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FINAL REFLECTION

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in these last two years? 

Where, for example?

Yes, because when I started my were very shorts and simple vocabulary. For example, in my first post in the blog that it was in October on 2012.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? 

I think that the post that I show my best level of English is this, because I show all, like my pronunciation, my languaje and more things. 

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 

I think that the usful to improve your English are the news, because you learn a lot summarize the newas and doing your opinion. I say that because is the part of my blog that is more difficul for me. 

4. Which activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not? 

In my point of view, all what we do in class is useful but I think that the traduction of the songs is less useful, because is very tiresome, but yo can know what the song say. 

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English? 

I think the your-says because you explain what you like and you have more inspiration, because you like the topic. 

6. Open Comments (...More ideas, suggestions for activities, suggestion for new topics...)

I think that we have to talk more in class for improve our pronunciation.

ORAL PRESENTATION - FAMILY

Last two weeks, Mireia, Carla and me, we did a presentation about a Global issue, so we decided to did a the Family.

SELF-EVALUATION:

PRESENTATION(10%): We use a prezi where we put the general information and some photos that it can help us. The resources were a big support for us. Our presentation, lasted more or less 15 minutes talking all of us 5 minutes. MARK: 7%

BODY LANGUAGE & EYE CONTACT(10%): I think that I looked to the audience, but I saw a lot the prezi and also Mireia and Carla. I read some things that I didn't remember. MARK: 8%

STRUCTURE(10%): I think that we organize our presentation well, we started with our self-presebrarion, and then we started explaining our topic. MARK: 10%

CONTENT (40%): We introduce news ideas and news to audience. MARK: 30%

LANGUAGE (20%): There was rich vocabulary, sentence linkers and fillers. MARK: 15%

PEONUNCIATION (10%): I knew how to pronounce all the words, but in front of the class I was very nervous so some words I pronounce awful. MARK: 6%

I think that we did well, but with some things to correct. 

I think that my mark is: 7'6

WILL APPLE'S IPHONE 6 HAVE A LONG BATTERY LIFE? IOS 8 FEATURE COULD MAKE IT THE MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT HANDSET YET

Apple desing a new model of Iphone, that could finally Apple's battery woes. 

The news informations of the Iphone 6 will have arounded, thinner design and a larger screen. It could also feature a protruding camera, and boast new filters. 

The application makes the  power-saving changes, because now the battery of the Iphone is very bad. It also decrease the amount of power for use the phone more time.  

I think that it's going to be a big change of the tecnology, because we can use the phone all the day. But it can perjudice in the others phone companyes because all the people want to have the best phone if they can have. 

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HOLLYWOOD'S $8000 FACIAL: THE SECRET TO ANGELINA JOLIE'S GLOWING SKIN COMBINES MICRODERMABRASION, LASER AND A PEEL

Why Angelina Jolie seems that doesn't  have aged in years?

The Us Weekly (a magazine) says that she do an $800 treatment called the Triad facial,  which combines microdermabrasion, laser and a glycoloic peel. 

Angelina no is the only celebrity which use this treatment, also Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz. Jolie stared doing the Triad facial in 2010. Also she use other products for the skincare, which range in price from $52 to $165. 

The treatment can cost between $800 and $1200 depending on the type

In my point of view, it's normal that all the celebrities deal her skin, because they have to be on TV every day, so they have to be beautiful with themselves. 

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BAD NEIGHBOURS

Last week, my friends and I went to the cinema to saw the premier of the new film of Zac Efron.

The film is about a happy family which they have a baby and they live in a good neighborhood, but one day appear a brotherhood and all the problems appear. The new guests do all the nights parties and what they want. So the family have to survive with this problems and they survive. 

I like this film but I thought it would be better. Also, I really like the character Zac Efron, that he appears in High School Musical (as a Troy Boltton).

"WE'LL BE HAPPIER IF WE WORK FEWER HOURS AND HAVE MORE FREE TIME. WE'LL SOCIALIZE MORE AND CAN DO WITHOUT PILES OF CONSUMER GOODS THAT WE HAVE NO NEED FOR"

Nowadays, a lot of people are saying that we are going to be happier if we do not go shopping. But, it is true? In my opinion it is true. 

Firstly, I feel that working less hours can be a big change, for all of us, because we can spend more time with our family or socialize withe other people. 

Secondly, the society is focus only to producemore and more to earn more money to consume and they think that are going to be happier, but in my point of view, it is a wrong mentality. We can be happier without all the goods, because we have things that we do not use. 

In conclusion, society is buying more stuff that they do not need and they are working a lot without free time to have fun. 

