FORMAL LETTER

Daniel Powter- Bad day

Where is the moment when we need it the most On està el moment quan més el necessites
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost Aixeques les fulles I la màgia es perd
They tell me your blue sky's faded to grey Ells m’expliquen que el cel blau s’ha destenyit a gris.
They tell me your passion's gone away Ells m’expliquen que les teves passions s’han escapat
And I don't need no carrying on I no necessito no continuar

Stand in the line just ahead of the law De peu sobre la línia tan sols a prop de la llei
You're faking a smile with the coffee you go Estas fingint un somriure amb cafè i tu te’n vas
You tell me your life's been way off line Tu em dius que la vida ha estat apagada
You're falling to pieces every time Tu t’estàs fent trossets tot el temps
And I don't need no carrying on I no necessito no continuar


Cause you had a bad day Perque tu has tingut un mal dia
You're taking one down Tu estas tinguent un”baixón”
You sing a sad song just to turn it around Tu cantes una cançó trista només per donar-li la volta
You say you don't know Dius que no ho saps
You tell me don't lie Diga’m que no em menteixes
You work at a smile and you go for a ride Tu treballes un somriure i te’n vas a fer un passeig
You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia
The camera don't lie La càmera no menteix
You're coming back down and you really don't mind tu t’estàs venint a baix I no t’importa realment
You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia
You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia


Well you need a blue sky holiday Bé, tu necessites unes vacances de blau cel
The point is they laugh at what you say El punt es ells, rient-se del que dius
And I don't need no carrying on I tu no necessites no continuar

You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia
You're taking one down Tu estas tinguent un “baixón”
You sing a sad song just to turn it around Tu cantes una cançó trista només per donar-li la volta
You say you don't know Dius que no ho saps
You tell me don't lie Diga’m que no em menteixes
You work at a smile and you go for a ride Tu treballes un somriure i te’n vas a fer un passeig
You had a bad day tu has tingut un mal dia
The camera don't lie La càmera no enganya
You're coming back down and you really don't mind Tu t’estàs enfonsant i no t’importa realment
You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia
You had a bad day Tu has tingut un mal dia


Sometimes the system goes on the blink and the whole thing it turns out
Wrong De vegades, el sistema és obrir i tancar i tota cosa resulta errònia
You might not make it back and you know that you could be well oh that
Strong Tu hauries de tornar a fer-ho I saber que tu pots estar be, OH que la força
Well I'm not wrong Bé, no estic equivocat

My perfect plan for next summer

As you know, next year we start university and we need a good level of English. My English teacher (Leigh), told me that I have the opportunity to go to England for two weeks with an English family, moreover the people of the house are English teachersand everyday you have 3 hours of classes and then you can go on excursions and everything perfect, I was very excited to do it but then the cost was very high and my parents told me that I will be better if I go to England to work during the summer. These are my new plans!

I've lost the chance to study for two weeks because now I will stay for two or three months with a family to work as an aupair.

I love children and I have got experience with them. I've worked in summer with a group of children for about 3-4 years and I also look after my cousin and my neighbours. I also I have two qualifications and I hope to do it another.

In conclusion, I hope that I can do it!

The magic is in the hole

This piece of news is about the culture of doughnuts. In my opinion dooughnuts can do miracles, at the moment you are happy and in a good mood.

This piece of news, chooses some examples to represent the doughnuts, like the Simpsons or manager Hillary Witt that explains her experience.

Nowadays, there are competitions to eat doughnnuts, I think that this is a funny thing because if you try it’s impossible to do it (I'm not saying that I've tried it). It seems impossible.

I sat looking at the brilliant photos of doughnuts... they are impressive. I have never seen doughnnuts like these, only douighnuts that you can buy in a supermarket, you know. I wish I could see these types of doughnuts sometime in my life…

Vocabulary that I learned

Brainchild: invent

Innuendo: insinuació

Stake: estaca
donut (American English) doughnut (British English)

FORUMS: Pride and prejudice

Forum 2

Some years ago, marriage was a money issue like in some films. People were interested to marry into a rich family thus having their life organised. The family prepared the wedding and everything was prepared by the family. Nowadays I think that there are still marriages for convenience, for the papers or for money. But generally, they do it for love and because they are really in love, to get married is an important decision or your life and you have to be very sure what you want.



Forum 3

I also agree with you, family’s honour in the past was very important, also I think that now family honour is less important. I agree with Laura Carrera when she said that we have to enjoy our lives in a correct way. Family honour, I think that now, it is very important too...



