Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Celebrities!!

                                  Celebrities!!

The informations we found about celebrities were taken from Media and mainly from the web, magazines and the TV. The most highlighted celebrities nowadays are Cristiano Ronaldo , who is a top rank soccer player ,  and Irina Shayk , a well known model. The reason is that they are both very popular and they have been on the front page and the first subject in many TV shows. In the same time, razor edge comments about their parting, were common enough.








Wednesday, March 11, 2015

An interview with celebrities!

This is a video we made ourselves. We were divided into three groups: A,B and C. Each team had a role card.

Role card A

He is  Dave Buckham, a famous footballer and celebrity.He is about to appear as a guest on a live television show. A journalist is going to asYou havek him and his wife, Veronica Spice, some questions.Earlier today he received a phone call from Veronica. She says she knows he is cheating on her with another woman. She is very angry and says she is leaving him.

Role card B

She is Veronica Spice, ex-member of the world-famous pop group ‘The Spice
Chicks’. She is married to Dave Buckham, a famous footballer and celebrity.
She is about to appear as a guest on a live television show. A journalist is going to ask her and her husband some questions. She thinks Dave is cheating on her with another woman. She is very angry. She loves David but this isn’t the first time he has cheated on her. This time she has evidence.

Role card C

He is a television journalist. On today’s show he is going to interview two guest celebrities; Dave Buckham, a famous footballer and his wife, Veronica Spice (ex-member of the world-famous pop group ‘The Spice Chicks’.) He has heard a rumour that the celebrity couple are having problems in their marriage. He thinks TV viewers will be very interested in this news.

Enjoy the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

TERRORIST ATTACK IN FRANCE

The article comments the tragic events in France. Confronts the ISIS like the biggest enemy for the west in our days. Also, the article contains comments from muslim world for the cartoon with the Prophet Mohamet saying "I'm Charlie", especially the reactions in Turkey for the specific edition of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo: muslim extremists, the new universal enemy of the West. Macedonia newspaper, ed. 19.01.2015 page 76 There was a reprint of the cartoon and a photo of protests. The pictures is not anymore available on the net. "The article is pro my topic, which concerns the freedom of speech.
"" The Jihadists' masacre, in the heart of Europe, and against a media that was a symbol of freedom of expression and of the Press, was aiming at the core of values of the western european system.""
"" ... the reaction from the muslim world showed the gap of values with the West.""
"".. the Jihadists show hypocrecy"".
"" ... they provoke a bloodbath"".
"" ... a new enemy, the extreme muslims"".
"".. their only compass is the absolute dominion over populations"".
""... against the world of freedom of the people and the self disposal of people and societies"".
'while the whole planet was saying Je suis Charlie, the muslims around the globe did not seem so unanimous. In Egypt the great Mufti warned Charlie Hebdo not to publish racist cartoons saying this would provoke a new wave of hatred"".
"" the saudi priest Yand Ammin Madani, impeached the new cartoons as rudeness, ignorance and stupidity"".
""Ahmed Davutoglou described the edition of the survivors of Charlie Hebdo as an ""open challenge"" and also declared being ready to protect the honour of the Prophet with the same way that we are determinded regarding our attitude against terrorism in Paris""." Translating the whole article in English is practically impossible, thus the most significant phrases were listed above and they are enough for the comprehension of the article.


Αποτέλεσμα εικόνας για charlie hebdo εκδηλωσης


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Bloody Paris with the eyes of Nikos Aliagas

Bloody Paris, the story writes with blood one of the darkest pages. The carnage in the capital city of light. Siege. The pursuit of offenders who divide death. The outcome of this three-day massacre that shocked the whole world. A planet blinded by the merciless light of obscurantism. France washes over her blood. The days of the attacks was mournful, shocking. We are in solidarity with freedom of expression. From now on, the French will learn to live differently.
This is not he whole article itself, but some key words we underlined, which add importane to the article. This article is from a greek newspaper called: Prwto thema, which means first theme. This article is about the terrorist attack in Charlie Hebdo, a french magazine. 
The writer is of course against the terrorist attack. Also, a greek reporter was near the incident when it happened and he tells his opinion about this topic. In fact, some of the magazine's reporters were his friends. All the fans of this magazine made a demonstration to express their feelings and to show that, despite the attack they are not afraid of freely expressing their opinion. 

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Vocabulary Choices

Τhis is the text that we wrote about Sir Sam Hughes! We are editors and we wrote an article opposing him. We have deleted the words that do not match!

