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At the moment, we study the study the end of the world, we read a text The Road then looking its trailers. It's a men with a son who want to join a bunker to pretect it because it's the end of the civilization, that is why we watch a documentary on the luxury bunkers and two others trailers.

Today, we saw a part of "The War of The Worlds" by Orson Welles. The scene took place in 1938. A family is listening to a radio broadcast. But their regular broadcast is interupted. Someone annouces that there is an invasion by Martians. The more they listening, the more they were panicked.

Although, this is a fake message coming from Orson Welles. In fact, in the text "War of the Worlds", a professor speack about this hoax. We read that H.G Wells made an adaptation 40 years earlier too. In this films, there are Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning that we recognized on the photography who was taken from the film.

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Logorama is a short parody. This is a panorama of L.A, a city who is built with buildings representing commercial brands well as the inhabitants: butterflies in the form of icons to MSN, the pringles mascots as truck driver who asks at Esso girl to come with him but she refuses then we can see two Michelin men speaking in the cruiser about animals in the zoo but they don’t agree. During that one of two will look to eat, the cops in the cruiser receive a call over the radio: the criminal with the red truck which is named Ronald McDonald! Suddenly, the cops take in pursing Ronald that can be described as crazy. Meanwhile in the zoo, Mr. Clean is the zoo guide who has a strange voice hum … and drives the mini-train, at the back there are two teenagers: Big Boy and Haribo, mocking Mr. Clean. After, the rhythm accelerates! The pursuit is very terrible and dangerous, Ronald takes in hostage first a fast food then Big Boy the same time that he shoots on everyone and everything with a gun when all at once a series of natural disasters destroyed the city and the inhabitants don’t survive.

The characters have been inspired from famous characters in popular movies as the logorama have been inspired from the real life, us life and the different situations that can be known: social, crime and naturel problems. This is the film with all the characteristics of a sci-fi movie.

This video speaks about a campaign from Geico who insulting a caveman with the slogan " So easy a caveman could do it ".

1- Talking about the genre/ Say what all these videos have un common :

Each commercial stages the same character. Besides, each commercial comes up with the same slogan.

2- What is catchphrase of this video ?:

" So easy a caveman do it " -> it's so easy to use it or -> it's such on easy way ...

3- What is it that makes this main character upset ( or feel angry )?:  

The character kind of feels betroyed by Geico. In fact, he is part of a society that loks down on him.

4- Tell us more about Geico and this series of advertisements by looking at the text.

Geico is a commodity service (=insurance). This series of ads were aggressivly launched at the same time and won several awards.

http://youtu.be/o5JV0Fs_GE8

All three cavemen are at a high-apartement party. On the balcony, two of them discucc one caveman's decision to purchase GEICO's insurance because of it's low prise.The second cavemn doesn't entirely fault him, but states that " a little loyalty would be nice" in their opposition to the compan. During their discussion, the tird caveman interrupts from inside, exclaiming excitedly " Tina's here; we're getting back together!" The first caveman quikly snaps at him, exclaining, " Hey ! Give us a minute!"

Early Show present a TV report about a FREEGANS in America.

- Freegan: is a community of food hunters.

- To go dumpster diving : it means searching for food or foraging.

- Homeless: people living in a street ( usually beggars too )

- Wastes: trash or garbage

- To toss out : to throw away

- A non profit or to be a volunteer: a charity

- To dig throught : to forage to

- Rotten : in a state of putrefaction.

These are the answers at the questions about Dr.Ritchter,a millionaire.

1)- What did the Millionaire hear when he was sitting on his desk ?

The Millionaire was gripped by a sudden apprehension ; he sensed that he was not alone.

2)- Where does the conversation take place ? 

The conversation takes place in front of his desk.

3)- What is the reaction of the doctor when he sees the messenger ?

The doctor doesn't want to know who is the messenger when he sees him. He orders him to go away.

4)- What does the messenger announce to Dr. Richter?

The messenger announces him that on the nineteenth day, Dr Richter is going to have "an apoointment with death".

5)- Who is the strange messenger according to you ? 

His costume, which reminds of an undertaker, symbolizes death. In my view, he's a kind of relay between life and death (= a messenger).

6)- How long has the doctor left to live ?

The doctor has one month left to live.

7)- From Richter's description of the Messenger's clothes , what is his job ?

From Richter description, he's an undertaker.

8)-  What's thedoctor's reaction at the end of the text ?

At the end of the text, the doctor is persuaded that the messenger was sent by one of the victim's family to scare him. He grabs the bell to call the butler and tell him to call the police.

9)- What happens to the mysterious messenger?

As the butler comes in, the messenger disappears.

10)- What the doctor has done who is so terrible ?

Dr Richter is responsible for the death of fifty workers in the explosion of one of his armament factories.

This painting by Magritte depicts a gloomy landscapes seen through the silhouette of a peculiarman.

What is disturbing with this character is that mdt of this features are missing.

His eyes are expressionless./void of expression.

In the background we can notice and isolated mansion, lost in the woods. What dreary surroundings!

This mansion may be hauntes by this frightening character, or is it all just a dream ?

Adjectives:

 mysterious/unusual/puzzling=intriguing/peculiar/surprising/unexpected/odd/disturbing/frightening/sinister-looking/gloomy/dreary/expressionless.

In this video, MJ and his girlfriend are one a date, watching a scary moie embedded in the main video clip. It foreshadows an eventful adventure for our two lovebirds.

MJ's girlfriend - who can't stand the horror scenes - leaves the movie theatre before the end of the film.

MJ catches up with her on the pavement right in front of the entrance door and then walks her black home.MJ tries to reassure her and is determined to make up for her ruined evening.

As they walk past a century, some creatures walk out of theur tomb and gather downtown. The couple come across those monsters and suddenly MJ turns into one of those creepy monsters. His girlfriend is bewildered and the look on her face echoes the female protagonist in the movie's own features.

At that moment, fiction obviously overlaps into reality as the crowd of living dead try to impress the girlwith a dance which appears like a real choreography.

She starts running to escape the monsters and finds shelter in a derelict house. However the creatures catch up with her and break into the house. Her attempt to escape has failed and she is eventually forced to curl up with fright on the sofa.

As turned-evil MJ touches her shoulder in an attempt to grab her, she wakes up from her nightmare and feeld relieved.

MJ decides to take her back home but as they walk towards the door, MJ turns round and glances at the camera with round green eyes and we can hear an ominous growl hinting that fiction and reality are inseparable.

Today, we did a writen comprehension on an extract about Cutie.

This is a novel. Cutie is a robot and the scene takes place in a space station. These stations were created to feed energy to the planets they were run by humans. However, the heat, hard solar radiations and electrom storms made the post a difficult one. Then, only two humans executives are needed to run the station. Cutie, was created to replace human labor and he's the first robot to wonder where he comes froms and who created him, to exhibit curiosity. This is due to the fact that he us the highest type of robot ever developed. Thanks to his abilities humans won't have to work in these stations, where conditions are very difficult.

Hi,

We spoke about Steve Jobs because we saw a front page of the magasin " TIME ". Steve jobs was a co-founder with Apple, but he died of cancer like L.Armstrong. Everybody will remember him because he was a revolutionary computer technology. So, Steve Jobs can be compare at Prometheus because he can be considered like a hero for our world.

But also we saw other people who have created things that we use everybody today :

- Thomas Edison create electricy

- Alexander Graham create telephone

- And Ben Francklin which demonstrated the electrical nature of lightning.