MY ENGLISH PROGRESS (since 2013)

1.1 Compare your first written document (email to teacher) and your last composition.

1.2 Compare your first oral presentation and your final oral presentation.

• Can you see any differences? Which? Give some examples.
• Can you give linguistic arguments to support your analysis?

  Analyze the content, structure, language, presentation, fluency, pronunciation...

  with the help of these grids.

Can you see a personal development in these documents?


1.1
The first document: http://lydiapereiraenglishblog.blogspot.com.es/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=7

The last composition: http://lydiapereiraenglishblog.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/new-3-glorious-moms-of-animals-kingdom.HTML



1.2

After these years writing on my blog, I can see some differences in my posts, such as some gramatical mistakes that today I see but when I wrote the text I couldn’t see.
Besides, in my opinion, I have changed a lot my style because when I started the blog I used to put a lot of pictures and I combined the text with pictures. However, now I still put some pictures but I have a lot of posts without them, like the newest one.
The topic of my first post was a dream, labeled under the yoursay’s tag. The other is a new, which isn't complicated because if you were focused on reading the text, you can write a good post.
I think that my English changes since the first post I wrote are fantastic.

NEW 3: GLORIOUS MOMS OF THE ANIMALS KINGDOM

The elephants are  intelligent animals that love their family. The article explains that some humans are in  Africa when the youngest elephant goes to them. The Little elephant starts to do some sounds that alerts his mom. The person who is there says that the elephant tells to his mother than  humans are between they because their car was situated inter mother and son.

He also explains that the elephant mother helps her son to go away without a lesion. That's incredible, the natural things are inimaginable.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/08/opinions/safina-animals-mothers/index.HTML

NEW 2: The great catwalk of China: 41 new radical designers.

DICTIONARY:

brands spotlight

Chinese people  were already obsessed with the western brands. It's for that the designers did a catwalk to expose some of their makes that some of that people will love a lot. The fashionista with a famous name Works a lot with  extravagance experts to make good designs.

There are different types of dresses. The radical designers were 41 and they exposed some of their collections only to demonstrate a Little bit that.

Hard work has always good results

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/05/world/fashion-china/index.HTML

NEW 1: "INCREDIBLE SHRINKING CAR" DRIVES SIDEWAYS TO PARK IN TINY SPACES

DICTIONARY WORDS:
shrink tiny

A German cientifics team invented a new experience and a new innovation that is an estrange car that is  like a crab shrink with a simple wheels movement and with it you can pass of all tiny spaces.

They invented that because when they're in a  hurry to go work, they always find a lot of cars and no space to park the car. Now with that great invent they can find the parking easily and also they can pass with other streets that don't be the principal routes and also the consume is different because it's electric!

I think that's a good idea and if they need that, they find the key.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/08/tech/crab-car-eo-smart-connecting-electric-car/index.HTML

CARTOONS

The cartoons changed a lot throughout the years.

Some years ago, cartoons were some happy draws that talked and had adventures with their friends in some fantastic places.

Nowadays that prototype of cartoons has changed.  because now the cartoons were be some people that pass some thinks that will be passed in every family but without an adequate vocabulary or character.

I think that the bests cartoons that we have now in television were the cartoons that was there since our parent's days like Heidi or the Human body, that were the authentical cartoons and with them the children learn some moral values like friendship, something that the nowadays children don't have because they prefer the play3.

YOUTUBE CRITICS

Hey, what's up kids? Is everything  ok? Is everything alright ? and I am happy for that!

(Hey, ¿qué pasa chavales? ¿todo bien? ¿todo correcto? ¡Y yo que me alegro!)

Do you know what I mean?

Yes, that was the introduction of AuronPlay at all of his videos.

Auron Play is a famous youtuber that uploads weekly videos with critics to every topics. He was sometimes on tv where he explains his experience.

I'm very fan of Auron because he does good videos where he says some things that everyone thinks but nobody would say.  He  do jokes and you can send him your comments and some proposals to new videos.

Other famous youtubers are Rubious or Fortfast WTF









THE AURON'S DIRECTION

FUTURE PLANS

The future will be near and I'm excited because I will pass the Institut del Teatre tests and enter to that excellent dramatic school to study theatre.

Everyday of my life I said that I would be an actress, I would play the big Shakespeare's acts like Hamlet or Macbeth.

I'm not a greedy person. I wouldn't be famous for money or fame. I will be an actress because I love acting, I like everything that is related with theatre, cinema or music. All my future life is based on that, on art themes.

That's my dream and I will fight for it till the end!

EXAMS

Hello to everybody!

