Nowadays paper isn't dead because many people use it. In the future perhaps the e-book will advanced and everybody will use e-books. I think that paper will never die or should never die.
First of all, all students use computers and digital newspapers. However we compare parent's lives to our lives. We can see that writing, the way to write and read is very different in our compositions. Now if we didn't have a corrector we wouldn't be able to do anything.
In the fact maybe it's more comfortable and cheaper reading on the Internet.
Furthermore children's education in the future will be worse than now. They're going to do everything on Personal Computers. Reading and writing is not the same on a computer as it is on paper.
I'm in favour of newspaper, realpaper and everything made of paper because you can always have it with you!
Are the rights you have simply because you’re human
2. When did human rights start?
Started on 10th December of 1948
3. Why were they created?
To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person.
4. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 human rights
5. Which human right were you not familiar with?
Article 9. · No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. · The right to play
Sincerely I think that there are a lot of human rights, and when I know that only 30, I was surprise. I’m not familiar with the right to play, everybody have the right to play no?. I didn’t know that there is a human right.
6. Choose one human right and discuss:
- Everybody has the right to life, liberty and security of person. I believe that not everybody have this right because there’re people that living in the street or maybe people that are slave and for being so aren’t entitled to do anything, it’s like if we treated as different people. Everybody have the right to live free and safety. I think that in my country is not fulfilled, because there are people that living in a very poor and bad conditions.
7. Are Humans rights relevant in the world today? why?
I think that every country have different rights. Everybody should have the same human rights, education, right to live...But some countries don't have this humans rights. I think that human rights are very important for us. We shouldn’t judge people by their appearance, their color, religion…
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Hello!
I’m Laura Peña. I try to study medicine or something about health. I always had a big dream or perhaps for other people it’s only a small dream or a little intention. Since I was little, I wanted to become a doctor or nurse. I would like to study in Girona, if I have to study a specialty I would like to be pediatrician. I’m very shy and always I’m embarrassed to speak English with other people. I need more confidence but with the time I think that I can.
Friday, 27 November 2009
What thing does a song have to have? A songs transmits a lot feelings to me but for this happen the song can't be rock or heavy I prefer a quiet song that speaks about how the singer feels because sometimes you can feel like him, maybe I prefer a love song.
I didn't use to lyrics of the songs before but you get to a point in your life that is not always perfect and sometimes you need to cry or something related to your feeling. The best is to listen to a song that you like. When I listen to a song I feel a lot of emotion that transmits a passion to are sometimes when I read some lyrics or I listen to a song I remember a person and feel sad. The first time that I listen to a song I say: It's a simple song but when you listen once, another time you can understand what the singer is trying to say. For all these reasons I think that listening to music and understanding what the song would like to say is a big passion for those like me.
I recomend listening to some songs when you're sad or you have had a bad day.
Do you have problems with maths? Do you like music? If the answer is yes to both questions, you will be interested to know that, according to several recent experiments, musical training can help your brain understand maths better. Thought these findings are not conclusive, it is clear that both listening to and learning music have beneficial effects on our brain.
The findings of this research have physical base. Children are born with 100 billions unconnected or loosely connected neurons, or nerve cells. Each experience a child has, like seeing people smile or hearing them talk, helps the brain to link the cells. Music may have an influence on the way the neurons connect, stimulating the development of spatial-temporal reasoning skills, which aid in understanding proportion, geometry and other mathematical and scientific concepts. What did the reserch show? An experiment conducted on rats showed that those which had been expose to Mozart ran through a maze faster and made fewer mistakes than those which hadn't. Other experiments, done with pre-school children who were given keyboard lessons, showed how their spatial-temporal skills improved. These findings were supported by a publication in the journal Nature, in May 1996. A group of students were taught music and played musical games involving rhythm and pitch. When compared with students who hadn't received specific music instruction, they not only had better reading skills, but also showed a significant improvement in their maths skills
Though we still don't know exactly how music affects our brains, it is certain that somehow music helps the shape our minds.
