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- Anthony
- My name is Anthony Prato and I teach English as a Second Language at The City University of New York (http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/clip/) and Columbia University (http://ce.columbia.edu/node/295). I have been an ESL teacher for 6 years, and a teacher or trainer for 10 years.
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ReplyDeleteI watched a movie called "JARHEAD"
LENGTH:
2 hours
SUMMARY:
Is the real story of one guy from United States, and he decided to go to Iraq war. All the story develop is based on the book by U.S. Marine sniper Anthony Swofford about his experiences in the first Gulf War, this bleak flick sears a wicked swath through the bitter truth of soldiering: It is a dehumanizing venture, one characterized chiefly by numbing boredom and loneliness punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Finally he survived in Iraq and he decided to changes his life.
REACTION:
Is an excellent story, and is the real world. Day by day we saw wars, soldiers died and everything just for particular interests. This movie shows me how the particular politics can create a world. 100% recommended.
NEW WORD/PHRASE:
Grasp: To seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
Name: Qian Li
ReplyDeleteMovie: Dog gone
Length: 130mins
Summary:
Owen likes dogs so such but his dog died a few years age and he missed his dog very much. One day, he found a lovely dog when he handed out the newspaper. However, there were two men who hurting the dog so Owen was angry and he was determined to save the dog. Owen and the dog hid in the forest. The he found there were many diamonds on the necklace of the dog so he called the dog Diamond. He found the diamonds were related to a case when he read newspaper so he brought Diamond to police station but nobody believed Owen. Therefore, Owen fight with the men to protect Diamond. Finally, Owen sent Diamond to hospital. Actually, the diamonds hid in Diamond’s body in order to don’t be found and Owen saved Diamond’s life. The leader of police could not believe that was true and he was proud of Owen. Eventually, Owen sent Diamond to live with Mad man who helped them against the men because Owen’s sister was allergic to dog but I believed that Owen will look at Diamond everyday in the future.
Movie: Notting hill
Length: 130mins
Summary:
This movie is a romantic love story. The man worked in a travel book store. One day Anna who was a super star in this movie came to the travel book store to buy some books. Anna met the man. The man was surprised. He introduced some books to Anna but Anna didn’t buy those books. Then the man met Anna again when he went to buy some drinks but they ran into each other and the orange pour on Anna’s clothes. The man recommended Anna went to his home to clean her clothes and she kissed the man when she left. Anna went to the man’s home when she got a trouble. Then Anna fell in love with the man. However, they encountered many problems because a super star fell in love with an ordinary man. It’s crazy. Finally, the man was determined to be together with Anna because he found that he loved Anna so much and he couldn’t control himself. Eventually, they were together and I think all male would envy the man. There is a happy ending.
Movie: Make it happen
Length: 100mins
Summary:
Lauryn was a girl who loved dance so much. Her dream was that became a famous dancer but she was born in a small town so it’s difficult to make it come true. However, she never gave up her dream so she left home to go to Chicago. She wanted to enter the Music and Dance University of Chicago. It’s was so difficult to enter this school. One thousand students just could admit 20 students but Lauryn had confident and she thought that she definitely could enter this university. However, she failed and she wanted to coffee shop and met a girl who was failed last year as well. They became best friend and she recommended lauryn went to Rufy which she worked in. Lauryn found a job in there and met a special guy. After few days, the guy became her boyfriend. He encouraged her to dance. Finally, Lauryn became the best dancer in this club and everyone liked her and her special dance so she want to Music and Dance University of Chicago again and this time she danced with emotions. The teacher who refused her last time was very surprised. He enjoyed Lauryn’s dance. Lauryn was very happy and she made her dream come true.
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ReplyDeleteTitle : Pursued (2004)
Length : 1 :45 hour
Summary :
The film speaks of the events of Ben Keats, who works in the company
Ben Keats invents a nostrum and there was other company tried to get him to work in their company but he refused that deal because he loves his current work. The second company used a hand hunter to convince Ben Keats to accept the deal which they offer to him. Vincent Palmer which is the hand hunter use Ben Keats’s wife to convince him and send the gift to him but he refuse the deal.
