MY ENGLISH COMPETENCE IN 2013

I have choosen my best written evidence and I think that both are from these year. I have choosen two of them because I think that both are quite good and I have written them carefully. The fisrt one is about how was my trip to Thailand. I think that it's good because I use some connectors and I explained myself well.

The second one is about waht I'm going to do this summer and how my life is going to change. In my opinion it 's also good because I writted it two or three days ago so it means at the end of course and it's clear that I have improved.

1. http://homaa19.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/how-was-my-trip-to-thailand.html
2. http://homaa19.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/summer-13.html

I would choose both to send them because I don't mind they are quite well written.

If I had to choose one of my best oral evidence, I would choose the final one about my TDR. I think that I speak fluency and everybody understand me so that's the one I would send. 
I can't show you the video because it has a big weight.

MY ENGLISH PROGRESS FROM 2011 TO 2013

Looking back my first writting that I post to my blog was last year when I satrted 1st batxillerat. I think that it was quite good, the grammar was correct and I use words correctly. I have improved since the fisrt composition. I have learnt to use connectors ans some phrasal verbs which I didn't use before.

I think that the main difference beetween the first composition and the last one is that I have learnt to use some phrasal verbs and connectors and also I have learnt to writte better.

The stucture of the fisrt composition wasn't very clear because I didn't separete it clearly, but now I separate every writting in three or four paragraphs. That's importang because if you writte like that it's easily to understand it better.

Relating to oral presentations I also have improved because I have seen my first oral presentation again and I was a bit nervous because I repeated thousand times: "aaah". My pronunciation has also improved because in the video I pronunciated some words wrong. Even if I was talking in front of my friends I was very nervous.

Now It has changed a little. I saw again my TDR presentation and I also was nervous but I think that I did it quite well. I speak fluency and I didn't pronounce any word wrong. Maybe the only think that I did wrong was speak quickly but I think that I would improve it, and lose the shame.

MOBILES TO OUTNUMBER PEOPLE NEXT YEAR

It is said that next year there will be more mobile phones than people in the earth. 

I think that it will happen because now everybody has his phone even children has phones. 

A few years before boys and girls of 12 or 13 years old haven't money and computers so they spent much time playing in the street but now all is digitalize and I think that it's a shame because now children don't do anything else to stay in front of the computer and going to facebook, tweeter and other spaces.

VOCABULARY

• formerly

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DRUG FIRM JOINS FORCES WITH CHARITY

In Africa there are many charities. One of them has join forces with drugs for maintain their children. 

They think that that's the only way for having enough money for everything. Before they didn't have enough food, medicines or gel to wash injuries and prevent infections.

It is a shame to know things like that. Here people is worried about nonsense and there they are worried because they don't have money for buying food, medicines, vaccines etc. 

VOCABULARY

• genuinely
• cord
• fraud

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FLU IN PREGNANCY MAY RAISE BIPOLAR RISK FOR BABY

It is said that if you catch a flu during you are pregnant you have more probabilities to have a baby bipolar. 

Experts say that mothers wouldn't have to be worried about that because if it's tru they will invent a vaccine for prevent that.

They look for different information and they draw that conclusion.

I don't think that it's true because I know people who cathed a flu during their pregnancy and now their children aren't bipolar.

In my opinion people who are bipolar is because of their family environment. 

VOCABULARY

• lead
• manic
• womb
• foetal

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MY FUTURE HOLIDAYS

In my future holidays I want go to Cabo Verde in Africa. I really like Cabo Verde because it's a small country and it seems that people are very kind with everybody. It is also very beautiful. It is near the beach.

Every week I see an spanish programme called "Callejeros Viajeros" and each programm they show you a different place to go and they explein you a lot of things about their culture, society etc to know more about it. 

One day I saw that it was Cabo Verde and I really enjoy it and I thing that I don't know much about this country but I love it. It looks like everything was perfect there, living near the beach, having a good relation ship with your neighbors...

