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.

NEWS: Eleven diabetic already have artificial pancreas

The people who suffer from diabetic disease that the diabetic usually starts when you are small, every day this disease is more controlled. The doctors of Hospital General of Massachusetts (USA) created artificial pancreas that controls the level of glucose in the blood. This method is successful because they have tried these implantations with eleven people and it was successful and they didn’t need the injection of insulin. These eleven people were admitted to the hospital and they ate carbohydrates and they didn’t have hypoglycaemia, this means that they didn’t have a concentration of glucose. And this method is wonderful, very important experiement in medical engineering.

Ruleta- Rihana

Take a Breath
Pren l’aire
Take it deep
profundament
calm yourself,
Calma-te
he says to me
Ell em diu
if you play,
Si jugues
you play for keeps
Juga fins al final
Take the Gun,
Agafa l’arma
and count to three
I conte fins a tres
I’m sweating now..
Ara estic soant
moving slow..
Moute lentament
No time to think,
No hi ha temps per pensar
my turn to go..
El teu torn ja arribat

And You can See
I si tu pots veure
My Heart Beating..
El meu cor bategant
You Can See it through my chest
Tu pots veure’l a través dels meus pits
Said I’m Terrified
Estic espantada
but I’m Not leaving..
Però no marxaré
I know that I must
Jo sé que jo haig de
Pass This test
Passa aquesta prova

SO Just Pull The Trigger
Pertant apretaré el gallet
(trigger, trigger)

Say a Prayer, to yourself
Diré una oració o resaré per tu
he says close your eyes
Ell diu: tanca els teus ulls
sometimes it helps
de vegades ajuda
and then I Get, a Scary thought
I desprès jot inc una idea aterridora
that is here means he is never lost
que el que està aqui el mig ell mai no ho ha perdut
And You can See
I tu pots veure
My Heart Beating
el meu cor bategant
You Can See it through my chest
Tu pots veure’l a través dels meus pits
said I’m Terrified but
estic espantada però
I’m Not leaving
Jo no marxaré o fugiré
know that I must
sé que jo haig
Pass This test
De passa la prova

SO Just Pull The Trigger
Pertant jo apretaré el gallet
And My Life flashes before
I la meva vida parpedejara
my eyes
els meus ulls
I’m wondering Will I ever see
Em pregunto si tornaré a veure
another sunrise?
Sortir el sol ?
so many won’t get the
així que molts no tindran
chance to say goodbye
la sort o l’oportunitat de dir adèu
but it’s too late to pick up
però és massa tard per recollir
the value of my life
el valor de la meva vida

And You can See
I tu pots veure
My Heart Bleeding
El meu cor bategant
You Can See it through my chest
Tu el pots veure’l a través dels meus pits
said I’m Terrified but
estic espantada però
I’m Not leaving
Jo no marxarè o fugiré
I know thai I must
Jo sé que haig de
Pass This test
Passar aquesta prova

MICHAEL JACKSON- HEAL THE WORLD

There's A Place In Your Heart
Hi ha un espai en el teu cor
And I Know That It Is Love
I jo sé que és l’amor
And This Place Could Be Much Brighter Than Tomorrow
I aquest lloc podria ser molt més brillant que demà
And If You Really Try
I si tu tries
You'll Find There's No Need To Cry
Tu trobaràs que no necessites plorar
In This Place You'll Feel
En aquest lloc tu no sentiras
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow
Dolor ni pena.
There Are Ways To Get There
Hi ha camins d’arribar allà
If You Care Enough For The Living
Si et preocupes tan per la vida
Make A Little Space
Feu una mica d’espai
Make A Better Place...
I un lloc millor..
Heal The World
Cuida el món
Make It A Better Place
Fent un lloc millor
For You And For Me
Per tu I per mi
And The Entire Human Race
I per la resta d’humans.
There Are People Dying
Hi ha gent morint
If You Care Enough
Si tu et preocupes tan
For The Living
Per la vida
Make A Better Place
Faràs un lloc millor
For You And For Me
Per tu I per mi

If You Want To Know Why
Si tu vols saber perquè
There's A Love That
Hi ha un amor que
Cannot Lie
És autentic
Love Is Strong
Vol dir que es un amor profund
It Only Cares For
I nomes es preocupa per
Joyful Giving
Entregar l’alegria
If We Try
Si nosatres intentem
We Shall See
Nosaltres veurem
In This Bliss
La felicitat
We Cannot Feel
Nosaltres no podem sentir
Fear Or Dread
la por ni el terror
We Stop Existing And
Nosaltres deixarem d’existir I
Start Living
Començarem a viure

Then It Feels That Always
Se sent com si sempre
Love's Enough For
El amor fós suficient per
Us Growing
Fer-nos creixer
So Make A Better World
Per això farem un món millor
Make A Better World...
Farem un món millor..

