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.

ACROSTICS

Red, pink
Orange or blue, you can chose their colour
Spring & Summer, the best seasons for them
Elegance, they are completely perfect.
Sweet-smelling, their best present for you!!


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The best place in the world,
Highness of the nature,
Empty of water and animals,

Strange,
Enormous,
And perfect.

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An Oregon man, named Thomas Beatie is the fitsr pregnant man in the world.
Mr. Beatie is a transgender person, born female, who had his outward features medically altered to achieve a more masculine appearance but kept his reproductive organs intact. He claims he became pregnant five months ago via artificial insemination.
it's too strange that a man becomes pregnant, but in four months we will know certain if he was pregnant or not.

FRANKENSTAIN: diferences between the film and the book

IN THE BOOK

Victor and Henry Clerval have been friends since their childhood. Victor has got two little brothers.Elisabeth has got blond hair and blue eyes.The monster was 2’5m tall.Frankenstein, during his travel, saved the girl in the river and then the girl’s father shoots him. Henry, the best friend of Victor, dies.
Victor is accused about the deaths and he rests in the tribunals for a few hours.
The monster killed Elisabeth: he strangled her and, when Elisabeth dies, Victor wants to kill the monster.

IN THE FILM:

The first time they met, it was in the university. Victor has got only one little brother, William. Felix and Agatha are married.Elisabeth has got brown hair.
Henry doesn’t die.
Victor isn’t accused about the deaths.
The monster killed Elisabeth: he taked out the heart of the Elisabeth’s body.
When Elisabeth dies, Victor wants to kill the monster, and, after Elisabeth’s death, Victor reconstructs the body of the Elisabeth because she can revive.