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.

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.

Crisis

At the beginning of 2009 a crisis began all over.
The first country that was affected was USA, later the crisis extended all over the world.
When the crisis got to Spain the people were very scored. And these people were right, because Spain like most countries in Europe has been affected by the crises. This situation is caused because the economy in Spain is based on the construction, tourism and both, are the first to be affected by the crisis.
Now, we are in 2010 and the crisis countinues the same.
And the president of Spain tells us that we will get over this situation, but I think that it's not true until a few years have past. The economists in Spain tell us we will over this crisis beetwen 2011-2012 I hope so.
I think that you can see the crisis in all families in Spain. Especially in my family, we did more thinks than now, for example we travelled more.

Fashion

Nowadays fashion changes continually. In Spain girls follow the fashion more than boys. Perhaps girls buy more clothes than boys but they are cheaper and boys buy more brand makes. Girls prefer to have a lot of clothes so that they can wear different clothes every day. You can see this especially in people of my age, 17-18.
Hier clothes are quite expensive especially in the little shops but now there are a lot of chain stores for example Inditext. Where you can buy cheaper clothes and a lot of variety. Boys like spending a lot of money on trainers, and perhaps they buy three or four pairs a year.
Nowadays in spite of the fashion a lot of people prefer to follow their own style, for example the style of clothes depends on the music they like.
I also think that the world of clothes is the least affected by the crisis.

Studies

Now I'm studying first batxillerat social in IES Castelló d'Empúries.
In Batxillerat there are ten subjects and four of these are optional subjects. I my case maths, economy, business studies and French. I think that this level there are to many subjects, I think that there should be a maximum of eight subjects.
Other subjects are compulsory in Batxillerat. And I think that some subjects shouldn't be compulsory, because they are not very well chosen. Also in class they aret too many people. I think if the classes were smaller, then people would pay more attention to the teacher.
When you are sixten you have to choose if you you went to study scientific techological or social subjects. This is very difficult because at this age you don't always know what you want to study when you leave school and you go to university.
Moreover I didn't go on the trip that went to the university and now I don't have any information about this. I would like study economy but if I can't go to university I will study an upper grade subject at technical college.

Carnival

Carnival is a festival celebrated in February, but this festival is celebrated differentely from the others, you should dress up and go around your village with floats and then there is a party. There is a lot of competitiveness among the group taking part because the municipalities give award. So every year we. So every year we dress, but this year my friends and I dressed as "painters". You usualy typically start preparing for the costume and float at the end of the year, to everything prepared, but we did it a week before 13 of February and we didn't have time to make a float and the costume wasn't very good. On Friday we went to the Carnival of Roses, this is where there are more people and therefore we had a very good time, because we didn't care about the costume. The next day we went to St Pere which was also good but there were very few people campared to the people of Roses. The follow times our village carnival, Castelló d'Empúries, whic was held in a new hall multipurpose room. In this carnival there were a lot of people and I would say that is was the best of three. Next year we will have organize better, and we must start preparing the costume and float earlier to make it better than this year in addiction some of my friens will already have a driving license and will be able t drive the float.

New technologies

Internet, mobile phones, consoles, MP3 players, etc... There are new technologies that affect our lives, the lives of teenagers. For us them the new technologies are like radio the other people. Moreover we use every day, to communicate with friends to search information, to download music for ourselves... How would our life be without the new technologies? I cannot imagine how life would be without such divices, but maybe without these devices, our life would change a lot because, for example what young people would do in their free time without the computer or being unable to listen to music. And besides, we have changed a lot compared to what we did years ago. I also think it is difficult to imagine how these technologies will be in few years time because these technologies evolve very quickly and soon new and old are the others ones will appear to replace the old ones.

Cesc Fàbregas

Cesc Fàbregas is a football player, playing for Arsenal. Before he played with F.C.Barcelona and he lives in the Masia. But he went to Arsenal when he was 16 years old.

