OPINION ESSAY

We have learnt to take better care of our planet. Do you agree?

During this third term we have learnt a lot about global issues, we make a presentations to the class about how to fight and the solutions of the global issues, also we watched videos and some pictures that it alarms us to protect the planet, and the teacher taught us how we save  and help the planet related with the topics that we had chosen for the presentations.

We don't agree with the sentence, because:
Firstly, referring to the sentence, actually there are a lot of people who continue polluting our planet, because they don't know the damage that they do to the environment. In many places around the world the people suffer from many diseases for live surrounded by garbage, toxic gases, polluted water and sometimes the water is stagnant for fault of oil that has been spilled at the sea, causing the death of many animals, plants and sometimes cause boat accidents, because oil is sticky and makes that the boat slip and can not be controlled.
Secondly, in the world there are still wars and dictatorships and these don't care about our planet, because wars wipe out many lives and entire countries, and dictatorships enslave a part of the populations to consider them inferior to others.
Finally we think that the polution has to finish in all it forms, because may be one day the planet would be extinct cause a lot of pollution that we produce every day. During these latest years the ice of the countries located in the poles is still melting and the sea levels rises, that this fact can caused the flooding of some cities situated a few meters above sea level.
We found a solution that consist in to get the peace in the whole world and accepted people as they are, make disappear the racial problems and coperate together to reach to the maximum peace between citizens of differents nacionalities.
 We suggested that a solution for this problem may be can be teaching people that they aren't throwing things into the environment, because causes some disadvantages against the whole planet and possibly hurt their live.

FINAL REFLECTION

1) I can see an improvement on your level of English the past year/s? Where, for example? Yes, thanks to presentations that I had done in this cours, because I searched many words that I have learn, and the tasks which I explain things of my life, it helped me in the language constructions and the vocabulary that it's very important for English know new words.
2) Which activity best shows your level of English? The presentations and the tasks that I had done in the course, because I try to strain myself to show all the contents of the task or the presentations.
3)Which activites were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? I think that the activity that was difficult for me to improve my English are the listenings and readings of PET o KET, because during listenings the spoker was talking very fast and with many difficult words, and readings are very difficult, because the options are very similar.
4) Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not? I don't have a activity that I hadn't learnt English, but if I have to opt for the videos, because are the task that we learn less English, because we don't use new vocabulary for make the video.
5) Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on imrpving your English? The kahoot and the presentations, because I had a good time when we are doing this activities, and for improve my English.
6) Open comments (...More ideas, suggestions for activities, suggestion for new topics...). I think that we have to do for the next year more listenings and readings for improve my level of English and do more plays related of grammar and vocabulary to practice for the selectivity.

SELF-ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENTATION

NAME: Guillem Palomeras

TOPIC: The poverty

PRESENTATION/CREATIVE(10%): 10%

STRUCTURE(10%): 10%

CONTENT(40%): 30%

LANGUAGE(15%): 9%

BODY LANGUAGE(10%): 10%

PRONUNCIATION(15%): 11%

NEW WORDS: slum, trigger, dictatorship, lack

FINAL MARK: 8

I think my final mark in this presentation is a 8, it's for me a brilliant note, because I was creative, I knew what we had to tell and I think that the structure of Prezi was correct. I think I have practiced a lot of vocabulary and language that is the part that I haven't controled very well.

Off the three presentations that I have made this year I think the most emotive for me was the last one The poverty, because with my friends of the presentation we have organized very well and we also understand well that is the most important for a presentation.

DAY 3. LEÓN

This day we got much earlier than the other days, because we had to leave the hotel and go towards León. We breakfast quickly and rose in the room to did the suitcase and then we get on the bus which took us to the village where it were the natural spot of Las Médulas.

The bus stopped in a farmhouse, there we were a bit in the courtyard, because there were many animals such as turkeys, dogs, cats, chickens, hens, ducks, fishes..., with whom we had a pretty little bit, especially with the turkeys that were most extravagants and we were amused.

Then we went to lunch and after a while we were resting on a terrace next to the farmhouse. Then we went to the meeting point of Las Médulas and the guide explained us what is Las Medulas, how it created and what it was found. On leaving the information point we headed toward the route that had Las Médulas. I put suncream in the face, because the sun was burning me and we started walking. The rute was made of reddish clay falling to the rock that formed the natural spot and was very muddy, so you get the shoes dirty.

