My english competence in 2009

My english competence in 2009

2- English skills in 2009

a) my best oral evidence

In my opinion my best oral evidence is of last year that I did of Edimbutgh with Elma. I like a lot this topic because is a new information for me and it 's interesting. About anothers orals I think that this is the best because I knew all the information a week before. Since that oral I always use the pronunciation dicctionary.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/dcad570a-3670-428f-a2e3-0b4870d5c38c/mari-i-alma/?widget=cup


b) My best written evidence

This year I improve my english because I learn usful vocabulary in english and in optative english.
I think that the best written are "Twiligh" this is a composition that I written a day that I was inspired after read the 4 books in a few days. That day I wrote directly in English, as if it was easy for me. I think that this is my best written
http://mariposa170207.blogspot.com/2009/01/twiligh.html

My english 2007-2009

My english 2007-2009

1- Analyse your work

a) Compare the first written document you produced, and your last composition.

It's true that I improve some things about my writings. Firstly, I think that I learn a lot of vocabulary and differents connectors, for exemple put correctluyverb+prep. or similar.
I can see a big difference with my first email to 2007 and my last in 2009, because now I do less mistakes, and I can writting more correctly and fast. In my opinon, also I think that this year we have done a lot of things.

In conclusion I think that I improve my english level thanks to the blog and writings, because en two years we do a lot of writings.

b) Compare your first oral presentation and your final oral presentation

The most evidence different between the first oral presentation and the last, is that the first oral presentation I have a lot of nervous, but the last I very relax, also because we stayed on London.
I learn a lot vocabulary and also I can talk english more easy than other years because I do a lot of oral presentations and when I have to talk english I don't nervous and I have more fluency.
Also I improve my pronunciation a lot because I use the pronunciation dicctionary a lot. I used it for each oral presentation or oral exam.

I am very happy because when I finished ESO I din't knew nothing about grammar o pronunciation I couldn't write nothing.

Psychology

Psychology is a science that studies the mental conduct of people and its processes.
The psychology is very important nowadays since people with problems can talk to them about these problems.
On the one hand, I think that psychologists are a good thing for people who really have problems. But on the other hand for people who go to the psychologist for trivialities is really bad because this can lead to an addiction.
Later than, people with some problem will need a psychologist to solve them and they will never be able to confront their lives as they are.
In conclusion, psychologists are very well considered in our society because people think that going to them resolves all their problems easily and that therapies fix everything and this is not thus.

dialogue

( in a farm, a youg student)
Daphne: Hello Carles! How are you?
Carles: Hi Daphne! I'm fine thanks.
Daphne: Can I ask you some questions about your job and your life? it's a work for the hight school.
Carles: Yes, of course!
Daphne: So, what is your profession?
Carles: I'm a farmer, one of a few that there are nowadays.
Daphne: Do you love your job? because a lot of people say that it's a very hard job..
Carles: Yes, my father was a farmer, my grandfather was a farmer and I'm a farmer, and I love it. It's the job of my family we already have a farm and it's a advantatge.
Daphne: That's great! So, what do you do as a farmer?
Carles: I have cows, pigs, sheeps, and also have a vegetable garden
Daphne: And when do you get up for doing all these things?
Carles: At six o'clock. This ours is very hard.
Daphne: “Wow!” It is really early.
Carles: Yes it's true, but a farmer always has a lot of work, and in this way we can do more work.
Daphne: Yes, I undertand. And when do you have holidays?
Carles: Never, we never have holidays. If we have holidays who does the work?(laughter )
Daphne: Oh! If it's true, I think it can be really difficult to do this job.
Carles: Yes. At night, when I arrive at home, and so tired by the work I did during all the day.
Daphne: I can imagine it! Uff... And, if a person offers to you another job in which you can win more money, would you accept it?
Carles: No, of course no. I love this job and I wouldn't change it.

Daphne: But in this job you are few, true?

Carles: Yes. The people wants a better job in a office without animals, without sun, without bad scent, without “excrement”.. for this reason I like it and I don't want another.
Daphne: Thank for you information Crales.
Carles: Bye!

FILM

21 BLACK JACK
It's a film that talks about a group of young people who are experts counting carts. They play in Las Vegas. The protagonist of the film is Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a shy and brilliant student from the MIT. He can't pay the registration of the university, and because of that the decides to play with his friends the casinos. Their teatcher of Maths, Micky Rosa, is their teatcher of this "extra school activity" that brings them every weekend to Las Vegas. But Ben starts to go too far of the line. But he and his friends have to be careful with the security guard Cole Williams.
Ben will have problems with the policieman and the teatcher...
but I won't explain it to you because I want you to watch the film.

new

Chupa chups lollipops are one of Catalunya's most popular esports.

In 1958, Catalan confectioner Enric Bernat invented the lollipop. The chupa-chups sold in 168 countries. The last millennium the family company Chupa chups was the pride of Catalunya and one of the best known Spanish businesses ever, with world-wide sales of 40,000 million.
Having started out as a heavy lollipop of 18 grams in 1970 the company also pioneered the use of real milk for the production od the production of the Strawberry Cream flavour in 1965.
There are also a lot of other flavour like cola, orange, 7UP.

