My english progress 2013 - 2016

If you compare my first post with the last, firstly, you will see the biggest difference, the size. The first is shortest than the second. The first redaction,  my dream, has 60 words. As opposed to that, the last redaction has 229 words. That is because now when I write a post I am more interested. In this age I write about things that they don't interest me and nowadays is opposed.

If we focus on the grammar, we will see that in the first post has so many mistakes. For example: "profecionals" is professional, "winner" is win, "grup" is group, "there is" is a there are...

Moreover, if we focus on vocabulary, we will see that in the second I have more diversity of vocabulary than the  first.

I remember that I have so many difficulties to write. Mainly because of I don't have the theory about who, that, which... and  as a consequence I only could write simple phrases. As well as I have problems with the pasts, the s of third person and the much or many. But in the actually I solve it.

In conclusion, I see a big improvement above everything because I learn vocabulary and phrasal verbs, I solve my problems and I give up the google traductor ( in 4rth of ESO I use it a lot).

My english competence in 2016

In my opinion, the best post of my blog is "The fear hunter of the ocean it's now the prey". Firstly I highlight the size the post. It has 400 words. I write a lot because I was very interested in this experiment. I think that is very important because if you are more interested in a post you will pay more attention due to that I will write better. Likewise, I think that is a better post than others like my dog or my dream because they aren't interesting.  In addition, I can't see any mistake and it has images and that do the post more interesting and not boring. It was a reportage of Discovery Max in English.

In my opinion, the best oral presentation is which I do in first of batchillerat about Australia. I think that is because the most important in a  presentation is the Powerpoint or Prezi  and in this presentation the Prezi was so good. It has beauty pictures and colours and it hasn't any text. Besides it was the longest presentation which I do, it was 12 min. As well as we use vocabulary like bit by bit and we use words difficulties to pronunciate like spices. 

TED TALKS: Lisa Nip - How humans could evolve to survive in space

When human began to explore space found our limit. We explored the woods and the Jungle and we learned to survive. Now we have used our resources. Nowadays we have certain limits on the earth, in the future we might need to find another place to live and this could be other planets.

We have to think about transport, atmosphere and water. A problem is how to take provisions from Earth and how to grow food for ourselves. The talk says that the difficulties are for example that the human body is not adaptable after one year.

The bones and muscles waste in microgravity. She suggests that robots can help and biology and microbe technology can develop to help us change the human body in the environment.

With microbiology, we could change the genetics of the human body. She says we have made GMO's genetically modified organisms with which get rice and food modified. She says that human is evaluating, like bacterias and organisms. It is not a question of how, but a is a question of when our genetic evolution is finish for do it.

I think so many people dream about this, but the way to do it is very difficult. We need to evolve and find a way to manipulate the human genetic code that is safe and without mutations unwanted.

TED TALK

Vocabulary:
Unwanted - indesitjat.

White Shark Population

When the bald eagle population grows so many people think that was good news. But what happens if the population of predators like white sharks grows?

People are frightened because they think it is dangerous to swim in summer in the sea. For example, the surfer Mick Fanning was attacked during a race in Carolina (U.S.A). 

The sharks change their behaviour with global warming. There is a very important paper about the sea environment because if the ecosystem changes, shark populations can increase and so other fish species fall. Some species have declined by 90%.

But there always have been shark attacks but now with smart phones we see more attacks and we worry more.

Animal protection laws succeeded in saving mammals like seals and sharks but now they are closer to our beaches. We can coexist if we have information and people are talking about using drones to see sharks.

I think that it's true. We have to change our minds and diminish the possibility of shark attacks. A good idea doesn't put a fish farm near the coast.

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Vocabulary:
Bald eagle - tipus d'àliga 

When Rain Could Gather

Makhaya is a black man from South Africa. He is in South Africa on the border between South Africa and Botswana. He wants to go to Botswana because in South Africa black people are like dogs.

