Father returning home

For my grandmother knitting

In class we have to do a presentation of the poem "My grand mother Knitting."



By: Agustín Mora & Julian Cueli

The Phoenix

We have to do a presentation of the Phoenix.
I do it with Mayra.

The hero

  We read the story "The Hero" and then we had to write a text explaining the most important part of the story.

 In my opinion the part I choose was: 

He looked at that file on the man's desk. It seemed to contain , among other things , a manuscripts.

Captain Campbell , I believe. That's who you ' re after? I feel bound to tell you , I ' m afraid , that you ' re not the first.

He sat down abruptly , his eyes still fixed on the file.

What do you mean?

The man laid his hand on the file , almost affectionately.

Terrific fellow. I've become quite fond of him over the years.

But I'm afraid the whole things a fantasy. He was just a charming adventurer , with the gift of the gab,.

But the honors! He cried out. The D.S.O! The croix the guerre!

He invented them. He invented at least three - quarters of his life. It's a awful disappointment , I know. I felt it myself , when I first discovered.

If it's any comfort to you , I've come to see that he believed it all himself in the end , every imaginary , boastful word of it.  

Compare and Contrast essay

In this essay I wiil compare and contrast learning English as a foreign language and learning Chinese as a foreign language. They have similarities that, at the same time, they have very different. Learning English as a foreign language is a language that we are used to because we can read it in the foods packages, on TVs programs and in video games.
Unlike Learning English as a foreign language, learning Chinese as a foreign language is more difficult because people are not used to this language. So It is a new culture for us. Another characteristic is that is more difficult to find a place that teaches Chinese language near your home, usually people have to travel to down town to learn it.
However, both types of languages have similarities. Both of them you have to study a lot to learn it very well. In both types you have to pass exam to go to another level in the language. Both types of languages are from another country and are important to our future.
In conclusion, I think both languages have their similarities and differences but if you want to lear them , you have to pay attention and study a lot.

The hero week 3

Page 137
1. What is Signora Cambpbell’s treasure?
2. What is the main character planning to do with Campbell’s autobiography?
3. What is it that the agent says they need to verify?
4. Is the French Embassy able to verify Campbell’s story?

Page 138
1. What information does he receive in the British Army Records Office?
2. What does the man mean when he says “I’m afraid that you’re not the first.”? (p. 138) 
3. “It’s an awful disappointment, I know.” (p.138) What is an awful disappointment?
4. Does this British man dislike Captain Campbell?
5. “All he knew is (…) that she must never know what he now knew. She and the island must keep their hero safe.” Why? And who is ‘she’?

1) Signora Campbell s treasure is her husband autobiography
2) He wants to do a movie
3) The agent says that he has to verify if the story is true.
4) The French Embassy cant help him because they have not record about Campbell in the war.
Page138

1) he receive a disappointed information because the British man tells him that Campbell was not in the war he was a lier.
2) I think he try to tell him that he is not the only man that is cheated about the story.
3) That Campbell was an ordinary man
4) No he doesn’t
5) Because he is the Hero of the Island and he has to be like this for the res of their life. She is Signora Campbell that is in love of her husband as a Hero.

The hero week 2

Page 135
1. Is Captain Campbell's grave tidy or untidy?
2. Explain the following phrase: "Below his knees lay not just a man, but a story." (p.135) 
3. Why is Signora Campbell not surprised to see him?
4. Is she young or old?
5. Who is Edward?
6. The 'hero' was awarded two medals. Why? What kind of hero was he?
7. Does Signora Campbell have Campbell's medals? Why?

Page 136
1. What does Signora Campbell give to the main character?
2. Does she trust him?
3. Does he like what she gives him? How do you know?
4. What is Campbell’s autobiography about?
5. Who wrote it?
6. Does Signora Campbell let the main character keep the autobiography for a longer period of time?

1) Captain campbell ' s grave was tidy.
2) He realese 's that the man burried there was not only a man because there was an important story about him.
3) Because a lot of people come to see campbell very often.
4) She is old.
5) Edward was Signora Campbell's husband.
6) The hero was because he helped british airmen who had balled out over occupied france to escape to England. The kind of hero he was very modest.
7) No , Because the hero was too modest to keep them.

1) She gave him a big faded folder tied up in pink lawyer's tape. His autobiography.
2) Yes 
3) Yes he likes because he couldn't stop reading it all night.
4) It is about his life and his participation in the wars.
5) The hero wrote it.
6) She allows him to keep the autobiography for a long time.

The hero

Read pages 133 and 134 and answer:
Page 133
1. Is the following statement true or false? Justify: "His plan was to return sooner."
2. Who said he would get sick of the island in weeks, that he would never write a book, and that he would be lonely?
3. What has he got used to?
4. Why has he travelled to the island?
5. Has he accomplished his goal?
6. Why does he decide to stay on the island?
7. Describe the two Mayors the island had.
8. What kind of narrator tells the story?

Page 134
1. Who was a hero?
2. Who is Captain Campbell?
3. Where does Campbell's widow live?
4. "It was a Tuesday, the day on which the weekly letter from his girlfriend usually lay waiting for him at the post office. He decided, with a mixture of relief and guilt, that he was in no hurry to collect it today, chiefly because, for the first time in months, he had something other, and more pressing, to do." What?


1) It is true because he said that he stayed on the island much longer than he intended to.
2) His mother and his girlfriend.
3) He has got used to srub covered hills , little port , the same cafes and the same battered boats came in and out.
4) He has travelled to the island because he wants to write a novel.
5) Not all his goal. He has done only half novel.
6) He decided to stay because he didn't want to arrive with half novel in seven months.
7) One Mayor was the Mayor of the little port who had won a Communist ticket , but who live with a Mercedes and a villa with a swimming pool and a new wife. The other Mayor was the English Mayor , he was a gentleman.
8) The narrator that tells the story is in 3rd person.

1) The hero was the military governor.
2) The captain campbell was a military protestant worrior.
3) He lives in the island in the port.
4) He has to visit the cementary where captain campbell was burried.

Neighbours - part 3

1. Who are the Scadutos? Where do they come from?
2. How are American and British people different, according to the narrator?
3. Why didn’t the narrator dare ask Wigley about his neighbours?
4. “Our Nazi friend with the motorcycle, for one.” Who does the narrator refer to?
5. What does Wigley think of motorcycles?

1)  The Scadutos are new neighbors ,  they come from America.

2) The British confined conversation to neutral impersonal subjects , resisting any effort to be trapped into frienship. But Americans were tremendous questioners.

3) Because Wigley is a British person and he likes  having secret.

4) He refers to the man in 4c. Another neighbor.

5) He thinks of motorcycles that aren't so bad , some of them are very economical.

The canterville Ghost

The play was about the story of the Carterville ghost.it was good from beginning to end.

  The show started out in the living room of the Carterville house with the Otis’ family and the housekeeper.

  At first none of the Otis family believed in ghosts, but after they moved in, they couldn`t deny the presence of the Carterville ghost.

  The costume design was very good. I could identify every character and their appearances.

   The play took place in Euskal Echea`school. In my opinion, it was amazing and very interesting. I recommended because It had all the story very clear and I could understand it a lot.