miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2011

New (National Geographic)


Sun storm

Last week 11th setember a nuclear plant exploded in France, the cause was a sun storm.
The scientists said that the nuclear plant didn't have a leak, so the city was ok.

In my opinion this is very important new for all people because this situation could be repeated. I have read a lot about the Maya culture and they say that in 2012 the world will end. I know that this is improbable but the scientists say that maybe in 2012 there could be a very strong suny storm and with the heat of the sun all the energy that we have in the worls will be destroyed. With this situation all the world will become like in the past, with out electricity or other energies.
In conclusion I think that this new s is important for all the world because maybe these scientists tell the truth, so we have to prepare for these situation.

Writing (dialogue)


Anna: Hi Betty how are you?
Betty: I'm fane, I've just seen a film in at home.
Anna: Realy? Which movie have you seen?
Betty: Love, it is a love story it is bery beautifol, it is about a couple who have a lot of problems with their families to stay together.
Anna: Oh! This movie seems a good film.
Betty: Yes, in my opinion it is very intresting.
Anna: Ok , if I have time maybe I'll watch this movie. And whot you going this weekend?
Betty: I din't know, why?
Anna: Because maibe I will go to the cinema , and I know that you like watching movies. Would you like to come with me?
Betty: Ok, it is a good idea, and witch film do you want to see?
Anna: I don't know, tomorrow I iwll call you and we will talk about it.
Betty: Ok, now I'm going home because I have a lot of homeworks.
Anna: Me too, see you!

martes, 22 de noviembre de 2011

Writing

University couses!


Everybody says that nowadays university couses are very
All over Europe there is a big problem and this problem is the

economical crisis. All youn
g people go to university to improve their future, everybodu want to be somebody.important in this economical situation.
On the one hand, I think that it is agood option todo to university, I also want to go there. If you have a university courses you can have a good job in the future. If you go to university you can to meet a lot of people. You also become more responsable.

On the other hand, the university is very spensive and when you end your university courses then it is very difficult to find a job because everybody wants qualified people.

In my opinion to do to university is a good idea because you can improve your lifebecause if you have university courses you will be able to get a better job.

Writing



Premarital sex

Sex before marriage has always been frowned upon in many cultures. Althouhg this is not important in our society. It is a different subject, specially for the church is totally against these relationsships.
Noe a days sex starts before than ten
year ago. The couples don't marry like before, they only live together.

The ralation ships have changed a lot, people become more liberal and they
do whot they want. Before the people were very traditional, and people worried about whot other people thought.
In my opinion we have to respect all decisions, because nowaday there are a lot of people from different religions or sociaties who live in the same country and they can do whot they want.
I think that this subject has improved because now if you talk about this is more natural.

Podcast


My house is so, so, so small that when the sun comes into my house, I have to leave.

Rich vs Poor people


Rich vs Poor people










Nowadays the world isn't well organixed. In all place we can see very rich or very poor people ant with the crisis it is complicated to improve the families economy.
In the TV pro
grames we can seee the same. There are people who

have alot of things like expensives cars, a big hause, designer clothes, who always go on hollidays...
I know that there are people who work hard to have all this, but others have a lot of money because they have been left it.

In my opinion some rich people don't know how to be rich people, and others yes, because they have everything but they also help a poor people and this is correct.
There are also poor people who live in the streer and they haven't got anything, they live with the help at others people. There are also people who don't have anything because they live in a poor county.

In my opinion we all human beingsand everybody should a second chance, so we must help.

Divorce

Divorce

This subject is very diffiicult to explain because everyone has a different opinion about is and I will give my opinion.

I think that all families are very differentd and they have different problems, so if one person isn't happy with their partner I think that it is better that they get a divorce because maybe then this person becomes happier and has a better life.
However I also think that if the couple have children it becames more difficult. In this situation the children aren't guilty of anything but I also know that they are the ones whosuffer more.

In conclution I think that everybody has to do things to be happy, and everybody knows whot they should do.

New ( El País)


Father beheads his daughter

Last week a man from Colombia, who lived in Girona cut his daughters head off, the girls was anly eighteen months old, he said that the girls had become a devil.

In my opinion this news is very sad. I think that the father went crazy or maybe he had a lot of problems like family or economical problems. I also think that this man had a psicological problems because I can't believe how a father could kill his daughther.
Nowadays there are a lot of people who have a lot of problems but nobody kills another person. I think that this man should go to prison and there someone should hepl to him.

Does humour play an importan role in life?

Humour is a thing that makest you more happier and it helps you to be more positeve in the life.

On the one hand, i think that humour plays an important role in our life bacause with humour life is more amusing. Moreover with humour bad moments can become better. I also think that people always remember the goog and funny moments so the people love humour.

