This seems like a Goodbye!

The quarter has ended but also ends a happy and long period in which we have a lot of fun with jokes, anecdotes, films  and opinions of a person with experince in life. These last two years we have a lot of fun in the classe of practical English, but now our dear Professor Joan Climent retires. In my opinion, I think we will Never had a teacher like him. I hope the new teacher will be like Joan Climent!

The Outsiders ´summary

Set in 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens. They include Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darrel , as well as Johnny Cade , Dallas Winston , Two-Bit Matthews , and Steve Randle . Their rivalry is with the Socs , a gang of wealthier kids. Five of the Socs jump Ponyboy and cut his neck with a switchblade; Johnny had been similarly attacked the month before. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon and Randy Adderson , confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit, who are talking to the Socs' girlfriends, Cherry  and Marcia , at a drive-in theater. The girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy, and two other Socs. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob, killing him.

On the advice of Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny leave town, and hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville. Ponyboy dyes his hair blonde with peroxide in case anybody spots him. He reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court. They go out for food, then return to find the church on fire with children trapped inside. Johnny is hospitalized with severe burns and a broken back after he, Ponyboy, and Dallas rescue the children. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, while Ponyboy may be sent to a boys' home.

Bob's death has sparked calls from the Socs for "a rumble," which the Greasers win. Dally then drives Ponyboy to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny is unimpressed by the victory, and dies after telling Ponyboy to "stay gold," referring to the Frost poem. Unable to bear Johnny's death, Dally robs a grocery store at gunpoint and is killed by police. Ponyboy is eventually cleared of wrongdoing in Bob's death and allowed to stay with his brothers. Turning the pages of Johnny's copy of Gone with the Wind, Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny saying that saving the children was worth sacrificing his own life. The story ends as it began, with Ponyboy writing a school report about his experiences.

Apocalypse Now´s summary

U.S. Army Captain and special operations veteran Benjamin Willard has returned to Saigon since his involvement in the ongoing Vietnam War, where he drinks heavily and destroys his hotel room. One day Willard is called upon by military intelligence officers Lt. General Corman and Colonel Lucas about a top-secret assignment to follow the Nung River into the remote jungle, find Kurtz and kill him .

Willard joins a Navy patrol boat, or PBR, commanded by "Chief" and crewmen Lance , "Chef" and "Mr. Clean" . For escort through the Viet Cong-filled coastal mouth of the Nung River, they rendezvous with reckless Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore , who commands a squadron of armed transport helicopters. Initially scoffing at them, Kilgore befriends Lance as both are keen surfers. Willard sifts through files of Kurtz, learning that he was a once-promising, model officer and could have eventually been promoted to general. Exploring the riverbank, Willard and Chef encounter a tiger. The next day the boat is fired upon by an unseen enemy in the trees, killing Mr. Clean and making Chief even more hostile toward Willard. They are ambushed again, by Montagnard warriors, and return fire, despite Willard's objections. In the fight, Chief is impaled with a spear and tries to pull Willard onto the spearhead before dying. Arriving at Kurtz's outpost at last, Willard takes Lance with him to the village, leaving Chef behind with orders to call an airstrike on the village if they do not return.

In the camp, the two soldiers are met by an eccentric American freelance photographer , who manically praises Kurtz's genius. As they proceed, Willard and Lance see corpses and severed heads scattered about the nearby temple that serves as Kurtz's living quarters. Willard is bound and brought before Kurtz in the darkened temple, where Kurtz derides him as an errand boy.

That night Willard enters Kurtz's chamber as Kurtz is making a tape recording, and attacks him with a machete. Willard descends the stairs from Kurtz's chamber and drops his bloodied weapon. The villagers, kneeling before him, do likewise with all of their own weapons and allow Willard to take Lance by the hand and lead him to the boat. 

My restaurant

If I had a restaurant, I would call it Richard´s Restaurant and it will be a familiar restuarant.

STARTER

  
   1. Iberian ham.
   2. Cheese from sheep or goat.
   3. Foie Toast.
   4. Peppers stuffed with seafood.
   5. Garlic prawns.
   6. Broad beans with ham.
   7. Mushrooms sautéed with young garlic.
   8. Grilled asparagus.
   9. Fried squash.
   10. Scrambled eggs with garlic and sausage.
   11. Mushrooms sauteed with foie.
   12. Piquillo peppers and shrimp.


SALADS
  
   13. Nice buds.
   14. Salad of roasted peppers with anchovies.
   15. Tropical salad.
   16. Tomato salad with anchovies.
   17. Avocado salad with goat cheese.