When he cross the border he starts to run away because it is illegal. Luckily he found a man with a car who carry him to Golema Mmidi. When he arrives at this village, Makhaya goes to the police office and explains what happened. There knows Gilbert which admits Makhaya in his house. Makhaya starts to work teaching about farm to Maria. Maria was the daughter of Gilbert. Maria was searching a husband, for this reason, Gilbert thinks that Makhaya could marry with Maria. Finally, Maria gets married but with another black man. 

Then  Makhaya knows Paulina which has a son. They start a relationship. One day the son of Paulina disappear and they found him dead. In the end, Paulina and Makhaya get married.

Vocabulary:
Border - frontera

My sports history

In 2003, when I am 5 years old, my parents start to search a sport which I like. This year I start to practice swimming in Empuriabrava. One year later I give up swimming and I start basketball in Joana d'Empúries. We were a little team which don't play matches. My coach was Jordi.

The next year I start to play basketball in the team Splais. This year my coach as  Carlos. Carlos has been an important person because he teaches fundamentals movements of basketball.

The  following year I go to the Castelló and these years my coaches were Jordi and Jose.

The period of Jose was is my favourite because we won always. But last year of Jose was bad. For this reason, two years ago, we change of coach. In 2014, I start rowing and my intentions were given up the basketball and follow rowing, but in rowing we aren't enough.

Carlos becomes own coach again. Moreover, this year the people of one year younger sing up to own team. This year was wrong and because of that the beast players of the team go to others teams. That discourage me, besides the year 2015 was the worst. For this reason I give up the basketball. Nowadays I start swimming again.

Vocabulary:
Discourage - desanimar
Rowing - rem

Dude Perfect

Dude Perfect is a channel from youtube which is about do amazing and impossible things. They are 5 friends: Cody, Tyler, Garret, Cory and Coby. Dude perfect h 9,6 thousands of subscribers and his videos more popular is "Ping Pong trick shots" with 50 thousands of views.

In 2009, they get the world record for the longest basketball shot with the shot from the third deck of Kyle Field. 

In 2010 Dude Perfect break his record with a shot from rower's base of 66 m high and 46 m away from the basket.

But this records was jeopardised by Legendary Shots with the shot from Vulcan statue

In this age they have people who say that is fake, however this kind of people make publicity and it makes it seem more amazing.

They start in Youtube in 2009 but don't start to grow up until 2013. Then they keep his growth until 2015. In 2015, they start to grow exponentially. Unfortunately this year have a drop.

Nowadays they start to develop again.

Vocabulary :

Deck - terrassa
Jeopardized - posar en perill
Growth - creixement

Ebola lingers in semen for nine months

Ebola could come back. It could be a problem again. For three or more years we have heard news reports about the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone. This virus has been extinguished and stopped. There are now many survivors.

A new research study in New England Journal of Medicine reports that in tests, two-thirds or 66% of male survivors are carrying the virus in their semen. Men who have survived Ebola are being encouraged to wear condoms. The society who helps survivors the health clinics and community hospitals should try to organise the use of condoms.

Margaret Chan, who is the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is worried. She said to the BBC it worrying because they don't know. She thinks people need to take precaution and advise survivors to use contraceptions.

I think that the measures might not be sufficient because they can't control all the people who may have the virus in their cells.

Vocabulary:
Contraception - anticonceptiu

Youtube

Nowadays youtube is getting more importance. In my opinion is because you can see any kind of content everywhere. In contrast, in TV, the programmes starts and finish at one hour predeterminate. Besides the TV have so much publicity.

My favourite YouTubers are two: El canal de Korah and Joe Weller.

- Korah is a youtuber with 200.000 subscribers, who is 35 years old. He is a  who dub Far Cry, South Park... His videos are about humour, but also have videos about Spartan Race and other things which bother him. His best and popular series is "Doblando virales".

- Joe Weller is an English youtuber with 3.200.000 subscribers. He is 20 years old. He has videos about challenges and funny videos. His video more popular is Cristiano Ronaldo picking up girls with 43 millions of visits.

Vocabulary:

Besides - a més
Dub - doblar
Bother - molestar

Climate Pact Recognizes Rights, Now the Work Begins

Nowadays 195 countries adopted a new global agreement on climate change. This is the first global agreement which is addressed to that concerns.The main objective of the agreement protects the people who are more exposed to effects of climate change and another concern is save the glaciers. But for doing it, in climate-related actions, we have to save the protection of natural ecosystems and food security.

