2nd of Batxillerat!

FINAL COURSE!!

Can you see an improvement on your level of English since September 2007? Where, for exemple?

I see an impprovement on my level of English with my oral presentation, because the first oral presentation I was very nervous and my pronuntation was bad because I pronounced a lot of bad words for exemple: because! I said [bicaus] and now I has understood that this word is said [bicos].

Also, in my opinion I has improved on writing, now I have better expresioned because we have practised a lot and we have worked a lot! With work everybody imporves.

Finally, I think that now I have better flouency.

Wich activity best shows your level of English?

The activity that best shows my level of English are the oral presentations.

Which activities were really USEFUL for on to improve your English? Why?

Speak in class and do the portfolio, because it's the way that we demostrate all we have understood.

Which activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not?

The activities that I think that I don't learn English is the potdcast because it's a waste of time.

Which activities did you enjoy doing and would like to do again next year?

The activities that I like are watching films and doing the blogspot.

The films are good because it helps to learn new words, and the blogspot are good because we learn writing.

Too much importance is given to exam at school. Do you agree?

I disagre with the sistem of the school because I think that also there is a lot of things for avaluation, because I’m working more than other friends with homeworks and other things, but finally the teachers only avaluate the exams and this is not fair.

It is clear than the students work a lot but for exemple if one boy does the exams very well but always speak in class and never listen the teacher, and an other hand I listen a lot in class but the exam is bad for me, he will have better final mark!

In addition, I think that we work hard at home with the homeworks. For exemple, in english, with the portfolio and with the blogspot but the difference is that in English subject is only subject that avaluate a lot the work that we do at home.

In conclusion, and after this fanthastic arguments I think that the batxillerat wourld be a lot of bad.
I hope that the next year the things changes and also this forms for study.

Observation

OBSERVATION OF MY ORAL PRESENTATION

NAME & TOPIC: Education

PRESENTATION
We use a power point with pictures of graphics about Spain and Catalonia level Education.
I think that people liked our oral presentation because it was very interesting.

BODY LANGUAGE AND EYE CONTACT
I looked my friends continually, I was connecting with them a lot and I didn’t brought notes.

STRUCTURE
We organizated correctly because we separate paragraphs correctly.

CONTENT
This was the last oral presentation of the term, and I think that our oral presentation was completed.
We talked about the level, the PISA and the problems that the students have when they have chose their futur life.

LANGUAGE
I admit that my english is bad because I left lose, and now I repent a lot. For this I studing for improve.
I swear you that next oral presentation, in next year, you seen a big change.

PRONUNCIATION & INTONATION
I think that my intantion is very good and my prounciation it has improved a lot!

SELF-EVALUATION
I think that my correct mark is 7-8 because we have put a lot of effort.

Leviathan

TEXT 3 : Leviathan, cap. XVII: “Of the causes, generation and definition of a Cammon wealth” (primer de la segona mart: “Of Commonwealth”)
The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort as that by their own industry and by the fruits of the earth they may nourish themselves and live contetedly, is to confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one will: which is as much as to say, to appoint one man, or assembly of men, to bear their person; and every one to own and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person shall act, or cause to be acted, in those things which concern the common peace and safety; and therein to submit their wills, every one to his will, and their judgements to his judgement. This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all in one and the same person, made by convenant of every man with every man, in such manner as if every man should say to every man: I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authotise all his actions in like manner. This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a COMMONWEALTH; in Latin, CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authotity, given him by every particular man in the Commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him that, by terror thereof, he is enabled to from the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad. And in him consisteth the essence of the Commonwealth; which, to define it, is: one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the author, to the end he may use the strength and means of them all as he shall think expedient for their peace and common defence.

This is a philosopher text that we did in class

informal dialog

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Informal dialog

Tania: What are you doing here?
Polly: Oh..I was walking here and I thought that I could visit you
Tania: But, didn't you say that you left on holidays?
Polly: Oh...yes, yes
Tania: So?
Polly: Look Tania, we have to tell you something
Tania: What? Now you will tell me that you are together...hahaha
Polly: Mmmm...look, the other day we went to the party and we kissed
Tania: What??? Fuck you!!
(she closes the door angry and she leaves)

Invent!!

THE PIANO



In my opinion, the best invention is the piano because if this instruments hasn’t been invented, what would I do?

Well, the piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1690 aproximatly, when it was created he called his instrument gravicembalo col piano e forte.

