My ENGLISH competence in 2013!

Obviously I see an improvement on my level of english since 1st of Batchillerat. Above all, my level of english increase in the use of connectors and, the latest two years, I have learn a lot of new vocabulary that let me comunicate with other english speakers more fluency. But not only in english, also in catalan and spanish I  have learn a lot of new vocabulary. Coming back to english, if we compare one of my first redactions ("My prsentation") with one of the latest ("The globalitation"), we can see how in the first the words that I use are very basic words and very simply sentences, while in the second I use more complex vocabulary and sentences. 

To show our level of english, I think the best activities are the orals, because I think talking is the best way to learn any idiom. I think my best oral was my oral about my TDR, the Fula, above all, because was the second time that I did it.  

The activities that I think not are usefull are divide in groups the class like in 1st of Batchillerat, because students normally don't do anything at this time, only talk, but not in english. In spite of that, my favourite activity was watching films and I would like to do in second of Batchillerat also next year. 

PD: I linked two writings if you want to compare and I haven't my fula oral. 

The globalitation

We know like globalitation the extention of the economic relations between differents countries, making a mundial economy with a big dependence. Currently, there aren't any country self-sufficient, they need change products. With the globalitation, there are more economy relation.

With the globalitation, appears two new terms. First, internationalitation, in other words, opening to international markets. Thanks to the internationalition, there are multinationals, companies that are working in two or more countries. These companies have a big productivity capacity, a lot of resistece in the international market and they have the best tecnology for make their products. The secodn term is deslocalitation, that consists in move activity products from desenvolupated countries to subdesenvolupated. Then, the company reduce costs and achieve be more competitive. But the deslocalitationc have some cosnequences. For example: the number of unemployeds increase in the desenvolupated contries.

Metamorphosys (F.Kafka)

One morning, Gregor Samsa wake up convert in beetle. He don't surprise. How he was late in his job, his mother and sister goes to call him. He tries to stand up and open the door, but he can't. Then, his boss came to the house in order to know why Gregor isn't in the job. When he arrives, Gregor achieve open the door and all people see him. They were frightened. Then, the boss insults him and go out. After, Gregor's dad hit him with a walking stick and hurt him so much. Gregor was incoscient.

When Gregor wake up again, he only heard in the house what they have to do with him. How he was a beetle, he changes his costums and he starts to up for the walls. While, the members of the family starts to work, because Gregor was the only who have a job and now he couldn't work. After a time, his sister, who was who take cure of Gregor, decide to remove Gregor's rom, and she did it with the help of her mother. But the mother, when saw in this situation at his son, began to cry and gou out of the room. Her husband saw it and he thinks that Gregor hurt his wife. Then, h hit again his son. This time, he throw apples to Gregor. One of them got caught on Gregor's beetle body.

The family needs money and they decide to rent one room. Then, three persons rent it. One evening, while they have dinner, they heard who Gregor sister was touching the violin. Then, Gregor gou out of the room and when they saw the giganti beetle they go out of the house, without pay. Next day, the family decides what they have to do with Gregor and his sister propose kill him. But wasn't necessary, he was dead. Then, the family decides go away and forget all and start their lifes again.

The realism moviment

In the middle of XIX century, in Europe appears a new literary moviment: the REALISM. This moviment tries to limit the romaticism freedom and do novels completly realists, show the life the way it is. This moveiment appears in France. The writers uses the term realism to refere to the imitation of the nature and the descriptive caracter of the reality.

The maximum exponen of this moviment was Gustave Flaubert, considerated the best writer of his century. He wanted to describe exactly how was the reality and for this reason he took a long time to write his novels. Before publish them, he reads all and he always change something. His succeful novel was “Madame Bovary”, a novel that show us how was the socity in XIX century. The principal character is Mdme Bovary, who is very capricious and for this reason she finish dying.

An other two importants realism writers are Stendhal and Balzac.

Dialogue with an ex-student

In this dialogue I am going to talk with an ex-student of batchiller to know how was he feeling in the end of the course.

Me: Hello Omar, I am here to do some questions about you student's life at the end of second of batchillerat. Can you answer?

Omar: Yes, of course.

Me: I have a lot of problem to organise my calendar. There are a lot of exams and I play football four times at week. How did you organized?

Omar: Mmm.. Well, in first of batchillerat I played handball and this wasn't a problem for me, but in second, I had to leave handball, because, how you said, there are a lot of exams and not much time to study.

Me: So... you advise me to leave football?

Omar: Hahaha. No, no. It's depends of you. I couldn't play handball and study, but this not mean that you can't. You have to know that if you play football, probably you will be more tired and then you have to work hard and sacrifice yourself to pass the exams.

Me: Wow, it looks very hard. An other question: I know that your final marks weren't so good. You thinked that you don't pass the course?

Omar: Hum.. Since second therm I thinked that I don't pass the course! There was a moment, at final of second therm, that I thinked to leave school, but my dad help me to avoid this idea.

Me: My actual situation isn't very different. What do you advise to me?

Omar: Only one thing: WORK HARD!!

