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.