According to the people, the technology have made the world a better place. Do you have a computer? If do you have a computer, do you use them a lot? Experts say that 7 about 10 people use computer every day. One the one hand, computers spend a lot of electricity and is more expensive than use a simple paper to do some actions. Moreover, if you pass so much hours use the PC, you can get a bad habit. Furthermore, with computers the feelings which could feel children when he played football or with toys is very different like a boy in front of a PC On the other hand, with computers we have more free time because is very faster use them. Because of that we can enjoy with our activities that before we didn’t have enough time to did it. Adding to that, computers introduce to us a lot of new things like Internet. With Internet we can have a relationship with a friend of Asia, because it is free. All in all, I believe that computers have the world a better place because If we use the technology with measure, we don’t spend a lot of time to do some simple things and we will have more time to enjoy.
On the dictionary the word football means: a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal post. But for me the football isn’t only a sport. It is a very big part of my life. Since I was a child I had played every day to football. I had enjoyed a lot with them. When I was little I wanted to be football player. Nowadays, I know that I won’t be able to a football player, but I continue playing football in a team. I am very happy with my team because we are second on the league. Moreover, I like it very much see the football on TV, because of that I see every weekend two or three football match. But, now it is time of exams and I don’t have enough time to watch football. Because of that I only watch the football match of the Real Madrid, my favourite team. As I said before, I play football in a team, and every weekend I have a football match. It is a problem for my mother. She wants that I practise a sport, but she doesn’t like that I have played on this team because she thinks that I spend a lot of time. I think that he is a little right because I spend every Saturday with my football match. Because I played vs Girona’s teams. But when I play football I forget all things and I enjoy like a baby....
Hello teacher, I am Víctor Rosillo a simple boy of seventeen years old who lives in Empuriabrava. Always my parents have thought that I am a very inteligent boy, but the last year my marks are very poor and they have started to change of mind. Why I say my parents’s opinion are you asking. Because I think that the last year I gave up on my studies. Because of that I thought that they were right, but now I want to improve in my life. The first instance is meet my goals and later push and focus them.
When I was a child I wanted to be a news reporter like the people who appears on tv and work in some office with a partner because I wasn’t so ambicius. But now I change of mind. I understand that If I work very hard, I will be the person who I want.
Because of that, to try of fulfill my goals I am going to study very hard. As you know, now my objectives are very different as a news reporter. Today my challenge is study a lot to be an engineer in the future, but not a simple worker, I want to be one of the best engineers of Spain.
Perhaps, you think that my dream is very boring, and I have to say to you that you have reason. Because my dream is not to be engineer as I said before.
My dream it is very simple, I will be very happy if my parents are proud of me. Because of that, the word failure doesn’t exist on my dictionary. And my parents will be proud of me if I be happy. To fulfill my dream the first instance is to get good marks to go on Barcelona university where I want to study, and try to enjoy the way……………..
On the way of my life I want to be part of a family. I want to get married and I will want to see born my son. Then I’ll say “No one has whitten your destinity for you”.
On my first oral presentation of the year I used a lot of resources: A powerpoint, some pictures and two funny videos which help me to do a better presentation.As you can see on the video I was very nervous, but I think that I looked all the time at the audience. And I read my notes occasionally but I tried to hold the attention of my audience. The ideas that we explained were in order, and we use a lot of connectors to made the ideas more clear. I hope that the audience were very interested with the information that we explained because it wasn’t easy for us made it. I believe that it was a short, but a happy presentation because the videos are very funnies.As I said before, I think that our oral presentation was very short, but we used rich vocabulary because we looked a lot of words to the dictionary. Moreover we used a lot of connectors. In spite of that, I think that the pronunciation and intonation was very bad. I don’t like to repeat the things that I said, bit I was very nervous and I could’t talk with normality.Finally I ‘ll have to put my own mark. As I am realist I believe that I get a 5,75. But I hope that the next time I ll do it a good presentation.
