Final Reflection

  

  1. My English progress from 2010-2012

The end of the road is near, very near. I’ve lived many experiences during this journey and all I’ve learned a lot. I remember the first time I sent an email to my teacher. I was very short sentences, I had a lot of vocabulary and email content was very poor. Now, I use more vocabulary, I try to make sentences longer, I try to improve the grammar and I think I improved.

As for my oral presentation, I remember I was very nervous, I thought I would come out very badly, and I’m not mistaken. Well, I spoke very badly and had no fluidity was very nervous. I think I have improved with the oral because I’m nervous, I look at people in the face and although I don’t speak very fast for me to try to understand me. I think I have improved a lot, and partly thanks to the blog. I think blog has helped me because I spend a long time. I improved in vocabulary, in connectors on the presentations, a little of everything. I can see a personal development in these writings that take a longtime before I make in five lines in English. I had a lot of vocabulary or grammar. But now, when I read my writings and I compare an important personal development, I did not take both written and I wrote it a little easier. 


 2. My English COMPETENCE in 2012 

Throughout the year we have been doing many things. I think my best podcast is dialogue. It was a dialogue that we had to do with couples but I decided to do it alone. As the dialogue form two or more people I had to do two voices.

I think I did well because they understand what I say and can differentiate the two voices.

On the other hand my best writing I think is because of My Desire is written very important to me. I think it’s a letter that has it all. The article talk about my dream is to write a book with all my poems. I think my best writing is to speak of my dreams and I like that.
Well I’ve had a little problem with the links and I can’t do it. However I have chosen this podcast and writing this because I liked that are made.


*** The FUTURE : now what?

Well now we have finished our journey and English is no longer a subject for us. I propose new ideas. First I thought you should remove the blog but then I thought: If I had to be many hours before a computer that other students do the same.  Yes, I think it makes a lot of work to do a blog. Not that I look like a ball I want thanks my English teacher Elisabet Salleras your patience because I know she is a great teacher.

Thank you very much!

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Formal Letter

C/  Maripili 

17486

Castelló d'Empúries

20th April 2012

Ms. Motoc

C/ Wonderland Street

12345

Geneva 

Dear Ms. Motoc, 

I am writing this letter because I want to talk about the problem of women. 

For since years this problem has affected women the world. A lot of women are 

attacked by their partners and this is a very big problem and it's horrible. I am 

informing you about this problem because this year one milion women were 

killed by their husbands. 

Finally I propose a solution to this problem. I lock to the illtreator and I 

propose security all the time for these women. I think the illtreator deserves 

serious punishment. 

I am looking forward to your point of view. 

Your sincerely, 

Júlia Costa. 

News III

Coach's anti-gay comments an 'embarrassment' but not fireable offense

Lincoln, Nebraska (CNN) -- When University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant football coach Ron Brown stood in front of the Omaha City Council in March to speak against a proposal to protect sexual identity, he was merely exercising his right as a private citizen, he would later say.

It came as no surprise that Brown, an outspoken born-again Christian and a preacher, believes that homosexuality is a sin. But his passionate opposition to the proposed amendment to the city's anti-discrimination policy raised questions as to whether Brown was really speaking as a citizen.

The news seemed to me incredible. I can not understand how there are still people who think that homosexuality is a sin. Why is homosexuality a sin? I can’t understand how some people think so… but most important is that we think and it says person who goes on television, it says publicly… is really incredible. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/11/us/nebraska-coach-anti-gay-comments/index.html?hpt=us_t3

news II

Chris Brown collaboration is typical Rihanna, analysts say

Rihanna and Chris Brown are no longer couple to the twitter. People begin to wonder why they do a song together. If they have left is not normal. Other artists feel that she has to think with her heart and still love him.

The story interests me because I am very fan of Rihanna. Is a singer that I love. Although I hate so much that they posted on twitter. The private life should not be put on a website and less if you’re so famous. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/23/showbiz/music/rihanna-chris-brown-collaboration/index.html

News

Playing to live: Pianist survived Holocaust by performing for Nazis

Zhanna Arshanskava Dawson survived the Nazi Holocaust though her music. She played the piano when she was young and so was salved.

