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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do you hear me,M’escoltes I'm talking to yout’estic parlant Across the water across the deep blue ocean a través de l’aiguaa 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 thisesperant un amor com aquest Every time we say goodbyeCada 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
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.
