Syria's situation

Recently, after the constant terrorist attacks all over the western civilizations, those governments have started a campaign in syria to attack the terrorists who are ther, and also destroying the country.

In my opinion, I think that it's comprehensible that they want to get their revenge, but it's wrong. Attacking a whole country just for a minory that resides there just creates pain and suffer to all the innocents who live there, and by that, creating more hate against the west.

I would try to pacify th eregion first and controlling the borders and the people who gets in.

The fifth wave

The fifth wave, written by Rick Yancey, is the first of a three book series. It's a young science-fiction novel, followed by The infinite sea.

Plot:
During a mass human extintion caused by an alien invasion, Cassie, from Cassiopeia, one of the last survivors on the Earth, tries to survive at any cost. In a post-apocaliptic world where everyone do unimaginable things to survive, it's so hard to trust anyone... But everyting will change after cassie meets Evan Walker...

Internet

Internet is one of the most revolucionaries inventions of the humankind, I think.

Its functions are to provide information and making the communication project much easier. But for me, the most cool thing of the Internet is that it makes everyone so close. Now that it's incredibly easy to speak with someone who's fore example living on the oposite side of the planet, you can feel like that people who's very far away from you, is also your closest friend.

Is humour necessary?

Humour Is a feeling that's been always with us since we were born, even if we didn't know about it.

Humour makes our lives better, in every way. When we feel bad, we still have the decision to laugh, it may not be apropiated for some situations, but in the long term I think that it's the best.

There are a lot of diferent humours, each one of us prefers another kind about other, but that's a thing that enriches our lives.

I think that without humour, life would be so boring, and may not make it so worthy.

TED - Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea

Hyeonseo Lee, born in North Korea, explained in her talk the story of her life, and what involves living in a country that is ruled by a dictator.

Hyeonseo grew up in North Korea believing that her country was the best, it wasn't until the famine of the 90s that she realised how bad the situation was. She escaped from North Korea at the age of 17, and since that, she has been trying to help her family to run away from their country.

Now she speaks about millions of south korean people, trying to help them by making aware people from over the world.

Self evaluation

After seeing the oral presentation, it seemed pretty well for me. It's true that I tend to get nervous, that's a problem that i've been carrying since always. I'll try to improve my body language and be more confient and relaxed. But generally, was a good work.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqHnL2zW0w

Hoax bomb (News)

News:
Ahmed Mohamed, a student in Texas, brought once a homemade clock to the highschool to impress his teacher. He thought it would be awsome, but it ended in a unfortunately way.

The teacher confused the clock with a bomb, and thinkint that it could be a real threat, he called the police. Ahmed was arrested, but released after some hours.

The news expanded quickly and everyone suported Ahmed, even the president Obama.

Vocabulary:
Hoax: Broma
Threat: Amenaça



Link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/

Smalll loan of a million dollars

If someone gave a small loan of a million dollars, i would probably don't know how to spend it.

I would buy a lot of things, like a couple of  super fast cars just because I could, then, maybe a house but i think that probably would be better to invest it in something that gave me even more money to spend it after i gained it. 

Of course i would donate a part of that money to help people who needed it more than me, but would be cool if I had it.

Definitely, if i had that money, I could live for ever without moving a single finger.

Forever young - How Americans really view aging

Aging has become one of the most talked topics in the United States of America, up to being a normal topic of discussion at dinners and friend meetings.

According to Allure.COM.PLASTICSURERY.ORG.BUILDMYBOD.COM, it Is known that generally, in comparison with past ages, today  being beauty has become in one of the most important goals in your life, or at least, if you want to feel good with yourself, you must have that quality. 

In America, for example, beauty products,  have become very popular and experienced a raise in its sales, like cosmetics, etc... One of the star products is the bottox, it has gained a lot of users and become a ingredient in the bottox parties (parties where people inject bottox)

Also, every day the esthetic surgery bussines is growing more and more around the world.

In conclusion, seems like beauty is one of the mandatory ingredients to have if you want to stand out among everyone else.

Mail

Hello Sonia, as you said I'm writting the presentation mail talking about my dreams.

The truth is, I never had a clear goal to achieve in my life, because since I was a kid, I never stoped thinking about all the possibilities that someone could achieve on his life. There have been a lot of ideas in my head since always. When I was a child, there were the classical ones, like being an astronaut or something like that, but recently, about 2 years ago, I became interested in visual arts.

