I don't agree with this idea because I think that everybody has to be free to buy what they want.
In my opinion, everyone has to be conscious what they can buy and has to have self-control, if you want to buy three TVs, why this could be so bad?, I think that we have to pay attention to other problems that are more important than these.
What is the problem if you want to buy a lot of things if it's your money and you want to do it?
You don't have to judge someone just because they like the Black Friday, and take profit from buying another phone even it's not necessary.
My name is Bruna I'm 17 years old and I live in Fortià. So the question is what I expect from my life, at this moment I'm not sure. I know that I want to go to the University and have a college degree, to have a successful future, but I have no idea what I'm going to study. At this moment the only thing I want is to pass 2n Batxillerat (sorry Albert I don't know this word in Inglish and I didn't found on the Internet) with very good marks, to avoid problems of access to the college career that decides to make and for maybe get a scholarship. The challenge that I have to overcome is that I don't really like to study, yes I study, but just because I have to do it, not because I like, so many times I have to do a big effort to every day after school study a little bit of each subject. So this year I will focus on earning good grades and put my best effort because you become good at things through hard work. Who definitely help me to stay on track is my family, they never let me down and always support me in every decision I make so what I want is make them proud of me.
The sentence I most like of the Obama's speech is "No one's written your destiny for you" because is the truth, each decision you make, each mistake, you can always change your future, and this for me is the best, because if you fail, you have to let your failures teach you and start again in a different way.
1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s? Where, for example?
Yes, especially on the topic of spelling mistakes, in pronunciation, I think the blog is very useful to work on these aspects.
2. Which activity best shows your level of English?
The exams of books, that also helps me to start reading books in English, and the skills exams, in my opinion they are very useful exams, because you have to have the lever to understand and because you don't have to study.
3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?
Most of all the exams, because you have to prepare them that means you have to learn all the rules of the orthography, the blog, with the news and the yoursay, and also the correcting compositions, because you can see the mistakes you make.
4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?
I think the vocabulary exams, because all you do is learn a list of names, that shortly you do not remember any, in my opinion we could look for a more entertaining alternative.
5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?
I'm not sure, but maybe do more oral presentations, read more books in English, more interactive activities like Kahoo...
His name is Lluc Bartrina nowadays he is studying 1st Bat, he's fond of playing play tennis, he has been playing since he was 4 years old.
I met him four years ago and since then we have remained firm friends. There is no one around me who wold be such a nice person like him.
I have to admit that his sinse of fashion has improved a lot, when I met him he was a disaster, but now I am keen on his dressing style.
He doesn't know how to hurt a person, he always ties to fing the best side of his friend. He's an amount of generosity, constantly trying to make every body happy, without thinking in himself.
He is the most special person I have met in my life and I'm sure I won't find another friend like him.
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river
London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath
London calling and I don't want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eye
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
A nuclear era, but I have no fear
London is drowning, and I, I live by the river
Now get this
London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won't you give me a smile?
I never felt so much a' like a'like a'like
This song is a protest song, it’s a punk one. I like this song because it remembers me that some things are to be changed. Also it has some critics to our society.
The title of the song makes reference to the code the americans and the english people used when they communicate each other during second world war.
For example in this verse we can see how criticizes the police brutality.
London calling, see we ain't got no swing. ’Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing
In this other case we can see how also criticizes the drug addicted people comparing them with zombies
London calling, see we ain't got no high. Except for that one with the yellowy eye.
Hello my name is Bruna, I am 16 years old andI’vejust started 1st of Batxillerat. The truth is, that I am very afraid to begin this new year. I think that what fears me the most is to fail any subject, repeat the year, or not to achieve the marks I want to.
I am a person who gets stressed very quickly and needs to know that everything is under control, and when this is not this way (which doesn't happen really often, because I'm very lazy), I start to panic and ending up doing things badly and hastily.
I also consider myself a very sensitive person, I cry for anything and everything affects me, even though I can hide it very well.
One of my virtues would be that I have patience with children, talking to people or just doing something, I have a lot of patience
What more I apply in my life currently would be the expression “ New brush sweeps clean but old broom knows all the corners” because I'm always afraid to do new things and meet new people, but when I dare I never regret of it, because I always know wonderful people and do amazing things.
Another thing aboutmeis that I am very proud,is very difficult for me say sorry, so if some day I ask you forgiveness is that I really care about you and I am very sorry.