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How we can define the word humour.Any volunteer. Well, more less.The world humour means: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. But what do you think?Is there an international humour? Or humour is culturally specific?In our opinion, we think that the humour depends of each culture for different reasons. • Because you can’t say some things which can offend to another people of different cultures: For example: In Islamic culture the religion is very important, because of that you can offend them if we try to some topics. • Moreover, the English humour for example isn’t same as Spanish humour, if a British men tells a joke , a lot of British people can laugh with them, but Spanish people can misunderstand and don’t get the idea of the joke. Quickly: What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About half way.OK, I don’t see the humour point in this joke, and you? Well, it is because the humour is culturally specific. Let’s go with the most important point of humour:As you know, in the World exists a lot of bad situations. Some experts, patients and doctors say that the best way to forget our problems it’is with humour therapy.Laughing is found to lower blood pressure, reduce stress hormones, increase muscle flexion, , and produces a general sense of well-being. Moreover, Laughter is infectious. Because of that a lot of Hospitals around the country are incorporating formal and informal laughter therapy programs into their therapeutic regimens. And In countries like India the government have created laughing clubs with a positive results.Now, we are going to watch a video.Enjoy them. It is awesome!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-w0Z08LxFM&feature=fvst In the video we can see a very famous comedian USA’s profile.But someone of you know what it is the comedian Spanish profile?.....We think, that it doesn’t exist an specific profile. You should have born with a natural characteristic.
In Spain exist a very famous TV programme about jokes. The club of jokes, in Spanish el club del chiste. Where the main characters are very different:
There are the attractive humorists: Martina Klein and David Amorthe simpatic boy called Diego Arjona. Meritxell Huertas Leo Harlem and the presenter Anabel Alonso.
At the end, we can watch a part of a video about humour.Enjoy them. It is awesome!!
Some years ago, my parents played with balls, toys, and a simple things. They were very happy with them. But, the technology is very fast, and now, the children don't play with simple things, they play with video games. In my opinion, it is very negative because the feelings that you can fell on the streets are very different as on a chair in front of a computer.
When I was little, the video games are very unusual and I enjoyed a lot with a football match with my friends...but a few years ago, everybody had a computer, I'm too. Then, I started to play to video games and I didn't go out approximately by one month. It was a small period of time because I was very "strong" but there are a lot of people that always are playing with a video games. They are into a bad habit.
Because of that I think that computers are very useful because we can do a lot of things that we couldn't do before, but with a lot of measure.
The research project consists on an investigation about some topic. I am going to talk about my project which is about the anemia.
I don't like so much my topic but I think that I have done a good work. I haven't finished my project yet. But it is going in a good way. Since I started the research I have done the theory part and I'll have to make the practicals. The practicals as you know is always the best and the happiest part. Because of that, I hope that I'll finish my project at the end of November. It is a good date to finish the project because I'll have three weeks to give in. In this time I'll correct my work.
But, What I think about the project?
In my opinion, I think that the research project is a waste of time, because I believe that we don't learn so much but we have to work a lot. If it is very useful, a lot of countries would do it, but their don't do it, only Catalonia. Because of that I think that it is not necessary, but I am a simple student and I can't do anything.
On the accountement about the qualification to the Eurocope 2012 between Italia vs Servia, 19 football fans were arrest in the football match when the servians fans had been fighting with the police and italians fans.Moreover they had introduced fireworks on the stadium. Because of that European football's governing body, Uefa, is thinking about the extreme situation to decide the disciplinary mesure to the national servia's team.
Some of importants organism of the football world are very angry with this kind of actions, which happens to many times in Servia. Because of that they want to impose a several punishment to the national team.
It is important that this kind of accountement doesn't occur another time on the future, because the beauty of the sport is very damage. And as you know, the football is the mirror of a lot of children.
The wife of an American man missing since a reported pirate attack on a U.S.-Mexico border lake that if people continues doubt about her story she would take a lie detector test. The account occurred when the marriage were on the lake with their watercraft. David Hartley was shot in the head and his wife when saw that her husband was dead she get away.
Now the conflict is that a lot of people doesn't believe her account. In my opinion, this account was a horrific new because of different reasons. On one hand a poor man is dead, and on another hand the wife was fiercely criticized. It is very incomprehensible because she has lost her husband.
Rafael Nadal, the world number one beats Fernando Verdasco on the US Open and he qualifies to semi-finals. The majorcan wants to win the trophy of New York,the only Grand Slam title which he had never won.
Because of that, the tennis fans have a lot of expectatives to see Nadal on the final. If it is possible in front of Roger Federer, his better rival.Because they had protagonized a lot of memorables tennis matchs together.
