FINAL REFLECTION

MY ENGLISH PROGRESS FROM 4th ESO TO 2BAT
My first post I did was "My last summer". This post reflected immature and basic language with short sentences and scant fluency to write. I think it misses connectors, more specific verbs and freshness. It also is so short and provite few information of my summer 2013. In addition, I could publish some photos or videos to do the post more swift and dynamic. In relation to vocabulary, I have improved a lot. Thanks for projects. I learnt a lot of new words to specific issues like technology, humour....To comparr with my last post, I think this is better because my language and vocabulary has improved.

I'm a nervous person and when I have to do an oral presentation I feel so anxious and agitated. In my first oral presentation of 4th ESO I talked about a photo that I have to described it. I consider my pronuntiation wasn't is really bad. I think the worst thing is the few fluency,nervous movements I did and the foolishness of the text that I hace to said. Nevertheless, the structure was good.
The last presentation I have made is the Research Project oral presentation which I wasn't publish because I didn't have the video. In this presentation, obviously I felt so nervous but bit by bit I have more trust of myself and I think come on. I can do it without paper and with fluency!

MY ENGLISH COMPETENCE IN 2016
Although my research paper oral presentation was good, my best oral presentation was one that I did with Joana. This one, called, Russfeiring, was so interesting. We talked about the party of Norweigan high school students. We worked a lot and the result was perfect! Our mark was a 9. This day, we didn't nedd anything and we spoke with a lot of fluency. Our classmates were so attentive and amazed.
My best writing have been one of last year called "The magic key". I spend like four hours doing this post . The magic key is an stort with activity, mistery, amusement and innovation.

I hope I carry on improving my engliH because I think is essential to learn languages.

FORMAL LETTER

540, Santa Clara

Barcelona

Spain SF32 3AB

16th April 2016

Prime Minister

Aravaca

High Street

Spain

Dear Mr President of Spain,

I am writing this letter in order to express my opinion on the subject of poverty in our country.

As you know, we have experienced several years of financial crisis. The result is that in Spain there ir too much poverty. 

Instead of decreasing the salary of the average person, you could look after these people withour a basic and necessary lifestyle. There are a lot of people that do not have accommodation, hygiene and food. 

There must be a solution to these problems: changing the tax system to be better for the working class, make mortgage payments without interest, loand without interest, places people can go for financial advice.

In summary, you are the President of Spain and exclusively you can help your people. I look forward to hearing from you

Yours faithfully ,

Andrea Chavez

VINERS

In recent years an application called Vine has become very famous. In this app people share 6 second of funny videos. Some of this videos have become very famous because people started sharing them, and this people have now more than two or three million followers there.

Nowadays in America it’s too easy to became famous, and I have an example to justify that idea; Shawn Mendes.

Shawn is a sixteen year old boy that started his musical career on Vine. He started recording videos of himself singing alone with his guitar. Those 6 second videos started to spread among the people who watched vines. He started to make greetings with a group of friends called “Magcon Boys”. They were all boys that met thanks to vine. They all make videos and became famous, and then they met and became friends. When the Magcon boys went to meetings girls got crazy about them.

Getting back to Shawn Mendes, when he went to the meetings he sang covers of songs he liked, and that was his first step. Then he started to write his own songs and to celebrate concerts and, since then, he has been growing as a singer.

The Magcon boys are not the only group of famous teen of Vine, (even though now they are separated, they are still famous) there are a lot of people that just make vines to have fun and they are so famous too. That’s because, although they are funny, they speak in an international language, English, which nearly everyone understands. To be able to speak in an international language it’s a big point in your favour, because you could have more followers just because they know the language.

In the Vine world there are lots of different nationalities, even Spanish people make vines. I prefer the English ones because I think they’re funnier. 

Nowadays, Shawn Mendes has become very famous with his song called "stitches".

HOROSCOPES

We all know what horoscopes are. There are twelve signs and you are assigned one according to the date of your birth Each of this has a personality that can be spread to anyone with that sign. Furthermore, the stars are supposed to tell the future of each sign and that's how horoscopes become popular.

Nevertheless, horoscopes tell people what will happen to them in the future. They are usually divided in different topics and the most common o are love, friendship and work.  In contrast, is it true?

There are a lot of people who think thay this is true. They believe that all this world of horoscopes is really real. However, horoscopes are probably a huge falsehood and , their inventors, find something special between diferent people to prove that this issue is true. But, I think bit by bit, people believe less in this topics.

In my case, I'm Piscesand all traits of this horoscop are like me: Temperamental, ambitious, nature, with too personality, sensitive, and, sometimes, too unmanageable.

Finally, I consider that horoscopes are a swindle alhthough me and my friends read it all weeks.

CHOCOLATE CAN MAKE PEOPLE HAPPIER AND 12 PERCENT MORE PRODUCTIVE

SUMMARY

This news says that to eat chocolate increases the productivity more or less a 10-12% and  this food makes people happier than before eating it. The Journal of Labor Economics has done a test to 700 people to analyzing the measure of productivity under pressure. If they had been eating chocolate or had been watching a comedian perform, the results have come involved. Consecuently, the test clarified that if a person do that test when he feel unhappy the results are more low that a happy person.

MY OPINION

I believe that the chocolate is a natural element that can improve your day and routines. All the components of a cocoa beans cause an answer of your body ahead of the act of ingest this groceries.

In contrast, there are many myths of chocolate: it makes me nervous, Chocolate makes me out acne on the face… In my view, this old myths are all true and for that reason I don’t eat much chocolate.

VOCABULARY

Yummy: Bo

Scored: Marcador

Throughout: Durant

LINK: http://elitedaily.com/news/world/chocolate-makes-people-more-productive/966007/

ONE IN THREE BABIES USE SMARTPHONES BEFORE THEY EVEN WALK OR TALK

SUMMARY

Daily Mail did a survey to 370  parents of children that are from 6 months to 4 years and it limites that babies, who are being exposed to technology in the first year of their lives, are being regular users. 

Thus, the questions were simple: they asked when their kids  began using smartphones and how much time they spend with the electronic devices. The answers were that the 45 percent of children has used an electronic invention. Apart from that, when children are one year old,  1 of 7  are one hour playing with the devices. However, interviewers said that the number of children will increase.

MY OPINION

I think this habit is too bad because we can't expose our children to the radiation of this gadgets. They also are creating a dependence with technology. If this situations are difficult to control in teenagers, is more difficult to control it in babies.

VOCABULARY

Chores: Tarea rutinaria

LINK: http://elitedaily.com/news/world/one-three-babies-smartphones-before-walk-talk/1014337/

FOODS SUCH AS YOGHURT OR SOUP CONTAIN MORE SUGAR THAN THE DOLMIO SAUCE

SUMMARY

This article tell us that there are some products that have more sugar than Dolmio Original Tomato Sauce even though this sauce comes with a health warning, to only eat once a week.

Cambell's cream of tomato soup, Bol Mexican, Sweet Potato Chilli, Heinz Beanz, Sour Pot Noodle, Activia and Sun maid raisins are examples of food that have more sugar. From that point, a nutritionist called Daniel Herman explain to us that people believe that a particular choice of food will be more healthy, but many times this is not true.

MY OPINION

In my opinion this warnings are really false because I think industries do it because of people buy more of some specific products. In this way, they earn more money and have a lot of profits. I hope multinationals don't lay us because in the end, everybody think like me, if they don't think it now. 

VOCABULARY

Purchase: comprar

Slimmer: Persona que està a dieta

Wary: Receloso

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3545722/Healthy-foods-sugar-Dolmio-pasta-sauce.html