I am a home-loving girl, I preferstayingat home with any friend or with my boyfriend, than going out party.
More aspects about me: my favorite food is definitely the hamburger. A funny anecdote about this, is that the last time I went to United States, Ispentalmost each day of the trip eating burgers, I know that not is healthy but I love it!!
I would like to have a dog, this summer I wanted to adopt one, but my stepfatherdoesn't let mebecause I have a 4 years old sister andmy parents are afraid of having an animal at home, but when I have my own house I will adopt one.
Question 1.SETTING: Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? Where are they? Which century? In the book Verona (Italy) is an old city, and the film Verona (USA) is a modern city. The book is a real history in 1595 (16th century), but the film is set in nowadays real life (20th century). Question 2.. IMAGERY: metaphors & images : WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station, fights...) DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?
WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...): Represents the purity, innocence, unity of the two bodies who are in love.
FIRE (petrol station, fights...): Represents de evil and the death.
DAY and NIGHT: The day is the time to be separed, to stay alone, and dreaming with the night, because the night represents when the two lovers finally meet again with the dark of the sky. MOON: Represents the fake love, because the moon is constantly change, but the love of Romeo and Juliet is forever. This is why Julieta asked him not to swear by the moon. Question 3.. LANGUAGE. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator? All the characters speak in prose,the only one who speaks in verse is the TV reporter which it is also the narrator of the film. Question 4.THE FANCY DRESS PARTY.What's the role of the costumes the characters wear? Romeo: Knight, It represents the knight who saves the princess, in this case he"saved"Juliet to marry Paris.
Juliet: Angel, It represents her purity and innocence, since she was only 14 years old.
Paris: Astronaut, because he was the only character who never knew what was happening.
Tybalt: Devil, It represents the antagonist of the film. Question 5. To make the new version, some important objects or places have been changed.
The swords have been changed for guns or for other weapons.
There is no nobility, so the prince of the city has been changed for the police man and the noble families have been changed for rich families.
The place of the dead of Romeo and juliet has been changed for the church, because now the people has to be buried or burned.
The horses have been changed by cars.
The plague that blocks friar Laurence's message in the book is changed for a post office problem.
Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version
In the film Romeo cry for Juliet in tomb and in the book fight with Paris.
In the film Tybalt is not very habilidous with a gun and the book Tybalt is the best with sword
In the book when Juliet awakens, Romeo is already dead , in the film not
Amanda Woods, is an American woman with man troubles, and Iris Simpkins a Londoner with a stormy relationship which is suffering because the man she loves is engaged to another woman. Amanda decides to go on holiday to forget her recent breakup and on a page of Home Exchange she found the announcement of Iris's house and they decided to exchange their home and their belongings, during two weeks at Christmas. Both achieve to find themselves, but fate makes both find love again.
This film is one of my favorites, because it mixes comedy with romance, and because it is at the beggins all the characters they are unhappy in love, but at the end they found the perfect person for each other.
In 2016 the world will commemorate 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.This special anniversary year is a truly unique opportunity to visit his home town Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire to celebrate the lasting legacy of the world's greatest playwright.
Shakespeare400 is a set of major cultural , creative and educational organizations , coordinated by the Kings College London. which will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016.
#stratford-upon-avon
Stratford-upon-Avon, is the place were William Shakespeare was born, grew up and played. He ate meals in the hall and he slept and dreamt in these rooms. Shakespeare also spent the first five years of married life in this house with his new wife.. Set in the beautiful rural Warwickshire countryside, on the banks of the river Avon, it is one of the most important tourist destinations in the UK.
#annehathaway
Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, was born in 1556. Shakespeare was eight years younger than her. When they married in 1582 he was eighteen and she was twenty-six. She was pregnant at the time and whatever their relationship was like – which we don’t know anything about – he had no alternative other than to marry her because it was socially unacceptable for a woman of her standing to have a child without being married.
#theglobe
The original theater was built in 1599 for the theater company of William Shakespeare. Many of his masterpieces were created to be represented at the Globe , becoming one of the most successful theaters in London. In 1613 one of the performances was plunged into chaos when the thatched roof caught fire and the fire ended up destroying the theater. On the same ground one second theater that served as headquarters of Shakespeare's company until 1642 , when all the city's theaters were closed by the English Puritan Administration was built. To be out of use, in 1644 the theater was demolished. In 1949, actor , director and producer Sam Wanamaker made a trip to London and , noting with disappointment how there was only a commemorative plaque as a tribute to Shakespeare in 1970 began to raise funds for the reconstruction of the theater . After his death in 1997 the faithful reproduction of the theater building was completed.