Today Sara who came four years ago to do practices of teacher has come to talk a little bit with us and domestite the original english.
First, he talked about UK and Scottland.
To do something like live more than one year out to study lenguages you must love to learn languages and also to travel, it is one of Sara's hobbies.
She is been here for more than 3 years but she think that the weather of her own country is hard. There only have two weeks of summer.

She explain that UK is formet by 4 countries: England, Scottland, Wales and Northen Ireland.
And she also explain differents things about her counry, for example, the name of scottish people, that the scottish people speak twp lenguages: English and Gaelic (it's a diying); the typical food like Haggis...and more.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8042337.stm

A lot of British tourists only think to come back at home early because they don’t want to run the risk of to get the flu. In Mexico had the first infected.
But also there are some people who want to spend their holidays there wearing a mask.
In difference here, in Espanya nobody uses mask

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8026168.stm

Cut short>escorçar/reduir
Swine>porc
Flu>grip
Exasperating >desesperant

Alfie Patten is not the father.

Finally, Alfie Patten is not the daddy.
He didn't know anything about DNA test but later his mother said that DNA test is a test that help to find the true father.
Chantelle said that Alfie is the only boy in her life.
Mirror in February said that Alfie had been the victim of a con. He is not the father but the family of Chantelle used this boy to obtain money. Alfie says that he was very happy for his paternity. He thought about the way to get money to bring up his daugther.

Acually, Chantelle slept with other boys and it's possible that the father could be someone else.

Useful vocabulary:

• Swab; muestra, húmedo
• claimed; afirmar
• con; estafa
• half-sister; germanastre

[Anorak News]15.04.09 http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/205145.html

human rights

A 31 years old boy it kills his father with a bat and his mother throwing his television.
It's horrible and these events passed the 23 of January in Palencia.
He squashed the head of his mother with a television,until she died.

I belive that this event goes against the human moralitybecause nobody can kill nobody. Nobody can rob the life to another person.

EACH PERSON HAS HER RIGHT

observation of my oral presentation

1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:
NAME & TOPIC: my research project

Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive?
To do this presentation I had to search the information in english, because my oral explain my research project.

Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time?
Well... I look all the time my audience but maybe I don't look my teacher..

-Did you read from your notes?
A little bit. But it's my safety

-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?
I think yes. I always was moving my arms.

Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance?
I think that all I have said was important,and because of that I only have said the most important things.

-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear?
Yes. I used "in other words" and similars.

Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? yes
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? yes
-Did you use sentences linkers? wel.. i think that no
-Did you use fillers?no

Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher ?
Yes because I know that my english is very bad and with the dictionary pronuntiation I'm very calm.
d.

Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions?
I tink that I didn't change my tone of voice but the presentation was flowed.

oraal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLF1cYZfqz0

Oral presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLF1cYZfqz0

new

A elderly woman has died in Ripoll at her home. She had problems in her eye and she opened the gas and she was late and this to start an explosion. She had 85 years old. This explosion was registered at 14.30 and three firemen's units to put a fire out. But they found the woman in her kitchen.

[Farodevigo.es][1-03-09/ 12:38]
http://www.farodevigo.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2009022800_9_301468__Sucesos-anciana-muere-Girona-incendiarse-cocina-vivienda

FILM

The lion king is a 1994 American film produced by Walt Disney.

It explain the live of Simba the son of Mufasa. Mufasa had a brother called Scar and this wanted to be the king but when Mufasa ha his son, Scar sees his dream broken and he wanted to kill his brother, Mufasa, and his nephew, Simba.

One day Scar ride his nephew in the midle of fence and put he in a danger, killed his broder, Mufasa and also he does that simba goes away.

THIRD NEW

In Reino Unido a 13 years old children have a baby with Chantelle a 15 years old girl. They belive that they can support economically his family but when the reporter asks the children: "What do you do to support your family?" and the children answered: "I don't understand the question".

The parents of the 2 young people said that now recognize that this event it's a error but Chantelle said that "they are a god parents for a baby".

[Semana.com]

http://www.semana.com/noticias-vida-moderna/padre-13-anos/120696.aspx

SECOND NEW

Marta del Castillo is a young girl and she disappeared on 24 of January and now her ex-boyfriend has confessed that he killed Marta because supposedly he never overcame the break with Marta. When they had a discusion in the house of him he struck the head of her with an ashtray. Marta had 17 years old and after her death they threw Marta in the river.
[El Pais.com]
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Marta/Castillo/fue/asesinada/golpes/supuestamente/ex/novio/elpepuesp/20090214elpepunac_9/Tes
[La opinion.es]
http://www.laopinion.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2009021500_10_200289__Sucesos-novio-Marta-Castillo-confiesa-mato-golpes

FIRST NEW

José Manuel (49 years old) was living in Ourense in 2003 he won 10 million euros and 6 years aftert this he commit suicide because he had a lot of obligations and he hadn't more money. Later the prize he bought a mansion and 3 luxurious cars, a "coto de caza" and a Company of machinery. José had 2 daughters. In my opinion the money changed the people, although the people say that the money is only material and the most important in this life is the people hat you love.

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/447204/0/loteria/fallecido/millonario/