FINAL REFLECTION

We are finnishing our school time, and now it’s the time to see my progress from 2008-2010 and my English competence in 2010, because I would like to see if I improved or not.

1. My English progress from 2008-2010

If we compare my first written document and the last composition, we I can see some differences like the vocabulary, which is very basic and now I use more connectors and richer vocabulary than the starting. In the first written document I didn’t use contractions and I wrote with a big letter’ size, because it took more lines and it was shorter than the last too. Nowadays, I write longer than the first written document because I know more vocabulary and more linking words, for this reason I relation more concepts and I can do a good strucutre in my compositions.

Furthermore, I can see that the last have more maturity on the content, and if we see the blog, we can see the presentation is better than the first, but the first had more gadgets because I’d more time to do it, and now I haven’t got time to my blog...

In conclusion I see a personal development in these documents, because I know more vocabulary, linking words, etc.

If we compare my first oral presentation and my final oral presentation, I see that I improve in my fluency, and a little bit in my pronunciation. I can also see that the last one was spontaneous and so, I didn't prepare it a lot, but my language is better than the first oral presentation, which I prepared a lot and I was very nervous because it was the first time I do it. So, I can say that I see a personal development in my speaking, but I need to improve more...

2. My English competence in 2010

My best oral evidence and my best written evidence

I've chosen these evidence because I see an important improvement; in my best oral evidence I enjoyed a lot doing it and it's an enormous help to me, because if I enjoy when I do one thing, then I learn more. Another reason is that I've chose it because my fluency is a little bit better than the others, and I used a good and rich language and some linking words, which gave it to me more madurity in this oral evidence, like in my written evidence. I have to say that Guillem and me didn't prepare this oral evidence and so it has got something wrong, but I'm sure that if we'd prepared it, we could have had a better mark.

In my best written evidence we can see it's more large than others writtings. I've chose it because I think that I had had an improvement on my level of English since 1st batxillerat, and for example, I can see it in my language, because I was using a basic vocabulary and I could be look up one word in a dictionary for 1 hour (it is ironic ¬¬), but now I know more words and I write one composition in less time. Apart from that, I see more madurity here and it isn't a common topic, so I needed a specific words to writte about it.

Finally, I have to say that I have done such a great work because of my teachers, who are the responsibles of my learning. Thank you! :)

What happened?

As you know, I'm the keeper of F.C. Sant Pere Pescador, and we're finishing the league. This year, the champions are AE Roses, and the other places aren't establish yet, because there is a lot of competence. Yesterday, we played against Llançà, and we won 5-1, but if we would like the second place, Base Roses had to lose.

Well, Base Roses played against the champions (this match is like Barça-Espanyol, because they are in the same city) and we were sure that AE Roses would win, because in the last match which they met, AE won Base for 4-2, and AE Roses is a very good team, it's amazing. What happened? How I said, AE Roses had been the champions, so they needn't be worried about result, but this match is a "derby"...

When we finished the match, our coach said to us that Base Roses had won the match for 6-2, and it was very strange for us, and we were very sad for it, because it was an opportunity to be runner-up! I'm disapoint with it, because in my point of view, this result isn't normally. It could be rig?

Now, they have to play the last match of this competition against L'Escala, who is bottom in this league, and we will cross our fingers because we would like to be the bests, except the first ;)

Barraques'10

Like every year, it’s the time to celebrate the famous Barraques in Figueres.

If we compare the last year with this year, we can see that there are some differences: Barraques’09 were only four days, so there was only a weekend to enjoy them; but this year is better than the last because Barraques’10 last six days and they’re divided in two weekends. Another difference is that this year there are better groups than last year because there is more variety of music, what it means that they’re for all the people. Some examples of the groups that play in Barraques are: “Los delinquentes”, Strombers, Di-versiones,...


Today is the last day to enjoy them and I’m sure I’ll remember them, because last weekend was amazing and today will be better than last weekend and also than yesterday.
Apart from that, I must say that I have had such a great time because of my friends, who are the best!
Now that I’ve the opportunity, I want to say to my friend David an enourmous CONGRATULATIONS, because today it’s his birthday and now he’s 18 years old.

