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Speakup in Class, Paolo Lutini

I'm blogging again about Paolo Lutini and after you listen to the podcast there is an exercise from Speakup in Class, any question, please get in touch through www.speakup.com.br or e-mail me carlosrn36@gmail.com 

Paolo Nutini, The New Scottish Star

Source: Speak Up

Language level: Basic

Standard accents: British and Scottish

The New Scottish Star

Everything about Paolo Nutini is impossible. His name is Italian, but he’s Scottish. He has the looks of a teenage pop star, but sings like a 1960s soul man. His record company told him to change his name, if he wanted success, but he refused. Last year he released a debut album, These Streets, which was a hit, and he is currently in the middle of a sell-out tour of the United States. The magazine Rolling Stone named him one of its “Ten Artists to Watch.”

FISH AND CHIPS

Paolo, who turned 20 in January, grew up near Glasgow, in the town of Paisley, where his parents own a fish and chip shop. His grandfather, Jackie, introduced Paolo to music and encouraged him to sing; Paolo wrote the song “Autumn” in his memory. Paolo says. “He was a big music lover. He loved boogie woogie piano and adored opera.” Jackie died when Paolo was about 11 years old, but he would have loved the passion and soul of his grandson’s voice.

Last summer the family visited their ancestral home Barga, a small town in the Northern hills of Tuscany, where Paolo gave a free concert. He announced, “I’m playing here in my nonno’s opera house, unbelievable! I’ll try to put on a show for you, if I can stopgreetin’.” (Greetin’ is Scottish slang for “crying.”) Paolo’s songs are autobiographical; his album These Streets is a diary of his last three years. For example, the songs “Last Request” and “Rewind” recount problems with his girlfriend, whereas the title track, “These Street,” recalls his first, homesick days in London.

GOING HOME

“In my head i see a vineyard in Italy. I’ll build a recording studio there. That’s the plan…though I’ll have to return to Scotland now and then, just to keep my sanity.” If his voice doesn’t pay for that vineyard, his looks will: he has signed a contract with prestigious London agency Storm Models.

The Barga Connection (no audio)

High in the Tuscan hills, Barga is a town full of surprises. Visitors, who ask for directions, or perhaps a cup of coffee in a bar, get a big shock when the local people reply in broad Scottish accent. If it’s August in Barga, there is another big surprise: The Fish and Chip Festival.

Fish and Chip in Italy? Well, thousands of families emigrated from the area during the famines of the late nineteenth century. For example, Paolo’s great-grandfather took the Nutini family to Paisley where he opened their fish and chip shop. Over the years, many of the emigrants’ descendants have returned to their home town and brought Scottish traditions with them.

Speak up in Class

PAOLO NUTINI (C2)

TASK 1. Speaking. With your partner(s) discuss these questions.

a)   What kind of music do you like? Why?

b)   What kind of music do you hate? Why?

c)   How often do you buy CDs, or iTunes? Why?

d)   Do you think downloading music for free is morally unacceptable? Why (not)?

e)   Do you know Paolo Nutini? If so, do you like his music? Why (not)?

 LISTENING

TASK 2.  Prediction. You are going to listen to an interview with Paolo Nutini. Before you listen, discuss these questions with your partner, and make some notes. If you don’t know/aren’t sure, guess!

a) How old is Paolo Nutini, under or over 30?

b) Where is he from, and what is his connection (if any) with Italy?

c) Since when has he been interested in music?

d) Did his career start on television, on the radio or at a live concert?

e) What is Paolo’s ambition for the future?

TASK 3. Listening for Overall Comprehension. Listen to all of the recording and answer the question from TASK 2. You do not need to write long sentences, as the answers are short.

TASK 4. Prediction #2. Before you listen to all of recording again, work with your partner and decide if these statements are TRUE or FALSE. If you don’t know, guess.

a) Paolo’s first album came out in 2007.

b) His family own a pizzeria in Glasgow. 

c) His grandfather loved music and beautiful women.

d) If David Sneddon hadn’t been late for the civic reception, Paolo wouldn’t have been discovered.

e) Paolo was chosen randomly from 300 people to sing.

TASK 5: Listening for Detailed Information: Listen to the whole recording and check your answers from TASK 4. How many were correct?