On the other hand, the people must also be serious because everybody should think about their future.

In my opinion humour is very important in our life. What's more everybody says that " if you laugh a lot, you will live a long time".
As a result, if everybody thinks like this, homour is a good thing.

Pollution


Pollution

Nowadays pollution has increased. At the moment we are in November and in the street the temperature is 20º, this is very dangerous because all the plants and animals are confused and the north and south pole are melting.

There are a lot of types of pollution:
- The atmospheric pollution: it is produced by vehicles and industry like noise , odours, atomic radiation, etc. It is the change of the quality and compositions of the atmosphere by strange substances.
-Wather pollution: is caused by polluted wathe likes industrial watehrs, oil, fertiliers, datergents and other products.
-Food pollution: this pollution is caused by chemical products that the people use ti improve the time of growth of vegetables or productsto kill insects.
- Optical pollution: it refers to all hte visuals aspects that affect the vision. It is a produced by uncontrolled deforestation, garbage, advertisements, poor apparance of buildings. strange colours...
-Sensory pollution: whith is produced by noise, vibration. altering the landscape and the glare of bright lights. And all this can cause problems of concentration, desruption of work, rest and sleep.

In my opinion these five pollution s are the most important but there are a lot more. All these problems are caused by us.

Book


Maria Rosa

This tern I have read a book. The name of this book is Maria Rosa. It is catalan literature, it's modern and romantic theatre. The writher of this book is Àngel Guimerà.

The character are the Maria Rosa and Marçal, they have an impossible love story because Maria Rosa hosband has died and Marçal was his friend. Marçal became a little crazy about Maria Rosa. In this age it was very strange that a women lived alone, but it's also strange that a woman gets married again.
Finally Maria Rosa gets married to Marçal because she loves him a little, but she also loves her hosband and seh think all time about his death.
In the end Maria Rosa discovers tjat the mudere of her hostand was Marçal and she kills him.

In my opinion this book is intresting because it's a thiatre and it is something different to read. I recommend this book to all young people because this age is very different from uors. I also think that Àngel Guimerà is very important for catalunya and he wrote good literature.

Oral presentation BEAUTY



In myopinion I think that this oral presentation don't is the best. Normally I never are nerveous because I know all people of my class. I also read a little because in this subject there are some difficults words pronuns for me like "exagerated", "surgery" and meny more.
I think that the power point that I do with my partner Ariadna was the best because we have a lot of pictures, all the pictures are very colorfulls and intrestings. Our estroctur of oral presentation are most entresting because we didn't speak first 5 minutes one and then 5 minutes the other, instead we took turns because this way is more entreteining. In conclution I think that we can do better the oral presentation, and I'm sure that the next will be better.
I think that my mark is 6!

New ( El País)

A young man kills his girlfriend in Asturias


A man who is 30 yearl old has been arrested for killing his 29 yearls old girlfrend. Afther killing her the man became very nervous, went to a bar and told his friend that he had killed his
partner.

His girlfrend had never said that her boyfriend had been ill treatinf her, but his previous partner had mode a complaint about him.

In my opinion who ever mistreats a woman it is because he feels inferior.
I thinkthat the mistreating of womans is only the tip of the iceberg. In my opinion the wemen who suffer abuses must be brave and report it.
The persons who abuses another parsons is not human. We are in XXI centuary ans in my opnion these things are very strange, because we are people and we can't do these tings.


domingo, 13 de noviembre de 2011

My future!

My future!


Hi teacher my name is Mariana and now I'm going to talk about my future.

This year the first thing that I want to do is to pass batxillerat and do the selectivitat, then I want to study for my driving licence because I think that it's very important thing for all your life. If you want to work in summer and the wokr is in another place the driving licence is very important.

I also think that the selectivitat is important because you get a mark and this mark is for all your life. With this mark you can do a different universities and you can choose a different subjects to study.

The long term goals for meis going to the university and doing the university studies like economy, marketing... I don't know which one but something about busness studies.

I'll also want to have a good job. I want to work a little and ear a lot of money like everyone.

I would like to live in a duplex and have a beautiful and good car.In my opinion everyone wants the best life and I'm not different.

jueves, 9 de junio de 2011

Final Reflection

Final Reflection

Last year I also didfirst of batxillerat and I didn't understand enything. When I did writings first I did the writing in catalan and then I translated the writing to English.
This year I think that I have improved because when I did writings for my space I did them in English.
When I look at my writings of September I see a lot of mistakes and I also see Thet I didn't write the verbs well.
Now maybe I also make less mistakes but I think that I improved. Before my writings were very short and they didin't have connectors and maybe the words in the sentences were in the wrong order.

