Compare your first written post and your last composition. Any differences?
Actually, a lot of differences. Since first batxillerat, my english got way more fluid and formal, considering that back then, sometimes to write an essay or a writting I had to spend like 10 minutes or so thinking, so I could get a coherent structure, but know, ideas come along as I read and write. Of course, the vocabulary got better too, and know the lexicon mistakes are pretty much missing.
Compare your first oral presentation with your final. Any differnce?
Mention content, structure, maturity arguments but linguistic arguments too: fluency, communication, pronunciation.
It is different too, but not as much as the written posts. Power point structure and content were always regular because I never spent too much time working on the visual matters, thus it was always power points so they were pretty simple. Individually, in one hand, fluency got better because everyday I try to speak a minimum of english so I don't get rusty, and in the other hand, communication always depended on the nervousness because when I get nervous, I tend to not look at anyone, and to communicate something you have to look at the people's eyes, and try to convince them that you know about what you're talking. Body language is the other side of communication, where I used to be a statue but know I feel free to move my hands to explain, walk around...
What's your best oral production? Justify and link post.
Link is not available but I remember that my best oral presentation was in first batxillerat when I had to expose a power point with Michel and Aaron about religious rituals. Fluency was pretty nice because I studied a lot my 3 topics, although we prepared almost everything the night before. I can recall a couple of things like ancient greek people used to put a coin under the dead one's tongue so gods could accept him/her in the other world. I used great vocabulary linked with the rituals topic and I don't know why but I wasn't nervious at all!
What's your best written production? Justify and link post
I'm stuck between 2 of them. I don't know if wether http://poeticjusticeym.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/resident-evil-4.html?m=1( Resident evil 4 post )is better or http://poeticjusticeym.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/8-mile_8.html?m=1 ( 8 Mile post ) gets the prize. I really enjoyed to do these your says, just because I talk about something of my interest. I love horror videogames just as I love rap, and the vocabulary is quite decent in both of them, so I'll call it a draw.
diumenge, 15 de maig del 2016
dijous, 12 de maig del 2016
Formal letter
15 Port Alegre
Empuriabrava
Girona
28th April 2016
Principal
INS Castelló d'Empùries
C/ del Rentador
To whom it may concern
I am writting to complain about some of the teachers whose job is to do their best so students can pass all the subjects but seem to do quite the contrary.
The problem began the same day I was treated with bad manners for no reason by a teacher who does not seem to enjoy her job. To make matters worse, I witnessed other classmates being punished by the same teacher, when we all know that punishment warns you about what you do not have to do, but not about what you actually have to do.
I would appreciate a change of attitude by whom I mentioned earlier. I suggest some sort of warning before reporting to the public education center.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely
Maurice Yuri.
Empuriabrava
Girona
28th April 2016
Principal
INS Castelló d'Empùries
C/ del Rentador
To whom it may concern
I am writting to complain about some of the teachers whose job is to do their best so students can pass all the subjects but seem to do quite the contrary.
The problem began the same day I was treated with bad manners for no reason by a teacher who does not seem to enjoy her job. To make matters worse, I witnessed other classmates being punished by the same teacher, when we all know that punishment warns you about what you do not have to do, but not about what you actually have to do.
I would appreciate a change of attitude by whom I mentioned earlier. I suggest some sort of warning before reporting to the public education center.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely
Maurice Yuri.
diumenge, 8 de maig del 2016
US election: Trump in apparent reverse on taxes for rich
Summarizing:
Trump said on his programme: "I'm allowed to change"
Mr Trump's tax plan says the wealthiest individuals would get a tax break. But he told ABC his "optimum plan" would be negotiated with Democrats, but not be approved as such.His top priorities would be lowering taxes on businesses and the middle class, not helping the rich.On the minimum wage, Mr Trump said: "I haven't decided in terms of numbers. But I think people have to get more." He has previously said he is against increasing the minimum wage.
Opinion:
Of course everyone's allowed to change, but not if you're almost finishing your campaign to be the president of one of the countries with more potential in the earth. In other words, how are people supposed to vote Trump if he doesn't even have his ideas clear? You could sneak something relatively not important, but changing taxes is a huge impact, speacially for rich people in this case. I'm still questioning his position as US's president.
Vocabulary:
-Wealthiest: Más rico
-Wage: Salario
News Link
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36239546
Trump said on his programme: "I'm allowed to change"
Mr Trump's tax plan says the wealthiest individuals would get a tax break. But he told ABC his "optimum plan" would be negotiated with Democrats, but not be approved as such.His top priorities would be lowering taxes on businesses and the middle class, not helping the rich.On the minimum wage, Mr Trump said: "I haven't decided in terms of numbers. But I think people have to get more." He has previously said he is against increasing the minimum wage.
When asked about the change of position, the New York billionaire said: "I'm allowed to change. You need flexibility."
Opinion:
Of course everyone's allowed to change, but not if you're almost finishing your campaign to be the president of one of the countries with more potential in the earth. In other words, how are people supposed to vote Trump if he doesn't even have his ideas clear? You could sneak something relatively not important, but changing taxes is a huge impact, speacially for rich people in this case. I'm still questioning his position as US's president.
Vocabulary:
-Wealthiest: Más rico
-Wage: Salario
News Link
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36239546
Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills 73 in Ghazni province
Summarizing:
More than 50 people was taken to the nearest hospital, severely injured and 73 died in the accident.