See all of you tonight =)

Bullfighting, a Spanish tradition

Bullfighting is an ancient Spanish tradition and people enjoy going to see the "show". Some people, however, don't think the same.

In my opinion, bullfighting is very dangerous because people can get hurt or even die practising this activity. Moreover, there is a lot of violence and aggresion during the bullfight.

On the other hand, I think that killing animals or making them suffer isn't an intelligent and nice thing to do. I can't understand how people enjoy watching animals dying in front of them. Furthermore, I disagree with the idea that bullfighting is a Spanish tradition which can't be lost. I think that we have a lot of nicer traditions in our country and we can really be proud of them. Finally, I believe that this tradition is able to make that people will be more aggresive, and it will be very dangerous!

As a conclusion, although some people supports this tradition I think that it should be vanished and we should protect these animals of being killed in the middle of the bull ring, but it seems to me that it will never die...

Certanly, could you imagine that a person was killed by a bull every day? NO! So, STOP IT, PLEASE!

Dialogue

Today we have the pleasure to speak to one of the last sheperds in this country, called Antonio, who thinks that his profession is dying out, and we're going to see some differences about their way of life now and before.

Pau: Hello Antonio! Today I would ask you something about this profession that is dying out; well, what do you think it's happening?

Antonio: Hi Pau! Yeah, I think that nowadays there aren't any shepherds and farmers because teenagers say that it's such a bad profession and so, they couldn't be happy living with a lot of animals and "shit".

Pau: But... if you do it, do you think that your profession is the best of all?

Antonio: No! I don't say that! For me, it's a good job because my parents taught me the best side of this world, and the best form to do it; and for this reason I work with lot of love.

Pau: So... do you think that one of the reason that produced this "killing" is the little information that the boys have?

Antonio: Yes, of course! I think that another reason that produced this "killing", like you say, (Laughs) is the construction of roads, so it's the same to say the destruction of fields. It's one of the most important differences in the way of my life now and before.

Pau: Okey Antonio... I hope that your profession will never die out, and in a near future, we will speak about the "resurrection" of this profession. (Laughs)

Antonio: See you soon Pau!

Gazpacho

Hi guys!

Today I'm going to explain one of my favourite Summer soup, which is the famous "Gazpacho Andaluz". I choose this recipe because my family comes from Andalusia, and it's one reason that I love it. Gazpacho is a Spanish cold tomato soup which is the perfect starter to a Summer meal, and it's perfect for hot days. It's easy to make and although ingredients may vary according to region, but I'm going to explain the basic recipe. All we need is it: one kilo tomatoes, onion, green pepper, cucumber, a small cup of olive oil, vinager and 200 grams of bread from the day before, soaked in water.

First of all, we have to put the tomatoes, onion, pepper, cucumber, vinager, oil and bread into a liquidizer (if you want to dilute it, add a glass of water). Then, we have to put the mixture into a bowl,add salt and pepper and leave the gazpacho to chill for at least an hour. Finally, we have to serve it in soup bowls, with the portions of diced tomatoes, pepper, cucumber, onion, croutons,... on the table, so that everyone can add them to their bowl as they prefer.
Certanly, if you want to eat it straight away, you can put some ice cubes in to cool it down. Gazpacho, how I said, is a Summer dish which is meant to hydrate and cool down your body, so the colder the better!

Well, I hope you enjoy this recipe and you will be able to do it in a future :)
See you soon *

Las Dunas

There are 144 campgrounds in the area of Girona and 40 % of them are first class, and one of them is "Las Dunas", which I'm going to work this summer, like the last two years. I work in the supermarket, and I like it because workmates are very friendly, and I enjoy a lot with all of them. On the other hand, in this site we have to work really hard and the timetable isn't very good, because we start at 08:00 and finish at 20:00, and we have free time at one'oclok to four o'clock, so we can enjoy a lot the summer...