I think that the activities that show my level of English best are all of the writings because we do a lot of writings and all of them are different. By doing writings I also have amproved my vovabulary because I search a lot of words, thanks to the writings I search to do the writing directly. in English, and maybe thanks to writings I think faster in English.
The oral presentation has also help me to improve my pronunciation.

In the one hand this year the most important activity that has help me the the most is the blod. Doing the blog you have to do a lot of writings and in the end you can do writings without a dictionary. With the blog I aldo do podcast so I improve my pronunciation.

In the other hand in language class I have done two or three readings and listenings and now I feel annoyed with myself for not doing more because in next year these activities will be very important and difficult for me.

I know that in English class we study and improve a lot because we work hard but we also have a good time.
The best of English class for me is when we speak in English because everybody tries and sometimes people say very funny things.
I also like preparing my oral presentation with my friend because we search for information but we also have a good time, I also like to do the podcast, I like do it anly or with my partners it is funny because when you have finished the podcast, you listen it and you laugh a lot.

In conclusion I think that this year I have improved a lot because I work hard, but I also have a good time.
I want to learn English language because nowaday it is very important but I think that I kearn very well English If I continue to fight.

domingo, 5 de junio de 2011

Writing

Mediterranean food!

I'm going to talk about mediterranean food. I think that mediterranean food is better than others countris like England or China because they always eat the same food for examlpe in England the food is very fatty like hamburgers, hot dogs and they like drinking a lot of cocacola.
The typical food from China is rice and they always eating rice, for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner.
I like mediterranean foof because it is very healthy. You can choose to eat fish, meat, fruit or vegetables.
I like eating meat and vegetables but I don't like fish. Maybe my fovourite food is pizza I know that it isn't mediterranean foof but in Spain you can eating everithing.
On the one hand. I think that the mediterranean food is very healthy and in my opinion everybody can try this food.
On the other hand, it is very interesting to try food from differents countries. In this way people can choose their favourite food.

informal letter

Dear Sofi,
This summer I'm not going to work so if you want you can come to visit me. Since 2009 we haven't met.
I have one idea : you can come to Castelló d'Empúries and you can sleep and eat in my house. But if you want to know new places of you want to stay in a hotel I can help you.
If you came to Castelló you can meet very frendly and sociable people. Here you can visit the Cathedral, the old prison and the flour museum. These place are very calm and a little boring. If you want more extroverted holidayys you can take the bus and go to Empuriabrav, there you can go to the beach to relax, swim or sunbathe and you can be a parachutist for one day.
Also you can go to Figueres yo visit the famous Dalí museum. In Figueres you can also buy a lot of clothes because there are a lot of shops.
If you want to go to parties go to Empuriabrava there is the famous disco Pacha and in Roses you van go to Chic.
Finally I advise ypu to take a lot of clothes because here the temperature is very "crazy":
sometimes it is hot and sometimes it is cold or it rains.
I would like that for these holidays you stay home, this way we will spend more time together.
Keep in touch,
MarianaH.XXX

I choose this writing because I think that it is the best because I write about my town.
This subjest is easy for me because I know about whot I write.

Writing




MY NEXT SUMMER!










This summer I want to do a lot of things.
The first thing and the most important is to look for a job. This summer I want to work in a real job. I will want to carn a lot of money to go to the holidays with my friends or my boyfriend.
Then I want go to the beach to sunbathe and relax on the beach.
I also will want to go to parties or discos with my friends. I like going to different places so this summer I also want to visit differens towns or cities.
This summer I would like go to the Aqua Brava because last year I diden't go.
I know taht to do all these things is very difficult if I work but I will work hard to go all these things.
I think that this summers will be special because this summer I will have my money and I will do whot I want.
And the other thing that I want to do with my money is to take my driving test.
But it is possible taht I don't have the money for all these things.

Writing



Friends:

My favourite TV programme is the serial Friends. I watch this serial every days on "cuatro" from a quarter past one to three o'clock.
This serial is very funny, when I watch Friends I laugh all the time. In this serial there are six characters.
Jowy, he is an actor ans he has a nwe girlfriend every days.
Chetler works in a company and he tells bad jokes all the time.
Ross is a doctor, he works in a museum and he hasbeen married several times.
Monica is the Ross's sister ans she is a cook she ias always cooking at hame.
Rachal works with fashion clothes and Fibi is a very peaceful girl.
All of them are friends and every day they have a different problem but they solve these problems togetehr.
I love all os these characters because all of them are very funny. They always say a very funny things but what I like most is their caracter and their attitude to words.
This serial is very long and you can see how the characters ans the story go on.
I think that if you watch it one or two times then you'll watch Friends every day because it is the funniest serial that I seen in all my life.

