My English Competence in 2009

My oral presentation in London
I’ve chosen this one because I liked it a lot. To arrive at this result we talk a lot with all those people which isn't recorded, but I think that it’s the maxim expression of our English: the Londoners could understand us and we could understand them without problems and this was fantastic! Moreover I’ve chosen this because I think that it’s original and special, I think that I will never forget the experience of recording this oral presentation with Anna: at first, people didn’t listened at us saying: sorry, I’m in a hurry!, then lots of people weren’t from the city, others didn’t let us record them…it was catastrophic at the beginning, but finally you can see the result and it’s a good one!

Writing (Selectivity)

I’ve chosen this one because I think that it says a lot without writing to much. I consider that it’s the closest composition to a real conversation. I mean, that it could be one adult conversation. I have to say that I had a lot of doubts about choosing the best written evidence because in my blog there are some entries that I think that they are ok. But finally I choose this one because it’s a dialogue; the structure is OK and because I used the words which I learned during the course: rights and wrongs, for this reason, their faith isn’t strong enough, gadgets, I completely disagree, improve... I’m proud of this one.

FINAL REFLECTION (oral presentations)

First oral prsentation
Last oral presentation

The first thing that I noticed about my orals presentations is the self confidence: at the beginning I was very shy and I didn’t believe that I could do it, but as you can see in my last “oral presentation” I lost my fear and I try to talk with English people. And I liked it a lot!! Moreover I think that my pronunciation has improved a little and my fluency too. Now I’m able to construct long sentences and this is reflected on my orals, because every time they are longer and I think that more interesting because I’m able to talk about lots of new things.

FINAL REFLECTION

-My first mail to the teacher
My name is Miriam, I'm 16 years old and I live in Empuriabrava but I study in Castelló d'Empúries. I like playing the flute, to play volleyball, to travel to other countries, to go out at night, to go shopping, to be with my pets, to play computer games and to surf in internet, listening to music…I would like to study Asian languages, for example Chinese or Japanese, because I think it's important for the future. I like all kinds of music but I hate Heavy Metal and similar, and I love one singer particulary: Celine Dion. She sings so well!. I also like to read, I'm a fan of Jorge Bucay and Sergio Sinay. In two years, I would like to study psychology in Girona or Barcelona. I love to help people!

-My last composition (Write about the influence of psychologists on our society. Are they well considered? Could they be the answer to our psychological necessities? )
In my opinion psychology fact is a very important of our Developer society. We have evolved to the point that providing us of basic necessities is not a problem, our headaches are: what will other people think about me? Is my shape OK? Am I behaving like a woman or like a man?All these things are destroying the human self-love and psychologists are there to make people see that those problems are not so big.In my point of view they are not well considered, because we are living in a very material mentality and some people, if they can not be the best, it would mean nothing for them. I am sure that they are the answers to our psychological necessities or for most of them, because they have done and will do great things: in a personal and general level.

-The first difference that I can see is the maturity, everybody can notice that the mail to the teacher was written before the composition. The second thing are the new words and expresions which I learned in two years: evolved, providing, necessities, headache, shape, in my point of view, well considered... And finally, the third thing that I noticed is the structure of the sentences; the sentences of the mail are short, normally they don't combine more than one verb, and I didn't explain the reasons of some things that I say (In two years I would like to study psychology in Girona or Barcelona). And in the second text, the sentences are longer, they combine more than one verb and I give reasons to my opinions (In my point of view they are not well considered, because we are living in a very material mentality and some people, if they can not be the best, it would mean nothing for them).

News

VIDEO

1. Robots
This robots are build to make the tasks where one human hand is to big. For example, there is a robot which is used to operate the heart, and this one follows the movement of the organ, so the doctor has the impresion that it isn't mooving and the task becomes easier, moreover this robot has a screen which shows to the doctor where are the "robot-hands" and what is he doing with them. The robot shows to the screen what the doctor want; we only have to move his eyes and the camera will move.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8042972.stm)

2.Egypt's women fighting sexism
Egyptian women assist to self-protect classes, where they learn to protect her selves in case of attack. There is one girl who explains that she go to this kind of classes because one day going to school she was attacked and then she was afraid of go out alone. Moreover, some women think that these classes are necessary to show to the women that they don’t need a man to go out to the streets.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8042337.stm)



TEXT

1. Boy murdered
Sam, aged 11, was killed when a car reportedly mounted the pavement and ran into him in Bristol.
Officers have confirmed a woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Police said a white Ford Focus estate car was travelling along Eastfield Road towards the centre of the village when it collided with the group.
Sam's parents, Martin and Rachel, had made a public appeal for Ms Saaf to come forward.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8042661.stm)


2. Psoriasis
Phototherapy using UVB light is rarely used in the UK because of limited availability and the number of hospital visits required.
One UK expert said the British Medical Journal study highlighted an important treatment gap in psoriasis care.
In the latest study, patients with psoriasis from 14 hospital dermatology departments were randomly assigned to receive either home UVB phototherapy or hospital-based treatment.
Home treatment was equivalent to hospital therapy both in terms of safety and the effectiveness of clearing the condition.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8038206.stm)

Dialogue with Marina Sarquella (Extra work)

Dialogue: Marina Sarquella and Miriam Falgàs


(Alarm clock)
Miriam: Oh… I’m so tired… 5 minutes more please. Well, come on, hurry up! Marina, wake up Marina!
Marina: hm..?
Miriam: Good morning darling, you should wake up, if not, we will be late.
Marina: Yes yes, I’m coming.
Miriam: Tell me, how was yesterday night with him?
Marina: Oh, very nice, he is a gentleman! He is so kina and friendly!
Miriam: Yes, I know him. I told you that you would have a great time.
Marina: And you? What did you yesterday? You told me that I shouldn’t worry for you, did you go out?
Miriam: Come on, let’s go and we’ll talk meanwhile, where do you prefer take breakfast?
Marina: Mmm… I prefer to the bar next to my faculty, is it OK?
Miriam: OK, no problem!
Marina: You didn’t told me.
Miriam: What?
Marina: You saw him yesterday!
Miriam: How do you know?
Marina: Because you are happy, you woke me up this morning.
Miriam: Well, yes, I was with him and we went dinner. He is so lovely…! I’m happy :)
Marina: Perfect! So, what are you gonna do today? I have to take an exam.
Miriam: Oh, good luck then! Today I have to study for tomorrow because I will take an exam next Friday. But this morning, nothing special, I mean, only normal class.
Marina: Would you spend the next week here, in the residence?
Miriam: It depends on you. If you stay I will stay here, but if you leave BCN, I will leave too.
Marina: Well, I think that this isn’t a problem, tonight in our room we would talk about it ok? And, moreover this afternoon we could go out together.
Miriam: OK! Where can we go?
Marina: We will see. Now, we should go, it’s late and in 5 minutes we should began classes.
Miriam: OK, see you this afternoon!
Marina: OK, have a nice day!