Forum 1
I don’t think that girls enjoyed the film more than boys. There are also romantic boys, like Cèlia said, which boy would admit directly that he likes it? That’s a real question, and I think that one or two in our class for example would say, "Yes I love or like this film". Therefore, I don’t think that this film is for only girls, but maybe girls can understand the situation of Lizzie because we could be in the same situation as her

Mediterranean diet may help prevent dementia, study says

CNN, February 8, 2010 health news

This piece of news talks about some investigation into the Mediterranean diet, that can prevent heart attacks and some issues.


As you know, the Mediterranean diet includes a lot of fruit, vegetables and fish, olive oil, legumes and cereal. It also involves small to moderate amounts of alcohol, but these last sentence, we know that, for everybody it's different, nowadays we consume a lot of alcohol.

Personally I think that eat a balanced diet is a good way to protect yourself and be healthy. Everybody should eat a Mediterranean diet. I believe that it’s famous and has a lot of fame, but still if you force American people to eat some vegetables and fish maybe they will go to hellJ

Obviously, if I have to choose my diet, I choose pizza, hamburgers, pasta, some meat and sometimes seafood because I love it. But if I ate fast food every day, I would be crazy!

Everybody in their own world!

My New Year’s Resolution

I don’t have the custom to make resolutions so sometimes I say this year I’ll study a lot but the next day everything is forgotten. Before finishing the year, one day I stayed with Anna and we decided that we had to study some days before, and everything that we didn’t understand we would ask the teacher.

So my resolutions for 2010 are,



Health: As you know, last year I was in the hospital for a lot of days and I was very ill thus I ask for health for my family but especially for me. I know that this is a typical resolution, but sincerely I need it.



Licence car: Secondly, I have my theory part of the licence for the car and I hope to be 18 for my practical part and have my own car. But my birthday is in November and I have to wait some months, with my mother someday I will go to do practices. Ladies and gentleman move your children away!!



Enjoy my life: Like everybody we have to enjoy our life, we’re 17 or 18 and we are in the flower of life. I hope to spend my life with all people that I love, my friends, my colleagues, my family and obviously continue with my boyfriend, but I don’t need to do this resolution because I know and I’m sure that we’ll be together for a long time.

ORAL PRESENTATION: VACCINES

In my oral presentation I used powerpoint as resource with some images, tables and graphics that I did myself. It was focused on the topic that we talked. Doing a powerpoint presentation is good support for the presentation, it’s a way to show your hard work, imagination and be entertaining. I talked for about 5 minutes.

Body language & eye contact

During my oral presentation I tried to look at people. At first I wasn’t nervous but when I started to talk, all my nervousnous came. I still move my hands and arms, but this is not an anecdote for me. I knew my presentation perfectly but we know that the nerves are very bad and I needed to read my notes.

Structure

I think that my presentation and structure was ok; I introduced the topic and I justified why I chose this topic, then I spoke about my objectives. The research project was divided into two parts, firstly I spoke about my theoretical part, but only by paragraphs, later I tried to explain with more details my practical part, because these were an important part for my project. I tried to organize my ideas in order of importance. First of all, I explained the interview that I did following by the vaccination card, compared different doses and ages in the European Union and Spain. The last part was conclusions, then I tried to show everybody a video that I did at Christmas. I introduced a lot of new information to my audience; this project wasn't toinformation but doing a study of the vaccines helped by interviews.



Language

For me this is the most important part, I tried to do the best I could but I also tried to speak simply because if I wrote difficult words it would be useless. But I needed to say specific words related to the topic. Also I tried to use connectors but I was nervous and I spoke very quickly.

Pronunciation & Intonation

Like many oral presentations, everybody told me that I spoke very quickly. Now I know that I spoke very quickly because I’m nervous, but when I spoke I didn’t think that I was speaking very quickly, I did unconsciously, it wasn’t my intention. This wasn’t my best oral presentation I know, but I had to do it and I couldn't prepare it well. The pronunciation was comprehensible; my tone of voice was loud.

For all these reasons my final mark, would be an 86%. I think that it’s ok but I need to improve my pronunciation and eye contact.



Evaluation Mark

Presentation 10% 10

Body language and eye contact 8

Structure 10% 9

Content 40% 35

Language 20% 15

Pronunciation and intonation 10% 8

TOTAL 100% 8,5

DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON

I’m going to describe a boy that always helps me. We are the same age and for a long time we were together in the same course. Though we weren’t together when we were children it wasn’t until 3 years ago that we started talking. We started talking and we took a lot of confidence and we become best friends.

He’s thin and tall but I’m taller than him. He has brown eyes and hair. He has something that makes me mad, as a result he’s my boyfriend. He has two things that I don’t have , a pricing in his mouth and a tattoo on his pelvis.

