26/12/2011

Loukanikos the riot dog

Let's meet Loukanikos, the riot dog, who has been nominated for "Person of the year 2011" by Time Magazine :)

Do you know what "Loukanikos" means in Greek?

It means "sausage" ;-)
Who is Loukanikos :

This stray dog joined the lines of demonstrators in the Greek capital and has become an international celebrity, he won't miss a protest, no matter what!

20/11/2011

Pizza is a vegetable ? Really ?

pizza_vegetables.JPEG Congress wants to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.

Read these articles and tell us your opinion !

article MSNBC

article Guardian UK

article CBS

07/11/2011

World Trade Center, the film : plot summary

WTC_poster.jpg Plot:

On September 11, 2001, Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, who are patrolling the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, see a plane fly dangerously low overhead. As all of the police officers return to the station, they see on TV and that the North Tower of the World Trade Center has been hit by a plane. Sergeant McLoughlin assigns many of the officers to assist in an evacuation attempt of the still undamaged South Tower and they board a commandeered Metropolitan Transit Authority bus. On the bus, they hear reports that the South Tower has also been hit.



When they arrive at the World Trade Center, they realize the extent of the disaster and see one of the first victims to jump out of the towers to certain death. The men proceed to get safety equipment and enter the concourse between the towers. The group consists of McLoughlin, Jimeno, Dominick Pezzulo and Antonio Rodrigues. An officer named Chris Amoroso appears to inform them of other events, such as the attack on the Pentagon and the second plane's hit on the South Tower, though the group does not accept this. As the men prepare to enter the North Tower, the buildings begin to rumble. McLoughlin realizes that the South Tower is collapsing onto them and that their only chance of survival is to run into the service elevator shaft. Chris trips and does not have time to get up. Rodrigues is unable to get to the shaft in time. McLoughlin, Jimeno and Pezzulo manage to escape the huge amounts of dust and rubble flying down from the South Tower. However, as the rubble continues to crush the elevator shaft, the three are trapped.



As the cascade of debris subsides, Pezzulo realizes he can free himself and manages to move nearer to Jimeno who, along with McLoughlin, is pinned under rubble and cannot move. Pezzulo tries but fails to shift the debris covering Jimeno's legs and is told by McLoughlin not to leave. As Pezzulo becomes optimistic that they will live, the rumbling begins again as the North Tower starts to collapse. Although Jimeno and McLoughlin are not further harmed, Pezzulo is fatally injured. After he fires a gun through a gap in the rubble to try to alert rescuers to their position, he dies.



Jimeno and McLoughlin spend hours under the rubble, in pain but exchanging personal information. McLoughlin is particularly anxious to keep Jimeno from falling asleep and Jimeno also realizes that by straining to grab a metal bar above his body, he can make a noise that rescuers might hear. Two United States Marines, Dave Karnes and Jason Thomas, who are searching for survivors, do hear it and find the men, calling for help to dig them out.



Jimeno is rescued first, and then hours later McLoughlin is lifted out of the debris, barely alive. They are then both reunited with their distraught families at the hospital. (en.wikipedia)

Remembering 9/11

9/11 was a tragedy that claimed the lives of thousands in an instant. The United States is marking a decade since the 9/11 attacks. Terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the twin towers of the World Trade centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane came down in the state of Pennsylvania. Remembrance ceremonies were held at Ground Zero in New York, and all across America to commemorate the 10th anniverary.

Students have been working on this first theme "Remembering 9/11". They have studied different documents dealing with the events, their chronology, the main facts, they have watched and studied the trailer of the film "World Trade Center", found out who the heroes of that day were.

WTC_heroes_in_film.jpg

The final task for this theme will be providing a voice over for a video commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks... Coming soon, they will provide a short presentation of 9/11, its main facts and the aftermath of that terrible day.

31/10/2011

The Help, another trailer

The Help has two trailers, one showing in the UK and another showing in the US theaters. Which one do you prefer?

The Help, an uplifting and inspiring movie

The Help is an uplifting and inspiring movie that shows what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behaviour is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.