Writing (Extra work)

Part 2 of a Selectivity writing

The teacher of Technology: Martí, and the teacher of religion: Nil, are discussing about the rights and wrongs of Information and Communication Technology as a school subject:

Martí: Those classes are the future, technology is the reality of our days, you have to accept it!

Nil: For this reason, religion is becoming less popular and it’s important that the kids know the origins of these cultures.

Martí: But their faith isn’t strong enough, they want to know more things about gadgets and computers, believe me, it’s becoming more and more interesting everyday and this subject will motivate our students.

Nil: I completely disagree, I think that we have to improve the hours of religion and not add more subjects in the timing.

THE BEATLES (Extra work)

The Beatles, a rock and pop band formed in 1960 in Liverpool, whose artists are:

John Lennon: rhythm guitar and vocals.

Paul McCartney: bass guitar and vocals.

George Harrison: lead guitar and vocals.
Ringo Starr: drums and vocals.
The Beatles were and are in the history of popular music one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands. In the beginning, their musical style was rock and roll and skiffle. Their clothes made them trend-setters, and their music influenced the society to the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s. The group has sold more albums in the United States than any other band, and nowadays they are considered one of the 100 greatest artists of all the time. The band broke in 1970.
Last year, Billboard magazine released a list of top-selling of 100 artists to celebrate the “chart's fiftieth anniversary”, and The Beatles topped it.

Personally, my favorite song of this group are:

- Let it be (1970)

- Yesterday (1965)

- Hey Jude (1968)

- Something (1969)

- Lucy in the sky with diamonds (1967)

FILM: Brokeback Mountain

The film is about the love history between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two young boys who met and felt in love during the summer of 1963 meanwhile they worked as a shepherd in Brokeback Mountain, in EUA. During the film we can see that they marry with different women and become children, but at least, they decide to live together and trust their hearts.

Write about the influence of psychologists on our society. Are they well considered? Could they be the answer to our psychological necessities?

In my opinion psychology fact is a very important of our Developer society. We have evolved to the point that providing us of basic necessities is not a problem, our headaches are: what will other people think about me? Is my shape OK? Am I behaving like a woman or like a man?
All these things are destroying the human self-love and psychologists are there to make people see that those problems are not so big.
In my point of view they are not well considered, because we are living in a very material mentality and some people, if they can not be the best, it would mean nothing for them. I am sure that they are the answers to our psychological necessities or for most of them, because they have done and will do great things: in a personal and general level.

Translation: Queen-we are the champions (Extra point)

NOSALTRES SOM ELS CAMPIONS

He pagat els meus deutes, cop rere cop
He complert la meva condemna, però no he comès cap crim.
I de mals errors, n'he fet uns quants.
He tingut la meva part de sorra, xutada a la meva cara
Però ho he superat.
I pretenc continuar, continuar, continuar. . .
Nosaltres som els campions- amics meus
I ens mantindrem lluitant fins al final
Nosaltres som els campions
Nosaltres som els campions
No és temps de perdedors
Perquè som els campions, del món
M'he fet els meus nusos
I em criden a escena
M'has dut fama i fortuna, i tot el que ve amb això
T'ho agraeixo tot
Però no ha sigut un llit de roses
Cap croada de plaer
Ho considero un repte abans de tota la raça humana
I no perdré
I pretenc continuar, continuar, continuar. . .
Nosaltres som els campions- amics meus
I ens mantindrem lluitant fins al final
Nosaltres som els campions
Nosaltres som els campions
No és temps de perdedors
Perquè som els campions del món
Nosaltres som els campions- amics meus
I ens mantindrem lluitant fins al final
Nosaltres som els campions
Nosaltres som els campions
No és temps de perdedors
Perquè som els campions

Sarah's oral presentation!

Well, today, afer 4 years, we saw Sarah for another time. She talked us about her life and some interesting things. Sarah is from Scothland but she studies in Murcia. She was here for 4 years ago to improve her teaching, her Spanish, to know the culture, to travel... I found very interesting that she played football. She studied in Glasgow and she gave us some information about Scothland: there are 5.000.000 people, but they are concentrated in the South of Schotland, the weather is cold and it rains a lot, the typical food is "Haggins"... Moreover, she said us that the name "Alba" in Gaelic means "Scothland"; gaelic is the language of Scothland. She comed here because she had to study one year in a foreign country, and 3 months in France, because she studied those two languages. She worked in a private academy in Murcia which was called: Shamrock; there she teached english in childrens with 9 years. She camed here because in Murcia it was a free day. She enjoys to be here, she thinks to return once she would been in United States.

Look! Now I was listening this! Funny :)

Human rights!

Which 5 human rights are the most important ones?
In my opinion, 5 of the most important human rights are: equality, freedom, right to life and liberty and not being tortured.

Which 5 human rights are the least important ones?
I don’t think that there are less important rights, I think that there all are important and we can’t take importance.

Which rights are missing?
I personally think that there isn’t missing anyone, because there are all the basic human rights, or the base which develop the other ones.

Are these rights ethnocentric or Eurocentric?
I would say that it isn’t anyone of those 2 options, because I think that there isn’t any influence of the culture, but if I have to choose one, I think that Eurocentric, because most of the Europeans aren’t so close to the culture than in other countries, and that gives liberty of thinking.

Which rights are violated in Europe?
I could say that all are violated. Every day we see news about misread people, other who kills someone, not all motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance... There are a lot of people who don’t respect nothing and
nobody, and this is very difficult to control.

Under which conditions are Human Rights possible?
They have to be able in all the conditions, human rights shouldn’t be violated in all the countries and places of the world. But they only can make know them in countries which have a good school and good educational institutions. It’s a shame, because this restricts the area of influence a lot.

3rd TERM

My oral presentation

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Transcription

Welcome to our oral presentation - Anna:

Hello! We are in London. Our oral presentation will be presented through some questions to people of London about our curiosities and insecurities.

Our questions to Londoners:

Bryan, 28. - Miriam -
- What do you think that are the best or the worst places of London?
- What do you think about London's transports?
- Are you Anglican or Catholic?

Robert, 32. - Anna -
- What does London mean to you?
- Do you think, as rumours say, that Londoners are so closed?
- Would you like Obama as president of UK or not?
- What do you want for the future of London?

Kate, 20. - Miriam -
- Do you have favourite places in London? ... No more?
- What does London mean to you?
- What do you think about London prices?
- What do you want for the future of London? ... Why?

Adam, 23. - Anna -
- Do you have a favourite place in London?
- What does London mean to you?
- What do you think about London prices?
- What do you want for the future of London?
- Are you Anglican or Catholic? ... Why? ... And do you think that Catholic religion has failed?

From Speaker's Corner - Miriam:

Now we are in the Hyde Park. Here, the most important thing is the Speaker's Corner. Lots of people from all the world come here and they say what they have to say. You can go and tell something to the audients or you can make some questions to the speakers.