And The Dream We Were
I el somni en el que vam seri
Conceived In
Concebuts
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
Mostrarà una cara alegre
And The World We
I el món
Once Believed In
En que una vegada vam creure
Will Shine Again In Grace
Brillarà amb gràcia una altre vegada
Then Why Do We Keep
Per això perquè nosaltres continuarem
Strangling Life
Estrangulant la vida
Wound This Earth
Fent mal el món
Crucify Its Soul
Crucifixant l’esperit
Though It's Plain To See
Encara que esta clar que es pot veure
This World Is Heavenly
Que aquest món es diví
Be God's Glow
Es la llum de Déu

We Could Fly So High
Nosaltres podem volar tan alt
Let Our Spirits Never Die
Que els nostres spirits mai moren
In My Heart I Feel You Are All
En el meu cor jo sento que tots vosaltres
My Brothers Create A World With No Fear
Sou els meus germans crean un món sense por
Together We'll Cry Happy Tears
I junts plorarem llagrimes de felicitat
See The Nations Turn Their Swords Into Plowshares
I veurem que els països faran que les seves espases es converteixen en aros
We Could Really Get There
Nosaltres realment podriem arribar allà
If You Cared Enough
Si tu et preocupes tan
For The Living
Per la vida
Make A Little Space
Crea un poc a poc un espai
To Make A Better Place...
Crea un lloc millor
You And For Me …
Per tu i per mi…

Writing: dialogue

Nowadays there are professions that are dying out for example a shepherd or a farmer. These professions are dying out because nowadays the new generations don't follow the same way as their ancestors and they create new tecnologies that substitute the old ones. Today I am interviewing a shepherd to find out his opinions and to know what he did befroe and what he does now.

N- Hello, I'm Nuri, a journalist. What's your name?

S- Hello everbody!! My name's Peter and I live in Vila Sacra, a small town.

N- What's your profession?

S- I work as a sheperd.

N- and What's your opinion about your profession?

S- Well, my profession is routine, every day you have to do the same things and control your sheep.

N- and Do you think that your profession is dying out?

S- Ooh yes!! I think that nowadays there aren't many shepherds because now the young people want to study and create new tecnology and I believe that these professions that we could call traditional professions are dying out.

N- Okey, thank you for your time.

Writing: Toxic Friend

Dear Paula,

Hi Paula!! How are you? Now I have free time and I am spending it writing a letter. The other day, I found out that you failed six subjects this term. What's happening Paula? At first, I didn't know but after your mum told me that this term you were absent-minded. I think that next term you have to improve and you have to work every hard, remember that this year we have to do the selectivity exams in June. I believe that you have made an effout to improve a lot, I trust you!!

Bye Paula and I wish you good luck

Your Friend Nuri**

Diary of London! Part3

Letter to the editor of a local newspaper!

Divorce rates are increasing in Europe. Does this mean that marriage is in crisis? Are you in favour or against marriage? Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper explaining your opinion.

Dear New York Time’s editor,

My name is Nuri Galí Bellapart and I read your news about divorce rates which are increasing in Europe and I am writing to you to give you my opinion.
Certainly, the divorce rates are increasing in Europe because couples get married and a few years later they break up their marriage. Nowadays as we can see there are more marriages that end in divorce than before.

In my opinion, I think that the marriage is in crisis because there are a lot of people that now get divorced. I believe that it is because the couples don’t know each enough and afterwards the problems start. I think that when you know a boy or a girl you have to know them very well and you have to be self-confident that you want to get married to him or her before to get married thus there wouldn’t be so many divorces. Because if you aren’t sure about getting married to him or her afterwards is when the couples end their marriage.