Personally he can be shy but normally he’s extroverted, he’s especially very generous and gentle sometimes I think that much too. He transmits a lot of confidence to everybody and for this reason everybody explain their problems to him. He’s very social, sensitive and very lazy. He can stay in bed all day with the play station, but all boys do the same I believe. He loves playing football, we started to play when he was 5.

He’s not talkative like me but he can listen to you for hours. He tries to be optimistic every time and when things go bad he’s next to you saying DON’T WORRY. He’s thoughtful and he’s big-hearted.

We’ve got a lot in common, we have very good, romantic, fun moments and I wouldn’t change the moments with him for anything.

Imaginary description

Ray is 33 and for the past four years he has worked in a private clinic in Girona. About his appearance, he’s peculiar because his appearance is very strange. He isn’t good-looking but he isn’t either ugly. In brief he’s plain. Ray is thin but in summer he is suddenly fat, particularly I think that he’s this problem because in summer Ray is at home all the time and he always goes to buy food, because if he doesn’t buy now Ray should die.

Moreover his way to dress is very unusual however for work he dresses like other doctors. When people go to the clinic they feel strange because he has a peculiar personality. But when you know Ray he’s a marvellous person. One of the best people that I have never met.
He likes heavy and metal music. He has long black hair. His face is a little bit white and he doesn’t have a beard, he can’t because his girlfriend is the opposite of Ray, she’s elegant. And she doesn’t want Ray to have a beard.

Ray hates the routine. His appearance is a symbol of rebelling a little against the world of the work and routine. He would like to experiment with his long hair, because he could do a lot of styles.
Ray believes that all pictures all in your mind and the appearance are deceiving.

The Beatles finally clean up their act

CATALONIA TODAY



This piece of news talks about recently twigged that the Beatles recording i son the market and is still selling with the same sound. Technology can do miracles in sound reproductions.
I think that this topic is important because the Beatles are a classic that should never die.
I know a lot of versions of the Beatles but if you listen to remix version in a moment of the song you can detect that it’s a remix.
Ringo Star, Jonh Lennon, Paul Mccartney and George Harrison were the members of the band.
Nowadays it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a good voice or good talent. The question is you’re fashionable, good-looking and famous obviously there are people that have a great voice.

It’s like Cristiano Ronaldo, he did a spot with a terrible voice and the next day, voilá! A good voice without squeak.

Squeak: Galls

JASON MARZ - LUCKY

Do you hear me, M’escoltes
I'm talking to you t’estic parlant
Across the water across the deep blue ocean a través de l’aigua a través del profund oceà blau
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying Sota el cel obert, oh bebè, ho estic intentant
Boy I hear you in my dreams noi t’escolto en els meus somnis
I feel your whisper across the sea sento el teu xiuxiueig a través del mar
I keep you with me in my heart Et mantinc a tu en el meu cor
You make it easier when life gets hard Tu ho fas fàcil quan la vida es posa difícil.

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Afortunadament estic enamorat del meu millor amic
Lucky to have been where I have been Afortunat d’estar on he estat
Lucky to be coming home again Afortunat de tornar a casa una altra vegada


They don't know how long it takes No saben quant de temps serà
Waiting for a love like this esperant un amor com aquest
Every time we say goodbye Cada vegada et dic adéu
I wish we had one more kiss Desitjo que tinguem un petó més
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will Jo t’esperaré, t’ho prometo, ho faré

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Afortunadament estic enamorat del meu millor amic
Lucky to have been where I have been Afortunat d’estar on he estat
Lucky to be coming home again Afortunat de tornar a casa
Lucky we're in love every way Afortunadament hem estat enamorats de totes les maneres
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed Afortunat de quedar-me on m’he quedat
Lucky to be coming home someday Afortunat d’anar a casa algun dia.

And so I'm sailing through the sea Llavors, quan estic navegant per el mar
To an island where we'll meet a una illa on ens coneixerem
You'll hear the music fill the air esoltaras la musica en l’aire
I'll put a flower in your hair Posaré una flor en el teu cabell
Though the breezes through trees encara que la boira passi a través dels arbres
Move so pretty you're all I see es moguin tan bonics, tu ets tot el que veig
As the world keeps spinning round mentres que el món segueix girant
You hold me right here right now tu em sostens aquí ara

I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Afortunadament, estic enamorat del meu millor amic
Lucky to have been where I have been Afortunat d’estar on he estat
Lucky to be coming home again Afortunat de tornar a casa
I'm lucky we're in love every way Afortunadament hem estat enamorats de totes les maneres
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed Afortunat de quedar-me on m’he quedat
Lucky to be coming home someday Afortunat d’anar a casa algun dia