Thursday 30 September 2010

Roald Dahl "Biography"

Roald Dahl was born on 13 September in Llandaff in Wales. In 1929 Roald went to Repton and there he helped to test a new chocolate bars for Cadbury’s. He suffering the deaht dad when he was three.
Roald Dahl left school, so in 1934 he went to work for “Shell” because he wanted to travel around the world, especially places how Africa or China. Finally in 1936 his dream to keep, because the big oil company, Shell, sent him to east Africa, but the problem was how Roald hates the snakes.
In 1939 he joined the Royal Air Force at the start of II World War. In the RAF he became a figter pilot. One dat he was flying Hurricane aeroplanes acroos the Mditerranean Sea. When his pplane crasehd in the Westen Desert, in North Africa, and he received severe injuries to his head, nose and back.
In 1942 he work in the British Embassy but he love write. So, his first adult story was publised, and he first children story was about mischievous creatures callled Gremlins. Last one was publised in the USA, Britain and Australia.
In 1961 publised in the USA “James and the Giant Peach, followed by “Charlie and the chocolate Factory” in 1964. Six years lather James and Charli become two of the most successuful and popular children’s book ever. In 1978 Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake began with the publication of “The enormous Crocodile”.
Roald Dahl died on 23 November in 1990, with seventy-four.

Belén

Thursday 23 September 2010

The magic finger



The magic finger
Is a children’s story by Roald Dahl.

Plot
the story is about the Gregg family that hunts ducks for fun and is narrated by an unnamed eight-year-old girl who lives next door to them. The girl possesses a power to punish people who make her cross called "the magic finger" but she has no control over what it does or when it happens.

Characters
There are only five characters in the story.

Setting
Farm, USA, contemporary. It was published in 1.966

MATILDA BY LUCIANO MEIER AND MARIEL MARISCAL

MATILDA

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda

PLOT:
Matilda Wormwood is a very special girl because she having five years, and have read many books. Her mediocre parents care little about her and encourage her to watch television by refusing to buy books.
Ingenious and resolute, Matilda realizes that he is more intelligent than their parents. While stay outside goes to the public library, so when school she is better than her mates. She meets a nice teacher, Miss Jennifer Honey, and the worst principal, Agatha Trunchbull.
Put the children in a torturing device they call "the asfixiadero" or "trap" or through the air, often without any evidence that they have done something wrong, or simply because they disagree.
Mtilda dicoverd that she had powers telekinetics. This night she decides to use her powers to make miserable life’s Trunchbull. Trunchbull finds it and sucious a student of Honey. When examining the class Trunchbull Miss Honey, Matilda uses her powers to write on the blackboard. Pretending to be the ghost of the father of his teacher. The next day, Miss Trunchbull disappears. It also appears his will, and discovers that Miss Honey is the legitimate heir of the property.
At the end of history, the police catches the Matilda’s father, who had been selling stolen cars, so he decides to runaway with his family to Spain, but Matilda asks them to let her stay with Miss Honey and his parents agreed.

LUCIANO MEIER Y MARIEL MARISCAL

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY(the best presentation) yerzy and santi

Charlie Bucket, a nice boy from a poor family, lives with his parents and his grandparents. They Hear a storie about the candymaker Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory he built in Charlie's hometown. Mr. Wonka had decided to send home his workers and close the factory. Years of silence passed until one day, when the factory mysteriously came back to life but the gates Stay locked, but the factory has resumed operations with workers, nobody know who the were
Mr. Bucket's evening paper saids that Wonka is holding a contest all around the world , in which five Golden Tickets are under the wrap of his candy bars, the prize for whose find them is whole day long tour in the factory. The first four tickets are found by four bad children, the fat Augustus Gloop,after spoiled Veruca Salt,after chewing gum-addicted Violet Beauregarde and television-obsessed Mike Teavee.
Charlie also wan´the ticket, he found a silver coin in the street and bought two two Wonka Bars, the firs bar haven’t got nothing , but when he was opening the second he saw the gold ticket. He runs home to tell his family. Together, the five lucky winners then await the big day.
While each of the other four children are chaperoned by their parents. As the group moves from room to room, the tour turns into a punishment for the bad children as one child after another falls victim to his or her particular vices and is removed
Augustus falls into a chocolate river and is sucked up a pipe to the fudge room.
Violet blows up into a blueberry after consuming experimental chewing gum and has to be taken to the Juicing Room to get the juice out of her.
Veruca attempts to take one of Wonka's nut-cracking squirrels for her own and is thrown down a garbage chute. Afterwards, her father follows her down the garbage chute.
Mike is shrunk after meddling with dangerous television equipment and has to be taken to the Toffee Puller to be stretched back to normal
Charlie is the only child who does not misbehave throughout the factory tour. Seeing that he is the only one left, Wonka announces that he has "won." He receives the entire factory and will take over the company after Wonka retires. The reason Wonka had sent out the Golden Tickets was to find a child to be his heir, as he himself has no family to carry on his work. Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe board a special glass elevator.
They see the four bad children leave the factory with permanent reminders of their misbehaviour as well as their lifetime supply of chocolate