In my opinion, one of the best things to work in a camping is that you can learn lenguages, because you have to speak the foreigner's language if you would like understand and complain him.

In this modern and well-stocked supermarket we can find: fresh fruit and vegetables, meat products, cheese, frozen food, as well as a great selection of wines and champagne, toiletries and kitchen items. Into this supermarket we can see a bakery, where there are crunchy bread, rolls, croissants and a great variety of cakes are made every day.

Now, in the next video, you can see a little adverstise of this campground, and if you would like to visit it, you will find a few kilometres after the village of St. Martí d'Empúries, next to discotheque called "Hot Fata".

Valentino Rossi wins Qatar MotoGP as Stoner crashes out

The world champion of the last years, Valentino Rossi, opens the 2010 motogp championship winning the first race in Qatar after Casey Stoner's crash on the fifth lap.

Valentino gained the second place after passing the other Italian rider, Andrea Dovizioso. Then, unexpectedly, Casey Stoner, who was leading the race, crashed out in lap five and Valentino achieved the first place and won some seconds, what gave him advantage. The challenge then was for the second and third place. Jorge Lorenzo, the Spanish rider, improve a lot during the race and obtained the second place in the last laps. Dovizioso was battling with the American Nicky Hayden for the third place. The Italian edged out the American off the podium by just 0.011 seconds right on the finish line.

In my opinion Valentino is the best rider in the last years, he has won 9 grand pix and race after race he surpises us with a new manoeuvre. I hope that this year will win again but I admit that he has difficult rivals like Lorenzo or Stoner. However, he'll do his best like always and he'll show us greats shows.

New case of racist aggression

A Guinean was beaten up by two young men on April 8th in Catellar del Vallès, near to Sabadell. The victim is 44 years old man, and this day he was walking in a square, when two men began insulting him, but he didn't pay any attention to them, and so, the two men began to kick him while he fell down on the ground. Finally, the police, who had been called by some residents, arrived and arrested them. Now, we know that the attackers are members of a neo-Nazi group.

It's just one case to thousands more, and people who do it are very unsociable and they don't deserve it life, because in this world we are all the same. For this reason, I think we have to see the same things that we have, and we don't have to be critical with other people.

Doctors complain of insufficient time to see patients

Catalan doctors at state health centres are overworked nowadays, and they have only five minutes for each patient, that is insufficient for an examination, for this reason doctors've been demanding 10 minutes per patient, but the department of health explain it isn't possible yet, because there is an important population's increment.

In my opinion, I think that our health is the most important thing in this life, and if we go to the hospital it's because we have a "serious" problem and we need to be visited by a doctor. I think that the doctors have to examinate us very well, and they haven't got enough time to do it in five minutes.

Diary Trip!

London'10!

Nowadays, we have a bee in our's bonnet about this trip, because we spend all the time speaking with friends about it. Why are we doing it? Because this has been one of the best trip of our lives!

First of all, when we were going on bus to Girona, we got butterflies in our's stomach, and then, when we arrived at London's airport, we were very happy and really exhausted; for this reason, we would went to the hotel, called "London Royal National Hotel". The next day, we began the tour and we went to visit the British Museum, the Covent Garden, National Gallery, etc. This day was amazing, because we had the first contact with the city, and we found some strange things which we don't have in our country. Another day, we went to visit the Globe theatre, the famous Big Ben, th Hyde Park, the Buckingham Palace,...

Well, you can see that we visited a lot of things, and it is an essencial part, like a little "work" that we had to do; but the best of all was our free time, because we could taste some hot dogs from difference sites, for example.

Apart from that, this travel has served to improve our pronunciation; for this reason, I think that it has been a useful and good travel for us; we could tell it to our grandsons! :)

Transcription!

Hello everybody, my name is Pau Ubric and today I am going to talk you a little bit about my research project, which is called “We learn verbs”.

