Oral Blog Entry Film Review-King Kong

At 3 hours it’s too long, with too much exposition at the beginning and a slightly-disappointing ending.

It talks about a film makers group who wants to find something exciting, so they go to a island by accident. There are dinosaurs, strange animals and a big monkey-King Kong on the island. Interestingly, King Kong falls in love with a beautiful woman of the group Ann and protects her carefully. She also likes him, KingKong's relationship with her is the cornerstone of the movie. The leader of the group wants to take King Kong back to America to perform and earn money, Ann disagrees with him, but she has no way to deal with it. In America, King Kong can't find her, he is so crazy that he injures others. So cops begin to catch him, Ann appears and they are at the top of a tall building, he hugs her with his big arm, it moved me deeply. Eventually, he is shot by the cops.

I like this film, animals aslo have emotions, even deeper than human's.

Oral Blog Entry Seven Diploma Lecture 2

'Helping Others' was the topic of the lecture given by Dave Griffiths on week nine, it was mainly about giving first aid when accidents happen around us.

He told us what we should do when accidents happen. The first thing we should do is not dial 111, because it takes 35 mins for ambulance to arrive, so between this time we should give patients first aid. Also Dave told us what steps to give first aid. First of all, we should stop what we are doing when there is an accident, because our help is needed. After that, we should think about our safety, because sometimes we don't know whether they are healthy or not, so we should wear some barriers such as gloves, plastic bags etc. to protect us. Then, we should talk to them, find out how the person is feeling, if they are in danger, we must give them CPR or mouth to mouth. There are different procedures for different patients. We should use two hands to do CPR for adults, one hand for children and only two fingers for infants, he also did a demonstration for us to explain it more clearly. He also told us if the person who we gave first aid but dies at last, we will not be held responsible in New Zealand.

He gave us a funny and useful lecture which reminded me know that accidents could happen at any time or any place, and i will help the injured as possible if i can.

Week Ten Text Blog Entry Eight - an article about my country in the international press

Here is a link to an article in The Independent UK.

Most people must know 'Journey to the West', which is famous novel by Wu Cheng'en writen during the Ming Dynasty. The Monkey King is the main character in this book, when this book was played on TV, it has become a cult since then, and a aggressive but lovable monkey spirit has charmed millions of Chinese. now, Zhang Jizhong, a famous director in China, has invited the public to offer suggestions on how his remake of the folk tale. Some actors and actress who starred in his previous projects would be asked to play supporting roles. Zhang Jizhong also makes efforts on album and screen effect.

Oral Blog Entry Six - Picture Comparison 2

The two pictures both come from the primary school, the students are divided into some small groups and learn by themselves.

However, the first picture shows that children are drawing pictures without computers and they are sitting on the ground. The second picture shows that students having the computer class and they studying with computers on the desk.

I think technology helps learning, because it can make some abstract knowledge in the book more vivid, especialy for young children because they like some coulourful, they can learn easily and hard to forget, it is effective.

Week Nine Text Blog Entry - About Cornwallis Beach Dip Trip

Last Tuesday, i went to Cornwallis Beach with my EAP classmates and Ron. I really enjoyed this trip,i think we are lucky, because the day before it had rained, but it was a nice day to have a trip.

That morning,Yan picked up Jean and me, then we went to a Cafe in Titirangi Village where we were supposed to meet. We arrived earlier so that we could look around, it is a peaceful place with many trees and fresh air. After morning tea, we went to the next place - Huia Point, Yan got lost on the way there, we helped her to check the map and after a long time we got there - a beautiful place, we can see the whole of sea view. Finally, we went to Cornwallis Beach, we saw a little black sand on the beach and we had a short walk around the beach. We chated with each other and shared a tasty lunch which classmates had brought of salad, dumplings, cakes, chinken, chips and fruit, so much delicious food that i didn't have any of my own. After that, we had half day free,so some of us decided to stay there for a while to enjoy the nature. We also took some pictures:)

Wonderful lunch and a wonderful trip, i like it, it provides a good chance to conmmunicate so that we can get to know each other better, i want to go next time and the more the better.

Summary Of A Book - The Pelican Brief

This book was written by John Grisham in 1992.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in U.S.A, its nine judges are some of the most important people in the country. One day two of them are found dead. It is a professional job,no one can find any answers-no connection between the two, no reason for the deaths.

But, while the FBI and president argue it out between them, a brilliant law student Derby Shaw goes to work. And soon she knows more than anyone, enough to name names-enough to frighten someone badly. Enough to make them want to kill her.

It is hard for a beautiful woman to hide. But she has to stay alive. She has to tell someone what she knows. She finds a guy called Grey who is a FBI agent, eventually they find the evidence conecting the killer and government. Mattiece who wants to own a oil company, so that he gives a lot of money to president and hires a killer to kill two of the court who know the trueth of Plican Brief. Darby and Gray through the risk,and press the stroy out,the president won't get relected,and Mattiece is in deep trouble.

In the end,Darby and Gray fall in love,too.

Text Blog Entry Six-Summary

This article in New Zealand Herald talked about climate experts and environmentalists holding different view points about dealing with global warming. The climate experts propose to fight global warming with nuclear power and genetically modified crops to boost biofuel production. However, environmentalists consider that nuclear reactors, chemiscal pesticides and feritilizers will cause huge environmental damage. The IPCC insists it can steady greenhouse emissions-but only if countries are paid the extra fees from energy supply work to agriculture. Developing nations, in particular India and China, will have to play major roles. However,other groups think the IPCC do not have strong enough evidence to support their point, Bruno Comby, president of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy said nuclear power should provide an even bigger proportion of energy than envisaged by the climate panel.

There are active voice and passive voice in this article. 'countries are prepared to pay the extra cost ' is a present simple passive form,means organizations pay the extra cost to countries. 'nuclear power should provide an even bigger proportion of energy than envisaged by the panel' is a present simple passive form.