Moreover, the victory of Rafael Nadal can be a happiness to spanish fans who had lived the defeat of the national basquet team on the World Championship this month.
But, I am aware that this notice doesn't matter to all people. Also because they don't like Nadal, perhaps because the sport it isn't important to us, or maybe because they have anothers problems. But we are spanish and in my opinion we have to support our compatriots.
In other aspect, the victory of Rafa it is very possitive to the economy of spanish people, because as a lot of economist said, the people have more fun and they spend more money as when the spanish football team won the World Cup.
We have finished our english classes, and I have to evaluate my improvement.
Yesterday I was looking at my blog and I was very happy about it.I think that I have improved so much, the principal evidence is that I can correct my own mistakes, and, from my point of wiew, this is a really important thing. On one hand I make less mistakes, but on the other hand I'm I'm still doing different mistakes that I can't correct yet.
My small but important improvement is related to the your-says, because in this activities I had to write a lot. Moreover, when I was writting about my things I could express a lot of personals opinions. I'm a boy who hasn't a gift for lenguages, and neither for write. Because of that, I think that the activity which is most usefull to boost my English it is the your-says.
Secondly, I want to express my opinion about some activities which I not find usefull, or, which I find bored. The exercice that I hate most is the podcast. About the podcast I think the opposite of my classmate: They think that the podcast are the best form to learn english because you practise your vocabulary and your accent. But for me, It is not a good activity because I don't like talk in English in public because I have a bad accent, and because of that the podcast is very uncomfortable to doing.
About the songs which we have done in class during the year I have to say that they are so nice and they help me to learn a lot. I prested a lot of atention and I improved my oral English. Because of that, on the last test of the course I've got right all oral questions.
As a result of that I would recommend to you that the next year you will organize a lot of songs as could be possible, because they're funny.
At the end the only thing which I want to say is: it was a good experience to work with a demanding teacher because at the opposite that I thought at the beggining of the course I have learnt so much.
In Spain the major part of the population doesn’t respect their country, as you can see in the streets. In my opinión, unlike in others countries such as England, France, etc we don’t have enough environmental conscience, because of that, I think that we haven't learnt to respect our world yet.
First of all, I think that one of the reasons is the education which our children receive at school, where there are a lot of children who break a lot of things, waste schoolar’s material, etc and the teachers don’t say anything. This point is a key factor to learn to respect our world, and it is important to learn that as soon as posible. Intending to change the behaviour of the population is an impossible thing, but teaching our children is possible.
Secondly, this section is related to the first, because another Fac., which we don’t put into action but that I think could be good to respect our world consists in changing the law. With this form the people who don’t respect the country could be fined: like in France where if the police see you throw away a chewing gum, they can fine you.
To sum up, I would say that we haven't learnt to respect our world yet, because in Spain there is no environmental conscience, but if we start with simple things, as I said befote, we could achieve something.
Now is the time to decide my future, and luckily it is in my own hands. However, to get what I want I have to work a lot, because of that I’ve decided that the two LAST months of the course I need to study a lot to get the marks I need for the carreer I WANT. To achieve that I will have to cancel the last football match of the year, on the 6th of June. If not I won’t have enough time to study and without that to obtain my goals. For the same reason, today, 30th of May, ten o’ clock at night, I am writing this post to elevate my English mark, as you know, and I have to do it now, because I’ve spend all day in a football match.
I suppose that today it would have been best not to go to the match, but I have a commitment with the other football players and I couldn’t leave them on the day when we were playing the derby between Sant Peter vs Armentera, because it was a very special match.
I hope that this won’t affect my future because this week I have four final exams in Spanish, Chemistry, Philosophy and Physics.
If I don’t get the mark I want, I don’t know what I will do in the future, because a lot of things I would want to do depend on going to Barcelona or not.
In conclusion, I hope that I will work out well, but I know that I will have to study a lot, because, different from other people, nobody gives me anything for free.
As you know, these posts are voluntary and because of that, I would like to talk about something that is not boring, because I am at the end of the course and I am very tired.
LO QUE NO VES is a song by Pol, an artist that I’ve come across recently when I was watching this season’s Los Hombres De Paco and as I liked it so much, I decided to download it.