FROM A BOOK ( EXAM PRACTISE, UNIT 4)
Write a summary of the text, Use 50 words. Music and the mind talk about recent experiments that are interested in how the music can help our brain. They prove hat listening to and learning music have postive effects. The reason has a physical basis. They would like to study what it shows and for that they did some experiments with rats and pre-schools children. In all the experiments is that there is a good improvment they prove that music helps our brinds.
In our oral presentation we use the power point and some images that we downloaded from the net. It was focused on the topic that we talked. For me, doing a power point is a good supported for the oral presentation, it’s a way to show some images and be interesting and entertaining. About the time, I think it was a little long, but we talked 5 minutes.
Body language & eye contact
During my presentation, I looked to a fixed point, because I was very nervous. I knew perfectly my oral presentation but I was very nervous and sometimes I needed to read my notes. Unlike high oral presentations I haven’t made any gesture. I tried to don’t look at the power point but occasionally I did it. Also I tried to don’t look my notes but I was so nervous I finally I did it.
Structure
I think that the structure was ok; we had an introduction where we explained what the oral presentation was about, why we chose these topics, what we explained and which were ours aims. When we finished explaining the topic, I did a little conclusion and we showed two videos from “family guy” and “the Simpsons”. Basically our aims were that people had a basic Knowledge from each sitcom. Also I finished asking to the audience what sitcom they prefer. We tried to organize our ideas in order; we started with an introduction, describing the main characters, the principal places, some opinions of the experts (controversy) and a small comparison of each sitcom.
Content I guess that we didn’t introduce new information because everybody has watched the Simpsons or family guy. In my opinion, the information that we exposed was extensive and detailed but for understanding the topic we needed to talk about this one otherwise has been a bad oral presentation, we need minimums. When we showed some photos people laughed, and also when we showed videos of family guy.
Language
We use some adjectives to describe the places and the characters, the grammar was correct and we use synonymous and some expressions. But in general we use easy vocabulary (except some words) and simple grammar to describe, and introduce some parts. For example “now Anna is going to talk...” As connectors I use “and, but, also, etc”. Clara told me that I said one “bueno” and I think that some “emm”.. Also I said “for example”.
Pronunciation & Intonation
At first people told me that I spoke very fast. I suppose that was because I was very nervous and I didn’t know what I was saying. While I was doing my oral presentation, I didn’t know that I was speaking too fast, but when I watched the video I was surprise. It wasn’t my intention. Also I think that I spoke with a loud volume. But I think that has been one of my best oral presentations without interruptions or breaks. Before, when I didn’t be sure for something I used to speak softer; now I think it has changed. About my pronunciation, I tried to pronounce correctly each word; before the oral I tried to pronounce the most difficult words, for example: behaviour, although, kidnappings, “pewterscmidt”, “antropomorphized”. For all these reasons, my own result would be an 75,5%. I think it’s ok, but I need to improve the body language & eye contact using fillers and perhaps improving my vocabulary. I’m happy with our power point. Sincerely, I thought that it would has been more wrong.
Hunting farming and pollution are threatening the wildlife on our planet. National parks could be a progress and the protection of the environment.
On the one hand national parks are very important for maintaining a biodiversity. Moreover parks can also play a role in reintroducing some species to an area where they are already extinct. For example the giant panda in China, in general all animals that are in danger extinct. In spite of the destruction of most of their habitat, pandas for example are survive thanks to the creation of this types of areas.
On the other hand plants and animals that life in these types of areas and parks are not totally safe. They have to pressure the people who live around the park. Animals are also in danger from poachers or cars on the roads surrounding the parks.
Clearly, people must help preserve natural habits. National parks are an important way of protecting wildlife.
Traci Bingham is 41 years old and like all celebrities she had a lot of plastic surgery sessions, but a lot of people think that she did it to help her career because she went out in Baywatch.