READING AND VOCABULARY

TASK 6. Reading for New Vocabulary. There are some interesting words and phrases in this recording. Read all of text carefully and find words/expressions to compete these sentences. The words/expressions are order.

a) Prince William was recently in Australia on an official tour representing the British monarchy, taking the place of his grandmother, Queen Elisabeth II. He was the _________   __   _______ at numerous events, including a barbeque lunch in Flowerdale.

c) I always thought that Benetton was a big company ________  by a board of managers and directors until I found a website which listed the biggest family ________ companies in the world, and Benetton was one of them!  (same word used twice)

d) One of my friends seems to think that  Paolo Nutini was born and raised in Italy,

 but  ______   _________   __________ , he was born in Scotland and is of Italian descent. I could be wrong, though.

e) My husband and I normally like to plan our free time and tend to book things like concerts, restaurants and hotels well in advance. This year, though, we were sitting at home watching television when we heard that there was a free concert which had just started in Jardim Botânico starting half. We decided to go  _____  _______  ________   ____  ____  _________. I’m glad we did because it was great.

f) “How is your new project going?” “Well, to tell you the truth, we haven’t really started yet. We’ve got the deigns, we’ve got the financing, and we really want to ____  ___  ____   ______ but we’re being held back by bureaucracy: we’re still waiting for that last piece of paper!

WEBQUEST

 TASK 7. Writing. Visit this website and write a brief biography of someone famous. You could devise a quiz and and test your classmates!

ALASKA’S DENALI NATIONAL PARK

ALASKA’S DENALI NATIONAL PARKALASKA’S DENALI NATIONAL PARK

Source: www.speakup.com.br

Language level: Pre-intermediate

Speaker: Chuck Rolando

Standard accent: American

Would you like to escape the modern world? Alaska’s Denali National Park offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience nature in true solitude. They can see the spectacular mountains of the Alaska Range, dramatic glaciers and wildlife. The park is 240 miles (390 kilometres) north of Anchorage and 140 miles (230 kilometres) south of Fairbanks: the two nearest international airports.

SPRING IS HERE

In April the park is waking up from its long winter Grizzly bears emerge after months of hibernation. Wolves hunt in packs across the snow. Dall sheep eat grass on the mountain side. Migratory birds, including eagles and swans, are returning. Snow ploughs clear the park’s only road, the Denali Park Road. This runs 90 miles (148 kms) into the park. Private vehicles can, however, only reach Savage River, 15 miles (24 kilometres) from the entrance. After this point, the road becomes a dirt track and visitors must travel in the park’s special buses.

IN THE AIR

The buses take visitors deep into the park. Day excursions visit Polychrome Pass with is multi-colored cliffs. Wonder Lake at the foot of Mount McKinley. America’s highest mountain, and the old mining town Kantishna. Mount McKinley is often impossible to see because of clouds.

Perhaps the best way to see the Denali Park is from the air. Flight companies like K2 Aviation, take visitors above the clouds to see stunning views across the glaciers and mountain tops. It is also possible to land on the glaciers with ski planes.

DANGER!

The park offers cycling, hiking, camping, mountaineering and white-water rafting. Visitors are also free to explore the park alone. But Denali National Park is vast and the dangers are real. There are hungry bears, moose and wolves. The streams and lakes are freezing, and the temperature can change suddenly. Snow is common throughout the year. Finally, are you afraid of heights? The Denali Park Road goes high into the mountains, where the track becomes very narrow. Passengers suddenly see down into valleys over a thousand metros bellow!

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PARK no audio

The region was the home of Native Americans called the Athpaskan (or Athabaskan) for about 12.000 years. Denall means “the high one” in the native Athapaskan language, and it was their name for Mount McKinley. Modern settlers first came to the region at beginning of the 20^th century. Gold was discovered raced to claim the land. It is still possible to panhandle for gold in the park’s streams and lakes. Naturalist Charles Alexander Sheldon studied Denali’s Dall sheep. The existence of these sheep became difficult as more and more people come to the region. So Sheldon petitioned government to create a preserve for the sheep. The Mount McKinley National Park was formed on February 25, 1917. This park was extended and renamed the Denali National Park and Preserve in 1980.