Conclusions

As you could see, we did an introduction, some questions to four people, and finally explain to you some information about Speaker's Corner.
Our objective was show you how speak Londoners and how we can understand them, so we have to be sociable whenever we are abroad ;). But we especially wanted to show you their opinions about their own city.
You can see that Londoners are VERY LONDONERS. We repeated some questions because we wanted to make the reflection combining opinions, for example: two people said to us that one of their favourite places of London is Covent Garden, for the tourists, etc. Or we could also observe, through question "What does London mean to you?", that they, at the same moment, answered MULTICULTURE. We were very surprised.

Personal opinion

We have to thanks to Bryan, Robert, Kate and Adam for all the information they have gave us, so they answered with any problems and we heard what we wanted to. For us, it was very special, because as before than after, not only during interview, we were talking with all of them, and it was really pleasant.
Londoners are very kind.

A trip to London: evaluation

I personally think that the best thing of this trip was the company: friends and teachers. I’ve noticed that the people came, we have worked our confidence, and now, we look at us with different eyes. I love that this has been this way. I’ve also mentioned teachers because they didn’t have any problems with us; we were 4 tired days all together and there was a good contact. The second best thing of the trip was the free time, I was astonished that they gave us so much confidence, because I wasn’t used to this! Moreover, I liked the activities that were organized a lot. I’m not sorry for having visited anything we visited! The worst thing… It was clearly, the time. In my opinion, we started at a bad hour, and we couldn’t sleep during the trip because it was: 1 hour bus, now 30 minutes waiting at the airport, then 2 hours in airplane, 1 hour bus… Well, I couldn’t sleep because I wasn’t tired enough (I was ill the days before and I slept a lot). But the last day, I WAS SO TIRED!!! The girls were laughing about me, because if we stayed 2 minutes in the tube, I felt asleep, if we had to wait 5 minutes for our meal, I felt asleep again, and so on so. Also I think that 4 days weren’t enough for all our plans, but they were fully packed. I know that the high school hadn’t allowed us to stay there for another day, I know…but it would be a nice thing.
The worst and cruel thing was to have to go to school the next day, and even exam at 8 o’clock am! I think that we could make a new point on the “universal declaration of human rights”: if students (and teachers) go to a trip to London, it would be good to know they would be very tired, so please, have compassion with them”. haha!

I loved this trip, nice work teachers ;)

3 News!

Bangladesh imposes YouTube block
The government of Bangladesh has blocked the web page “You Tube”, because someone uploaded a video which showed a recording of a meeting between the PM and the army officers. This video covered about 40 minutes (the meeting was 3 hours long), and you could see how angry some militaries were with the government’s handling of the crisis. For this reason, lots of guardsmen have been arrested.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7932659.stm)


Dog rescues woman from kangaroo
Rosemary Neal was attacked by a kangaroo in New South Wales, and was rescured by her pet: a dog. Darren, her son, said that if the dog hadn’t helped her, she would be dead, because she had to go to hospital with cuts in her face, back and hands.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7515552.stm)



Fat may reduce allergic reactions
The study which was carried out in collaboration with the University of Newcastle in Australia, got to the conclusion that dietary saturated fat may weaken the responses of the body to allergens. The study was made with some non-obese mice that had a high saturated fat diet.
If people eat to be obese, it can be good to avoid allergic reactions, but this could bring numerous health implications such as increased risk of heart disease and diabetes.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7925935.stm)

A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT LONDON! (extra work)

1. LONDON!
Every year, more than nine million people come from countries all over the world to visit London. They go to the theatres and museums; they look at interesting old buildings, many of them hundreds of years old; they sit or walk in the beautiful parks, or have a drink in a pub. They go to Oxford Street to look at the shops, or to Harrods to buy or visit it. Two million visitors go to the Tower of London,, a million more go to see St. Paul’s Cathedral…
Yes, London is a big and beautiful city with lots of things to see and do.

2. VISITING THE CITY
A quick and easy way to get to different places in the city is to use an Underground train. The trains run during all day and most of the night: you have to buy your ticket before you get on the train! It’s better not to make your journey between eight and ten o’clock in the morning, or four and six o’clock in the evening. These are called the “rush hours”: thousands of people are going to work or coming home again then, and it is difficult to move or to find a place to sit on the train, there is overbooking!

You can see much more of London from the top of one of the famous red buses. There are special visitor’s buses which take you to interesting places in the city, all in one journey. One journey takes about one and a half hours, but you can and get off and on the bus at the different places you want to visit.

London taxis are called “black cabs”. Most of them are black, but some are not. You can stop one if it has a “For Hire” sign on it. The drivers are usually friendly and helpful, and they know lots of things! To be a good taxi driver, you need at least about 2 years of experience because London is so big that it takes a long time to know all the streets.
And why not take a boat trip along the River Thames? Boats leave Westminster Pier and Charing Cross Pier, and they go to Tower Pier and Greenwich.

3. SOME PLACES TO GO
The Queen has her London home at Buckingham Palace. It is at the end of The Mall, which is a long road beginning at Trafalgar Square. At half past eleven most mornings the soldiers at Buckingham Palace change the guard: it takes about thirty minutes, and hundreds of visitors come to watch.

In August and September, you can usually visit some of the rooms in the palace, but there are always lots of people coming to see them, so be ready to wait! You can also visit the Royal Mews at the palace: this is the home of the Queen’s horses and coaches.

The Queen’s Gallery is also at the palace, and you can visit it at most times of the year. There you can see pictures from all over the world. The Tower of London is now a museum, and one of London’s most famous buildings. More than two million people visit it every year: beefeaters (also called Yeoman Warders) explain all about the Tower to the tourists. They have got this name because in the past, they were the guard of the Tower and they were paid with beef. You can see the Crown Jewels, and visit the Bloody Tower and the White Tower, or take a walk round the wall and perhaps see one of the Tower’s famous black birds: the ravens.
Tower Bridge is near the Tower of London. It is one of the most famous bridges in the city, and perhaps in the world, which was opened in 1894.

St Paul’s Cathedral is not far away: it’s on Ludgate Hill. It was built by Sir Christopher Wren after the Fire of London. Wren built more than fifty London churches; visitors can go up to the Golden Gallery of the St Paul’s Cathedral to look across London. It’s very nice!

4. WESTMINSTER and SPEAKER'S CORNER
Westminster Abbey is more than nine hundred years old, and it’s a very famous London church. After William the Conqueror, all the other Kings and Queens of England were crowned here. The Houses of Parliament are near Westminster Abbey: this is the home of the British government. The clock high up on the building is called Big Ben, and it takes this name because of the bell, which is very big.
The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street; if you walk along Parliament Street to Whitehall, past the government buildings, you can see the little street on your left.
One of the most important parks of London is Hyde Park, where you can also find the Speaker’s Corner. It is a good place to get away from the crowds and the noises of the city. People from all over the world come and speak here. You can ask a speaker some difficult questions if you like, or you can stand on a box and speak to some of the listeners!

