FINAL REFLECTION 2008- 2010

FINAL REFLECTION

My english progress from 2008-2010

- To compare my first written document and my last composition read my first written document, I read my first composition and I can observe that now I have more ability to write compositions because I write more. In batxillerat one I didn’t have the ability to write because I didn’t practice but in batxillerat 2. I observed that the all the compositions that I wrote, I have more ability and I learn vocabulary, grammar, connectors, language and I think that before in batxillerat 1 I wrote about less mature subjects and now I see that I have changed the subject and I see that I can write about subjects that are more complicated.
- To compare my first oral presentation and last oral presentation, I saw them and I think that I have improve my fluency in English. Apart from that, I improved my subjects about oral presentation. The first oral presentation was about my hobby “the horses and the riding school” and I think that these subjects are very easy because you tell them your hobby and your experiences and the last oral presentation was about my research project that it was easy also because you were supposed to explain your project that you did in 10 months but I observed that the fluency was better than the first oral because I practiced more and I learned more vocabulary. But in batxillerat 2 we can saw that I had to interpret subjects that were more difficult about British humor and others.
In conclusion, I think that I have improved my pronunciation, my body language and the fluency but I think that I can improve more my pronunciation more because it is a little bad.

My English COMPETENCE in 2010

I believe that my best oral presentation was about my research project because I knew a lot this project and I could speak with more ability. I think that when you explain a subject that you prepared a lot you have more fluency to say something.

This year I had written a lot and I can’t say which is the best composition was that I did, but I can say that this year I wrote a lot more than other year and I think that I have more fluency to write and I believe that it’s advantages because it you allow to write something about anything. I suppose that my best writing are last compositions that I wrote because having a good structure, more maturity and rich about vocabulary.

The future
English competence, I think that is very important to have more fluency of English writing and it’s for this reason that all we had to write a lot. Furthermore, the project about the blog helped us to increase our marks so you have more probabilities to increase your mark or pass this subject and it’s a good opportunity. Now, I will continue to learn English because this summer I am going to an English family in England for two weeks and I think that I will improve my pronunciation and fluency to speak English. I believe that this opportunity is perfect to improve my English and I think that it’s an opportunity I have to enjoy a lot.!!

Barraques! '10

Well, today I will talk about “ festes de St Creu” in Figueres. This weekend there is barraques in Figueres. Barrakes consists of a stage with music and afterwards different bars around. There are a lot of people and next to Barrakes there is the fair. On Saturday, we went to Julia’s party at her house and we had dinner and we gave her the presents, it was perfect party!! And afterwards we went to Barrakes. There we found the other people of different places and we were very happy. The other weekend there is Barrakes also but I won’t go because next week, I have a lot of exams and I have to study very hard. We can say that this year, barraques 2010 had been very short. But I prefer to study and afterwards get good results, and I think that now we are at the end of school year and we have to get good marks to improve, for this reason, we have to study hard and we have to deprive ourselves of barraques or other parties, I believe that now we can’t play with our future. So I recommend all students that you study very hard.

NEW HOTEL!

Well, I will talk about a very modern restaurant. The other day I was walking in Hospitalet de Llobregat and I saw that there a hotel with avanguardista style had opened. I observed it and this hotel is especially for people who travel for business. The hotel has different characteristic than other hotels from Barcelona. This hotel has four stars and I think that they renounce other star due to strategy in front of time of crisis.

This hotel is very striking. The function of the hotel is to attract tourism; the hotels improve the numbers of stars to represent more quality. In this case, this new hotel decreases one star to get more people in the hotel. The hotel gives us diversification the offer so it thinks for it will do congress, conference, and because there will be urban tourism. The hotel guarantees the public transport too.

We can observe that the only aim of this hotel is to do different activity in the
same building so this hotel had been build to do all activities. This hotel is very nice and the tourism attracted a lot due to his design and his quality.

BLOG!

When we started first batxillerat, we had to do our own blog and had to write ten posts per term. When we started second batxillerat it was six per term. The blog consisted of your own page that you had to decor and write a letter, discuss essay, opinion essay, description, argumentative text,... the topic is optional, you can let yourself be carried along by your imagination.

