HERE COMES THE SUN!

This summer will be the best summer I'll ever live. After the SELECTIVITAT exams we are going to Mallorca to spend there a week with all the class. I hope to enjoy our time there with all our friends.

After the hollidays in Mallorca I'll start working in Sant Pere Pescador in the same place where I worked last year, selling fruits in a shop next to a restaurant called Ca la Teresa. I hope to enjoy my time there like last year, I had a wonderful summer!

In September a group of friends that I met in Canada are coming to Barcelona and I will go there to visit them. During all those years I've been in touch with them but I'm very excited to see them again. We spend a month and a half together and at the end we were like "brothers and sisters", so It's like meeting again. 

I'm so excited to finish batxillerat just for live all those experiences!! 

HOLIDAYS IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY

The first week of April I went to the Basque Country to visit my family. I went there with my mum and my dad, and my brother stayed in Vilamacolum because he was on his exam's week. 

In the Basque Country I stayed in my aunt's house, she lives in Oiola neighbourhood and it belongs to San Sebastian. The first day we went to my uncle's restaurant and there we met all the family (cousins, aunts, uncles) we were 20 eating there.

The second day we went to Tolosa (Xabi Alonso's town) and there we went to a market to buy some typical basque things. There we met my aunt Montsita and my cousins Eider and Maitane and we went by car to the city center in Sant Sebastian and we went shopping. 

The third day we went to my other's aunt's house there we met with my cousins Iñigo, Nagore, Ion, Eneko, Iker, Julen and Maialen we had lunch together and we went to the town next from wher they live and we went to see horse racings.

I had an awsome time there! I love my cousins and I love the place.

ENGLISH PROGRESS FROM 2011-2013.

If I came back to my first post  I made in this blog, I can see the progress. The first post I made was an e-mail that I sent to Lourdes and if I compare it with all the writtings I made this third term I can see an enormous differnece. Before I used to write with simple sentences and a plane vocabulary but nowadays I think that my writtings are more mature, with complex sentences and with a great variety of vocabulary.

If we focus on my orals, I think that they are mor or less the same. Since I started 1st of eso, I've been doing oral presentations each term so I'm use to do them. My fluency and my pronunciation is better each year but I have to improve it more to do excellent oral presentations.

To sum up all I said I just think that I have improved a lot in every aspect but I can do it better!!

INFORMAL LETTER

Hi Ronnie,

I think that spending a couple of weeks with you would be a great idea but I have to talk about it with my parents but I think that they will agree.

If my parents say yes, I would prefer to come at the end of August because it's the time when we have less work in the restaurant.

About the room, I would prefer to stay in the spare room you have im the apartement because like this, I will do the same things as you do everyday!

What you said about going to the beach or doing other things, I prefer to do other thingd like visiting sime churches or museums or doing differents sports like snorkeling or kaiaking.

I'm counting the days to be there with you!

See you soon.

Joana.


*(exercice from first certificate exams preparation)

HAVE YOU GOT AN UNUSUAL HOBBY?

My name is Joana and I'm 17 years old. I have a very unusual hobby and I call it "DICTIOREADING". In my free time I love reading all kind of ditionaries from the ones in English to others in Suahili.

This hobby offers me wisdom and I feel more intelligent, because when I'm reading it, all the knowledge cames in my mind and I feel like if I was the wisest person in the whole world.

Next year I won't have enough time to read diionaries because I'll start university but I will try to find time anywhere to read my dictionaries.

To sum up I invite all the people to take as a hobby the "DICTIOREADING" because they will find their cleverness.

*(exercice from first certificate exams prearation)

INFORMAL LETTER

Hello Kay,

What you said about buying things on the internet, I think that it is a good idea because it is cheper than if you buy it in a shop and morover if you order is higher than 50 euros, they don't usually charge you more for transport.

What your friend told you about buying CDs and books is true but you can also buy clothes or shoes because they are usually half price. Another thing that you can buy too are sheets, if you tell them the exact size of your bed.

About sending money throug the post, I don't think it's necessary because, when you finish ordering, they ask you to pay by credit card and furthermore if you send the money by post it can be stolen.

In the end, you don't have to worry if your comend gets damaged during the transport because you can send it back imediately.

I hope that your internet shopping goes well!!

Love.

Joana


*(exercice from first certificate preparation exams)

DIALOGUE

- Hello, welcome to "Famous World". Today we have withs us Cesc Fàbregas, a football player from Barcelona. Welcome to our show Cesc!

- Hi Lizi, thanks to invite me to your programme.

- Well let's start! What is your daily life in Barcelona like?

- Hummm... you know, it's really stressful. Ihave to combine my football player life with the family and all the stuff outside the team.

- Oh! I know what it is like. and what about your wife Daniela and your daughter Lia, are they ok?

- Oh yes!! They both are extremely well,actually today is Daniela's birthday and after the inerview we are going to have lunch in a restaurant.

- Let me ask you a question, and if you don't want to answer it don't worry, it is ok.

- I'm afraid... hhahahhahaha!