5. SHOPS AND EATING
The most famous shop in London is Harrods, in Knightsbridge, which opened in 1849.
Oxford Street has many big shops (Selfridges, Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Debenhams…); there are always lots of people looking at the shops here, but at Christmas thousands more come to see the wonderful Christmas lights (and to buy Christmas souvenirs!).
Covent Garden was once a big food market, but now it has lots of small shops and cafes. Moreover there are street performers you can watch because most of the time they do nice spectacles.
There are two famous markets in London: Petticoat Lane market, which opens on Sundays, it’s in Middlesex Street, and is a good place to buy cheap clothes and things for the home, and Portobello Road, like Petticoat Lane; they open on Sundays too. There you can buy old clocks, old chairs, tables, and hundreds of other things.
In London, we can find food from nearly every country in the world. In Soho, in the West End of London, we can eat Italian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek… and a lot more.

6. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
The British Museum in Great Russell Street is the biggest museum in Britain. You don’t havet to pay any ticket because the entry is free.
The Museum of London at 150 London Wall is one of the most interesting museums in the city. It tells the story of London and its people.
Four million people visit the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square every year. They come to look at more than two thousand famous pictures; here the entry is also free.
The London Dungeon in Tooley Street is like a “Museum of Horror”. Half a million people visit it every year, but most of them don’t stay to see it all! I wasn’t brave enough to enter there, it scares me a lot!

My comment on the forum of Dorian Gray

I personally think that the first sentence is true, because we can imagine both situations and then, we can see that not all the people who feel good are happy. I think that it's a clever sentence! :) Moreover, I would ask what did you thought when you began to read the story, because the firsts pages I thought that Basil had an obsession with Dorian, but when I continued reading I understand that he was in love with him. I don’t know where, but finally I understood that he only looked at his beauty, like an artist, and that there weren’t obsessions and love through this story!Nice argument, I liked it, the story was a little bit… strange and fool, but it was different and entertaining.

Oral presentations of my classmates

FIONA and CHANEZ --> Universities of the U.K. The famous and not so famous.
- At the University of Cambridge, originally all students were male.
- The university of Oxford is the oldest University in England, since 1096 they are teaching.
- You get a lot of help with money if you go to university at UK.

ADRIÀ ALFARO --> Fantastic Spanish Literature
- Fantasy is combine different reality’s to create new ones.
- Fantasy has his origins in Greco-Roman mythology.
- The fantastic Spanish literature arrived later in Spanish than in other countries.

BERNARDO SANTOS--> Immigration in the city of London
- London is so multiracial because governmental helps because of the Historic colonialism and the common wealth.
- The diversity of religions make Londoners more tolerant.
- The immigration has made London one of the most important city on Earth.

MARINA SARQUELLA--> Research Project
- The Nespresso advertisement is completely in English.
- She did his research project about the English advertisements.
- People think that if the advertisement is in English, the product is better.

ADRIÀ CARMONA and JORDI LLEIXÀ --> London
-The sections that they have enjoyed more are the section of Roman and Greek.
- We could see that the security for the Queen is very high.
- They went to watch the change of guard.

CARLES TORRACABOTA and CLAUDIA ROSSILLO --> London
- The thing that Claudia liked most is Buckingham Palace.
- Carles didn’t like Buckingham Palace so much, he prefers the Globe Theatre.
- They did a powerpoint with the places that we visited and things we did: they put a picture of me blowing my birthday candles! :D

ARIADNA COMAS --> The British Museum
- The museum opened to the public in 1956.
- It has different departments: Egypt, Sudan, Greek, Roman, middle east, prints and drawings, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Americas, Coins, Medals, prehistory, Europe, Conservation and Scientific Research, library and Archives.
- When we visited the museum, the section of prints and drawings was closed.

LAIA SALÓ & ELISENDA LLADÓ --> London Tour
- The London eye has become an icon from modern London life.
- The Big Ben aproximatly mesures 81 mts.
- It's a legend that if the crows leavethe castle, this one will fall down.

ORIOL OLIVA --> My trip in London
- He traveled in London with some friends.
- They were late at the airport, so they had to buy another ticket.
- The second day they went to watch a football mach for 35€.

MARINA JULIÀ & NEUS PAGÈS --> TV37
- London has a underground called also: TUBE.
- Harrods was built in 1854.
- The city is formed by 42 districts more or less.

BALDIRI GIRONELLA & IÑAKI --> Trip in London
- At the British museum there are more than 7 milion objects.
- The London eye takes 30 minutes to return.
- The Buckingham palace is the place where the Queen live.

Extra video

I hope you enjoyed it! :)

Podcast of a news

Every year we can read lots of news about mistreated people, who are attacked psuchologically and physically in their own homes or social groups. We know that "mobbing" and "bulling" are kinds of violence from a group of people towards one person, but there is as well the violence at home, which is more individual, when children are mistreated by their parents or the other way around: parents are mistreated by their own children. Moreover we can find that within couples sometimes one mistreats the other, sadly being women more affected than men.

That news makes reference to the article number 5 of the universal declaration of human rights which says: no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. And all these things are torture, cruel, and inhuman degrading treatment.

2nd TERM

Film task2

I haven't seen the whole film, but I will explain what I know :)

It begins with a messenger conversation. We can see the girl and we don't know who is the other person. They are talking that they could meet and she said that they could meet in a bar. They meet and they go to the men's house. There she saw a lot of pictures of young girls and a lot of walls painted in differents colours (to make photos) and they stay together at the night. When they wake up, he is bound with a rope and she is saying that he will not use her.

I'm sorry that I can't continue, but I haven't enough time to watch the whole film, moreover we had problems at the begining with the TV!

Barack Obama & Martin Luther King

Questions for preparing Martin Luther King’s text:

1. What rights did black people have in the USA in the 1960’s?
They haven't any rights.

2. What was “segregation”?
The separation between black and white people.

3. What did states as Georgia, Mississippi or Alabama have in common in the 1960’s?
That they were the states where the racism was more pronounced.

4. Who were the “Pilgrims”?
A pilgrim is one who undertakes a pilgrimage (long journey or search of great moral significance).

4. What is a “spiritual”?
This word comes from the word: Spirit, which means the soul, the natural part of being and it's identificate with the mind or the brain.

Vocabulary

Rooted: arrelat.
Rise up: aixacar.
Creed: ideologia.
Hold: celebrar/aguantar.
Swelter: cansar-se.
Heat: calor.
Rough: aspre.
Crooked: tort.
Straight: recte.
Flesh: carn.
Despair: desesperació.
Hope: esperança.
Swelter: cansar-se pel sol i no poder fer res per remediar-ho.

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Questions for preparing Barack Obama’s text:

1. When did women get the right to vote in the United States? (par. 2)
In 1920.

2. What was the “New Deal”? (par. 5)
The state encouraged people to buy things.

3. Paragraph 6 refers to “the bombs” falling on “our harbor”. Which bombs and which harbor is B. Obama referring to? (par. 6)
He refears to Pearl Harbor.