SOUPS
  
   18. Spanish soup.
   19. Salmorejo.
   20. Garlic white.
   21. Fish soup.


FISH
  
   22. Or grilled cod with tomato.
   23. Sole Menier.
   24. Baked golden fillets.
   25. Grilled squid.
   26. Rape in crab sauce.


MEAT
  
   27. T-bone steak on the stone (Min 2 people)
   28. Fillet of beef on the grill.
   29 Beef tenderloin with foie wine sauce.
   30. Grilled sirloin.
   31. Duck breast grilled.
   32. Oxtail stew.
   33. Iberian pork tenderloin.
   34. Roast leg of lamb.
   35. Candida kid (kid).
   36. Deer in forest fruit sauce.
   37. Roasted duck leg in juice.
   38. Chicken breast stuffed with mango.


DESSERTS
  
   39. Cheesecake.
   40. Flan home.
   41. Chocolate mousse.
   42. Three chocolate cake.
   43. Ice cream

Moulin rouge´s summary

In the year 1900, a depressed writer named Christian begins writing on his typewriter . One year earlier, Christian moved to theMontmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemian movement. He encounters performers led by Toulouse-Lautrec; his writing skills allow them to finish their proposed show, "Spectacular Spectacular", that they wish to sell to Harold Zidler, owner of theMoulin Rouge. The group arrives at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his "Diamond Dog Dancers" perform for the audience . Toulouse arranges for Christian to see Satine, the star courtesan, in her private quarters to present the work, unaware that Zidler is promising Satine to the wealthy and unscrupulous Duke of Monroth, a potential investor in the cabaret.

Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke, and dances with him before retiring to her private chamber with him to discuss things privately , but soon learns he is just a writer; by this time Christian has fallen in love with her. The Duke interrupts them; Christian and Satine claim they were practicing lines for "Spectacular Spectacular". With Zidler's help, Toulouse and the rest of the troupe pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil maharajah attempting to woo an Indian courtesan who loves a poor sitar player. The Duke backs the show on the condition that only he may see Satine. Satine contemplates on Christian and her longing to leave the Moulin Rouge to become "a real actress". Christian goes back to Satine to convince her that she loves him. As the cabaret is converted to a theater, Christian and Satine continue seeing each other under the pretense of rehearsing Satine's lines. The Duke becomes jealous and warns Zidler that he may stop financing the show; Zidler arranges for Satine to dine with the Duke that evening, but she falls ill from tuberculosis. Zidler makes excuses to the Duke, claiming that Satine has gone to confession. Zidler learns that Satine does not have long to live. Satine tells Christian that their relationship endangers the show, but he counters by writing a secret love song to affirm their love.

As the Duke watches Christian rehearsing with Satine, Nini, a jealous performer, points out that the play is a metaphor for Christian, Satine and the Duke. Enraged, the Duke demands the ending be changed so that the courtesan ends up with the maharajah; Satine offers to spend the night with the Duke to keep the original ending. At the Duke's quarters, Satine sees Christian on the streets below, and realizes she cannot go through with this . The Duke tries to rape her, but she is saved by Le Chocolat, one of the cabaret dancers, and reunited with Christian, who urges her to run away with him. The Duke tells Zidler he will have Christian killed if Satine is not his. Zidler reiterates this warning to Satine, but when she refuses to return, he finally informs her she is dying. Satine tells Christian they can no longer see each other as she will be staying with the Duke. Christian tries following her, but is denied entry to the Moulin Rouge, and becomes depressed, even though Toulouse insists that Satine loves him.

The night of the show, Christian sneaks into the Moulin Rouge, intending to pay Satine to return his love just as the Duke paid for her. He catches Satine before she steps on stage and demands she tell him she does not love him. Suddenly they find themselves in the spotlight; Zidler convinces the audience that Christian is the disguised sitar player. Christian denounces Satine and walks off the stage. From the rafters, Toulouse cries out, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return", spurring Satine to sing the song Christian wrote to express their love. Christian returns to the stage, joining her in the song. The Duke's bodyguard tries to kill Christian, but is thwarted, while the Duke's own attempt is stopped by Zidler. The Duke storms out of the cabaret as Christian and Satine complete their song.

After the curtain closes, Satine succumbs to tuberculosis. She and Christian affirm their love before she dies. A year later the Moulin Rouge has closed down, and Christian is writing the tale of his love for Satine, a "love that will live forever".

Here you have some videos of songs from the movie. I hope you like it as much as me!