All 3 vehicles got set on fire right after the collision in the highway linking Kabul to Kandahar.
It's said that accidents like this one often happen mainly because the roads are in a poor state, although the provincial traffic department tried to blame the reckless driving.
Health ministry spokesman said that almost every person who died, was completely burned.
Opinion:
Poor people. It's a shame how you can lose your life in a matter of second at any moment, I mean, none of them was expecting to crash into each other and turn everything in a fireball. Traffic department should try to fix the roads first, and then, blame people for driving too fast if accidents still hapenning.
Vocabulary:
Linking: juntando
Injured: lesionado
Reckless: temerario
News Link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36241002
More than 50 people was taken to the nearest hospital, severely injured and 73 died in the accident.
All 3 vehicles got set on fire right after the collision in the highway linking Kabul to Kandahar.
It's said that accidents like this one often happen mainly because the roads are in a poor state, although the provincial traffic department tried to blame the reckless driving.
Health ministry spokesman said that almost every person who died, was completely burned.
Opinion:
Poor people. It's a shame how you can lose your life in a matter of second at any moment, I mean, none of them was expecting to crash into each other and turn everything in a fireball. Traffic department should try to fix the roads first, and then, blame people for driving too fast if accidents still hapenning.
Vocabulary:
Linking: juntando
Injured: lesionado
Reckless: temerario
News Link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36241002
Human Rights
The Human Rights are the rights you have simply because you are a human being. Briefly it is the right to food, shelter, freedom of speech and education, but they were never fully respected, didn't they?
They were invented in 1945, by the United Nations in New York after WW2 to promote peace, prevent future wars and enforce inalienable rights to every human being previously mentioned.
There are a total of 30 human rights nowadays, and every single one of them are very important.
Checking the list, I realized I was not very familiar with a lot of them, obviously, but the one who got my attention was the No Torture right. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
First things first. To critizice human rights is an easy task, and if you think the contrary, try to have every world's corners under watch 24/7. Difficult ins't it? Well, that could justify some of the violations we've witnessed against these laws, but some of these violations are done pretty much by the government. " No one shall be subjected to torture" ; I know that there are plenty of terrorist being tortured by corporations per example, even though it's for the greater cause and I aprove it, this right should've been written with some specifications, because terrorists are humans afterall. Details, they are important.
Secondly, "Inhuman or degrading treatment". Tell this to the starving families in Africa, or to the homeless people who have to eat from the trash. What's the point of having written all of that if it's not going to be accomplished?
Human rights have never been fully respected, not even one of the thirty existent rights, but they still exist, for creating a good image of us I guess.
First things first. To critizice human rights is an easy task, and if you think the contrary, try to have every world's corners under watch 24/7. Difficult ins't it? Well, that could justify some of the violations we've witnessed against these laws, but some of these violations are done pretty much by the government. " No one shall be subjected to torture" ; I know that there are plenty of terrorist being tortured by corporations per example, even though it's for the greater cause and I aprove it, this right should've been written with some specifications, because terrorists are humans afterall. Details, they are important.
Secondly, "Inhuman or degrading treatment". Tell this to the starving families in Africa, or to the homeless people who have to eat from the trash. What's the point of having written all of that if it's not going to be accomplished?
Human rights have never been fully respected, not even one of the thirty existent rights, but they still exist, for creating a good image of us I guess.
Educational system effectiveness
Buildind the perfect educational system is an impossible task as perfection normally is an unreachable form. Nevertheless, we can always inspire ourselves to accomplish it or at least get close to the concept.
An utopian education would be a class where both teacher and students participate, teaching in a way that improves the capacity to think by themselves, and not only memorizing concepts to later barf them in the exam and past a few days ask what were they. Educational system will always be unfair, no matter what high charges do, because there are people who excel in more important tasks who are never required to pass studies, and then, someday you'll get to see those people frustrated, because they never succeeded against library rats who stayed the whole day before the exam, locked at home memorizing things to get a good mark, which should never be considered as a future decider. It's all about adapting and taking advantage of opportunities.
It's upseting how accurate this is.
An utopian education would be a class where both teacher and students participate, teaching in a way that improves the capacity to think by themselves, and not only memorizing concepts to later barf them in the exam and past a few days ask what were they. Educational system will always be unfair, no matter what high charges do, because there are people who excel in more important tasks who are never required to pass studies, and then, someday you'll get to see those people frustrated, because they never succeeded against library rats who stayed the whole day before the exam, locked at home memorizing things to get a good mark, which should never be considered as a future decider. It's all about adapting and taking advantage of opportunities.
It's upseting how accurate this is.
Does new generations abuse of the cellphone use?
Our generation is fully dependent on cellphones. This might happen because this device incoporates a number of indispensable apps such as gps, calculator, flashlight, whatsapp and many others. The main use of cellphones declines to everything related to comunication and social media.
As we can see, we have sustained reasons of why do we need our phones,although we are crossing the thin line of overuse. The purpose of this device, as I have said is to improve comunication but it seems like it has done quite the opposite, and it's ironic, because wherever you go, everyone will be with their eyes fixed on the screens and as a consequence, we all may lack of face to face comunication. Let images do words job.
As we can see, we have sustained reasons of why do we need our phones,although we are crossing the thin line of overuse. The purpose of this device, as I have said is to improve comunication but it seems like it has done quite the opposite, and it's ironic, because wherever you go, everyone will be with their eyes fixed on the screens and as a consequence, we all may lack of face to face comunication. Let images do words job.
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