4. What was the “Montgomery bus boycott”? (par. 7)
It was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation.

5. To know who the “preacher from Atlanta” was, check
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
The preacher from Atlanta was Marthin Luther King.

6. When did the Berlin wall fall down?
In 1989.

7. What happened in the Edmund Pettus Bridge, outside Selma, in 1965?
There, the voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel on March 7, 1965. The day became known as Bloody Sunday.

Vocabulary to look up:
Ballot: vot.
Cast a ballot: emetre un vot.
Slavery: esclavitud.
Creed: credo.
Despair: desesperar.
Conquer: conquerir.
Witness: testimoni.
Preacher: predicador.
Sum up: resumir.

Film task

Pride and Prejudice

The focus of the story is the story of Elisabeth and Mr. Darcy. At the beginning Mr. Darcy fells in love with Elisabeth and he didn’t know how to act when she was there. For this reason, Elisabeth hates him (she didn’t know that he was in love and she was angry for his behavior) and she is the part of Prejudice, because she thinks that he is different as he really is. Mr. Darcy is the Pride, for his behavior, but he is in love with Lizzy. During the film they have arguments and they say to each other all the bad things, but in one of this discussion they confess to each other that both are in love. When the film finishes, we can see that they are going to stay together and that they will marry. Moreover there are the love stories of Elisabeth’s sisters, but they are less important and not so nice like Lizzy and Darcy.

Narrative

Is humour necessary to survive?

In my opinion, humour is necessary to survive because it’s happiness, it’s learning to take your life easily and better. Humour is the good mood, the laugh and the smile, and all these things are important to survive. I think that nobody can have a good life without laughing. It’s hard to imagina a life without fun, it’s sad and dark. We have to try to watch things positively and confront each day with a smile, or better, laughing. Moreover the feeling of making others laugh is very gratifiant and it makes you feel better. But the best feeling appears when you can laugh meanwhile others are laughing. It’s a chain! Begin with humour and finish with humour!
Of course we can live without humour, because it isn’t one of our basics needs but humour increases our level of life making it a nice place to live.

Discussion essay

Computers have made the world a better place

Nowadays there is a tendency to think that computers have made the world a better place, but is it so? It’s sure that computers have helped us to get where we are, but there are a lot of positive and negative arguments:
Computers have helped us to get to each part of the world and let us see the situation of other countries. For this reason a lot of people begun to apreciate what they had and how good their lives were. Moreover, computers can save us a lot of mental work, for example: calculating maths or helping us to write without errors. They have replaced a lot of paper and they created many employments for people who did not have one.
On the other hand, we can find that there are a lot of people who are always on the PC and they spend the whole day on internet. The fact to have a computers or not marks an important point between rich and poor people and make the difference still bigger. Nowadays children don’t go out to play; they stay at home in front of the screen and internet is a way to make childhood shorter.
I agree that computers have made the world a better place, because it’s easy to think that nowadays all the people or a lot of them are vitiated to the PC’s games and they don’t have a social life, but we have to take care to the point that everything in extremes is bad. In my opinion the list of positive things is much longer than the list of negatives points. So I would summarize that computers are a good thing for our development.

Oralsss!

ORIOL OLIVA (HUMOUR IN SPANISH TV)
He explained us some about "cruz y ralla" and "los morancos".
Oriol thinks that tv3 is the channel which has more humour programs.
He thinks that the humour of “CQC” is naïve, and he told us that “Sé lo que hicisteis” is a program which makes humour with other programs.

=)=)


CHANEZ SELLOUM & FIONA MATA (SITCOMES)
Sitcomes are comedy programs which normally dures 30 minutes long.
They talked us about differents sitcoms programes: The cosby show, the twilight zone, the fresh prince of bel-air, American dad…
The fresh prince of bel-air was created in 1990-1996 by Andy Borowitz.

Do you spent a lot of time watching this sitcomes programs?
C: yes, in my childhood a lot of time.
F: yes, I liked a lot “Embruixada”
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ARIADNA COMES (18th and 19th CENTURY)
Romanticism is based in the idea that the feelings are more important than the reason.
Realism is based on the reality of people.
In the 18th century there was a very important movement: Neoclassicism, which was based on the classical art from Greece and Rome.
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ELISENDA LLADÓ & LAIA SALÓ (RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELISABETH AND DARCY)
Elisabeth has prejudice to Mr. Darcy and she can’t see the real personality of him.
The first meet was in the public ball.
The second meeting was in Netherfield Park, at Bingley’s house.
The third meeting was at Bingley’s house at Netherfield Park.
The fourth meeting was in Kent, at Collins and Charlotte’s house.
The fifth meeting was at Darcy’s house, and the last one, was at Longbourn.
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MARINA JULIÀ & NEUS PAGÈS (LOVE)
They relate platonic love with famous people.
They considerate that two passionate love films are “Ghost” and “Endless love”.
They showed us a trailer about the film: Love actually.

Have you ever felt passionate love? YEEES!
=)=)

MARINA SARQUELLA (PRIDE & PREJUDICE)
The three main themes of Pride & Prejudice are love, reputation and social class.
The social class is related to reputation.
One girl of the high social class should know how to play piano, read, paint…
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ADRIÀ CARMONA (TYPES OF HUMOUR)
There are different kinds of humour: verbal, visual, images…
Verbal humour are all kind of jokes (speaking).
The visual humour are comics of funny pictures.

Which kind of humour do you like more?
MM.. visual humour :)
=)=)

ALEJANDRO PEÑA (BUENAFUENTE)
He told us about the steps of Buenafuente from the radio to the TV.
His program begins with the news, which are followed for one interview to one famous person.
Alejandro’s favourite sections are EL follonero and Bertovision.
=)

ADRIÀ ALFARO (THE SIMPSONS)
He talked us about the American family The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening in 1989.
The characters of this series are: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
Homer is stupid, the opposite of Marge, his wife, who is clever. Bart is the son and he is crazy, he has one sister called Liza who is his opposite because she is very intelligent.
=)=)

CLAUDIA ROSSILLO & CARLES TORRACABOTA (THE WEDDINGS)
They talked us about two different kinds of weddings: Indian weddings and Arabian weddings.
The Indian weddings begin at night and finish the next day at the breakfast.
And Arabian weddings do a lot of parties and celebrities.

Which kind of wedding do you think it’s longer?
The Arabian, because they are a lot of different parties in different days.
=)=)

BALDIRI GIRONELLA, IÑAKI FERNANDEZ & BERNARDO SANTOS (LIFE IN 18th CENTURY)
They talked us about the jobs and technology, the education, the houses, the food…
We could saw that life wasn’t like nowadays, life was more difficult.
When they finished they put us one picture for make us laugh.
=)

Mistakes

1. Humour is a human quality that... // We can take life positively
2. We'll work better if we are in a good mood.
3. It's a therapy, too.
4. The people who..// At the one hand... at the other // themself
5. Last Tuesday we went to Barcelona.
6. I don't agree, I think that there are not books for boys or girls.
7. Boys don't like the book because they don't put attention...
8. This book is plenty of romanticism.
9. If they could take seriously the book, they would enjoy it.
10. I don't know the real truth.
11. They are more sensitive.
12. ...which makes this book better for girls, but about flavours, we can not assure anything!
13. Money mean anything.
14. But in my opinion it isn't serious, it's more, I like that boy showing their romantic part.
15. Girls like more the novels that are about romanticism and all the topics related with it.
16. Maybe girls like romantic books.
17. Money was a very important thing.
18. Nowadays, in the 18th century and in the stone Age!
19. getting to know womans is very easy.
20. After watching the film, what's the moment that

Dialogue!

