Final reflection

My level of English isn’t excellent but I have learned a lot this year. Nowadays I understand more than the years ago, I think that my fluency is not very good but if we saw since the third of ESO, I can say that I have improve a lot. The blog is a good method to do writings and all we know and to improve the writings.

The best activity I can show my English was the exams because I do all I know. The writings are the other thing that I like because when I write them I put in the writtings all we have learned. The podcasts is the other one because I like a lot, when I recorded I thought for have I’ll say. The worst activity that I show my English is the oral presentation. I didn’t have luck, on day because I don’t study a lot, the other because I have a lot of nervous…

I think that I have learned with all activities we have done. I find really useful lots of things made in class such as listening to my classmate’s presentations, watching films in class and speaking about them in groups, listening songs and doing a little grammar exercises.

In a language all the varieties or things are useful to improve it. I’ve said that my worst part is the oral part but I find it useful to improve fluency and vocabulary.

Next year it will be a complicated year because we’ll be nervous for the selectivity and to get a good level in all the items: writing, reading, speaking and listening. I really like the reading part and the writing but the other two parts are so complicated for me. I really wish to get the level to get good marks.

My future

Currently, I study first of batxillerat. I hope I will pass this academic year; above all I have to pass another national test called selectivitat (in order to enter at university). But there is a lot of time for theses exams yet.

This year has been very difficult for me. I have gone from fourth ESO to batxillerat and the difference of level is very high. The first term I had a lot of work and I had to study so much, I fell chemistry but I had to study harder and harder in order to pass the exam. However I thought that I had already assumed the difficulty of batxillerat but I didn’t do it. The second term I was more confident than the first valuation, but I fell philosophy. Although this situation I pass the final exam. And the third term: I'm studying a lot of to pass all the exams.

My greatest wish is pass the second batxillerat with good marks. I know is too difficult but every year I pass all the subjects with good marks, why not now? The next year I'll put all my strength, my confidence and my hope for next year. I need enough mark of my degree.

Nowadays I don't know what subject I like the best. And less what degree I have to choose. At present I'm interested in the career of optics and optometry, because I love all around this kind. I'm looking all the possibilities to do this and take place in Madrid. But I also was interesting in chemist degree, because I like all associated with this. To choose my career yet, I have to pass so much time, but I cannot sleep.

I have to decide my future, but I thing that I'm child and do the selectivity and choose one degree for me is very big. I hope to pass the time quickly to stay in the degree and forget all related with the selectivity.

I wish that in my narrow future I could study what I want and that it like me a lot. I don’t know if study Chemistry or a Science degree. But one thing that I’m sure is that I will work hard to get it.

I will meet new friends and study in Girona or Barcelona and I will know different kinds of people.

I’m nervous about my future but I know that I have to get it alone with my effort.

Abortion

Artur and Yeray talked about abortion and its risks and the arguments for pro life and pro chose. They said that abortion has two types: the intentional one and the spontaneous. But Rebeca said to me that when the baby dies in the stomach in English it's called a miscarriage.

Their presentation was very good and interesting because abortion is very important to learn new things. There are 40 million abortions every year around the world. There are two methods to do it, the medical and the surgical methods. If one girl does it, there is a big chance of probability secondary consequences, because it's very dangerous for the foetus, such as deformities.

During pregnancy the baby and its mother can suffer some risks like infections or problems, or also the mother can cause psychological damage.

In Spain abortion is completely legal on request. Parents don't need any reason to abort. But the current government has promised to restrict them. But I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Everyone has to decide whether to have an abortion or not.

I think that natural abortions are not problematic because these things happen. But I don't agree with the people that have an intentional abortion. If the person doesn't want any baby the must use protection. But if the mother is very young or suffers from an anomaly I think they can have an abortion.

Before going to Valladolid

This weekend I'm going to go to Valladolid. I'm going to go with my family and my boyfriend.

Today evening I'm going to pack my suitcase. I don't have to forget my bathroom bag, my mobile charger, my night clothes and of course my high-heeled shoes phone and my trainers to walk, and the most important my mobile phone.

There we will probably to Palencia the first day and to Valladolid the other days. My friends told to me that in Valladolid there is a nice cathedral to visit. We will do there if we can. We would like to go in the main square famous fan its buildings and the town hall.