I started drawing things I liked, and they were not so bad, but I've always felt like there was a hole on everything i've done, because it wasn't mine. So I guess that my dream would be like to create something by myself and then do an animated series or somehing so the people could enjoy it.

The past year I've been working with a friend who's studying an informatic cycle, he had to create like some kind of animated videos, and he asked me if I could send him  some designs for his charaters, so I did. In the end, I don't know how it ended, because I sent to him my first design, but then he didn't need more, so my early carreer finished there. That helped me to grow the interest in drawing. 

I think that's all, thanks for reading and good night :)

The Kingkiller Chronicle - 1st part: The Name of the Wind (Book review)

 

The Name of the Wind, written by Patrick Rothfuss, is the first of a three book series. It was published by first time in March 27 of 2007, followed by The Wise Man's Fear in 2011

 PLOT:

The story begins with a group of friends speaking about unbelievable stories in a tavern,  it was in a late hour of the day. Suddenly, a man gets into the bar, he was so badly injured, full of cuts. After a short discussion, he says that a demon attacked him, a demon with a spider shape and black as oil, but the tavern keeper, did know more about that issue than them, and secretly, he remained in silence.
After a couple days, a man called Devan Lochees, arribed at the tavern. That man, who's a famous scribe, recognized the tavern keeper as Kvothe, the kingkiller, followed by a hundred legends about him. He was trying to run away from his old life, but we don't know the reason yet. After a short negotiation, Kvothe agrees to let him write the story of his life, which will explain why he has ended this way.

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TED - Alain De Botton: A kinder, gentler phiosophy of success

Alain De Botton has talked about how the society has changed at the course of the last 400 years, in the terms that how of the society, and everyone who's part of it, sees and describes ohw they view a person who's failed in its life.

When we talk about being succesful, there's no a definitive anwer, each one of use consider being succesful on its own way, you may consider that reach success means to get a lot of money, or being renowned between people, but the truth is that each of us has a diferent concept.

WWI Dead bodies (News)

News:

Recently, near an italian town, a couple of bodies of austrian soldiers of the WW1 have been found.

The discovery has been caused by the melting of the Alps. Maurizio Vicenzi, who’s been working at the Alps since the 80s as a tourist guide, says that its the most incredible discovery that he has made. 

Vocabulary:
Discovery: Descobriment
Austrian: From Austria

Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10562017/Melting-glaciers-in-northern-Italy-reveal-corpses-of-WW1-soldiers.html

How a 3-D-printer changed a 4-year-old's heart and life (News)

News:
Mia Gonzalez, a little girl, spent 3 and a half years of her life missing out. She couldn't have a normal life because of her heart problem. After passing by about 10 hospitals, finaly, the doctors realised that she had a malformation i her aorta, the vessel that pumps blood to her body. Now the young girl would need a heart operation to close a partn of her aorta, which was putting preasure o  her windpipe, which was creating difficultss to breathe, swallow and get rid of phlegmes when she got a cold.

Unfortunately, Mia's operation was complicated, and if the surgeons of Nicklaus Children's Hospital wouldn't had the 3D printing technology, the operation could have been apprehensive. Earlier this year, the hospital acquired a 3D printer, which has been used to replicate organs that the patients needed. The heart's replica, made a lot easier the operation, Redmon Burke, the surgeon, attributes the model to save to him and the team about 2 hours in the operation room.

Vocabulary:
Tools: eines
Colleague: company


Link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/health/3d-printed-heart-simulated-organs/index.html

My 1st Batxillerat :)

My 1st Batxillerat J

A new school year has ended for me, but it hasn’t been a normal school year, I could say that it’s been so particular, nothing to do with ESO or primary.

In some way, I think that I’ve done a good choice coming here. This year has been so difficult, not only for exams and grades; I’ve experienced some things that I’ve never felt before, specially for one person.  I’ve met a lot of people, I’ve not made friends with everyone, but I’m happy about the new friends I made. I’m happy about met again some of my old class mates, as Isaac and Miquel, I haven’t seen them since we were at school, then we splitted and gone to different high schools, and It’s nice to see them again.

Finally, now that’s ending, I can see where I was at the beginning, and where I am now. I can see that I’ve grown as person, I’ve learnt a lot thanks to a lot of people, people who I’m desiring to see them as soon as I can and during a lot of time. I’m so happy about that, and, I can say, that I’m a bit sad about the end. I would like to return as soon as possible!