Firstly I want to explain you the most important objectives that my tutors and I proposed, then I show you the methodology, some decisions to elaborate my own material, the teaching materials, and finally I say you the conclusions I had got with this project.
Before to explain the objectives, I should say that I tried this subject because in a future I would like to study in the world of the education, and for this reason this project will be usefull for me.

Well, how I said, the principal objective of this research project was make a didactic material to learn a second language, but it entails others objectives that are: Learn about the didactic and learning of a second language and observe different materials in two classrooms of reception, for can make my didactic material with some observations.

Here, we can see the methodology that I did, and we observe that first of all I learned a little bit about the didactic of a second language with some observations in differents classrooms of reception and doing some notes about the material that the teacher use.
Then I was reading some books about the learning of a second language, and finally I did the didactic material, that consist in one material photographic and one material TIC, that it is a blog.

When I finished my observations in the classrooms of reception, I put the notes together and I see that there are a lot of children’s material, and there aren’t some material for teenager’s students, for it, I did one that can be usefull for all ages. Then I see that the majority material is about the vocabulary, for this reason I tried do one about verbs.
The students prefer informatics materials and games because are more entertaining

Now I am going to show you the didactic materials that I did. First we see the photographic material, that it consist of hundred photos with their name in other card; it have got one CD where are the 100 verbs to listen.
Then we can see the blog, that it was created for the students that would like to study in his home the most important verbs in Catalan; this blog have the 100 photographies, the pronunciation of the verb and the link that we click, it drive us to other page where are this verb conjugated. Then I do different activities for this students with one programme called “hot potatoes” that let me do a crossword puzzle, the tipical fill in the blanks exercise,... for these students.

Finally I can say that the practical and theoreticians goals have been attained; and that if I had disposed of more time for the realization of the work, I would have extended more.
But I’m happy with the work that I was doing these days.

Well, if you have any questions...?

Titus!

My opinion about this film is positive, because I think it i s very different to others, because it mix some elements to nowadays with elements to ancient Rome, and for me, it is what makes different.

About the characters I think they do very good own papers, especially Demetrius and Chiron, because they represent the folly youthful, because they love parties, girls, and they are very proud. On the other hand, the character that I don't like so much is the little boy, Julius because he don't do anything in the film, he only see around him.

A moment that I think it is the most shocking is when Marcus saw Lavinia's arm, because she had got branches instead of hands, and she was spitting blood when she spoke, because the two boys had cut her tongue. Another is when Titus killed his son to meet the emperor.

One feature that has been applied by Julie Taymor, excepting the feeling that produce some scenes because they look like a publicity of the TV, is the language, because it is based on Shakespeare, which it's simple but very beautiful.

In conclusion, I think that if you would like understand this film,you should read the Filomela and Progne's myth, which was written by Ovidio.

Supergrass - Alright

We are young, we run green,
Som joves, correm verds
Keep our teeth, nice and clean,
Mantenim els nostres dents, macos i nets
See our friends, see the sights, feel alright,
Mira els nostres amics, mira les vistes, sentir-se bé
We wake up, we go out, smoke a fag,
Ens despertem, sortim a fora, fumem un cigarro
Put it out, see our friends,
L’apaguem, mira els nostres amics,
See the sights, feel alright,
mira les vistes, sentir-se bé

Are we like you?
Et caiem bé?
I can't be sure,
No puc estar segur
Of the scene, as she turns,
De l’escena, com ella dona voltes
We are strange in our worlds,
nosaltres som extranys en el nostre món

But we are young, we get by,
Però som joves, ens arreglem,
Can't go mad, ain't got time,
No podem tornar-nos bojos, no tenim temps
Sleep around, if we like,
Dormim als voltants, si volem
But we're alright,
però estem bé
Got some cash, bought some wheels,
Teniem una mica de diners, compravem algunes rodes
Took it out, 'cross the fields,
les treiem, i creuavem camps
Lost control, hit a wall,
Perdiem el control, picavem una paret
But we're alright,
Però estem bé

Are we like you?
Et caiem bé?
I can't be sure,
No puc estar segur
Of the scene, as she turns,
De l’escena, com ella dona voltes
We are strange in our worlds,
nosaltres som extranys en el nostre món.

