LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR WRITTEN PREPARARTION

• Increased use of science and thecnology to fight crime invades personal privacy
• United Kingdom is the most controled nation in the world
• London: 4 million CCTV, you are captured on camera approximately 300 times a day (Big Brother Society)
• CCTV -people feel unconfortable watched -no way to interact with who control our pictures -invasion of public space -big coast for society -reduce the possibility of a genuine civilizationt
• Internet: individual database (authorities have acsess to informations we search on internet -they enter in our house) -is used from managers to controll either employer's private life and work
• Other thecnologies that invade privacy: -oystercard (control our displacement) -microchips (installed in people or rental car) -RFID (installed in products that we buy to know people's shopping habits)
• Everyone is considered a potential criminal
• Surveillance is a big business (300 millions of pounds spent only for cctv)
• There is no balance between surveillance and people privacy -Are we ready to renounce to our privacy living in the hopness that this advanced thecnologies will help in the fight against crime in a concrete way?

SPEAKING PRACTICE

Last week I was planing to attend a discussion class in the afternoon, but, in fact, was not what I was waiting for. We went to a language laboratory in the university and then, the teacher (I don't remember his name..), told us that we were going to prepare a presentation about "acid rain". We had 25 minutes to prepare our speech using some audio/video and written documents. The teacher came back and we had to expose our presentation recording it on a small camera. It has been a complete desaster for me! While I was reading the document and whatching the video, I was thinking that was not so difficult: I already knew the meaning of most of the words used and I also knew,more or less, the acid rain process...but when I turned on my camera, after maybe the first two sentences, I get completely lost even if I had my notes in front of me. What does it mean? I think that in my head, in my mind I know the meaning of lots of words in English, so either when I hear or read them I don't find any difficult to understand, but when I have to build a sentence those words don't came out! What can I do? I have to put more attencion in reading and listening, trying to "keep" what I know already. In addition I should speack more English, about everything, to make the passage from thinking to speacking more fluid.

Glastonrbury festival 2007. Britain's largest outdoor music festival.

PREPARING FOR FURTHER STUDY: READING



"THE ESSENTIAL LEGAL GUIDE TO EVENTS" by David Becker



The author of this book is an internationally qualified loyer specialised in the entertainment industry and the aim of his written-work is to assist event professionals, giving to them an easy-to-read guide for the most important legal issues connected to the organisation of an event. Granded that the events industry has a number of different laws that could vary from country to country, David Becker wants to share his experience with us describing which are key deal terms for a range of basic, simple contracts. It should be noted that this book focus the attenction to law in tha United Kingdom, United States and South Africa.
THE EVENT: there is no strictly definition for the word "event", it's just an occasion that people have to share something; there are varied fields because that could happen: culture, charity, sport, business, politic or recreational purpose. An event is somenthing unique, one it has started there are no second chances. No one can predict how it will be, but organiser can plan and prepare everything carefully in order to make a success. Nowdays events industry is a massive and fast-growing one, because of this every event need to be memorable and faultless. There are lots of horror stories about disputes with event organisers (sponsors, caterers, promoters...); this is a risky area that's why written contracs are essantial, they help to deal with the risk.

I found really interesting to read the introduction of this book and i have to say that the language used from the author is clear and simple, even if he uses some thecnical terms, i didn't have any problem to understand the main meaning. It also gave me the starting point for some reflections about my future study's subject, increasing my thirst of kwnoledge. I could imagine that to give life to an event you have to face some risks, but now i know that there are some laws to protect youself. I consider this lecture as the first step on the organisation of an event... (mybe my next birthday party!!)

LONDON VISIT

London, London, London....maybe one of the most notorious place for shopping in the world. Regent, Carnaby, Bond and New Bond Streets are always full of hordes of people walking up and down the roads, looking at big brand' s shoop-windows like Yves Saint Lauren, Gucci or Adidas...but, I think, there is an other side of this metropolis that, in a different way, can satisfy this thirst for shopping, I' m talking about Markets. I would like to suggest you to visit one of those: Portobello, Spitalfiels, Camden or Borough market.

PORTOBELLO MARKET

Located in one of the most beatiful area of London, Portobello Road goes staight through the heart of Notting Hill. There are several different sections in this market; you can find antiques, food (in particulary vegetables and fruits) and fashion. It takes place only on saturday and generally is full of people.

SPITALFIELDS MARKET

Close to Liverpool St tube station, you have the chance to escape from the cloned high street and be bone up on a creative, colorful world. Artistic people go there to express themself with clothes, accessories, jowels, paintings... that are, in most of cases, hand-made. Walking around the different stends you can feel the atmosphere full of life and music! This market is open from thursday to sunday that is the busyest day.

CAMDEN MARKET

This is the most popular open-air market in London, situated in North-West. It' s a sea of entretainment, streets are populated by exravagant people, stands are full of strange things, every kind of things... Even the setting is amazing, with its canal flowing in the middle. After 10 o'clock pm, when the market finishes, the night life starts: pubs, theatres, clubs and restaurant open the door end then....you have to go there to see what happens!

BOROUGH MARKET

It is the London's oldest food market, born on the south bank of the Thames 250 years ago. Traders don't want to broke the tradition of genuine food, they believe that everyone has a right to eat well, that's why there you can buy genuine, excellent aliments. Maybe just for curiosity or maybe plod by the idea of a great dinner, you have to go there.