FORMAL LETTER

20, Empori 

Sant Pere Pescador

17470

27TH March 2014

Can Pipa, S.L

Crt. de Castelló, s/n

Sant Pere Pescador 

17470

Dear Mrs. Costa, 

I am writing to you bacause I would like to apply for this job that I saw on your webside last week. You are looking for a person for this summer. 

First of all, I am very interested to word in your company as an assistant, because in the winter I am studing to be secretary. I think that first, I have to work as an assistant, and when I will have the degree I would work as a secretary. 

I like the job a lot, because in the last summer I worked in the other company like this job. 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours suncerely. 

Sílvia Costa

THE PENDANT THAT DOUBLES AS A PERFUME! DESIGNER UNVEILS UNUSUAL NEW RANGE OF JEWELS THAT EMIT FRAGANCE

All the girls like  to put fragrance in the morning, but in the lunchtime we don't have the fragrance. So, a jewellery invent a news jewels, a set of pendants and  bracelets that emit fragrance. This moderns jewels have a mini perfume bottle  that can be detached from the chain and used in the same way as a roll-on scent.

OBO, the new jewels, are a foolproof, it has been a series of tests to rule out embarrassing spillages.

Also, it has been a tests for make sure that it has the same results  as a classic pump dispenser. 

The Obo will costs between £49 and £57.

I think that is a big idea, because it's going to be very useful for all the girls because anyone like to take away her bottle of fragrance. 

In this photo you can see the pendant Obo. 

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WIEN'14

In easter, my parents, my sister and I traveled to Wien. The first day, we arrived in the big city and we went immediately at the hotel. When we were installed, we went to had lunch and we started to visited the capital of Austria.  Aproximatly at seven o'clock we decided to had a typical breakfast, a sacher in the original place where it was invented. At night, we were tired so, we went to had dinner and we went to sleep.

The second day, we woke up at nine o'clock and we went to saw Schönbrunn were the princess Sissi lives during her stages in Wien. We visited the palace and the big gardens with a maze, a zoo, etc. For lunch we ate there, where they did a typical market of food. In the afternoon, we went to saw the national library, the big museums, and the big city hall. We had dinner in a typical restaurant where we ate the typical food.

The next day, we went to had breakfast at the Donauzentrum which is a big mall and we enjoyed doing some shopping. After that, we went to the city center to took the buses of tours where we did a big city tour of all the city. When we get off the bus, we went to the Prater ( the oldest theme park in the world). My sister and I went to the Wiener Riesenrad the symbol of Wien.

The last day we did the last shopping and we went to take the plane to came back home.

LONDON'14 - PART 3

I have problems to remember every day that what we did every day, so I'm going to explain more things that we did in there four days un London. 

On day we went to visited the coven garden market where we had free time to visited and for did shopping. After,  we went to the Camden town market where we visited and we had lunch. In the afternoon we had free time in the center of London and at night we went to saw a musical call Once it was a great experience to saw a musical in the big city of Britian where only the bests musicals can do their there. It was a musical very familiar where the same actors did the music band.

The last day, we had free time and after we took the plan in a small airport. 

It was the best trip that I ever did with our high school, because the last year we went to Mallorca and I didn't like the island. I had a great time there with a big persons. 

LONDON'14 - PART 2

The next day, we woke up at 8:30a.m and at 9:00a.m we went to had breakfast in the hotel. After that, we went to Trafalgar square where I met with my friends of my team of volleyball that they were there because they did the trip end of their year in 4th of high school. I was in the squared and suddenly I saw two girls shouting my name and when I tourned around, I saw them. I never thank that we were meeting in the center of London, it was great. 

After that, we went to visited the national gallery where Marta Moreno explained some importants pictures. After that, we went to Piccadilly circus and there we had free time, so we went to Hamleys toy shop where we spent one hour inside, the we went to my favorite shop that is Abercrombie and Fitch. With my friend we decided to didn't buy nothing until the last moment to saved our money. At night, we went to ate in a typical restaurant in London and we went to the hotel. 

The next morning, we went to visited Shakespear's  Globe theater. After, we went to the tower bridge and we had lunch there. In the afternoon, we went to visited two museums: the Natural History Museum and the Science museum. 

To be continued....

LONDON'14

Last two weeks ago, I went to London with my classemats and my english teachers of the  high school. 