Should parents worry about cartoons?

Should parents worry about cartoons?

It’s a fact that some parents blame the cartoons that their sons watch lately to justify their behavior issues.

Everything depends on what’s your son doing or watching, and of course his character. For example, I’ve been playing and watching some weird things since I was younger. An example for that, I always liked to watch “South Park”, and I realized that it’s a very weird cartoon; they explain a lot of things, but in a weird thing. I played the “Grand Theft Auto” series too, and what I learnt is to distinguish the good and evil, because everything I saw there was evil. I thinki I'm pretty normal after all.

In conclusion, using me for an example, I don’t thinks that theory it’s true, because I think I’m normal. 

USA haters

USA haters

On the internet, I see a lot of people who complains about the USA, and its “police of the world” game.

I can understand their opinion, I believe. It’s true that the USA has been influencing a lot of the world, and not always by the pacific way. They’ve been supporting the killing and murdering of people just for its personal interests. They have the right to do it, because every country has done something similar along its history. But the thing is, now with all the media I think that its activities are more public and everyone can know them, so there are a lot of more protests than in past years.

The animal I would like to be

The animal I would like to be

That’s a thing that I’ve thought a lot of times, and the majority of those times, I always finished in the same conclusion.

I think that be a hornet would be cool, because those animals are so fast and small, the can go practically at any place quickly, and to bite people if they annoy me, and now that I would we sneaky, they wouldn’t never catch me, so I could enjoy a lot.

On the other hand, they have a short life-rate, I believe, so I couldn’t live for too much, and that’s a bad thing to have.

But anyway, I think that would be cool.

Too many publicity on TV

Too many publicity on TV

Every time we watch TV, we pay attention to the TV program or series which we are watching, but a lot of times those things that we like are interrupted by that annoying publicity.

At least, for example, the 50% of the time we spend watching TV is wasted by publicity, which just sends us the message to buy stuff. It’s okay to use publicity, but not to abusing it.  In Spain, there are TV chains, who use a lot of publicity, and just because it’s cheaper to pay the fine for using too much publicity, than use it in a normal quantity.

I think that there would must be some more penalties for exceeding the limit.

Old bombs in Germany (News)

Old bombs in Germany

After seventy years of the Second World War, the people of Germany still finding old bombs and ammunitions. Every year, at least 20.000 tons of active bombs and ammunitions are being found and deactivated. Some of them explode randomly, damaging people and buildings.

Specialists estimate that during the war, 1.5 million tons were dropped tin German territory, and at least, that 15% of those bombs were not detonated correctly, and could explode at any moment.

Bomb: Artifact that explodes

Ammunition: Fragments shot by fire weapons

Randomly: At any moment, unexpected

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Car and a Tank Hit (News)

Car and a Tank Hit

Recently in Germany, a fight between a car and a military tank, has taken place on the streets

A car has been crushed by a tank on the streets, fortunately, the tank driver managed to move its vehicle seconds before the impact, and thanks to that, the car drivers hasn’t suffered any injury, he just got a very squashed car engine. Finally, that accident didn’t end in a tragedy, and the tank driver was cleared of any fault, and unsurprisingly, the tank was undamaged.

Undamaged: Without damage

Tank: Armored vehicle

Squashed: Aplastat

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North Korea defense minister ‘executed’ for sleeping (News)

North Korea defense minister ‘executed’ for sleeping

Recently, the North Korea’s defense minister was executed for sleeping in a military event of the country.

We know that General Hyon Yong Chol was executed by an anti-aircraft gun, just because he was sleeping during a military event, and for disobeying Chief Kim’s orders.

The announcement was told to us by the South-Korean intelligence agency.

Aircraft: Plane

Executed: To be murdered for treason

Anti-Aircraft gun: Gun which is used to hunt down planes

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-defence-minister-executed-for-sleeping-1.2210732

Love locks in Paris (News)

Love locks in Paris

Paris has been considered since a lot of time as “the city of love”. One of the bridges of the city, was full of love locks, put there by couples who wanted to their love remain forever. It can sound cute, but recently has become a danger. That bridge was overcharged in weight, so it had a risk of going down, the cause were the amount of love locks put there.

The town hall, has finally decided to retire all of those locks in order to keep the bridge on its place.