I think Traci was prettier before the surgery and now she seems to be older. Nowadays people have plastic surgery but I believe that everyone has to be accepted as they are and not be persuaded by anyone. She probably did it for her career to have more fame. In three years Traci has changed a lot.
Her plastic surgeon said “Traci Bingham didn’t seem shy about her implants. In many pictures, they appear asymmetric with possible development of contracture on her left. Additionally, when comparing the before and after pictures, she does appear to have refinement of her nasal tip, narrowing of her nose and alar base resection. Finally, she has gone a bit overboard with the lip injections - I just hope it is not permanent filler.”
I can’t see all this changes but if you see this girl, you can see that she has a lot of plastic surgeries and it’s like an artificial woman, I think that anybody can be perfect. Everybody have his defects and this defects make the person has something special. Plastic surgery can’t do miracles!
It exposes some arguments that defend that some species of amphibians that are threatened with extinction. If this problem continues at that level, some species will be extinct, some of them will be vertebrates. Moreover, there will also be a big extinction apart from the dinosaurs disappearance.
We can find amphibians in all the countries except Antarctica. Also, I think that for global warming or climate change some species but not only with amphibians but all of them, will be threatened with extinction.
There are also very species that are not investigated I mean, that people don’t know exist. There isn’t money to study this science. The news talks about “ We hope this will improve and expand the movement to protect amphibians boosting the fundraising and publicity drive necessary to raise concern over amphibian declines and put vital conservation strategies into practice”. What’s become the publicity with the amphibians? We want that the amphibians don’t extinct not doing publicity about this animals, the importance of the animals and also plants: it’s very important for life.
A man visits God and says "God, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" God says "No, ask me anything at all." So the man says "God, you've been around for a very long time,so, for you, how long is a thousand years?" God replies "For me, a thousand years is only five minutes." The man then says "That's interesting God. And, for you, how much is a million dollars?" God replies "For me, a million dollars is only five cents." The man says "Really? Well then God, could you lend me five cents please?" God looks at the man, smiles, and says "Of course my son. Just wait five minutes!"
This piece of news talks about the imagination that children have, what things they have and some interesting results and therapies that they use.
Some scientists are studying this psychological problem. They invented a new technique because they don’t have any specialist to study this problem and for this reason they invented a CD that is like a person who talks about this.
A lot of children imagine some things for not to go to school or somewhere. But some of them don’t get it. I remember when I was little, I said for example, “mum I’m ill...” what happen my dear? I have a stomachache and headache but I went to school... But I had friends that for example said “mum I’m ill”, and they were perfectly and they didn’t go to the school. But I now, honestly I prefer to go to high school because if you don’t go the next day you don’t understand anything.
This piece of news talk about the psychological problems of children. It exposes some arguments for helping, giving specific examples supporting some children. I like this piece of news because I like to know about the character of children, another thing or career that I would like to do is psychology.
Some children that stay in class for example, don’t pay attention because they are bored and not because they are distracted by another thing. Maybe they feel bored, because they have things that they know and some children don’t know and don’t understand. I think that the teachers don’t pay enough attention to these special children and are always angry with them. They start very well but when the time pass, only some words describe the situation of the children: school failure.
Some children ask some things while other children ask things with a high level. They are gifted with a high IQ that means intelligence quotient.
There are differences between hyperactive and autistic children, the difference between then is that autistic children ignore the lesson and disconnect and a hyperactive child start to talk, they can even get up and leave. To prove this: if the children do it three times they’re hyperactive.
They need some special attention it’s the same as the children that have problems or something. For example, I have two cousins one from Romania and another from Ukraine, they are adopted, and they can’t stop, they always have to do something and stay with someone. They are hyperactive and if you stay one hour with them and it’s always perfect but when the time passes you hope that the night comes! I promise that it’s the truth. You must have a lot of patience. I think that it’s worth knowing about this topic
It exposes some arguments that defend that some species of amphibians that are threatened with extinction. If this problem continues at that level, some species will be extinct, some of them will be vertebrates. Moreover, there will also be a big extinction apart from the dinosaurs disappearance.