New word
Pursued : to continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something over a long period of time.
The Synonym is convince
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ReplyDeleteTitle : movie ‘’ Collateral ‘’
Length : 2 hours
Summary :
This movie talked about how did Max life change. He has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. One night when he did his job he pick up Vincent. Vincent is a contract killer. He killed 5 people . Max after while he realized himself with a killer and he cannot escape from him .
New word
Collateral (n) : property or other goods that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back the money they lend you
Collateral (adj) : people who are hurt or killed, or property that is damaged accidentally in a war - used especially by the army, navy etc
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ReplyDeleteTED.com
Title : Adam Savage: My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions
Length : 15.39 min
Summary
He talked about his experiences in sculpture and the process which he goes through to made the fist sculpture .He made the dodo dodo bird skeleton and the second sculpture is the Falcon.
New world
Obsession : an extreme unhealthy interest in something or worry about something, which stops you from thinking about anything else
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ReplyDeleteTED.com
Title : Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria's amazing communication system
Length : 18 min
Summary :
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. through chemical signals
Opinion & Reactions:
I think all organisms in the universe have its own language to communicate between each others. And the Scientists every day discover new things in the earth. And this is mean there is no limit for the Science
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ReplyDeleteTitle : movie ‘’ Shrek the Third ‘’
Length : 1 : 35 hour
Summary :
When Fiona's father and King of Far Far Away passes away. Shrek becomes the immediate successor of the throne. However, Shrek decides to find the legitimate heir Artie. Shrek with his friends Donkey and Puss leave the King of Far Far Away to do that . while they do that . Prince Charming joins the villains to become the new king and he Occupied the palace in the city and detained Shrek’s wife and her friends .Prince Charming send some villains to catch Shrek and his friends and Artie , but the could not do that . When Shrek and his friends arrived to King of Far Far Away passes away they were surprise about what they saw in the city . then the events of the movie how Shrek and his friends and his wife and her friends return the city for the real king .
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Reaction /opinion
It was so funny movie especially Shrek when he dreamed about his children
New words
Dork ( adj )
someone who you think is or looks stupid
villain ( N )
a bad person or criminal
The movie: Forrest Gump
ReplyDeleteLength: 2 hour and 22 minutes
Summary:
Forrest Gump was born in Alabama. He could not walk very well, and many people thought he was very stupid, so some classmates always bullied into him at the school. However, his mother kept encourage him that don't give up, so he kept to create his future without fear. He was a super star in the football team in his university, because he ran very fast. Also, he joined to the army, and saved his comrade's life who in the same arms with him. He was a table tennis player, famous runner, and captain, and he did every things very well, because he never gave up. Unfortunately, Jenny, the girl grew up with him and he loved her very much who died, and he had to rear his son by himself. He missed his wife Jenny everyday, but he will not give up to live in this world with his son.
Reaction /opinion:
This movie is so good. Actually,I don't think Forrest Gump is a stupid person. I think he has a lot of wisdom, and smart is not equal to wisdom. He shows me the real human nature, because he is so simple. There are not anything that can change his beautiful heart, even the war. Life is so hard such as him, but he never gives up, so how about us?
New words:
1. braces: something that holds parts together or in place, as a clasp or clamp
2. ambush: an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise
3. destiny: something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune
The movie: out of Africa
ReplyDeleteLength: 3 hours
Summary:
Karen marrys to Baron Bror Blixen, and moves to Africa. Her husband likes to hunt, so she has to make the business by herself. She love Africa, and she likes to stay with the local people. She offers them jobs, and educates them. She knows her husband who doesn't love her, and they decide to divorce. Karen falls in love with Denys very soon, but Denys also likes hunting, and doesn't think about marriage, so Karen breaks up with him, and feels very sad. There is a fire, and distorys Karen's coffee farm. The government decides to take the land back, because Karen cannot pay the tax. Therefore, she decides to come back to Denmark, and she wins a land for the native before she leaves. Also, she wins the respcet from the men who have sexual discrimination in this country. When Denys knows Karen is going to leave, he decides to go with her, because he still loves her. However, Denys cannot go with Karen, because his airplane crash, and he died. The end of the movie, Karen bury Denys in the Africa where they both deeply love, and goes back to her country.