Everyone was given to dead but she and her sister were saved. When Nazis invades the city her father knew it would all die. Father bribes the security guard and Dawson could go. He could only save one daughter. Shortly after Dawson met his sister and two got false identities. They went to an orphanage there and were able to survive. One day a man was heard as Dawson played piano and was hired. So she could save.

The news does not concern me especially. But I saw the title and when I’ve read I was very surprised. I think this woman she had to go so bad… We can’t imagine. I think it’s thanks to the magic that music can save. It’s amazing.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/12/us/georgia-holocaust-survivor/index.html?hpt=us_c1

Thank you Pep Guardiola

Thank you Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola was a player of F.C Barcelona for 90’s years. From July 2008 he is the coach of F.C Barcelona. Thanks to him, the players have won sis titles:

* Copa del Rey

* Owner of League

* League of the Champions of the UEFA

* Supercopa de España

* European Super Cup

* Clup World

The club became an unstoppable team and all the fans were very proud of the team and coach. But a few weeks ago Pep Guardiola said he left it that would be the coach. The day that Barça played against Espanyol Messi scored 4 goals. Messi goals dedicated to Pep Guardiola. When he finished the game everyone stood up and thanked Pep Guardiola.

I think Pep Guardiola has made us understand the game otherwise, has made us more humble, we made the effort worthwhile.

Now I leave you with a video that is very exciting. I make me goose bumps. Thank you Pep! 

Love is on fire!

It’s unbelievable but I fell in love the best person that could exist. We met on a football field so that our brothers play together for long.

I had already seen once but I was ashamed to greet him. On 3 March we found ourselves on the football field. We said we did not thing but when I got home I added to Facebook. We talked a lot every day. One day I said:

Look I will propose a bet. If our brothers won the Saturday match I’ll invite you but if our brothers lose you will invite me.

He said ok. We find ourselves in the football field on 17 March and won our brothers. I invite myself to tea that very afternoon. I liked a lot. We spent a very enjoyable afternoon but we did not do any kissing. I thought I did not like, I thought I would just like to be friends. But when I was about to go home, I would I kiss him.

It’s a great guy and a long time that I was not so. We spend incredible moments, he helps me a lot, he loves me…

Love is amazing!

My desire.

Part of my desire has been fulfilled. My desire is to publish a book with all my poems. I have many poems that talk about: love, sex, friendship, war, family, poverty…

Since long ago I participated in poetry and my desire is to get a book but worth big bucks.

Many months ago I sent my poem to a contest and the other day I got a book. I opened the book that came from Valencia. My surprise in the book was that there was a poem of mine. THEY PUBLISHED MY FIRST BOOK. I don’t think I could, I was very happy because my desire was fulfilled. Now we just have that one day I remove a book full of my poems.

Poetry is very important to me and when I saw that poem was in a book that many people has made me the happiest person in the world. I know I may not earn his living by writing poems but fight to the end to get a book. 

Saint George's Day

Saint George’s Day

Hi everyone!

On April 23 was the day of St. George. The Saint George’s Day is celebrated in Catalonia, If you are a girl and a boy like you give a book. If you are a boy and a girl like you give him a rose. Yes, I know… It is unfair…

Well, this year the institute has presented many stories for the contest and I won the Catalan Language. I thought that would win more but well…

At 5pm I went to the stands of roses and books were in Figueres with my mum. I bought a book by Federico Moccia because I love it! Then I met my boyfriend. Yes, my boyfriend hahaha, in another post I will explain how we met…

Well, I continue. I met my boyfriend and he gave me a rose (yes, only one rose) and I gave myself a book.

I love this day, a day dedicated to books, to love, the roses… Yes… I know that I love! But… LOVE IS IN THE AIR. 

Navata

This year celebrates Navata Night of Poetry. Friday 11 May I present and participate in the Night of poetry. I am very nervous because I say a poem to my mother and I hope that goes well. Last year I presented the night of poetry with Raquel but in the present with Eudald.

