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

IS VEGETARIANISM A SOLUTION OF GLOBAL ISSUES?

In recent years, people who carry out a vegetarian diet have increased. The event takes place due to the current problems that exist around the world. In short, due to global issues. Isn’t it? Although more of the 70% of people in the world are omnivorous, this consciousness are actually changing. However, is vegetarianism a really solution of global issues?

One the one hand, the breeding of animals is really uncomplaining because they are in bad conditions and exploit by breeders. Moreover, to be vegetarian it could be good for our healthy because vegetables and fruits don’t have blubber and have proteins, calcium…

On the other hand, to be vegetarian also have consequences. If people don’t eat meat, obviously they won’t have enough proteins; for this reason, people have to eat meat although in step quantity. Furthermore, to be vegetarian is bad because our society isn’t ready for that the majority of citizens are vegetarians: there are high prices, few places with specific food and moderately advertising.

In conclusion, people would have to eat meat, fish, vegetables, fruit… all food that make us healthier and with a balanced and assorted diet.

SYRIA: SECURITY FORCES SORMING PRISON

SUMMARY

Security forces of Syria have attempted against five prisoners of Hama's penitentiary. According to one prisoner of this prison, the police was frightened and although they took destruction arms, finally both sides negotiate; however, the situation was too tense.

Furthermore, the bad conditions in penintentiary centres increased and even though people say that it's better to stay inside this building.

Finally, this boys are convicted of death penalty because they don't want to transfer to another prison.

Once and for all, security forces have violated human rights .

MY OPINION

In my opinion, everybody have the right to call for something that they don't according to some item. Not for this reason security forces have to put death penalty to five prisoners of Hama. I consider that there are basic conditions and things that they can't overtake. Finally, i want to say human rights are active for some reasons and this is one of that.

VOCABULARY

Rioted: Disturbio

Standoff: Alejamiento

Grant: Conceder

LINK:  https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/06/syria-security-forces-storming-prison

HUMAN RIGHTS

 In this post I want to talk about human rights. For this, I tell you some information about this issue.

Human rights are the rights you have just for being a human.  Many of the basic ideas that animated the human rights movement developed in the aftermath of the Second World War. For that reason they were created in 1945 by the United Nations, that they were in New York city. I also say that there are 30 human rights. The modern human rights possibly are a reaction to slavery, torture, genocide and war crimes. Perhaps they began as a precondition for the possibility of a just society.  But the true precursor of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights that appeared in the medieval age and continued in the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Now I am going to talk about one article of human rights that I think it is one of the most important.  I choose the article 2 and it says the following sentence:

Article 2
 

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

 I pick out this article because in my opinion everybody has to be respected. It's doesn't matter the race, sex, colour or religion. All people are equal and have the right to be valued in our world.  I think if someone does something it's wrong and this person has a different religion or another thing, we encompass all people of this religions or race in one sack. This began to happened a long time ago. The extrem case has been the Hitler's Nazism in Germany around 1940/50 more or less.


Video: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/born-free-and-equal.html

I think this human right isn't respected in anywhere because, sadly, in the world there are a lot of people who consider that everybody have to be in the same way. However if I have to say one place I choose United Kingdom. On the contrary, this human right is violated in everywhere but I pick Arabian countries.

Vocabulary I don't understand: 

- Sovereignty: Sobirania

1. What are human rights?
2. When and why were they created?
3. How many human rights are there? Check out LIST OF HUMAN RIGHTS 
4. Which human right were you not familiar with? - EL QUE ESCOLLIM

Watch the video of the right you chose.  Make a list of new words you hear, if any. Think of an example where this human right is respected and where it is violated.

SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A "RESET SWITCH" THAT COULD GET RID OF JET LAG

SUMMARY

Everyone who has family in another country felt what was the JET LAG: It is a symptom of changing times.

Concordia Universities and McGill have discovered that the body has a "biological reset button" that if we activate itcan help to eliminate some jet lag. For activate this, we have to combinate phosphate and a Period protein.

Moreover, it has tasted to animals, like mice. Hence, they concluded that the Period protein is the key in "circadian regulation".

MY OPINION

In my opinion, there isn't a cure for the jet lag. Nowadays, majority of people travel to other countries and bit by bit they get used to this symptoms. Furthermore, I think jet lag is a mild feeling, compared with otthers that are deeper.

VOCABULARY:

Trigger: Gatillo

Counterpart: Homòleg

Fellow: Home, subjecte

COMPLAIN TO CHINESE RESTAURANT

                                                                                                                            3, Santa Clara

                                                                                                                  Castelló d'Empúries

                                                                                                                            Spain

                                                                                                                            14th April, 2016

Wok Restaurant

Figueres

Dir Sir or Madam,

I am writing in prder to explain my experience having lunvh last week. I am very dissapointed and upset with your meat and the hygiene of the local.

First of all. when I arrived I found food sticked in chairs. Then, the glass was so dirty. When I saw that, I told there imperfections to thewaiter but he did not attend me.

In the other hand, speaking about the meat, I found that tasted so bad. I do not know if this was rotten or was of an animal that I never eat.

At this point, I request us that do a revision of the restaurant.

Yours faithfully,

Maria Sanchez

JEALOUSY: LOVE'S DESTROYER

Jealousy is an emotion, and the word typically refers to the thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and anxiety over an anticipated loss or status of something of great personal value. This issues is a universal human experience. Moreover, psychologists have proposed several models and have identified factors that result in jealousy. The factors are:

1.    1.  Sociobiological factors

2.   2. Cultural and historical factors

3.   3.  Personality factors

4.  4.   Relational factors

5.   5. Situational factors and strategic factors

A jealous behaviour, in man, is directed into avoiding sexual betrayal and a consequent waste of resources and effort in taking care of someone else’s offspring. This, in great part is made by the imagination Imagination is strongly affected by a person’s cultural milieu. Nevertheless, one author can have a definite positive effect on sexual function and sexual satisfaction.

Jealousy is normal and necessary in relationships. If you are in a monogamous relationship, jealousy serves as a way to let your partner know that you care about preserving your relationship. This confirms that your partner values tour commitment and would be upset to lose you. For this reason, we can say that jealousy is an expression of love is healthy. Furthermore, some couples may be ok with casually filtering outside of the relationship, while other couples may discover through their jealousy to another person. This item, can be an important emotion to pay attention to but can finish to the point of obsession. When it becomes an obsession, it can cause you to become possessive and paranoid. Nevertheless, some people use jealousy to support the fear that their relationship is in danger; this situation is caused by females.

We can say that jealousy is possibly the most destructive emotion in human brains. It causes much suffering. It also endure behaviour that ranges from vigilance to violence. They feel anxious, depressed, angry, humiliated, out of control and, sometimes suicidal

All human emotions exist to help us figure out who are in the world, and jealousy isn’t an exception. It’s a resource we call on when we feel at risk. When we are jealous, we are, in fact, in the grip of an identity crisis.

Jealousy gives rise to feelings of inferiority and resentment, activates pain related neural circuits in the brain, neuroimaging tudies show.

Evolutionary, jealousy exists because it is a good mate retention strategy; a partner’s jealousy can be seen as a sign of love. In one study, about 75%of people said they tried to make their partner jealous at one time or another. Moreover, this feeling is more often associated with arguments, breakups and aggressive behaviour and, we feel jealous we may question the level of commitment in our relationship.

One of the most important factors is how you express or respond to jealousy. These reactions says to the partner that they need more attention or show more affection.

Jealousy has been considered the guardian of love, but more often is love’s ruin. We usually blame our partner for paying attention to another people instead of ourselves, but the real issue may be what jealousy teaches us about ourselves.

An example of jealousy could be Elliott, Amanda’s boyfriend. She feels charmed and amused; at first she thought it may be just a love-struck, but it wasn’t. One day he gave her some flowers, and she realised it wasn’t to have a detail with her but kind of a camouflage. He needed to know where she was every moment, and if he didn’t hear what he liked, his voice cracked with race. This is how a romance starts feeling like a prison, and this is how you get to know when to break up.

Jealousy experts agree it is a survival mechanism. They say jealousy is “the most destructive of passions and the least studied”.