Reaction /opinion:
This movie shows me how a woman can be so resolute and brave, and how beautiful the Africa is. Also, the music is great!!!
New words:
1. crop: the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered
2. colony: a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation
The movie: School of rock
ReplyDeleteLength: 1 hour and 48 minutes
Summary:
Dewey is a quitar player in a band. He thinks the real rock is the way to speak out that your thinking of this world by the music, but his team don't think about the same way, and kick him out the band. He needs money to pay the rent, so he impersonates his roommate, and be a teacher in a school. When he teaches in the school, and he finds the students who he teaches play music very well. Therefore, he makes a plan that consists a band of these students, and attend at a music contest. He inspires these students to love rock music, because they can say anything that they want to say by creating music. Brfore the rock contest, Dewey's roommate finds he impersonates him to teach, and his girlfriend goes to school to expose Dewey. However, Dewey's students decide to go to the rock contest, and forgive Dewey. They win the fondness from the audience, and become a famous band. The end of the movie, Dewey and his roommate build a music school where teach rock music there.
Reaction /opinion:
I like the way that Dewey think of the rock, and here is what his thinking:
I service society by rocking. I'm out there liberating people with my music. Rocking ain't no walk in the park. There used to be a way to stick it to The Man. It was called rock 'n' roll. The Man ruined that too with a little thing called MTV! Rock ain't about doing things perfect. If you wanna rock, you gotta break the rules. Rock got no reason Rock got no rhyme. We're on a mission. One great show can change the world. There used to be a way to stick it to The Man. It was called rock 'n' roll."
New words:
1. arrogance: offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride
2. contest: a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize
I saw news on CNN about Swine flu.
ReplyDeleteLength: 2.5 hours.
Summary:
Today in U.S there is a pandemic which start in Mexico by a dangerous transmition from pigs to human. This is a alert in U.S due to a lot of cases and most of them are mortal. Also, is sprending aroun the world which is very dangeous for people. In adition, every country was their prevent measures such as mask, antispetics, etc. Many doctors are finding the way that this visrus works, in order to find a solution to stop the spendwide. This virus is also called H1N1. Also, many countries are closing schools and aerports and sometimes are examinating people in the planes who can have the symtomns that put in danger the country they are going to.
Reaction /opinion:
I think this is a big and dangerous virus. Everybody has to see the news and take prevention measures suc as washing hands frecuently. It is important to have information to prevent ourselves because this is a lethal disease.
New words:
1. influenza = Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae
2. Pandemic = is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population.
I have watched videos about "Global warming" during this week
ReplyDeleteLenngths: 3 hours,
Summary:
Economically, global warming could be good because it could extend the growing season and produce more food in a given season. It could spur development in new industries designed to reduce greenhouse gases and keep warming to a minimum. Automobile emissions standards are getting tighter and tighter in order to reduce human consumption of fossil fuels. In turn, hybrid cars have become quite popular, a technology that perhaps wouldn't have been brought to market as quickly as it has. On the other hand, warming could cause bad weather as well as increase intensity. These effects could make production of food harder, thus reducing agricultural economic output.
Warming could also be good and bad for human health. Some believe a higher temperature would cause deaths as a result of heat strokes, whereas others believe it would save lives. If the earth is warming, it would shorten the winter season, a season that claims more lives to inclement weather than any other. People would be able to survive the cold easier, thus survive at a higher rate.
Reaction / option
The reason why I have to write reserch paper due Monday, I have watched a lot of videos about "Global warming" during this week.
Among them, one topic was very interesting to me. most people think that global warming has only bad effect for earth. most reasons are true. However, there was the other side point of view. we don't know what global warming will be. The answer is something that only time can confirm.
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ReplyDeleteTitle:
I listen to a TV show called "Lost".
Length:
4 hours
Summary :
In these episodes of "Lost", they explain some event which have happened in the last season. Also, they repeat the important event and arrange them by time. Also, they show some characters' past and why and how they came to this island.
Reaction :
These episodes were interesting because it was different than my expectation and I know about some characters past .
