AUTOAVALUATION of the presentation Some days ago, Mireia, carlota and I did a presentation abot the Victorian era. The information was interesting but the presentation was bored because we didn't make any game or joke during our speech. I think I did it well althought I was so nervous. Also I was under so much presion because carlota and mireia know a lot of english. I said all I had to say, but without emotion, I'm like a robot when I am in fron of many people. My pronuinciation it's improvable as my english grammar. In general I'm proud but I knew that I could do better.
Things I would like to live As I don't have more ideas to explain about me, I'll explain some moments I would like to live. For example I really want to have an accident with a plane and stay on a desert island for a while. Of course, knowing that I'll survive! Another strange "wish" that I have is live an apocalypses zombie. I have an odd appreciation for these being. Or also, be a player of the hunger games. I can imagine in these situations and only because of the excitement and adrenaline I feel makes me want to live in constant danger. Maybe I'm what I am owing to series and movies.
Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film concerned with Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive killer whales. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013. Plus, it was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. This orca was captured in 1983. It's really "famous" because he killed three people and although these, he still doing his performances. I saw the documentary four times and every time I love it more. It's just perfect. There are drama, love for these animals, emotions and all inside of an horror story. Since I saw it for the first time I became more aware of the situation of the animals in particular. We have to stop going in places like seaworld to see these animals, because it's not funny and also because we're increasing the captivity of animals. Also I suggest see The cove, another incredible documentary, about dolphins.
Christmas with my family Taking advantage of that christmas it's near, I'm going to explain what I do in this festivity Well, my family is so big, because we celebrate all family parties, Christmas, Ester... with the familyof my motherandher mother, that is, my grandmother, we're more or less 25. But also, because many parents are divorce and they now have a partner with children. For this, now we are more than 30 people. Now I'll explain you how we celebrate Christmas. Every year in 24th of December, we go to my grandmother aunt's house, and there we used to "cagar el tio", but now we play the invisible friend. "Cagar el tió" it's a Catalan tradition, how you know. We were 15 children and teenagers doing this tradition. It's so dangerous, because is easy that somebody hurt you with a stick.
Then in 6th of January all of us go to my grandparents ‘house to lunch. There, when everybody have finished eat, the children up on a chair and one of one recite the verse of Christmas. Then adults give us money for the reason that I've explained before. We doing that ever year, and isn't matter how you are old. I hope do it for very more years.
ARE WE TOO DEPENDANT ON MOBILE PHONES? Nowadays, in developed countries most people have at least one phone. Also in undeveloped, but probably less. But, how many times do we use the mobile phones? Are we too dependant on them? In the first place, teenagers and every time more, people can't go to anyplace without their mobile phones. Even, if they need to go to the kitchen from their bedroom. As I see it, I think it is an clear example of a problem of dependance on them. Secondly, when people are meeting with their friends, everybody uses the mobile phone to talk with other people, instead of the people who have in front them. Personally, these facts show as again that we are too dependant on mobile phone. If we don't do anything to stop it, we will be slaves of our own phones, and of the technology. Personally I'm not too dependent of phone but I'm hooked in TV or computers.
MY FAVORITE SINGER Music can be very important for many people. Be relaxed, in a good feeling, happy, or energetic are feelings that music can give to you. In general I like all kinds of music , but it depends on my mood. I don't have a favorite singer because there're many singers that I like, and because I usually listen popular music, so my musical culture is very low.
One of my favorite singers are Adele and Sia. What I like most is that they are persons with very clear and strong beliefs. Adel won an oscar for her song, skyfall, and four grammys for her album 25. And Sia has several nominations at the Grammy Awards and Golden Globes. Also I really enjoy catalan rock, like Els Catarres or Txarango. Although the music that I listen most is piano because it helps me to concentrate with my homework.
BLACK MIRROR Black mirror is a british series. Is set in the future and speaks about the consequences that we will suffer in the future if we continue on this way. The series has three seasons and one special. The special it's about a man who has committed a crime and scientists enter in his mind for know what he did. The progress of the technology, and its dependency, cause that we can being controlled, as we can see in the chapter, the protagonist doesn't even know that it's a dream. I love this series, its vision of the future is very cynical which shows that we have to take care of what we do, because it might have consequences like those shown in the series.
This new speaks about that the new samsung, the samsung galaxy note 7, explodes. In US they've been completely banned from all flights, this applies to all flights to, from and within America.
And if you try to bring the phone in the plane, you have to decide between give the telephone or not flight.
Although They know that this can bring inconveniences for some passenger, like Anthony Foxx says, the safety is the first priority.
The price of breaking this regulation is the penalty and fines.
I agree with this regulation because the most important thing is the safety. I understand that this can suppose issues for some people, especially for that type of persons that depend on the mobile.