The piano is a musical string instrument with 88 keyboards that is played with the ten fingers of hands and with the pedals that we have presioned with our foods. The keyboards accione a mecanisme of hammers that hits the strings, and these vibrations are transmit a sound that amplifies them.
There are many manufecturers of pianos as Roland, Yamaha, and others, and also there are many types of pianos, the grand piano, Upright piano and digital piano.

This instrument is used to play musical pieces lonely, with company or for composing.

This invention is important for humanity because if it hadn’t been invented many people wouldn’t have existed be even exist
As Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Beethoven...etc, and surely, now the music wouldn’t be anything because this is the main instrument to compose great songs.

Finally, I think that the music is the way to express our feelings.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano

piano

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We have almost learnt to respect our would. Do you agree?

I’m disagree that we have almost learnt to respect our world, even though I believe that every time we are more aware of that.

It’s clear that we are aware and for this we have got create electricity with sunlight, manufacture vehicles that pollute less or put bicycles to the city centre such as Barcelona, withdraw the prodcuts that not benefit the environment like deodorants, do the speakings for prevents the fires in the forests and speakings for teach to respect the environment since of childhood, also we have done recycling campaings here in Castelló, ang many other things.

But even this, the people continue take car for go to everywhere, we continue cutting trees and destroing our landscape for build hulg flats, and the manufactures continue contaminating the would even though now we’re suffering the concequences.

In conclusion, although we are concients that our would is degrading ever time faster than they was saying, we won’t be capables to aware until all will revolutionize how for example this year with the water problem, because we haven’t done anything until that the problem knock our door because I always think that we utilize our ability to think for the money.

news

news

This new talks about this Ipod wich apeared a few days ago. This Ipod is called Ipod thouch becaus it's tactile.
This man tells us the qualities about it. He says that this Ipod is very light, it has wifi, memoria flash of 8 or 16 GB and with a batery that lastes 22 hours reproducing music and 5 hours reproducing video.
This Ipod hasn't got bluetooth but we can go to Internet.
Acording to what he said, I think that it's a great product but also I think that it isn't useful because it's very expensive, if we want 8 GB it costs 298 euros and if we want 16 GB it costs 389!!

dialog

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PODCAST

Today I’m with Rihanna who is a very popular star of the world.
Hello Rihanna, thank you for spending your time with me. It’s a very big honor to speak with you

Hi, for me it’s a great honor to be here, it isn’t a problem, because I love speaking (lol)

Well, this year you have had a lot of success, are you surprised?

Yes, because this is like a dream, I never thought that this could happen to me.

But, when you started to sing, at 15 years old, were you aware that you could be so successful?

Well, when I was 15 I thought that singing was only a hobby and I never imagined this!

The song Unfaithful speaks about being unfaithful to a boy, is it something that you feel guilty about ?

Yes, you know when you are a teenager and you have the first boyfriend, and after you don’t want one. But I felt guitly and so I sang this song.

Someone broken your heart?

No, at the moment no. I hope that never happens to me.

Do you go out with a celebrity or do you prefer a normal boy?

It’s about the person not their social class. I only want a boy that loves me and I love him.

Thanks for your attention and I had a great time with you.

Thanks you’re welcome!

questions of the reading book

Well, this are the questions of the book that I prepared after to reading the book. I think that my mark, a 5'5 is so bad because english is very difficult for me and after to reading a book, after to prepare very well the questions and studied a lot...:(
but...it's the life...

:)
1- Can you summarize the book in two minutes?
Ethan, the principal character, he afraid of being alone and for this he get married with his mather, Zenna.
When she was sick, Ethan thought that he never leave Starkfield.
But, all change when Zenna’s sister, Mattie, arrived in Zenna house. Ethan fall in love with Mattie and Mattie fall in love with Ethan.
Zenna begins to suspect their relationship and then she made out Mattie for break a dearly dish.
When Mattie leave the home and Ethan learns he run a lot with his sled and after, Mattie says that the only solution for to be together is suicide, for this they intent to suicide but they aren’t successful and they did’t die.
Finally is Zenna who has to take care of them.
2- Is there a mystery sentence or a turning point in the story?
When Ethan falls in love Mattie and they do possible for to be together.
3- When and where does the story take place?
In small town of Starkfield in winter
4- Who are the main characters in the story? What’s their role?
The principal character in the story is Ethan that this role is do everything possible to don’t pass the rest of his life alone.
The second character is Zenna, Ethan’s mother. Her role is watch over Ethan.
5- Choose one character( main or secondary) and describe him/her
Zeena Frome is cold, emotionless wife of Ethan who didn't express her feelings,suspicious of Ethan, old, ugly, down and depressed, passive, aggressive and manipulative.
6- Can you identify with any character? Why?
I don’t identify with anyone because I find that all characters are very idealized
7- Choose your favourite moment in the story
When Mattie and Ethan decide to suicide for love, I think that is what usually happens in every film but it is very nice, but is true that how they intent suicide is a little friky.
9- Provide an alternative ending.
My favorite ending would have been that Ethan’s mother dies, so that Ethan and Mattie could have followed his loving relationship.
10- Would you recommend this book? Why?
I recommend this book to people who likes the drama books and is a book to pass the good time and know what you can get to do for love.
good book for romantic people.

