lunes, 11 de mayo de 2009

My english competence in 2009

I'm doing English now for many years and now it's the time to see the best work done on Batxillerat. This is what I consider to be, my best oral presentation, together with my school mate Chanez Selloum. Since it's our last year on school before University we decided to talk about Universities in England, the most recognized and reputated all over the world.
The best written evidence i'v got are a dialogue and news comment about President Obama. This to written documents reflect the maturity and the interest for global confrontations or problems, something everyone should be interested for, yet it effects everyone.
I think it makes my best work because it reflects the vocabulary used such as perhaps some specific words learned during the reading of news and books in English. Just as said before it also shows the maturity of the writer and an interest for the world.
The oral presentation but shows how fluent I am and what I am able to do. I think the way we express is very natural and pretty easy, without being afraid to speak in a different language which is not mine. It also shows what we have learned and a interest for overseas.


Best Oral Presentation



Best dialogue

ISRAEL vs. PALESTINA

tv host: Hello everybody !!!! :):):)
In Middle East there are problems, and one of the most importants is the war between Israel and Paslestina. Today, here, tere is an israelian who will explain us what happen and how she defend her religion and her land. Hello Sarah!
Sarah: Hello Tim! Yes, it's true, we have a lot of problems but I think we are right. All our lives we had been discriminated and mistreated. Hitler and nazis began a genocide and the survivors had no place to go. I don't think that Israel has the militar power to kick the palestinans out of our land.
Tim: Ok. This is an israelians opinion about this issue. Now, we'll gonna hear a palestinian one!
Shiva: Hello Tim! Yes that's true, but we have the same problems that they have. Genocide is alsi familiar for us. Anyway, I undestand that you are angry that we are in Jerusalem too. But for both it represents our country, our promissed land and religious influences both sides. Both see Jerusalem like a holy place and everyone wants to defend what's for them . But I am sure that there us an alternative to resche the conflict.
Sarah: I agree with you that there's an alternative. But I think that Jewish people don't have any other place to go. We went to Europe and they killed all that they could. And because of that we decided to return to our promissed land and now palestinians wants to kich us out. And they have a lot of islamic countries to go, whereas we can't leave elsewhere.
Shiva: Yes that's true, but we were raced. We were born here it's also ower home!
Sarah: I do eather. But you also have to understand us. Yet you believe in the Coran so do we in the Torah. And it says that Yahvé promissed us a land and that was Jerusalem, and it still is.
Shiva: But Mahoma, when he ran away from Mecca he also talked about this our Jerusalem. Mecca is a place where we go for devotion, but Jerusalem is our home, a holy place for us eather.
Sarah: I know what you mean, of course. And you say it now, you have two or more holy places to go and we only have Jerusalem:our place and the one of our ancestores.
Shiva: But being your holy country and our's too. Don't you think it's possbile to live together in peace there? Respecting each other beliefs. In the end, Torah, Coran and Bible talk and predicts about respecting each other.
Sarah: I think that we can't live together in the same place. This isn't the solution for the problem. But I'm sure that we can find a solution but it will be really difficult because we are fighting for our believe, and the religious fights are very difficult to resolve.
Tim: And now the time is over. That was a really

Best written evidence

News 2. Obamas first 100 days!


It's an overview of President Obama's first 100 days in the white house
As everyone knows, the president made huge promises and had to inherit two wars and an economic chaos. What did happend the first days of his presidency.
It's view of innovation in economy, healt care, energy, military process diplomacy and domestic security.
In economy the Obama Administration is helping home ownersand struggeling with various aspects of the economical crisis. They act with economic stimulus such as tax cuts, helping with money from the government. They developed rescue plans for the banks, refinancing mortage plans and house saving plans. We'll see how this continues.
Health care: about 64 milion americans have no health insurance and those who have pay a lot. The administration is acting already and as we saw the last days Obama alows now stemm cell investigations, kids have a health insurance and insuirances costs and grug costs are ment to be
The military conflicts are of course very important now a days. The Obama administration has to face with problems from the past such as Israel for exemple. But first of all the Obama Administration wants to withdraw the troops form Iraq. As well the conflicts in Afghanistan must be resolt in the next year and thats what the administration is focused on: a war against terrorism. There are pilicies and actions planned for Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new administration is doing it's best to move forward and change the american lifes.
We'll see what will happen the next weeks and how not just the USA but the whole world may change

My Portfolio Presentation - Analize your work - My english 2007-2009

Today I'm going to comment my first and my last written document on the portfolio. We're comparing work from 3 years in my case so let's have a little look on what happened since 2007

First of all I have to say that i don't notice much change in my written documents so the only thing that really catches my eye is that i managed to write less orthographic errors, something I'm really proud of. Since i see now the way a wrote two years ago and how i write now, I also am able to see that I'm more mature in my expressions. I don't use that much slang anymore and I'm able to construct phrases without the three points. I wrote like I would speak, something that I shouldn't do writing a formal comment for my portfolio. I also noticed that I feel more comfortable using connections such as "as a matter of fact" or similars in order to enhance one paragraph with an other. I also learn some words that I try not to forget and use in my compositions.
Perhaps, since I don't use much english at home because of the studies, latley i feel less comfortable writing and it's a little hard for me to write a good composition. It's something that I'm struggleing with since the beginning of my english studies: feeling more comfortable writing and speaking, having no fear to commit any error with it.
I think, i have learned to speak more fluently with the oral presentations and the fact that we aren't alowed to speak catalan in class. Speaking english is a big help, such as watching films to learn how to spell some words which is perhaps the most difficult to learn for everyone. The structures I use now talking are also better than before. I don't get struc anymore and I don't forget so easy what I wanted to say. Of course, something that improved a lot in the new english classes has been the speaking of every pupil as well as mine as one of them.
I have less problems with the presentacions also. They come more natural and they were difficult to understand for anyone. Speaking clearly and using a good pronunciation helped a lot.
To finish, I defenitly can say that there's a change from 2007 to 2009, which I'm glad for since it was not only the objective of our teachers, but also mine.