I'm very stressed because that week is going to be the most difficult of all school year! everyday we have an exam!
If you don't pass the exam, I mean if you fail, you have the opportunity to retake the exam.
That's a bad period but we need to see the good part of all of that. Next year, If we have goodwill, we could study something that we want and that would be incredible!
All our efforts have good results, but we need to concentrate! Even if the route is difficult  the results will be excellent. It's worth it!

18's.

Last third of May  was my birthday. Now I'm eighteen and I'm like an adult but with Young cravings.

This year my birthday was very special. My fiends Nil and Giorgia prepared a game that consists in riding a bicycle and finding some cards in Castelló. These cards were very special because they showed me places where Giorgia, Nil and I passed good adventures and funny moments.

When I finished the route and got home, another surprise was waiting for me! They have been prepared a birthday cake and a present that was a photo of us in our childhood. That was a lovely present.

My  friends also made me a surprise birthday dinner and  gave me lots of presents, one of them was money to spend on a theatre ticket, something that I love.

And finally, the last present was from my parents  (because the other ones were the day before). They gave me a parachute jump as a present. That was one of the best experiences of my life!!

I'm very happy to be eighteen years old, and  I'm also very happy to start my adulthood like this.

HUMAN RIGHTS

2.NEWS, 3rd term: look for a Human Right around the world that is not complied with today http://www.hrw.org/

- Insert the link/video/ and summarize the news in 50 words.
- COMMENT:
    - What about your country or another country? Is the situation different?
    - Can we as an individual/group take any action to change the situation?

http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/31/dispatches-mishandling-teen-pregnancies-sierra-leone

SUMMARY:

Liesl Gerntholtz explains in this article the situation of the young pregnants at Sierra Leone. They situation is complicate because when the womens are pregnant they haven't the school right. That's the principal cause of the iliteracy reason and that increase with the violation and the marriage arrangements.

COMMENT:

1) In my country the situation is different because when a young woman is pregnant, and she's studying, the governement admits her into a school and also she can demands, for example, a private teacher whose help her to outpace the studies without a lost day.

2) Yes, I think that if some people try to do in Sierra Leone a school only to them, they can continue they studies.

FORMAL LETTER

19 Carrer Pol Sud

17480 Girona

14th April 2015

Queen Sofia of Spain,

Carretera del Pardo s/n

Palacio de la Zarzuela

Your Majesty, 

I am writing this letter to present my complaint because my son enter the last second of April at the prison unjustly. 

I know that my son is not an angel but he is not a criminal. The last second of April he was condemned to twenty years in prison because he was found with blood in his hands and near to a died body. I wish that day he had not been there!

I am sure that he is not a guilty person because he has a lot of enemies that will cause harm to him. 

My request is you do  all is in your hand to help me. My son is not a criminal. I am sure that if the police investigate very deep in that case, they will find clues to prove him innocent. 

I look forward to your majesty finding the ways to help me.

PARACHUTE'S EXPERIENCE.

Last year, my family gave me as a  present for my 16th birthday, a parachuting jump. It’s true that I was very excited because I've always wanted to do that but, I'm also very scared and all of questions went throught my mind; like, that I would die in the sky! My parents were also scared of it, specially my father because he didn’t like the idea. However, I wanted to do it, because I’m not a chicken!! When the special day arrived, I met my instructor. The first time you cannot do it alone, and there must be an instructor. While I was flying, I woke up. It was just a dream!!! 

HUMAN RIGHTS

1. What are human rights? 
2. When and why were they created? 
3. How many human rights are there? 
4. Which human right were you not familiar with? 

ANSWERS:
1) Human rights are rights that all humans have.
 2) They were created at 1948 after the Second World war by the United Nations to preserve all the people rights
3) There are thirty rights
4) I'm not familiar with the "culture and community" right

Watch the video of the right you chose.Make a list of new words you hear, if any. Think of an example where this human right is respected and where it is violated.

GUILT --> culpa
STEAL --> robar

I saw the article 11 of the human rights that are: "We're always innocent till provent guilty"

One example where this human right is violated is when somebody acuse to someone to do something and then that's false; you can't acuse the other person without prove because you broke them privacity.

Othere example where this human right is respected is at the police investigation because they can't arrest somebody without demonstrates.


Also I saw the article 19 of the humans rights that are: "Freedom of expression"

HOLD --> Tenir, agafar
SEEK --> buscar
REGARDLESS --> en qualsevol cas

EXAMPLE WHEN THE RIGHT IS VIOLATED: At 2012, a theatre company of Spain created a particular show that calls "La familia irreal" and that shows with a big part of humour sence all the troubles that the royal house have inside of the family. That show had a lot of troubles and a censor part before that could be made a debout.

EXAMPLE WHEN THE RIGHT IS RESPECTED: I think that this right is respected in all songs and all poems. Now, the singers can make them songs and can express everything they will. Also some TV programs have this right. Some examples were: SKA-P or POLÒNIA.