Town hall: Ajuntament

Lock: Cadenat

Danger: Perill

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Book review

Book review

The space invaders

The book I’ve read is called “The space invaders”. The story plot explains the story of a space thief, called Baron. The story begins with Baron, being chased by Zeron guards, because he has stolen a Zeron crystal, the most powerful energy source on the universe. While he hides on a swamp, a robot called Omega presents to him, ant hen he teleports him to its ship. There, he gets under arrest by to humans, Miranda and Mr. X (I don’t remember his name). They are thieves too, but they don’t trust him, because they were on a robbing mission too. They explain to him who they are and what they’ve did, and he does the same. Omega explains to the three humans that they won’t be able to return to Earth, because the ship ran out of power, but he proposes a plan to steal more crystal and use them to return. All of them agree, but the two who picked up Baron were plotting against each other to get the reward for themselves. Once they go to the planet Zeron once more, they manage to steal the Zeron crystals, and when they get them, the plan to murder the mission fellas starts. First, Miranda immobilizes Mr X, and Miranda betrayes Baron. Mr X manages to get his gun and shots Miranda, then they two die, Baron, who was the only one who didn’t plan to kill them, gets teleported to the ship, now that he was considered a good person by Omega.

Self-Evaluation

Self-Evaluation

On that time, I think that I’ve done a very good oral presentation, with a good use of vocabulary and presentation. It’s true that it was too short, it didn’t last 5 minutes, so I can understand the mark penalty, but an 8 is so good for me, now that I’ had done it just in a few time.

Final reflexion

1.  Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s?  Where, for example?

Yes I see an improvement. Specially in the talking, the past years, it would have taken extra effort, but now I could do it so easily. I've learnt a lot o new words too.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English?

I think I can show my best english skills on the oral presentations, there I can write the presentation by myself,and then speak with my words.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?

I've improved my english a lot when I read the different books that school year, and I enjoyed too those books

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?
Theory classes,I find them boring and hard to follow

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?
To keep reading books, and watch some news.

Story of stuff

The Story of stuff explains to us the actual economic system we have in our actual modern society in 20 minutes. Annie Leonard has been travelling around the world checking how all of our stuff and products get created and destroyed, during her travel, she decided to explain us how all the stuff we consume is produced and how it gets wasted.

I think some of the solutions of that problem would be: If we all buy only green products, crafted with ecologic stuff and without being damaging fot the environment, that industry will get more power and influence above the market, so most of the products would be non-damaging for the environment.
In the other hand, not all the products are efficient for the economy. All of the chemical and trash system is necessary to keep our economy on level, now we are obligated to keep buying stuff and consume, so the economy shall not fall. The problem is, if we all stop consuming and changing our actual system, the economic situation would change too, probably in a bad way. So the point is: yes, we must change our system, but we must do it in a way that doesn't involves too much. We could do it thanks to a technology that changes the way to produce without polluting the Earth too much.

Description of a place

San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the most important cities of California, and one of the biggest. It's located on the USA's west coast. Unfortunaly, the city is located just above a limit between two teutonic plaques, and it has caused a lot of earthquakes to the city.

Due to Its earthquake risk, San Francisco has become a great place for architects to work, all of its buildings are very resistent, and also beautiful. Some of San Francsico's interesting places are:

San Francisco's Chinatown: San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest in North America

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The TransAmerica Pyramid: Is the tallest building in San Francisco.

The golden gate building: The Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco is one off the city's icon, and one of the most recognised bridges around the world.

Formal letter

7 Derpy Road

Castellò d'Empuries 

Catalonia-Spain

2177/19

Shop Manager

19 Derp Street

London

To whom it may concern,

I would like to get information about a job in your shop. I am going to move to London, and I will need a job there, so when I saw your adverstiment on the Internet, I decided to call.

First of all, I think you should employ me because I am a smart guy and I think that your shop would take benefits of me. And I am going to move there very soon, so you will not have to wait too much, I would be very grateful.

I also suggest if you could give me some information about the location of your shop, because I am sure that I will get lost when I arrive in London, so I need information about the streets.