A room with a view´s summary

Miss Lucy Honeychurch from an English hamlet in Surrey is on holiday in Italy with her much older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Charlotte is conventionally English, with an extremely restrictive personality and tends to get her way by expressing her emotions to manipulate others. They are in contrast with the more free-thinking and free-spirited backdrop of Italy. At a small pensione Lucy meets such people as Reverend Beebe, the two Miss Alans, and the author Miss Eleanor Lavish, but most importantly, the nonconformist Mr. Emerson and his handsome, philosophical son, George, who becomes friends with Charlotte. These men, although also English, represent the forward-thinking ideals of the turn-of-the-century, seeking to leave behind the repression and caution that was the norm in Victorian times. At first, the Emersons seem strange and unfamiliar to Lucy and Charlotte. As Lucy begins her journey to maturity, she finds herself drawn to George due to his mysterious thinking and readily expressed emotions.

George's unreserved passion shocks Lucy, but also lights a secret desire and romance in her heart. Charlotte suggests George kissing her was the act of a rake. Charlotte makes reference to a heartbreak from her youth that occurred the same way and has behaved accordingly with disgust and anger toward George. Charlotte uses guilt to coerce Lucy to secrecy to save both their reputations as a young lady and a chaperone, but it is mostly for her own benefit. Normally, if a young man kissed a young lady, an engagement should be announced to preserve her reputation, but Charlotte considers George to be an undesirable influence. Upon returning to England, Lucy tells her mother nothing and pretends to forget the incident. She accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy and respectable but snobbish man named Cecil Vyse. However, she soon learns that both George and his father have moved to her small village and will be her neighbors due to a letter from Cecil Vyse inviting them to reside in an empty cottage.

The appearance of George soon disrupts Lucy's plans and causes her suppressed feelings to resurface, complicated by the supposed need for secrecy. Lucy consistently refuses George's pursuit of her, but mysteriously breaks off her engagement to Cecil, and makes plans to visit Greece. George has also decided that he must move for peace of mind and makes arrangements. Lucy stops by Reverend Beebe's and is confronted by George's father before they are to leave town. She suddenly realizes that the only reason that she planned to travel was to escape her feelings for George. At the end, we see George and Lucy honeymooning in the Italian pension where they met, in the room with the view.

Gandhi´s summary

The film begins with Gandhi's assasination and his funeral. After an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. One of these visitors shoots him point blank in the chest. Gandhi exclaims, "Oh, God!" , and then falls dead. The film then cuts to a huge procession at his funeral, which is attended by dignitaries from around the world.

The early life of Gandhi is not depicted in the film. Instead, the story flashes back 55 years to a life-changing event: in 1893, the 24-year-old Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian sitting in a first-class compartment despite having a ticket. Realizing the laws are biased against Indians, he then decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and unwelcome international attention, the government finally relents by recognising some rights for Indians.

After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-co-operation campaign of unprecedented scale, co-ordinating millions of Indians nationwide.  

Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure.  Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Horrified, Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops.

The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is subsequently divided by religion. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and a part of India , both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan. It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless.

Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations.

The film ends when somebody shoots Gandhi.

Forrest Gump summary

Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. 

His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. 

However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

Amics i Musica, by David Postiguillo i Moscardó

Two years ago, my musical band´s director composed a Pasodoble dedicated for my band, Amics de la Musica from Guadassequies and I performed the main Solo, but unfortunately, in the video doesn´t appear the image.

An intersesting place to visit, Southbank Center

Today, I am going to tell you a modern place to visit in London.

Southbank Center is located on the bank of the river Thames, in an area of ​​shopping and fashion. Southbank Center has many facilities for the disabled, such as wheelchair access and customer care for the blind.

Also, Southbank Center is a place dedicated to all ages, with fun for children and adults entertainment, lots of places to eat and enjoy the beautiful views of London.

For example, here we have a few actions: Namatjira, Dayanita Singh, Mogwai or the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This is a sample of the variety of activities offered at Southbank Center

Here down, I leave you a link to visit the official Southbank Center page.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/

Pulp Fiction summary

Today we will talk about Pulp Fiction , a movie that my friend Andres Bella brought  to the Practical English class . My friend Carlos Bermejo and I both thought it was a very strange movie , but basically we liked .

The film begins in a restaurant, where a couple is prepared to steal . Then two men , Vincent and Jules , are presented in a house to talk about the business of their boss, Marsellus Wallace. Things go wrong and the two men kill everyone except a boy. Then in the car , Vincent shoots the boy's head unintentionally. To avoid being seen by the police , go home of an acquaintance, and an elderly man called for help to clean up the mess . When all is quiet, the two men go to see his boss , who asks one of the two women leading to their party . Vincent will pick it up, and go to a restaurant , but back home to the woman gives him overdosing and to revive the heart injected adrenaline .

