Review-- Happy Feet

Happy Feet is a comedy-drama film and is directed by George Miller. Maybe some people think this is a cartoon. Leading actor is a small penguin, whose name is Bobo. He is very different from other penguins, because he isn't good at singing, but he is good at dancing. All penguins are congenital singers, so he is expulsed by the family of penguins. He is a stray penguin, but he makes some friends and has a long journey. Bobo saw human want to destroy their existent environment, so he wants to check them. At the last, he succeeds.

I like this movie, because the songs and dancing are very nice. Penguins are very cute. Furthermore, this movie teaches us that we should protect the environment for animals.

Summary of Book--David Copperfied

This book which was written by Charles Dickens is called David Copperfield.

This book tells the story of the life of David Copperfield. He was born in Suffolk. His father died six months before he was born. When he was about eight, my mother married Mr Murdstone. He doesn't like his stepfather and stepfather's sister. They teach him. If he can not answer questions, his stepfather will hit him. He was sent away to boarding school, so he knew some friends. However, his mother died after several months later. His stepfather sent him to work in London. His life is very bad, so he ran away and went to look for his aunt, who is Bestsey Trotwood. He didn't go back to his home with stepfather. His aunt sent him to school for studying. His aunt suggested that he spent one month in London before what profession he decided to choose. When he lived in London, he met his old friend, who is Steerforth. When David came back, he chooses the occupation of lawyer. He met Dora and fell in love with her. However, his aunt was bankruptcy. Then Mr Copperfield married Dora and became a gazetteer. Dora was ill badly, when David became a famous writer. After period of time, Dora died. He was very sad, so he had a long journey. Finally, he got married with Agnes, because she kept touch with him, when he was travelling all round cities.

Week Ten - Oral Blog Portfolio Post Entry Seven Diploma Lecture 2

There was a lecture, which was called New ZILD English on week seven. The speaker was Philippa Fox.

Firstly, she talked about varieties of English, such as British English, Korean English, Indian English, African English and so on. There are two types of English, which are standards British English and American English. New Zealand English is close to standard English. In addition, she talked about mixing vowels and also about how new accents are created. This happens when people move and mix in New Zealand. There are many influences, including normal change, pioneering spirit, national identity, media characters, Maori and class. Then, she talked about the differences in the Kiwi accent, such as vowels, diphthongs, disappearing differences, extra syllable, "L" and high rising intonation. There are differences in vowels, for example, the number one is that English speakers say fish and chips, but kiwis say fush and chups. When kiwis say pen, I hear pin. When they say six, I hear sex.

Finally, she told us some references. The first one is Video "Newzild", which is the story of New Zealand English. You can find it in the Language Learning Centre in the library. The second one is web articles. There are two articles and I have a link for them.

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

There are 12 animals, which is used to symbolize every year who is born in China. This year is “golden pig”year, which comes around once every 60 years. There have a link to a article about it.


This year is the second year to sold firecrackers in Beijing. There were more than 380,000 boxes of firecrackers sold, which was much more than last year. Astrologers said people born during the Year of the Pig are lucky. As a result, many people get married during this year and have a baby. People used the mobile phone to sent text messages wishing each other a fortunate New Year. People went to the temples to burn incense and pray a fortunate New Year. In addition, people went to traditional temple fairs to celebrate New Year. In temple fairs, you can bought caramel sweets blown with a pig shapes. Many people went to their hometown to celebrate New Year. People who live in the western country had been celebrating for days. China's most powerful leaders went to the countryside to visit some of the hundreds of millions of farmers. During the festival, nobody will cut their hair. Because it might not have good lucky.

Oral Blog Entry Six- Picture Comparison

There are two pictures. Both of them show different types of classrooms in primary school. The first one shows students are using computers with their studying. They learn for each group. The second picure shows students are studying without computer. They study are studying together.

I think the first one is more efftive than another, because they can learn a lot of knowledge from computer. They can find more information from computer.

However, if they don't use pens, they will forget how to write. In addition, they will lose their culture, because words is a culture for a country. There are many bad knowledge on the internet, so it is not good for children.

Week Nine Text Blog Entry-- Diploma Trip

I really enjoyed this trip. We had thought it would rain before we went on this trip. However, we were very lucky, because the weather would be sunshiny. We went to Huia Point and Cornwallis Beach.

Firstly, Yan took Vivian and me to a cafe, which we should meet in Titirangi village. I think this village is very beautiful. We had a morning tea and had waited other people for several minutes before we went to Huia Point. Yan still took us to go there, but we missed other cars. We didn't know which road should we drove, but Sally came back and took us to go there. When we arrived there, we saw a beautiful sea. We saw two mountains in the sea. The grass have two colour. We discuss this why these have phenomenon. We took a photo from there, then we went to Cornwallis Beach. I saw a nice sea and we walked on the beach. I saw black sand, which is the first time I have seen it. I asked Ron why. He told me it is not a pollution. We had a short walk and we went back to share lunch. There were many kinds of food, such as cakes, salad, chips and chicken. All of these were very delicious. Finally, when we finished eating, we had a free time in the afternoon.

It was a wonderful trip, which I really like it. I think we can know each other more after we chat about everything. I hope have a next time to do a trip look like this one.

Week Eight Text Blog Entry-Move to stem truant growth

This article talked about truant growth. Rate of truancy numbers has growth 41 percent in New Zealand since 2002. It had 30,000 children a day to skip to classes last year. Christchurch principal said school should need more resource. Rob Burrough who is the principal of Linwood College said if school and truancy officers use the inadequate resource, it will have the opposite result. Christchurch's truancy officers and District Truancy Services are two community organization to tackle this problem. It will deal with truancy to look at ways on other countries. New Zealand school will share ideas with each other. Katherine Rich who is National Party education spokeswoman said truancy should become a national priority.

There are active voice and passive voice. "District Truancy Services are contracted by the ministry to support schools with non-attending students." is a present simple passive form, means the ministry contracted District Truancy Services to support schools with non-attending students. "Papanui High School principal Denis Pyatt said truancy services were stretched," is a past simple passive form, means the government should stretch the truancy services. "but a date has not yet been set for the scheme to be extended across the country." is a present prefect simple passive form and a passive infinitive form. "These hard-working people on the front line need to be given greater support." is a passive infinitive.