Writing






Long distance love:

Nowadays there are a lot of couples who have very difficult job, maybe they have to travel one day to Madrid and another to Paris.
In my opinion nowadays there are more couples who have long dintance love but I also think that at the moment it is easier to have these relationships with the modern technology like internet, the mobile phone or the blackberry.
If you live in Barcelona and your partner lives or has a job in Berlin you can speak to him Or her every day with the mobile phone or with internet.
At the moment there are also cheap flights and you can buy a ticket to go one day to another country and in this form you can visit your partner when you want or when you can.
Another option is the Skype you can speak with your partner using the webcam and it is free.
I know that it is difficult have your partner in another country and aften without him or her but nowadays this is possible because technology gives you a lot of option to solve the distance problem.

pod cast



transcription:

L: Hi Mariana, how are you?
M: Hi Livia, I'm fun and you?
L: Me to, are you finish the school?
M: Yes, I'm finished the last week, and now i'm going to the beach.
L: I just finish working, do you want that I coming with you to the beach?
M: OK, andwe can talk about our lifes. Where you work?
L: In the clothes shoop in front of the beach.
M: I also look for job because I need money for my things but there aren't work because I'm was late to get a job.
L: Oooh, this is a problem because now there are a big crisis in the world, and it affect a young people.
M: Yes this is true but I maybe work with my family in the restaurant.
L: It's a good job
M: And how are your family?
L: Fun thengs. In this Augost I'll go with my boyfriend to holidays in Dominican Republic.
M: Oh! This is fantastic. If I got money I also trubel with my boyfriend, but I trubel to the Italy.
L: It's a very beautiful countri, OK than, lets go to swim?
M: Ok lets go!

Writing

Abortion.

Nowadays when we speak about abortion people don't think anythinh negative about it.
Before people think taht abortion was a very bad thing because when you did this you killed baby.
I think that the new law about aborting is very good because if you get pregnant and you are only 16 years old I think that you destroy your life. If you are a teenager and you have a baby I think that your life will change because can't study and look after a baby at the same time.
I alsothink that when you are a teenager you only think about going to parties, saying with friendsor things of teenager.

When you have a baby your life changes you don't thinl about youself because you have a little person who depend on you and you anly do things for your baby.
I think that abortion is a good option for young people because if you can have an abortion you cancontinue your life and maybe you can improve and became am important person.
When you are prepared to have a baby it is because you meed this little person and can bring up the baby.

I know people who have a baby at 17 years old and this baby it's with grantmother ant its mim goes to parties and with her friends.
I think that the baby dosn't deserve this life.

In conclusion abortion is a good option for people who aren't sure about if they want a baby or not.

Writing

Make your dreams come true:

I chose this subject because I'm sure that there are a lot of people who have a lot of dreams, but sometimes these people don't do anythig to make them true.
When we are children we don't think about our future or about our live, we only enjoy the moment. When we are a little bigger and we go to the shcool we only think about our marks but we don't know about the use of marks. Nowadays some teenagers don't know what they want to do in the future. There are also people who know what they want but they can't get their dreams for family or economocal problems.

In my opinion if you have a freas, fight for it because everybody anly has one life and I think that it is better to do the things that you like and not dot what you hate as you think abous all what you lost.
If you are sure about whot you want, fight and strive because in the future you'll have a reward.

Book

The Cathedral of the Sea:

This year I read a book " The Cathedral of the Sea".
The author of this book is Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra. This book has 669 page so it is very long. This book is a historical novel.
This novel explains the life if a Catalon family in the XIV centuary. This novel also speaks about how the people built this cathedral.

In my opinion this book is very long but at the same tine it is very interesting. When you are reading the book you image all whot you are reading. When you start reading this book you can't stap because you want to know whot happens to this family (Estanyol). This book teaches you how were the people, the sociaty and the culture at this time. In my case when I had read all book I wanted more. I also wanted to go to Barcelona tovisit this cathedral.
I recommend this book to everyone. Especially for teenagers because they can read this book in the summer holidays and for adult people because I think that this novel is intrestinf for all ages.

Oral presentation

Transcription


Introduction
In this presentation we are going to talk about drugs, their consequences and how drugs affect in young people. We have chosen this subject because nowadays we can see this problem all around us.
We also chose this subject because we think that people take drugs to forget their problems or to relax because they think that drugs aren't a problem to their healt. There are other people who take drugs in order to have new sensations. With this project we show you a consequences of drugs.

Drugs?
Drugs are an addictive substance that affects the nervous system because they relax you or make you nervious. But the problem is that drugs have secundary effects that can ruin your body.

History
A lot of people think that drugs is a new things. But in the XIX cebtury people know drugs, like the oriental people who take opio. A lot of civilitations take drugs for their religion, for rituals or to cure people. Hownever occidental people don't use drugs. In USA in the eighties alcohol was forbidden but there were people who trafficked with this drug. Nowadays tobacco and alcohol are legal but because of these legal drugs people die.