The singer, Pol, is a simple boy from Madrid, who is always seen with his guitar, and he has performed in many of Madrid’s bars, where he sings alone or with his band. This “role” of singing in different bars in Madrid is the same “role” that he had in the serie LHDP - something I found very curious and funny. The song talks about a boy who one day decided of break up his relationship, because things had started to go bad, but then one day, he met her again and decided to make a new start, forgetting the last relation, because as he says in the song the past is only like a bad day.
Then she teaches him, that the second part can be good,too and that the things that you don’t see, you can’t love. This part of the song, which appears a lot of times, is the main message of the song as you can see in the titol.
I’ve put the video of the song here, and I hope that you will listen to it. If you can’t do it right now because you have a lot of work to do I understand, but it’ll take only five minutes and I think you’ll like it.
First of all, I have to say that I didn't watch this film in the language room, because I prefer doing mails, blogs, repeating things, etc. I’m saying that because I think this films isn't in the class list, so maybe you’ll think it is strange reading my comments about it.
The film talks about a simple boy who one day is bitten by a spider. From that moment on he aquires magic powers, and he is stronger, he can throw spider webs and he takes the opportunity to protect people.
For me this films is a classic and I consider it one of the best films in the world, because when I was a child I grew up with spiderman series and watching a film that brings together all of the chapters was incredible.
Moreover, the main actor is a monster, a king, because at first sight it is a simple, ordinary boy, but when acts he does an excellent work. Anyway the girl, Robin, in some editions is an excellent partner for Peter, the spider boy, because she is a pretty woman, who only plays a secondary role, but the moment she appears she gives the film a special turn.
As you know, the film tells about the adventures of spiderman, a lot of things that happen, fights, rescues etc. This argument is very attractive to young people, especially to children, things that have converted this film in one of the most rentables of the world and it is the symbol of the Marvel Comics Company.
Because of that I can only say that if you have never seen Spiderman, go and watch it.
The World Cup is the trophy which the champion of all the countries of the world wins. The World Cup is a very special and prestigious trophy because you have the opportunity to win it only one time every four years.
You are asking, why I am talking about the World Cup, and the answer is very easy. Because in two weeks Spain will participate in it,which is very usual, but this time, "the red" is one of the favourites and it is the present champion of Europe. Because of that, this is the first time in a lot of years that we, the football fans of Spain, have a lot of illusion, and we hope to win the tournament.
To give the objectives, we have to be very prudent and humble, and later if we are a little lucky we could win the World Cup.
As you know, this event is important to the world of football, but to the country in general too, because independent of where we live, Catalonia, Madrid, etc all the people will be supporting the national team.
To try to win the cup, we have to beat well-known, powerful teams as Brasil, England, France, the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo, etc.
But we have a lot of good football players like Iker Casillas, Xavi, Piqué, D.Villa, Fernando Torres....
At the end the only thing I can say is: EVERYONE GO FOR "THE RED"!
Thanks for your letter. I’m happy to hear that you’re well. You were asking me which kind of place Castelló is. I recommend, as I’ve told you before, for a perfect holidays, Castelló is an ideal town.
Castelló is the typical town where there is a relaxed atmosphere to forget the problems, and where you can go to the beach. At night, you soon meet people, because there is an area where you can spend excellent moments, sing, dance...
The town is in a rural area, with a lot of agriculture, but there is a commercial area, too. In Castelló, as I`ve said before, you can go to the beach, or if you want, you have the opportunity to go skydiving, see historical monuments, etc. Anyway, you can go to Barcelona too, which is a magnific place to see a lot of important things like: the Sagrada Familia, El Camp Nou, El Parc Güell.
One more thing-if you come here, you’ll need a swimsuit, and the most important thing, the illusion. Anyway, let me know what you’re going to do.
Los Hombres de Paco is a TV series of Antena 3, which has been successful for six years. It’s reproduced one time a week for aproximately 8 months a year at ten o’clock pm. The argument consist of a group of policemen who have to preserve the peace in San Antonio, a small town in Madrid. Usually the serie talks about mini-episodes that finish in a big case. Throughout the story a lot of famous actors like Mario Casas, Michelle Jenner, Hugo Silva, Paco Tous, etc have appeared always with the collaboration of excellent second actors like David Almeda, Javi Torres, etc who have helped to build an incredíble serie.