...Repetition...

Carnival' 1o!

Carnival is a celebration that is celebrated all around the world. Here, in Catalonia, people dress up and organise parties, specially on the weekend. It takes places the firsts weeks of February and is celebrated in different towns and villages of Catalonia.

This year, my friends and I have made a float and we have participated in cercaviles of different villages: Sant Pere Pescador, Empuriabrava and Castelló d'Empúries. We were dressed up like soldiers, with a green helmet, a black t-shirt, some trousers like the ones that wear soldiers and we also painted a green and a black stripe on our face. We spent some weeks making the float, but the result was fantastic and we had a great carnival.
In the different villages we met other people and friends who were also dressed up. This year the fancy dress that has succeed is the one of gangsters (for the boys) and the one of cabaret (for the girls), there were a lot of people who dressed up like that.

The carnivals first started with the cercavila (a lot of people visited our float!) and then, normally in the “public building”of the village, it took place the rest of the party: all the people met there and there was a group of music that played there. For example, in Castelló d'Empúries played Pinocchio and Di-versiones, whereas in the other villages played some other bands. When these groups ended in some villages there was a DJ, but it was late and most of the people went back home.

Carnival is one of the best and funniest celebrations of all the year! And I can say that this year has been spectacular, and very beautiful. I’m impaciently for the next carnival!

"The joke club"

"El club del Chiste" or the joke club, is a new TV programe that is produced by Globomedia and it's presented by Anabel Alonso, who is very famous in this country. She is accompanied by the model Martina Klein, Leo Harlem, David Love, who is knowing for his participation in program's TVG, a Andalusian monologist called Diego Arjona and Meritxell Huerta, a catalan humorist.

While the programe, they are alternating on the stage of Antena 3 to hook up the viewer with a "marathon" of infallible jokes to all time and other a little current. It isn't a competition between the players, because the only goal of the program is to cause the greatest number of laughs per minute. In addition, CdC has got images of the backstage, where amaze by his innovative staging and his modern aesthetic which recall the famous new yorker's comedy clubs.

Every night, I hope that this program starts because I love some jokes, and then I like to explain some of it to my friends the next day, in class, because it's one way to don't hate the study. :) Now, I put here one video about this great programme which we can see everyday at 22:oo h. in Antena 3:

Description of Pep Guardiola

G: Hi Pau.

P: Hey Guillem!

G: Do you know who is Pep Guardiola?

P: Yes! He is a former Spanish football midfielder and nowadays is the current FC Barcelona manager. He spent the majority of his playing career in Barcelona FC, and was the captain of the team for the last four years of his time with Cruiff’s team.

G: I know it, but have you seen him? Well I mean physically...

P: Oh yes! One day I went to Camp Nou and I saw that he is medium height and bundle, because as I said before he was a very great player, and he has a dark skin colour. We can see that Pep hasn’t got a lot of hair, well he often had short hair. Another feature is that he wears really smart and very fashionable clothes, including in the matches.

G: Yes, I agree with you, but for me, the most outstanding is his personallity, because he is a person who takes care of every single detail and of everybody; well you only have to see the last season of his team, because they use the Pep’ slogan: persistence, respect, a great effort and a well done work. So, he think that impossible is nothing.

P: Oh you do a good description of him, because I think that it is the secret of this glorious team, for it, we can say that it is ...

G: Guardiola’s time!

The oral presentation

Now, I'm going to comment a little bit my oral presentation, which I has done the last month. The topic was "Learning verbs" , which is the tittle of my research project. I explained the objectives we proposed, the methodology, some decisions to elaborate my own material, the teaching materials, and finally I said the conclusions I had got with the project.

Now, for do the comment, I'm going to have grounds to the "evaluator's paper", which has the next structure:

Presentation:
I used a powerpoint because for us it is very useful to follow the structure of the presentation. Other thing that I did correct had been the oral presentation's time, because I was speaking about five or six minutes.

