¿A quién admiras?

[Jessica]

This is the Feb. journal.

Who do you admire?

I believe it has to be what actor/actress you admire.

Help, I know some actors and actresses, but I don't know them very well.

What should I do? research them?

[Rusty]

Yes, do some research. You need to form your own opinions so that you can state who you admire and why. Maybe you won't have to select a celebrity.

[bmarquis124]

i'm sorry, i can't really help you. actors and actresses aren't at the top of my list. are you sure it can't be someone else?

[CrOtALiTo]

I admire to Nicole Kidman, and Charlize Theron.

[Jessica]

okay I will research but I have to use, as usual, words I already learned.

[sosia]

Actors and actresses usually are not very "admirable"
but there are exceptions.
For example a "young"actress Natalie Portman. She's 27, and has made a lot of things. You can agree or not with her, but she's hardworking and clever. or Keyra Knightley
A young singer ShakiraShakira

Then compare both with people like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears
Saludos

[laepelba]

If I were using that question as a prompt in my classroom, I wouldn't assume to mean "actor or actress". Jessica - are you sure that your teacher wants an entertainer? Are there people who you know personally who you admire? If you're not sure about the intent of the question, why don't you try writing about someone ELSE who you admire. Like a world leader or a human rights activist or a grandparent or something....

[Jessica]

I will ask but we're learning about TV shows and movies. wouldn't it be actors and actresses?
Hopefully it can be someone else.
I will ask.

[laepelba]

Another thing to keep in mind, Jessica - when you're writing for an assignment like this, you don't have to write about someone you REALLY admire ... you have to write well about someone AS IF you admired them. If you don't care to be truly introspective here - just choose someone who isn't appalling (maybe someone who does charity work in their free time?) and write something about them that SUPPORTS the idea of admiration. You know the words ... just write them.

"I admire George Clooney because he truly helped the world understand how horrible the Darfur situation is....." I don't really admire George Clooney any more than anyone else. But he HAS done this thing that is (admittedly) admirable. So I could write about it AS IF I admired him.

Make sense? (School is sometimes a game to give back to the teacher what they are looking for - not necessarily what you think or believe in your heart.....)

[Jessica]

yeah I know I understand.

[CrOtALiTo]

I admire to Nicole Kidman, because she is very beautiful and, she has a kind of talent in his actuation, when I watch her movies, I see in she a specie of person very noble and very intelligent, she must has a couple of gramme to magic in his voice, she's excellent in the last movie named Australia, also I see a movie where she actuated with a bit children, the movie was named The others, I remember that movie, it was wonderful and marvelous, well, also I admire to other actor named Tom hanks, he is a person very smart in his movies, I liked so much the movie the Shipwrecked made by Tom hands, I don't know as the director of the movie could to do tremendous movie, because that movie was my unit movie that I liked and marked my live, still I remember, I saw the movie around of year 1996, I had only eight years old, well until today, I see the movie for times, and it does not bored me, I believe that there are movies that mark your live, because I think, I don't the opinion of the other people, but the movies mark your live and sometimes, you identify with them, I know that they are only but display in the great TV or cinema, but as I love the movies and my hobby is to watch movies at home, well, they never bored me to see them.

[Jessica]

what movie does Nicole play in?

[Rusty]

He mentioned The Others. She has been in many movies. Google her name. Here's one of the sites that lists her accomplishments.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes. I mentioned the movie of the actress Nicole Kidman, she did the movie named the others it's was made around of the years 2001 or 2002, I don't remember very well the date. Just I wanted mentioning her, because I love her actuations in many movies from Hollywood.

[Jessica]

I need more advice. when I pick an actor/actress I like, what should I write about him/her, without using words that I have not learned?
should I:

• Write what movie he/she's in
• compare to other actors/actresses

What else?

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

· Compare different characters he/she has played...

[laepelba]

I think you should also write about what you know about their personal lives. You can check their fan sites, Wikipedia, www.imdb.com and other sites for some more information. Look for things that they're involved in outside of their acting world. Look for critical accolades about their acting (positive and negative). Look for their hobbies, about their families, all sorts of different things that go into the whole person.

Have you settled on Nicole Kidman ... or someone else?

[Jessica]

ok :-) thanks for the advice. I hope to get a 10/10. Hopefully I won't use any words that I haven't learned. :-P

Orlando Bloom. I want to do him. I actually admire him :-D

[literacola]

Originally Posted by jchen

ok :-) thanks for the advice. I hope to get a 10/10. Hopefully I won't use any words that I haven't learned. :-P

Orlando Bloom. I want to do him. I actually admire him :-D

I wonder why you always state this. Has your teacher said something to you before about using words you have not learned in class?

I think it would be ridiculous if a teacher were to punish students for using advanced vocabulary. If you have learned a word, you have learned a word. It shouldn't matter if you learned something here on Tomísimo or in your class, the whole point of learning a language is so that you can communicate properly!

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by literacola

I wonder why you always state this. Has your teacher said something to you before about using words you have not learned in class?

I think it would be ridiculous if a teacher were to punish students for using advanced vocabulary. If you have learned a word, you have learned a word. It shouldn't matter if you learned something here on Tomísimo or in your class, the whole point of learning a language is so that you can communicate properly!

I agree. I have been wondering about this myself....