We started the treap on Thrusday 20, I woke up at 2:30am and I went to Castelló at 3:30am, there I see of to my mum and we took the bus to Barcelona. We were around 19 students and three teachers. More or less, at 6am, we arrived at the airport. Our plane took off at nine o'clock, so we had to waited 2 hours. All of us were very tired, but very nervous, my friends and I played cards for did the time faster. At 8:30am we were to the cheking and we get on to the plane. When we found our seat we set down and the capitan came to talked to all the plan and he told us that we had to wait a half an hour for some problems. Finally we arrived in London and we went to the hostal. Firstly, we went to had dinner in front of the Big Ben and after, we went to visited the big city of London. At night, we went to had dinner and we came back to the hostal early, because all of us were very tired. 




In this photo you can see my
 friends and I in the plane.

We're in front of the big ben 

THE BEST AGE TO DRIVE: 16 or 18?

In all the countries, the car license is different for all of they. For example, in Spain you can drive a car with 18 years old and in USA with 16. 

I think, driving a car is a big responsability because, if you can stop to think for it you can see that there are a lot of things that we have to take care. For example, if you are a teenager, keen on USA you can drive with 16 years old, when you can go to a party and you can go with your car. In this moment, you have to take a big decision: if you want to drink alcohol or not. If you choose the first option, you can't take the car and if you take the second option, you can drive the car. Well, this is an important asoect to think about. 

In conclusion, from my point of view, the best age to drive a casa is 18. It's the time when you take a lot of responssibilities. You are a big boy or girl and you have to choose what you want to do in your life. And this is the moment when you have a big change and you become an adult

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SCIENCE EXPERIMENTATION

Every day the science is progressing. The question is the science can be good or bad?

On the one hand, science can create atomics bombs to kill a lot of people and for creating a new war. Morever, if we do more experiments, they could produce a lot of pollution in our society. 

On the other hand,  science can help the progress of humanity creating new medicines for expending our lives. Adding to that, with medicines a lot of people could be saved. 

In conclusion, I think that science experiments have two sides: the part that can help or save a lot of people creating new medicines. And the problematic part, which nobody wants, where the science could kill a lot of innocent people. 

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APPLE IS PREPARING A NEW APPLICATION AGAINST THELF

Aple is the first company which to incorporate an application for to attempt to deter thieves. 

Importants fiscals of USA says that it's a very important ending of the theft of smartphones.  This app is called "Activation Lock". The two fiscals met with the most importants brandies of smartphones in the world. And they tell to the others that they have to create a kill switch (a sistem which kill the system). The first company that develop this sistem is Apple. 

I think that this is a big inovation and develop of the technology. If this application works well can be a very good app. 

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THE LAST SONG

It's very difficult to chose a film for me, because I love it and I see a lot. But finally I chose The Last Song of Nicholas Sparks.

This film is a bout a girl, called Ronnie, that she is obligated in the summer to go with her father in a beach house. Her father, Steve is a teacher of the piano and his daughter reject a scholarship of Julliard and she don't want to play the piano for take revenge of his father. The next morning, Ronnie discover that there are eggs of tortoise in front of their house and in the night there are birds which comes to eat it.  Ronnie, when see it, call to the animals service and the next night appears Will (the good guy) who comes to save the eggs of tortoises. In the same night, the two guys sleep next to the animals. During the days, they develop a summer love and in the night they take care of the tortoise. The finally of the film is when the animals are big and when the summer end, but if you want to know   more about the relationship you have to see the film. 

I really like this film because apart that is a typical story of a summer love, I really like the principal actors that they are Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. 

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KATY PERRY DARK HORSE VIDEO "PORTRAYS BLASPHEMY"

Kate Perry was accused by Muslims of "portraying blasphemy" in her new single, Dark Horse.  In the video you can see that Katy is an Egyptian queen and she's transforms whose suitors in sand. More than 60.000 muslims, wants that the video must be eliminate because on man that take part of the it  wears a pendant with the Arabic word for God on it. A lot of muslims of around the world says that they are "ofended as a Muslim”. After this complaint, the video has attracted more than 34 millions views. 

In my point of view, Kate Perry have to respect all the religions, but no it's a big problem for eliminate a video that costs a lot of money. 

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MY GAP YEAR

Gap year

I'd like to travel to USA, because I really like this country, but I never travel there. A Gap year is a big oportunity for know USA and work at the same time. I choose to be an Au Pair in a house that I don't know. I think that do this work, you can learn a lot, you can have fun at the same time and the most important thing is that you aren't alone in a big country.

I'm going to be an Au pair consist to go to USA during 12 months for take care, entretain the children of the house where I'm going to live. During this statge I'm going to work 45hours a week that I have care of the children during five days and half and a maximum of 10 hours a day.

I'm going to receive $195.75 a week and I will have two holidays weeks and one weekend of the months free.