TEH_10. GOING NATIVE talk with Tony Corvillo -part 2

TEH_10.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  ( part II )

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244311216.html               (17/09/2017)   Correspondent: Judit Ruiz

For our second part, listen up from the minute 10, taking NOTES on questions 10-18:

Q10_ In which sense his two acting moments at El cor de la ciutat were not alike?

Q11_ How does he remember the audience reaction to his acting on the screen?

Q13_ What does he mention about a father director and his son?

Q14_ What does he prefer? to be in theatre, films or television?

Q15_ What experience does he share from the El Principe series (on TV1)?

Q16_ Where do actors have more time to prepare their characters, in television or in movies? 

Q17_ What about your new project?

Q18_ Who started with the idea of such a product?

Q19_ Why an idea of a project could be so difficult to become a reality?

you may find the  previous part  of the interview Q1-9 at earliest entry.

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TEH_10b.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  (part II)  ... KEY 

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244311216.html      (17/09/2017)   Correspondent: Judit Ruiz

 Q10_  In which sense his two acting moments at El cor de la ciutat were not alike?
 The director wanting him to act sporadiccaly in his first chance, but he made him a regular the year later.  

Q11_  How does he remember the audience reaction to his acting on the screen? The people on the street father did shout at his son at the sequence. They remember him as a character with his bad moods outside the series! he reminisces a moment at the queue of a barça event someone there warning his girlfriend: "You have to leave that man". 

 Q12_  What does he mention about a father director and his son? The father did shout at his son at the sequence and was criticised for being a bad father, but it was his professionality as any director would have done to get the best acting in that situation. (13:35 --->)  

Q13_  What does he prefer?  to be in theatre, films or television?He does prefer theatre, the coolest media, with no take 2, audience reaction... but it doesn’t make a living.  His last two theatre pieces the pay was low standard, so he quit. Also television or movies, being good to adapt to every media (14:15 --->)  

Q14_  What experience does he share from the El Principe series (on TV1)?Great to be such an asshole. Acting as a bad character he got great fun and discussed with director his part.  He remembers one bit with the bus driver who was very realistic. He, the man, hated his character in the series... so he was pleased to have created a good performance. Shot guns, being a kid again.  (15:12 --->)  

Q15_  Where do actors have more time to prepare their characters, in television or in movies?In a movie you have more time than on television. For example in soap operas you don’t have time to prepare your character. You run the lines. It´s great 'cos you learn to be fast. (17:12 --->)  

Q16_  What about your new project?It´s about a road trip that gives information of locations and towns in Catalonia. His cousin is also in... and at the same time it´s entertaining.  HE interviews the bell ringer in the first epidode about Les Borges Blanques (18:28 --->)  

Q17_   Who started with the idea of such a product?It´s the child-product of Victor, his Lleida friend, they have cooperated in many projects, always brainstorming for something new. Toni co-scripted the first pilot programme.rustrate because all the decisions are related to money. If you want to do something you need money to pay cameras and for a lot of other things. (20:58 --->)  

Q18_   Why an idea of a project could be so difficult to become a reality?It´s frustrate because all the decisions are related to money. If you want to do something you need money to pay cameras and for a lot of other things. (22:44 --->)

TEH_10. GOING NATIVE talk with Tony Corvillo (part I)

TEH_10.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  (part I)

TODAY at our listening test with The English Hour, Neil Stokes interviews actor Toni Corvillo   (until minute 10:00)

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244311216.html

(17/09/2017)   Correspondent: Judit Ruiz

For our first part, listen up to the minute 10, taking NOTES on these 9 questions:

       Q1_ When did he graduate? what put him in the track of acting studies?

Q2_  How What was his first learning course? which specialty/skills? successful?  

Q3_  How indirect was his approach at acting?  

Q4_  What does he tell us about his acting experience in the states?  

Q5_  In what sense did English language affected his schooling life?  

Q6_  What experience set the wheels in motion for him to realise what he want to do?  

Q7_  How does he remember performing it in class? his classmates reactions?  

Q8_  What did he ponder at that moment?  

Q9_  What does he say about the ups and downs in being a professional actor? 

you may find the rest of the interview Q10-18 at next entry.

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       TEH_10a.  GOING NATIVE talk with  Tony Corvillo  (part I)  ........ KEY 

Q1_ When did he graduate? what put him in the track of acting studies?

Toni graduated in 2003, but he started many years earlier. He got a low mark at Selectivitat (State A-levels tests) so he could not go to his preferred studies.. (0:53 ->)

Q2_  How What was his first learning course? which specialty/skills? successful?

First, Toni went to a course for flight attendant in Catalonia. He sent resumees to many companies home and abroad. No responses. He wasted his money as he never got to work as one. (1:50 --->)

Q3_  How indirect was his approach at acting?

He  got an advert about an audition at the Theatre school, passed it and at the end of the first year he got top grades. (2:25 --->)
Q4_  What does he tell us about his acting experience in the states?

Cold very cold. He went to Winsconsing University with no English skills, only the ones you acquire at school level. Now, looking back at these experiences, he ponders it was as great as it was tough. (4:05 --->)

Q5_  In what sense did English language affected his schooling life?

