SIMULATIONS ARE DANGEROUS

This Wednesday I was watching a football match on TV where Las Palmas and Almeria were fighting for ascent the league and play in the top league.

The match was in a very interesting moment when two players crash their heads trying to hit the ball. One of them was on the floor but the refry didn’t see that and his teammates continued attacking trying to score a goal and win the match. When they finished the attack, the refry saw that and he stopped the match. The player who was on the floor was unaware and the ambulance had to take the player to the hospital.

These images shocked me because it could be worse in another situation and the match didn’t stop until the attack finished. I’m sure that nobody hit the ball outside the field and the refry didn’t stop the match because in most of cases the players are well and only are trying to lose some minutes.

So in my opinion, football players and football federations have to do a reflection about these situations because in this case didn’t happen anything but in another case we will probably have to lament worse news.

In this video you can see in 4:25 minute the incident.

HOME

Home is a very interesting and special documentary that tells the creation of our planet and humanity, the actual situation of our world and, finally, the problems of the climate change that we are already living and the ones that we will live in a short period of time if we don’t change our way of act.

I have already given my opinion of the climate change and of the humanity conscience of this. So I’m only going to talk about my opinion of the film/documentary. 

In one hand I have to confess that in some moments of the film I felt bored (maybe because we are in our last week and the hours when we have seen Home weren’t the best ones to enjoy). It was probably too long and too repetitive.

But in the other hand, it is a very good documentary that impacts you and show very impressive images of beautiful places that a lot of people don’t know of their existence.

In conclusion, Home is a good way to conscience people of our planet problems and it does it in an impressing way. But it could be better if it was shorter.

PLAYSTATION 4 CONSOLE PRICED CHEAPER THAN XBOX ONE

Sony has presented their new console PlayStation 4. It is set to sell the PlayStation 4 for a cheaper price than Microsoft's rival Xbox One. While Xbox One price is of 499€ here, PlayStation 4 will cost a hundred Euros less, 399€.

 

I have to say that I am not a fan of video consoles and this type of games but I like this news because, lately, video games and video consoles were every day more and more expensive, when you were a little child practically everyone could buy a PlayStation but in the last years you had to pay big sums of money.

This news means that console companies know the actual situation of the world and they want to change the trendy of increase prices. That doesn’t mean that everyone will buy a PlayStation but it means that more people will be able to do it or that people will do a less important sacrifice. 

WE HAVE ALMOST LEARNT TO RESPECT THE WORLD, ARE YOU AGREE?

Every day we hear about the consequences of the climate change. In my opinion the current society knows that we have to respect the world and they, at practical situations, respect it, more or less but, at least, they are aware of this problem. The worst is that people who pollute the Earth the most, factories and big companies, only want to be richer and richer every day and don’t mind about the planet and next generations. There is only one way to change that, in my view.

First of all, ordinary people like you and me have to be conscient of whose fault it is and support factories that respect the planet.

Secondly, these factories that are polluting every day are going to have to change their policy or will ruin the company.

Finally, if we respect the world and big companies respect it too, the situation of our planet will be better and we will stop the climate change.

In conclusion, we know how to change the future but I’m afraid these things won’t happen and climate change will happen.

FINAL POST

First of all I want to say that it is very difficult to know if I have had an improvement in English because it is a large and difficult process but I think so, that I have learnt new words and to speak and write more fluently.

When I can show my level better in my blog is when I do a “yoursay” of an interesting topic for me. I don’t think which activity is the most useful because all are very important but the ones which we learn less is when we have to put a text that is corrected in class in the blog because we only copy what we have already written. For next year, I would like to do more songs because it’s a funny activity but I think that it is very useful because you learn new words and expressions in English.

I have to say, like I said the second term, that blog is a nice activity and is very useful for the improvement of our English.

GAP YEAR

There are a lot of interesting places for visit and for spend a gap year but if I had to choose a place to go in a gap year I think I would choose go to do voluntary work in an African country.

I would choose this because this is one of the things I want to do in my life. I want to do it because, in my opinion, you can learn a lot of important things in life, for example: learn to value all we have when you see that some people are happy without anything, learn to work hard for get what you need, learn to respect other cultures and other ways to live, and a lot of other things…

I don’t know if I will do it but I would like to do it after the university because I don’t want to lose my study routine.

PODCAST

Vocaroo Voice Message

Jamie: Tania's girlfriend but unfaithful (Jaume)

Tania: Jamie's girlfriend (Roger)

Polly: Jamie's "lover" (David)

Dad: Jamie's father (Eloi)

Text in the book

…

Tania: What the fuck is going on here?

Jamie: It’s not what it looks! Relax!

Polly: emm… Can you show me the homework, please, Jamie? That’s why I’m here. (excuse)

Tania: Are you kidding me? I know what’s going on!!

Dad: What’s up?? Shit, I’m trying to sleep!

Tania: What’s up!!?? Your son is an asshole, and this is his fucking bitch.

Jamie: Sorry dad, now we will leave and…

Tania: Shut up! You will get out with your fucking bitch; I don’t want to see you again.