Nuri

NEWS: POLONIA CRY FOR YOUR PRESIDENT

This piece of news tells us that the president of Polonia and other people who worked with him died due to accident by plane.
Lech Kaczynski and eighty people who worked with him in the government died because they had a plane accident in Smolensk, Russia. The president, his wife and the other people went in Katyn to commemorate the mass killing of 22.000 soldiers that Stalin ordered. Nobody survived the plane accident.
The people who live in Varsovia were in front of palace presidential with the flowers and candles. It’s very sad!.

News: Botox

These news articles tell us the pros and cons of Botox. Botox is a toxin that paralyzes the muscles and so the frown lines disappear. it says that nowadays there are a lot of demands of this treatment because it’s legal in Spain. Botox doesn’t produce any poisoning because the dose that they use is very small. If they use very big doses the Botox will damage the health of the person. Botox is dangerous because it paralyses the muscles and the doctor affirms that if they touch a muscle incorrectly the Botox, this toxin, can produce diversion in the mouth or in the eyebrow and it can have consequences like to have one eyebrow higher than the other.
The effects of Botox last up to four months and now the problem is that when the effect of Botox is finished the people have the treatment again and they are addicted to this treatment and this over a long time can have consequences.

Diary of London! Part1

Diary of London! Part2

My plans for summer!!

Today I will tell you my plans for summer

When I finish the selectivity exams we are going to go to Sevilla with all the people of 2nd Batxillerat. This trip is organised by us, the students of 2nd Batx. because it’s a trip without teachers. I think that we will stay in Sevilla for a week or 5 days. Afterwards, on the 4th July I am going to Southern- England to Saint Leonards- on-Sea Sussex west next to the beach to study English. I am going to an English family and I am going to do three hours of class every day. I am staying two weeks and on 17th I am going to return to Spain. I think that it’ll a good opportunity to have ability to speak in English and to learn. When I return to Spain, I suppose that I am going to work with my father as I do every year. I work in an office to help the secretary. And the most important is that in September I will start to practice with the car because on 6th September I will be 18 years old.

The anecdote of London!!

Well, as you know we went to London with high school and in this composition I will talk about the experiences that we had on this trip.

The first anecdote was on the first day, when Nil and Adrià found a student of other college, who was drunk, he was stuck his arm in the lift. The second night we wanted to go out of the hotel to see the atmosphere at night in London. We took the taxi and we said the place where we wanted to go and we said the driver that he followed the other taxi that the boys took it. But the taxi didn't understand us and he turned left and the others turned right. We were a little embarrassed but at first we didn’t say anything. After we saw that the price every time was more expensive and we asked him that if he understood us and he said yes yes, we are coming! And suddenly he said okay we just arrived and we saw a dirty place where there wasn’t anybody. We told him that we didn’t want to go in this place but the Leicester Square and he said that we were pronounced the name of place badly. And we said him that we weren’t English girls but English students and he said okay and he was a kind person and he put the meter at zero and he took us to Leicester Square and at the end we arrived in the place. We met with boys but as they are eighteen years and they could go to the pubs we divided and the girls went to have hot chocolate and after we took a taxi and we went back to the hotel. The boys stayed in the pubs and they arrived very late and the teachers told the boys off and they had to pay 5 pounds for fine. The third day, we were walking in the street and a man cried and gave Júlia a fright. (the people are very crazy). The other anecdote was that Pakistanés stole the wallet from Celia and the Pakistanés took out all the money in her account. And to end off the anecdote when we are at the airport the police and the dogs searched Pau and Guillem. It was a very enjoyable trip!!

Itinerary in London

Well, as you know on 12th March we went to London with the English teachers and the classmates. In this composition I will tell you the itinerary that we did in this trip.

On Friday 12th March we met at the high school at 18:00, we had to wait for the bus because the driver arrived late. When the bus arrived in Castelló d’Empúries we said goodbye to our parents and we went to airport of Girona. When we arrived at the airport we passed the control and we went to the bar to eat something before the plane and after suddenly we saw Sussi, Isabel, Imma and Quim that took a suitcase and they headed for us. The thing is that they bought the tickets to go in London with us only for the weekend. At the first moment, we were surprised because we didn’t understand that they were coming with us but afterwards we deduced that we were indispensable for them. Hee hee =) Finally we flew at 21:15 and when we touch downed and we went to the hotel called London Royal National by bus.

On Saturday 13th March we woke up very early and at 9:00 we began the tour. We visited a lot of things in a short time: British Museum, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square and Oxford Street. And the rest of day we had free time and went to the hotel for dinner at 7:00.