In the morning we will walk across the streets, we'll take photographs and buy souvenirs. At midday we'll eat every day at difference kinds of restaurants like typical ones to eat ''tortilla de patatas'', ''cocido'', ''pimientos rellenos'', ''cabrito'', etc. At afternoons we will relax a bit. We will take a good hotel with spa zone in order to swim and relax two or three hours. At evening we will visit Valladolid at night because the buildings were full of lights to atrack more tourists like us. We will stop the path in a balcony to take a drink or a coffee and talk quietly. At night we will combine dinner in the hotel or outside. After dinner we'll go in a pub or bar to relax and dance a bit.

I hope I like a lot the tripe with all my relatives and that we will spend a nice time, because today I have surfer the internet to online website forescast anal it will probably rain the first day.

My summer

I stay with my family in l'Estartit for two or three weeks every summer or I also spend one or two weeks more in Camprodon. My family love the mountains, the environment, stay close to nature, breathe clean air... But when it's summer and my sister and I love to go to the swimming pool or go to the sea. For this reason we stay half summer on the beach and the other half on the mountain.

Moreover, we can do something else, for example last summer I went to Sheffield in London. I stayed there three weeks and I learnt so much about English people, their habits, their religions and how they live too. Three summers ago I and my family went for a cruise. We went around the Mediterranean sea. I loved this trip because was one of the longest that we did together.

On my summer holidays I sometimes do nothing but at the same time I do many things. I said that because in the summer I do nothing comparing with what I do in winter sine I have a lot of exams, problems... and I don't have so much time to have a rest. Apart from school extra activities. I do a lot of things, moreover I look after my cousins my cousins and this is hard work. This is why in summer I like walkong on the beach, or sunbathing, I also love eating a ice-cream at night with my close friends or my family and above all have a nap.

To sum up, the summer is the best time of the year. I can do anything and I have a lot of free time. I'm so happy, I spend a lot of time with my friends and I enjoy so much. The heat is better than the cold. When you are hot spend all the day in the water and when you are cold you wouldn't do anything if you haven't got a heater.

Qualities than boy or girl

First of all, I must say that when you have a boy/girl friend is because you appreciate high all his/her way of being, personal qualities, physical appearance… But, on the other hand is true that there are aspects in which you look over by certain reasons depending on the person. 

On the one hand, I am going to talk about the importance the personal qualities and the way of being of your boy/girl friend. These aspects are the most important if he/she likes you by his/her physical appearance. The way of being of one person is the most important for one relationship, because, apart of the physical appearance, this is why a boy/girl likes you and catches your intention, because you always look for someone who is good person, sincere, that inspires you confidence, that is lovely... However, all these aspects are subordinated to the physical appearance, because for you look for these important aspects one person first must like you and not vice versa. 

On the other hand, is true that when you meet someone for first time, are not the personal qualities in which you look at, as you look is if that person is lovely and if he/she has a great body. Once this is accomplished, you intend to check everything said in the last paragraph. 

Finally, say that in my opinions both the physical appearance and the personal qualities have the same importance, but personal qualities come after that physical appearance.

London

London is a great mixture of cultures and languages. This is why I’d recommend it to everybody. The best way to travel to London is by an economic class flight. There are lots of flights from Girona to London Stanted or Luton every day. You’d better travel light and on your own. You shouldn’t go on a guided tour, London is easy to get around by tube (the tube is how London people called their underground). The cheapest way to travel by tube is buying the Oyster Card. 

 

London has lots of hostels and bed and breakfast to stay. I’d recommend to check into an hotel near King Cross St Pancras because is well connected and quiet at night. Hotels are not so expensive in this zone. 

 

You should definitely see the Picadilly circus in Oxford Street. Whatever the season that you go is always full of people. And close there it’s worth to enter to China Town to walk, smell and eat the typical confit duck in the Chinese restaurants. That’s good to know that China town becomes dangerous from midnight. Many thieves watch the clueless tourists.

That’s well worth walking around Hyde Park one afternoon when you are tired to buy in Harrods. Oh no! Harrods is the most expensive big store in London you’d better see but not buy anything.

That’s good to know the two biggest markets in London. One is Candem Town. You ought to go there in order to see lots of bizarre stores and all kind of food (Italian, Japanese, Indian food whatever you like is there). The other market is Covent Garden. It is full of street artists. Jugglers, contortionists and clowns are mixed in a big craft market. 

