Final reflection

I believe that this year I have learnt a lot. I have learnt writing, listening and reading but coverall with the orals presentation and the gramatical book. Also I have learnt with Anika speaking for better my expression.

CNN Video: Train collision kills 43 in China

Two passenger trains crashed on Monday 28 April in eastern China and killed 43 people and injured 247. The crash happened in the city of Zibo that is on the coastal from Beijing. The head of the Ministry of Railways has told it won’t to happen.

News expressions learnt:
• Oversee: supervisar, expeccionar
• witnesses: testimonis
• carriages: vagons de ferrocarril

CNN Video: U.N. forms task force to ease food crisis

The price of the food has rise without to stop. It’s the fault of a lot of factors as for example that in the world there is always more people and this cause demander and fewer offers. So two countries such as India and China have increased the demand a lot and so this year has been a bad harvest. This crisis will affect more at the poor countries.

News expressions learnt:
harvest: collita
such: tal

Novel summary of "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"

The story is a detective novel. In the novel the Earth has suffered a War World Terminus and is surrounded by radioactive dust. Everybody wants to leave the Earth and go to colonise Mars. The society in this novel is very different because after the War World Terminus nobody who won the War and a lot of species of animals has disappeared. Real animals are meant to be the high society. There is a very famous program that is called Buster friend. The religion of this society is called Mercerism. This religion is very strange and deals about one machine where you connect your brain and experiments sensations as happiness and sadness.

The story deals about a personage who is called Rick Deckard who is an android killer working for the government of the city of San Francisco. The department of San Francisco asked him to kill six androids. The androids are much seem to humans and to recognize him, Deckard needs a test that is called Voight-Kampff to recognize him. Deckard discover that Rachel Rosen who is the daughter of the own Corporation to create androids. Deckard searches these androids because they escaped to Mars to live better. In reality the androids only want to live better because on Mars they are slaves and on the Earth they are free. Deckard first kills Max, after he kills Polokolov. The third android is called Luba Lufth and Deckard can’t kill him because she sings very well and Deckard feel compassion for him. But Phil Resch kills him and Deckard is very sad.

The last three androids are secluded in the apartment of Isidord who is a human subnormal by fault of the radioactive dust. These androids are Pris, Ismgrad and Roy that is the android stronger.
Deckard kills these androids without any problem because these androids are bad.

CNN news: Myanmar: 15,000 dead, up to a million homeless

In Myanmar happened a catastrofic cyclone and it killed 15000 people but their consequences could kill more people in the next hours to cause of hungry and the floods. Somepeople experts say that their consequences could be worse than the tsunami in 2004. This cyclone destroyed a lot of homes. So some villages are totally destroys.

DIALOGUE

Introduction
The Tuaregs are nomadic people that live in zones of the desert of the Sahara they speak a Berber language and they have their own writing. I am Marcos a reporter and I will talk with a person of the Tuareg clan called Abd-elkrim to know more things about his culture and costumes.

Conversation Transcript
Marcos: Hello Mr.Abd-elkrim.
Abd-elkrim: Hello Marcos.
Marcos: Why does your clan continue in the society nowadays travelling around the desert?
Abd-elkrim: We are happy travelling the desert and don’t miss the modern society nowadays where the people only think to buy electronic machines.
Marcos: Yes, it’s true but your village only travels the desert and a lot of times your village has suffered hunger and thirst. One test about it is that a lot of people have emigrated to cities for the appetitive.
Abd-elkrim: Yes, but it is a small sacrifice to live in the desert. So many people are hungry in the world.
Marcos: Do you believe that the Tuareg people will disappear?
Abd-elkrim: Yes because before we travelled without frontiers and the climate was better than now, every time is more difficult to live in the desert.
Marcos: Goodbye and thank you for the interview.
Abd-elkrim: You are welcome.

ACROSTIC

Satisfaction is a very important feeling
And very necessary for our lives
Travelling is a solution to get it
Indispensable for everybody is the
Satisfaction
Feeling it you can be very happy
Against satisfaction you can’t fight
Can you do a lot of things to get it?
Trillions of money does not buy satisfaction
Immortality does not buy the satisfaction
Obtaining things important to you is a solution to get it
Namesakes of satisfactions are a lot but the only important thing is to feel it.

