Essay to the second semester : In the shoes of another

In the shoes of another

One Saturday afternoon, I was in my home doing nothing. To enjoy my afternoon, I turn on my television and I sat down on my sofa with some crackers near me.

I took the TV remote and I started to change programs. I came across ABC channel; they were diffusing Desperate Housewives series.

I looked at it few minutes. Katherine, a character of the serie, was assuring her that everyone’s in the same boat when Bree drives by to show off her new car.

I could not watch attentively what happened. I was so tired because of my exhausted week. Indeed, I had the idea to embark on a new adventure. Something I dreamt all my life but I will never dare to do. All my energy went in this.

I was falling asleep when I realized that this program was boring.

That’s why I change channel and I saw news’ headlines. Like last week, they were talking about swine flu in Mexico and about a survey about European habits food. They were telling that French are the longest people to eat but they were also the slimmest.

At this moment, I thought that if they offer this survey on TV, It means that it interests people. Nowadays, people are so superficial. Physical appearance count more than everything.

Nevertheless, I think that if we haven’t to judge a book by its cover, we have not to judge people by their appearance. A book can reveal an amazing content even if its title is not attractive. The fact of an author does not care about his book look, also can be a strategy to target his lectors choosing one’s who reads books’ sums up. In my mind, people can take care of their appearance to apply the same strategy than a writer with his book’s look.

It makes me so uncomfortable. All this headache was because of news’ headlines. I find this news sill and I judge it not too much entertaining so I change channel again.

I arrived on “Britain’s got talent”. I like see singers sing. It was great, the season just started. They were introducing singers when I saw a man with a particular look, He sang a song of Donna Summers. He was amusing me by his gestures and by the way that he was emphasizing sharp notes.

After him, there was an old woman which people were mocking of her physical appearance. Then, she started to sing, and she bluffed all the audience and the jury. Everybody was surprised by her voice. She was an eye-opener. Prier to song, she was introducing herself. This was what provokes all this mocks.  She said: “My name is Suzan Boyles and I’m 47 years old”.

I felt so closed to this woman. Indeed, this old woman was not a foreign person to me.

It was me!

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Ikram NACIRI in Suzanne Boyles shoes

English oral : Tree of life

Original transcription :       http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/transcript/

Video :                  http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/

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The extract that I record :

So, a hundred and fifty years after the publication of Darwin’s revolutionary book, modern genetics has confirmed its fundamental truth. All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life. It began in the sea, some three thousand million years ago. Complex chemical molecules began to clump together to form microscopic blobs: cells.

These were the seeds from which the tree of life developed.

They were able to split, replicating themselves – as bacteria do. And as time passed they diversified into different groups. Some remained attached to one another so that they formed chains. We know them today as algae. Others formed hollow balls which collapsed upon themselves, creating a body with an internal cavity. They were the first multi-celled organisms. Sponges are their direct descendants.

As more variations appeared the tree of life grew and became more diverse. Some organisms became more mobile and developed a mouth that opened into a gut. Others had bodies stiffened by an internal rod. They, understandably, developed sense organs around their front end.

A related group had bodies that were divided into segments with little projections on either side that helped them to move around on the sea floor. Some of these segmented creatures developed hard protective skins which gave their bodies some rigidity. So now, the seas were filled with a great variety of animals.

And then around 450 million years ago some of these armoured creatures crawled up out of the water and ventured on to the land.

260 words and 2min33

What I would like to review in English!

I know I do a lot of mistakes in grammar and in past tense.

I also don’t know how to use “ever and never”.

Transcription n°2

What’s new ?

Ipod Nano is the world most popular music player and with an only volume design, nine amazing colors and great new features, playing music and video is now better than ever.

The large bright screen makes easy to see more viewall music on a glance. So you can quickly find album or music you want to hear. The copper flow is a great way to browse music library by gorgeous album cover art/artist.

Just roting ipod nano to the left to right. Simply … (consulter/chercher/parcourir) your albums. Select it and pick the song you want to hear.

Genius :

Ever listen to a song you love and want to hear the tracks echo … with it. Now there is genius feature.

Just press and hold the center button to start genius. It automatically finds the song in your librairy to go great together and make setting primus for you.

To get a different setting song you could refresh.

With genius feature on Ipod nano, you can hear your music in new ways wherever you go.

New Ways to Browse :

There also 2 new easy ways to find your music.