This movie has more prefaces , but I just I have summarized the first one , so you can see the whole movie to discover it.

A piece of italian art, my motorcycle

Gilera KZ 125: In just a couple of years the RV 125 starts to get out of date and Gilera responds in 1986 with the launch of its Natural substitute, the KZ 125. This is a real quantum leap and proof of this is that Moto is recognized by the Year 1986.

Is due in large part to the designer Luciano Marebese, which also give it an attractive and modern aesthetic, engine evolves and adds greatly solutions like APTS valve.

This allows varying the distribution function of the revolution and with changes in the cylinder crankcase and a new carburetor Dell'Orto 28 allow it to reach the 24 horses and 153 km / h on end.

The cycle part also receives significant progress with a new fork of 36 mm. with anti-dive system, chassis steel square beams and disc brakes on both axles.

gilera-kz-endurance. Also the subframe and Grimeca are aluminum wheels and tires fitted 100 front and 130 rear. This allows the weight down no less than 11 kilos! compared to its predecessor.

I´m Charles Foster Kane!

Charles Foster Kane is a wealthy journalist, who at the end of his life he lived on his farm in Xanadu, and at the time of his death poronuncia Rosebud and drops a snow globe. A journalist is investigating Kane's life and this is his story:

He spent his childhood in Colorado, but soon his mother sends him to Mr. Thatcher, a wealthy man. When you are a man, has the possessions of his father and take control of the New York Inquirer. His attempt to gain power is evidenced by its manipulation of public opinion to the Spanish-American War, his first marriage to Emily Monroe Norton, niece of the president, and his campaign for governor of New York State.

Kane's marriage ends and begins an affair with Susan Alexander. His wife and his rival in politics discover infidelity, which ends with her ​​marriage and her political career. Kane marries his mistress and forced to be an opera singer. After a period of boredom and isolation in Xanadu, Susan decides to leave her husband.

Kane spends his last years finishing his palace and when he dies, all his belongings are cataloged. The journalist discovers the meaning of Rosebud, but at the end of the movie we discover that Rosebud was his childhood sled.

Summer 2013!

This summer I am going to work a lot in my father´s farm, but I  also want to go everywhere. My dreamis going to Tomorrowland and hear a Headhunterz ´sesion. Maybe my dream will be cumplished.

Anyway, our practical english class has been very funny with some mates such as Joan Guerola, Bryan Quishpe, Carlos Bermejo, Salva Mahiques, David Murillo, Alex Sempere, Joan Cuquerella, Andres Bella and at least but no the less, the girls. We have had fun watching films and pronunciating words, but for now, our ways are distanding. Don´t you worry, the next year we will see each other again!

Quadrophenia

Jimmy is a mod of London is in love with Steph and likes hanging out with his Veretta and taking drugs. He is the mail boy in a company. All his band and he is going on vacation with verettas to Brighton, the town next door. They mounted a big fight with the rockers, the band opponent. Taking advantage of the occasion, he and Steph are going to an alley and fornicate. Then come and detienden. In the courts, are all detained and he knows Spider, an idol of the Mods. Then his parents kicked out of home for being junkie Steph leaves because Dave and angrily goes back to Brighton. There steals the Spider bike and goes to a cliff. Finally launch the bike off the cliff.

Classical music Vs. Modern music

Are you a fan of classical music or are a fan of technical music? Whatever you are, here's a sample of the two types of music.

Headhunterz-From within    
                                                                             

Mozart-La Flauta mágica

The Great Dictator

In the First World War, a Jewish soldier in Tomainia and barber saves the life of Officer Schultz helping him escape in their plane, but the plane crashes. Both survive, but the soldier loses his memory.

Twenty years later, the soldier escapes from the hospital where he has remained and returns home, where he reopens his barber shop in the ghetto.

The country is ruled by dictator Adenoid Hynkel and there is discrimination against Jews.
The barber is surprised when the assault forces paint the word "Jew" on the windows of his shop. Hannah defends the barber when attacked by members of the security forces. They fall in love and Schultz orders the troops not to disturb the inhabitants of the ghetto.
Hynkel is planning to invade Osterlich. Schultz is protective of the Jews and Hynkel, considering a traitor ordered to be sent to a concentration camp. Schultz flees and hides in the ghetto. The Barber and Schultz are finally arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Hynkel continues with its plans to invade Osterlich but Napaloni Benzino's meddling, the dictator of Bacteria, forces him to invite you to visit him and be diplomatic with him. Meanwhile, Hannah and ghetto dwellers flee to Osterlich, but before the invasion starts from Tomainia.

