My opinion
I think that I have improved a bit on my level of English since September 2009. This is because this year I have done a lot of compositions, Blog, more oral presentations... than last year.
Besides this year there were more hours of English and I have dedicated more time to this subject. Furthermore this past year the teacher has done a lot of exercices.
In general everything has helped my level of English but I have improved the compositions more, because for the blog I have done a lot of essays about a lot of things from news items to my say.
A part from thie compositions I have done three oral presentations this year, and that has improved my oral expresion.
The activities that have been really useful to improve my level were reading two books, because in this way I have improved in general vocabulary.
To sum up the activities I have done were useful to improve, because most of these things were new and not from last year.
I think that the acivity I have enjoyed doing most and would like to do again next year is the blog, because with the blog I have done more writings and in this way I have improved a lot.
In conclusion I think I should have satrted doing these things from an earlier age because this is the only way to improve English.

Monday 8th of March

Everything began at about 10 o'clock on Monday moorning it started snowing.
At break time the teachers us to go home, because it was snowing a lot. After lunch at 3:30 the lights went out because of the snow all. In 7 o'clock it started snowing and the streets of Castelló d'Empúries were white, it was beautiful.
At night there wasn't only electricity either, for this reason the night was very boring.
The next day up and the view was impressive and they weren't any classes because there wasn't any electricity. At lunch time in 2:15 electricity came back in some places of village. The rest of the places the electricity come back on at 4 o'clock in the moorning. Now the 15 th March there are still some villages in Catalonia that don't have any electricity.

Manias

Everybody has some manias, even though these manias are often very insignificants. For example I am very maniatic about order, cleanliness and food. But it's curious that not everybody has the some manias.

Apart from this there are peolple who have more manias than others, and these people are called maniacs.

Moreover, a film has been made about this, and the star was Jack Nicholson. He was very good in role.I recommend this film.

But also if a person has a lot of manias it could be bad for these people, because they could have problems with people around them. Apart from us, famous people also have manias, for example Rafa Nadal, bounces the ball twice beffore he serves.

Peoople think that their manias are correct and the best, but I think that all manias are correct as long as you respect other people.

I think also that some manias are copied from the parents.

The Pianist

Wladyslaw Azplman is the main character of this drama. He is a well known Polish pianist. He lives in Warsaw with his family, they are Polish Jews. When the war starts all the family are sent to a getto in Warsaw with other jews and he ears his living playing the piano in bars and cafes.

Then the family are seperated and they are sent to differnet concentration camps, some of this family die in the camps.

Wladyslaw escapes from the camp and some people help him to hide. He lives in different apartments and his friends bring him food. After a time, nobody comes and he goes to another house, because the Germans are very near. He hides in this house, but then the Germans come. A Germans captain friends him but he doesn't tell anybody and he gives him some food. Later the Americans and British arrive and the war finishes. Wladyslaw is saved but most of his family have died.

This film won three Oscars; for the best actor, the best director and the best script. In my opinion this is a very interesting film, because it shows us how the jews lived during the war, but there are scenes that are very shocking. I liked this film because it is about real life and it makes you think a lot. The director of this film was Roman Polanski, he was Polish and he lived in Poland during the nazi invasion.

On the Street

This article is about illegal street sellers who can be seen in many parts of the region.

The majority of Catalunya's illegal street sellers are from North or Subsaharian Africa are they ordinary young men or are they people who are depriving the shopkeepers of trade.

According to one shopkeeper, the street sellers can became very aggresive. If we ask them to have they have a system of signalling to warm each other, when the police are coming they moveon as soon as the police arrive but they're back again very quickly.

This piece of news affects me because in Santa Margarita is beetwen Castelló and Roses in summer there are a lot of illegal street sellers, they sell cheap productes with false makes, for example watches, sunglasses, caps, etc. This isn't good for the shops that sell the real makes.

Food and drink

The different countries in the world have a different food and drinks. Moreover each country has its own typical dishes and different diets.

In my country we follow the Mediterranean diet and the specialists say that it is the best and healthiest diet. However that doesn't mean that everybody follows this diet.

In other countries the diet changes and these people don't follow its diet.

The diet in my country is the healthiest in Europe, because there is a lot of variety, the meal are made with different kinds os fish, meat, a lot of vegetables, cereals...

But in recent years the people of Europe haven't followed this diet. I think that the cause of this is that people don't have time for their meals and for this reason they buy ready cooked food. And they don't practise sport recently in Spain there are a lot of cases of obesity and overweight, for this reason I think that we should solve this problem.

People of my age are not usually obese but the problem starts from age. The country with the most cases of obesity is North America.

T.V

For me television is on of the best inventions of technology, because it was invented long time ago and has changed a lot.

Every day everybody watches the T.V for more than an hour to see serials, films, programmes, news, etc.

Every day I watch T.V more than 1 hour. I like watching television, for the serials and the news, I think these are the best things on T.V.

A part from Internet the T.V is one of the things that attracts more people and of the most important media because you know what is happening in the world, from the misery to the good things.

Some people define the T.V as " the idiot box", but I don't agree with this expression because if T.V didn't exist there would only be Internet. A part from this people of my age T.V is a very important things.

I also think that watching too much T.V is not very good, because it can damage your eyesight and you lose a lot of studying time.

In coclusion I think that watching T.V an hour a day does not hurt anybody.