The route was quite long, but it was nice to look at the views and cliffs. After the tour we went up a bit of Las Médulas with bus, because it was a long walk to do. We arrived at the cave of the natural spot and we entered. It was a damp, dark and narrow cave where we also found some bats are hidden. When we left the cave we walked to the viewpoint and we could see the entire natural spot.

Upon arriving in León, we acommodated in the new hotel and we decided to have dinner together. In León is traditional to go to bars and eating tapas, and we do this.

After dinner we went to a pub and we stayed there dancing and singing the music played until the time exhausted and we went to the hotel.

PREZI AND VIDEOS OF POVERTY

DAY 2. BURGOS

The alarm clock was ringing. Was the 7o'clock in the morning and we rushed to get ready to go outside the hotel. First we took a shower and we wore in comfortable clothes. When was aproximatetly 8 o'clock we got off to the restaurant of hotel where we had breakfast. Then we went outside the hotel and we walked to a vantage point where we could see the entire city of Burgos. The sun was shining, but I felt cold. We were walking for a little while, but the road becomes increasingly uphill, and was difficult to walk, because the night before it had rained and the ground was quite muddy and full of ponds. When we arrived in the vantage point we took a group photo and we spend some time contemplating the landscape. Then we got off and we went to the "Museo de la Evolución Humana" of Burgos. We entered and the guide gave us and explanation of the various stages during the tour would go find the museum and we enter an exhibition of objects found during the excavations of the land.

After the exhibition we went to the village of Atapuerca where we had lunch, and then we walked to the sites of Atapuerca. We put a helmet and we did the tour of the sites. Here they explained the part of the land and how was divided. Then we went inside a small caves where you had crepting, because the cave had little depth. Then we went to the park of sites where we did some demonstrations of how they made fire, how they hunted animals, how they buried the dead people and how they painted the walls of the caves.

Finally we arrived at the hotel again, and we dressed to went to dinner at a restaurant for the first time without teachers. We decided to went a bar for watched the match between Barça and Atlético de Madrid, and we was dinner in that bar. After we had dinner we waited the girls, and we went into a pub where we had a great time dancing and laughing all the time. We returned to the hotel aproximately at 00:30 hours and I went to sleep, because It was a very heavy day.

DAY 1. BURGOS

I woke up quickly and nervous, because I had to be at 5:00 am in the high school where we waited for a bus that brought we to Burgos. I got on the bus and tried to slept, but I couldn't, because we were talking and explaining things. When we took 4 hours in the bus we were realy tired and we started to sleep, because the trip was quite boring.

Finally we arrived at Burgos, the bus stopped us in front of the hotel which we stayed for two nights. We went up the suitcase in the hotel room and the teachers gave us a little time to rest and lain at the bed.

In the afternoon we went out at the hotel and we walked to the cathedral of Burgos, at that time it was raining as usual in Burgos because is a town located near Cantàbria and is a place where is habitual to raining. We arrived at the cathedral of Burgos, we entered in and we was listening the exposition of the cathedral. The exposition was very long and boring and we are tired of seeing the same in each representation. When we leaving the cathedral, they let us free time that we used to went to shopping and took something in a bar.

When we back to the hotel we found a carousel and we decided to got on and we had a great time. Arriving at the hotel we tell us where was located the restaurant where we was going to dinner that night.

When we finished dinner we went back into the hotel and we went to sleep because we were very tired.

OLIVER TWIST

Oliver Twist is an orphan boy who lost her mother in his birth and a nurse enbraced his to her workhouse in the slums of London. During his chilhood was embrace in different workhouses, but the owners and the boys that lived in they made an impossible coexistence: they bit him, sometimes don't give food him and they forced Oliver to work such as: stole a handkerchieve and a pocket book, and to break into the houses to stole value things such as gold chains, or gold lockets without any reward.

One day he and the boys of the workhouse went out in the street and stole a hankerchieve of an old gentelman, Mr Brownlow, who saw Oliver and made him sorrow. Mr Brownlow decided to gave at Oliver a house for live and he took him in her horkhouse.He changed her worn clothes and changed an another look. In this workhouse Oliver was treated well and he made much friends. But meantime the owners and the boys of the other workhouses pursued Oliver in the streets and forced to return to work with them, but he decided to spent her life in the worhouse of Mr Brownlow and his family.

LITERARY ROUTE FOR BARCELONA

In Friday 13 of May 2016, we went for a literary tour for Barcelona. The route consists in fout hours, 13 groups of three or four students formed as optional read books of Spanish subject during the second quarter.