The Barber and Schultz scape from Tomainia dressed in uniforms. Border guards mistake the barber with Hynkel. Hynkel is mistaken for the barber and arrested. The barber is driven Osterlich's capital to give a speech. The barber makes a speech against Hynkel's anti-Semitic policies and declaring that Osterlich Tomainia and become free nations.

My little farm

My favourite hobby is the poultry and I have some animals, such as hens, chickens, ducks and geese.Here you have some pictures about my animals. I´m sure you will love them after seeing this pictures!

Pride and prejudice

This film is about a middle-class family, the Bennets family, who lives in the country. The family is composed of five sisters and their parents.

The eldest sister, Jane, meets a good class man, Mr Bingley, and they fall in love with each other.

Mrs Bennet wants to engage Lizzie, another sister, with Mr Collins; but she refuses him because she is in love with Mr Darcy, Collins finally marries an Elizabeth's friend. At first Lizzie thinks Darcy is a grumpy and a shallow-minded man, so she despises his declaration of love; but, little by little, she discovers that isn't true: Mr Darcy has paid her sister Lydia and Whickam's wedding so that the family doesn't lose the honour.
At the end she realises that she is in love with him, but, then, Lady Catherine appears forbidding his relationship because her daugther is engaged with Darcy. Finally the love succeed and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy get engaged.

Dead Poets Society

The film is about the opening of the year in an american private school.
The main characters are Neil and Mr Keating. Neil is a good student who love the theatre but his father hates it. Mr Keating is the new literature teacher who was an old student at this school. He has an unordinary way of teaching and his students love him. Mr Keatind was a member of an old society called the Dead Poets Society. The students formed a new society and they met in a cave and recite poetry.
Neil decided to act without his father ´s permition in a play but he went to see him.
Finally his parents told  him that he should study architecture. When his parents were sleeping, Neil decided commit to suicide.
Finally, the headmaster decided to fire Mr Keating, because he considered him the responsible of the Neil´s dead.

Some like it hot

The film starts in a false funeral parlour where a group of gangsters deals with alcohol. One day the police arrives and everybody in the establishment tries to run away, only two musicians, the two main characters, manage to escape. Then, they go to a garage and there they see the group of gangsters killing the garage's owner; as the two musicians witness the murder the gangsters persecute them, so they decide to leave the city. The saxophone and the bass player go to a job agency and, although the agent tells them that he has a job for women to go to Florida, they disguise and call themselves Josephine and Daphne and set on the train with the rest of women musicians. During the journey the main characters and Sugar, the singer of the band and a pretty girl, become good friends, besides nobody discovers they are men. Finally the band arrives in Florida and there, Daphne meets an old, millionaire man who falls in love with her, meanwhile Josephine pretends to be the owner of a very important company in order to pick up Sugar. One day the group of gangsters travels to Florida, stays at the hotel where the band is staying and discovers the real identity of Daphne and Josephine. At the end, after a little pursuit, Daphne and her fiancé and Josephine, pretending to be a millionaire, and Sugar escape together on Daphne's fiancé boat.

Love actually

This film is composed of different love stories that happen near the Christmas Day. There are about eight or nine couples who live peculiar love experiences. A guy decides to travel to the USA to pick up girls, the first night he meets two pretty girls who invite him to spend the night with them and some of their friends. A famous singer brings out a new song with the aid of his manager, finally he turns down the invitation to a big party because he prefers to spend the night with one of the most important persons on his life, his manager. A girl who has just got married discovers that her husband best friend is in love with her, he declares his love, but, although she thinks he is very sweet, she acts as if nothing had happened. A woman who doesn't dares to tell her workmate that she likes him, gets a date with him, but at the end she jilts him because her handicapped brother has phoned her because he misses her. The boss of this woman is unfaithful to his wife, she discovers it and tries to overcome the new as well as she can. Two porn actors get a relationship after a recording. The Prime Minister falls in love with his secretary and he does all as he can to win her love. A writer discovers that his girlfriend is unfaithful and he decides to move to France, there, he meets a Portuguese girl and falls in love with her. And my favorite couple: a eleven-year-old boy is in love with his classmate, the little boy asks for help to his stepfather and both make a plan to win her love, after the school's musical performance he fetches her at the airport and finally he gets her kiss.