Showing posts with label DVD SUMMERIES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DVD SUMMERIES. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

UNIT 5: DUBLIN

Samantha is going to show us Dublin. Dublin is the capital of Ireland. Over for million people visit Dublin. There's a lot of young people. Samantha has a Ireland family. Her grandfather says that the disease kill a lot of people and destroy the potatoes, so a lot of people die of hunger. More than one million people die. Dublin has many old beautiful buildings, one of this is Trinity College. Trinity College is about 16th Century. There's a sculpture of Oscar Wilde, the writer of Oliver Twist. Dublin is the best capital European to live.

UNIT 4: THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

In 1759 was built a sculpture called Wilberforce. Wilberforce fight to defend the rights and the people and to eradicate the sell of people. They buy the slaves in Africa. The ships were so small and they transport a lot of slaves. 20 % die for hunger or disease. Wilberforce make a law to protect the slavery and he can eradicate it.

UNIT 3: MUSIC

Roxane is in Oxford and she is going to explain how new tecnlogies change the music. First appear the disc. In 1979 was invented radio-cassette player, and after that the CD. But now you only have to have Internet connection. She talks with a band called The Half Rabbits and asks about what they think about the impact of the Internet nowadays.

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

UNIT 2: GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND

In this chapter Joe is training to ran 10 km in the race of the next Saturday. He run to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. He shows us the Guide Dogs Training Center and it's in Leamington Spa. We can see a interview with a trainer dog's and how they trainer a dog. It's interesting and you can learn the difficult to be a blind. Also it's shocking that to train one dog we need 18 months, and every year the center waste 40 millions of pounds.

UNIT 1: THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH

New Castle is in Britain and it's a city that have a lot of museums like DAZED or BALTIC. Sally guide us to see the Angel of the North. To see this sculpture, it's the biggest in UK, we must travel 5 miles from New Castle. Angle of the North it's twenty meters high and only is 10 years old. It was crated by an British artist called Anthony Colony, he was living in India when he decided to do the sculpture. He receive important prices. The Angel is made of steel and weigh more than two hundred thousands kg. The people of New Castle are very proud of the Angel of the North.