Now it is coming to an end, next Wednesday will be the last episode of the series where we will discover Paco Miranda’s final, the principal actor. Nowadays LHDP is about the demon but it is a particular caracteristic of this years, because the others seasons were about comedia. The change that I have just mentioned produces a lot of conflicts between the spectators of the serie, who critize the unusual change, who say that some people can’t watch the series anymore because they are frightened - a thing that I can understand, because there are a lot of connections between God and demons.
In conclusión, I consider Los Hombres de Paco as a fantastic series, and I recommend it to you if you want to spend a good time.
An exam is a test of knowledge which puts to the tests what you have learnt about a certain topic. I am talking about this because we are at the end of the course, and soon the period of exams is starting. Because of that I’m going to explain how I prepare my exams:
First of all, some days before the exam I read the material again that I have done in class to know what I will have to study. Later, if I have enough time I try to do a summary or scheme to emphasize the most important things. Once I have finished that I start to study until I memorize the material.
But if I don’t have enough time, I try to memorize only the most important things because if I can’t learn all of the content, at least it’s good to know the basic things.
And if the exams are of numbers I try to prepare the test doing excersises that I have done in class because I already have the corrections.
Fashion victims are people who always follow the latest tendencies and fashion. As soon as fashion changes they have to spend a lot of money on clothes, hairstyles, accessories etc. They copy the famous and glamorous people from TV and magazines and they try to do or look the same as them. In my opinión it is not a negative concept but until a certain limit. For example I believe it is good that they want to “improve” their image but I think it is very sad if the people change their personality or spend a lot of money for this purpose because they could lose their own identity.
Personally I think that I am not a fashion victim because I am not all day thinking about these kind of things, buying clothes, etc. Looking at my style of clothes and hair I consider myself pretty normal and not like one of the dressmen of the magazines. Perhaps the people who do these things are the people who are not happy with themselves, and because of that they want to be like someone famous.
Sufre Mamon is a song of David Summers, the singer of Hombres G. The autor of the song has to succed a lot of years ago, when I was not born, in the 70's. In those days he composed a special song, Sufre Mamon, which caused a revolution for a lot of young people because he was one of the singers who has start singed rock spanish. The succesfull of the song cause that the productors have done a film.
As you can imagine, the topic of the song and film, talks about a couple who breack off his relationship, when the girl go out with another boy, then David Summers the main caracter try to regain his girl, and decides to compose a song. The songs critizies the new "boyfriend of his love" and use words like powder's pica pica as in the fils put in boy's jacket when he is singer.
In conclusion the film is one of my favourites because when I listen the song I get goosebumps and I feel a special sensation. Moreover, it is the first sing that I listen In my first party, and aslo because of that has converted in my prefer.
As you know, it was my last presentation of the year, and I think that I improve a lot with the resources that I used. I used a powerpoint with the essential information, with a lot of pictures. The powerpoint helps me to support my presentation, with the correct time.
It is true that I was very nervous, but I think that I was looking the audience the most of the time possible. Occasionally I read my notes, but only when I wanted know some small details.
The structure of my presentation it was the correct, and there were in order like the content, which I think that it was the correct and also someone learnt something.But talking about the language you are absolutelly right when you told me that my vocabulary sometimes it wasn't correct and that I 've said a lot of incorrect words, but I have to say, that my vocabulary are right and varied as well.
If you ask me, what it is my weak spot, I answer that my weak pot it was the pronunciation, as you know it is the aspect of the most difficult for me, think which you can prove when I talk in others language like Catalan.
To conclude, I write down the transcription of my presentation.
Transcription:
Waste
Hello I’m Víctor Rosillo, and today I’m going to talk about waste, one of the forms of contamination of the world.
Waste is unwanted or inusable materials. Also we refer to to as rubbísh or trash.
Waste is directly linked to human development, both technologically and socially because thirty years ago the society didn’t produce as much waste as today. Per capita waste generation in developed countries has increased by 35% since 1980. For this same reason it is directly linked to the zone where we live and the awarness of the governements. For example, as you know the kind and amount of waste that Africa could be produce in one year is completely different to the waste of Europe Occidental.