Michelle: And where is the party?
Jane: I think it's in Figueres, but I don't know at which time it start.
Anne: Yes, it's at one a.m.
(At the party...)
Jane: It's a nice party, there are a lot of nice boys.
Michelle: Yes, I've seen one for you, and th music is pretty cool.
Jane: I've find the perfect one for you and an other one for Anne.
Michelle: And... where is Anne?
Jane: I don't have any idea, let's take a round.
Michelle: Don't worry. I think that she's with a boy.
Jane: No, I don't think so, because she would senf us an sms.
Michelle: Than let's go for some drink, maybe she's there.
(After...)
Jane: Look at her, she's there!
Michelle: Yes, but what she's doing?
Anne:(singing)Scuby doby dooo .... where are you?
Jane: Anne...?
Anne: so..... who are you?
Michelle: Anne please!!
Anne: ¡Ah! Hey girls! how you are? Where were you? Sing with me, come on!
Scuby doby dooo.... na na na na !!!
Jane: Where you was?
Michelle: We were looking for you !
Anne: Slow down! I was at the bar, with my friend, the beer. Do you want to know him?
Michelle:No thank you! I don't like it!
Jane: Me neither.
Anne: Ohhhh!... Come on!
Michelle: Noo!
Jane: And we go home! Right now! You are drunked!
Anne: No! I don't! And I don't want to go home, I want to stay here and... stay with you! I am happy and I want for more party! Come on girls! The music is good and the people are really nice!
( ... )
mmm.....huum....ok, I go to say goodbbye to the beer!
Jane: No!
Michelle: Come on, let's home!

http://www.esnips.com/doc/2b6ad5d1-d114-48bf-9316-10ccf1b55074/ariadna,_chainezmiriam
(I'm fighting with e-snips...)

My Oral Presentation with Anna!

How to be a gentleman like Mr. Darcy in our days?

Hi class, Anna and me will talk to you about the rules of behaviour of high social class. As you saw in the film, Mr. Darcy has a very good behaviour in front of all the situations. He is a gentleman, don't you think?

So we want to teach you how to be a gentleman like Mr. Darcy in our days. We have taken details of the film about this good behaviour and we have transported and adapted these in our days. How should Mr. Darcy's behaviour be, nowadays, in a romantic meeting?

We will show you the rules of a meeting because when the film finished we wanted to know how could be the first meeting between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth as a married couple.

Well, what would you do in your first meeting? First of all, be on time, don't be late. Then, to enter in a restaurant, the man has to open the door and... first ladies!

When they entered in the restaurant, Mr. Darcy should withdraw the chair because Lizzy sits down. You have to put on your lap the napkin and open it halfy. To sit in a good way you have to sit with straight back, elbows should'nt be on the table and don't look at the floor.

If Mr. Darcy has to serve Elizabeth, he can not fill the glass to the top and they haven't to drink too quickly. The fork has to go to the mouth, and not the mouth to the fork. The couple have to, not exaggeratedly, clean up the lips with the napkin.

When they drink the haven't to rise a lot the glass, always trying to not leave marks of the lips or fingers in the glass. If there are more than one pair of forks and knifes, they should begin from the far site to the plate, and if Mr. Darcy has to serve the drink, he has to do it from left to right.

Both can't talk meanwhile they're eating ang don't eat with open mouth. Try to not eat big handfuls of food and don't clean up the plate with bread when you finish to eat. Once both have finished, they have to put, on the plate, the fork and the knife in diagonal and in parallel.

Moreover, there're three points that Mr. Darcy has to take care in a meeting of nowadays:
- Pay attention to her words.
- Don't stare at Elizabeth when she eats because he can disturb her.
- Don't forget to say: thanks, please and sorry.

And now, we'll know if you can say us something about this topic, do you know some more rules of etiquette?

NEWS!

A teenage gymnast from Portsmouth has become the first person in the world to get a new kind of implant to help straighten her back.
Ruth Smith’s back is severely bent. She is 13 years old and she trains Gymnastics. Normally with scoliosis, two titanium rods are screwed into the spine, which helps straighten it, but with young children this can cause problems because it does not allow the spine to grow. For this reason Mr Davies designed "Davies Dominoes" which were used to fix Ruth’s spine in a 9 hours operation.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7750471.stm)

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A New Zealand doctor has been convicted of drink-driving, despite blaming an alcohol handwash he used at work.

Ian Denholm had pleaded not guilty to the charge, saying the surgical handwash put him over the legal limit. The police fined him and suspended his driving licence for six months because he was driving drunk. The doctor said that he didn’t drink alcohol, that his eczema has an extraordinary ability to absorb alcohol in the hand, and that he used to wash her hands for operations with alcohol.
(haha!! oh my god, I can't believe it!)
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7754346.stm)

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Iran hangs 10 murderers in Tehran

Last year in Iran more than 300 people were hanged for crimes. This year, the number is 295 deaths. Moreover, Iran executes crimes that people did under 18 years.
One woman who was hanged said that she had suspected her husband of trying to rape her daughter from a previous marriage.
But her lawyer said that was not accepted by the court and she was hanged.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7750744.stm)

JOKE!

mims91_2's Stuff

Two goldfishes are talking in a water bowl. One asks:
- Do you believe in God?
And the other answers:
- Of course! Who do you think changes the water?

Welcome e-mail!

Hello Lourdes! How are you? I’m fine, a little bit tired, but I’m OK :) I love to stay happy. I’m going to tell you some things about me, my likes and dislikes.
Well, I have two sisters; as you know; Sara, who is in Barcelona studying medicine which it’s going perfect, and Júlia, my little sister who has entered at the high school this year, she is so cute!!!
At home, we have a lot of pets: cats and dogs. I love animals I can’t live without them; last year at summer, I was working as a helper in the veterinary Gomis, form Empuriabrava, and the 3 summers before this one, I’ve ever gone to Pro-Gat from Castelló d’Empúries for help a little bit with the dogs and cats because there was a lot of tasks to do every day and there was only one women that she couldn’t have time for all the animals when she was alone. Nowadays, the organization has improved and there are more helpers during the whole year.
I like to play music, I play the traverse flute in Castelló and I am the trainer of a volleyball group: 14 girls who are between 10 and 12 years old will come every Wednesday and Friday with me in the sport pavilion.
I listen lots of music groups, but especially I like “Simple Plan”, because the music and the lyrics are beautiful and really nice. The bests songs, in my opinion are: “welcome to my life”, “you love is a lie”, “perfect” and “untitled”.
Often I get angry with society because I don’t agree with lots of things or how some of them are going. I don’t criticize what other says or think, but if it is egoistic, Machiavellian or unjust, I am the first who says that I am not in agreement.
I’m scared about 2nd of Batxillerat because I can see that I will stay very stressed and nervous all the time… Last year, it was great, I passed without problems and not too much stress, but this summer had happening something in me, that at the minimal I am not fine. Sometimes it worries me because I distress more than I can hold and I am “off” for the rest of the day. But I try to stay with a smile in the face so long time as I can. :D
Last year, I recognize that we, the high group, didn’t do a lot of English at class. Well, a little bit yes, but the minimum! and I need to work hard, because I’m looking for a good level and in this class it’s difficult, because all the students excepting me, had done or are doing extra English lessons, and all the things that we do in class, they already know and they go to fast for me. I promise I will work hard! ;)