Types of drugs

Physical need:
Is when a person's body gets used to drugs to live their life.

Phsychologic need:
Here people need drugs to avoid discomfort or gets pleasure.

There are three types of drugs :
-Nervous system stimulatns: The affects that these drugs have : to improve the mood and increase happiness, decrease appetite, you lose sleep and increase in your heart beat. You stay nervous all the time, the famous drugs of these types are: the coffe, tobacco, cocaine, anphetaminas, antidepressive.

-Nervous system depressions : These types of drugs relax the nervous system. If you take big doses the drugs canpaeralize your brain and can cause death to the person. People take these drugs to sleeping, despression and for personal distress. The famous drugs of these types are : alcohol, barbiturates and drugs of opio.

-Hallucinogens: These drugs produce hallucionations. These types of drugs affect only your brain , cause dilation of the pupils, cold in the arms and legs and stomach pain. These drugs can also produce frightening and traumatic experiences.
The usually drug of these types are: cannabis, LSD and the natural hallucinogens are the fungi.

Designer drugs:
There are tablets of many colours and patterns, which consumers can choose according to theis preferences, These types of drugs are usuallyfor the nervous stimolants. The people who take these drugs think that they won't harm them, but really these drugs produce irreversible brain damage. The nagative effects of these drugs are: increases hearbeart, trembling, insomnia, confusion, visual or auditory hallucinations...


Illegal and legal drugs
The illegal drugs can't be consumed, cultivate or sold people who don't obey the law, can go to jail or pay a fine depending on the quantity or drugs they have. Illegal drugs are: opiates, cannabis, cocaine or hallucinogens.

Legal drugs are drugs that the law doesn't ban and people you can take and buy thse drugs anywhere. legal drugs are alcohol, tobacco and coffee.


Curiosities
Bob Marley smoked morihuana every day because he liked it and because in his culture it was normal and in his country it's legal. Marihuana reassured he and maybe for this reason his songs were calm. Nowadays a lot of teenagers want to be like Bob Marley because in his songs he give his opinion of the injustice in the world, and because he was peacefull maybe for the marihuana.

Conclutions

We think that nowadays young people start talking drugs earlier and this is a problem because during you teenage years your body and brain become mature and drugs affect your body more. We also think that each person is responsilbe of himself an has to worry about his walfare. So every one choose his live.

Valoration

In the last oral presentation I spoke about drugs with Ariadna.
I think that in this presentation I have improved a lot, I think that this presentation was the best. In this presentation I only read some words and I spoke every time, I looked at the public amn sometimes I made gestares to make the presentation more interesting. When I don't remenber something I improvice with my vocabulary. I think that the presentation was easy to understand because we do all the presentation with our vocabulary.

In our power point we didn't put too many words because we spoke about every thing. We used a lot of picturs because when people looked at picture we spoke aboute them.

I think that we improved o lot compared to other presentation. In this presentation I only became nervous at the start and then I was relaxed. This presentation was good because we studied the subject very well and when anybody asked a question we answered.
I think that this term my friend Ariadna and me will have a goog mark.

martes, 31 de mayo de 2011

TV New (antena3)

The new princess.


Prince William gets married to Kate, the new princess.


They have been together since 2003 and today 29th of April they have got married.


In my opinion this is very good news, I think that everybody is happy for them. If i had been her i would beeb very nervous because all the worls knew that she was get marriesd with prince William.


it's very good news for every body because there are people who have been in front of palace for 3 days to see the ceremony, 2,000,000 the people saw the wedding. The princep give the his mother ring to kate, I think that is was very original because in this way his mother will continue in his life.




New (magazinne Resident)

Origins od immigrants to Catalunya in 2005.



I chose this new because I think that in Catalunya there are a lot of people from different countries. Everyone comes here because the people want improve thair life.



The statistics say that 35% ofimmigrants come from Africa, 33% are Americans, 11% come for Asia and the 21% come here from Europe.



In my opinion nowadays people say that the crisis was their fault but in my opinion this is wrong because a lot of immigrants do the work that nobody wants to do like looking after farms like pigs or ather animals. Iknow that in a farm you don't have holidays so maybe Spainish people don't have work because the immigrants work more hours for less money. Moreuver a lot of immigrants don't have contracts and so they earn less money.



This is a problem for everybody.

domingo, 24 de abril de 2011

If I win the lottery (writing)

IF I WIN THE LOTTERY:




Sometimes when I'm in the bedI imagine that I have won the lottery.I think about the things that I would if I had a lot of money.



First I would a lot of money to my parents to pay their montgage. Then I would buy a small flat for my parents so that they can rent the hause and then have a money.



