FANTASTIC BEASTS

AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Hello everyone, I’m Nhat Minh, welcome to my second book review. If you are a person, who like the fantastic animals, such as: unicorn, or phoenix, “FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM” can be your great choice, I’m sure about that beacause I have read it. It’s great!

“FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM” was written by J. K. Rowling, but in this book she used a new pen name, which is Newt Scamander. The full name of the author is Joanne Rowling. She’s from Yate, where is a commuter town and civil parish in South of Gloucestershire, Scotland. J. K. Rowling also wrote many other books, including: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret”, “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows”, “The tales of Beedle the bard”. The genre of this book is fantasy, which means the story in this book is not real.

The book was first published in 2001, this book will give you more informations about creatures in wizarding world.

Fantastic Beasts purports to be a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander, a character in the fictional Harry Potter series. In the series, magizoology is the study of magical creatures.

Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, provides the foreword and explains the purpose of the special edition of this book (the Comic Relief charity). At the end, he tells the reader, “The amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you.” He repeats the Hogwarts motto: “Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus”, Latin for “Never tickle a sleeping dragon”.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them contains the history of magizoology and describes 85 magical species found around the world. Scamander says that he collected most of the information found in the book through observations made over years of travel across five continents. He notes that the first edition was commissioned in 1918 by Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books. However, it was not published until 1927. It is now in its fifty-second edition.

In the Harry Potter universe, the book is a required textbook for first-year Hogwarts students, having been an approved textbook since its first publication. In his foreword to the book, Albus Dumbledore notes that it serves as an excellent reference for wizarding households in addition to its use at Hogwarts.

The book features doodles and comments added by Ron Weasley. The comments would appear to have been written around the time of the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. These doodles add some extra information for fans of the series (for example the “Acromantula” entry has a comment confirming that Hogwarts is located in Scotland) along with comic relief (such as Ron saying “you’re not kidding” when talking about the Hungarian Horntail being the most fearsome dragon of all, a reference to Harry’s encounter with one in the fourth book).

The cover design of the first edition of the book features apparent claw marks from an unidentified animal.

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If you want to know more about this book, click to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

Hello everyone, I’m Nhat Minh from Ngo Si Lien 7C1, welcome to my second movie review. If you are a person, who love adventerous films, “JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” can be your good choice.

“JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” is a 2017 American fantasy adventerous comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, and Bobby Cannavale.

As the characters:

-Dwayne Johnson as Spencer Gilpin / Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone: An intelligent, but unconfident and neurotic high school student. In Jumanji, he is transformed into a strong, confident archaeologist and explorer.

-Alex Wolff as Spencer in the real world

-Kevin Hart as Anthony “Fridge” Johnson / Franklin “Mouse” Finbar: A high school football player whose friendship with Spencer has deteriorated due to their different social statuses. In Jumanji, he is transformed into a diminutive, weak, slow zoologist and weapons carrier

-Ser’Darius Blain as Fridge in the real world.

-Jack Black as Bethany Walker / Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon: A popular and vain high school student. In Jumanji, she is transformed into an overweight, male cartographer and expert in many scientific fields

-Madison Iseman as Bethany in the real world.

And there’re more characters in this film.

Now I will tell you about the plot of the movie:

In Brantford, New Hampshire, in 1996, teenager Alex Vreeke’s father finds Jumanji board game on a beach and brings it home to him. Uninterested, Alex sets it aside, but finds it transformed into a video game cartridge after being entranced by the game’s drum beats later that night. Opting to play the game, he finds himself sucked inside upon choosing a character. His disappearance results in his family’s house to become known as ‘Freak house’ also due to its neglected appearance.

Twenty years later, in 2016, four Brantford High School students – Martha Kaply, Bethany Walker, Spencer Gilpin and Anthony “Fridge” Johnson – are sent to clean up the school’s basement as detention for their behaviour. While serving it, Fridge discovers Alex’s discarded video-game system, which he and Spencer decide to play, encouraging the girls to join them. While picking playable characters, they are unable to select the first one, instead choosing the other four. Upon starting the game, each is sucked into Jumanji, landing within a jungle in the forms of their chosen game avatars – Spencer as muscular explorer and archaeologist Dr. Smolder Bravestone; Fridge as diminutive zoologist Franklin Finbar; Martha as commando and martial arts expert Ruby Roundhouse; and Bethany as male doctor of cartography and palaeontology Professor Shelly Oberon.

While coming to terms with their situation, the group each find themselves with three marks denoting lives on their arms, with Bethany losing her first after being eaten by a hippopotamus. Spencer deduces that if they lose all three, they will die in real life. The group encounter non player character Nigel Billingsley, the game’s guide, who provides them with the game’s narrative and their characters’ backstories. The group learn that their goal is to end a curse on Jumanji, brought about by corrupt archaeologist Professor Van Pelt, after stealing a magic jewel called “the Jaguar’s Eye” from its shrine, gaining control of all the jungle’s animals. Nigel hands Spencer the jewel, after stealing it from Van Pelt, instructing the group to return it to a statue at the shrine and call out “Jumanji”, in order to “lift the curse” and leave the game, before driving off.

While coping with their avatars, their “weaknesses”, Van Pelt’s men and at one point, Spencer and Fridge’s animosity towards one another, the group encounter Alex operating the fifth avatar – pilot Jefferson McDonough – who takes them to a jungle house built by Alan Parrish, the game’s previous player. Upon realising his identity, all are equally shocked upon learning how long he has been trapped in the game, Alex having believed himself to have been trapped for merely months. With a common goal, the group vow to help Alex return home with them. Dealing with further problems while heading for the shrine, the group co-ordinate to overcome the challenges given by the game, eventually reaching the shrine, where Van Pelt has them surrounded with a pack of jaguars and his own men. Working together, while the others act as distractions, Spencer and Martha outmaneuver Van Pelt with the game’s mechanics, returning the jewel to the statue. Upon uttering the game’s name together, the group destroy Van Pelt and return home.