Me: Okay Omar, I will keep it. Thanks for your advises and for you time.

Omar: Good luck! Bye.

Goodbye for good

The exellent midfielder Paul Scholes will be retring of his professional football carrer. Is the secon time that he announces the retring, but this time, he will never returns.

He will play for last time this week against Swansea to pick up his 11^th Premier League medal. He said that has been an honour playing with Manchester United under the greates manager of all time (sir Alex Ferguson).

Paul made his professional football debut in 1994 and will have 498 matches after playing today.

Some of the most importants achieves of Paul:

1994 debut with Manchester.

1997 called into national team

1999 United completed a historictreble, like FC Barcelona some years ago

2011 announces his first retirement

2013 announces his denfinetely retirement

OPINION

Paul Scholes is a player who had gave a lot in football world. I think he changes the prototipe of midfielder that were in football last decade. He introduces the creativity and this helps so much his team. He is the player who gives the pause and the rhythm in the field. I can say that he influences in some football-players like Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona) or Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid).

I think that nobody recognize the talent of this player, because he never win an individual trophy, and now could be the perfect moment for recognize it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/paul-scholes-retires-manchester-united-1884266

Brazilian woman survives harpoon shooting

The harpoon was in 1cm of killing Rosa. She had emergency surgey to remove the harpoon.

Apparently, the husband of Rosa had fires his spear gun while cleaning it. She was in the kitchen and repently the harpoon entered through her mouth. She was quikly taken to the regional hospital where she was operated. The doctors were surprised because they said that if the harpoon were on centimetre further in, she would have been paralysed; and if the harpoon were one centimetre further out, she would have been dead.

OPINION:

This case show us that in the life we are always in danger, although we think we are secure. I don't think that the husband want to kill his wife, but now he have to be care of this type of actions. This time, he was lucky, because his wife will be okay, but next time probably he don't have the same luck.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22464489

Thousands abandon classrooms to join second education strike in 12 months

To avoid the education reform in Spain, teachers and students did a strike last Thursday. According to the Platform for Public Schooling, 72 percent of staff public followed the strike, while the Minestry of Education said that only 20 percent of staff public followed it.

That strike is the culmination of two weeks of protests. The cities where the demonstrations pointed where in Madrid, Valencia, Galicia, Murcia and Barcelona. Obviously, there was some altercations with police during the day.

This strike goes against “Wert's law”. Spanish people thinks that this law will be bad for the society, but Wert, and the government, thinks that the law will decrease high-school dropout rates.

OPINION:

My think is that the strike has help us so much, because the law has avoided for a time and I hope that government raise th law and don't approve it. Is obvious that Spain needs a new kind of education, but I think that the Wert's law isn't the way we have to choose. We should take like a model of education the system of other European countries like Findland or Germany, where the high-school dropout rates are lowest that here.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/09/inenglish/1368122023_460785.html

Uruguay: Marriage Equality Approved

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/02/uruguay-marriage-equality-approved

The Uruguay Senate has legalized same-sex marriage last Thuesday. Also the achieve increase the minimum age for marriage: now is 16. But Human Rights Watch want to put the minimum of 18 for the two sex. Boris Ditrich said that urugayans have to have the right of equality and non-discrimination, so they can marriage with people of the same sex. Uruguay isn't the only country were people can marriage with his same sex: in 2010 was approved in Argentina and one year later in Brazil and also in some places of the rest of the world. 

OPINION.

Here, in Spain, the situation isn't much different: the couples of the same sex can marriage since 2005. The biggest difference is that here the minimum age for marriage is 18 and I think that it's better the law of Spain, because with 16 people aren't sufficiently mature for marriage. 

Personally, I haven't any problem with same-sex marriage. I think that if you have good judgement, you can decide who do you like and you can decide if your best partner is someone of you same sex. I don't understant why some people don't like same people coupole: what problem are if one boy/girl loves someone of his/her same sex?

Dad who killed his three kids with hunting knife 'threatened to strangle wife with phone cord'

Ceri Fuller, who had killed his three childrens with a hunting knife, also want to kill his wife with phone cord, during a boozy. His wife, Ruth, said that he hit to she a few times and when she tried to call the police, he treathen with killing.

The reason of this actions are that he was jealous because his wife was studying and chating with other people. He was very possessive and he don't like see his wife with other men.

How Ruth cannot saw her children, she sospite that something terrible was happened. Days after the missing of the childrens, she tries to stab herself, but his father avoid it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fuller-family-inquests-dad-who-1853639

Mali crisis: French soldier killed fighting Islamists

Since the service militar of France goes to Malí, is the third french soldier who has benn killed fighting against Islamist militants. This time he was paratrooper and he was killed while the french want to go Adrar mountains, in the same place where days before the french military had been killed two islamists. The French defence ministry named the dead soldier as Cpl Cedric Charenton, 26. 

The defence ministry of France said that the soldier was killed in one of the worsts moments of the battle in Mali. 