Film: Crash

The film is dramatic. It deals about the story of different personages in Los Angeles but more principally of people of different cultures and the racism. One personage is a racist policeman but he finishes saving the life of a black woman. Another personage is an inspector investigating a case and at the final of the film his brother dies. Also there is a family of Persia origins and another family who is Mexican. There is married couple, the husband is a judge and her wife is racist but at the end of the film she isn’t racist.

News expressions learnt:
• It’s ok = Ja està.
• Go home = Torna a casa.
• At them = Amb ells.
• My poor baby = El meu pobre fill.

A letter

C/Pení
Empuriabrava
17487
11th April 2008-04-26 Mr.Minister for the Environment
62 Carrer Sotelo
Madrid NW14 3TC

Dear sir,
I am writing this letter for expressive you my opinion about water problem and tell some solutions that I believe are interesting.
First, I believe that the government may do a water network. It would communicate around Spain and this everywhere would have water. Because so, the regions where there is too much water as, for example, Galicia may want water another regions where there isn’t enough water as, for example, Catalonia and more concretely Barcelona.
A second solution or idea that I believe is best because wouldn’t cost money but if cause a lot of problems in the population.
This solution is to do best administration of the water to part of the State. The government should provide water only at sume time as, for example, from 8:00 a.m to 10:00 a.m and form 8:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m.

Your faithfully


Marcos Infantili Toro

BBC Sport MOTORSPORT:Fernando Alonso has moved to cool speculation he could move from Renault to Ferrari at the end of the season 15/04/2008

Alonso when signed with Renault he didn’t imagine that Renault would function so badly. So now he hints to go with another team to be more competitive. This team may be Ferrari if Alonso has luck and Massa who is an official pilot of Ferrari leaves.
Alonso is only 26 years old and he has two world champions of Formula One.
In the first two races Alonso only got six points and it is the fault of the car but in the next race the Renault car will be modified and perhaps it will function better than now.

New expressions learnt:
• Hinted = Insinuació, indirecta.
• Early = Primerenc, prematur.
• Rows = navegar, remar, baralla…
• In the first two races = en les dos primers curses.
• Whatever = el que sigui.

CNN NEWS: CHINA CONDEMNS OLYMPIC TORCH PROTEST 07/04/2008

A lot of people in favour of Tibet protested in Paris and London for the freedom of Tibet. Tibet is a nation that was annexed by the China in the year 1959. Now the Tibetans want to take advantage of Olympic Games of Peking in the summer of 2008 that is in capital of China and Tibetans want demonstrate to the world that China is a dictator government to prejudice the image of China in all countries.
The next place that the Olympics torch will visit will be San Francisco in the USA and a lot of people are in preparation to protest against Chinese government.
Never the Olympic Games were as controversial as this time.

News expressions learnt:
• To take advantage = Aprofitar.
• Torch = Torxa.
• Controversial = Polemic.

My oral presentation

My Research Paper deals with how to create a company. The type of company that I have chosen is of construction because like east sector and wanted I to know more on the world of the construction.

To begin my project of company I had to make a project on the procedures that are required to construct to a house or any type of house, of the proceedings that are needed to constitute my company of legal form, like requesting a credit to the bank and finally how to market my product.

The steps that I followed to elaborate my project are:
• Concretion of the idea where I plan like and that way I will put into operation my company.
• Definition of the type of good where I speak that characteristic of my product.
• Identification of the curriculum of the promoters where I speak of the qualities of the partners who will form my company.
• Location of the company, in this section I speak on the land where I have thought to construct a house to begin the project.
• Identification of the characteristics of the market where I speak of the competition that there is in my sector, but more concretely in Castelló d' Empúries because it is the site where I will construct the house.
• Productive process where I speak of the steps that I will follow to elaborate my project.
• Necessary personnel where I speak of the types of workers who I will need to construct the house.
• Necessary investments where I speak approximately of the amount which I need for my project which type of costs is.
• Sources of financing where I speak of how I will obtain the money necessary to begin my project.
• And finally the election of the legal form where I speak of which type of society I choose for my company and the proceedings that I must make for being able to exert like a company.