Night to Poetry is a very important night because you put in front of many people and recite your poems. I get very nervous because people always said if the poems they liked or not. I fear that I don’t like… Las year was great. I hope this year goes so well because it’s very important for me. 

Barraques

This weekend has been the trade of Santa Creu in Figueres. Cristina, Andrea and I went to the barraques Friday night. Cristina and I went for ride to Figueres and then we find ourselves in Andrea. We went to dinner and then we went to barraques.  

There he played a group that we like very much: Lax’n Busto. We cry a lot, we danced and we sang very much. When the concert ended we went for a ride. We find many people we know. We went with our group and we had a very good. During the concert Lax’n Busto I can get soap and I was singing. I lifted a bottle of soap because Cristina was bought. She bought it because it had to heal her tattoo.

It’s a shame but the barraques have already been done. 

Human Rights

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being

2. Why were they created?

26 August 1789 (French Revolution).

3. How many human rights are there?

There are 30 human rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.

Honestly there is no human right that I do not know. All and all I've read all sounded.
In Africa do not respect the human right not to be enslaved. Many people, especially children and women that are bought as slaves

TV programme

These are the three programs that look. I know that may seem a little freak. ‘’Mujeres y hombres y viceversa ‘’ is a program to make telecinco. This program is about pretending to be a boys or girls who have won a boy or girl. The purpose of this program is to find love. In the end it shows that everything is set up. The program began three years ago.

Gran Hermano is a program that began in 2000. The program is about some participants who enter into house and have to overcome together. These participants are recorded by cameras 24 hours a day. It’s a program that has me very striking.

¿ Quién quiere casarse con mi hijo ? The program is about five singles looking for love of his life. As the weeks go by singles and their mothers must be discarded to the suitors until only one remains. 

Stress

Mother of God,

Approaching the end of the second quarter and we are very stressed. We spend the day studying studying and studying and not think about anything else. We head explode!

Many people say that student life is the best but I think not. Now we expect a very tough year. Whenever it reaches the final term was all very stressed, are angry and we can’t say anything. This is called stress. This week I’ve been sick two days and I have two skipped exams. Now I do the day of exams and test that I skipped.

It’s obvious when we have exams because we aren’t in facebook. When you connect to facebook and don’t see anyone in your class because you can star worrying because it means you have some exams.

I already feel like the stress that end. I’m looking forward to summer arrives. I feel like the end of the stress and let us calm. 

Advertisements

Many people think the advertisements that appear on TV are boring. I think advertisements are beautiful. When I was young they did so many advertisements on TV. The advertisements came out you were fun, exciting and you have song that hook you spend all day singing them. However, now advertisements do boring, are long lasting too.

I searched YouTube and found the two advertisements that make me excited a lot. The two advertisements are for Coca Cola. Coca Cola’s advertisements are always very very nice. The first advertisement is about life, about a very old man and a newborn girl. The man tells the newborn to enjoy life and trouble that nonsense. The second advertisement is beautiful is about a mother who can’t find work and his son was talking to a boss because his mother could find work. 

Romeo and Juliet

The role of fate

I think in Shakespeare’s time, people believe in the power of fate and in the power of the stars.

For example in the story:

• After their marriage, Romeo doesn’t want to fight Tybalt but after Mercutio death. Romeo takes revenges and kills Tybalt.
• The letter sent by Friar Lorenzo never reached Romeo.
• Friar Lorenzo arrives too late no stop Romeo from killing herself and finally Juliet awake only minutes after Romeo has died.
•  Romeo and Juliet fall in love before they realize that they are from rival families.
• It’s only because the Capulet servant isn’t able to read the last of invited guess, Romeo attends the dance and this moment he meets Juliet.

In conclusion fate is the most important role in the history because in Shakespeare’s time, people believe in the fateful power of the stars.

Juliet and Nurse.

This relationship is very complicated because Nurse is the typical characters who protects Juliet.

Juliet loves Romeo and Nurse helps Romeo and Juliet. Juliet and Nurse are friends because they have been a long time together and Juliet speaks a lot with Nurse

Sometimes Nurse is like a mother to Juliet because she looks after her.

Nurse is a very funny person because she lie Capulet’s family because Juliet founds Romeo.