On Sunday on 14th March we woke up the same time as Saturday and we left from the hotel and we visited a lot of things: 10 Downing Street, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park ( the Speaker’s Corner, the Natural Science Museum and Harrods. And the rest of day we had free time and went to the hotel for dinner at 7:00.

On Monday on 15th March we woke up earlier that the others days and we went to breakfast at 8 am. After we visited the globe theatre, tate Modern, Tower Bridge and Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral, The monument, the Great Fire of London and we went to see the Musical of Grease and after we had dinner in London.

And the last day, on Tuesday on 16th March we woke up earlier that others days and we had to pack the suitcase and we had breakfast at 7:30 am. In the morning we had free time and we decided to go to Big Ben and Buckingham Palace because the day that we went to visit it went by very quickly. Afterwards we took the bus and we flew to Girona at 17:40 and finally we arrived at Girona airport at 20:50 and we arrived in Castelló at 22:00.

END OF THE TRIP !!!

Oral Presentation - INDITEX-

Good morning!! I’m Nuri Galí, Last year we had to choose a subject for a research project and at that moment the subject that interested me a lot was Inditex and my research work consisted of studying the multinational company called Inditex. I asked myself what strategy they would use to have a lot of sales. In the end I decided to investigate the success of Inditex. Another reason was because in the future I’m going to study business and I thought that it would be a good opportunity to introduce myself.

The main objectives that I proposed to do were:
· Study the history of Inditex
· Study all the beginnings of the different departments in the company
· Study the accounting
· And finally to study the shops, the consumer’s profile, the worker’s profile and the manager’s profile.

In these graphics I’m showing you the evolution of Inditex over a period of ten years from 1998 to 2008. We can see that every year that passes there is an increase. The exportation sales beat the Spanish sales and as a result of the increase international expansion. I could conclude that Inditex increases the shops, sales, profits, workers,.. and Inditex passes from a national company to multinational company.

The study of accounting I did a different economic analysis and the result was that the company has a good business situation and its result is positive.
I studied the different system of shops in Figueras and I concluded that all the shops belonging to Inditex have the same system. All the shop lines offer a lot of variety clothes, the prices are economic, the shops follow a protocol of placement and distribution of clothes and we can see that Inditex doesn’t use a means of communication for publicity. And the main success is the relation between quality and price.

In conclusion of this part I discovered the commercial strategies and they are:
- They use the shop window for publicity, a specialist (called a window-dresser) comes to Figueres and he arranges the shop window himself.
- They use the shopping bag for publicity.

In studying the consumer I can see a difference between the profile of the man and the profile of the woman. We can see that the reason for their purchases is the same: low cost. The man likes to find some big size compared to the woman who is not interested in it. On the whole the woman buys a lot that she thinks about before and the man has very clear ideas. On the one hand the woman with 60% doesn’t like to find the imitation of another brand and on the other hand, the man doesn’t care.. And finally there are 50% of woman interested in the shop window, where as not even 50% of men are interested in the window displays.

The study of worker and manager, I was told that the opinion of selection they want to know if you have experience. Their priority competitive is to increase the sales of last year, and she gets paid commission on her sales. And they have to prepare a report of the system in the shop for the central.

My personal opinion is that doing this project I helped me to know what the company’s profile is and to know about their financial system. I hope that this study will be useful in the future when I study business. And on a level personal I think that it turned me a critical consumer because now I know all the strategies to increase the sales and what’s more I think that now at the moment of buying, I will be a more conscious buyer.

SONG -BEYONCÉ SWEET DREAMS- (extra)

FELIÇOS SOMNIS (SWEET DREAMS)