Bye Lourdes! See you tomorrow*

2nd of BATXILLERAT! :)

Final Evaluation

Observing your portfolio, can you see an improvement on your level of English since September 2007? Where, for example?
Yes, I can see an improvement on my level of English. For example... some vocabulary and the use of relative clauses.

Which activity best shows your level of English?
I think that the activities which best shows my level of English are oral presentations and blogger.

Which activities were USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?
I think that the activity which was more useful for me to improve myEnglish were the oral presentations. Because we have to look or information in english or trnslate it, we have to learn new words, and know how to pronunce it.

Which activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not?
I think the portfolio, because we have to put he work that we have done in class and that takes us time for do other things.

Which activities did you enjoy doing and would like to do again next year?
I enjoyed a lot the orals and the blogger. But for me, it would be OK if next year we haven't to work with PC.

My oral presentation with Anna

Extreme inequality: a 20% of the population controls 83% of the wealth. In our planet, richer 20% of the population controls 83% of the world-wide wealth. According to UNICEF, to satisfy the basic necessities with all the inhabitants of the planet (basic feeding, basic sanitary attentions, access to potable water and basic education) would cost 80,000 million dollars annually. Although this number is equivalent to a 9% of world-wide the military cost, it seems that we are used to seeing these differences. Most of people who live in a poverty situation are young. The children are the most affected.

WHAT IS THE PATRONAGE? Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organisation. A boy can be supported during years or only during a time, until you decide. At any time you can leave it, because there is no legal bond between the godfather and the young sponsored person. In a world where the wealth is very badly distributed, to support a boy it can be a great act of great generosity. So only paying 15 euros per month, with which you could buy trousers for example, they can save a life: maintaining a boy during a month. The countries where you can act as a godfather are Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mali, Nicaragua, India and Bangladesh.

VICENS FERRER ONG The Foundation Vicente Ferrer is a ONGD (nongovernmental organization of development) consists in transform one of the poorest zones: Anantapur (India). Vicente Ferrer ONG is working, approximately, 60 years ago next to the most underprivileged. India has a population about 1.000.000.000 approx. of inhabitants. There, the life expectancy is about 65 years old and there are 8 deaths by each 1000 inhabitants. This country belongs in one of the most underdeveloped countries of the Third World. For example: they have only 51 doctors for each 100,000 people. We are talking to you about this foundation because we are in this ONG: we have a sponsored person in our families. Anna: Marekka, and Miriam Murali.

MAREKKA AND MURALI My family and I decided to act as a godfather to Marekka, more or less 5 or 6 years ago, thanks to Operacion Triunfo’s program. This program organized a special session for the children of Poor Countries, they gave us a phone number to call if we wanted to help the children and we called. A few days later we received a letter that we acted as a godfather to Marekka, an Indian girl. Nowadays she’s 15 years old, she has 5 brothers and with her family live in Paithota, a village of Anantapur. After so many years now I think highly of her. One of my dreams is to travel to her town and visit her. We receive every month letters from her, with texts where she explain to us what she’s doing, for example nowadays she had to drop out of school and she had to work with her parents in the fields, or letters with drawings that she did. It’s very very special for us. I want to show you one of her letters we received, you can see Indian characters.

We decided to act as a godfather because my mum heard about this fundation, and one day, 3 years ago we saw a tv program about Vicens Ferrer and his acts in India. We decided to phone and participate in this ONG. They said us that our patronage belongs to a boy called Murali. Nowadays he is 11 years old and he is studying. He explain to us in her letters that he will study hard to be a doctor, because he had a sister that she died for illness. Every year for his birthday we send him a big case full of presents and he answer us with a letter, a picture of him with some of the presents and a drawing. I have a special effect to him. Well, We have already finished. Have you got any questions?


I will put the video of the oral presentation like a comment ;)

Dialogue with Adrià

:( THECNICAL PROBLEMS!
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Boy: I have to leave you.
Girl: what do you mean?
Boy: I am leaving.
Girl: what about us?
Boy: there is no us anymore.
Girl: just that?
Boy: yes, I have to go.
Girl: I am pregnant.
Boy: get an abortion.
Girl: I can’t I am a catholic.
Boy: You know that I can’t marry you.
Girl: why can’t you?
Boy: I am just a boy.
Girl: but I am not asking you to marry me.
Boy: what do you mean?
Girl: just be the father of my child.
Boy: I can’t I am just a boy.
Girl: why can’t you?
Boy: I only 13 and I cannot support that child.
Girl: I am not asking for support.
Boy: what do you mean?
Girl: just be my man.
Boy: but I am just a boy.
Girl: just love me.
Boy: I can’t I don’t really love you.
Girl: I hate youBoy: I hate you too.
Girl: I will tell papa.
Boy: I tell mama.
Girl: I tell the police.
Boy: I am leaving.
Girl: I tell the world.
Boy: go, I am leaving.
Girl: where are you going?
Boy: I am going back to school.

Oral Presentations of my classmates

Oriol Oliva - Water
The earth contains a 97% of salty water and the other 3% is fresh water.
When the cycle of the water gets interrupted, drought appears.
Water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen.

Bernat&Iñaki - Crimes in the United States of América
Most of the crimes are commited by black males.
One of the reasons for the blacks crimes is that there are lots of differences between blacks and whites.
Francis Johnson is known for killing 6 innocent person.

Chanez Selloum - The famine
Some reasons of famine are the high prizes.
In 2008, 18% of the American cereal production will be used for the production of ethanol.
The world organizations for food are WFP and FAO.

Laia and Elisenda - Helpless dogs
People abandon dogs because they go for holidays, or they become aggressive.
Nowadays there is a law that punishes this crime.
One of the consequences is the suffering of the animals.

Marina Sarquella - Natural diseases
They are land and movements disasters, water diseases and weather diseases.
She showed us a picture of landslide.
She is afraid of fire.

Adrià Alfaro - Skinheads
Nationalists skinheads appeared in 1960 in England.
Communists or Red skinheads appeared in 1980/1990.
RASH means: Red & Anarchist skin heads.