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ReplyDeleteTitle:
I watched movie called "the secret life of bees".
Length:
3 hours
Summary :
The story is about a girl who killed her mother when she was a child and she was tread cruelly by her father. Then, she decide to look for anything related to her mother.then, she traveled to another city with her nanny because her nanny had some problem with famous man. So, they went and lived with three black women.
Reaction :
The movie is so different from the novel. Novel is better than the movie because they have ignore a lot of important events.
I continue with the movies of RiverRun Cinema Festival
ReplyDelete• Title
Three monkeys
• Length
2008 / Turkey/France/Italy / 109 minutes
Summary
an ambitious politician accidentally hits and kills a man. the politician makes a deal to stay out of prison. For a large sum of money, he pays his chauffeur Eyüp to take responsibility for the crime and serve the sentence in his place. When Eyup was in prison, his boss has an affair with his wife.
When Eyüp is finally released from prison, he returns home expecting to find things exactly as he'd left them. His wife has become emotionally distant and secretive, while his son killed his boss. And now is Eyup who find another “monkey” to take the responsibility for the crime.
Reaction
I liked the photography of this movie and the characters. I found the story so dramatically and so conventional in general. Planes of ordinarily live well done and good handling of interiors and exteriors.
Title
TULPAN
• Length
2008 / Germany/ Kazakhstan/ Poland/ Russia/ Switzerland / 100 minutes
Summary
in Kazakhstan, a dreamer stands facing his homeland. The quotidian life, where a herdsmen know their sheep and care for little else than to provide for their family and the brother of his wife, a sailor, come to live with they. He wishes to become a profitable herdsman and secure a beautiful wife to share his life with. He wants Tulpan for this purpose but she doesn’t accept. An he has to make the decision of his live: go with his best friend to the city and try there of keep in the steppe with his only family: his sister.
Reaction
I loved the photography and the script of this movie. The characters are so natural and so spontaneous. The simplicity of live without attachment to material stuffs. Be happy in the middle of anywhere, singing tribal songs and enjoy the family time.
Title
Saving Luna
• Length
2008 / Canada / 92 minutes
Saving Luna is the true and remarkable story of Luna, a six-year-old orphaned orca whale who was separated from his family when he was only two years old. Making his home in Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada, Luna spent his time foraging for food and playing without the company of any other whales. When he needed companionship, he often turned to people and boats, which quickly became dangerous for both Luna and the people trying to help him. Luna’s story brought together thousands of people from around the world with one common goal: to reunite him with his family. However, as is often the case with people and wild animals, the story inevitably became more complicated and prompted opposing reactions from competing groups until finally, Luna appear died in confused circumstances.
Reaction
I love animals and I really feel so bad with this story. Sometimes people involved in this kind of situations make uncompressible decisions. But the real learning of this, is that all things are connected and we are called to keep the balance in this universe.
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ReplyDeleteI watched to a movie called "License to Wed".
LENGTH:
2 hour
Summary:
This talk about a couple is going to get married. The girl hopes they can wed from a clergyman. When they talk with the clergyman, the clergyman tells they need to finish all of the testing before they get married. The boy doesn’t like this testing, and he thinks the clergyman doesn’t hope they get married. In actuality, the clergyman just wants to make every couple know they care about each other, and then they can get married. Finally, the boy thinks he loses his lover first, but he knows he really cares about and love his girlfriend, so they are together again and get married.
REACTION:
Before a couple gets married, I think this movie is necessary to watch. Many people didn’t know what difference between before get married and after get married. After get married, you have to think about many questions, such as money, child, job or time. All of questions tell us that married life is not easy. I learn a lot of things in this movie.
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ReplyDeleteI watched to a movie called "Camp Rock".
LENGTH:
2 hour
Summary:
This talk about a girl, she wants to go to music camp. When she knew she can’t go there, she was very sad. Her mother tried to let her join the activity, so she went to there to be a cooker for camp’s food. When the girl went to music camp, she met some girls, but those girls just wanted to talk with rich people, so she said a lie to them. In this term, there had a super star went to the camp. He is a dancing teacher. The super star liked this girl, but other girls like him. When girls knew he like the girl, they started to dislike her and do something was bad to her. Also when people knew the girl say a lie, she can’t go to the final show before finish the final show. She was very mad, and she though a way to join the final show. When the emcee said “the final show is done”, she started to sing a song and finish it. Finally, the super star finds her who sings the wonderful song.