Fabregas is the Capitan of Arsenal and the most important player in the team. Cesc has also made his mark playing for Spain and in the classification of South Africa in the summer of 2010, he plays at important part.

Cesc Fàbregas is famous for this vision and creativity on the pitch and he creates opportunities for forwards, for this he is considered one of Europe’s best play markers. His play is similar to Xavi Hernandez (player for F.C.Barcelona).

At this moment Barcelona and Real Madrid are interested in Cesc, but he will probably sign on for Barcelona because he learnt there and he has good friends like Gerard Piqué.

My holidays

Last summer I went to Venice with my mother, her boy friend, her boyfriend’s daughter and my brother.

We all began in summer. On June sixth we went to Barcelona at eight o’clock because the plane took off at eleven o’clock.

When we arrived we took a bus to Venice. Venice is a beautiful place, it is a unique place because it hasn’t got streets, and it has got canals.

This means that there aren’t any cars, there are many boats. When we arrived in the city we ate in a good restaurant.

Once we had finished lunch we went to the hotel and we left the cases, after we stayed in our rooms to rest.

The next day we visit the church, it was impressive, it was very big.

We wert to the Saint Marco and we went to a bar to have a drink. Then we went to dinner in the hotel, it was delicious.

On the third day we visited the Rialto Bridge, this is the most important bridge in Venice, because it is bigger than the others.

Around it there are a lot of shops and cafes where people meet, and we visit the shops and I bought some thinks. For dinner I went to hotel.

This journey has been the best with my family.

C/Monturiol

Castelló d’Empúries

17486

15/1/10

Head Mistress

IES Castelló d’Empúries

Renatador nº6

17486


Dear Ms Lluis Pinto.

- I’m writing to you about the new timetable for next year. Next year the schools will start a week earlier, but in February we will have a week’s holiday.
- Having said that I agree with this new timetable because we have a lot of exams and it is very stressing, so a week’s holiday is good. It is also a good idea to start a week earlier because everybody is tired of the summer.
- The only thing I disagree with is that I only have one more year at school. So it will not affect me very much. It should have been changed before.
- I hope you will be interested to know my opinion about this subject.
Yours sincerely

Once upon a time there was a very pretty girl called little red ridding hood.
Once day her mother asked her, to take somecakes to her grandmother. Her grandmother lived on the other side of the forest.
The girl had to cross the forest to get to her grandomother's hause. when she was going there she met the woolf. he asked her where she was going and ahe told him she was going to visit her grandmother and that it wasn't very far. Riding hood put her basker on the grass and picked some flowers mean while the woolf went to her gradmother's hause. he knocked at the dor and gradmother's opened the door thinking that it was red riding hood. the wolf ate gradmother and he put on the gradmother's pink cap. he gat into bed and his eyes. Then the OK. Little girl arrives immediatly the little girl. Saw that her granmother had changed.


- She said big eyes you have got?
-They are to see you better.
-What big eyes you have got?
-they are to her you better.
-What big teeth you have got?
-They are to eat you better.
When the little girl heard she run all over the hause. Meanwhile the grandmothe arrived, from hunting he killed the wolf with a shot.
The gradfather took the gradmother out of the woolf. the family cooked the woolf and they had him for dinner.
They could live happily ever after.

My favurite sport it's five a side football. This sport consists of five players organist five players. This sport is practised in side. The game is in two parts of twenty five minutes each part. I have been plying this sport for about a year. I prefer in to normal football because it is faster and the court smaller and so you can touch the ball more often there different divisions like in normal fotball. This sport doesn't cost much money and is very funny.

In winter I like to go the mountains, I practise snowboard, this sport is more recent than skiing. It is individual on the coutry to five a side football. It consists in going down a mountain full of snow with bored made of wood. to practise this sport I need a suit for skiing and a board. To practise sonowboard, it is difficult. I go to the moutains and I live on the coast so it can be expensive, It is also a dangerous and risky sport