Returning to the school basement, the group find Alex is not with them, but are confused after leaving school to find the formerly dilapidated Vreeke home is now restored and decorated for a Christmas family gathering. The group soon find themselves greeted by Alex, now an adult, who explains he returned to 1996, thus allowing him to lead a married life with children, with one of the children named after Bethany, who saved Alex’s life in the game.

The four students become firm friends after their experiences in the game, with Spencer starting a relationship with Martha. When the group hear the drumbeats of Jumanji coming from the game cartridge, Fridge crushes it with a bowling ball to prevent anyone else from playing it.

  This book is very interesting, it has both adventuring and humour. This film can be watched by people in all ages. The sound effect of this film is great. I rate this film for five over five.

If you want to watch this film’s trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKg5SZ_35I

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My photo essay

      Hello everyone, I’m Minh from NSL 7c1. Today, I’ll make a photo essay to tell you about my classmate, his name is Hieu Minh. 

 He is one of my best friends in my class.

He is very smart, he love learning everything around him. His favourite subject is literature but I think he is best at English. In your left hand side, you can see a picture that I took in an English lesson. He look really cool!

And this is his English teacher, she is Linh. Hieu Minh likes her because she is very friendly and he can ask her about English for free.

          In his break time, he usually plays badminton with us! And he can play football too.

              Now I will show you some picture about his friends:

                 That’s what I have known about Hieu Minh, I will know more about him in the future. Goodbye, thank you for your attention.

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows

    Hello, I’m Nhat Minh. Today I will make a book review about the book is: Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.

    “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows” was written by J. K. Rowling. The full name of the author is Joanne Rowling. She’s from Yate, where is a commuter town and civil parish in South of Gloucestershire, Scotland. J. K. Rowling also wrote many other books, including: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret”, “Fantastic Beast and Where to find them”, “The tales of Beedle the bard. The genre of this book is fantasy, which means the story in this book is not real.

    The book was first published on July 21, 2007, which is the year that I was born. The publisher were Bloombury (UK), Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic (US), Raincoat (Canada). The book is set in the Wizarding World, after when Albus Dumbledore died, the Dark Lord Voldemort makes fear for all people.

    The main character in this book is Harry Potter, who is a brave and good boy. He is the biggest enemy of Lord Voldemort, who created the scar on his head and killed his parents. The others characters are: Voldemort, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, The Weasley Family, Xenophilius Lovegood, Draco Malfoy,… My favorite character is Ron Weasley. The topic of this book is after Severus Snape killed Professor Dumbledore. Voldemort want a new wand, because the Harry’s wand and his wand has same code so that he want a more powerful wand so that he can beat Harry and kill him. Then he know about the Elder wand, which is one of three Deadly Hallows, the most powerful wand. By that he know the wand is in with Dumbledore. At that, Harry is trying to break all remaining Horcruxes.

     I think this book is a really interesting book, people in all ages can read this books, even adult. I rate this book for 5 over 5.

     If you want to know more about the author of this book, you can go to this website:     https://www.jkrowling.com/

     If you want to know more about the book or the products of J. K. Rowling, go to: https://www.wizardingworld.com/

     If you want to buy this book, go to: https://www.wizardingworld.com/

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

        Welcome to my film review, I’m Minh from Ngo Si Lien 7C1. If you want to be an explorer in the future, if you are interested in discovering things around you, I think “Journey to the Centre of Earth” is a great choice for you.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 American 3D science fantasy adventure film directed by Eric Brevig and starring Brendan Fraser as Professor Trevor “Trev” Anderson, a volcanologist, Sean’s uncle and Max’s brother, Anita Briem as Hannah Ásgeirsdóttir, and Josh Hutcherson as Sean Anderson, Trevor’s nephew and Liz and Max’s son. 

          The film was set in when Max Anderson is being pursued by a Giganotosaurus until a fissure vent opens in the ground. When he tries to jump across, he calls out his brother’s name before falling into the vent. Ten years later, Max’s 13-year-old son, Sean Anderson, visits Max’s brother, volcanologist Trevor Anderson. In a box of items that belonged to Max is a book, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Notes written by Max are found inside the book.  Then, they started to find out what happened with Max in that day.

          At the beginning of the film, Trevor Anderson meet his nephew, Sean, he have to look at his nephew for 10 days. Then, they find the strange book and words of his brother, Max. When he checked the data in Max’s book, every data of Max and the data in his computer are exactly same. So they started to find out what happened in that day. They saw that they need to go to Iceland so they went to there and met Hannah. Finally, they found the way to the Centre of the Earth by the way is going through a mines. When they go there they know that they have to go out now if they don’t want to die. At the end of the film, they go through of the layer of the Earth safety.

        Brendan Fraser plays part of the uncle. He is very brave, a little bit of clumsy and a kind person. Josh Hutcherson made an excellent character that’s Sean – a boy want to dicover and know more about his dad. Anita Briem gives a good performance as Hannah Ásgeirsdóttir.

                      This book is very interesting, it has both adventuring and romance. This film can be watched by people in all ages. The sound effect of this film is great. I rate this film for five over five.

If you want to watch this film’s trailer, click to this website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkspWwwZLM

If you want to buy the book, which was written by Jules Vern, click to this website: https://tiki.vn/search?q=journey%20to%20the%20centre%20of%20the%20earth&ref=searchBar

If you want to watch the movie, click here: https://www.iflix.com/title/movie/94599