Just press and hold the center button and you can browse by album or artists. She’s prise album and you quickly find other song of my album.

Or click on browse artist and you can see other albums by the same artist.

Shake to Shuffle:

Now, you can hear your music in a totally “runal” way with shacking shuffle

Shake and it shuffles in a different song in your music library. Whenever you skake it, you shake things up.

Video:

Thanks to his large bright display, video on Ipod nano looks amazing. No matter what you are watching. Just wrote that easy way and it all looks great in games mode.

His nine amazing colors and only design and more great features, the new ipod nano rocks like never before.

Chesnuts and chocolate cake

Ingredients :

• 200 g of chocolate
• 500 g of chestnuts cream
• 100 g of flour
• 50 g of butter
• 4 eggs
• And a lot of love

In a container put the yolk, the chestnuts cream and the flour.

Melt 100 g of chocolate with the butter. Add it in the container.

Put eggs white in snow and incorporate it into mixture.

Then, pour all the paste in a cake tray and put it in the oven during 15 min.

Take the cake out, let it froze in room temperature.

Then, melt the rest of chocolate and put it on the cake.

Your cake is ready to eat.

Thanks to Solene I could do my first eatable  cake.

After eating, practise sports with the Wii fit !

Transcryption  : Introduce Wii fit

The makers of Wii sports now give you a little white thing you stand on.

Introducing Wii Fit.

Before too long, video game console set limited themselves to be fun and entertaining.

With Wii fit, the skies the limit as you exports exciting new exercise like lining side to side.

With amazing graphics and engaged game play, you love playing side to side.

With Nintendo’s Wii fit and don’t miss stinking out your leg.

With over 8 hours of salon/silent game place, stinking out your leg is fun for both young and old. But when you finish it, try stinking out your other leg.

Wii fit can bound the perfect balance of barely moving and doing mondain things.

With the practical applications of Wii fit go far behind working on.

Don’t wanna invest 3 dollars and nineteen cents on a hula hoop. Why not take up for leave just 3 hundred dollars and enjoy the same fun but in an uncomfortable living room without that annoying plastic hoop.

Standing having your kids go outside to play and get exercise what I have to understand right front of the tv.

You save that money on circulator stration.

And whole the family will enjoy watching thing fly to your head.

If you found dance dance revolution hot/hard centract an exciting game played to be a bit too much.

We think you’ll enjoy Wii fits step up on the white thing game.

It’s exciting but simple tired because all you have to do is to step up and get down.

Nothing says fun to kids like a good graph for charming.

That’s just one way that Wii fit is bringing families out of the backyard and putting them back for another television with exciting titles like roll the ball in the hole.

The Wii fits looks great with anything for my key/mikeer.

Standing in one place is never been more fun than with Nintendo’s Wii fit.

Find out today why people all around the world think fair that this exercise with that little thing you stand on.

It’s simple, it’s easy and you don’t have to do anything.

Wii fit.

(sarcasticgamer.com)

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Do you know it ?

Laught a quarter of an hour per day is enought to loose 2 Kg per year.

Baby loosing weight and watching his father playing the Wii.

Classmates mistakes

I tried to correct mistakes that my classmates did on their blog sendding them comments.

Consequently, you can find in this post these comments.

On Ludivine’s blog :

Hi Ludivine,

I think “in order to have a interessanter search” is wrong. Maybe, you may write “in order to have a more interessant search”.

On Nicolas’ blog :

Hi Nicolas,

I send you this post just to notify you that you use which in sted of who in the following sentence :

“Those videos were made by the same man, Bas de Baar,- which – is a software project manager”
On Laetitia’s blog :

Hi Laetitia,

I think the following sentence is wrong : “I decide if this video is or isn’t correspond in that I want.”

Accord to me, you would write “I decide if this video correspond or not to my demands”.

On Trang’s blog :

Hi triple T !

I found a mistake in the following sentence :
“In this one, we can see how Ben Burtt made the sound design of the movie WALL-E”

May you write WALL-E’s sound design instead of “the sound design of the movie WALL-E” ?

I think I have a mistake in my question

On Vincent H.’s blog :

“They have the responsibility of the planning, execution, and closing of any project,”

Does “They have for responsibility to plan, execute and to close any project” is more correct than what you wrote ?

Hi !

Welcome on my blog.

I’m Ikram, 20, and I study in the Ingineer school IMAC in France.

If you want to know more about me, listen to my oral presentation.

Ikram