Richard Smith, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky says: “Jealousy is not the same as envy although they are often used interchangeably. Jealousy arises when a relationship is infringed on by a rival who threatens to take away something that is in a sense rightfully yours.” He also says that to have jealous you need not to have any sense of who that third party is like.

Jealousy is an extremely painful emotion. There are huge individual differences in the propensity for jealousy, and there is emerging evidence that elements of personality influence some of them.

No one can define jealousy perfectly. It may take much of its primary force from activating the attachment system of the brain, a genetically ingrained circuit that is the foundation of our social bonds and that prompts widespread distress when they are threatened.

According to University of Texas psychologist David Buss, jealousy is a necessary emotion, a potential deterrent to identify that arises in both men and women when a threat materialises to intimate relationships.

1.    SEXUAL JEALOUSY

Sexual jealousy may be triggered when a person’s significant other displays sexual interest in another person. Experts often believe that sexual jealousy is I a fact a biological imperative. They want the bet reproductive partners.

Sexual jealousy is the leading cause of spousal murder worldwide. It’s not really jealousy what we have to blame. Buss says “It’s the disillusion that a loved one has committed an infidelity when none has occurred”.

Buss sees jealousy as a necessary evil, it isn’t quite as inevitable as it’s been made to appear. In a study of nearly 1.000 people in various stages of commitment, he and a colleague in Spain find that the individual inclination to jealousy is strongly influenced by two of the so-called big five personality factors. It is passively associated to with neuroticism, or emotional instability, the liabilityto such unpleasant emotions as anger, anxiety and depression. The higher the level of instability, the more one is prone to jealousy.

Not all jealousy is activated by immediate threats of sexual infidelity. Neuroticism is not a very appealing attribute in a mate; it’s not a trait that’s necessary on full display when one enters into a relationship.

1.    ROMANTIC JEALOUSY

Psychologist Steven Stosny says “the formula to jealousy is an insecure person times an insecure relationship”. A person that is insecure it’s not just about sexually jealous but of any kind of friendship or even of a child; anything that takes attention off them.

French psychiatrist Marcianne Blevis says jealousy is not the guardian of love, but more typically its destroyer. Blevis says “we assume that jealousy is necessary evil, the collateral damage of love”. “All human emotions exist to help us figure out who we are in the world, and jealousy is no exception. It is a reassurance we call on when we feel at risk. When we are jealous, we are in fact in a grip of an identity crisis”

It’s a mistake to assume that jealousy always involves love, argues Aaron Bem-Ze’ev, a philosopher in Israel’s University of Haifa. “A man who despises his wife may nevertheless become jealous when someone else looks covetously at her. Here, the central feature is losing to a rival.”

People use jealousy as a signal to try to control their partners; they use it as a powerful tool to stand out. They substitute power for value. People try to calm their own emotions by controlling a partner. You’re dependent of your partner’s whims to feel OK, and that’s a set up for anger.

NEIGHBOURS

I have chosen the film called neighbors. 

This movie talks about one family that they pass adolescents to adulthood. They buy a house on the outskirts of the neighbourhood. They think that in the ouskirts wouldn't noise until they meet their neighbors. They are a brotherhood of youth students. At the beggining nothing happens until there is the first party. As the family cannot appear an old parents, they go to the party and bind with the students. All the nights are the same: alcohol, take drugs, the music is at the top of volum and everybody are funny and dancing. The parents are expectants until they'r tired and they want to sleep. In this moment, begin a conflict between the brotherhood and the family. The family organise parties, the brotherhood to, all is a caos. The parents do all for that brotherhood leave the house and they can live with calm. Finally, after a lot of monkeyshines, the brotherhood leave their house and the family lives calm. The family and the brotherhood end up. After four months, the family goes to buy at the shopping center and the father finds the president of the brotherhood. They leave the conflicts an one band and they decide have a good relation.

  

I really like when everybody are in the party and anybody is angry or desperate. The music that the productor was put in the film is fantastic for the party, also, I love this kind of music. 

For me the best part is the end when they forgive each other and all begin again with a good relation.