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Trailer) y Santi and Yerzy

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Nadia -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyB4s9eox2o

Charlie And -The Chocolate Factory By Leonardo Borsetta and Nacho Ordoñez

PLOT

It's the story of an ordinary boy: Charlie Bucket. He was no stronger or faster than anyone else, his family was not rich, powerful or well connected but he was the luckiest boy in the entire world, he just didn't know it yet.
15 years ago, Willy Wonka opened the largest chocolate factory in the world but spies stole his recipes so he closed the factory. It didn't close forever though, and suddenly he decided to allow 5 children to visit the factory and one of them will win a special prize at the end. The children have to find one of the five golden tickets hidden beneath the ordinary wrapping paper of five ordinary Wonka bars. So, Augustus Gloop (a German chocoholic), Veruca Salt (a spoilt English brat), Violet Beauregarde (junior bubblegum champion), Mike Teavee (who hates chocolate) and Charlie Bucket (the luckiest boy in the entire world) win tickets and visit the factory.

"Accidents" happen while on the guided tour. The greedy Augustus falls in the chocolate lake and gets accidentally sucked up and taken away to the room where they make the most delicious kind of strawberry flavoured chocolate coated fudge. Violet, ignoring Wonka's advice, tries some of his three course dinner gum and swells up like a blueberry. Veruca tries to grab a squirrel and ends up falling down the garbage chute in the direction of the incinerator (which thankfully is broken so there's about three weeks worth of rotten garbage to break her fall). Mike tries to use Wonka's chocolate teleport machine and ends up shrunk to about 6 inches high.

Charlie wins the prize - it's Willy Wonka's factory (during his semi-annual haircut he found a grey hair and realised he'd have to find an heir). The only catch? Charlie would have to move the factory and never see his family again. He declines Wonka's offer. However, after Wonka is encouraged to make contact with his estranged father, he realises how important family can be, so he invites Charlie's entire family to move into the factory together.


CHARCTERS
Mr. Willy Wonka
Charlie Bucket
Grandpa Joe
Augustus Gloop
Veruca Salt
Violet Beauregarde
Mr. Bucket
Mike Teavee
Grandma Josephine

SETTINGS

Time present:
(PLACE) • An unnamed city; a small wooden house on the edge of a great city; a fabled chocolate factory.



Summary
The Bucket family—the hero of the story, Charlie Bucket; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket; and his four grandparents, Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, and Grandma Georgina—is a loving but poor family. They live in a small house with only one bed, which the four grandparents share. Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor. Mr. Bucket works in a toothpaste factory and barely earns enough money to feed his family. They are forced to subsist on bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Charlie longs for more filling foods, especially chocolate, which he receives only once a year on his birthday. On that day he gets one bar of Wonka chocolate, which he savors for months and months. Charlie’s house sits on the outskirts of a large town that is famous for the Wonka chocolate factory. Charlie must pass by the Wonka chocolate factory every day on his way to and from school. Each day as he walks by the factory’s colossal iron gates, Charlie inhales deeply and prays that someday he will get to venture inside the factory.

Every night after dinner, Charlie goes into his grandparents’ room. Just the sight of Charlie enlivens his grandparents. Grandpa Joe tells stories to amuse Charlie, and the others listen in rapture. One evening Charlie asks his grandparents about the Wonka chocolate factory, and Grandpa Joe tells Charlie the story of Mr. Wonka. He begins by saying Mr. Wonka is the greatest chocolate maker in the whole world and his factory is the biggest in the whole world. Grandpa Joe recounts many of Mr. Wonka’s amazing feats, including his more than two hundred varieties of candy bars, which are eaten by kings and presidents across the world. Grandpa Joe also regales Charlie with tales of impossible Wonka inventions, such as ice cream that stays frozen in the sun, marshmallows that taste like flowers, and chewing gum that never loses its flavor. During the storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket stand in the doorway and share in the listening enjoyment.
TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyB4s9eox2o