In conclusion Nurse and Juliet have a good relationship because Nurse is sometimes like a mother. 

The things that man hate women.

The things that man hate women.

Although it seems incredible things men hate women. I wanted the most important:

1. That they don’t respect their personal space.
2. That they are jealous.
3. That they are too sentimental.
4. So that they go shopping.
5. Those women are insecure.
6. Let them talk nonstop.
7. That they are criticized endlessly.

As we can see there are things that women hate men. I think both men and women speak different languages. Men don’t understand us because they only understand the language easier. In woman we like men who know we care. 

The 15 things that women hate men

The 15 things that women hate men

1. They don’t close your toothpaste.
2. They are victims.
3. They cancel dating to see a football game with friends.
4. They will not let us choose the movie.
5. They don’t call in a long time
6. They dot the toilet lid.
7. They are unpunctual.
8. They talk about their ex girlfriend.
9. They don’t realize that we have arranged.
10.  They think they are the only ones ho know ho to drive.
11. They spit on the floor… It’s revolting!
12.  They don’t ever explain details of things.
13. They don’t iron.
14.  They eat with their mouths open.
15.  They believe that only women can pluck.

Better leave it here. After the men say women are complicated. With this list it’s clear men are not perfect. The problem is that they believe are perfect. 

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All about us

Some time ago I was looking for youtube videos and I found a very nice video. It’s a beautiful song, romantic. The song about two lovers dancing, they are in love, they hear their love song.

Mother of God, what envy! I also want to be in love and who loves me! Now you upload the video. CARING, If you feel very alone and sad not to see you die of envy, like me! But if you feel like smiling, to sigh, forward! Hope you love it! 

NEWS

Oscar statues auctioned for $3m

The sale illustrated how the design of the Oscar statuette has changed over time

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Oscars 2012

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A collection of 15 Oscar statues sold for more than $3m (£1.8m) at an auction in Los Angeles, just two days after the Academy Awards took place.

The iconic gold trophies went under the hammer despite members of the Academy protesting against the sale.

Normally, winners are banned from selling their awards, but these prizes were handed out before that rule came into place, in 1950.

The sale included Oscars for the films Wuthering Heights and Citizen Kane.

The highest bid in the online auction went to Herman Mankiewicz's Oscar, which he won in 1941 for the screenplay to Citizen Kane.

The award, which had previously been sold in 1999 by Christie's auction house, fetched $588,455 (£369,556).

Last year, Orson Welles' Academy Award for the same film sold for $861,542 (£541,083).

The 1934 best picture Oscar, which was presented for the Noel Coward adaptation Cavalcade, went for $332,165 (£208,597).

In a statement the Academy said: "Members and the many film artists and craftspeople who've won Academy Awards believe strongly that Oscars should be won, not purchased,"

"Unfortunately, because our winners agreement wasn't instituted until 1950, we don't have any legal means of stopping the commoditisation of these particular statuettes."

The 1950 agreement is still signed by all Academy winners. It states that Oscar statuettes can only be sold back to the Academy for the nominal sum of $1 (63p).

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This news affects me a lot because I’ve always followed the Oscars gala. I now know that the statues sold. I think this is not done. The statues are very important for any player. Lucky that now is not because if not would watch the Oscars gala anymore. It’s amazing I can’t understand how people have to buy a prize that has a house and know it’s not his. 

NEWS

Beyonce has signed on to star in a movie musical directed by Glee creator, Ryan Murphy.

Murphy's production company has confirmed the film will be called One Hit Wonders.

It will also star Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon.

The actresses will play singers who each had a hit song in the 1990s, but then faded into obscurity. The film follows their story as they decide to join forces and create a supergroup.

Gwyneth Paltrow will star alongside Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz

Newsbeat's been told that no script has been written yet but that Beyonce's role has been created.

It's thought to be the first major project the pop star has undertaken since giving birth to her daughter Blue Ivy Carter in January.

Murphy will direct the film and write the script with his fellow Glee co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.

It will be the first producing credit in Gwyneth Paltrow's career.