Interiorizing the tourism

                                  Petroglyph Fundoes known as Engravings in low relief

                                  Aerial view of Monte do Galo          

PRODETUR

Source: Turismo do Novo Jornal Rio Grande do Norte

Costa Branca pole is also to be granted investments of R$ 19,8 million from Prodetur, in actions that go from implementation of Ecotourism plans in Guamaré and Galinhos to elaboration of researches of technical viability for touristic routes in those town. It is also included the elaboration of a marketing plan and strengthening of municipal tourism management.

In the Region of Seridó, investments of around 3, 3 million are estimated. Hey involve archaeological tourism planning, diagnosis of offer and demand for professional qualification, marketing planning, elaboration of a project of system of service station and the system of touristic information and the implementation of a basic project and execution of infrastructure for archeological sites, plus the center of touristic interpretation in Cerro-Corá and a museum in Carnaúba dos Dantas.

Costa das Dunas pole will be granted the largest amount of investment from PRODETUR Nacional: it’s R$ 91.3 million. In general, the actions to be performed include concept scaping requalification of the beaches in Redinha Nova, Santa Rita, Muriú, Pitangui, Pipa and Tibaú do Sul; implementation of a pedestrian walkway  in Pipa; touristic terminal in Ilha do Flamengo (in Arez town); creation of a city plan for water tourism; implementation of Ramapa museum and Memorial do Aviador in Natal; construction and restoration of beach access to beaches like Touros and Genipabu, amongst others.

James Stewart, 1908-1997: He Starred in Some of the Best-loved American Movies

Source: www.voanews.com

I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Rich Kleinfeldt with the VOA Special English program,PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell the story of actor James Stewart. His movies were loved by people around the world.

(MUSIC)

James Maitland Stewart was born in the small eastern town of Indiana, Pennsylvania in nineteen-oh-eight. His father had a hardware store that had been owned by the Stewart family since the eighteen fifties.

During high school, Jimmy played football, and acted in plays. He also learned to play the accordion. He took the accordion with him to college at Princeton University, where he joined a musical group called the Triangle Club. Through the club, he met students interested in performing.

Jimmy studied architecture at Princeton. He graduated in nineteen thirty-two. Just before graduation, a friend asked him to join an acting group for the summer. Jimmy agreed because he thought it would be a good way to meet girls.

Jimmy Stewart said later that if his friend had not asked him to join the summer theater group, he would never have been an actor. He would have returned home to help his father in the store. Instead, he met a number of good young actors while performing that summer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. One was Henry Fonda, who would be a friend throughout his life.

Jimmy Stewart performed in Broadway plays in New York City until the Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie company gave him an acting job. He moved to California in nineteen thirty-five. He acted in more than twenty-four movies over the next six years. He appeared in all kinds of movies: funny ones, sad ones and musical ones. He even sang a song in the movie "Born to Dance. " It is called "Easy to Love":

(MUSIC)

The movie that made Jimmy Stewart a real Hollywood star was "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. " It was released in nineteen thirty-nine.

JIMMY STEWART:

"It's a funny thing about men, you know. They all start life being boys. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of these Senators were boys once. And that's why it seemed like a pretty good idea to me to get boys out of crowded cities and stuffy basements for a couple of months out of the year and build their bodies and minds for a man-sized job, because those boys are gonna be behind these desks some of these days."

The next year, he won an Academy Award for best actor in "The Philadelphia Story. "

The night he won the Academy Award, his father called him on the telephone from Pennsylvania. "I hear you won some kind of an award," Alex Stewart said. "You had better bring it back here and we'll put it in the window of the store. " Jimmy Stewart's Oscar statue stayed in the window of Stewart's hardware store in Indiana, Pennsylvania for twenty-five years.

Jimmy Stewart was already an established and successful actor when World War Two started in Europe. Early in nineteen forty-one, he tried to join the Army. But he was rejected because he did not weigh enough. So he started eating high fat foods and tried again. This time, he was accepted for military service.

The Army put him in the Air Corps because he already knew how to pilot a plane. In nineteen forty-three, he went to Europe as commander of an Air Force bomber group. He flew more than twenty combat missions, leading as many as one thousand planes at a time over Germany. He returned to the United States in nineteen forty-five as a colonel.