james and the big peach by simon dumonnt and cam mcaul

James and the Big Peach:
Setting:
A desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover
The English channel, but quickly drifts away from civilization and into the expanses of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thousands of feet in the air,
The top of the Empire State Building
PLOT:
A magical musical fairy tale concerning a little boy, James Henry Trotter (PAUL TERRY), who finds himself living with his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after the death of his parents. Life with his aunts is hard and he dreams of a better place, specifically New York City, a "dream like" place his parents had talked about. His dream comes true when a stranger appears with a bagful of magic which among others things, changes insects (a Grasshopper, Centipede, Lady Bug, Spider, Earthworm and Glow Worm) into real life characters and causes an ordinary peach to grow to immense proportions. It's upon this peach that James and his new insect friends travel and make their way toward his "dream land."
Charactes:
1. Oldman with the green things, 2. James, 3. Ms. Spider,4. Mr. Grasshopper, 6. Mr. Earthworm, 8. Mr. Centipede,9. Silk Worm.
It is about a boy who live happily with his parents until his parents were eaten up by a rhinoceres escaped from the london zoo.James stayed with his two horried anuts,anut spiker and aunt sponge.They always beat James almost without any reason. One day,a man give James a pack of crocodiles touges.All of a sudden,James drop that pack of crocodiles touges.It buried itself in the mud and grew a peach.The peach grow and grow and its size were as big as James house. James saw a hole at one side of the peach.To his curiousty,James went in the hole.To James surpise,he saw a glow-worm.a centipede,a spider,a silkworm,old-green-grasshopper,a earthworm and a ladybird. Suddenly,the peach drop off from the tree and was roll to a ocean.After that, a shark pass by and it want to eat the peach.James saw a flock of seagulls and tied rope to them in order to fly up in the sky.James met a lot of adventures and James can solve them.
Trailer of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICfORHWj_3w

-Roald Dahl: Charly and the chocolate factory-

PLOT:
The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka.

CHARACTERS:
• Willy Wonka
• Charlie Bucket
• Charlie’s family
• Augustus, Violet, Veruca and Mike



SETTING:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1967. The book was adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Roald Dahl in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series, but never finished it.


A VIDEO:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyB4s9eox2o


SUMMARY:

Charlie Bucket, a nice boy from a poor family, lives with his parents and both sets of elderly grandparents (Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina). From these four, especially Grandpa Joe, he hears stories about the candymaker Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory he built in Charlie's hometown. After rival chocolate makers Arthur Slugworth, Mr. Fickelgruber, and Mr. Prodnose sent in spies (posing as workers) in order to steal his recipes, Mr. Wonka had decided to send home his workers and close the factory. Years of silence passed until one day, when the factory mysteriously came back to life. The gates remain locked however; the factory has resumed operations with workers whose identity is a mystery. Nobody, including Wonka, is seen going in or out of the factory anymore. In which five Golden Tickets are hidden under the wrappers of his candy bars; the prize for those who find them is a day-long tour of the factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by four bad children, the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, chewing gum-addicted Violet Beauregarde, and television-obsessed Mike Teavee.Charlie finds the final ticket. Charlie is the only child who does not misbehave throughout the factory tour. Seeing that he is the only one left, Wonka announces that he has "won." He receives the entire factory and will take over the company after Wonka retires. The reason Wonka had sent out the Golden Tickets was to find a child to be his heir, as he himself has no family to carry on his work. [ By Nadia ]

James and The Giant Peach

Setting
A desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover
The English channel, but quickly drifts away from civilization and into the expanses of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thousands of feet in the air,
The top of the Empire State Building