To make my Research Paper I have had to look for book information, Internet and also to interview a few people who dedicate themselves to the world of the construction. As for example I had to ask architects on whom they receive to make planes of houses, to the bank on the interests that receive for a credit, to a promoter on which cost the materials that are needed to construct a house…



The things that I have learned with this work are:
• The steps that are due to make to plan any type of enterprise project of construction.
• To know because the prices of the house are so expensive in Spain and because the world of the construction is in crisis, etc.

BBC NEWS: There was a distinct sense of deja vu at the launch of Renault's new R28 car in Paris.

This notice is about Fernando Alonso the Spain pilot of formula one. This year Alonso will be in the team of Renault. The last year Alonso was in the team of McLaren but for fault of Ron Denis, who is the proprietary of this team, Alonso has left this team to go to Renault because he has more possibilities in this team.
Ron Denis have the fault because he always favour to Hamilton, who is a Brittan pilot, and so he did strategies in the courses to favour the Hamilton and so Alonso always have disadvantage. Hamilton could win the championship of Formula One but Kimi Raikkonen was the winning one and everybody prefers that Raikkonen should won.
This year is very difficult because Alonso win the championship of Formula One because the Renault car is worse than the car of McLaren, the car of Ferrari and the car of BMW. Everybody said that Alonso wouldn’t win in 2005 the championship of Formula One with the Reanault car and he won the championship and the best pilot of the history who is Michael Shumacher.

A description of a place

One of my favourite places is beach in Empuriavraba because it is a very pretty place, pleasant and where you can go to relax when you want.
It is also a place where you can spend time playing with your friends to soccer, volleyball… and where you can go to walk with a special girl.

One of the best things on the beach is that it is a site where you can have a great time all the year but mostly in summer when this place is plenty of new people and can make a lot of friends.

This summer I haven’t gone a lot because I haven’t had time due to my work but next summer I will try to go some more days.

BBC NEWS: Mysterious mammal caught on film

An "extraordinary" desert creature has been caught on camera for what scientists believe is the first time.
This notice is about the discovering of a new animal. This unusual animal was filmed in the Gobi desert during an expedition by Dr.Baillie. This animal was caught to the Gobi desert between China, Russia and Mongolia. This animal is very interesting because it has big ears and a lot of people called him the Mickey Mouse of the desert for his cute and comic equal measure. With this new discovering the scientist think that it can be the beginning because the scientist always is interested to discover the biodiversity of the Gobi desert but before they couldn’t to investigate in this place because the governs of Russian and China weren’t allowed to investigate in this country but now they many do it.

Composition about Research Paper

I believe that if in Catalonia the Research Paper is obligatory, also it should be obligatory for all Spain and for all the countries in Europe. First of all, the Catalan students believe it isn’t fair because The Research Paper is only obligatory in Catalonia.
Secondly, the Research Paper is very long and you need to spend a lot of time to finish. The Research Paper has to have fifty pages minimum. Perhaps, you learn a lot with the Research Paper but if it was easier and the paper only contained their basic things you learn a lot.
To sum up, I would say that the Research Paper should be volunteer.

A formal letter

52 Portobeach
Girona
17887
14th December
Dear Adam,
I have just read a book with the title Death of Beekeeper by the Swedish author Lars Gustafson. This is a very interesting book to talk about the death of this job. I don’t understand so maybe this profession may disappear because for me the honey is very important in our life. When I am ill I eat a lot of honey because it helps me and I feel better. The book that I have read says that the honey isn’t necessary because every time the people eat it less.
This job shouldn’t disappear.
Write soon,
Fernando

BBC NEWS: A very Bulgarian building boom

My notice is about the situation economic of Bulgarian. This country is situated between Romanian and Greece. Thousands of British property investors spend their money into Bulgarian holiday flats, in ski resorts and on the coast. For example, one apartment in Sofia which is the Bulgarian’s capital cost 40.000 €. The cause that many countries from European east are big investors because in the last 10 years they have developed a lot to cause her adhesion in Europe Union.
I wrote about this team because I am interested with the economy and this is very actuality.

A MAGAZINE FOR TEENAGERS: Alcatraz the “Rock”

This notice is about the Alcatraz island. Alcatraz was the most famous prison in the world. Nowadays it is a tourist attraction. The most dangerous and famous prisoners who lived in Alcatraz was Al Capone. This prison was built in 1850 and closed in 1963. In total, 36 men tried to escape but nobody has got this.