TED talks Angela Lee Duckworth is a psychologist that studies how the grit is the thing that makes us better. In the video that we saw the other day in class, she said that "grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals, grit is having stamina, grit is sticking your future day in day out..." Plus, Lee said she saw that what makes somebody greatest is grit, and not the IQ or healthy mind. I really do not have any idea of what makes us greatest, but I don't agree with her. First because grit is not what she said, grit is the power to show you without shame. Of course I think that grit is important for oneself,but is not the principle of our mind, and it's just like talent. At one point of the video, she said that talent and grit are antonyms, but in my point of view, both of them are building our personality. In relation to what she said about the failures (failure is not a permanent condition), I think that with every failure we learn something, but it's permanent, because although we will be better with failures, we always remembered our failures, those failures that made us. Also, I believe that you can't try the same thing because if at first you don't succeed you never will be successful with these.
MY GOALS My dear teacher, I'm Maria Baguer Colomer and I'm writing these for speak about my goals. When I was little one of my goals was become a chef, but now I don't have any goal. Well, like everybody of my class, I think that it would be amazing pass batxillerat with great notes. And also have a beautiful house and a good job some day, but these goals are like everyone's goals. One thing that I really would like to have, but I've never said, is a NGO to save dolphins and whales, but as I know that this is really difficult because first I should have a lot of money, and it's a little bit impossible be rich, it's not a goal from my point of view, because I believe that a goal is something possible. "How I expect overcome them?". As Homer Simpson says, If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. So, if i believe that something doesn't deserve too much work I just won't do it. No one helps me to stay on track, I mind, of course my family helps me, but not in the same way I would like to do it, so if I don't share the same thoughts, it's not useful.
I think that now my english grammar, vocabulary, and the blogg is better that the last year. My blogger posts in 4t Eso was awful, because I wasn't taking it seriously, but now I understand that english it's very important for our future.
In 4t ESO I didn't do any exercice of grammar or vocabulary, We spent all the days watching series. I have to recognise that I loved watch these series, we improved our pronuciation and understanding, but These was useless because we didn't put in practice. This year, our teacher has been hard and for these reason my english improve. Plus, this year we has been playing Kahoot, and in my opinion it's the best activity to shows our level of english, and the same time we have fun. In my form of view everything is useful to learn english. I would like to do again class songs, oficial exam preparations for improve our level, blog news, gramar book exercicies, Reading 3 book, that in my opinión it's an excellen form to do the readings better, and finally oral exams, beacuse althought this put my very nervous, it's one of the best forms to lost the embarrassment.
Another thing that I would like to do is videos, or theaters plays, because it's very funny and it's a good form to lose our embarrassment.
BOOK'S REVIEW This trimester I decided to read the book called Jeeves and Friends. this book is divided in six short stories. The first story speaks about that Mr.Wooster has to do anything with the book of his uncle, because this can't never arrive to the printing or Florence won't marry him. Jeeves, his new valet, helps Mr.Wooster and finally they get stole the book. But Jeeves decide to send the book because he thinks that Florence is not a good wife for Mr.Wooster. The second chapter: Auntie Agatha send Mr. Wooster to New York to try to stop the wending between his cousin Corky and a singer. But he meet the couple and he decid to help them, because Corky's uncle don't want that his nephew will married with a poor artist. As he wrote two books about birds, Jeeves propose that the lady can write a book from the uncle's books, and this way he would be glad of his nephew. But he falls in love with the singer and they marry and have a child. The uncle sys to Corky, that he have to make a portrait of the baby, but it looks very ugly and his uncle forced him to work for him because he's an horrible artist. Chapter 3: Mr. Wooster want that his sister and her sons come to life with he, but Jeeves doesn't want it, so Jeeves propose to spend dome days to Brighton and think about it. While they're going by car they find a girl and they decide to bring her to school because she's late. Jeeves suggest that Mr.Wooster could say he is a friend of her father and that he takes a lift with her. Miss Tomlinson accept the excuse, and she propose to mr. Wooster do a speech in front all the girls. Finally he decide to doesn't have children because they're exhausting.
Chapter 4: McAlister is taking care os the girl who starts going out with the lord Emsworth's son. Lord Emsworth is the sir of McAllister. Lord Emsworth says to McAllister that if he doesn't make her go, he will make him go, so McAllister decide to go. But Lord Emswort goes to search him after a few days because he's the best gardener and he has to take care of the pumpkin for win the first prize. Finally, he gets the first prize and his son gets marry with the girl, Aggie, and he goes to Ney York to work for her father. Chapter 5: Lord Emsworth is angry because he won't have the gravel path, and he goes for a walk. He sees a girl with beautiful flowers and she says that she picked they up from a graden, and she had to throw stones to a boy, who was the gardener, to escape. Lord Emsworth invites the girl to a party in his house, and he give her food for her and her brother, who has bitten the sister of lord Emswoth and for this reason he couldn't come into the house. Chapter 6: Freddie, Lord Emsworth's son, backs from NY for work, and his wife decide to go to France. Freddie is taking care of the Aggie's dog, but he give the dog to Valerie because he hate the dog. After this, he receive a telegram from his wife that say that she will return home soon. Freddie scares about it and fall hurting his ankles, so he can't stole his dog from Valerie, and he asks help to his father. Lord Emsworth is captured by a butler, and Lord Emsworth's valet has to help he to scape, but they don't get stole the dog. Finally Freddie discover that his wife also hated the dog. I like the book, it's funny, but there was many words that I didn't understand. I didn't understand very well the chapter five, but I think that more or less this chapter speaks about what I explain.