My group was de group 5 formed by Marc Rodriguez, Aida Roig, Eva Sellas and I. We read a book called"Lo mejor que le puede pasar a un cruasán", a novel about a man who disappears and his brother made the detective and he is investigating until he finds her brother.

We started the route where the bus stopped in Plaça Catalunya, there we had to take the subway to reach in Barri Les Corts, the first stop of the route. Then we continued to walked to the Barri Les Corts to Sant Gervasi for 30 minutes while we walked we had breakfast and Marc and I were waiting for the girls that they went out to the shops. We finally arrived in Sant Gervasi and there I recorded my p fragment of work quickly and we took the subway to go towards in Passeig de Gràcia. This is the suburb where we stayed much time since three stops of the route are were located near the Passeig de Gràcia.

After recording the last stop, the Hospital Clinic of Bracelona, we went to look for the subway to Placa Catalunya, where we gathered all the groups with the teachers.

It was an unforgettable day, I had a great time with my dear group, because it was a long route but also fun because we had to record the different places before coming out to the novel described.

THE TRUTH ABOUT ICELANDIC HAPPINESS

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160509-the-truth-about-icelandic-happiness

 Eric Weiner

The author of this notice a few years ago he traveled to Iceland and he surprised to see it country was one of the happiest countries in the world. When I left the country, Iceland was suffered an intense crisis afecting mainly of the people,because many of them lose their jobs and the business that have managed. I supposed the happiness of the nation had plummeted, but I was wrong, the happiness was rose a 25%. The answer is that all those people who was affected for the crisis was helped by the rest of the population, since Iceland is a very united country and all cooperate together. Because of this facts, the country has very high levels of confidence thar isn't normal in many other countries.

According of a comunicate of the United Nations, Iceland is a very open society, instead in the Middle East and Latin America are the places where happiness stands less.

One of the most emblematic place for Icelanders are the Blue Lagoon, that they consider essential to get happiness.

I think that Iceland is a country of reference for all other countries, because happiness is very important for our lives, and more countries should exist to end social equality.

HOW TAKING ANTIDEPRESSANTS FOR 6 YEARS CHANGED MY VIEWS ON MENTAL HEALTH

http://elitedaily.com/life/antidepressants-mental-health/1471116/
A article writted for Alli Jutras

This article talks about a girl who begins to take antidepressant pills.

Nobody understands why I take antidepressant pills even my boyfriend who lives with me understand it. It's very easy, when you get hooked it's very difficult to go back. If I don't take my medicine, I'm feeling very badly and I'm going to have a shitty day. When I started the ESO I convinced myself that pills didn't help me and I stop taking them, but immediately, I returned to temptation, I felt droopy and just wanted to die.

This problem can be associated as something necessary for life, such as a diabetic person needs insulin to live, I need to live my medicines, unless I will crumble.

I started taking pills when I was 14 and a doctor prescribed me these medicines, I have to reach a point in which take 20 different types of antidepressant pills. I have seen the downfall of being medicated and I have seen the change of life.

I spent five months without taking medicines and I'm seeing that I don't take any depression I decided to leave it. After this stage I feel better about myself and I change my personality.

Here are four things I’ve learned after taking medicine for six years straight:

1) Some people just won't understand: Don't listen the opinions of other, beacuse you know you take pills, and you feels good to yourself.

2)Be careful about drinking: Make sure the limits of alcohol, because is possible create horrible effects.

3)Some medicine can make you gain a lot of weight: Do you get physical activity to conserve the weight.

4) Don't give your medicine to other people: Because not all people well digested my medicines and may have important reactions.

Never pay attention what other think, because you have to be you who decided to take pills or not and you shouldn't let anyone influence to nobody.

THE FIRST DAY OF FUNFAIR

The first day that the funfairs start up was in Friday 29 of April. This day I was meeting with my friends and we went for a walk around the rides. As we left at 20:30, they started to got on at the rides, they because I have dizziness, and I hadn't desire to rose in any attraction for fear that can disassemble some pieces of the rides, since when I was chilhood we had this fear. Even when I was waiting my friends that got off, when I saw that the ride rose I was feeling tremors in my body.

When we was tired to walk around, we went to dinner a sandwich in a bar next to the funfairs.

We are waiting it to 00.00 ot night, because the fair satll begins at twelve o'clock at night, and we walk to the place that did the fair stall. The first group was acting was called Ressaka and we didn't have time to listened the act, because we were late, but we listen the second group called New York Ska Jazz Ensamble that we could get at the time and we were listening to him.

There we had  a great time: we danced, we laughed and we took a lot of pictures to remember that day. Was an unforgettable day. 