They don't need a big amount of money for living. Life there is cheaper. I also think that I love this country like Thailand or Kenia because people who live there are happy with almost anything and that's a thing that we would have to learn. 

SANT GEORGE'S DAY

Sant George's day is celebrated on the 23rd of April in Catalonia. It's the day of love which couples show their love each other. It has been celebrated since the fifteenth century. Men give a red rose to their partner and women give a book.

Why do they do that?

The legend says that there once was a small village which was invaded for a dragon which spitted fire. Everyone on the village was afraid. The dragon decided that he wanted to eat animals so he started. After a few days there weren't any animals and he started to eat people. People had to choose which person was going to die and one day they choose that the king's daughter. The king didn't do anythin for avoid it. When the young girl was in front of the dragon, a young and handsom man appeared. He saved her and kill the dragon and from his blood rose rised. 

And that's why people gives roses and books that explain the legend.

FLOWERS TIME IN GIRONA

In Girona there is an habit. In spring the city is full of flowers that simbolize that the spring is here and summer is coming.

A good bit of people go to Girona for see that. It's very beautiful because there is a big contrast between this flower week and when all streets are without flowers.

Every year they change their style so going every year is great because you see different things.

And this is good for Girona beacuse it attracts a lot of tourists. I really like this because every year I go and I really enjoy it.

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DHAKA BUILDING COLLAPSE: WOMAN PULLED ALIVE FROM RUBBLE

A few days ago there was an accident in India. A building fall down killing thousands of people that were working there. Firefighters and soldiers have been working for saving people and taking off dead people. 

It was a factory where almost everybody were women. One woman called Rashma stayed there 17 days. Nobody saw her so she couldn't get out of the building. She shouted a million times but nobody heard her. She eat dry aliments and drink water.

The factory boss try to scape but he couldn't. I think that it's a madness to put such an amount of people in a bad building because then things like that happens and a lot of people die. People in Asia would have to chek their buildings twice or more before putting populate inside

VOCABULARY

• wreckage
• rubble
• staircase
• drilling
• amid
• cheers

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DR CONGO TOUGHEST PLACE FOR MOTHERS - SAVE THE CHILDREN

It is said that a million newborn die per year. There are many places where a big amount of babys die, for example in India, Gambia, Mali, Somalia etc. And there are some other countries where newborn almost don't die like in Finland, Norway, Sweden...

The charity says that those dies are because of lak nutricion. In countries in Africa there are a lot of people underweight.

I didn't know that this amount of babys die in a year. I thought that there were less. I think that we could do something for save that babys, but if nobody has done it yet is because nobody wants to save them.

It's amazing to know how many people dies in pregnacy. I'm sure that if it happens here everybody would be complaining but as that happens in a different place that doesn't affect them they don't do nothing.

VOCABULARY

• income  
• dying
• malnourished
• trailing

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SUMMER '13

This summer I think that it will be different because my life will change a little bit. That’s my final year in the high school. Now I’m seventeen and this year I’m going to be eighteen. That mean that I will get my driving license and I would have my car. It also means that I will go at the University in Barcelona or Girona so I will live alone, without my parents. I’m a little bit afraid because there are going to be some changes.

I’m excited because this year I’m not going to work at the same place as last year. This year I’m going to work in Empuriabrava in a Bar called “Informal”. I think that there I will enjoy working more than last year. 

Another important thing for me is the driving license. I want to be eighteen now because I will be allowed to drive and that means that I won’t have to ask to my parents to drive me anywhere.

And university, I’m very nervous because we are in our finals weeks. In a month we are going to “selectivitat”. I’m fairly afraid because we are stress and nervous and if we don’t pass those exams we won’t go to the university. And that’s why I’m really stress, we have exams and then we have to prepare our exams for the “selecitivitat” and I want to pass, if not I don’t know what I’m going to do.

If I pass those exams I will go to Girona or Barcelona so I will have to live there. Everything will be different because there I won’t have my parents, my sister or brother. I will have to do everything with my house friends.

