FINAL REFLECTION

After one year of extensive English lessons and hardwork at home, I would like to give you my opinion about my improvements during this school year. 

First of all, I think that above all I have improved my vocabulary expand and then my grammar knowledge. Some of the activities done in class were very useful such as exercises from the Vocabulary extemsion dossier and some exercises from the Grammar Book.

 I didn't enjoy writing essays because I found it difficult to organize the different parts: how to start the essays and how to express different points of views. So, I guess I have improved little in this field. Moreover, I believe that six "your-says" a year are too many. I sometimes found it hard to write about everything. I enjoyed reading book, It was a good way to increase my vocabulary and to learn useful expressions. The book I enjoyed the most was the book we chose in the third term called " A kiss before dying".

Preparing the projects was quite interesting except for the last one which I found it very boring as I didn't like the topic. 

In conclusion, I think I am not good enough at writing. I would like to improve it next year. I think that it is quite difficult to write different writing samples but it is also very important for the selectivity to have a good level at writing.I also believe that I must improve my oral comprehension so, I should listen more often to the English language or even watch TV series, news and films in original version.

NEWS: UNHEALTHILY UNDERWEIGHT MODEL

I choose this news because I think that i't's interesting and this is the beginning of a big change in the fashion world. 

Summary:

An Yves Saint Laurent advertisement has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The advert, which appeared in Elle UK showed a photo of a woman who was unhealthily underweight. Readers complained that the advert was "irresponsible" because they were using a model who appeared unhealthily thin.  

Although the ASA didn't agree with the readers opinions at the beginning, they finally admitted that the advert was not suitable to be advertised in magazines or on TV. 

Some people agreed that adverts using underweight models are promoting a distorted image of beauty and it may also promoted cases of anorexia and bulimia among adolescets.

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My opinion:

I think that modelling agencies should employ models who are hot below a certain body mass index because teenagers use to follow the fashiong trend. 

YOUR-SAY: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ABOUT TOURISTS IN THE COSTA BRAVA

As you may know the Costa Brava is a place where thousands of tourists come to spend their holidays. Some towns change a lot from winter to summer. I will take about the advantages and disadvantages when tourists come over our country. 

Some advantages are that our country has a good income of money. Peple who come on holidays usually spend much money during their vacations. Moreover, you have the possibility to make new friends and If they come from a foreing country you have the opportunity to practice the foreing language. Furthermore, another advantage is that when you go out in the streets you can see people everywhere, something which is very rare in winter. 

On the other hand, there also disadvantages when many tourists visit our country, First of all it takes longer to get to the places because the roads are crowded. When you go shopping you must queu for a long time because shops and supermarkets are full of people. 

In conclusion, although there are many people in summer and sometimes it's very stressful, summer is better than winter because towns are lively and you have much better. 

BOOK REVIEW: A KISS BEFORE DYING; Ira Levin

Summary:

This book is a story about one man who is obsessed with being rich. The main character leaves his girlfriend pregnant and she says her that they have to get married. The man doesn't want to marry her without the father permission because the father will be angry and he stops to give money to his daughter. The abortion pills failed and the only solution is kill her. Then, the sister of the victim, called helen recive a suicide note from her sister and she decides to go to the place of the murder to look into. Ellen's boyfriend says her that doesn't go to investigate but she doesn't listen to him. Bud, the boyfriend killed Ellen and another man who was investigating the murder with her. His only hope for being rich is go with the old sister called Marion. She knows that Bud was the boyfriend of his sister and first she doesn't want to know anything about him. Bud investigates what she likes and finally she get interested in him. They are going to marry but he doesn't reach his objective because he was discovered as a murder of her sisters and Marion killed him. The main character was the boyfriend of Dorothy, the little sister, then of Ellen and finally of Marion only for being rich because they are a rich family. Ellen didn't know that Bud had been the boyfriend and the murder of her sister. 

My opinion:

I like the book because until the end you don'y know who is the murder and that the main character had been the boyfriend of the three sisters. It's an interesting book but it's a little confusing. The book has three parts. Each part talks about one of the sisters and the relationship of there with main character. My favourite part is the second one because it is when there is the investigation of the murder by the sister and it's when you wander who could be the murder? In conclusion I recommend this book because you don't get bored reading it.