On the one hand, I think that to do 6 posts every term is good idea because you practice the fluency. I believe that until I started to write my blog , at first batxillerat from now I improve my fluency because now I can write quickly. Apart from that I think that you learn vocabulary, new words, new ways to do a composition (discuss essay, opinion essay,...), and these are fantastic to improve our writing.

On the other hand, I think that this blog spends a lot of time because you had to do 6 posts every term and it results in a lot of work. So, you had to organize yourself very well so your work doesn’t accumulate the last day.

In conclusion, personally I think that I've improved my writing because I have more fluency to write and I learn a lot of vocabulary. I think that this form you can improve your writing.

DESCRIPTION!

Well, in this composition, I want to describe the main character about Great Expectations: Pip and Joe. The main character is Pip. Pip is an orphan and he lives with his sister and Joe. Pip goes to school and he helps Joe and afterwards he works as blacksmith but his dream is always to learn to be a gentleman also he finds out that he doesn’t enough have money. But one day, Mighwith reward him for his kindness and he gives money to go in London. Pip takes advantage of a moment. Pip falls in love Estella and he suffers a lot because of her.

I describe Joe. Joe is Pip’s brother-in law because he married his sister. Joe works as blacksmith. Joe always behaves very well with Pip, he does the father of Pip and they have a good relationship. Joe teaches Pip as to be a good blacksmith until Pip goes out to London. Joe finds out that he doesn’t give the dream of Pip because he doesn’t have enough money but he tries to make happy him. Joe is a good person and very kind. He always loves Pip.

Great Expectations

The book is about a boy called Pip who is an orphan because their parents had died and he lives with his sister and Joe, his brother- in law. One day, when Pip visits the gravestone of their parents in churchyard, a strange man comes there and he threatens if he cries or says something he will cut his throat and the strange man asks for food and drink.

The next day, Pip returns in the churchyard with the food and the strange man tells him that he escaped the prison-ship. This fact is very important in the story because afterwards the strange man give a reward. His uncle called Pumblechook invites Pip to visit Miss Havisham, who is a very rich woman and she is very sad due to his husband break up with her the day of wedding. Miss Havisham wants Pip to go to play with her and her daughter every day. Pip fall in love of Estella, the daughter, but they never go together. Pip works as blacksmith and he helps Joe who also wants to be a gentlemen, it’s his dream.

Afterwards Ms Jaggers, who is lawyer, tells Pip that there is a benefactor that he wants to pay for his education in London and he goes to London and he begins to learn to be a gentleman. His teacher is Ms Pocket and he meets a lot of people. A day, the man strange visits him he called Magwithc, and he says that he will pay him all to reward his kindness. Pip receives a letter that his sister died and so Orlick, who is a blacksmith working for Joe, wondered her. Pip wants to be a good gentleman to marry with Estela but Estela marries Dummle, who is a friend of Pip. Pip discovers that Estela is daughter with Migwithc and her mother called Molly, who was a waitress at Jagger and afterwards Ms Havisham adopted her. In the end, Pip return in his town and he visits Ms Havisham’s house and he finds Estella that she is widow and they are together.

We can see that the story is a mystery. Because Pip receives a lot of money but he doesn’t know who the person who gives it and why and after in the story we discover who is the person and why. Is Mighwitch , the prison-ship because to reward his kindness.

I recommend this book because it’s an amusing story because it is like a soap opera and if you like it I recommend it to you.

News: Another flat of Carme (Barcelona) has closed due to subsidence

This news is about the atmosphere in Carme Street located in Barcelona. Carme Street is a conflictive neighbourhood in Raval, a neighbourhood neglected in Barcelona. Immigrants lived in this Street and they lived illegally and the other day a boy was stabbed, furthermore was burnt in his flat. The neighbours said that it is impossible to live in this area.
We can observe that the Carme Street is located in a neighbourhood called Raval, which is a neglected area because Raval has narrow street, old flats, level socioeconomic low,...
The city Hall has planned to stop the degradation and the objective is to recover these neighbourhoods. The city Hall gives some money and this means that the neighbourhoods will get improved social assistance.