Polly: The only whore here is you, motherfucker, you only wants Jamie’s money.  Don’t you?

Jamie: Is that true?  I’m freaking out.

Tania: I AM!

Dad: You have woken me up and now we are arguing in my house. Get out of my house, right now! 

Tania: Shut up! It’s not your argument; I’m sorry but the truth is that your son is a fucking liar!

Dad: Is not my argument but is my house. Go out bitch and shut up!!

Polly: Okay sorry. Tania stop. We can argue out.

Jamie: Yeah! Babies go out!

Polly and Tania: Fuck you! Bye!

(Polly and Tania leave the house together and Jamie remain there alone)

SELF EVALUATION

http://prezi.com/2-uyoxuyrdis/untitled-prezi/?kw=view-2-uyoxuyrdis&rc=ref-41114649

We choose this topic because is an important issue but not only now, it always has been a very big problem for our society and we think that when racism finishes humanity will have done a very important step.

We are sorry. There are two videos because James’es phone memory was completed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ij4Z_oIZRZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOKlo1TfEQ

Eloi Güell: Racism, a big social issue  (with Roger)

Presentation (10%)

Do you use any resources? Are the resources relevant and attractive and focused on the topic? Do they support your presentation? Is the timing 5-7 minutes?

Yes we used Prezi as the main resource. Apart from that we placed a lot of happenings in a world map to help our presentation and to show that racism is everywhere in the world. About the timing, the presentation took about 15 minutes but we were two doing the presentation.

10

Body language and eye contact (10%)

Are you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes? Are you doing any gestures / movement to hold the attention of the audience?

I think that this was the worst part of my presentation because it’s difficult to look at the audience, and sometimes I used to watch the presentation, but not we had not any note in the prezi so it wasn't because I don't know my part.

7

Structure (10%)

Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear?

Yes, we done an index and we have put the ideas in order, and we use some discourse markers.

10

Content (30%)

Do you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? Is your information detailed and clear? Do you give / show examples? Is your information copied from a source or is it original? Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books…?

I think we have done it an interesting presentation with new information for all the audience because we explain a lot about a sport that people didn't know nothing. We have gave it some examples of each definition, and we have placed a lot of happenings in a world map to help our presentation. 

28

Language (20%)

Is your grammar correct, complex? Is your vocabulary rich and varied? Do you use sentence linkers? Do you use pause fillers?

I think that I used a correct grammar, with a lot of topic-related vocabulary. About the linkers and the pause fillers I think I have used a few.

18

Pronunciation and intonation (10%)

Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?

I knew how to pronounce the words because I had searched on the google translator and in howjsay. I did it with some breaks to read or pronounce difficult words but in general I think I done it quite fluid. Apart from that I made some pronunciation mistakes like "society" but because I didn't searched previously because I thought I know how to pronounce this word. 

7

Self-evaluation (10%)

8

Final Mark: (100%)

86%

POSTALS

“Postals” is the name of the last CD of “Els Catarres”. They are known for their song “Jenifer” that they did one or two years ago.

They have recently done a new disc which is fantastic for me and the eleven songs that there are in the disc are very good even though the only song that appears on the radio is “Vull estar amb tu”.

I love this disc because it change my mood and transmit me a lot of happiness; it also has beautiful lyrics that you can’t find in a typical English commercial song.

Music groups like “Catarres”, “Txarango”, “Manel” or “Els amics de les arts” are a demonstration of the good moment that is nowadays Catalan music. I am not saying that Catalan music is the best or is better than other types of music, I am only saying that sometimes good things are so close that you don’t realize of them. 

I let hear one of the new songs of "els Catarres".

SUMMER 2013

I still don’t know if I will get a job for this summer, there are no jobs because of the crisis. However, I am sure that I will work, without earn money, but I will work a lot.

First of all, I have to do my research project; I would like to finish the project during the summer and during the first term I would like only to tweak the project. Because, when we start 2^nd of Batxillerat, I want to concentrate in the subjects of 2^nd.

Secondly, I would like to get my First Certificate on September so I will have to practice during the summer and I will have to go to English classes.

Thirdly, I want to recover completely and get fit for next football season. I always have been a person that get tired quickly and I want to change that because I would like to play all the matches.

Finally, if I can, I will get a job and depending on this I will do all the things or I will have to let something for next summer.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

I had hear about this book before read it and when my teacher showed it to me I didn’t doubt and I took it. I know it was an interesting book and I liked it since the first day I started to read.

It is not a book with a fantastic plot or a surprising ending; the best of the book is the way that is written. For people like me, people that like to think with logically, it is an excellent book because we realize the quantity of silly things that we do without logic. For example, when Christopher says that it is silly to go to work happy or sad depending on if it is a sunny day or a rainy day even thought you work in an office and the weather doesn’t effect to you. So I like the way to think of the main character, also because he doesn’t know how to lie and he acts in a very simple way, maybe too simple for the current people.

The worst of the book was that I expected a special ending but the truth is that the end is as simple as the way to think of the main character. All in all I have to say that I enjoyed a lot with this book and I recommend it to everybody except these people that hates mathematics an logics.