THE PRESENTATION OF OUR BLOG IN CLASS

Our happy group in the presentation! =D

ÁNGEL:

 Hello!  We are here in order to sum up the presentation of our blog, in which have contributed María José Gómez, Esperanza Reyes, Clara Jiménez, Nuria María Ortiz and me, Ángel Barbecho.  At the beginning we were a group of seven people, now we are only five, but it’s not a pity for us!

First at all, we’ve done several meetings to build this web. It has been a great task, because we had the opportunity of knowing more each other!

The first thing we did on our blog was choosing a title and then a wallpaper that suits. We called the blog “Shut Up & Eat Now!”, as a common expression both in English and Spanish, related to language and food. Then we chose this wallpaper, with the spoon representing the food, the keys representing technology and the words on the keys meaning language! We also decided to put bright colors, in order to transmit joy and happiness!

The content is actually varied. We’ve been talking about funny recipes and their relationship with language, also about technological products as Blackberry, Android or Apple, and why are they called like that…We have written about many things, so we invite you to look at them! 

MARIA JOSE:
In our blog there are also some things apart from the posts that we have created and published. At the beginning you can find some photos about delicious chocolate, but you don’t look at them so much or you’re going to get hungry
Next you have some videos. There are videos about “Fast food” that I know that all you love it. I can see that you’re getting fatter and fatter because of you going to McDonals. So in those videos you can find funny information about it.
We have created a survey to know what plate do you like most, and to try that our blog has participation from students.
Our blog has a web visitor counter too, to know how many people visit it. In one month we have achieved 650 visits and we hope that this number increase.
And finally you can see a description about our group in which we include the name of the components of the blog, and the followers of it. I invite you to be one of them. Thank you very much.

ESPE:
Our group decided to start to write about dishes with funny names and their recipes. Obviously all the recipes have been cooking by our members. I can recomend you "jacket potato" a dish which was cooking by Angel and to be sincere it was great. If you want to taste it but you are not good at cooking, you can go to the famous seville's restaurant "papasá". They offer you a great variety mixes of it. On the other hand, probably the most funny name for a dish is spotted dick. Clara cooked it for us, and although its name seems not to be really tasteful, believe me, it is delicious.

Secondly, we decided to write about food's etymology. Maria Jose wrote a post about the diferent names of typical food in England and the United States. It sounds really interesting because it can be very helpful for us if we are going to travel to both countries. We should known that although some dishes are the same in both countries, they can be called with different names in each country. Other post was the history about "afters" in England. It is something really interesting because it means dessert. Here, the story of the word is also related with the typical English sweet "After Eight", which has also its own story and it has became one of the symbols of English culture.


NURIA:
Why is our blog the best? It’s simple, because it has a little bit of everything. We started to talk just about food and by relating to the origin and also about how they were cooked. Of course, they are not simple recipes, they are strange, unusual in our country and funny but it didn’t last very long because we didn’t want to bore you.

Then, gradually, we started to relate food to technology (because this subject is about that, isn’t it?) However, if you think about it… Does Technology have to do with Food? Yes, it does.

So, I think that this kind of post is the best way to get up to date with Technology because maybe, technology for many people can be boring (to me, for instance) but with these funny posts relating to food you can learn and amuse and specially you can show off with your friends and fancy yourself as a cool guy. ;-)

But the most important is not that we, the creators of the blog, think that our blog is the best, but you finally learn something with our posts, entertain with it and of course you like it. Thank you. =)


CLARA:
As my friends have said, after having written about different funny recipes we changed the theme a little bit to make our blog a better one and more varied, so we started to talk about other things like etimology, we added some gadgets too, to make it funnier, but we have also talked about a really important thing in our lives nowadays as it is technology, of course, relating it to food and language. Do you love technology? You must, because technology is everywhere and we need it for everything, and I bet you would die if technology dissappeared suddenly!
What would you do without having a mobile phone? Do you know how they work? What do you know about their operating systems? Are you android's fans, iphone's fans, blackberry's fans? Whatever you are you can find information and curious things about each one in our blog that I am sure you will like!
So as you have seen we have really useful things for you here, so as to buy a new mobile phone, or if you are going to travel to England or US you can know exactly which word you have to use! Or simply you can learn about new and interesting things... Also, do you want to get fat? Or rather, do you want others to get fatter (and uglier) than you? We have the best, the most unhealthy and the most delicious food for that! Just make our food for them, everyone will find them irresistible! So we hope you enjoy our blog and if we don't have something that you need, just tell us and we will! Or we will try at least! Thank you!

With Gabriel Amores, our professor of New Technologies applied to the English language.