Decorating the Xmas tree

Scene: The apartment.

Penny: I just love decorating the Christmas tree. It makes me feel like a little girl again.

Leonard: We didn’t have a tree when I was growing up.

Penny: Really? Why not?

Leonard: Mmm, in my family, holidays weren’t so muchcelebrated as studied for their anthropological and psychological implications on human society.

Penny: Oh, sounds festive. Did you at least give presents?

Leonard: Mmm, in a way. We presented papers, and then broke off into focus groups and critiqued each other.

Penny: Sheldon, what about you? Did you have a Christmas tree?

Sheldon: Oh, yes. We had a tree, we had a manger, we had an inflatable Santa Claus with plastic reindeer on the front lawn. And to make things even more jolly, there were so many blinking lights on the house they induced neighbourhood-wide seizures.

Penny: So I take it you don’t want to help us trim the tree.

Sheldon: I do not. But if you insist on decorating a spider-infested fire hazard in my home I would request that you add this.

Penny: What is it?

Sheldon: You’re kidding, right? It’s a bust of Sir  Isaac Newton.

Penny: Oh, sure, sure, yeah. Very Christmassy.

Sheldon: Wait, excuse me, but it’s much more Christmassy than anything you’ve put on the tree.

Leonard: Here we go.

Sheldon: December 25, 1642, Julian calendar, Sir Isaac Newton is born Jesus, on the other hand, was actually born in the summer His birthday was moved to coincide with a traditional pagan holiday that celebrated the winter solstice with lit fires and slaughtered goats. Which, frankly, sounds like more fun than 12 hours of church with my mother followed by a fruitcake.

Leonard: Merry Newton-mas, everyone.

Sheldon: I sense that’s not sincere, although I have no idea why.

Penny: No, it’s fine. Look, Sir Isaac can go right next to this little candy cane.

Sheldon: No. Isaac goes at the top of the tree.

Leonard: No, he doesn't.

Big Bang Theory questions

1) For what reason did Penny arrive at Leonard's and Sheldon's apartment?

To give them their Christmas presents.

2) What does Penny give to Sheldon?
A napkin with Leonard Nimoy's signature.

3) Who's DNA is on Sheldon's gift?
Leonard Nimoy's

4) What does Sheldon plan to do with the DNA?
grow is own Leonard Nimoy.

5) Leonard received what as his gift? What is lesson one?
A motorcycle lesson. Falling off the bike.

6) Sheldon, thinking that his gifts are not enough to thank penny, does what?
Hugs Penny.

7) How would you describe Sheldon?
he is someone that doesn't really like people.

Bonus: Who is Leonard Nimoy?
He is an American poet, film director, actor and singer

How many cell phones are there?

1) How many cell phones are there per person in the world?

roughly 1 per person. 

2) What are the differences in different countries? Can you comment some specific cases?
There are some that have over 100% and others that have less. Russia for example has 160% and India 73.1%

3) What will happen in the future?
That there will be more phones than people in the world. 

4) How is it that we can speak on a mobile phone without hearing other conversations from other people?
Because of technology innovations, using different methods. 

Graduation ceremony speech

I think that this speech is very interesting because he speaks about the future life of the people. And he also speaks about the death.

Steve Jobs' life and career

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers in 1976, later the computer makintosh went on sale but it failed and Jobs resigned from Apple and he bought Pixar animations it was in 1986.

In 1996 when Apple started to be better Jobs came back but in 2004 he underwent surgery for a pancreatic cancer.
Jobs gave his famous commencement speech at Standford University in 2005 and two years later they took out their first smartphone, the iPhone.

Jobs underwent a liver transplant one year later the iPad, Apple's tablet computer went on sale.

Jobs died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer in 2011 at the age of 56 years old.

Video of facebook dangers

What was the video about?
It was about the dangers in facebook.

Did you learn anything new about facebook?
No

Did you learn any new words or expressions in english?
No

Did you find it difficult? Why? Why not?
No, because the man explained it very good

Effects of technology

Modern Technology has had a tremendous effect on the lives of people and their entertainment habits. Today, the Internet has undergone a phenomenal global growth. It has become such an important data-gathering and communication source that few can't afford to ignore. The Net encircles the globe.

    Young people spend a lot of time on their computers because it’s exciting and they have found in the Net new ways of meeting a basic human need: the desire to communicate with other people. E-mail sends electronic messages from one person to another – like letters, but capable of crossing the Atlantic in 15m. File transfers move bulk data from one computer to another with these capacities, the Internet becomes post office, printing press and meeting-place all in one.

    Some people are making a fortune in cyberspace. Most companies have their own websites; others exist only on the Internet. They are something called “dot com” companies. Some of the most successful Net entrepreneurs are teenagers who are still at school. They are called internet nerds.

   To become a successful entrepreneur all you need is: to start a webpage of your own, have a good idea for a business, think of a catchy name and find someone to lend you money. And remember! English is the most used business language!

