Describe an image

I will describe this image. This moment is when I went to Azores with my family specifically in the national park of the Picolos, a bird who is a protect. Is so difficult to see this bird but when we stayed here we saw a couple of Picolos. In this park we met a catalan person who is from Granollers.

In the image there are three people, my brother in the middle, I in the right and my father in the left. I wore a basketball pants, sandals and a black cotton T-shirt. My brother wore the same clothes like me and my father too. The photo has been taken by my mother. I really enjoyed this travel with my family because it's after a few days that my grandmother died and we disconnected of this tragedy.

Final Reflection

1.  Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s?  Where, for example?

Yes I see my improvement in particular, the presentation of the blogg, the way that I do the yoursays. Also I improve in th elanguage because I need to search a lot of words to do better the blogg. Can you see that I'm writing in the first entrances.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English?

I think that the best activity to learn english in all aspects is the presentations because you need to write information that you search before to explain and remember when you will say in class

in front of the teacher. For example I learn so much when I did with Marc the Masai Hunt Lion.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

My favorite USEFUL task is the presentation.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?

My worst activity is the vocabulary cheat and the PET beacuse it's so boring to do it because is very mechanic.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

I will like to do it the Rites of Passage beacuse I learn a lot when I was doing it for this I will like to do it because is an easy task and a very importont to learn about other cultures.

Xavi Hernàndez

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Xavi is a F.C.Barcelona player who has play more than seven hundred game with Barça. Yesterday he did his last game with Barça, this game was the final of the Champions League the best league in the world about soccer. Fortunately they won and today he celebrate with his team in Barcelona. He play the last 25 minutes but he was enough to show his talent with the ball in his feet. I think that he is the best midfielder in the world as always is Catalan. He talk about his wife that they will have a son because his wife is pregnant. I hope that he will go very well in Qatar, Xavi forever.

Life when you have lived life

Now I will explain an opinion article of Ramon Folch in exchange for news.

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Ramon Folch talks about life when you've lived life. He explains that early in life as you see great people are dying later your family: grandparents, parents, siblings, friends ... until he leaves you. When you're alone you live miserably. Some people become more conservative and more daring. So when you live with all the people around you're not aware that you have until you're alone. Yet you know that someday you will come better the reality in which you live each moment. He compares the ignorance of when death occurs, (the target) with a clever sentence: "No one is so young that can not die tomorrow" as Fernando de Rojas says. As you do not know when it will happen you have to always live as much good as you can and as Ramon says improving the life around us.

 I think and believe as Folch that death will always be there i must live with it so you can use all the time with those around you. Also when you are young and a family member or friend dies, you do not know the pain caused by the old you. So when an elder dies you think good to him and he was not surprised little life and although it hurts you inside. Folch says that's why when you get older and you've run out of anyone around you nobody will be surprised if your death but may hurt.

Ukraine recession

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I chose this news because the writer talk about a recently topic. The writer explain to us that we live in a politics success from the eleven September. Rusia broke the relation with Washington, because the United States suspend Rusia from G-18.

Also the writer explain why this tensions don't they will not assume a cold War.

On the one hand Rusia does not have any powerful country to help it. Besides that nobody helps it, the GDP is very low and each year is less. On the other hand Russia invests 8 times less than the United States on army. Because of this Rusia can not start another Cold War, they can only cause problems for their neighbors.  The benefit of this is China getting buy the energy at a lower cost and longer because nobody buys energy from Russia because of this conflict.

Moscow tries to thwart the West. Rusia tries that Syria does not destroy his nuclear weapons or give them to the West but Assad has enough land to survive. President al-Assad's Syria. Russia is not interested in triggering an arms race near its borders because it would cause damage which would include to them. In conclusion Russia is a regional power and nothing else. East and West are in a dangerous situation with regard to Ukraine.

Coach Carter

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Coach Carter is a film which show an example of the American people who lives in the ghetto and who their parents take drugs or are in the prison.
At the beginning of the film the gang of boys are rebel and they didn't study but, after arrive the coach Carter who have been entertained a very famous team.
A few days, suddenly the gang need to improve to can play in the team. The coach teach the gang to are a person and are a good basketball players.
Coach stopped playing their until they improve in the marks of the class, but the parents complain at the coach to do that, but he explain the problem. The problem is that they don't learn to are a person they will finish as a offender.

In my opinion this coach is the best that I ever see because he do methods that other coach don't do. Is a film to learn the difficult lives who lives this gang of boys.

Tina Turner

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While I listen her music I will talk about her life.

Tina is a famous singer known in all the world for the queen of the rock. She was born in Tennessee (Southeastern United States) and she is seventy five years now.
She begun her career in the 1950. Her first song was Little Ann. When she divorce from her husband, she rebuilt her career.

I think that she is a good person because she wrote some very nice songs. My favorite song is Simply the Best because when she sang in her concert she dance and she make me laugh by the way that she dance.

Redaction: Planet

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The world is our planet and if we can live with conditions we will improve all the issues. I think that we don't respect it like it respects us.

First, I will talk about pollution, the pollution doesn't affect only the planet, this issue affect us too. That's why we need to do things better than we are doing.

Second overconsumption was terrible consequences for the planet, because all population throws stuff into the trash. This people don't do that because they want, they do because all things were produced in bad conditions. Because of this the people need to throw and but another only for money.

Third, the world wars kill thousands of people died only because of two governments that think different.

All these consequences teach  us that the planet isn't better than before. But we do things better too. For example the globalization and the technologies.

In my conclusion the globalization and the technologies. All this stuff think to me that we don't do the planet a better place.

Presentation: Kidnapping

NAME & TOPIC:		MARK
Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	5
Body language & eye contact         10%	Are  you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes ? Are you doing any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?	5
Structure             10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	10
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	30
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	10
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	5
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	6,5

I think that the presentation was good but we need to prepare more to talk better than we did. In my opinion we choose a good topic but we can do better. In summary we need to do the presentation before.