Body language & eye contact:
In my opinion, I think that I should look the audience all the time, because it means that the presenter has studied, and he doesn't need read the paper. Other thing, that I improved, is my nervousness, because the people, who are listening to us, note it and for this reason I decided to improve it; this time I had benn only a little bit nervious.

Structure:
For me, the structure of this oral presentation was right, because we did an introduction, the explication of my research project and finally some conclusions and I show to audience my own material, but I didn't use many discourse makers, and it was points against the note.

Content:
I hope that the content of this oral presentation had been entretaining and that we introduce new infotmation to the audience, well, I had done this research project with this goal.

Language:
About the language that I used in this oral presentation was more difficult, because the topic complicate it a lot, because I must to use specific words and connectors to enlared some paragraphs, but I used a lot of fillers like "well", "for example", “okey”...

Pronunciation & Intonation:
For me, it was the worst part of my oral presentation, well like every oral presentation, because it is very poor and I didn't intonated the best I know do; I'm sure I will to improve this part, and the next mark will be better than it. ;)

It's the video:

Formal letter

Formal Letter

Cheese for all.

Some people can compete with a good cheese accompanied by a glass or red wine; and the habitants of Ribes de Freser ( Ripollès) know this only too well. Every year, the village hosts the "Fira Formatgera", the perfect occasion to buy some of the best types of cheese made in the Pyrenees. For example, the last year the fair had held on April 17.

I think this fair is a good idea to people who loves cheese, like me, because for us every cheese is different to another, and we have the option to buy the best types of Catalonia's cheese for an economic price. In my opinion, I would do more publicity about it, because it doesn't do in everywhere, for this reason it is a good iniciative that this news was published here, because strangers can recive information about it, and they would know that the catalan cheese is one of the best in the world.

Vocabulary:

fair = fira

be held = portar-se a terme



Catalonia Today*

The "Caganer" to BBC

Probably, only catalan people know the mean of this word: "Caganer", but what happens if we explain to another people the mean of this word?:

In this video we can see Stephen Fry is explaining in BBC some customs of Catalonia, and the most spectacular is the faces of the players.

We know that "caganer" isn't the only character typical of the Catalan Christmas that defecate. There is another tradition, a tree trunk that children choose and that led to dining room. It is covered by a blanket because it hasn't got cold and the guys must to feed until Christmas Day, when children have to sing typical's Catalonia songs, and they must to give blows with a stick because "cagatió" give presents to children.

I think that it is one common tradition here, but in the other countries it is a very strange custom, but it isn't the most strange, because in other sites in the world we can see traditions more strange that it; for example in Jamaica, the people bury dead people into the garden of this house and it becomes to a party to say goodbye, and it's prohibited to mourn.

La Pegatina

La Pegatina is a Catalan rumba group from Montcada i Reixac who was born in 2003 when Ruben (who plays alone) will be added to Ovid and Adrian to begin a new project called "Pegatina Sound System."

When it was created they began to crossing Spain and playing at festivals and concerts. In 2006, they changed the name of the group, and they, nowadays, are called "La pegatina" (the sticker). After recording several songs for the compilation, they recorded their first album called "Al carrer!". With this CD and an intensive work, the group increased with four members and then they did a lot of concerts around the world. In Febraury 2009, they have showed a new CD called "Via Mandarina", and for this reason they don't stop, because they are singing for this country, and later they will go outside.

The most important of this group are the members, who are: Rubén Sierra and Adrià Salas, the singers and guitarist, Ovidi Díaz, that plays the called "cajon flamenco", Ferran Ibañez who plays the bass guitar, Axel Magnani, who is the trumpeter, Romain Renard that plays the accordion, and finally, Sergi who is the drummer.

For me, my favourites song are: "El gat rumbero", "Mandarinas y Pomelos", "¿Cómo explicarte?",... for this reason, now I put here a video-song of this great group: