours? Office hours: Tuesdays- 1:00 – 2:00 / Wednesdays- 1:00 – 5:00

What is the 48 hour rule? If you want to retake an exam that you miss or for any other reasons, you got to ask for it within the next 48 hours following the class and you can only use this rule once.

What is the first assignment? Buy the book

What is ELLLO? ELLLO is a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers.

How many threads are found in the discussion forum? 22

Do you have to go to the Grande Bibiliotheque to register?

What is the blog URL of the last student on the class list? http://schoolblog-g.blogspot.com/

How many pages appear when you type "grammar" in the "Search this site" box? 10 items, but only 5 pages

How many items are listed in the Student Contract? 10

What is the name of the class textbook?

How many items are there in the "Writing Correction Code"? 25

Geneviève

Geneviève talks about her personal goals based on the GAINS profile.

Geneviève really is an amazing girl who got incredible skills in writing. She actually wrote a fantasy novel that she wants to publish as a short objective. She also wants to got her DEC in dramatic arts. As a long objective she wants to be happy, to get a good job, principally in the cinema area, as an actress. As others skills she's good at acting and following this direction, it's easy for her to express herself in public.

Her interests really goes in the arts direction such as music, mainly the Beatles that she characterized as cute, movies, she principally like musical one, she also likes reading, acting, writing that goes with some of her greatest achievements such as the book she wrote over 7 years of work and a play that been played in a summer camp that changed her life. As a different aspect of her interest, she likes travelling, she also did a humanitarian trip in Ecuador to help families, this was quite a dream coming true for her.

In conclusion, Geneviève is a girl leaded by arts in every way and what more to wish, if she's talented too!