Well this two courses of Batxillerat I learnet a lot and I'm so proud of my job in this subject. Now that I finish my English class I can look back and ... FLIP OUT!
I did it a lot of things for improving my English and I think that the type of class that we did it's perfect to learn English, because are Interactive and we pay more attention than if we did regular class. I think that the English class is different to the others and I'm more ready than in another class. The good think about the subject is that we learn in different ways, for example, with songs or reading news and doing this blog. I think that in the English class just need to improve more vocabulary and practice more the phrasal verbs in class, because it's a practical thing that the English people use a lot and in my class for example we know it but we don't use it a lot. Another think that this class can improve is the way to teach the grammatical theory, because depend of the part of grammatic it can be difficult to understand. I can say that because I see my evolution in these years and the good job that I did it. The best examples of my improvement are the next.
My best presentation was: YouTubers. I think that It would be my best oral presentation because it was one of the final group presentation, and here I show all that I learned from the English class. My best task: Do you believe in love at first sight?. This last task talks about a topic that I like it and I express all the things that I feel and I think of this topic. My best news:Drug Addicts Could Fight Addiction With Memory-erasing Chemical Scientists Say. This news is one of my best news because I could summarize the new without any problem. My best your say: HELLO LONDON!. This your say it's one of my favourites and the best your say that I did it because it's like a travelling diary of our London trip. It would be one of my best your says because I writed more than 3 thousand words expressing all that I felt during on of the best weeks of my life.
And this is all that I improved in English, in 3 years.
In this post I would compare my first written document on this blog, in 2013 when I was in 4th of ESO and the last post on the blog this course. I can see a lot of differences on my evolution of English, for example: My first post on the blog was a written task that talks about my old dreams. The last post I've done is about jealousy. This is a big change because my post in the past talks about silly things that I like when I was younger and now I can talk about any type of thing that is more mature or simply more interesting. Another example of my evolution can be the way of written and the mistake that I did in the old posts.
I'm so happy with the great improvement that I do it in all this time beginning in 2013 until 2016. I improved a lot of things like the language, a lot of vocabulary and obiously the pronunciation.
Jealousy is an emotional response that arises when a person perceives a threat to something he/she considers him/herself.
This time I will talk about jealousy in couples. Jealousy that arise between couples, usually produced when you do not have much confidence in the relationship or one partner is believed inferior to the other. When a couple does not have much confidence often think the worst on both sides, because not knowing everything that happens to him or her, or what can get to think he or she, this may influence when they communicate with other people. If a partner feels inferior to his partner, always thought he or she wants not enough and that he or she could be with someone better than him or her. I think it's one of the worst feelings you can have in a couple, since many times because of jealousy, many couples are torn apart or many people come to hurt their partners for this. I think jealousy are both boys and girls alike, is also always say that girls are more jealous than boys, but this is an urban legend. Many men come to attack their partners for them.
Love at first sight is a personal experience and a common trope in literature in which a person, character, or speaker feels an instant, extreme, and ultimately long-lasting romantic attraction for a stranger on the first sight of them. Love at first sight is possible, but I think it's a superficial love because you don't fall in love with the person and their personality, they fall in love for their physical attractiveness. The love at first sight is real, but not always can be a true love. The people who fall in love at first sight have an arrogant, frivolous, with a lot of self-esteem and a selfish character.
Also I think that love at first sight it's a cliché created by the romantic movies. Any woman who has ever watched a romantic movie will know that love at first sight is a very flattering cliché in these films. This kind of movies gets to see that love at first sight can happen to anyone, and anyone can establish a relationship, as easily as in the movies. But I do not believe it because to fall in love with a person have to know how is psychologically and also know your hobbies and defects.
Love is a feeling that blooms with time and not with just a glance. I think that this term would define it as an unrealistic and superficial love that only can "enjoy" people who have a good appeal. I do not mean a less attractive person can not fall into the trap of this love, but I think it is more complicated because people often are governed by the appearance. If I had to define love at first sight in one sentence I would say:
Couples do not have to have much in common, since a good partner is not one to which you both like the same things. Everyone you might like different things and not for the reason that your partner does not like anything you like you mean that you are not made for each other, but simply do not you have the same tastes but you can live together.
A couple who has everything in common, does not mean they have to be the perfect match, since one could get tired of having the same tastes than the other and break the relationship, for example. Not because of different subcultures or have any fashion or musical taste different from your partner means that you can not be together. If a couple is to not think about their tastes or their hobbies, but to maintain a stable relationship in which both partners access to the tastes of the other.