Jimmy Stewart won several military awards for excellent performance under very dangerous conditions. He remained in the Air Force Reserve after the war. In nineteen fifty-nine he was made a general. Each year, he took part in two weeks of active military duty. In nineteen sixty-six, he requested combat duty and took part in a bombing strike over Vietnam.

(MUSIC)

After World War Two, Jimmy Stewart returned to Hollywood. He found that his new movies were not as popular as his earlier ones had been. One example was "It's a Wonderful Life." It was released in nineteen forty-six. The movie was not a success at first. But over time it has become one of the best loved American movies.

JIMMY STEWART:

"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's pickin' up some bargain. Now, we can get through this thing     all right. We've, we've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other."

Jimmy Stewart said in later years that "It's a Wonderful Life" was the movie he liked best. It tells the story of a small town man who feels the world would have been better if he had never lived. An angel comes to him and shows him that this is not true. The movie celebrated values like loyalty and love of family.

(MUSIC)

Jimmy Stewart decided to play other kinds of parts after what seemed to be the failure of "It's a Wonderful Life. " He was a reporter in "Call Northside Seven Seven Seven" the next year. He was a suspicious head of a school in the murder movie "Rope" in nineteen forty-eight. In the nineteen fifties, he appeared in many western movies such as "Winchester Seventy-Three" and "Broken Arrow. "

Jimmy Stewart enjoyed his greatest popularity in the nineteen fifties. In nineteen fifty-nine, he won awards from the Venice Film Festival, the New York film critics and the Film Daily writers. The awards honored him for his performance in the movie "Anatomy of a Murder. " He was the defense attorney for an army officer accused of murder. He was nominated for an Academy Award for that movie. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for playing a man who has an imaginary rabbit friend, in the movie "Harvey. "

Jimmy Stewart is well known for his work with the famous director of mystery movies, Alfred Hitchcock. These movies included "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window" and "Vertigo. " Mr. Stewart also played real heroes in several movies. He was band leader Glenn Miller in "The Glenn Miller Story. " And he was pilot Charles Lindbergh in "The Spirit of Saint Louis. "

Jimmy Stewart appeared in fewer films in the nineteen sixties. He was a senator in the Old West in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."  In "The Shootist" he was a doctor in a small town. He also appeared on television. But his two television shows were not successful.

Mr. Stewart began experiencing health problems as he aged. He had heart disease, skin cancer and hearing loss. But he found time to travel. And he published a book of poetry in nineteen eighty-nine. It sold more than three hundred thousand copies.

In nineteen eighty, Jimmy Stewart was honored by the American Film Institute with an award for his lifetime work. Three years later, he received a Kennedy Center Honor for his work. And in nineteen eighty-five, President Ronald Reagan gave him the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

People who knew Jimmy Stewart did not praise him just because he was a good actor and a war hero. They said Jimmy Stewart was one of the nicest people they had ever met. He was a man who lived by the values he was taught as a child in that small town in Pennsylvania.

He went back to Indiana, Pennsylvania, in nineteen eighty-three, for his seventieth birthday. The town held a huge celebration in his honor. President Reagan sent planes to fly over the court house. Parades were held. And a statue of him was placed in the town center.

Jimmy Stewart married Gloria Hatrick McLean in nineteen forty-nine. She had two sons from an earlier marriage. Jimmy raised them as his own. One of the boys was killed during the Vietnam War while serving in the Marine Corps. Jimmy and Gloria also had twin daughters.

Gloria Stewart died in nineteen ninety-four. Friends said Jimmy Stewart was never the same after that. They said he withdrew into his house because he did not know what to do without her. His health got worse. He died on July the second, nineteen ninety-seven.

Jimmy Stewart's daughter Kelly Harcourt spoke at his funeral in Beverly Hills. She reminded mourners of the message of her father's favorite movie, "It's a Wonderful Life:" No man is poor who has friends.

"Here's to our father," she said, "the richest man in town."

(MUSIC)

This Special English program was written by Nancy Steinbach and produced by Lawan Davis. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. And I'm Shirley Griffith. Join us again next week at this time for another PEOPLE IN AMERICA program on VOA.

9/10 Children of Israel, Palestine

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Support strongly for this cause, if you support for Freedom let me know, remember Zionists and racists comments I don't accept here, they are moderated. By the way, Zionism is not a religion but an anti-Semitic group who spread angry against Palestinian people and Muslims.