- hahahha... are there any plans of a marriage?

- Mmmm...not yet, but Daniela wants to have a wedding so we'll have to plan it.

- It's awsome. Thank you Cesc for coming.

- Oh no, thank you Liz for inviting me.

- Good bye and see you soon!

- Bye!

IF PEOPLE MAKE PRENUP ARRANGEMENTS, ARE THEY GETTING MARRRIED FOR LOVE OR JUST FOR THE MONEY? (discussion)

Nowadays there are many rich people that are getting married to someone that wants to take their possessions, so on the one hand I think that prenum arrangements are a good idea to separate their fortune and if the marriage ends up with a divorce each one can keep their own property.

But on the other hand, I think that prenup arrangements are just made for the ones who are getting married without love. If you marry someone, it's because you love your partner and you want to be with hom or her the rest of your life, so prenup arrangements just destroy the couple love.

To end up I just want to say that prenup arrangements are useful in some cases but they might destroy love.

FAST FOOD PRODUCTS SHOULD CONTAIN A HEALTH WARNING LIKE TOBACO (opinion)

People are said to eat too much junk food nowadays so, is it necessary to put a warning in fast food restaurants or we know how dangerous this food can be? In my opinion, we are not warned enough about how junk food can affect our health.

Firstly, I don't even know if fast food restaurants' owners realise the products they are selling are extremely bad for the customers who buy them.

Secondly, if I were the president or the governamentor I would oblige all junk food restaurants to put a warning with all the bad things their food contains.

In conclusion, I totally agree on putting a health warning in fast food restaurants to make aware all the population how bad junk food can be.

Aeronautic management or hotel management?

The end of the term is getting close and we have to think what we are going to study and I have an enormous dilemma, I don't know either to study aeronautic management or hotel management.

On the one hand, the subjects in both degrees are very interesting but there are some of them that frighten me like commercial law or aviation law, but in general both degrees are awsome. An other thing that I don't like about studding both degrees are that if I studdy aeronautic management I'll have to go to live in Sabadell and if I study hotel management I'll have to live in "la vila universitària" not in Barcelona center.

On the other hand if I study hotel management and instead of studing just four years, I study five, I will have a degree on hotel management and another degree on tourism. If I study hotel management I'll have "practicum" each year not only in fourth and I have a compulsory "erasmus".

What can I do?? It's diffucult to chose it, and I just have a month to decide it!! CAN YOU HELP ME?

CARDINAL KEITH O'BRIEN SORRY FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic curch in Scotland, has admitted his sexual conduct that he had some times. He apologises for his bad behaviour to the Church and the people of Scotland, and they ask to all the people ho had injured to forgive him.

I think that a cardinal can't have this behavioiur because he goes against the church laws. It's from an hipocryt person to preach to all the people to do not have sex conducts but he does it. He goes against the curh and against himself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649475

PAKISTAN BOMB: KARACHI STANDSTILL AFTER SHIAS ATTACKED

A powerful bomb ripped in Karachi.the bomb killed approximately 45 persons. Schools and busines were closed during the strike to protest against the attack in Abbas Town. anyone says who put the bomb there but Pakistan's Shia minority are a group that always attac by sunni militians. The explosion destroyed buildings and by the time there were 150 wounded.

I think that those thinks nowadays should not happen. But in my opinion Pakistan is like another world inside the earth. This terrorist atack had injured a lot of people, but I think that all the population in Pakistan are heart injured because they are living a continuated "war".


VOCABULARY

Wounded
Ripped
Strike


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21651956

SKIN CANCER "ABLE TO FIGHT OFF BODY'S IMMUNE SYSTEM"

A deadly form of skin cancer is able to fend off the body's immune system, Uk researchers have found. analysis of tumour and lood samples shows that melanoma knocks out the body's best immune defence. by mimicking the conditions created by melanomas, they showed that in the presence of tumour cells, the immune system sent out IgG4 antibodies, but when faced with healthy cells it functioned as expected with IgG1 circulating. In additional tests in 33 patients, they found that those with higher levels of the weak antibody IgG4 had a less favourable prognosis compared with those with levels nearer to normal.

In my opinion this discovery will help a lot in the skin cancer researches, I think that many people will be glad to know that there are some people that are looking for skinc cancer treatmens and how de bad cells afect the body.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21635697

VOCAULARY

Samples

Launching

Mimicking

NICO ROSBERG & FERNANDO ALONSO SET FAST TIMES ON FINAL DAY OF TESTING

Nico Rosberg, the Mercedes driver, set the fastest time of the winter on the last day of the final pre-season test. The German followed up team-mate Lewis Hamilton's impressive performance on Saturday by lopping more than 0.4 seconds off the Englishman's time.

Mercedes and Ferrari look in good shape ahead of the new season, which starts in Australia in two weeks' time, and it is believed that Lotus and Red Bull will both also be competing right at the front at the start of the season in Australia in two weeks' time.

In my opinion, I think that this year F1 races will be quite similar one from the other because each team has improved a lot their engines so they will have to work hard to stand out one from the other.

