"The joke club"

"El club del Chiste" or the joke club, is a new TV programe that is produced by Globomedia and it's presented by Anabel Alonso, who is very famous in this country. She is accompanied by the model Martina Klein, Leo Harlem, David Love, who is knowing for his participation in program's TVG, a Andalusian monologist called Diego Arjona and Meritxell Huerta, a catalan humorist.

While the programe, they are alternating on the stage of Antena 3 to hook up the viewer with a "marathon" of infallible jokes to all time and other a little current. It isn't a competition between the players, because the only goal of the program is to cause the greatest number of laughs per minute. In addition, CdC has got images of the backstage, where amaze by his innovative staging and his modern aesthetic which recall the famous new yorker's comedy clubs.

Every night, I hope that this program starts because I love some jokes, and then I like to explain some of it to my friends the next day, in class, because it's one way to don't hate the study. :) Now, I put here one video about this great programme which we can see everyday at 22:oo h. in Antena 3:

Description of Pep Guardiola

G: Hi Pau.

P: Hey Guillem!

G: Do you know who is Pep Guardiola?

P: Yes! He is a former Spanish football midfielder and nowadays is the current FC Barcelona manager. He spent the majority of his playing career in Barcelona FC, and was the captain of the team for the last four years of his time with Cruiff’s team.

G: I know it, but have you seen him? Well I mean physically...

P: Oh yes! One day I went to Camp Nou and I saw that he is medium height and bundle, because as I said before he was a very great player, and he has a dark skin colour. We can see that Pep hasn’t got a lot of hair, well he often had short hair. Another feature is that he wears really smart and very fashionable clothes, including in the matches.

G: Yes, I agree with you, but for me, the most outstanding is his personallity, because he is a person who takes care of every single detail and of everybody; well you only have to see the last season of his team, because they use the Pep’ slogan: persistence, respect, a great effort and a well done work. So, he think that impossible is nothing.

P: Oh you do a good description of him, because I think that it is the secret of this glorious team, for it, we can say that it is ...

G: Guardiola’s time!

The oral presentation

Now, I'm going to comment a little bit my oral presentation, which I has done the last month. The topic was "Learning verbs" , which is the tittle of my research project. I explained the objectives we proposed, the methodology, some decisions to elaborate my own material, the teaching materials, and finally I said the conclusions I had got with the project.

Now, for do the comment, I'm going to have grounds to the "evaluator's paper", which has the next structure:

Presentation:
I used a powerpoint because for us it is very useful to follow the structure of the presentation. Other thing that I did correct had been the oral presentation's time, because I was speaking about five or six minutes.

Body language & eye contact:
In my opinion, I think that I should look the audience all the time, because it means that the presenter has studied, and he doesn't need read the paper. Other thing, that I improved, is my nervousness, because the people, who are listening to us, note it and for this reason I decided to improve it; this time I had benn only a little bit nervious.

Structure:
For me, the structure of this oral presentation was right, because we did an introduction, the explication of my research project and finally some conclusions and I show to audience my own material, but I didn't use many discourse makers, and it was points against the note.

Content:
I hope that the content of this oral presentation had been entretaining and that we introduce new infotmation to the audience, well, I had done this research project with this goal.

Language:
About the language that I used in this oral presentation was more difficult, because the topic complicate it a lot, because I must to use specific words and connectors to enlared some paragraphs, but I used a lot of fillers like "well", "for example", “okey”...

Pronunciation & Intonation:
For me, it was the worst part of my oral presentation, well like every oral presentation, because it is very poor and I didn't intonated the best I know do; I'm sure I will to improve this part, and the next mark will be better than it. ;)

It's the video:

Formal letter

Formal Letter

Cheese for all.

Some people can compete with a good cheese accompanied by a glass or red wine; and the habitants of Ribes de Freser ( Ripollès) know this only too well. Every year, the village hosts the "Fira Formatgera", the perfect occasion to buy some of the best types of cheese made in the Pyrenees. For example, the last year the fair had held on April 17.

I think this fair is a good idea to people who loves cheese, like me, because for us every cheese is different to another, and we have the option to buy the best types of Catalonia's cheese for an economic price. In my opinion, I would do more publicity about it, because it doesn't do in everywhere, for this reason it is a good iniciative that this news was published here, because strangers can recive information about it, and they would know that the catalan cheese is one of the best in the world.

Vocabulary:

fair = fira

be held = portar-se a terme



Catalonia Today*

The "Caganer" to BBC

Probably, only catalan people know the mean of this word: "Caganer", but what happens if we explain to another people the mean of this word?:

In this video we can see Stephen Fry is explaining in BBC some customs of Catalonia, and the most spectacular is the faces of the players.

We know that "caganer" isn't the only character typical of the Catalan Christmas that defecate. There is another tradition, a tree trunk that children choose and that led to dining room. It is covered by a blanket because it hasn't got cold and the guys must to feed until Christmas Day, when children have to sing typical's Catalonia songs, and they must to give blows with a stick because "cagatió" give presents to children.

I think that it is one common tradition here, but in the other countries it is a very strange custom, but it isn't the most strange, because in other sites in the world we can see traditions more strange that it; for example in Jamaica, the people bury dead people into the garden of this house and it becomes to a party to say goodbye, and it's prohibited to mourn.

La Pegatina

La Pegatina is a Catalan rumba group from Montcada i Reixac who was born in 2003 when Ruben (who plays alone) will be added to Ovid and Adrian to begin a new project called "Pegatina Sound System."

When it was created they began to crossing Spain and playing at festivals and concerts. In 2006, they changed the name of the group, and they, nowadays, are called "La pegatina" (the sticker). After recording several songs for the compilation, they recorded their first album called "Al carrer!". With this CD and an intensive work, the group increased with four members and then they did a lot of concerts around the world. In Febraury 2009, they have showed a new CD called "Via Mandarina", and for this reason they don't stop, because they are singing for this country, and later they will go outside.

The most important of this group are the members, who are: Rubén Sierra and Adrià Salas, the singers and guitarist, Ovidi Díaz, that plays the called "cajon flamenco", Ferran Ibañez who plays the bass guitar, Axel Magnani, who is the trumpeter, Romain Renard that plays the accordion, and finally, Sergi who is the drummer.

For me, my favourites song are: "El gat rumbero", "Mandarinas y Pomelos", "¿Cómo explicarte?",... for this reason, now I put here a video-song of this great group: