Final evaluation of 1st batxillerat

Observing my blog, I see an improvement in my essay, so I think that I do my work better than the first term. For example, I have improved on my-says and on oral presentations, in my opinion.

I have learnt a lot of vocabulary because I have had to do some readings, I have had to do an oral exam and I read a book that was very hard and a little bit difficult to understand.

This is the activity that in my opinion, I have done the best. I chose “Great Expectations” because of the title of the book. First of all, when I started reading it, I thought that it was so boring, but after I started to enjoy it. I had to search a lot of words in the dictionary and I did a summary of every event that happened. So I learnt at the same time to summarize, to read a long book and I memorized all of these for my oral exam.

But there are other activities that were useful for me, for example: the oral presentation of Canada, because I searched a lof information and I prepared myself well; another was my last presentation of Violence aganist women and I also think that I have improved my English when I summarize news items and especially, when I have to write a podcast because I’m not used to writing conversations.

If I stop and think about all the writings that I have done on this course, I can’t find anything that hasn’t helped me to improve my English because I always think that everything that I do is good to improve and learn more about.

Finally, the greatest thing of this year, so the thing that I want to repeat next year, is the blog, because we have the opportunity of writing the things that we think that are interesting and important, and at the same time we learn a lot of new things.

Podcast!

Riiiiing (phone)

Maria: Hello!

Aida: Hi Maria!

Maria: Aida! How are you?

Aida: Well, very well! And you?

Maria: Me too. Why are you phoning me? We spoke yesterday.

Aida: Yes I know but I'm phoning you because I'm coming home sooner than I expected.

Maria: Wow! That's fantastic.

Aida: Yes! I'm looking forward to coming home.

Maria: I want to meet you tomorrow if you can, but maybe you will be tired.

Aida: Oh no no! I want to see you, of course!

Maria: Ok! What time shall we meet tomorrow? What about the afternoon?

Aida: Yes, that's fine. Is seven o'clock ok?

Maria: Yes yes! Goodbye.

Aida: See you!

(The next day at seven o'clock.)

Maria: Aida!

Aida: Darling!

Maria: I'm very happy to see you. What did you do in Paris?

Aida: Uff... I worked a lot. But in my freetime I visited interesting places, like: the Effiel Tower, The Louvre Museum, the Champs Elises and others.

Maria: That's great! I would like to have been with you there.

Aida: And, everything OK here?

Maria: Yes, very well. I spend my time going shopping, going to the cinema and the best is that I met a boy, first of all we were very good friends but one night we went back together and we talked a lot. Now he's my boyfriend! I hope that you become friends =D.

Aida: Ah! I also want to tell you something. Me and my partner went out sometimes to pubs and discos, and there we met a lot of nice people. And soon you will meet some of these people, because they live in the USA like us.

Maria: I would like to meet them. Oh... I'm sorry it's too late I have to go home!

Aida: Ok! I'm going to visit my sister. Bye!

Maria: See you!

MY GRANDMA

I want to talk about my grandma because she’s the person who always helps me and she gives me advice. She always spend the time working, cooking, and looking after (before, her five children) and now, her grandchildren.

I remember that when I was a child I spent most of my time with her because my brother and my parents were working. But I was so happy, because she told me her stories, we played a lot and I enjoyed myself.

I also remember when we went to the beach and we played with a float.

She has a lot of patience, so I did what I wanted to do: watch films, play with something, but the favourite thing that I prefered was to do her hair.

Last summer, she was really ill and the doctors said that she would die. This time was very hard for me because I always wanted to go to hospital to see her and to hold her hand and to speak to her even if she didn’t hear me.

Fortunately, now she’s with me again and, of course, we can’t do the same things as before, but I have lunch in my granparents’ house everyday, so I always visit her.

For me, she’s the strongest person that I have ever met. And I will never forget the moments with her, because for me she’s like my mum, my old mum and I love her more than me and more than everything!

My childhood

When I was a child, I remember that I always played with my cousin Grego because we stayed at our grandparents’ house. He always bothered me when I was sleeping, but we were good friends.

After, my other cousin Artur was born. So, we three played with different things, for example: we painted and drew, we jumped all over the garden, we played with barbies (because I was the only girl and they sometimes did the things that I wanted) but we played more at fighting than dolls.

Also, we played football and I wasn’t too bad. We went by motorbike and we went on a trip.

In summer, I spent more time with Artur, and we enjoyed the time too. We went to the beach to played in the water but most of all my cousin loved fishing a lot of different types of fish. Moreover, on 30th of August it was my birthday and my mum always prepared a lunch for all the family and everybody give me a lot of presents, so I love summer.

In my opinion, my childhood was one of the best stages because I was really happy and I didn’t realize the problems. Finally, if I have to sumarize my childhood with two words or two names, for me, are these: Gregory and Artur.

Film

The Back-up Plan

I think that the plot of the film is not so original, because it is about a woman who wants to have children and she goes to a clinic. She becomes pregnant but at the same time she meets a man. He’s perfect, he looks smart and he’s handsome. But there’s a problem: he doesn’t know that she’s pregnant, so she’s afrait of his reaction.

This type of film always has a good ending: he accepts the twins and they live together forever.

In my opinion, this story is the typical story of Hollybood and always has a happy ending. But, I liked it. Because I prefer to go to the cinema and watch a film that is funny and with a happy ending.

Of course, I believe that films have to be comedy, horror, funny... But I’m very afraid so, when I watch a horror film, after I’m afraid!

Moreover, when I watch this type of romantic film I think that the story is perfect, because the woman is always so beautiful, the man

is handsome, and at the beginning of the film maybe everything is a little bit strange or bad things happen but at the end everything is perfect.

When you’re watching this film you think: “ Oh! I want to do this and I want to have a boyfrend like this and, and...” But if I think for a moment, I realize that in real life is different because it’s imposible that everything is perfect.

But it doesn’t matter, I continue enjoying these films because I’m a very romantic person.

Song

We are the world




I want to talk about this song, not noly because it’s very beautiful, but also because it transmitts many good feelings. Moreover a lot of really good singers appear and I think that all their great voices together give more strength to the message.
In addition, I believe that the idea of doing a song to support and help countries that need it, in this case Haiti, is very good.

And refering to the lrics of the song, in my opinion, they are fantastic, and they have many interesting messages:
“There comes a time when we hear a certain call, when the world must come together as one...”. It’s amazing when you hear this piece of the song, because you think: “It’s true, we have to do this.”

“Send them your heart so they know that someone cares, so their cries for help will not be in vane. We can't let them suffer no, we cannot turn away right now they need a helping hand”. But, in my opinion, this is one of my favourite messages, because it explains that we can’t control the earthquakes, but all of us have to help people who suffer these misfortunes.



So, in conclusion, I chose these topic because of the children who died, the children who survived and they don’t have family and, in general, for all the people who unwittingly have to live through this.

Opinion essay

“We have almost learnt to respect our World. Do you agree?”

I definately disagree with the idea that we have almost learnt to respect our world. I think that we have to do more things to protect the planet.

First of all, in my opinion, we have to reduce the contamination because our cars have contaminated a lot. For example: instead of going by car if we have to go near by we can go by bycilce or go on foot, so we reduce pollution and we do sport at the same time.

In cities there are a lot of people who go to work by bycicle or by motorbike, but they don’t do this because of contamination, they do this because they don’t have enough car parks.

Secondly, I also believe that the majority of people don’t recycle.

Nowadays governments make new plans to recycle and people have different containers to put their rubbish in and after they collect the rubbish from their home. But a lot of people continue without recycling. It seems to me that this is easier than before because we didn’t have these advantatges.

Moreover, there are a lot of rubbish that can’t be destroyed because it causes very negative consequences for the population.

In conlusion, I would say that people need to act more responsibly because maybe our children won’t have the same conditions of life as us.

In addition, people who live in cities or countries that have a lot of pollution, can’t see the stars in the sky because contaminating gases stop them. So I think that we don’t give enough importance with the reference to pollution.