Andy Samberg from the US TV comedy show Saturday Night Live is also involved with the project.

Samberg and his band The Lonely Island - whose parody songs I'm On A Boat and I Just Had Sex have been viral hits on YouTube - will write the original music for the movie.

The release date for the film has not been announced yet.

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This news affects me very much because I like Beyoncé. I think it’s a great singer and I didn’t lose his film. I think Beyoncé is the best singer actress. I say this because long ago she made a movie and I didn’t like much. I hope this is much better. I watch it! 

NEWS

Titian masterpiece Diana and Callisto saved for nation

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Titian's Diana and Callisto has been saved for the nation after a £45m ($71.7m) deal was agreed with owner the Duke of Sutherland.

The "supremely important" oil painting was bought with the help of £25m ($39.9m) from the National Gallery after a lengthy fundraising campaign.

Along with partners National Galleries of Scotland, they also saved sister piece Diana and Actaeon in 2009.

Both galleries hailed the "exceptional generosity" of donors.

The two pieces will be displayed together on a rotating basis in London and Edinburgh.

Titian's Diana and Actaeon was purchased three years ago for £50m ($79.7m). The institutions had originally been given until the end of the year to raise money for the second work.

National Gallery director Dr Nicholas Penny said: "For more than 100 years, these two great paintings by Titian have been regarded as pre-eminent among the masterpieces in private hands in the UK. "We have been able to secure both of them for the public, in a period of economic hardship, because of the esteem and affection that both institutions have enjoyed for many decades."

The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz said seeing the paintings split up "after nearly half a millennium of being together would have been a huge loss in terms of art history and the British public's ability to enjoy these two great paintings".

He added: "For the UK's national galleries to have seen Diana and Callisto leave the country would be like Italy waving goodbye to Michelangelo's David."

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The companion pieces were produced in the 1500s by the Renaissance artist and are considered to be among his greatest works.

They are among six large-scale works, painted for Philip II of Spain, that were inspired by the Roman poet Ovid.

Diana and Callisto depicts a nymph, impregnated by the god Jupiter, being expelled by the goddess.

£5m reduction

The two Titian paintings form part of the Duke of Sutherland's Bridgewater Collection - featuring works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Poussin - which has been on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland since 1945.

The galleries said the Duke had offered the two paintings at prices "significantly lower than their market value" - estimated to be around a half to a third of what they would be worth on the open market.

National Gallery trustees allocated £25m from its charitable reserves, principally gained from legacies left by members of the public over the past century.

The rest of the money came from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and individual donors and trusts.

Unlike the public appeal the galleries launched to save Diana and Actaeon, the two galleries said they decided against asking for a government grant or public help to raise money for the second painting "during such difficult economic times".

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"We have used these reserves before, but never on this scale, and no purchase ever made by the National Gallery has begun to approach the magnitude of this acquisition," Dr Penny said.

He added that the gallery had "very little" of its £32m reserve left for future acquisitions - as much of the remainder has been bequeathed for specific uses, such as education.

Dr Penny said he anticipated being asked why a UK national gallery was spending such large sums to acquire works by a foreign painter.

"If you lined up [British artists] Gainsborough, Turner and Constable, not only would they feel that this was a very great day but they would also admit they would not have been the artists they were had it not been for Titian.

"We do have quite a few. But that to me is a question rather similar to, 'there is one play by Shakespeare, do you really need any other ones?'"

John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, said the risk that the money might not have been raised and the painting would be sold overseas was "a very real one".

"For us in Scotland this has always been about a battle to hold on to what I would describe as our triple AAA status as a great art collection and one of the great European art galleries," he said.

"From today these great paintings belong to the British public and we could not be more thrilled that they will be available for the enjoyment, the education, and the inspiration for generations to come," he added.

Diana and Callisto will be displayed in London for 18 months from Thursday.

It will be joined by Diana and Actaeon - currently on a regional tour - in July. Both will then go on show in Scotland and be the centrepiece of a special display in Edinburgh to coincide with the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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Well, I think this news affects me because I love art history. When I saw this news I wanted more information about the work. This picture I study in the history of art. I think it’s a fantastic work.