Turn the lights on
Encén els llums

Every night I rush to my bed
Cada nit m’en vaig el llit ràpidament
With hopes that maybe
Amb l’esperança que potser
I'll get a chance to see you when I close my eyes
Aconseguiré l’oportunitat que quan tanqui els ulls et veure
I'm goin' out of my head
Estare en el meu món
Lost in a fairy tale
Perdut en un comte de fadas
Can you hold my hand and be my guide
Pots tenir la meva mà I ser la meva guia
Clouds filled with stars cover your skies
Els núvols estan plens d’estrelles que cobreixen el seu cel
And I hope it rains
I jo espero que plogui
You're the perfect lullaby
Tu ets la nana perfecta
What kind of dream is this
Quin somni més agradable es aquest
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Tu pots tenir un somni bonic o un mal son
Either way I
Ningu …
Don't wanna wake up from you
No vull despertar me amb tu
Sweet dream or beautiful nightmare
Un bon somni o un mal somni
Somebody pinch me
Algu m’apreta
Your love's too good to be true
Els amors també són veritats
Turn the lights on
Encén la llum
My guilty pleasure I ain't goin' nowhere
El culpable no esta aqui
Baby, long as you're here
Un bebe mentres tu estas aqui
I'll be floating on air
Jo estare flotant a l’aire
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Tu pots tenir uns feliços somnis o un mal son
Either way I
Ningu …
Don't wanna wake up from you
No em vull despertar amb tu
I mention you when I say my prayers
Jo et mensiono quan jo reso
I wrap you around all of my thoughts
En tots els meus pensaments et cobreixo
Boy, you are my temporary high
Noi, ets la meva droga temporal
I wish when I wake up you're there
Jo desitjo que quan em desperti tu estiguis aqui
So wrap your arms around me for real
Perquè m’abracis
And tell me you'll stay by my side
I em diguis que estarem junts
Clouds filled with stars cover the sky
Nuvols carregats d’estrelles que cobreixen el cel
And I hope it rains
I espero que plogui
You're the perfect lullaby
Tu ets la nana perfecta
What kind of dream is this
Quin tipus de somni és aquest

You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Tu pots ser un somni bonic o bé un mal somni
Either way I
Ningu…
Don't wanna wake up from you
No em vull despertar amb tu
Sweet dream or beautiful nightmare
Un bon somni o un mall somni
Somebody pinch me
Algú m’apreta
Your love's too good to be true
Els amors també són veritats
Turn the lights on
Encén les llums
My guilty pleasure I ain't goin' nowhere
El culpable no esta aqui
Baby, long as you're here
Un bebe mentres tu estas aqui
I'll be floating on air
Jo estare flotant a l’aire
You can be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare
Tu pots ser un somni bonic o bé un mal somni

Either way I
Ningu…
Don't wanna wake up from you
No em vull despertar amb tu
Tattoo your name across my heart
Tatuar el teu nom en el meu braç
So it will remain
És l’unica manera que quedis permanent
Not even death can make us part
Ni la mort podrà separar-nos.
Either way I
Ningu…
Don't wanna wake up from you
No em vull despertar amb tu
Turn the lights on
Encen els llums

PODCAST Laura and Nuri

TRANSLATION!

N- Ooh Laura!! I’m very bored
L- ooh!! Me too
N- I have an idea; we can play a game very brilliant!!
L- Tell me, what’s the name of this game?
N- We will play a guessing context about famous people
L- Ooh yes!! I know this game, some days ago I played it with my father.
N- Ok!! Start , I think a famous.. mm ok!!
L- Well, It’s a man?
N- No , she is a woman, a very beautiful woman.
L- What’s her profession?
N- She works as an actress and she has acted in a lot of films.
L- Is she a Hollywood actress?
N- Yes
L- Is she blonde?
N- No, she has a very long fair hair.
L- Guauuu!! A very beautiful hair isn’t it?? And the face?
N- Well! She has an oval face and her skin is light and fine.
L- aahh!! And she has brown eyes?
N- noo.. she has a blue and green eyes.
L- Oooh!! No everybody has this eyes colour.
N- Why you don’t ask me about the lips? It would be a good track for you.
L- buff.. the lips ok! Has she a fine lips?
N- No she has a thickness lips
L- and Is she the wife of Brad Pitt?
N- Yes
L- ok she’s a Hollywood actress, she is a beautiful woman, she has a long fair hair, she has a blue and green eyes and oval face with a light and fine skin, she is the wife of Brad Pitt and the most important she has a thickness lips. The woman is Angelina Jolie.
N- Yes very good Laura!
L- Yesterday I read in a magazine that she’s all heart!
N- Yes, I read too ok! Now it’s my turn….

Language - Opinion Essay- (extra)

Language is the way that we can communicate with other people and it’s very important. In the long run, language begins to change their dialect and vocabulary, because of the change in of era.

For example: If we observe or read the old Catalan language we can see that it was very different than it is now. These changes in dialect and vocabulary are due to influence of other countries. In the Catalan language a lot of words have changed due to the influence of English and French. A lot of words have been influenced by the countries close to Spain. For example: the world of “crossant” and other words come from French.

