Futurama reviews for episode 1

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From AC

Futurama Ep1

 Today we watched a cartoon series call Futurama .It is about a pizza delivery boy called Philip J. Fry who is not really happy about his life at the beginning .But something interesting happened and transported him to the future ,and that his new journey begin .Well maybe.After he was awoke . He is happy for get away from his old life but in the other hand ,he need to face his new ‘old’ life .Which is being a delivery boy again .Although he try to avoid it but there a rule that “ You must do what you been told to do “ . Not only Fry doesn’t the rule . Interestingly ,In one of the scene there is a mechanic to end your annoying life faster .After a few thing to him. He started to accept the sorrowful truth that he would never have another job except a delivery man .

 I like the way this cartoon performed .It added a lot of Easter Eggs in to it that relate to real world or the films that have the same topic .But also adding in numerous America’s jokes in it to create a comedy style .

From SH

FUTURAMA EP1:

Futurama is a really interesting series. It is about a guy named Fry who is a pizza delivery boy. The story starts in the year 1999, Fry accidently got himself into a cryogenic machine while delivering a pizza. He woke up after 1000 years and realised that the world has changed so much, robots are everywhere and he even met an alien officer and a bender robot and became friends with them.

There are a lot of jokes about all kinds of things, like old movies and some typical American jokes, for example, they made the door closing and opening sounds exactly like the doors in Star Trek, also when Fry got himself in the cryogenic machine, the time speeds up like the movie Time machine. There are a lot other jokes like that in the series, it make the series much more interesting and fun to watch, because you can also discover some Easter eggs about something you might know.

The conclusion: I had quite a lot of fun when I watched this series for the first time, I found it quite interesting and kind of funny, I would like to watch more if I got the chance. 

Murton Park Museum Of Farming

  Today , we have been to the Mutron Park Museum Of  Farming .Although it is a farm , interestingly today they are holding a steam rally event .In there , we saw different machine like train , car and hay baler ,etc... It is interesting that we can look back to the history of The Industrial Revolution and their production .From small steam engine to gigantic engine car . It had shock me that we can still see this old thing . And I think this is a good event for new generation to understand this .

Observing and Recording

Today, we started off by watching the pilot episode of the cult sci-fi comic strip Futurama. Not only is it really good, it's also full of character and detail that we can study.
After watching the show, we discussed language that the students found difficult. They thought the humour was very American, (it is an American show after all), and it is interesting that they picked up on that. Some of the language - cryogenics for example, was difficult at first.

There was one rude pun that worked particularly well in the context of visiting a laboratory full of frozen people waiting to wake up in the future. It took a bit of explaining why Fry's job of delivering a pizza ordered by "I.C. Wiener" to the corpsicles was a triple-layered joke...

I'm join the blog

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This is my first time doing this kind of thing .Although I don't have any topic to create .I will try hard .

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This blog is part of an exciting new experiment we are undertaking here at Bootham School.

We have noticed that not every EAL student brave enough to try out GCSEs in the UK is automatically ready for A level when the time comes. Simply getting through a full suite of GCSEs in a foreign language (ie English) takes amazing stamina. For students with the energy, but not necessarily the experience to make it to the next stage, we are putting in place the "foundation year". During the year, students will be exposed to a wide variety of experiences, and the focus is going to be very firmly placed on developing the language skills, the reporting skills and the critical thinking skills needed to thrive in UK A levels.

It is an experiment, and we'll probably try out things that don't work so well, alongside the things that we expect to deliver really good results. This is fine; education needs to be about experiment, and everyone involved in delivering this course is really excited about the freedom it offers to be creative. We have set up this blog as a running journal that the students themselves can maintain to chart their progress. It will include short written entries, a few nice 'photos and perhaps even the odd segment of video.