VOCABULARY

data

in good shape

stand out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21648155

QUEEN IN HOSPITAL WITH STOMACH BUG, BUCKINGHAN PALACE SAYS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649494

Queen, Elisabeth the second, had been hospitalized because of a gastroenteritis. Because of this, all official engagements for this week had been cancelled or postponed. This hospitalitzation has been just a precautionary measure.The Queen will remain in hospital under observation for about two days. After those days she will retake her oficial agenda.

I hink that the Queen is quite strong and in two days she will retake his agenda with normality, but morover I think that the queen is old and she will have to think about her retirement.

VOCBULARY

Assessed
Gathered
Unwillingly

SELF EVALUATION

Since I started first of ESO I've done at least one oral presentation each year, but I still getting nervous in front of the class. The one I've done this second term I think that it has been the worst presentation I've ever done during all those years.

I don't know why, I got blocked, and all the specific vocabulary I had to use, I forgot it and I used poor words with and awful vocabulary.

To improve my orals I just have to breath heavily before starting te presentation to calm my nerves. Another thing that I can do is practice with my family before doing it in front of the class.

I will take all my selfs evaluations from all those years and I will put in on practice next year at the University.

PS: I can't post the video because of his weight!

MY HOBBY: COOKING

When I was a child my dream was to be a cook. As I grew up, I've changed my way of thinking but my old dream stills being on my mind. Nowadays I caught my old dream and I make it a hobby. During my free time I like cooking desrts and appetizers. My best cake is the 3 chocolat cake. The first time I did this cake it was a complete desaster, I forogt to add yeast and it didn't grew up. Now I'm an expert doing this cake. Morover other cakes that I love cooking too are: muffins, birthday cakes, cookies...The appetizers that I cook are: quiches, potatoes omeletes, crackers...

This yera for Genís 16th birthday my mother and I cooked for 50 persons. I did all the appetizers and the birtday cake. Unfortunately I haven't got any photos of the appetizers and the birthday cakes!!

Currently, when it's the birthday of some of my friends I'm in charge of maiking their cake. I always ask what they want but they always let me choose what I want.

PD: I can't find more photos of all the cakes I've done.

A SATURDAY NIGHT WITH "THE FAMILY"

Yesterday (Saturday the 2nd), our friends group had a dinner at Nil's house. We spend a great time there. Like always I was late and everybody was waiting for me. But I was late for a good reason, I was cooking some potatoes omelets so when I get there we start eating the omelets, some "pa amb tomata", and grilled meat. After the dinner we spend a great time dancing in the living room. Finally when it was midnight we went to Waikiki (a disco in Empuriabrava).

Our group of friends is like a family so we call ourselves "la family". This family is composed by Artur, Carlos, Albert, Kevin, Nil, Emanuel, Bala, Mali, Eva Marina, Homa, Fato and I.

I hope to spend a lot of years more next to them, because we spend really cool moments all together.

PURY-CONSTY HOLIDAYS

Each year since 2000 our friend's group during the "purissima" holidays we go to a a rural house during about four days. We are five families with four members in each family so we are 20 in a house. The first five years we went to Vilallonga de Ter, next year we went to Can Toni Gros and since 2006 we spend those holidays in Sant Joan de les Abadesses. 

The house we have in Sant Joan de les Abadesses is divided in three floors. In the first floor there is an enormous garge, a room where we have the washing mashine and another big room where we have a "futbolin", a pool table and a pingpong table. In the second floor there is a tolet and a bathroom, the kitchen, the hall where we play table games, the living room, and the dining room. Finally in the third floor there are two bathrooms and 8 rooms, there is a room for each couple, a room for the boys, another for the girls and the last one for the ones who just come one or two days.

The first day we spend there we divide all the house chores. The boys and fathers are in charge of cleaning all the first floor and they are in charge of recollecting wood for the heater and the girls and mothers are in charge of cleaning the second floor and we are in charge of cooking too. The ones who doesen't want to do those things are in charge of setting the table. 

I hope to spend more years going there because now we are like a big family and I don't want to lose everithing we have done there such as excursions in Ripoll or in Camprodon.

DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON

GENÍS

Genís is my brother and he is a year younger than me. He was born on the 11th november 1996 so now he is 16. We live in Vilamacolum with our parents and our two dogs Socks and Brisa. Currently he is studying CAFEMN in Illa de Rodes (Roses). This June he is going to take a horse riding exam and if he passes it he will go to study in Manresa a profetional training on horses.

He has brown hair, green eyes and he is darck-skined. He is quite tall and thin but I'm smarter than him. I think he is fairly stubborned and bossy but he is quiet cheerful and amusing. He is nice to other people and he always try to help them if they are in a trouble.

During his free time he likes to go horseriding with our neighbour, listen to music, hang out with his friends and play football. Every Friday evening Genís and I go to our playstation room and we spend like one hour and a half playing FIFA!! He usually wins but some times i win too.

I just want to say that Genís is the besth brother I could ever had!!