The countries who negotiated the deal are focus on bear binding legal obligations to respect and fulfill the rights of their people. I said respect the rights of the people because the obligation of a govern is protect the people who live in their country. 

That is a big step, but the big step is help countries adapt to climate change and above everything help marginalised populations, because if we don't do it they won't can participate in the agreement.

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Vocabulary:

Deal - acord

Fulfill - cumplir

Bear - suportar

Is jealousy natural? Are prenups necessary?

Is jealousy natural?

Before discuss if the jealousy is natural or not, I have to establish what means it. Be jealousy isn't a mental illness. Be jealous is state of being jealous.

For many people be jea bond with the people who have around.

loss is a natural way to protect our 

I think that we are naturally jealousy depending on the kind of relation established. If the relation involves a person who is very  important and have  an essential role in your life, is naturally be jealous or have a minimum  interest or preoccupation to this person. But if the role isn't important you don't have it.

For that reason I think that in a relationship is natural have jealous but exaggeratedly.


                                                                                    Are prenups necessary?


A prenup is an official document signed by two people before they get married that says what will happen to their possessions and children if they divorce.

Prenups are very controversial due that we have to know the advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
- Protects your interests in business
- If one of the couple has more debts, when you break up you don't have to pay these debts.

Disadvantages:
- Can build up suspicion between the couple.
-Can be difficult imagine how you going to solve the big problems on your future live.

I think that is not necessary do a prenup if you are a normal person without business. But if you are a businessman, soccer player... I think that can be useful in some situations.


Vocabulary:

Bond - vinculos
Controversial - conflictiu
Debts - deuda
Suspicion - desconfiança

TED TALKS: Thomas Peschak - Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Thomas Peschak first fell in love with the ocean world when he was 10 yeas old. Thomas found that taking photographs of the hidden world helps people learn to love it. But nowadays this ocean world is difficult to found, for this reason, he becomes a conservation photographer.

He photographs animals and ecosystems (sharks, whales, turtles and marine life) for National Geographic magazine. His best locations are in South Africa where photographs sardines, dolphins and sharks and Indonesia (Maldives) where photographs manta ray and an archipelago of coral islands.

In South Africa see who dolphins and sharks aren't enemies, dolphins help the sharks to hunt with a way more effective.

As well as he has been in places not protected like Hanifaru, due to his pictures this places become a protected zones.

In my opinion, the work of this men is very important for the Earth because we need something which makes aware about own acts.

TED TALK

Make aware - concienciar

Chinese smog

Nowadays the pollution in Beijing (China) has become extreme.

The effects of this pollution are similar to that of a nuclear winter. Moreover, there isn't the sun because the pollution covers it.

That effect is that air has become toxic for people, animals, plants, food... for this reason the people have to put a mask on her mouth and nose for protecting her health.

This article shocked me because if we do not look after our planet, nobody will do for us. Our obligation, I think that we have to do is look after the Earth for our future generations. I hope that we have time for resolve this big problem.

Human right

These days the human rights is a trending topic because we are infringing them. The human right are the rights you have simply because you are human.

They are created in 1945 in Paris for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and nowadays we have 30. 

The article 5  say:

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

I don't know about these human right because it is a break every day. We have the evidence of that human right is violate by 102 countries. In Europ the main countries where is break is in Rusia and Turquia. In Rusia is used to get confessions. In the United Kingdom when he found a terrorist, they send the terrorists to other countries where the torture is legal. Also in Spain we have cases where torture is used by the police. 

I think that human right is difficult to respect in terrorism situations or extreme situations.

Vocabulary:

Punishment - castig o sanció

Looking back

My old blog
1.  Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s?  Where, for example?Yes I improve so much, now my english isn't perfect but last year was a complitly desaster.In my old blog I repeat some words all the time and my posts are very short, nowadays my posts are like 200--300 words. Also now I can use more verb tenses and conditionals.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? The your-says is the best activity because you use the english for somthing you like, and with this way is easy learn english.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 
The most useful is the phrasal verbs because with that your english is more professional and you have more synonymous to use. Also presentations are useful because you practice the speaking and you can improve your pronunciation.

