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

classroom conversation

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Freediving

Freediving is an extreme sport and it's about suspension of breathing voluntarily.
This sport is the opposite of all sports because in the freediving isn't about physical training. It is about relaxation of all organs and muscles for don't spend so much oxygen, and this is more difficult. Freedivers before doing freediving they do relaxation exercises.
Freedrivers wear ballast to not float so much and this way they can stay motionless in the water. This ballast can change depending on the depth and the weight of this person.

The other trouble is pressure. How do they go down 50 to 100 m?
They have two ways:
1-The traditional way:
Everybody knows this way, we put the fingers on the nose and put pressure, when you feel ears hurting you kick off the air from the nose. But this way in the long run is harmful for your ears. Also this way you can not go down so far.
2-Frenzel:
This is the way all the professionals freedivers use and has three parts:
Step1- Mouth fill
Step 2- Close your throat 
Step 3-  Use tongue as piston
If you do well you can feel air going to your ears.

But this sport has many risks, the most important risk is the syncope.:
It's like fainting. The  syncope comes from of scarcity of oxygen in the brain.
If you have a syncope you can lose one of the senses. One professional had a syncope and he lost the taste sense for one year.

Records:
Go down without flippers ---- 101 m
Go down with flippers --- 128 m
Go down without flippers (dynamics apnea) --- 226 m
Go down with flippers (dynamics apnea) ---- 281 m
Static apnea --- 22 min


When I was little my dream was to fly and when  I am alone and in complete silence, floating in the marine bottom it's like flying. This is why my favourite sport is freediving.