At the first semester I couldn´t get any credits because I didn’t have the toefl and the first certificate yet. He couldn't follow normal courses as he spent too much time with foreigners in a "English learning classroom"  with not very friendly atmosphere (4:40 --->)

Q6_  What experience set the wheels in motion for him to realise what he want to do?

Time earlier, while he was still in bcn, he had a clear moment writing a monologue for their final exam in class. It was scribbled in Balmes street in a Creperia next to Plaza Molina.  (6:02 --->)

Q7_  How does he remember performing it in class? his classmates reactions?

The performance was sad and when it finalize I looked all my classmates and succeeding at making the audience cry,  teacher included. So he thought it is amazing, and realised that Theatre is  cool. (6:32 --->)

Q8_  What did he ponder at that moment?

I thought that in this kind of job you can work at a supermarket or whatever and in consequence it´s the most powerful job in the world. You can make people laugh, cry and whatever you want. You only pretend move people. (7:02 --->)

Q9_  What does he say about the ups and downs in being a professional actor?

He also teaches. Lesson one: he respects his chosen profession for it. Being not famous, he is well aware of "Who knows if you are going to be working tomorow?". Nothing taken for granted! (8:12 --->)

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TEH_09. CATALAN CONNECTIONS talk with Isona Passola

TEH_09.  CATALAN CONNECTIONS talk with  Isona Passola

TODAY at our listening test with The English Hour, Marcela Topor interviews Isona Passola-President of the Catalan Film Academy

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244666340.html

(17/11/2017)   Correspondent: Mª Àngels Cos

For our first part, listen up ONCE to whole conversation, taking NOTES on these 11 questions:

Q1- Are you used to giving a lot of interviews in English? and in Romanic languages?

Q2- What is your relationship with English, apart from practicing it, when you go to Cannes festival and in recent interviews with the international media? How did you learn it, where and how? How much do you practice it apart from the events?

Q3- What is her attitude towards dubbed films?

Q4- What about your professional background? You studied something completely different, so tell me, how did it go?

Q5-  How did you end up in becoming a producer?

Q6- If you had to choose from your five films, I’d say Incerta Glòria and Pa negre, they’re very famous and well-known…

Q7- At the present, you are promoting, travelling a lot with Incerta Glòria. What about this film, the origins? Tell me about the main challenges in producing it. You are a teacher on how to adapt literature to cinema. How did you decide to create it?

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Q8-  Tell me the most difficult thing you remember about this film?

Q9- What’s the European standard?

Q10- Let’s talk about your new project. A film that will deal with refugees and based on David Cirici’s latest novel, The Angel.

Q11-  Will be shown in Catalan or other languages?

Q12-  Have you thought of any actors or it’s too soon?

TEH_08 . SMALL TALK with Alex Ewing

TEH_08 . SMALL TALK with Alex Ewing

TODAY at our listening test with The English Hour, Nicole Miller Interviews Alex Ewing, English teacher and translator  (17/11/2017)

http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/244666340.html

Correspondent: Carles Dueñas

             For our first part, listen up to the minute 12:10 and answer the 12 questions:

Q1. Where was Alex Ewing born? what type of neighbouhood?

Q2. How did Alex Ewing’s parents meet?

 Q3. Did Alex Ewing’s parents plan their relationship and future?

Q4. At first, why did they decide to go to England?

Q5. Why did they comeback to Ecuador?

Q6. Where and when were Alex and his sisters born?

Q7. What did he do before going to University?

Q8. Why does Alex say that living in The Galápagos Islands for two weeks is one of the most amazing things that he has ever done?

Q9. How did he manage to keep his stay at low-budget journey?

Q10.  Copy a couple of interesting bits about his activities in the islands?

Q.11. Why did he end up in Catalonia?

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Q.12. What does he like about Barcelona?

===    TEH_08 . SMALL TALK with Alex Ewing  ..... KEY  

Q1. Where was Alex Ewing born? what type of neighbouhood?

He was born in Wexham, near Slough in Buckinhamshire County. It is an industrial area in the west of London. (0:40à)

Q2. How did Alex Ewing’s parents meet?

His father, born in Plymouth (England), went to Equador as a scientist to do some research in the Amazon rainforest about some kind of frogs. On the other hand, her Equador-born mother was working there as a journalist, and had to do a report with Alex’s father and his team. And then, well, they fell in love. (1:15à)

 Q3. Did Alex Ewing’s parents plan their relationship and future?

No, it was a very quick spontaneous relationship, and they decided to live together very fast. (2:19à)

Q4. At first, why did they decide to go to England?

They were in their early twenties and decided to try to live in England and to start a family together. (2:43à)

Q5. Why did they comeback to Ecuador?

Alex’s mother already had a job as a journalist in Ecuador, and she wanted to continue her career there. She also went to Ecuador to study at the university. But, basically, she wanted to develop her career. In addition, his father was able to go back, and he could travel back and forth to England with his work. (3:07à)

Q6. Where and when were Alex and his sisters born?