Waste is sometimes a subjective concept, because sometimes somepeople throw away what other people find usefull. Usually, the rich people throw away thnigs that are in good state and the poor people take it. For example:In the restaurants at the end of the day, the workers, obliged by their boss, have to throw the food away and when I was working last summer in a supermarket Montserrat, I also had to throw away the food of the bakery. In my personal experience, recently in Ampuriabrava I have seen people in dirty clothes looking into the waste cointainers reusing things that we throw away.
There are many waste types: municipal solid waste (MSW) construction waste and demolition waste (C&D) institutional waste, commercial waste, and industrial waste (IC&I) medical waste (also known as clinical waste) radioactive waste, and electronic waste biodegradable waste
The waste produces three differents costs: environmental, social and economical costs.
Environmental costs Waste can contaminate water, soil and air wich causes a lot of problems for humans, animals and the ecosistem. Waste can attract insects which can cause diseases. Social costs Waste managements is a significant environmental topic because the need for waste treatment and disposal facilities is increasing in all of the world.
But the problem is, that where the governements want to build a disposal factory people organize a lot of demostrations. Because of that exists few solutions. Economic costs The economic costs of managing waste are high and often are paid by governements. As always we, the citizens have to pay taxes but we don’t do anything to avoid it. One way to avoid it, is to start educating children at school. Another way is that we in our houses imply the three Rs:
Reduce, re-use and recycle.
Reduce in my opinion is the easiest work, because the only thing that we have to do is try to not use more products, things that we need. Re-use: Sometimes the simple fact of use 2 times a paper helps to re-use. Recycle: I think that it is the most difficult work to do, but anyway it is easy. One form to recycle in house is to divide your bins into the four categories of: paper, glass, plastic and organic material.
After talking about all this I want to compare the two Spains. The Spain of today, and the Spain of our sons. Today we can drink all the water that we want,but maybe our children won’t be able to drink more than 2 glasses of fresh water a day because of the contamination. Now, we can walk along the beach, the street in a normal situation but perhaps some years later they will have to use specials suits and masks. These example are extreme, but if we don’t use the solutions which I said before, it could happen one day.
The summer is coming closer,six weeks are left until the end of the school year. At the moment, I am very tired, but I have the intention of working in summer. The problem is that I still don't have a job because we are in crisis, and I don't want to work in any kind of place, because I have studied all of the year very hard, and I don't want a hard work like last year.
As you know, last year I worked in a supermarket, Montserrat,in Ampuriabrava for a month and it wasn't bad, but it could have been better. Because of that I would like to find a job on a camping-side, or in a swimming pool, but I don't have a monitor's licence and I don't have enough time to take a course.
However, I want to go camping this summer with some friends, and if I work, I won't be able to, but if I don't work I won't have enough money to do a lot of things that I would like.
So,I have to think a lot, and I have to decide what is the best for me for this suumer. I hope I will come to the right decision.
Summer, this is the word that appears in my brain when I think about the future. I am at the end of the 3rd term and aproximaly in one month I am going to enjoy the summer at its maximum and I'll be going to a party every day. But now it's time to study and make the last effort to have the opportunity to study what I want in the future, which is engeneering. I am very tired, but to achieve important things, you have to work a lot, nothing is for free.I hope that everything will work out the best form possible and I will enjoy the summer holidays.
To achieve my goal, I have to improve my form of studying, work harder, etc. Because of that I have set up a timetable with all my shool-activities to try to consider all the things. But now, what is left is, realize all the things in the timetable like I have planed them to do.
My first impression is positive because I have achieved to do some things, but not everything.
The hope dies last, and I will achieve it!!!!!!!!!!!
The eruption of a volcano in Iceland on the 15th of April,has altered the air traffic in Europe and has obliged the cancellation of 5000 flights in all the continent,emphasizing the UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Spain.
This is important because since then millions of passengers have been without any immediate chance to return to their homecountries and public transportation is collapsing.
Fortunately, I don't have to go to any place and so it doesn't affect me personally, but I worry about the climatic transformation of the planet in the last years. I hope that the problem will finish the best way possible and every thing will go back to normality.
However, as you know, the problem affects a lot of people, amongst them my cousin, who went to Norway last month, and he had planed to come home last week, but he can't leave the country.
Luckily, the airport told him that next week he will be able to fly home, and so will everybody else.
I’m going to do a reflection of my Oral presentation.