Here you've got my first and my last written document on the porftolio. I'll put the oral presentation in the next post.

My first Post xDD



Hi people !!!!

So thats my first blog, I hope you enjoy it xD
I will post more things ´cause I am in school... 4 now XD
For now, you can see my guitar... i bought it this summer... amazing instrument... Just like my favorit band...Metallica... apart from SlipKnot of course..
For now, ther isn-t happening much stuff in my life.. bussines as usual... xD
this year there are 2 special events in my life: the first one will happend this November, there is a Incredible Iron Maiden gig in Barcelona, and I,ll be there MUAHAHa!!!! But before the Iron Maiden gig, Trivium will play... they are so cool! The second event... I,ll return to the States for a whole month.. well.. i don,t really know if we go to the states or to Honduras... it doesn,t matter... I will leave the kontinent... thats important XD
So thats it for now... i,ll surf more the internet...
BYE BYE

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miércoles 29 de abril de 2009

Summary of a film


The Interpreter by Sydney Pollak:

The film is about a woman who's working at the UN as an interpreter: she is the little voice that translates a lot of languages into one, in her case English. The main carachter, Silvia Broom was learning the flute but she forgets once her flute in her office at the UN. As she went there she listens to two man who where speaking in an African language named Ku. They talk about a rebellion and a plan to kill the president of a country named Matobo, invented by the film makers.
The man who's suposed to leave a speach is named Edmund Zuwanie, who's considered to be trailed for ethnic cleansing in front of the International Criminal Court, the liberator and that dictator of Matobo. During the film we get to know that Matobo is a conflictous region where 3 man are struggeling for the power: Edmund Zuwanie, Kuman-Kuman a business man and Ajene Xola a pacifist. Zuwanie as well as Kuman- Kuman were at the same time in New York, both for speeches.

martes, 5 de mayo de 2009

2. Dialogue :)

Ferran VII: Mm... what a good night... hehe
Maria Cristina: Mmm...yes.. but it could have been better...
Ferran VII: What?!
Maria Cristina:(in the bed after a farfilled night) did you know about the discussion between Pepe and Napo?
F.VII: No I didn't know about i, I didn't hear a word! Tell me my dear, what has happened in far away France?
M.C: I don't know nothing but gossip and rumors we should investigate this!

Maria Cristina and Ferran VII arrive a the palace in Paris. Napo and Pepe are fighting with swords against each other. The price is the heart of a country girl.

Napoleon:(shouting) She's mine! I'm the emperor of the world!
Joseph I: Bahh! I'm the king of Spain!
Napo: For my sake!
Pepe: If you wantt her, fight like a man! (piks Napo with the sowrd) Ha!
Napo: Autsch(shout like a girl) That hurts! Bastard of a brother! (piks him on the arm) Only known as Pepe The Bottle!
Pepe: Au(shout like a girl) What a borther you are!

After two-three minutes fighting a servent passes by ad both look after her.

Napo and Pepe: wooow!
Napo: I'm the Emperor of Europe, I have engaged the French Revolution! Oh dear brother of mine! What did you do? Answer me!?
Pepe: I...I...I... I am the king of Spain!
Napo: You always say the same dear brother... remember I gave you the country like a brithday present...
Pepe: What a present!? Didn't find something more ancient and old in time and space!?
Napo: The only thing you know and know well as how to drink!
Pepe: something you never learned as a good french!
Napo: WHAT!(like a girl) I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! COME ON! Let's go to the tavern!

Both go out to a tavern called The Two Drinkers. Maria Cristina and Ferran VII come with them.

Napo: Come on Pepe! You only have drunk five!
Pepe: Look at me! The seventh!
Napo:(drinking more) Six!
Pepe:(drinking six more) Thirteen!
Napo: Poor drunnk of a brother!
Pepe: Don't tell me this...I'm your brother! I love you! (crying) Don't say me this...
Napo: Don't cry brother! (starting to cry too) I also love you!
Maria the country girl: come on boys, stop crying ans share the bottles!

They look at her with astonishment. Ferran VII enters to the tavern followed by Maria Cristina.

F.VII: Who gets the girl in the end?
M.C: (looking Maria with lovely eyes) Me!

Everybody looks Maria Cristina and Maria surprised. Maria Cristina and the country girl left the bar together.

THE END
FERRAN VII married with a country girl of France called Crisitne and they come to Spain to reigne.
NAPO went to Napoly and there he invented the famous "napolitanes". After two years he died of overweight.
PEPE BOTTLE died in the pub The Two Drinkers being in coma because of the alcohol he drank that night after loosing his spanish throne.