Something to improve

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in these last two years? 
Where, for example?
Of course I can see it. Two years ago it was difficult for me to speak, and now, I think I do it fluently and with an acceptable pronunciation. Of course I understand better the listenings but because I use to watch films in English.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? 
The speacking of course, and the listening. 

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 
The grammar activities for the exam, and the speacking, even though people don't use to take part in the class.

4. Which activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not? 
I think the activities were good, but it's difficult to improve English only watching videos twice a week. If we had more classes it would be perfect.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English? 
This stressing days we have a lots of exams, it's grateful to relax our mind, with some nice videos and songs. I think we'll have to do more grammar or vocabulary activities.

Dialogue

Polly: I'd better leave... I don't want to...

Tania: Shut up b***h! I don't want to see you anymore. And now, please, don't call me again, you two-faced wh**e.

Jamie: Girls, please... come on! Peace and love, ha,ha,ha.

Tania: Really Jamie? Peace and love? Yeah, of coure you love, but not me.

Polly: OK, I don't like that stupid thing, so... I leave. Bye. By the way Jamie, you can call me later and we go for a drink. And... well, (she winks) you know, we can do it all over again, can't we?

Tania: (Tania terribly upset and about to shut) I'm freaking out! Are you f*****g kiddin' me?

Polly: Bye! Kisses to you, darling.(Polly says this with irony)

Jamie: Wait! Hmmm... Tania, sorry.

Tania: What?

Jamie: I'm leaving with her.

Tania: OK, f**k you both.

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We have almost respect the World. Do you agree?

We are destroying our future every day, and now, it’s too late to come back to the bast when the environment was more or less fine. In my view, I think that the sentence “we have almost learnt to respect the world” is totally false. You can check it watching the news or listening them.

Firstly, it’s not a thing of the present, it’s also an effect from the past, and we can see that for what scientifics say, the ozone layer is breaking up and degrading because of all the toxic products we emit.

Secondly, it’s not just what I’ve said before. When you go walking anywhere you see the street full of rubbish and then, if it’s not enough, behind you, there’s someone throwing things on the floor.

In conclusion, there are a lot of things to say that are destroying the Earth and we are just beginning to understand all the consequences about it.

The only thing I can say about all this is that if we don’t look after our environment, we’ll destroy our planet a bit more than now, every time. 

Man spent 15 years with pencil in head after childhood accident

A 24-years-old man from Afghanistan sought help in 2011 after suffering headaches, worsening vision in one eye,... The doctors made a scan and showed that a 10-centimeter pencil was in his head, from his sinus to pharynx and it injured his right eye. The man said that he didn't know how the pencil got there but he said that when he was a child. once he fell badly. 

Strange? Really strange! How can a person have a pencil in his head? Strange things happen, but this is really hard. Can you imagine you with it in your head? Impossible. And without knowing it... I don't know how he could survive. I don't have anything to say about this because it's shocking.

Vocabulary:

pharynx-faringe

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/05/29/german-hospital-man-spent-15-years-with-pencil-in-head-after-childhood-accident/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz2V5dzjHuK

Study finds Facebook helps users ‘Like’ themselves better

Facebook makes elevate a person's seelf-esteem because you always try to post the best you have. But there's not only this, something wrong is on it and that's that this person have the best image of himself, and then, when they see them in an other way, they don't like it.

In my opinion I think it's something everybody do, posting every beautiful picture they have and the best photo they have. And an other consequence of this, when an other person post some photo about you and you don't see yourself fine, you can get angry even for a photo. It's incredible what this famous Facebook can do.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/02/study-finds-facebook-helps-users-like-themselves-better/#ixzz2V5XIp0PH

Mom of baby found in Chinese sewer won't be charged

 A stunning chinese baby was rescued from a sewer pipe after his birth, two hours later. His mother isn't criminal and won't have any criminal charges because authorities concluded that the baby fell into the toilet accidentally. That's what local officials and media reports said. 

Do you really think he fell accidentally? Incredible. That's all I can say about this news. I think that it's impossible a baby survives in the situation he was, and the mother, I think he can't have this child anymore, she's not a good mother, unless something really strange happened to this little child and for this reason he fell accidentally, but I thing the probabilities that this happened are really low. If I were the judge, this 22-girl, wouldn't have his son anymore. It's impossible. It's something irreal. 


Vocabulary:

stunning-meravellós
behalf-favor


Link: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/30/mom-baby-found-in-chinese-sewer-wont-be-charged/#ixzz2V5OR6EhU

It's over!