We are writing to complain about the lack of equality. On the one hand, we have the equality of all the people before the law and the other hand the entitled without any discrimination in violation of the protection of the law.
Firstly we will say that a lot of people are treated differently because they are from other races. We put out that we stay in a denveloping country that have this behaviour with this discrimination in all the different races provokes our socity to go a step bock to the past.
Secondly, we have to crack down in the difference in front of the equalities and the protection with famous and rich people to all the other people.
We have to be equal in front of the law independet of the race and the moeny of each person.
SUMMARY: The news talks about a Malaysia Airlines plane, which took off Christmas day, began to turn off from its route and the pilots were stunned. The pilot contacted with air traffic controllers to explain the anomalies that were happening to them and how they could return to their course. On the website Flightradar24.com not reach the flight path and did not provide them any registration. The plane was lost. In other part of the news it can explains that Malaysia Airlines had a bad reputation since a rocket hit the MH17 while flying over the Ukraine and left 298 dead.
MY OPINION: I think aircraft companies before embarking on a route, should study the areas through which pass the planes and to detect Any meteorological phenomenon, climate or atmospheric, as these can disrupt the flight to produce their disappearance. I also believe that before embarking on a path with a large way the air traffic controllers would have to monitor its course well and inform pilots of any variant problem. NEW WORDS: New words: Reportedly: acording to reports. Within: inside. Charter: organizational document. Path: trail. Plot: story of a novel, film ... Embroil: involve. Despite: in spite of. Whilist: althrought. Spokeswomen: female spokesperson. Slightly:small in amount. Aircraft: plane.
SUMMARY: AnAmerican Journal Of Human Biology study has said that stress to get a tattoo strengthens the immune system of your body, that is, to fight infections. This study was found to see that a person who gets a tattoo down his antibody levels and increases cortisol levels, the stress hormone. Instead, when a person who already had a tattoo and made another, the antibody levels don't decrease much.
MY OPINION: I think that this news it's true but I don't believe that all the persons who have tattoos have a great immune system because all the persons have differents bodys and differents immune systems and differents traits. A person with a poor immune system and a poor level of antibody can have a lots of problems with the tattos. I think that it could be real but it doesnt change a lot with the persons who don't have tattos, because a person who have a great immune system have a more strenghten system than a person who have tattos. NEW WORDS: Pesky: troublesome. Strengthen: make stronger. Needle:small and pointy bar.
SUMMARY: This news talk about the invention of a thecnológic lens, similar to the Google Glass, and what can do it. This lens can record all your memories and allow us to search through a database, videos of our recorded experiences. The videos may also be sent to the smartphone. The only problem they have to make these lenses is the way they want to record memories. Now Google is searching a new way to record all the memories of a long period because now his smart glasses can record a short period of memories.
MY OPINION:
I think that this new invention is a unnecessary object in our live. Is a great thing because you can revive the great experience that you live, but when you are having a good time it's not as fun if you're thinking of you have to connect the lens to record the time and not directly enjoy the moment. A good time is always better if you can enjoy it at the time, because the good times are those that arise spontaneously and not what you plan from top to bottom NEW WORDS:
Chunk: Large pice. Huge:Much higher than what is considered normal. Portray:The descriptions of the figure or character of a person. Upon: On. Snippets: Scrap of information. Trustworthy:Said of a person or thing: In which you can trust. Footage:alengthordistancemeasuredinfeet.
This news talk about the new discovery of erasing the memories, especially drugs memories without causing any widespread damage. The discoverers (In the photo below) say that this development is very important because the previous chemical products could cause some erase memory problems, but now controlling myosin, a protein, will not cause these problems. Then the news explains the case of the withdrawal of the previous medicines, their effects and how this new discovery can help the persons who was taking the medicines. But at least for now this it was only proved in animals.
MY OPINION: I believe this new finding is a breakthrough towards a healthier society and fewer health problems. Thanks to this, I believe that many things might be discovered, because by knowing how to erase the memory of different parts, may it can help many people with psychological problems in the long run. If this chemical modification, once tested in humans works, many persons with problems of rapes, abuses or family problems, they can be helped. NEW WORDS: Widespread:Consider and treat generally any point or question. Nonmuscle myosin: A no muscular myosin. Myosin is a type of protein that we have in our bodies. Breakthrough: Discovery. Trigger: Action and effect of triggering. Originate or outputting movements, events or series of events, often passionate or violent. Relapse: Falling back. Withdrawal: Action back. Craving: Desire.