THE FIRST BATH OF THE YEAR

The Saturday 16 of April I went to the beach of l'Àmfora in Sant Pere Pescador with Aida and Timeea. At 11 o'clock we walked to the beach for the road this. This day was very hot and the sun burns the skin, we had to put suncream to avoid burning the skin. When we arrived at the beach we can already felt the smell of the sea and the feeling of stepping on the smoothie and nice sand.
I lain down the towel at the sand, and we went to walking in the water slowly, so the water was still cold, but I didn't think and I threw me everything under water. At that time I didn't feel the body, but after a while there was also good and we stayed swimming a short time.
When we felt tired, we come out the water and we started to play volleyball, it seemed that the beach was for us, because there was nobody at the beach.
After a while turned the wind and we decided to left the beach, because the wind threw the sand in the face and we went to home.

THE MY GRANDPARENT'S HOUSE, WHEN I WAS LITTLE

These photos are from May 2000. When my mother worked, she took me at my grandparent's house. She worked every day except Sundays, so the other days I stayed at the house of my grandparents.

I arrived at my grandparent's house at the 9 0'clock at the morning, and I ran to greet my grandparents. When I arrived, I had breakfast with my grandmother, and then used to go bought in the shops of the village of my grandparents, Vilamalla. My grandmother used to go to the butcher and at the mini supermarket. After we returned home with the purchase and I helped my grandmother to put the purchase in her place.

If the weather was good we went out at the courtyard, because it was a very large courtyard and I had a good time. In the courtyard, apart from playing with my toys, also liked was that I had to see the animals: hens, pigs, parkeets and dogs. Also I smelt the flowers that my grandmother planted in the garden, it was a very fond of flowers with differents species and colours. I sat next to the flowers and caressed, but sometimes I torn some. When was the 13 o'clock I had lunch, I liked much what my grandmother cooked.

In the afternoon we used to go at the park behind the my grandparent's house.I met with most kids of my age who were the granchilds of my granmother's friends and played together. When the sky started getting dark we returned at the house of my grandparents, and my father carried me at my house.

Here ended a day at home of my grandparents.

MARINELAND, WHEN I WAS LITTLE

These pictures was from September of 2005, when my parents brought me and my daughter in Marineland, a water park that we had wanted to go. 

When we arrived at the water park I remember that we took a photo with a parrot thta scared me. We entered at the park and we went to the area of swimming pools and the water sledges, my daughter and I get down even sliding down sledges and we dove underwater out there. My mother put we the armbands and the suncream and we returned to the area of the swimming pools we didn't want to lose time.

When we were dried, we went to watch a show that about dolphins whose jumped into a rings and dodged obstacles, and then we watched another show with a parrots whose answered the question that the assistant formulated. Finally we went to visited the mini zoo that had the park, there were parrots,turtles,parkeets, flamingos, ostriches, ducks and many other species.

The sky started getting dark and we had to leave the water park and returned home, we didn't want to leave the park we wanted to stay more time, but it was not possible and we left home.

It was an extraordinary day I remember that we had fun going down the sledges and specially soaked in the water.

THE HARVEST OF OLIVES, WHEN I WAS LITTLE

When I was little with my granfather we came at the fields of olive trees in November for the collects of olives. This photos was in November 2002, in this photos I helped my granfather and her friends to collect the olives. While they were falling olives from the olive trees, I was picking the olives that was falling out off the canvas which they stretched under the tree with a type off wheelbarrow with a spiked wheel. The olives were stucked in the wheel and then I caught the olives of the wheel and I was putting in the basket and then my grandfather was carrying the basket in the car to brought the olives in my grandfather's house.

I remember that my grandfather had in the fields some firecrackers to scare the bids because they didn't eat the olives and this noise scared me, I went to collect the olives when the firecrackers was desactivate.

When he had an amount considered could started winnowing the olives and separeted them with the leaves with a machine that seperated the olives.

Finally my grandfather put the olives in water to cleaned the olives, then he threw the olives in a machine that grinded them, for the front of the machine the oil left flowing slowly and the rear part left the leftovers of the olives like the stones and the shells.

I loved helping my granfather and I always had a good time in the fields. I was very happy.

UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

The Thursday 4th of February of this year we went on excursion with the high school at the University of Barcelona (UAB), because it was the open day for those students who have not yet decided what to do in the future. When we got the bus dropped us at the entranceof the university and we went to the faculties that were realized the differents meetings about the careers we could choose to do. The firts meeting begin at 10:30 o'clock and we had to rush to get there on time. In this case we entered in the faculty of letters and philosophy because we want to go at the meeting of psychology. In the meetig they were told that this career and what subjects are needed in this case: maths and biology. They also explained that the issue of the home for college students offered apartments within the grounds of the center or rent out an apartment outside the university. The meeting of psychology was well, but the second meeting that we went (nursing), i don't like it so much, because the cut of mark is much higher at the psychology and I know that I could not become.
 In conclusion it was an interesting excursion because the meetings help us throw i some subjects and others.

COSTA RICA SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION

WHO I'M? I'm Guillem Palomeras and I live in Spain and my hobbies are to take care for animals.
WHERE DID I'M GO IN A GAP YEAR? I'm going at Costa Rica for 14 days, volunteering at a sea turtle conservation in Playa Matapalo with tours of a sugar cane& cofee plantation at Monteverde and a Clous Forest Reserve guided tour in Santa Elena.They will pay me from $1170. They will give me the flight, the accommodation, the tour and the insurance.
WHAT DID I'M DO THERE? Help during the nesting season of sea turtles to try to don't become extinct. Also try that animals or people not burrow the dens of turtles where they laid their eggs to protect the eggs to have to be born the many turtles as possible.
EXTRA INFORMATION? This species are in danger of extinction of a result of various human activities and it is increasingly important to help conserve neasting sites which are crucial for the continue of exixtence of the turtles, by volunteering I could join for the survvial of these animals.

AN EERIE SIGHT ON THE OCEAN FLOOR

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160205-europes-first-underwater-museum-opens

In the coast of Western Africa, it found the Spanish island of Lanzarote. The large fields formed with lava and the volcanic geology, Lanzarote make it different to the other island. But today we will talk about that is under the dephts of the volcanic island. Recently an eerie statues found at the bottom of the ocean. Lanzarote it has become in the first museum of underwater sculpture in Europe. It consists of 400 statues, which are works of artist Jason deCaires Taylor, which it is know for the facilities designed in Mexico, the Bahamas and the Thames. This work is intended to spark a conversation.
The sculptures are constructed from marine cement neutral PH, which is a material that is kept in good conditions. This sculptures are meant to represent the relationship between humans and nature, and in another aspect the relationship between harmony ans art.
But they also created this museum to attract sea creatures, allowing the growth of corals to give new live to barren seas. Is a mueum that open to scuba divers and snorkelers to observe more closely the incredible statues. To make this work he was inspìred by The Rubicon that is a group of 35 human figures frozen mid-walk beneath the waves, that centres with the climate change and signifies the point of no return.

I'm very interested in this notice, because I don't know that in the dephts of Lanzarote that founs this museum of scultures.I would like to explore the bottom of the ocean to see the scultures.

FRANKENSTEIN'S QUESTIONS

1) Should scientific research have limits? Ethics and Genetics. I think that the scientific research, if it have limits, because we have to think about the lives of the poor animals or plants which the scientifics use to make experiments or tries to discover new theories, but I think that discover new cells to cure persons are good for the future.
2) What is the relationship between human rationality and emotion? The relationship between these concepts is that the human rationality are the actions we do and the human emotion are the feeling that we have.
3)What is the role of the individual in relationship to society and the family? The role of the individual relationship to society are more closed or with fewer confidence that the relationship to the family, is in my case.
4) What are the consequences of judging by apparences only? To judge a person, first you have to know her charachter and emotions, sometimes you should not trust the apparences that we have, because in many cases fool us, and it may be the person who we judged be the person who will help us in the future.
5) Can you explore these dycothomies in the story?

• mortality/immortality: there are a succes of mortality when the family of Frankenstein was died in hands of the monster, and immortality, the monster feels immortality because he has created for a diversion of Frankenstein and the monster think that he must be immortal.
• hero/villain:  the hero of the story was Frankenstein, because he could create a new creature with torn pieces and many objects, and the villain of the story are the monster for kill the family of Frankenstein, but Frankenstein also was a villain because he don't build a wife for a monster.
• reason/emotion: the monster had a reason for kill the family of Frankenstein. because Victor don't help us, and emotion, when the monster meets her new family, because in the begining they look after the monster.
• individual/family/society: individual was the monster, because he not have any friends, the family was the family of Frankenstein, and the society was the people of the village who threw rocks ate the monster.
• happiness/tragedy: in the story we found the happiness of Victor Frankenstein when he created the monster, and the tragedy of the Victor's family who the monster have killed everybody.