Acrostic

The last day of the week
Hooray! We’re ready to finish
And everybody is waiting for the bell
Nobody is concentreated
Kisses, hugs...
Satisfaction because it’s time to start the weekend

Good bye teachers! Four, three, two...
One!!...
Do you know what will I do?

I think that me and my friends are very happy
So we will have a lot of fun

For example, on Saturday night I will
Ring my friends and we will meet to got to Barraques
I have waited this day for months
Do you know how much money will I spend?
A lot, of course! ^^ But don’t worry!!
You will also come with me!

little presentation about the new project

Hello! This web is a new project that has been created recently by teachers of English and that has been implemented in IES Castelló this year.
It consists of putting practice every week we have done in the class of languages so that we practice writing and speaking English with oral presentations, news, podcast and written letters, histories or descriptions…

podcast description

http://www.esnips.com/doc/a71dc81f-8cfc-4604-bbc9-b8640dfac620/Sin-título-(2)

peter_6_9's Stuff

2nd oral presentation

MERCÈ AND ME

Hello class, Hello teachers.
Good morning everybody
Well, the country that we chose is Jamaica because we think that it’s a country that can interest to all the class. Ok, let’s start.
Jamaica it’s the third biggest island of Antilles. The Capital is Kingston that it’s the biggest commercial city. The official language is English but the Jamaicans spoke a local dialect which is a mixture of words in Spanish, African and French
The islanders are nice and friendly people and they love smiling. His economy is based on the fishing, the growing of pigs and the cultivation of their lands. They still follow the tradition of build their house with wood and paint the wall with shine colors. The music is in their blood, and they love dancing. The minimum musical sound in the distance takes them to it.
I’m sure that everybody sometimes have been listening about the Rastafarianism, but I think that anybody know a lot about it. The Rastafarianism isn’t a religion, it’s is a culture, that was born in Jamaica, and it around all the Caribe and in the black communities of Gran Britain and USA. His culture is based on the bible. For them, the (rasta) is a very important symbol and they respect it a lot,
The flag of the Rastafaris is red, that means the blood spread of our brothers, the yellow the gold, the green it means the grow, and the black the colour of the skin of their brothers
Well now we speak about the music of Jamaica. Jamaica has different kinds of music like, ska, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, ragga y ragga jungle, and finally the most typical and that everybody knows is the REGGAE
The most popular music is the reggae wich Bob Marley created, who did a culture, with his music. The first kind is ska where he was the father. Also, he create a band called: “The Skatalites”. Other oldest music on the island is Mento, the Ghost and Calypso.
The reggae is a derivation of ragga, that is an abbreviation of raggamuffin, in English his significate is harapiento. We use this label to descript the poor in Jamaica, and also the Rastas and cultural movements of the poor districts.
The name “reggay” his means is “regular”.
The Reggae’s father is Bob Marley that you know. Bob Marley was a musician and member of Rastafari Moviment.
Their songs talk about peace and love, and whit their rhythm people fly and discover other fascinating worlds.
One of the best-known anecdotes about the Jamaica sport is the victory of his selection in the world championship bobsleigh, a winter sport.
Jake the other day said that Jamaica hasn’t got a good team of Football, but we say now, that in 1998 Jamaica went to World Cup of football, this it’s a great job, but they only got 3 points, and they can’t passed to the other round.
If you go to Jamaica don’t forget to eat the most famous lunch: “the rondón” and the “bushy” that is a very delicious drink but also is very strong, so, control because you can get drunk.

VIDEO

Mr. Woodcock

The film are two gyms that there is a lot of competition between them. In one gym change completely appearance of a person and another, on the other hand, give more importance to the people and them feelings.
In the end, with the movie you realize your message, we give great importance on the body than the feelings of people.
Really, I like the message and I think that I will like to see it all!

3 new words:
solves - solucionar
Churlish - mal educat
quickly - ràpidament

rate youself :D

Any coments?
We had some problems with the video but in the end it solves


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