#plays
William Shakespeare wrote different kind of plays: tragedy, comdey, dramatic histories,... Some of them are these: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, The two noble Kinsmen, The History of Cardenio, As you like it, All's well that ends.
Romeo and Juliet is one of his most important works, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
#plague
William Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era when the bubonic plague, sometimes referred to as the Black Death, was virulent. He was known to have a terrible fear of the deadly disease and its consequences and this is hardly surprising as it touched so many areas of his life including his life as an actor at the Globe Theater. There were high mortality rates amongst Elizabethan children and this was true of the brothers and sisters of Shakespeare some of whom were struck down by the Bubonic plague (Black Death).
#1595
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both, but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597.
#queenelizabeth
The poet was throughout his life greatly indebted to the patronage and support of royal and noble personages; his royal patrons were Queen Elizabeth and King James I, both of whom greatly loved the drama. The virgin queen devoted herself to the study of the ancient classical period; she also delighted in our own theatrical entertainments, and used her influence in the progress of the English drama, and fostered the inimitable genius of Shakespeare.
#thearmada
The defeat of the Spanish Armada remains the most glorious event remembered of Elizabeth's reign: the forces of Europe's mightiest Catholic power were confounded by English sea dogs and "Protestant gales." William Shakespeare's plays, after the british victory over the Spanish armada in 1588, were very influenced by the new sense of English national identity.
#shakespearequotes
Dius que estimes la pluja, peró obres el paraigua cuan plou.
Dius que estimes el sol, peró trobes un punt d'ombre cuan el sol brilla.
Dius que estimes el vent, però tanques les finestres quan el vent bufa.
Aquesta es la raó per la qual tinc por, també dius que m'estimes.
Last year I went with my family to Florida, United States. We stayed one week, and I enjoyed a lot. The people were very friendly and nice, and we had a lot of fun. We went in March, and it was very hot.
The first day: We arrived at the airport in Miami Beach, we picked up the rented car and went straight to the Hilton Miami Downtown and at night we went dinner at Hooters, a fast food restaurant.
The second day: We take breakfast at Ihop restaurant and then we toured the city of Miami Beach and in the afternoon we went for a walk to the coast of Miami. This city has one of the best beaches I have ever seen. The water has a very clear turquoise colour, and the sand is white and very thin. The third day: We take breakfast in the hotel, after that, we heanded to Orlando, the city where there are one of the largest parks in the world, Walt Disney.
Although the trip was a little long, about four hours, the scenery was very beautiful.
When we arrived to the hotel Courtyard Orlando Downtown we left the suitcases and we made a visit to Billie Swamp Safari to see crocodiles.
At night , we dined at Chilli's, and then went to see the show of the Blue Man Group at the Orlando Resort Universal.
The fourth day: We take breakfast at the starbucks coffee, and then we went to the Walt Disney park. The truth is that is even more impressive than the one in Paris. That day I had so much fun , I looked like a girl of four years old or worse. I took pictures with all the Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Jessie, Buzz, Woody... The fifth day: We take breakfast in the hotel, after that, we heanded to Daytona Beach. This time the trip was much shorter, just one hour.
When we arrived to the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort Ocean walk Village hotel, we left the suitcases, and then we stayed all day at the beach. And at night we had dinner at the Bubba Gump restaurant.
The sixth day: In the morning we did some sightseeing, and then at noon, we heanded to Titusville, where we visited the Kennedy Space Center. For me it has been a great experience, removing the fact that it has been very interesting. And finally the last day, in the morning we returned to the airport of Miami, to catch the plane and return to Spain. I think so far have been the best vacation I ever had, and I would definitely go again.
A Syrian girl says goodbye to her friends at the CETI from the taxi that will take her to Melilla port, from where she will travel to the Iberian Peninsula, having spent three months in the centre.
I chose this picture because is it very dramatic, disturbing and moving.
In the middle of this photo there is an adult giraffe who is running. In the background there are many trees, two other giraffes and and four birds. At the bottom right there is a hungry lioness, who is waiting for the perfect moment for attack the giraffe.
These picture is very dramatic, striking, natural and powerful This photo is from the National Geographic