For to know and understand where we come from and how we
have arrived to what we are, Cosmocaixa in Barcelona, propose to us an
interesting exhibition about the evolution of human beings.
That exhibition is base don the archaeological and paleontological
explorations of Olduvai Gorge in The Ngorongoro reserve in Tanzania (Africa),
considered a key point of time in understanding the origin of our
ancestors.For a long time it was
thought that the origin of humanity was in Europe, today the thesis of our
African origin is almost unanimously accepted.
For visit the exhibition also you have a mobile application
with audio guide in four languages.
You can visit until next january.
I love cosmocaixa and its exhibitions, because they are clear and provide us much information. I would like to visit this exhibition, considering that we went in Burgos for this, but I don't have time to go there.
Catalonia Today propse to the readers and subscribers, visit
during three days, three iconic English destinations.
Travel to United Kindon on a trip in the cities of London,
Oxford andStratford upon Avon.That travel it’s for commemorating the 400th
aniversary of the death for the famous Willian Shakespeare.
The group will be accompanied by a guide at all time.In London, the first day, they will visit one of the world’s great capital cities, then the second day the group will be
off to Oxford to visit the famous universities colleges and their medieval
architecture; and in the last day, they propose to visit Stratfor upon Avon,
for the full Shakespeare experience, visiting the most prestigious theatre
companies, the Royal Shakespeare Company, then visiting the house where he was
born and stop in one of the famous old pubs in the city.
Very interesting three days! Shakespeare is one of the most famous authors, so it would be very interesting do this route. I think that is an amazing idea do this types of trips because it's an incredible form to learn about our past.
This article speaks about how come to be the radio important foraband.Albert Planadevall tell us how
the radio continue top lay an important role where music and tv series are
concerned.The radio is the most likely
place to first hear a band.For example,
in an episode of the series Grey’s Anatomy, first broadcast in 2006, the song
How to Save a Life by The Fray appeared.The supervisor had seen the band in Los Angeles and decided to use their
music for the soundtrackof the popular
series, it was an immediate success and How to Save A Life quickly became the
oficial anthem for the series.
In less tan 10 years, things have progressed quickly and now
you can buy a lot of compilations about the tv series.
So many bands that were totally unknown now have popularity,
and can continue producing while leaving
new bands, because the opportunities are not just in the concerts, because the band can be famous in a film or series TV.
For be sincerely i think that we don't appreciate this type of band that do the soundtracks of our favorites series and films. They are not well-know, and I think they should be it.
The article speaks about the politicals likes in
television.Obama, the USA president
likes a lot television series and he’s a fan of Breaking Bad, and also of Homeland,
Game of Thrones, Mad Men, House of Cards and The Wire and Broadwalk Empire.
When they speak about the Catalan political, the think is
diferent.The ex president of Catalonia,
Artur Mas, says he hasn’t enough time to watch so much televison, the others ministers says like Artur Mas, they prefer to spend their time in their hobbies.Alicia Sánchez Camacho, the PP leader, is hooked in El Ministerio del
Tiempo, a Spanish serie, and some of the others political likes House of the Cards, which
tells the story of congressman Frank Underwood who will do anything, and I mean
anything, to get to the White House. I Think we know that a person as important as Obama has the same tastes as you in terms of television, creates a social bond making the difference between he and I decrease. WHAT TO DO WITH THE BORN CULTURAL CENTRE?http://www.cataloniatoday.cat/article/941099-what-to-do-with-the-born-cultural-centre.html This article speaks about that El Born Centre Cultura is commemorating the
fall of Barcelona to Felipe V's troops in 1714,
in which Catalonia lost its ancestral rights.
But city council has decided to review its
use. The results of the exposition will
be made public some time this month.
The archaeological are spectacular,
historically vital and superbly presented.
“The permanent display will be absolutely respected,” said Sureda, the
heads Barcelona council's culture department.
I think that this type of exhibition of El Born do it's very well because we must never forget our past and this can't be deleted.
This article of elite daily speaks about that overdoses of drugs kill more Americans than traffic accidents, and to stop that, obama received the visit of Macklemore, because he abused drugs and now he want to help people in this tragic situation, and they did a video. Macklemore said: I take this personally. I abused
prescription drugs and I battled addiction. If I hadn’t gotten the help that I
needed when I needed it, I definitely would not be here today. And I want to
help others facing the same challenges that I did. Also Macklemore shared a tragic story of his own live. The article says that the Congress passed laws to help addicts but theses are not enough, and the first step to solve this for all of us is to start conversations about addiction and help remove the stigma, said Obama.
The drugs are a global issue, because affect all of us, and we have to solve it. I think that there are many adolescents who abuse drugs and they even not realize of this.