 

You shouldn’t get back from London without seeing the guards of the Tower of London. Their nickname is beefeater and they are always willing to take a photo with you. 

 

It isn’t really worth visiting Buckingham Palace because it is so expensive and you have to do a long queue at about 2 or 3 hours to enter in Palace. 

 

London Eye and Big Ben are two activities that you should do at night. It’s worth to take them a photograph to give as a souvenir when you come back.

Bring back souvenirs such as t shirts, pencils or red little buses. They put always the same slogan ( I love London).

I’ve already been to London. Have you been in London yet?

Diseases

 

In my opinion my presentation was not very good, I think that it was the worst presentation I could do. The power point I think was the best, because we did with prezi and I think is better than a simple power point, is more beautiful than the simple one, colourful and different. I think we can put all in order and it has a very good organization.

This day I was ill and I didn't study a lot or so much. In this moment I put very nervous and I read all the presentation. I studied a little but I didn't know all, very well, for this reason I read. I thought that the best solution was read it in order to the people understand all I had to do. We could have studied more and next time it won't happen.

My fluency wasn't very well but I did all we had. I have to improve it and I have learned a lot of vocabulary and things that I didn't know. We look for information from the internet and then we wrote more or less the same but with our words. We found all the information on the internet. I think that the vocabulary were good to understand it.

Joana was very good as always. Her pronunciation and her fluency was very good. I envy with her and I think that some day I'll hope to do like her.

Like the presentation was so wrong and poor, we thought that we could repeat it again, because we have to show that we can do it better. For this reason here you can see the other presentation:

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Dialogue of a woman and her husband

listen to ‘dialeg eli i joana’ on Audioboo

HUNGER GAMES

The hunger games take place in a nation called Panem. After the destructions of our civilisation the Capitol create this new country, Panem which is divided in 13 Districts, well, 12 because the 13^th was destroyed by its rebellion.

Katniss Everdeen live in District 12 dedicated to the miner works with her daughter Prim, her mother, a awful cat from her daughter and a little goat. In this district people are always hungry because there is not so food for all. Katniss goes to hurt outside to her district (which is illegal) with his friend Gale. He is a very good looking boy and they have a very good relationship. They hurt rabbits, birds, etc and catch roots, strawberries and sell it in the big black market in the district to have money enough to feed their families.

Every year a Hunger Games are celebrate in Panem to remember each District who is the Capitol and its power. Every boy and girl from 10 to 18 has to be in the draw. But this is not correct at all. If you want more food this year you could pay a tribute, change wheat and cereals with more names in the draw. Katniss has her name 20 times and Gale 40. Is the first year that Prim participates in the Games and it’s impossible that her name appears.

The entire district has to be in the main square to see the Hunger Games. Boys and girls have to be separated while adults see them with an enormous pain. There will be only one boy and one girl of each district that could participate in the Games (in total 24 guys). This guys must fight in an Arena especially build for the event and only will win one, the victor. The victor must kill the other 23 participants. 

 

Peeta Mellark was the boy selected and after that name, Katniss almost faints when listen to the name of her little daughter, Prim. She can’t believe what is happening. So she decides to change her place for her daughter.

Peeta and Katniss will be the new tributes of District 12. The Arena appears a few days after lots of public presentations and television interviewers. The Arena is so hard to survive but Katniss is a good hurter with her bow and arrows. She throws a hive full of bees to some guys of other districts and they die. Gradually all the guys died in different situations and a new rule appear, two guys could win if they are from the same District. This is why Katniss starts to look for Peeta who is very injured. She cures him and they starts the last part of the Games together.

Peeta falls in love with Katniss (a real love or a good strategy?) but her heart belongs to Gale. When they end with the last opposite a new rule appear, only one could survive. They decided to eat poisonous berries to commit suicide. 

 

The Capitol decided that the two candidates win this year the Game (but..they don’t know that a new war has started with this brave decision). They win and will return in their lovely district where never will pass hunger enough.

Bankia

Spain is in the eye of all European countries, in concrete, all the eurozone. This is why Spain has decided to help a private bank to solve its financial problems. Every Friday our government announce a new law that drown more our weak economy. Cuts are being very several for medical and educational groups.

