The cutest film ever...

FIND NEMO is the loveliest film I have ever seen and I have watched most often. It is about a little clownfish which has lost his mother and has an arguement with his father on the first school day. So he decides to swim into the wide ocean and gets caught by a diver who puts him into an aquarium in a dental practice (is this the word for "Zahnarztpraxis"?) Marlin, his father, desperately swims after the diver´s boat into the open ocean but he quickly falls behind. Afraid that he is about to lose his son forever, Marlin asks for help from a number of fish before finally finding one who knows where the boat went. It is Dory, a palette surgeonfish who is suffering from short-term memory loss. Together they swim across the ocean and have to overcome many difficulties....

I have to admit that I really love this film because it is cute and very funny at the same time. So if you have not seen it until today you have to make it up as soon as possible!!!!!

CNN

Yesterday I watched the CNN news in the evening where one news item was about the gender gap which consits all over the world.

The gender gap is usually expressed as the ratio of female to male earnings among full-time, year-round workers. The pay differentials between men and women in employment have been noted since the 1960s.

The reason for this gap is disputed. Some economists have argued that the tendency of women to get together in women's fobs has led to 'occupational crowding', in which the high supply of applicants for 'women's jobs' drives wages for those jobs downwards.

In 2004, women's wages in the USA were 76.5% of men's wages.

Here is a statistic, taken out of the wikipedia website, which shows the differences of earnings between men and women among all races.

cyberopps

I poked around Mr. Newman´s cyberopp sites and there I have found a very nice site for listening comprehensions. There you can read and listen the text together or do it back-to-back. Then you have a quiz and some difficult words are explained. There is particularly gossip of the young Americans.

The today´s English lesson was about 'Thank You Notes'. In my opinion it is a very useful and funny site.

Just have a look.

http://www.englishbaby.com/

Happy Easter!

The ring

Julia told me she came across an extremely funny site on the internet which is about cute bunny-movies. There are different short films of thirty seconds which are a good summary of the 'normal' movies. Today I visited this site and I watched The Ring and Titanic. Normally I hate watching films like 'The Ring' but this interpretation of the film is really funny.

Here´s the address of this site:
www.angryalien.com

If you want to have some fun during your learning vacation :-) have a look.