Looking forward to yourprompt reply

Your faithfully

Sergi Blanco Blanquez

Podcast

PODCAST

When I watched the video, I realised that I was really nervous at that moment when i had to presentate my work about Canada. I had to improve that part, because that makes me to say wrong things and stuck on some parts of the presentation. I think the other parts are ok, i don't hava a bad pronunciation and I thinki se an extense vocubaluray. Definitely, it could had went better, but anyways I thinks is so good.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAebQIvGiRk&feature=youtu.be

My favorite childhood TV show

When I was just a kid, I used to spend my weekend mornings watching the TV. Some TV shows that I remember and i liked a lot are : Pokemon, Shin Chan, Digimon, and a lot more... But my favorite TV show over the rest of all was Dragon Ball. I used to be a fanatic of that anime, even now I still being a huge fan of it, and I still watching its episodes sometimes to remind me how much I enjoyed it. I think i'll never forget that TV show, because it was one of the things with i grew up and it's very meaningful for me.

Do violent video games cause behavior problems?

Do violent video games cause behavior problems? That's a excuse to justify why the kids have a bad behviour, and to throw the blame to the others. The video game companies don't have have the blame of the behaviour of the kids that follow their games, they warn in every video game the minimum age to play, that's called the PEGI code. The blame is of the kid's fathers, they are who let their children to play those things.
I've played violent games since i was a child, and i've never had that kind of problems, i learned that there are bad things to do, so it depends of the child too.

Is homework harmful or helpful?

Every student asks this himself some time. As a student, i know the homework is necessary to remember the knowledge learned in class, but at the same time, I think is a way to lose the interest to studies. If there were no homework, i think the students would be happier and their efficency would rise up. But the ban of the homework must be compensated with a better attention and doing more job in class.

Are we too dependents on computers?

Since we are able to have a computer in each house, the use of those machines has taken a lot of importance in our lifes. The computers, allow us to get acces to a lot of information and entertainment, at any moment.
The computers have a lot of purposes, the majority of the people use it to enjoy the vast oportunities that internet has to offer to us, as social networks, and videogames, for example.
In the other hand, the PC is a work tool too, we can use it to make our job easyer, doing difficult calculations, or ordenating our work in a simple way.
Of course, I think that we are dependent to computers, because they have taken a huge importance in our lifes.

Antiquities destroyed in Iraq

Recently, the Isis terrorist group. has destroyed some antiquities located in a Mosul museum. A new video has been released by the terrorist group, showing how their militants were destroying some antiquities with heavy hammers.
It's not clear in the video how many pieces were originals or replicas, anyway, the video is an insult for the whole human patrimony, not only the occidental culture. The main general director of the museum, confirmed that the major part of the pieces were real.


Words:

Patrimony:  part of a culture

Hammer: martell

Antiquities: ancient artefacts

Link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/26/middleeast/isis-antiquities-vandalism/index.html

Fireworks factory explodes

A fireworks factory has exploded in Bogota, Colombia. The explosion took place after the gunpowder was set off.
No one has been seriously injured during the incident, except a man who a flying debris hit at the arm.
Several homes were damaged because of the explosion. Finaly, it took a group of 30 firefighters and 6 hours to control the blaze.

Words:
blaze: a fire

gunpowder: pòlvora

link:
http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/fireworks-factory-explodes-level-3/

Special tennis in Sidney

Under the sidney's Harbour bridge, a particular tennis match has taken place. The two tennis legends: Roger Federer, and Lleyton Hewitt went to a 1 vs 1, hitting the ball while they were in high speed boats.
The event was planned to promote the new fast4 tennis matches, which are planned to make the tennis shorter and for bussy people.
The players told us that it has been a very exciting experience, because of the scenario and the new concept of playing tennis.
















Words:

 promote: to make mor popular
 scenario: the place where it took place

Link:
http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/special-tennis-in-sydney-level-3/

Auschwitz

This month marked exactly seventy years of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The camp, situated in Poland, is now an interest place for tourists, but once was a place dedicated to the slavery and human genocide, the largest of all the camps.
It was established during the second world war, by the nazi regime in 1940. During its 5 years operational, at least  one million people, a lot of them jews, were killed. Finally, the camp was liberated by the Soviet army.


 Words:
liberation: to set free
operational: that stills working
army: group of armed people/ exèrcit



Link:
http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/auschwitz-level-3/

Dubai skyscraper on fire

 Fire in Dubai

Recently, a Dubai's residential skyscraper has been set on fire. The cause of the flame, was a cigarette butt, which was threw at the 50th floor of the building.
Fortunately , no one has been injuried during the incident. On the other hand, because of the flame, a lot of people has been forced to move away from the building, and saw their homes burnt.



Words:
Cigarette butt: The end of the cigarette.

Residential: Where people lives

Link:
http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/dubai-skyscraper-on-fire-level-3/