Adrià Carmona&Alejandro - Recycling
Every year we produce lots of residues which we don’t know where put.
The most dangerous materials are: plastic bags, condoms, batteries, cigarettes, aluminum, cans…
One solution is to recycle.

Neus&Marina Julià - Diseases
They explain us some things about cancer.
AIDS is very common in the whole world, but specially in poor countries.
Bulimia & anorexia are 2 illnesses caused by the prototype societies.
They explains us Maria’s story, who has anorexia.

Claudia&Carles - Drugs
They tell us that in the 90’s, the drug industries became an important way to make money.
The most expensive drug is heroine which costs 65€ per gram.
They recommended is 3 films: “Requiem for a dream”, “Transporting”, and “El pico”.


Baldiri - Hooliganism
The most common hooliganism are football hooligans.
Some players like Eto’o have been insulted with racistic slogans.
He recommended us a film called: “street hooligans”.

Ariadna Comas - Experiments on animals
A lot of animals die because of animal experiments.
The ONG that fights for animals rights is PETA.
A lot of people make animals fight for entertainment.

LAST TERM

"We have almost learnt to respect our world"

No, I don't agree. Because we are destroying our planet day after day. The pollution is every day higher and we don't do anything to avoid it.

The water is dirty and the forests are being destroyed without taking care of the enviroment and the animals who live there. Moreover, there are a lot of endagered animals because the man has killed them for meat and the fur.

We have to use clean energy and take care for these species. We have to take off the habit of wasting water and energy, and taking the public bus instead of the privat car, or we will kill ouselves with the pollution and the destruction.

2. My European passort

Click on the picture! :)

3. My first mail to the teacher

My name is Miriam, I'm 16 years old and I live in Empuriabrava but I study in Castelló d'Empúries. I like playing the flute, to play volleyball, to travel to other countries, to go out at night, to go shopping, to be with my pets, to play computer games and to surf in internet, listening to music…
I would like to study Asian languages, for example Chinese or Japanese, because I think it's important for the future. I like all kinds of music but I hate Heavy Metal and similar, and I love one singer particulary: Celine Dion. She sings so well!. I also like to read, I'm a fan of Jorge Bucay and Sergio Sinay. In two years, I would like to study psychology in Girona or Barcelona. I love to help people!

4. The horror story

Madness

I was walking. It was getting dark. I crossed with a shepherd, he was closing his sheep flack in the farmhouse. He was staring at us, we felt scared and we ran into the forest.We sat down on a spot and we began to explain our halloween's stories. We were six. Robin started to talk about spirits and Kathie said that she couldn't stand it and she left with Ryan.In a few minutes we heard a scream but nobody said anything. When Robin finished to explain his story, he went behind a tree, and suddenly he disappeared.Julie and Jake, the ones who were there, said to me that they wanted to look for the others. The time went by and nobody appeared. I started to feel scared and afraid. I began to hear some strange noises, and a liquid fell on my arm... I thought it was blood and I fell down.I woke up in the morning. I was alone. The shepherd was with me and he asked to me why I was alone there, but I asked to him if he saw my friends. He looked at me surprised and he answered: - I'm sorry but yesterday I saw you walking alone...There are people who have good-luck with their lives, but I've spent my life in a sad madhouse.

Anna Genís and Miriam Falgàs

5. My first oral prsentation

Exrcice 1:
Yes, I used resources. I had made a power point with some pictures of the girls. I think that they were attractive, and relevant. I looked at my audience all the time, moving my eyes around the room and I didn’t read from my notes. I only had to look at them to know when I had to pass the pictures of my power point. I think that I moved my arms, but I’m not sure.
I think that my topic was interesting but the information was superficial. I had checked my grammar and I had looked up the dictionary for new words and expressions. I’ve tried to use sentence linkers but I think that I haven’t done it.
Yes! :D I know how to pronounce all the words that I used, because Marc Barneda had listened and helped me.
I think that my speed and fluency were good, but if was too short. I tried to change my tone of voice to urge the people to listen to me. Oh…I don’t know about my mark…perhaps a seven, because it was good, the topic “original” but it was too short. What do you think?

(I have already corrected it!)

6. Frankenstein: differences between the film and th book. Is it a good story?

The differences that I saw are:

- In the book, the monster kills Elisabeth strangling her, and in the film, he kills the girl taking his heart from his body.

-In the film, when Elisabeth dies, Victor makes a monster with her, but in the book, he wants to kill the murderer.

-In the book, Henry dies, but in the film they don't.

-In the book, Henry and Victor are childhood friends and in the film, they met at the university.

- In the film victor has one brother: Wiliam, and in the book Victor has 2 brothers.

- In the book Henry dies but in the film they don't.

-In the film Elisabeth has got brown hair and in the book she is blond with blue eyes.

- In the film, the family of the forest (Felix and Agatha) are married, and in the book they are brothers.

Is it a goog story?

I think that it's a good story, but I think that I

liked it so much because first we read the book,

and later we watched the film. I think that the

book was better, because you could made our

own personages. :)

8. Dialogue

Dialogue Adrià-Mir...

Miriam=interviewer
Adrià=interviewed person

M: good morning
A: good morning
M: sit down please
A: thank you
M: I introduce myself, my name is Miriam Flagàs and you should be Adrià Alfaro Costals.
A: yes, I am
M: this interview, you will already know, it has for objective selecting qualified personal in sales and industry for our company Rockwell Automation.
How did you know about the employment?
A: I found it out in the newspaper
M: Well then, do you have some track or activities in social relationships?
A: of course, I act during six years in positions and in international companies that required of a lot of skill in the treatment with people.
M: the company is looking for an electric or civil engineer with one hundred percent of availability . Do you fulfill this requirement?
A: yes, absolutely. At this time I am not working, because I arrive three months ago from Canadá, where I acted as manager of CLEI and now I plan to stay in Chile.
M: Would you have any impediment to travel when it is necessary?
A: No, because I don't have affective commitments neither children.
M: mmmmm, how well! Who do you live with?
A: I am living now with a friend in a department that both we rent and Who do you live with ?
M: I live alone. But don't let us move away from the theme do you suffer of some chronic illness?
A: No, but I suffer of constant allergies in spring, which I control with medications and they don't affect my labor acting.
M: How do you prefer to work in team or alone?
A: In team, because this complements my work.
M: Do you possess some tools to carry out this work?
A: mmm Of what type of tools we are speaking? Computers, vehicles, documents of information?
M: Yes.
A: aa!! okay. Yes, I have two computers, a jeep to and also a department in New York.
M: perfect. Here in their curriculum I see that you have a wide labor experience in very high positions in which of these positions Do you feel more comfortable?
A: I believe that when I work as international coordinator of computer science and electric because I could be related with people and so to extend my knowledge in the theme.
M: Finally , why do you believe that you are the best candidate for this position?
A: because I have experience and I am single without engagement.
M: OK, this was all, thank you