4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not? 
In my opinion I think that news are not useful, because we learn english with the news but are boring and because of that we don't pay attention to that when we do, with the news we learn more slowly.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?

The activities which I like and we would do next year is watch films and listen songs in english. Because the classroom is more funny and we pay attention and we improve on own level of English.

Free Diver Dies Trying to Break World Record

Aurdey Mestre die in Dominican Republic when she trying of break a world record. These world record made for Ferreras, her husban. They were the most famous free-diving couple in the world. She blacked out and died Saturday after her plunge into deep waters near La Romana, 81 miles east of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
She back out at a depht of 330 feet and a saftey diver rushed her to the surface. Ferras tried to revive her using the mouth-to-mouth. Bur the woman who had become the world's best free diver had died.
We have 5.000 free divers and every year die 100 free divers.

Prision Break

Mr Midshipsman Hornblower

The story start in the 1793, France and England are enemys. We are in the Spithead's port, England, in a small ship. Where arrived a young men of 17 years old for become a sailor and his name is Hornblower.
In the ship he know Simpson. Simpson is a sailor of his ship and he is tall, strong and agresive.
He, Simpson and other  sailors start to play cards. But Simpson lost and accuse to Hornblower of cheater. He don't apologize because of Hornblower callange to Simpson in a duel. The duel is:
They have many weapons and they chose one, but the weapon can be load or not. Hornblower know  which weapon is load for its weight. He chose a load weapon and kill Simpson.

A few months later he is a midshipsman in the Indefatigable.
One day they try to escape of a France's attack. But they have a hole and the water come in to the ship and the ship start  to weed out. Also they transport rise. Hornblower decide to take a small ship and load up the rise of  the ship he go to England.

A few months later the war go on. He stay in the Indefatigable, in Cadiz.
Nowadays his usefull is protect the ships which come from Gibraltar because Spain make up with France and now they don't let pass England's ship which transport goods. Because of England start to suffer from hungy.
One day he see a  Spain's galley sinking  a England's ship. He take a ship with Jackson and they stick the Spain's galley. They kill some spanish and they make the other spanish prisioners. These day his capitan  name Hornblower a lieutenant.

One year later he stay in the ship Le Reve, in Gibraltar. Now Jackson is his adjuntar.
One day his admiral orders him to carry the duchess to England. They set sail but one night a spanish ship do a surprise attack and they break the mast.

At last they is a prisioner in a Spain Castle for 2 years. One day  a England's ship sink a Spain's ship. Hornblower ask for help to Spain's survivors. But when he is assist the survivors the England's ship come back and capture Hornblower. After he explain his history to the England's capitan and he release Hornblower.

Oral presentation

This time I do the presentation alone and I was nervously. I have to improve my pronunciation because I repeat the same mistake in every presentation.

NAME & TOPIC:		MARK
Presentation         10%	Do you use any resources: powerpoint, video, images, sound, real material...? Are the resources focused on the topic? Do the resources support your oral explanation? Is the timing 5- 10 minutes?	8
Body language & eye contact         10%	Are  you looking at your audience most of the time? Are you reading occasionally from your notes ? Are you doing any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?	6
Structure             10%	Do you organize your ideas in order of importance? Do you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other, finally…)	7
Content         40%	Do you introduce new information to your audience? Is your information  detailed, clear and...? Do you give/show examples?	34
Language        20%	Is your grammar correct, complex? (verbs, word order, tenses learnt in class) Is your vocabulary rich, varied (synonyms, idioms, expressions, phasal verbs, topic-related) Do you use sentence linkers? (and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, however…) Do you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word…)	12
Pronunciation & Intonation         10%	Do you know how to pronounce all your words? Did you check the pronunciation? Do you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Do you speak in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?	5
Self-Evaluation	You are your teacher! :-)                                 FINAL MARK:	7

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