In my opinion language should change. The different vocabulary and dialects of language mean that the language develops and it is good for the language. I think that it’s a good way to look of news words and new expressions to increase their own language.

FORUM

FORUM 1
I think that the girls enjoyed this story more than boys. Because the novel is romantic and usually the boys are bored it and they think that it is for girls. I believe that the story was more amusing for girls because the main character in the story was a girl, Elizza, and maybe we can identify with her. But I have to say that it depends on the boys because there are boys that they are romantic and maybe they liked it.

FORUM 2
Before the marriages were a money issue, the family had the obsession to marry their daughter with a rich man thus the family were well considered and their daughter would live perfectly. These marriages were a tradition but nowadays this tradition is lost. Now all the people get married when she or he find the ideal person and they love each other and it doesn’t matter if she or he has money. I believe that the marriages due to money issue in different countries even don’t lose this tradition, especially the countries not developed.

FORUM 3
The end of the story I have to say that I sincerely hope another end because we are used to different endings, we are used to more love and kisses. However, I believe that the end of story was very nice and very romantic!!!

LETTER

4 Arrabassades Road,
17486 Castelló d’Empúries
11th January 2010

Department of Environment
5, Lordcast Street
Washington, U.S.A

Dear Sir,
Nowadays in our world, there is a lot of pollution and it is a big problem in the present and will be in the future. The environment defenders seem to be pessimistic about the future of our planet as we are destroying nature.

Before our generation, the planet was not so polluted because they didn’t use new technology. They enjoyed nature and they were worried about nature and they looked after it.

Now we do not care about nature. We damage our planet because we are building new technology and so it causes more pollution.

Nowadays there are a lot of people that are interested in ecological teams and they practice this ecology in the world and so it is a way to help the planet because they are trying to improve our planet. And I ask you if everybody could be interested in ecology and they practice it. So I propose that the department of environment participates in it.

I look forward to hearing from you

Yours faithfully

Nuri Galí Bellapart

Should human rights be enforced by law or optional? DISCUSS ESSAY

On the whole a human right is difficult to define; the majority of people think that they can’t define it. However a lot of people try to mean it like a person’s right.

On the one hand, I think that human rights would be enforced by law because maybe the all people would respect the others and so our world wouldn’t be as dangerous as now. I think that the human rights are enforced by law because the people or the society needs someone that governs than but it is not that the people do what they want and it can cause a lot of conflicts in the world, maybe we can’t coexist together and it will be chaos.

On the other hand, I think that the human rights should be optional and we should have to choose the human rights, the first moment it would be wonderful and everybody would agree. But after everybody would want to take the human rights and all the people want to say their opinions and it will be impossible to make an arrangement and the society will revolute and in the world will be chaos. Because all the people don’t respect the rest and there will be some problems.

So in conclusion the human rights are basic so all the people live happily but we can’t take this burden because I believe that we aren’t responsible enough to think of everybody.

The viewpoint that the children have of his father (extra)

The viewpoint that children have of their parents can qualify with three stages:

On the one hand, the first stage fits with infant stage, in this stage, the viewpoint that the children has of their fathers is affection, esteem, happiness, fun and entertainment. In this stage it is indispensable the father’s effect as the children want entertainment and fun with their family. On the other hand, the second stage fits with teenager’s stage. In this stages the teenager changes his viewpoint of his father, now already the father isn’t a affectionate and funny but he gets bored with the father bored and furthermore he starts to punish to depend the situation. The viewpoint that the children have of his father is that the father controls what he starts to ask about all things that the children do. And finally the third stage fits with adult stage, once you are an adult, the viewpoint of his father is good old, compressive. The children start to understand that their behaviour from before.

In these three stages, I have summed up the three different viewpoints that the children have of their fathers in different age. It concludes that as the growth of children changes the form of being, character and so changes the viewpoint the things and the opinions.

-A Girl from Jersey- film (extra)

This film is about a couple who loved each other a lot. He was publishing man and earned a lot of money. The women got pregnant and they were very excited about it. The woman phoned her husband because she was about to give birth. When she was in labour she died and the baby was born and her father, the man was very affected.
He and the baby moved to the father’s house. For a month the father worked a lot, he said that it was a form to forget his wife. One day, he lost his temper in a conference about William Smith and he started to review from then anybody wanted to contract in his company. Afterwards he worked with his father cleaning his pipes. The grandfather showed that in this life the most important was his daughter and this moment he was a perfect father. They went often to a video club and he met a shop assistant and they had a good relationship. It’s the first woman that he could be. His daughter was very intelligent and very friendly.
The men always attended a lot of interviews but all people ashed him about this day that the people still forgot. In the end, he got a job in the New York Company. He was very happy but his family was very sad. He went to New York and met with William Smith and they started to speak and he reflected that the most important was his family. He decided to go with his daughter in the town. They were very happy!!!

Who does not have a grandmother who sews¿?

Nowadays there are very few people who work as seamstress because now we can buy all the clothes in the shops where there are a lot of variety of styles.

Before, when our grandmothers were small or adolescent, there weren’t a lot of shops and variety, there were only boutiques in the city centre and only the people who were rich could buy the clothes. The others that belonged to lower classes had to sew their clothes. So before the profession of seamstress in one house was essential and on the whole the girls knew how to sew. Afterwards they opened more shops and the clothes were very expensive because the clothes were sewn by hand.

Now the industry has developed a lot, and that has to do with the change in the abilities of girls. There are a lot of shops and different styles and the women don’t waste time sewing. So there are a lot of people that nowadays don’t know to sew. Besides a lot of clothes shops would have to close their shops because the industry makes good clothes and moreover its cheaper.

But the question is: What would happen if you wanted to make a dress by hand or to alter your dress?? You have two options: go to seamstress and she sews your dress or to go to buy another dress. The first option now it not usual because the seamstress is very expensive because she spends a lot of time (labor). So I answer myself who doesn’t have a grandmother seamstress. We are the chance that the generation plus older who know how to sew because if we want to alter your dress or skirt your grandmother can do it. And it is important that in Carnival to have a grandmother who knows to sew - it’s wonderful.

In this photo I show my grandmother who is a good seamstress!!

The News: Alexander McQueen, designer, is dead at 40!!

Alexander McQueen was found dead on Thursday morning in his London home and he was only 40. A representative for Mr. McQueen said the cause was apparently suicide. His death, was a surprise for everybody, especially his buyers or people who worked with him. The last collection that he made was the autumn collection in Paris. In his work, Mr. McQueen drew on Orientalism, classicism, and English eccentrics, and also his ideas about the future, combining them in ways that were complex and perplexing.
His mother had just died and he was very affected by it because her mother was very important for him because she always support him with his collection. Alexander McQueen won the world of trendy and he was a good designer about mode.

In this piece of news we can imagine that the cause of his death perhaps was because he was depressed or he felt lonely and he killed himself or other situation that we can’t imagine. We will remember him as a good designer.

TV series!!

Hii!! Today I will talk about TV series. I’m a person who likes watching TV series a lot and I know that I addicted to easy! It isn’t good but in my situation it is control jeje=). Before I was addicted the series “Cor de la ciutat” that was on for 9 years, on 23 December 2009 it finished and I was a little sad. But now on 10th January 2010 on TV3 a new series started called “La Riera” and I am addicted also it. Normally starts in the afternoon about 15:35 but I always watch in the evening about 21:15 because on “canal 33” it starts again. I think that it’s very interesting, it starts with mystery and I like it.

On 18th January in TV3 will start a new series too called is “Sagrada Familia, de dagoll dagom” I think that it, may be very interesting too. I wish to see it soon. This New Year, it started with two new series, I think that this year the people of television will think to change the series. At the moment, I’m happy with the two new series so I miss “ Cor de la ciutat”. Personally, the television is a form to disconnect because I’m relaxing on sofa and watching the series. Sometimes I can’t see the series because I have a lot of exams.

Here I talk about me but I am not only one in my family that watching TV series. All my family in the evening, watch the TV series and after we comment about it and when I arrive in highschool I comment about it with my friends. I think that it’s addiction but it not tax.

Do you like TV series?? If you answer is affirmative, I recommend that you watch La Riera and after when it start “Sagrada Familia” you watch it. I think that you could enjoy it.

