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Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and screenwriter. Coppola's daughter, Sofia Coppola, is an Academy Award-winning writer and nominated director. Her films include the critically acclaimed films The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation. In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.
Francis Ford Coppola is a director of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (you have to watch them - it's a must).
Coppola became one of the few directors to have two films (The Conversation, The Godfather II) competing for the Best Picture Oscar since the annual number of nominees was reduced to five in 1945. While The Godfather Part II won the Oscar, The Conversation won the 1974 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
If you want to know more, check these sites:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/
http://www.filmweb.pl/o153/Francis+Ford+Coppola

MY FUTURE LIFE

Hmm, I can't imagine my life five years from now. I don't even know what will happen next month:) But I hope that in 2014 I will be a successful woman who has a well-paid job and is generally happy with her life. Of course, job which only gives you money is not most important for me - I hope I will like it as well because I believe in what Confucius said: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." I will start my job not earlier than at 9 because I adore sleeping:) I'd like to finish it at 4 p.m. (not later) What about family? I think I will have it by this time but who knows!
If I think of my personality, I will probably be wiser that I am now ( I don't mean my English knowledge of course but the knowledge of life) and I hope I will be better organised because sometimes I lack motivation to have everything in order.

President Obama

well, what can I say about the new president of America? I must agree with Justyna that I was sure that McCain wouldn't be chosen because he was not as popular as Obama. (and to be honest he was too old - the Americans usually chose yonger presidents - about forty years old) I hope that thanks to Obama we will have a chance to go to the USA without taking care of visa. We will see later whether it was a good or bad choice...

TEACHING PRACTICE

I generally came to KJO because as far as I remember I have always wanted to be an English teacher. And to some extent this does not change but I also think about different jobs. Of course connected with English.
Hmm, my teaching practice - I conducted my first lesson with Junior High School students, it was in September. I was, of course, extremely scared because I did not know them well and my task was to introduce Present Perfect to them. I wanted to have a lesson connected mostly with reading and speaking, not with a quite difficult grammar point but I had no choice. What is important, students were very friendly, they did not laugh at a new frightened teacher. :)But after that lesson the stress disappeared and I were not nervous with remaining lessons. Now I am confident in my role as a teacher and it is a real pleasure for me (but on the condition that you have a nice class to teach):) A friendly class with positive attitude is extremely important because I taught a class (Junior High School) which consisted of 14 boys and 4 girls and it was impossible to do any kind of speaking with them. They did not cause any discipline problems, they just sat quietly and looked at me. When I asked them to describe a picture in pairs they were silent and stared at me without doing the task. After the lesson the teacher told me that I should not worry because this class always behaves like that. She resigned from pair or group speaking because they said nothing during it. Later, I did not want to have more lessons with them because they were so 'cold' and they discouraged me for a while from being a teacher.

This is the photo of me when I was three

years old (although my parents are not quite sure about that:)). Look at these huge red artificial roses in my hair! Oh my God! They are terrible but what could I do then? :)

Another photo was taken in kindergarten. Please notice that I do not have anything strange in my hair. As you can see it was Christmas time and an assistant of Santa Claus came to visit me. I was very good then and I got a bag of sweets - mniam mniam!