I would also a new car for my parents. Then i would buy a flat for my uncle because his girlfriend is pregnant. This would be a present for them.

I would also buy a flat foe myself and when I go to university i would live only with my boyfrend.

I would buy a new car for myself and a big motobike for my boyfriend like harley.

I would give a creditcard to my sister € 10.000 more a less

Then I pay a trip for my parents in-low.

I would also buy a lot of flats to rent and have a more money because after a year you wouldn't have the money of the lottery.

I would also buy a all new clothes for my self and for my familly.

Finally I would invite a all my friends a dinner and go to the disco and I would pay for every thing.

I hope I win the lottery because I would do a all these things.

domingo, 6 de marzo de 2011

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letter

Plz homes nº4 ,2A Street Rentador, nº2
Girona,Castelló d'Empúries




Dear Ms. Pintó
I'm a student at his this centre I' been here for 6 years so I know this school very well.
In my opinion this school is very modern and fashionable, but most people think that this school is vey dark and boring.
Now I'm going to talk about the new time table.
On the one hand, we will have less holidays in summer but we will have one weekfree in April.
This week helps to relax and do our homework and also to go to carnival.
I also think that starting at 8p.m helps to use more our time because we have a lot of time because we have a lot of time to do a other things afther school.
On the other hand, I don't like starting school on the 7th of September because on this dates we have the Mediaval Festival.
Next year we won't have this free week in April and ? Don't like this.
Finally, I would be happy they stopped the project of starting the school on the 7th of Setember and starting on the 15th like every years.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

writing


Carnival!
Now I'm going to talk about carnival.
Every year my friends and me dress up for the carnival. Every year we have a problem because we don't know which costume to choose. The last year we dressed up as painters. In my opinion this costume was very comfortable because every year for carnival it is very cold but if you have an overall you can put others clothes underneasth it.
Every year we have a meeting to choose the costume. We usually discarting about the costumes because there are a lot of opinions but finally we choose the most confortable option and cheapest.
Last eyar the costume was very confortable. Before carnival we went to a friend's hause to prepare the costume. We took the paint and then we painted the overalls with our hands. In the carnival there were a lot of groups pf painters but we were the best group.

podcast

Now I'm going to describe my boyfriend.


We have been to gether for two years and five month so I think that I krow him very well. At the beginning I'm going to talk about his physical character and then about his personality.


His name is Christian, he is 20 years old. He is very tall, he has big and blue eyes, his hair is short and very dark, he also has think lips. He loves goings to the gym so in my opinion he has a good body and he is quite attractive.


Now I'm going to talk about his personality. When you first meet him he seems to be a very moody and shy person, but then he becomes estroverted and funny person He is very sociable so he has a lot of friends. He is a very good listener so he always helps people who have problems. He is a self-critical person because when he does wrong things he ask fot forgiveness. I also think that he is a little competitive with his friends. And finally I am sure that he is big.headed because when he wants something he always gets it



Oral presentation

viernes, 4 de marzo de 2011

Oral presentation

HAWAII

Hi! We are Mari and Ariadna as you know and we are going to talk about Hawaii, w echose this country because we think that it is a good place to go to on holidays and it’s seems a happy country.

To continue we are going to talk about the culture, climate, vegitation and other things. We have also prepared an imaginary holiday and thanks to this project you can know places that you can visit in the future if you travel to Hawaii.

THE ISLANDS

This country is made up of eighteen islands, it’s capital is Honolulu, in this city there is a very important beach the most important beach in these islands. It has got a tropical climate but there is also a lot of rain. Hawaii is one of the united states of America. You can find it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.


The official languages in hawaii : there are two official languages: hawaian and english.

RELIGIONS
The traditional culture transmited a knowledge system called Huna or Aloha. Other ones are: - Cristianism: 68% which represent sixty eight per cent of the population.
Protestants: wich are a forty two %
Budismo

GEOGRAPHY

All the islands of Hawaii are made up of the lava from the volcanos. The island of Hawaii has five volcanous and one of them is the Kilauea and it is still active. The most important islands are Nihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Moui and the island of Hawaii and the most people call this the big island.

DEMOGRAPHY
In Hawaii there are 1.285.498 inhabitants (here you can see the inhabitants of the most important islands).
In Hawaii forty nine per cent of the people are men and fifly-one per cent are women. In Hawaii we can find people from different countries like Alaska, Asia, Afro american people, hispano Latino people and from other countries.

GASTRONOMY
The most important and famous food is; Poke and Pa mea’ai.
-Poke; fish in mineral salt and it is made up of Kalua stile dug in a well and put on het rocks and then they put the fish on the hot rock to cook it. Finally the fish is served with little onions, peppers, and soja sauce.
The other traditional food is Pa mea’ai; the main food can be meat or fish with rice and macarroni or salad.
Drinks: the most important cocktail are: Tiki, Blue Hawaii and Mai-Tai, all of the cocktails are made with rum.

