FINAL AUTOEVALUATION

• Observing your portfolio, can you see an improvement on your level of Enlish since September 2007? Where, for example?

Yes, of course! doing the blog you can imrove a lot your writting because you must think a topic and then a good way to explain what you want to say. I think that I have improved my english level because my writings are better, my oral presentations too, the book that I red was quite difficult but I learned a lot...

• Which activity best shows your level of English?

I think that the oral presentations and the oral exams with Anikka are the best way to see our english level, but the writings are really important too.

• Which activities were really useful for you to improve your English? Why?

In my opinion, the best activities to learn englis are the activities that we can do in the language room like watch a film in english or read a book. The films are really good because you can see your pronuntiation faults.

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

All the activities were good to learn, some of them were more funny .

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

The oral presentations, watch films, read more books, and....I think that the exam of the book it's better if it is oral than if mus must answer some questions in a paper.

• IDEAS FOR THE NEXT YEAR:

I think that it could be fantastic if the next year we do a travel to England o Ireland for one week = ) We would learn a lot!!!

A good film: MILLION DOLLAR BABY

Million dolar baby is a really good film, there are a lot of good actors such as Morgan Freeman and Hiary Swang. tha film is about a woman who love to practice boxing. She reallu trains a lot but she doesn't find a trainer who wants to introduce her to the competition world.
I mus say that the film is quite sad but I really enjoyed it, I felt exited meanwhile I was watching it.

It's a film that I recomend you if you havn't seen it.

OPINION ESSAY

WE HAVE ALMOST LEARNT TO RSPECT OUR WORLD. DO YOU AGREE?




People today don’t respect the environment so much, but every day there’s more people taking conscience about the problem.

Nowadays we are just starting to see the bad consequences of all the pollution we have done during years and years, and, the high level of destruction of the nature we’ve done.
Every years we have less forests in our planet, less rivers without pollution, less wild animals…

Luckily, we are starting to take conscience about all this and we are starting to respect a little bit more our nice world.

Now, people recycle more and the governments are starting new projects to fight against the pollution.

So, we are starting to respect our world, it’s a difficult way to go…but we can do it!!




MARINA SARQUELLA GÁZQUEZ
1r BTX B

OPINION ESSAY

TOO MUCH IMPORTACE IS GIVEN TO TAKING EXAMS AT SCHOOL. DO YOU AGREE??

In my opinion exams are really important, but maybe it’s true that we give them too much importance.
Maybe, the daily work and the homework that you can do with a support are more important than the exams. If you do your homework thinking about what you are doing, you learn more than if you only study for one exam and then you forget it.

I think that maybe it would be better to do a “big work” in every subject, of course not as big as our research work.

A pupils council would be a really good project to improve some things of the education, but their responsibility… maybe is too much responsibility for a young group of pupils.

We have to mention that every child is different and each pupil needs a different attention and have different ways to study.

For example, now we are doing an English exam and…yes, of course it’s important to know the passives, the present perfect and all the grammar...but I think that maybe we could learn more doing more readings, listenings, writings…
And, the activities of class are OK, but I would prefer to learn English watching more original versions of films, writing the lyrics of the songs, reading books…

With the other subjects, like catalan or economy, it’s the same, the work in class teachs you more than one exam.

But, of course, a lot of people disagree with me, so…maybe the exams are the easiest solution to evaluate the pupils.

DIALOGUE ( Marina & Carles)

A young guy goes to a sailing school and he talks with a woman about the activities that he can do.
G = guy / W = woman

G: Hi!! Good morning!!
W: Good morning!
G: Is this a sailing school?
W: Yes, of course!! What do you need?
G: Oh, I would like to come with my friends and we want to do something funny.
W: Ok…well, we have some funny activities like windsurfing, kayak…and some kinds of different boats.
G: Ok, more or less we will be…eleven or twelve…
Which activity do you think that could be the best for us?
W: If you are eleven…maybe you would enjoy a windsurfing course.
G: That sounds good!! How much it costs?
W: It depends on the hours you want to spend.
G: We want to spend the whole afternoon here!
W: Ok! So , maybe it will be better if you go sailing.
G: What’s that?
W: Well…we give you a boat and an instructor and he will teach you to sail.
G: and…It’s possible to book it for tomorrow?
W: Yes, it’s ok. So…tomorrow we will talk about the prize.
G: Perfect! See you tomorrow!
W: Byee!!!

oral presentations

• Bernardo Santos and Iñaki Fernandez: they talked about the crimes in the United States of America.Facts that I have learnt: In Russia there are a lot of crimesmore than in USA.Black people do more crimes than white people.My general impression was good.

• Chainez Selloum talked about the famineFacts that I have learnt: some desastrous famines like the famine of 1958 in China.The food and agriculture organitzation of USA is WFPShe has a really good pronunciation.I really liked her oral presentation.

• Laia Saló and Elisenda Lladó talked about helpless dogs.Facts I have learnt:Each year occurs nearly to 200.000 animal abandonament.Nowadays there are some solutions for this problem like associations, law...Conseguences of the problem: traffic accidents, germs and diseases...I enjoyed their presentation, and the pictures in the power point were really nice.

• Adrià Alfaro talked about the skinheads. Facts that I have learnt: Skinheads started in England and Jamaica- 1980 in England created a right ideologi. There are skinheads anti-racistes.There are other kind of skinheads like the rash. He wasn't nervous and he done it well.

• Alejandro Peña and Adrià Carmona. They talked about the waste. Facts that I have learnt:there are tifferent kinds of materials (plastic bags, condoms, batteries, cigarettes, aluminium, cans...)All the different materials need a lot of time to be descomposed. Theyr presentation was really original.

• Carles Torracabota and Claudia Rosillo talked about the drugs in our society. Some facts I have learnt: Cocaina costs 60€ each gram,Speed costs 26€ each gram, Heroine costs 65€ each gram.Theye idea of the dialogue was really original, I enjoyed the oral presentation, they done it so good.

• Baldiri Gironella talked about the Hooliganism. Facts I have learn: "Green Street Hooligans"this film shows a story about an american boy whowants to be holligan. I enjoyed his oral presentation because I didn't know nothing about the hooligans. he talked calmy and he done it well.

• Oriol Oliva done his oral presentation about the water. Some facts that I have learnt: Water is essencial for survive, the earth contains a 97% of salty water, there are some towns where are in state off emergency. He spoke calmly and his presentation was good.

• Miriam and Anna Genís talked about poverty and podronage .Vicenç Ferrer ONG started 6 years ago. The topic was really interesting and they done it very good.

• Ariadna Comas done her oral presentation about animals mistreatness. Some facts that I have learnt: every year thousand of animal are used and sacrified to experimental intentions.There are organisations to fight afains the animals mistritness like http://www.peta.org/ (it defensed the rist of animals; it was pet up in 1980). Her topic was interesting and she done it well, maybe he was a little bit nervous but she done it really good.

• Neus pagès and Marina Julià talked about Diseases .some facts that I hve larnt: Bulimia, cancer, AIDS and anorexia, are really dangerous diseases. They show us the story of one bulimic girl: The story of Maria. I enjoyed theyr oral presentation and they done it really good, the idea of the story was really good.