Manhattan

The New York Subway,

The peach is now a mansion located in Central Park
Plot
James Henry Trotter, four years old, lives with his loving parents in a pretty and bright cottage by the sea in the south of England. James's world is turned upside down when, while on a shopping trip in London, his mother and father are gobbled up by a rampaging rhinoceros that had escaped. James is forced to go and live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who live in a high, desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover. For three years Spiker and Sponge physically and verbally abuse James, not allowing him to venture beyond the hill or play with other children. Around the house James is treated as a drudge, beaten for hardly any reason, improperly fed, and forced to sleep on bare floorboards in the attic…to be continue…read the book lasy!
Characters
• James Henry Trotter The protagonist of the book
• The Old Man - A friendly yet mysterious wizard who is only seen once, yet is ultimately behind all of magical occurrences in the book, and also starts the adventure when he gives James a bag full of glowing green alligator tongues
• Aunt Spiker - A dominating, cruel, malicious, and thoroughly repulsive lady, who derives a sadistic pleasure in manipulating and tormenting young James, who she sees as nothing more than a slave.
• Aunt Sponge - A lazy, greedy, selfish, and morbidly fat woman, and equally as cruel and repulsive as her sister Spiker.
• The Centipede - An anthropomorphic male centipede, depicted as a boisterous rascal with a good heart, he is perhaps James' closest friend among the insects, taking an almost brotherly role to the boy.
• The Earthworm - An anthropomorphic male earthworm who is more or less enemies with the Centipede, with whom he frequently argues.
• The Old Green Grasshopper - An anthropomorphic male grasshopper
• The Ladybug - A good-natured, motherly anthropomorphic female ladybird who takes care of James as if he were her son
• Miss Spider - An anthropomorphic female spider
• The Glowworm - A six-legged, anthropomorphic female
• The Silkworm - An anthropomorphic silkworm who is a shy, introverted creature that sleeps most of the time, but can easily be woken up in order to weave beautiful,

The Witcheshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0Li3BPTgQ

Fantastic Mr Fox


Plot

Mr. Fox is dedicated to the theft and looting of all farm that his path. At the time your partner becomes pregnant and is bound by promises not to commit crimes against human property. Over time, the son of Mr. Fox is growing, but it seems a good candidate to inherit their abilities to commit crimes. Also, Mr. Fox is not happy with the wealthy and pathetic life living with his family, which leads him to seek a strategy to resume their adventures in foreign farms. Everything is worse for the son of Mr. Fox when he has to endure a visit from his cousin perfect, everything is worse for Mr. Fox when farmers fight back to pillage in their own home, everything is worse for Mrs. Fox when he account that Mr. Fox has not fulfilled its promise.

Characters

• Mr. Fox
• Mrs. Felicity
• Ash Fox
• Kristofferson Silverfox
• Kylie Sven Opossum
• Clive Badger
• Rat
• Coach Skip
• Franklin Bean
• Walter Boggis
• Nathan Bunce
• Mrs. Bean
• Petey

Summary of the story
A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers, who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation of the popular Roald_Dahl children's book. For 12 years, Mr. and Mrs. Fox have lived a peaceful life in the wilderness with their son, Ash. Shortly after their young nephew Kristofferson arrives for a visit, Mr. Fox's long-suppressed animal instincts begin to take over and the faithful family man resorts back to his old ways as a cunning chicken thief, endangering not only his family but the entire animal community as well. When evil farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean force the animals underground in a desperate attempt to capture the audacious Mr. Fox, dwindling food supplies force the frightened animals to band together in one last attempt to fight for the land that is rightfully theirs.

"The witches" by Belen and Javier


The witches, is a book about the demons in human form, these witches with the objective of destroying the kids. This organization counts with people around the world, special in Norway.
In the story there is an orphan boy and this child was informed by his grandmother about how to recognize the witches. She tells to him five stories was a victim, and they are: Carlos received one apple from a witch and he was trapped in a recipient of paint till the end of his life; Harald was a healthy boy who was woken up one morning of the end of the day; Birgit was converted in a chicken and he lived all of his life as a pet; Leif converted a marsopa when he was swimming with his family; Ranghild was taken far away and never came back.
The main character is a boy who is seven years old and he was converted into a mouse. The grandmother was very old and wrinkled and she was anti-witches. The parents of the boy lived in England and they died in an accident. The big witch was a bad woman who used a mask and she was the witche’s boss who finished transformed for eat formula 86.
Trailer:

Roald Dahl by Gonza and Clari .

Charlie and the chocolate factory


PLOT>
The story is about a boy, Charlie, was a good boy. He lived with his parents and grandparents. His house was near to a chocolate factory, his owner was Willy Wonka.
Wonka started a contest for children who follow the yellow ticket in a chocolate wonka travel to meet his factory.
In his birthday he receives a chocolate but doesn’t give a yellow ticket. Then he was walking and follow 5$, with that he bought a chocolate and he found a yellow ticket.
He came to the factory with 4 children’s too, but he was the only one who finishes the journey. So Willy Wonka decided to give his chocolate factory to Charlie.

CHARACTERS>
Willy wonka.
Charlie, and his grandfather.
The fat guy, August and his fat mother.
The sporty girl, and her sporty mother.
The rich girl and her father.
The technology boy and his father.
Charlie’s Parents
Charlie’s grandparents.
The lumpalumpa.

SETTING>
The story transcured in the factory of Willy Wonka.
Was written in 1964.

VIDEO>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyB4s9eox2o