CULTURE

Hula : The tradicional dance of Hawaii is Hula. The songs of hula are called mele. There are two styles of hula.

-The first is “Kahiko” is the most tradicional or old with this dance the people represent the nature and gods hawaian culture. The music is played on a Ukelele.
-The second is “avana”, it is a contemporary dance. It is more modern than the “kahiko”. The music is played on a guitar.
The hula represents stories, the most important in this dance is the movement of the dancers, arms and the most famous Hawaian song is Aloha Oe, and a lot of people think that this is the Hawaian hymn.

Flower necklaces these necklaces express the beauty of the islands. The necklaces are made of dried flowers, candy and many other materials.
Aloha: when the people want to say Hello/ good bye/ love, they say aloha.
Tiki: These are old sooden handmade figures. The tiki representing gods, guardians and spirits.
Shaka: It is a symbol of aloha and is part of the local culture of Hawaii. This is a symbol of blessing by a Hawaiian hero, who had three fingers missing. The shaka has transcended for many generations, but it’s meaning has changed.

Music : There are a different styles music of traditional music, all of these styles speak about the nature of their gods and feelings. Among the different styles of music there are Ukulele, Falsetto, Jawaiiano and many more.

ECONOMY

The economy of hawaii is basically based on the tourism. Before the economy was based on the military activities. The money that hawaians use is the dollar.

CURIOSITIES
(We have chosen some interesting things about Hawaii and now we are going to speak about them)
-Do you know the song wiki wiki? This is a word that the hawaians say to the buses because the buses are very fast, so the word siki is another word for fast.
-The president Barak Obama was born in Hawaii.
-The famous TV series “Lost” was shot in Hawaii.
-The film 2012 was shot in Hawaii, because there are scenes with volcanoes.
-A lot of couples get married in Hawaii because this is a dream or a lot of women. The couples both wear white clothes and the family wear the flower necklace. What you can visit in Hawaii.
-The national volcano park, where you can see the biggest volcanoes in the world , you can also see the volcanoes chenger.
-The Valley Waipi’o where you can climb and go horse riding. In volley waipi’o you can visit the waterfalls.
-At the Kahaluu beach you can go snorkeling with the animals: like tropical fish, dolphins, turtles and whales.
-You can also do helicopter tour and see the different places and things like mountans, volcanoes, beaches. You can walk in the forest too.
-The most typical activity in Hawai is the Luau, it’s a show where the dancers dance the hula.

CONCLUSIONS

We think that if we have the opportunity to travel we will choose this island, because while we were doing this project we learnt about different from here. We would also visit this country because of its culture because it is very interesting and new for us.

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Evaluation of my oral presentation:

I did this presentation with my friend Ariadna and I think that is better.
The topic of own presentation was Hawaii.
In this presentation we used powerpoint with images and we used real information of this country. The time of our presentation was 10-12 minutes more or less.
I was looking at the class all time but sometimes I read the words most difficults.
I made some gestures to hold the attention of the audience and I also did these gestures because I was nervous.
We organized the presentation of differents parts like the climate, the geography...
I used some markesrs to organize the information. In my opinion I think that aur presentation was easy to understand because we used our own vocabulary. I uses connectors and fillers.
I think that my pronunciation was normal but it was bad when I pronounced a difficult words.

(El punt) New

Anty tobacco law


At the beginning of 2011 the new anti tobacco law affects all Spain.
Now in the Spanish bars, restaurants, pubs and discotecs the people can't smoke.
The new law says that near schools or hospitals it is also forbidden to smoke.
A lot of bars and restaurant owners are very angry about this, because this new law causes them to lose curtumers.

They also say it is unfair because the government lets them sell cigarets in their bars.
One month ago the first bar owner was given a fine of about 45.000€. This man says that he isn't going to pay the fine.

In my opinion this law is very exaggereated, because before in the bars or restaurants there were smoking and no smoking areas and in my opinion this was satisfactory.
In my case I don't smoke ans now the smoke doesn't bother me, but before this wasn't a problem for me.
To sum up I think that this law is too strict.

TV New


Improving the pollution!

The mayor of Madrid has proposed to reduce the number of vehicles in the centre of the capital to improve the pollution.
They say we will have to use more public transport, buses, trains, undergraund, taxis...

In my opinion thisidea is very good but it is very difficult to do this because in most cities there isn't sufficient public transport ans it is also very expensive.
To do this project first all the transports and roads are be impruved.
If everythinf are organized, in my opinion the people use more the public transport, but I also think that do this project in a small town is very difficult, because in towns there aren't many buses so the people can't take the bus when it is necessary.