In my second oral presentation, the resources which I use are powerpoint, sound, images,etc. In this time, I think that the powerpoint is better than the other because we did not put a lot of text, we only put a lot of differents images, which are very expressive. Because of that, the resources which I used helps me to realize a good work. The timing of my oral presentation, it is correct.
I think, that my expression between the class, it is very good, because I did not very nervous, I was looking my audience the major part of the time. Also, I read some time, but it was not true that I read a lot, I read only to start the phrase, and in my opinion I improved my gestures thanks to it was the second time that I did an oral presentation.
The estructure of the text it was excelent in my simple opinion, we organized the ideas in the correct order, the major to minor importance, but also we did not use a lot of linking works to connect the differents points.
As you know, the country which we chose it was Jamaica, and I think that a lot of people know it, but only the simple things, we teached to the class a lot of interesting things as the typical food, the kinds of music of the country, etc as the things more emphasizes. The information was detailed, in the best form possible, because we did not have enought time, but I think that with the examples the information was very clear. First, we pretend to do an original work, but as you can imagine, we did not anything of Jamaica, and we had to look information to internet.
In the presentation, I used a good grammar, because I prepared at home the vocabulary, but it is true that sometimes when I did not remember something I could be used an incorrect word. Moreover, also I used some synonym but not in the most important and repeated word that we pronounced, “island”.
The pronunciation, also it was the most negative thing that I did in my oral presentation, because as you know, it is an aspect difficult to me, and it is usually reflects on my speaking to catalan too.
Literal transcription of my part.
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea. Most major towns and cities are located on the coast. The climate in Jamaica is tropical, with hot and humid weather. Jamaica lies in the hurricane belt of the Atlantic Ocean; as a result, the island sometimes experiences significant storm damage.
Politic:
The jamaican constitution establish a parliamentary government sistem, as United Kingdom model where the first minister is the boss of the government.
Food and drink:
1. “Merey del diablo”: this fruit came from africa, and it’s one of the most used ingredients to prepare other meal like fish, souffle and other meals.
2. “Empanadillas”: one of the most important meals of jamaican people. They love it taste, also it came to the island with the colonization of the UK.
3. “Café Blue Mountain”: its one of the best coffies in the world, and with limited production it has a high price , the england royal family drinks this coffee.
4. “Rabbit in rum”: The rum is very important drink in the island, this meal needs 2 days to get finished, and its tasty and smells good.
Music:
Jamaica is a famous country in the world thanks to its music which is very famous in the world. In Jamaica emphasize different kinds of music that are created in the island, like reggae, ska and dub. Bob marley is one of the most representants of Jamaica, who with his music teached the jamaican culture around the world. But actually, Sean Paul is the most famous singer of Jamaica, and Paul is recognized around the world.
The beach: There are a lot of beautiful beaches where you can pass your perfect holidays.
The dolphin cove that is a place where you have the opportunity of swim with delfins, for this I recommend you that if you can go there, you don’t think twice.
Finally I thing that the mark that I got it is a 7/10.
The question “ should the experiments on human life have limits” is a problem which is reflected in Frankenstein’s book, but it can also be possible in real life. It is a topic that has been existing for some years, when technology started to be used to colonize the world.
If scientists take it slowly and with precaution, they will be about to find the solution for a lot of problems. They will be able to improve life, to fight against a lot of diseases and consequently rise life expectancy. Also, they can discover new human capacities, of which until today we don’t know anything yet.
However, passing the limits of nature, can have a lot of catastrophic consequences, which might not have solutions. For example, a girl who wanted to improve her intelligence, beauty and physical appearence died in the hands of the scientists, a thing that is very different from the “death” of organisms in a laboratory. Moreover, the religious conflicts play another important role, because in the world there is a high percentage of religous people, who think that Good is the only creator, and nobody else has the right to interfere.
In my opinion, I agree to human experiments, because I think it can be a good way to improve our level of life, and consequentely make us happier. In relation to the religious conflict, even though I am religious, I believe that to solve a lot of problems and to save lives human experiments are positive.
I have received the changes of the school calendar from the Department of Education which consist in:
1. starting the next term some days earlier,
2. starting school immediately after “Kings”,
and others changes that are not as important as the others.
I would like to take the opportunity to comment on them.