His older sister was born in Ecuador before their parents came back to England for the first time. Alex was born in England. Afterwards, they went back to Ecuador and her youngest sister was born in Ecuador as well. (5:00à) 

Q7. What did he do before going to University?

He did a gap year. He worked and travelled during one year, before going to University back to Equador and the Galpagos (5:28à)

Q8. Why does Alex say that living in The Galápagos Islands for two weeks is one of the most amazing things that he has ever done?

Because of the way he went there. He did some kind of trick. Some friends of friends told him that he could travel there very cheaply, if he took a particular plane and told the airplane company that he was “studying something”. In this way he slipped the long airport queue.

Q9. How did he manage to keep his stay at low-budget journey?

 Curiously, Equador is a country that relies on who you know. So, “a friend of a friend”, who was in the navy and was abroad at that moment, left him his home for two weeks for free. (6:23à)

Q10.  Copy a couple of interesting bits about his activities in the islands?

He was really disconnected of his family, no cell phoes, really wild land when ytou move away fronm the three villages in the north. (7:01à)

Q.11. Why did he end up in Catalonia?

He originally came on holiday to the continent, but he ended up meeting his current partner. (8:35à)

Q.12. What does he like about Barcelona?

He likes the fact that Barcelona has everything, but it is still a manageable city. It is not such a massive city as London, where you can get lost easily. (10:35à)

007_TEH_ Small talk with Nicole Millar: Ketevan Kemoklidze

007_TEH_   Small talk with Nicole Millar: Ketevan Kemoklidze

                    Our Listening Project: The English Hour

Source: http://www.elpuntavui.tv/video/235890235.html

Correspondent: Carlos Ortega

TASK. Listen to the Program (up to minute 10) ....
            and answer these 13 questions

Q1. Where does her name come from?  

Q2.  About her family: married? any offspring? Any salient features? 

Q3. What does  the city of Barcelona mean to her? 

Q4. What inspired her to become an opera singer? 

Q5. What anecdote does she tell about going to the opera in Georgia at the 90s?  

Q6.  How the Placido Domingo Operalia is important in the world of young performers? 

Q7.  Does Placido Domingo take part in the contest? 

Q8.  How is the process of selection? 

Q9. What prize did she win at the most important competition of her life? 

Q10. Was it the springboard of her operistic career? 

Q11. What other competitions has she won? 

Q12. Why  did she leave the competition scene? 

Q13. How long is she away from her family while she is performing in other countries ?

Follow-up: 

The next edition of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia,

The World Opera Competition.

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal in 2018

Come meet the next generation of opera stars

https://www.operaliacompetition.org/





007_TEH_   Small talk with Nicole Millar: 
Ketevan Kemoklidze ___________________KEY 

Q1. Where does her name come from? (min 0:46)
She is from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital and its taken form a local Queen.

Q2. About her family: married? any offspring? Any salient features? (min1:43)
Married. Her husband is a professor in the Pompeu Fabra University, he is also Georgian. They have a little child which he is 5 years old, proud to be Georgian in Catalonia; Catalan in Georgia.

Q3. What does the city of Barcelona mean to her? (min3:08)
She always dreamed of living in Barcelona. She loves the sun, the people
and everything from the city in general.

Q4. What inspired her to become an opera singer? (min 4:03)
She has been always singing Georgian folk songs, also, she was learning how to play the piano at the school and when the school celebrate a concert she decided that it will be great if she sang while she was playing the piano.

Q5. What anecdote does she tell about going to the opera in Georgia at the 90s? (min5:10)
In Georgia in the 90s there was a civil war. Despite the odds, she was always going to the opera house despite the difficult situation (no electricity, no buses)


Q6. How the Placido Domingo Operalia is important in the world of young performers? (min 5:15)
Operalia is a very important competition set up by Placido Domingo. It was a breakthrough moment for her. She became the winner (2009). In addition, important directors could see the young performers on stage. That offered her the possibility to win prestige. 

Q7. Does Placido Domingo take part in the contest? (min 6:45)
Placido Domingo himself is the conductor (his baton) for those who pass the
3rd round, which was an an outstanding motivation for her. 

Q8. How is the process of selection? (min 7:15)
From the large crowd of applicants, who send their work recorded. Then, they are put down to a group of just forty.

Q9. What prize did she win at the most important competition of her life? (min 7:42)
The best singer that year, and with a “zarzuela”, it was her first time singing that type of song and moreover it was in Spanish. Besides, she sang some zarzuela pieces.

Q10. Was it the springboard of her operistic career? (min 8:03)
No. Obviously, winning this prize opened many doors to her. But she had already sang at La Scala (Milano) and Lliceu (Bcn). Later, she did it at Covent Garden (London), Teatro Real (Madrid)

Q11. What other competitions has she won? (min 8:40)
The Belvedere competition , the grand prix Toulouse and several Georgian
competitions.

Q12. Why did she leave the competition scene? (min 9:13)
After winning the Operalia competition she thought that it was difficult to improve her style so she hasn’t taken part in other competitions lately.

Q13. How long is she away from her family while she is performing in other countries ? (min 9:37)
For almost one month, she would spend three weeks rehearsing and one week performing the opera.