HUMPHREY DISCOUNTS ALLEGATIONS
or
"DRUG TALK ALL LIES," SNARLS HUMPHREY
 

OTTAWA (UBI) Conservative M.P./warhorse and liquor baron/distillery executive Humphrey Humphrey denounced/denied today that reports/allegations implicating/involving him in undercover/subversive drug/dope retailing/peddling
were true/had any basis in fact. Addressing a dinner/blowout for  colleagues/hangers-on at a swank/exclusive Ottawa restaurant, Humphrey angrily denied/calmly refuted swarms of rumours/numerous reports that he and a gang/group of cronies/acquaintances had sneaked/smuggled into the national's capital/Ottawa lethal doses/dangerous amounts of diluted/adulterated ambrosia under cover of dark/at night.


"Such talk is all lies," snarled/said Humphrey, hunched over/seated with a tumbler of booze/an after-dinner cocktail.


Rumour-mongers/sources around Parliament Hill suggest/hint tonight Humphrey's alleged crime/scrape is the subject of Cabinet investigation/talk. Meantime, Bay Street analysts/mandarins note/point to the fact that Humphrey stock has plumme
pointted/fallen in the last two days/suddenly in the face of/as a result of a wave of panic/selling.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

HUGHES FIRED FROM CABINET



          Montreal Matin
November 1916

HUGHES FIRED FROM CABINET


At long last, Prime Minister Borden has done the honourable thing! He has thrown Sir Sam Hughes, his incompetent minister of Militia, out of the Cabinet. Now, Hughes will be unable to do any more damage to Canadian unity. Hughes, more than any other person, has divided and torn this country apart with his policies.

Hughes has managed to antagonize everyone in Quebec. Those French Canadians who have volunteered for the English war have been insulted. The recruitment posters, training and instruction manuals are in English only. More importantly, promotions have only been given to the English-speaking officers. How can Hughes and other Canadians expect French Canadians to join in the war effort when they are treated so poorly?

As Minister of Militia, Hughes has disgraced the nation by rewarding his friends and cronies with munitions contracts. These shady deals have allowed his friends to make millions at the taxpayer's expense. Why should we spill one more drop of precious French-Canadian blood in Europe. Canada only wants Quebec in Confederation when we are willing to sacrifice for the British Empire. Britain started this war. Let Britain finish it!


The author of the article, in my opinion, does not describe the fucts regarding Sir Hughes objectively. He presents his opinion because he wants to affect the public. Although negative and using extremely strong terms, the article is not very far from reality .

HUGHES FIRED FROM CABINET

Montreal Matin
November 1916

HUGHES FIRED FROM CABINET

At long last, Prime Minister Borden has done the honourable thing!
 He has thrown Sir Sam Hughes, his incompetent minister of Militia, out of the Cabinet. Now, Hughes will be unable to do any more damage to Canadian unity. Hughes, more than any other person, has divided and torn this country apart with his policies.

Hughes has managed to antagonize everyone in Quebec. Those French Canadians who have volunteered for the English war have been insulted. The recruitment posters, training and instruction manuals are in English only. More importantly, promotions have only been given to the English-speaking officers. How can Hughes and other Canadians expect French Canadians to join in the war effort when they are treated so poorly?

As Minister of Militia, Hughes has disgraced the nation by rewarding his friends and cronies with munitions contracts. These shady deals have allowed his friends to make millions at the taxpayer's expense. Why should we spill one more drop of precious French-Canadian blood in Europe. Canada only wants Quebec in Confederation when we are willing to sacrifice for the British Empire. Britain started this war. Let Britain finish it!
Key words:



In my opinion, the writer of this text does not support sir Sam Hughes for many reasons. First of all, he starts the text with the phrase : Prime Minister Borden has done the honourable thing! He has thrown Sir Sam Hughes, his incompetent minister of Militia, out of the Cabinet. This means that the writer thinks that firing sir Sam was a good idea, because mr Hughes has divided and torn the country apart with his policy, he is incopetent, he treats French Canadians poorly, has disgraced the nation and he has given promotion only to the English-speaking officers.By numbering the faults Sam Hughes has done, it is clear that the writer is against him.
Although Hughes had proved a competent, and sometimes exceptional, front-line officer, boastfulness and impatience told strongly against him. ( Wikipedia ) As we can see  the writer of Montreal Matin and wikipedia have different opinion for this theme.
Also this is written in his memorial plaque at  Lindsay, Ontario: 
Soldier, journalist, imperialist and Member of Parliament for Lindsay, Ontario from 1892 to 1921, Sam Hughes helped to create a distinctively Canadian Army. As Minister of Militia and Defence (1911-1916) he raised the Canadian Expeditionary Force which fought in World War I, and was knighted for his services. Disagreements with his colleagues and subordinates forced his retirement from the Cabinet in 1916."
So, after all, i believe that Sir Sam Hughes has done much for Canada and that's why there is a memorial plaque at Ontario.