REACTION:
This is a happy movie. When I watched this movie, I felt very happy and relax, because the movie used a lot of music to show. If you say a lie, you have to say other lies to cover the first lie. Also you are going to scared people know your lie. I think that is bad way to do everything. Say truths are better than say lies.
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ReplyDeleteI went to the "semi-formal".
LENGTH:
3 hour
Summary:
Semi-formal is an important activity to international students at UNCG. In this party, everyone have to wear formal clothes. IPC prepared some fruit and chips. The party started from 10pm to 2am. There had high music, you can dance in the party, and you can met new friends in there. Also you can drink, but you have to over 21 years old. Everyone enjoy this party, and that was very happy.
REACTION:
That is my first time to go to formal party. I never went to any party, so I was very excited. I also didn’t have any formal clothes, so I don’t have any ideas to wear formal clothes. At Wednesday, my friend picked me up to go to four seasons to buy the new tie, and the tie is my first tie. I needed to go to the party at 9pm, because I am a volunteer to IPC. Then I left at 3am. I was very tired, I also was very excited.
Name: Qian
ReplyDeleteMovie: The Joy Luck Club
Length: 135 mins
This weekend I watched a movie named The joy luck club because I read this book before. This story is about four mothers and their daughters. All four mothers underwent much suffering in China so they immigrated to U.S.A. They wanted to own a new life but they spoke break English so they wanted their daughters could say perfect English. They thought if you could speak perfect English, you could own wonderful life. Therefore they put all hopes on their daughters but their daughters couldn’t understand. There was a generation gap and culture gap between the daughters and their mothers. They always argued with each other but their daughters could understand their mothers through many things. Finally, their daughters had a wonderful life.
Most times, we should listen to our parents when we encounter some problems because they always have experience and they always can help us to finger it out.
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ReplyDeleteBabel 2006
Length: 1.50 mins
Summary
Richard and his wife Susan traveled to Morocco as a vacation to work out the trouble between them and they live their children at home with a nanny. While they moved with others tourists between the moutons by the bus in Morocco at the seam time there are two boys look after to their goats and they had a rifle to keep killing the foxes who tried attacking their goats. One of these boys shoot toward the bus and the bullet hit Susan a few second the bus stopped and the boys run away. The bus went to the nearest village to find someone help Susan. Then the police started to look for the parson how shoot and they found an old man who had the rifle and he told them he sold it to someone a few days ago the police found the rifle related to one tourist from Japan he had given the rifle to this man as a gift and this man told the police where did the person who bought the rifle lived and the police took his wife to reached them to that place On the road they found the boys and their father try to escape and then the catch them after the fitting between each other’s and one of the boys was killed in this fitting. However in the village they people help up Richard’s wife by traditional treatment until Richard find a way to send his wife to the hospital in the city. In the hospital Richard call to his home in America to ask the nanny about his children and the nanny asked him to leave to Mexico to attend her son wedding ,but he refuse that and she did not find away except to take them with her to Mexico. She did that but when she came back to America her nephew who is drive the car escape from the border and he leaved the nanny and the children in the desert and runaway . next day the police found them and then the police deported the nanny to the Mexico and take the kids until their parents came from Morocco.
•Reaction and Opinion
This movie so complicated. It was 4 stories at the same time. Richard and his wife Susan in Morocco and their kids, the nanny, the Moroccan family and the Japans family .
I note in this movie some things for example, how are the differences between the American cultural and Moroccan cultural when Richard try to express his thanks to Anwar who host them until the helicopter came to take them to the hospital by give him some money but he refuse to take them.
I feel sad when I saw the police hit the old man and he took his wife by her hear to the car . it was so rude to deal with people like this way.
When I saw the japans family and the live in a apartment in the 30 floor I was compare between them and the Moroccan family which live in a small house need the most basic.