This summer will change a little my life and I have to be prepared. I’m afraid but also happy.

INTERVIEW TO BRUNO MARS

We are in England. We have come here for interviewing Bruno Mars. He is a young and famous singer.

I: Hello Mr Bruno Mars. We are from Spain and we were very interested about knowing how id you become a famous.

B: Good morning Homa. -it's a pleasure for me to talk with you. I will answer all your questions if I can hahaha!

I: So let's start. First of all, when did you decide to became a singer?

B: Oh, I've always liked singing but I think that when I was 13 years old I decided that I wanted to be a superstar.

I: So, you had your ideas very clear, don't you?

B: Yes, I think that it was my dream like every child has you know...

I: That's true, but I have another interesting question, was it difficult for you to get in the famous world?

B: It wasn't very difficult at all. I was expecting it worse but all people was kind with me, may be because I was the youngest.

I: Oh, it could be. How many CDs have you sold?

B: I'm not sure but I think that around a million. It¡s amazing, I never imagined that my life could change like that.

I: One more thing, will you want to have children?

B: Yes but not now.

I: And do you think that they will be singers like they father or they will like music?

B: I don't know if they will want to be like they father. I think that everyone has to choose what they really like t be in their lifes not choose something because everybody thinks that it will be good for their lifes.

I: And that's my final question. What's the most important thing for you in your music life?

B: Mmm...I think that all is amazing and imortant but the most important thing now for me is enjoying a lot this experience and selling a lot of CDs.

I: Thank you Bruno, it has been a pleasure for us to speak with you and to know new things about your life.

B: Your welcome Homa.

FORMAL LETTER TO MR RAJOY

Mr Rajoy,

I wanted to talk you about the 23 article of human rights. I think that this article is not being respected nowadays because with the crisis there are many poor people who is unemployed so they don’t earn money and apart from this fact there are many others which make that people’s life awful.

Nevertheless I think that this only has happened now. When there wasn’t the crisis I think that everybody respected this article, but not now. There are many places in the world where people work a lot, more than 8 hours, and their boss pay them almost nothing. Meanwhile there are people who work 3 or 2 hours a day and earn a lot of money.

I also don’t understand why there are people like footballers earn such an amount of money, when there are a lot of people who don’t have almost even to eat.

Nothing else Mr Rajoy, please try to do something because not only this article is not being respect.

Your sincerely,

Homa.

JOB SATISFACTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SALARY

It is said that job satisfaction is more important than salary but I don't agree with that. You can be satisfied with your job but if you don't earn enough money you can't live because everything in this life has a high cost.

Firstly, I think that salary is a very important thing in our lives, job satisfaction too but it isn't the most important thing. Without a good salary people wouldn't ejoy their jobs.

Secondlu, I believe that job satisfaction is on the second place because if you have a family and if you have to keep them, salary would be the most important thing for you.

Thirdly, I'm totally against with that because everything is life is expensive: food, clohes, houses, cars...and without money you can't do anything.

My conclusion is that job satisfaction is important but not the most because you can bevery satisfied with your jobbut if you don't earn so much money, you need, what will you do?

PRENUPTIAL ARRENGEMENT ARE A GOOD IDEA

Why prenuptial arrangement shouldn't be a good idea?

Nowadays the are many people who do that kind of arrangements beforegetting married. This arrangement supposes the separation of the posesions of each person so when they get married they still have the same as before, and if they get divorced they also have their own things.

On the one hand, there are some people who get married to another person who is rich but not because he or she loves that person,no. I think that people who have it clear from the beggining, are showng to everyone that the main reason for why they are getting married is true love.

On the second hand, I think that they are a good idea becase now eople can get divorced for many reasons like cheating their partner and if they haven't done this arrangement it is possible that they lose a big part of their posessions.

I am not sying that if people don't do this it is because they don't love their partner, but sometimes it happens so that's why I thik that they are a good idea.

My final conclusion is that prenups are a good idea because it means that people don't get married only for being richer.