A. Read the text and say if the following statements are True or False. Correct the false ones.

         1. The Internet doesn't interfere at all with people’s lives.

             

             

         2. The English language is not necessary to be successful on the Net.

              

            

  B. Complete the following sentence with the ideas from the text:

      1. Nowadays the Internet has become tremendously 

   C. Answer the following questions, using your own words as far as possible and expressing your point of view:

          1. what is so exciting about the net?

           2. How can people make a fortune in cyberspace? 

How do you use the internet

  Nowadays, people can use the Internet to do many things: search, study, online shopping, online selling, chat, networking, play games, watch videos and movies, check e-mails, news, and social networks' profiles.

        The time people spend on the net may vary:  Some may check news, social networking and email's website quickly and others may spend hours studying, doing research, wacthing videos and chatting. It all depends on people's objectives.

And you? How do you use the Internet?

a) What do you use the Internet for?

b) How important is it for you?

c) For how long do you stay online daily?

d) What have you learned in the Internet?

e) What websites do you like the most?

f) What online activities do you recommend to people?

g) How Internet can make your life easier?

h) Do you have profiles on social networks? Which one do you use more? Why?

i) What thing would you like Internet to have?

j) What things can you say you like the most about the Net? And the less?

Once I correct your answers to the questions, you'll have to prepare a speaking activity about it.

Big Bang Theory summary

The episode started with Sheldon and Leonard entering at high IQ sperm bank to donate sperm for some money. Sheldon then decided that he didn't want to do it and then he went out. When they arrived to their flat, they saw that there was a new neighbour, Penny. They invited her to have lunch with them, and she accepted the offer. When they finished lunch Penny started to talk about her life, then she started to cry because her boyfriend had left her.  She asked if she could use their shower because hers didn't work and Leonard said yes. While she was in the shower Raj and Howard arrived at Leonard and Sheldon's flat. Penny asked Leonard if he could do her a favour. The favour was to take her the TV from her ex-boyfriend's apartment. When they got to the ex-boyfriend's flat, they asked him for Penny's TV, but he refused and stole their pants. When Leonard and Sheldon got back to their flat Penny asked them what had happened, and then invited them all out for dinner.

Internet vocabulary

Devices: dispositius

available: disponible

wired or wireless connection: amb cable o sense cable

broad band connection: conexió de banda ampla

dial-up connection: conecció telefonica

speed: velocitat

cable: cable

Internet service provider: proveidor de servei d'internet

WIFI-enable: abilitat amb wifi

WAP key: contrasenya WAP

social network: xarxa social

cyber bullying: assatjaments cibernetic

router: encaminador

plug plug-in: endollar / expanció

virus checker: antivirus

firewall: talla focs

browser security settings: configuració de la seguretat del navegador

threats: amenaces

fill in: completar

tools: eines

share: compartir

update: actualitzar

web sites: llocs web

bookmark: marcadors

address bar: barra d'adresses

pop-up: finestra emergent

link: adressa electronica

Big Bang theory synopsis

Big Bang theory synopsis

Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Caltech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.

My routine

Wen i get up in morning I see my phone messages and some times i have a lot of messages and an other days i haven't messages.
Later I go to school and when I come home i start the computer and i stay all the time playing games in my computer with my friends and at 9:00 my sister call me by skype and speak a lot with my parents.
When my finish they close the computer we go dinner and later we go to the bed.

Mobile phone Vocabulary

Teclat: keyboard

pantalla: screen

simbols o lletres: characters

plantilla: template

format: format

configuració: settings

tecla: key

navegador: browser

arxiu: file or archive

caracteristiques: features

enviar I rebre misatges: send and receive messages

intalar: install

descarregar: download

desplegar: display

interficie: interface

EMAIL Vocabulary

configurar un compe de correu: setup an email acount

adjuntar documents: attach documents / files

un document adjunt: attachment

registrarse: register / sign up

estar en contacte: get in touch / keep in contact

enviar un correu electroni a algu: send an email to someone

enviar al guna cosa per correu electronic: send something by email

entrar al correu: log in

arrova@: at

punt: dot

assumpte: subject

safata de entrada: in box

esborranys: drafts

paperera: junk

respondre un email: replay an email

cursiva: italics

negreta: bold

subratllat: underlines

adreça de correu electronic: email address / account

corrector: spell checker

carpetes: folders

carpeta de contactes: contacts folders

cc: carbon copy

bcc: blind carbon copy

Presentation of Airdroid

Personal Information

Hello

My name is Eduard Pujol Calderón I'm fifteen and I'm from Oix. I have a sister that is in Goteborg doing a master and she is really happy.

I'm a student and I help my dad in his job and my mom in home.

In my free time i ride motorbike I go for the mountain and the roads at the first i crashed a lot but today I'm the best from Oix riding motorbikes. I'm the responsable of the maintenance of my motorbike I change the pneumatic, the oil, and I do all the reparations. when I'm not riding motorbike I go to the computer and I play games with my friends.