News 3: 

Chemistry: the secret of attraction

In that text, they question to us if there are a scientific reason to know why we are attracted to some people. The psychologist Arthur Arun did an experiment that consist in take one man and one woman and do that they look into each other's eyes for four minutes. This couple has marriaged.

They were attracted because, according to the experts, the body language (eye contact) is very important, like the adrenaline. The adrenaline intereact in the chemestry of love.

There are three phases of romance:

• Interest: consist in generate romantic signals
• Attraction: here, we feel love sick
• Attachment: is a difficult time where many couples split up.

What's happening to FC Barcelona?

Two weeks ago, FC Barcelona had losted agains AC Milan in Champions League. In these match, the players of Barça they didn't play well and, as consequence, they lost for 2 goals. I don't want to detract the italian team, but I think that the cules can play better and also the can win easily AC Milan. After that poor match of the catalan team, they had played agains his maximu rival, Real Madrid. At first, in the bookmakers, the favourite for winning was FC Barcelona. I also though that Barça went to win, but when the game started    my though changes completly. I saw how Real Madrid's players wwere more active than the cules and finally Barça had lost 3-1. A few days later, there was an other time one FCB vs Real Madrid. This time all the world thinks that FCB's players were able to win his rival, because Real Madrid have an other match on Thuesday against Manchester United and the José Mourinho gave rest to some important players like Cristiano Ronaldo, but an other time, Real Madrid wins. 

WHAT HAPPENS TO FC BARCELONA!? They are tired, unmotivated...?

Oral presentation

Sergio's research project: He has chosen this topic because he like Miguel Delibes. The research project is structured into two parts: the first one is about the life of Miguel. He traveled around the world. The second part is about his books: "The heretic", "Five hours with Mario".

Joaquim's research project: He explained why he decided to do this topic. He has chosen it because he likes a lot the brewery. His objectives were learning how to make a business ans know what type of brewery he has to do. The research project is structured into two parts: practice (make brewery) and theory (how to do a business). His friends made the logo of the brewery which is "barretina".

Aida's research project: She said that before, the people thought that the Bible was everything. In 19th century, Darwing explained the natural selection. At first, anyone believed him. Also, 20th century, there were new discovery.In Burgos, they found a new skull that changed the theory of evolutions. They add a new type of men.

Sara's research project: According to Sara, the hair style defines the personality of people. She also said that we can put piercings in all our body, as the tattoos. 

Sonia's research project: She has chosen this topic because she wants to be a teacher of children. Her objectives are learning about the evolution of children between zero and three years. She said that the language is very important to their comunication, like speaking. That helps themselves to think and be more secure. The mechanisms for learning are see and play.

Marina's research project: She has chosen this topic because she wants to study pcychology next year. The meaning of ADHD is "atention disability hiperactivity disorder". There are three differently clubs of ADHD: the first one is for attention deficit, the second is for hiperactivity disorder and the last one are the convination of the first one and second.

Helena's research project: The writers share their books

                                        How the literature has adapted to knew technologies.

                                        A new method of "Book Trailer"

                                        Writes use Tv and radios to sharebooks.

Book trailer: Trailer of a book same the films. 

Pope's emotional farewell speech

The outgoing Pope was realize a disours as a goodbye. He realize this discours in the place of San Pedro, whit catholics of all the places of the world. In his pronuntiation he said some moments of his "reign". He highlight the moments of joy and lights as the head of Catholic chourch. With his 85 years, he decide that the cardenals will decide who will be the new Pope. He is the first Pope in 600 years that resign. He also said why he resign. At the end he thanked his cardenals for their support.

NEWS: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/popes-emotional-farewell-speech-hints-1734270

Scottish cardinal admits sexual misbehaviour

There is a new case of sexual misbehaviour. This time, the cardenal Keith O'Brien has declared that he done sexual misbehaviour. For this reason, he promise that he didn't relize chourch paractics. He did that declaration after his resignation from his position as archbishop. 

At first, he said that he resign for the dimission of the Papa, but last sunday, the cardenal said that in the past his sexual conduct was inappropiate. He has apologized with all the people of Scotland and finally he said that he will retiring.

NEWS: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/03/201333185036848978.html

Evernote says security has been breached by hackers

Evernote is a company that is used to save personal information like images or videoclips. The problem is that the company said that the program has found and blocked an stranger activity. Some people has tried stole inormation from Evernote. The company have already 50 milion users. Despite the strange activity, the company guarantees all the protection of the users information, but they have to change the password. 

Evernote has apologize and Bob Lord, the company's information security director, said that these action can't be realized by amateurs.

NEWS 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21644317

Pakistan Karachi bomb blast kills dozens

There are 45 people who has died by a bomb explosion. The explosion has been done on Abbas Town and there are some buildings that have crashed. Some people said that there was a second explosion.

Nobody knows who has planted the bomb. The bomb has exploted while the people were on mosque. That mosque is a place where there are constanlly attaks. The explosion caused problems with the energy in the city and around 150 people have been damaged.

While, the police are investigating who planted the bomb and why.The families didn't bury the victims as a protest against the debility of the autorities.

NEWS 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21649412
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