Summary: This news is an interview by Laura Pitter an advisory national security of human rights of the United States, she interviewed many former detainees who were tortured by the CIA agents after the 9/11. In this article the various detainees by the CIA explain the various ways in which torture, and until end reached to hurt a person. It is also argued that torture is an illegal act, which is subject under US law. A witness also says he is a little embarrassed by what can be committed in their country and feel much compassion for those persoans which have been battered by the body of the CIA.
My opnion: I think a country like the United States and also a private security center as the CIA, you would not have any kind of torture of any detainee wholesale evil caused. America is a very underdeveloped country which gives you many ways to control prisoners without that torture-that way, knowing that torture is an illegal act. New words: Widely: to large extent. Acknowledged: accepted. Abduct: kidnap. Otherwise: differently. Diapers: baby's nappy. Hung: not a majority. Ceilings: upper part of a room. Dunk in: immerse in liquid. Lack: scarvity. Pitch dark: without light. Slam: close violently a door. Pouring: It's raining heavily. Upright: vertically. Handcuffed: restrain with handcuffs. Narrow:having a smalldistance from one side to the other, especially in comparison with the length.
The first day when we arrived in London we went to the hostel to left the suitcase. Then we went to the tube line station of High Street Kensington. At the entrance to the station there were two women who share out newspapers and lifestyle magazines. One of the woman gave me a newspaper and I tought to do one of the news of the blog with this newspaper.
This newspaper is called London Evening Standard and I have chosen a news of a crime in a restaurant called Bella Italia.
SUMMARY: This news talk about a crim committed in London on the 24 of February in a restaurant of Leicester Quare called The Bella Italia. One of the waiters of the restaurant Bella Italia take a waitress hostage and armed himself with a knife from the kitchen. Customers and other workers fled, leaving inside the hostage with the suspect and a middle age couple. Riot police were guarding the outside while the negotiators talked with the suspect through messages in the window. Two hours after riot police threw them under the door and arrested the suspect. MY OPINION: I think the riot, or the London police could have come much earlier and not have to wait for more than two hours for a man armed only with a knife was threatening to one person. Also, I think that for this crime the riot has to be more than 10 persons, because I think that it's a little crime from my point of view. 3 NEW WORDS: Allegedly:said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have no proof. Barred: without rules. Hostage: person taken prisoner. Riot: violent public disorder. Shield: armour. Letterbox: box for delivered mail.
SUMMARY: This new explain the terrible news that the number of childrens affected by eating disorders in UK is doubling or exceeding their values compared to previous years. Also explain that this disorders are caused for the "perfect prototype" that the people gave. MY OPINION: Abou the eating disorders in the childhood or in the adolescence are create for two parts. The first part it's caused of the fads that creat Tv and other medis. For example all the girls who appear in an adverstiment or all famous, usually are thin, with long hair, big breasts and big thighs. The other part would be the discrimination or bulling which produce the classmates when a person did not have the "standard" measures like them. NEW WORDS:
In this last post of this quarter. Talk about how progress throughout the course. This year, I have seen a big improvement in my performance. I noticed, for example, in the blog posts, before I had a very short and very boring post who explaining many nonsense. However, now I know better express English, and I could see a big improvement.
I think the activity that best reflects my evolution in the English language are the activities that we do here on the blog, I could express my thoughts and all my things in english. I think an activity that helps a lot to learn english is to make listening and reading because you learn new words by reading, but also in listening to learn to pronounce them.
I think that there is no activity with which you can't learn. So I really could do all these activities. I think we should continue the following activities:
Listening and evaluating to other presentations
Recording and evaluating your oral presentation
Podcasts
Watching films
Class Songs
Blog yoursays
Blog news
Vocabulary extension dossier
Reading 3 books
Grammar & vocabulary Exams, Skills exams
Through these activities, we have been doing throughout this year, and could greatly improve my English, so in writing as orally. But I think we can do some hiking this subject.
This song called "Dear future husband" is a song by Meghan Trainor. This song is included in her new albun called Title (2014).
"Dear future husband" in Ctalan is "Estimat futur marit", is a dance-pop song. This song was published in 17th of March 2015. This song is really funny, and here I leave the original lyrics and the translation into Catalan. English version: Catalan version:
Dear future husband,
Estimat futur marit Here's a few things
Aqui hi ha unes quantes coses You'll need to know if you wanna be
Que hauries de saber si vols ser My one and only all my life
