Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Family

***We went over many topics and definitions this week and the main words were:

--> Family: Any group of two or more personswho are bound together over time by ties of  blood or mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption.

--> Adoptive Family: A family in which the parents are legal rather than biological parents of the children, but who bring the children up as though they were  their biological parents.

--> Blended Family: Families with parents who divoreced their spose and remarried, forming a family thst includes children from one or both previose marriages.

--> Common Law:Denoting a relationship between cohabiting partners; recognized as the marriage but not brought about by a civil church ceremony.

--> Extended Families: Families that consists of parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and other blood relations, living together or not.

--> Family Form: The number of adults, the nature of the relationship between the adults, and the number of generations.

--> Foster Family: A family that takes temporary care of children until they can return to their  biological family.

--> Stepparents: The parents of children in blended families; a mother's opr father's later spose.

--> Nuclear Families: A family that consists of two parents and one or more children living together.

--> Spouse: Husband or wife; partner

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

The Devil Wears Prada Summary

The Devil Wears Prada with Anne Hathaway is a movie about working as a personal assistand in fashions. To have a job that "a lillion girls would die for". Andrea a.k.a. Andy  was a jornalist and took a turm in her career and ends up in the hectic world of fashion. Andy applied for a job at "Runway," which was America's most famouse fashion journal, even though Andy has little to no interest in the garment trade. They are one of the only magazines in New York with a job opening -- the second assistant to editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). Baisically her personal assistant. Miranda  is a very tough boss and gets Andy to do impossible tasks, for example,  she had to get the Harry Potter Manuscript when it was not published yet. Later, Andy chooses to turn things around and do a good job and she gets a makeover. After she turns things around, she becomes the underdog and Miranda's favourite and Emily was about to get fired. More things happen in the movie but you will have to watch it to know how it ends :)