It’s known that Bankia has become public these last days, but this is not the end it is only the beginning of the intentions of our government. Europe doesn’t see with good eyes these Spanish intentions so it has stopped the negotiations

The BCE (Banco Central Español) don’t believe that could be possible to inject 23.000 million of Euros to this particular bank. Mariono Rajoy (the actual Spanish president) is favour to this enormous transfer meanwhile Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (the opposite political party) is against this transfer. 

 

In my opinion the Spanish situations is the worst I’ve ever seen and been since I have reason to. Banks are governing the governments and this is not a good way to improve and to increase economies.

Europe is comparing our situation to the Greece situation before to be rescued. Greece is living a horrible economic situation and we are not far of them. People don’t have enough money to live. The unemployment is more or less as ours. People are angry with politics (who years and years have live like authentic millionaires).

I don’t know how Spain will solve Bankia’s problem but I only know that people are leaving in streets to protest (they are called Indignats). Some people think that we will be rescued this summer but others (more optimistic) believe that a solution is still possible. Pessimistic and optimistic are agree that it could be an injustice to help with 23.000 million euros (money from the citizens) a private bank.

DIAMOND JUBILEE

Million of English have celebrated today the Diamond Jubilee of QueenElisabeth II. It is a multinational celebration marking the 60^th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom to the thrones of seven countries, upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952.

English people celebrated today the Jubilee on the Thames in London. The river spectacle, officially started with the ringing of Jubilee at 14:40 hours and will end at about 17:30 hours.

The queen dressed in a white hat and a silver and white coat. She is accompanied by senior royals, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on the boat, which has been decorated with 10.000 flowers from the royal state.

Prime Minister, David Cameron, paid tribute to the 86-year-olr Queen too. All the Londoners and English in general has gone outside full of English flags to celebrate with their Queen this special day.

The act will end on the Tower Bridge (that it has been decorated with coloured lights for this special occasion).

Queen Elisabeth II is today queen regnant of 16 states and this is not the normal case. Monarchies has been losing credibility in these last years, especially in Spain with the King Juan Carlos I hunting elephants in Botswana. In my opinion, monarchies are part of our recent history but we have to improve and to became a democratic and parliamentary countries if we want for example leave the crisis. Monarchies spent lots of money in journeys, meals, security, buildings, etc...

In the other hand it is amazing that a woman could be 60 years in the power. And I’m in favour of women in the power because by bad luck men still govern the history.

Eurovision 2012

This year we didn’t win Eurovision as usual. This festival is an annual competition held by European countries. It celebrated in May where the country of the last festival won. Each member of the countries submits a song to the festival and it is voted by the others one.

Every year Eurovision has a strange performance or a strange song that could be the result of wining the festival. Several years ago a group of Nordic dinosaurian men dressed with their guitars won with a heavy song. Or, another year a blond pretty girl won with a performance like a cabaret full of changes in her appearance in public such as a long black dress which became in a very short red dress in a few seconds. Spain participated with a freaky song submit by Chiquilicuatre was favourite to win but it didn’t work).

This year is not different as usual. A group of Russian grannies are the favourite to win. They were from a remote village in the Ural Mountains. They sang a typical Russian song dressed as a typical cultural way. The oldest of them is 76, which makes her the oldest Eurovision participant as ever. But, at the end, they didn’t win.

A group of Irish twins, John and Edward Grimes, were the most voted the Tuesday night’s semi-final so they passed to the big final on Saturday with the grannies and, of course, Spain. The 20-year-old twins dressed in silver and gold costumes with spiky hair. The performance ended with the brothers jumping into a fountain in the middle of the stage.

Finally was Sweden who won the festival with a song called Euphoria. Spain ended in a 10 positions carried by Pastora Soler.

Eurovision is always synonym as an event to celebrate kitsch entertainment. In my opinion, the festival is an old-fashioned event that agglutinated freaky people. It is such a long time that Spain doesn’t win this festival. In this kind of festival is mixed other things far from music and talent. It is full of political interests that make curious things in the votes. For example, Germany only gave us one point and Greece gave us ten points. This is why we have a strong relationship with Greece (Queen Sophia has her roots in Greece) and Germany is angry with us for not doing our financial homework. So, this kind of things shouldn’t have to pass.