On the one hand, I agree that the Department has to look for new method to improve the academic level, but I think that the school should haveasked, informed the students before taking a decision. I believe that we, as students, have a right to be asked because if not, this can create a conflictive atmosphere.
Moreover, I have to say that, in my experience, the change of calendar isn’t a good decision because every year that we had a change all my classmates and me protested against the decision.
I would be interested to hear other students’ opinions.
Today, I want to talk about Ander Mirambell for two reasons.
First, because Ander is the first Spanish skeleton pilot who went to the Olympic Games, and the third sportsman of the FEDH( Federación Española de Deportes de Hielo).
In his first competition of the O.G. Ander finished as the 24th out of 28 participants.
To get that result Ander has to work a lot for a long time. As well he does not win any money, on the contrary for his participation in the Olympic Games, he had to pay everything himself: to get slopes for training, to have his sled built and to travel...
And second, because I enjoy talking about a famous "friend" who plays with me in my football team. I do not know him very well, because I am new in the team this year, but I had the opportunity to meet him for two weeks, and we were talking about his dream.
When he told my his dream of going to the O.G. I thought that it was impossible that a man of his appearence could go to the games. As well he commented us the economic subject and in the moment when he said us that he had to pay I thought that he was crazy!
But after that, when he returns from his competitions I will congratulate him.
There are a lot of different ways of communication, but today I'm going to talk about the two most important for young people and which have been fashionable for the last three years or so. They are: messenger and facebook.
Messenger is a kind of chat that you can use to talk with your friends, and people that you know. At the moment, it's one of those things most used by teenagers to talk with people, but as well to meet new people. The conversation is written but directly like a live conversation, you can even talk face to face if you have a videocamera.
On the contrary facebook, is not so much a chat, but it is a place where people exchange ideas, coments, photos, etc and actually I don't know anybody, except mothers and old people, who don't have one account.
Personally I prefer messenger because it is a form to talk more directly and not so distanced as in facebook. As well messenger has more privacy than facebook, because the information of messenger is more restricted, and you don't have the possibility to offer too many things as in facebook, where there exist a lot of images and anybody can look at your account.
The National Institute of Technology has found that Italians throw away 195 million cigarette ends every day. The butts contain toxics waste that comes up to 300 bilions tons a year.
This news item is very worrying because people start smoking earlier and their number is increasing. The Spanish politicians intend to stop people from smoking in public places, the new law starting on the first of January 2010, but in reallity it hasn't started yet.
When I go out to the pubs, discos, bars a lot of people still smoke and of course they throw the butts into the streets. That means that I can die inhalling smoke, or because of the toxics waste.
All that without being smoker, and this also for a lot of people who don't smoke.
Do you know, what? Today I went to the hospital in Figueres for the revision of my arm, that I broke last month. I had bad luck, and the Doctor didn't take off my plaster. I was pissed off by this situation because it wasn't the first time that this happened.
Then, when I was about to go, something really funny happened. I was talking with my mother about how many times I had already broken my bones, and none of us remembered, when suddenly the Doctor gave me all my X-rays.
When we went out, we counted the X-rays and now I think that it was normal I didn't remember how many there were, because we counted eleven in the last ten years.
Imagine, that means, I broke a bone minimum once a year. Because of that I was worried and I asked the Doctor about it, but he said that it was only bad luck.
The bone that was broken most often, is the "radi", approximately in 80% of the situations, next the big toe, and the last and the most "spectacular" was the "clavicula" when I was 6 years old, and it was then when everything started.
Material girls is a comedy about two sisters, that have all they want. But one day they lose everything that they have. Then they start a new period in their lives.
In my opinion this film is very funny, because to see two fashion girls in "bad" conditions is a very strange thing. Moreover, I think that the film has a didactic aspect, which is to talk about the bad attitude that the rich people towards the normal people. The attitude I`ve mentioned before, you can see every day in real life. Because of that I think that the film is a good example for the people that can't see this attitude and so for reflexion.
Because of all of this, I recommend that the people who want to spend a good time, go and see the film.
In my opinion, I think that the research project is a waste of time, because I believe that we don't learn so much but we have to work a lot. If it is very useful, a lot of countries would do it, but their don't do it, only Catalonia. Because of that I think that it is not necessary, but I am a simple student and I can't do anything.