Nanny's Diaries (film)

This film is about an economic student that she finished her degree. She didn’t have her ideas clear, she didn’t know if she wanted to work in economics. One day, she walked in the park and she saved a child and her mother wanted that she work as a nanny for her child. She wasn’t brave not to accept. She started to look after the children. The child had had nine nannies and he didn’t like to change the nanny. At first it was difficult because the child was very impolite. The nanny could see that the family appeared one way but in reality it was other. This family was rich and she lived in a luxury flat but her room was horrible. The nanny told her mother that she started with a company and she was very happy. Afterwards the child loved his nanny and he didn’t want her to leave. She saw that this family was very sad, because the father wasn’t at home and he wasn’t with his son. The mother was selfish and only thought with her. This couple didn’t have a relationship and the child was affected. The nanny was love in with a rich man but the mother of family, his boss prohibited her.

One day, the family and the nanny were going a party and the nanny saw that the husband was with another women. She saw that this family was a sham. She wanted to leave but she didn’t want leave to the child, she had pity. She spoke with the rich boy and he was her boyfriend. That summer, the family and her went to lake’s house and she renounced going on holidays with her boyfriend to be with the child. One morning, she prepared the breakfast and the husband took advantage of her and the wife saw it. She was fired and she left, she cried a lot because she suffered for child. She went to the house and she found a camera and she told the family all that she thought. And in the end, the wife looked after her child.

This film, I learned that the appearance can be a sham because a family can appear one way and the reality is the opposite. We have to know the things to know. The other thing that we can see is selfish. I think that if you decide to have a son or a daughter you have to have responsibility and you have to know that the person isn’t a perfect person. I don’t like the attitude of wife, to see that she doesn’t know anything and she only want to look good in front of the people.

The News: Discovery the rest of dinosaurs in Argentina it does 190 million years

The Patagonia is considered like the “start” in the field of palaeontology about this discovery of space of dinosaur of it does 190 million years and it, it’s a form that does new tracks about the life prehistoric. It’s a very important discovery because it will allow people to about know the diversity of environment.

The Scientifics tell us that they found the skeleton from dinosaurs, that it was 15 or 20 m, they had a long neck, small head, big legs and long tail and they food with grass. Nowadays this campaign continues in Patagonia, in the south of country.

The investigator found a lot of bones and the skeletons that they found in this country aren’t complete. This research is finance by Society Sciences Germany and for Museum of Munich. Now the Patagonia Argentina is converting very important of scientific.

I think that the Scientifics have to continue researching it so we can be able to explain our story the best. I like that there are people who dedicated to investigate the history or prehistory and it’s a form to improve the history our forbearers.

IMAGINE DESCRIPTION (extra)

A DOUBLE LIFE: Williams Parkins is 50 years and he is a doctor in a city of New York, and he is successful doctor in this big city. Williams is a thin person, he is tall and he has a blonde. His face is pleasant, he has a blue eyes and his skin is very peal. He is a man perfect.

This doctor is very pretty and attractive person. For work, he has to wear white coat and white trousers because it is his uniform. But when he finishes the job and he leave his consult, he appearances is completely different than before. The doctor is transformed with a heavy person. He puts rings, he wears with black t-shirt, dark jeans and the boots. And the all people, particularly the journalist commented it.

In fact, Williams has tattoos all over his upper body and arms. They are not visible at work because he wears white coat. Williams is conforming to wear the white coat in the work but in the days that he has party , he thinks that he can wear that he want because is his body and his personality and it is independent the work that you dedicated. These double life shows that appearances can be deceptive and it just shows that you can’t judge a person by its appearances!!

Description!!

I write a description of Jordi who is my brother. He is sixteen years old one less than me, exactly we take a fifteen month of difference.

He is strong men and tall. He has brown hair and he has green eyes. His skin is peal, he has a oval face and his nose is a little big. He has a small mouth and his lips are very slim and she has a normal neck. Jordi has a broad- shouldered and he has strong. His hands are small. He has a good bottom, it’s very nice. He has normal legs and her feet are small and big, in brief his feet are very ugly.

Jordi is a pretty man and he is very handsome and moreover he is attractive person. The first, Jordi can be appearance a shy man but he is open person. He is funny and some days generous. Jordi is a modest person and honest but now I think that he’s very infantile yet. He is very sociable; he has a lot of friends. Personally, I think that Jordi isn’t thoughtful, impatient and a little capricious of the clothes. Jordi is a reserved person because sometimes he doesn’t explain anything.

On the whole, Jordi is very pretty and sociable and sometimes he has moody but not always. In conclusion, I think that he is a good brother for me, I love a lot!!