This week is the last one. Well, it's not the final one officially, but for me it is. Everyday I have an exam, and I think three of them are the most difficult ones. Tomorrow I've Philosophy, and I don't want to do it. I'm scared because I don't know what can happen with this test because I have an eight from the first term, an other eight from the second and in this third term and the last one, I don't know how the exam is going to be because we're studying a really difficult topic and, moreover, I don't like this subject. But if I get a seven, the only thing that count for the final mark is the exam, nothing else. So I have to study extremely hard.
The only thing I have to say is that there's only one more week studying, and then, if I pass all the exams, I'll say: HELLO SUMMER! I really want it.

Beauty

I don't know if you know who he is, but he won the last programme of "Tú si que vales". He's doing all the time amazing things with horses, as you can see on the first picture, the horse is painting, and it's not a joke because he makes performances with all his horses and I can say that it's really amazing. All he says to the horse, the animal does everything. 

Some of you think that he tame this animals violently, but he doesn't. He's one of the few trainers who tames the horses with it's nature, its instincts and of course, using the voice. I would like, one day, to tame my horse on this way. 

He has a lot of images, and here are some of them:

He has also filmed a TV advertisement, it's really nice! Here you can watch it:

Prisoners

This song is really amazing. I listen to it every beginning of the week and then I know that I have to do the things enthusiastically, I also know that I don't have to look the clock every minute, because the time will become slow, and later slower than before. So I just think that I have to enjoy every moment. That's what this song makes me feel like!

I found this song looking on the internet for a Spanish film, "Combustión", I don't know if you know which one I mean. It was impossible to find the film online, so I couldn't watch it.. but I've seen the teaser and it's incredible... I like this films where the cars are fast and there's a love story too. It makes me excite and yesterday what happened to me is bad... really bad! The only thing I wanted was to watch this film, but I couldn't.

Carlos Jean is the DJ who made this song, and here I lend you a video (sorry, it's in Spanish) from the Hormiguero, a TV programme in Spain, where we can see how they play the song.

My birthday

As you can see on the picture, it's me blowing candles at school. The cake was made by David Costa, and I never thought that he could do something like this, it's not just the fact of making a cake, but making a cake for me? Incredible. I think that maybe, he appreciates me, or I hope so.

He's not an opened boy, he's difficult to understand and has a strong personality. But that's what I like of him, sometimes I do similar things as him, and for this reason it's easier to make him smile, even though I can make him laughing when he's sad. 

This was a happy day, I spend all the day with people I love, and not only people from high school. And one day before, it was like my present from Horse-ball, Catalan Federation sent me an e-mail telling me that I was on the selection, and that we go this July to France! I'm so, so happy now!

Little big things I have

Yes, that's a strange photo. Or original, I don't know what you've thought about it at first sight. But the only thing I know is that I really like it. It's difficult to say what I like most of the photo, if my brother, my horse or the broom on the background. No! It's just a joke, it's bored if I don't use a bit of irony. 

It's a picture full of imperfections, but that's what make it original. For example, look at my boot, it's broken! Then, what else... What's supposed to be doing my horse? I'm sure you all thought she was looking at my butt, but she wasn't! I had a carrot in my pocket. And nothing else to say about this, some people say: it's better an image than a thousand words! 

The most impressive equestrian sport

http://vimeo.com/hballtv/review/66861513/e163590dfb

Here is the link of the video, in Vimeo, because I couldn't do it by an other way.

It is important you watch the video before reading what I say.
I could write so much about this sport and at the same time I would have it described in a few words. I'm going to do it by both ways. This sport means so much to everybody who's playing it. For people who never's seen it or don't like horses, they say that it's not impressive at all and that maybe, it won't be nothing on the future. And my question is: WTF do they know about it? Do they feel as I do with my horse doing what I love, with something else? Because I don't think so. Well, it's better that I stop because this topic makes me getting nervous.

If you have seen the video, you could made an idea of what it is and how do we play Horse-ball. It's not only you who think that it's a crazy sport. Sometimes, when I'm thinking about it one thing pass through my head and it is if I am okay with myself or something is wrong! And later I say: no, it's just I like having fun and have some risk.

As I said, I can describe how it is in a few words: a little life.

Dear John

I've just seen this film because everybody told me that it's really fine. Well, it is, unless because it made me cry a lot (well, that's usual in me).
This film is about a soldier who's in holidays and he goes to his town to visit his father. It is summer. One day, she meets a girl and they spend two weeks together and they really fall in love. She has to go back to the University and he has to return to the army. It is a year sending letters and he goes to the town again one weekend. There they meet again but he has to come back to the army. One day, there aren't more letters. Something happened to her. Savvannah send a letter to him and said that he was married to a man. Well, John was so depressed until he had to visit his father because he was diying. There they met again and John said that we wouldn't be anymore with her because she was married, so he was nothing to her. And as all the romantic films, in a few time they met again and here is the end.

I like so much romantic films because I get on the plot, it's like things were happening to me, and that's what makes me feel sensitive.