In conclution I think that every body can help to improve the world.


TV New

The gread chef in the world?

Ferran Adrià is the most famous catalan chef.
He has a many restaurants, but the most important is El Bulli restaurant in the town of Rosas on the Casta Brava.
This restaurant became famous in 1990,and now Ferran Adrià open his restaurants on speshial ocasions. This restaurant is very expensive so you can only see a important or rich people in this restaurant.

In my opinion it's very goog that Catalunya has a important chefs like Ferran Adrià, for this reason Catalunya and Roses beome more famous. A lot of important people know a lot of things about Roses thanks of this restaurant.
I think that it is a good thing for the catalan economy and coltura.

writing

SHOULD THE EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN LIFE HAVE LIMITS?

Nowadays the technology and science are very important in our lives. We see the technology in a lot of things like in our hause, electrycal appliances, all the energies and a lot of more things. In this life everything is technology.

On one hand science is a good thing because thanks to science a lot of people are alive today.
The scientists do a lot of experiments to help people and improve life.
There are a lot of people who want to hepl science so these people give their body to science when they die, also there are people who take medicine to do experiments and then thes scientists pay money to this people.
Most of experiments that the scientist do are with dead people, this is a goog thing.

On the other hand maybe the family are disagree with the idea that there family give their body. A lot of people are desagree with science because of therir religion.

In conclution I think that the science is very important for he human because the science helps a lot of people.

jueves, 3 de marzo de 2011

film




THE NOTEBOOK



The movie starts when one old man reading a book about love story to an old woman.
The love story begins when a teenager meets a local boy called Noah. When Noah saw the girl called Allie he felt in love with her.
Allie is the daughter of a rich family he is a poor worker. The family from Allie dosn't want him because he is from a poor family.
They were together all the summer ans they love each other.
Allie travels to America because her parents wanted that she studies there. Noah writes in following year 365 letters to Allie but Allie mother keeps all the letters awey, so that Allie doesn't know any think about him.
Noah has to go to the second world War as a soldier.
Allie after some years thinks that she has felt in love with another man, called Lon. The of Allie family was happy because Lon was forma rich family.
Noah promisted Allie that he would buy a old farmer house, and that he would peint it with blue windous and white walls like she wonted.
When Allie comes back from America and she sees the farm house and he realizes thatshe still loves.
She breaks the relation with Lon and a starts againe with Noah.
At the end the old man and ola woman from the beginig of the story are Allie and Noah.
Noah is wreading his real love story with Allie.
Allie likes to listen to it but she cant's remember it because of her illness, (altsheimer).


My opinion:
The notebook has been one of the best movies that I've ever seen. The plot of the movie is very good, I like a lot the way that the film is explained.
Personaly I like love movies and this movie is one of those that make you think and puts you in the main character situatino.
On the one hand, the end of the film is very surprising because I imagined that the story would ens good and that everyone would be happy.
On the other hand this ending is better because it gives emotion to story.
If Icould change the ending I would like that Allie finally has the memory back to remember the wonderfull love story.

Ukraina

UKRAINE

I lived in the highest part of mountain in a little town called Starey Sambir (Lvov).
If there was a lot of snow, sometimes we had to walk because the road was full with snow.
At summer the feels of Ukraine are green with colorful flowers and nature all around, where you can smell of flowers and hear the sound of the birds.

My grandfather lived in Ukraine. I lived there for 9 years and then I moved to Spain.In Ukraine I have a big house there have 5 rooms, a kitchen, two bathrooms, living room...
In my garden I have a smaller house, I play
every day with my sister and cousins. In Ukraine I have one dog and his name is Bim.
At summer I went to swim to the river with my friends and then we always went to eat an ice cream. At Sundays I went to restaurant to eat traditional meals from my country.
The winter in Ukraine is very hard because of the low temperatures. But I like this kind of living because I'm used to this cold situation. There are many adventures at this kind of weather.
You can practise sky, snowboarding, play with the snow, do snow mans, do tunnels of snow and do ice gliding on the rivers.
And finally if you are cold you can go to a bar have a warm chocolate.

letter

Dear Antonela,
My name is Mariana and I'm 18 year old. I lives with my parents in Castelló d'Empúries. I've have one sister, her name is Andriana, and I have one dog called Bobby.I've got a boyfriend to. His name is Christian, he is 20 years old and he is working with his father so he isn't studying of the moment.I only work at the summer with my mother and I'm studying the rest of time.
I would like to know more about the English language because It's a future, but it's very difficult for me.
My English teacher's names is Gemma. There 19 students in my class of English. We study English on Mondays, Thursdays and Wensday. So now you know all about me! Please write soon and tell me about you!!!
Best wishes.