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.