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.