FINAL REFLECTION

My first post was in 2013. I talked about my dreams. I think that I can get achieve to travel to New York. This is the easier dream. The hardest one is live on the Upper East Side. I follow with the idea to be a business woman. Nowadays, I follow with the idea to be a business woman. I am a straight thinking person. Comparing with my last post, I have improved a lot my vocabulary and my grammar. i have more maturity writing. It's more easy write a text now than three years ago. 

Talking about oral presentations I improve too. I have more fluency when I speak and my pronunciation is better. However, I follow getting really nervous when I introduce something in public. I think that this never change. My first oral presentation was about Jewish milestones and the last one was about my research paper. 

During these years, I have done some podcasts. I think my best one is my London podcast because it's the last one and it's more worked than the others. Also by reason of it's my favourite. When I done it, I remembered my travel to London. It was a very good experience. I would like to go back in the future. Link

If I have to choose the best writing I don't know which is the best one. I think that there are more than one that are good. I like do your-says, because I express my opinion about one topic. The best ones are the latests because there are more worked. 

With this post I close my English blog. Doing it, I really improved my english. It's a good idea to do a blog because with the your-says you have to think about different topics and sometimes it's difficult to express what you think aboout it in a writing. News are so useful too because you read high texts and you learn lots of good vocabulary. Also because you know what happen in the world. I don't want to leave my English. I would like to learn more and more and get a very good knowledge from this language.  

DESCRIPTION (person)

When you see him, you feel a strange feeling, but I don’t know if it is good or bad. This mysterious person is a girl. She is about twenty years old. She is tall and quite slim. She has got wavy brown long hair. She looks like an actress or model because she is stunning. Her skin is like porcelain, so perfect. Besides, she seems fit. I think that she has been doing some sport quite a while. On the contrary, she seems so fragile too. I find her every day when I am back home from the university. When I see her beauty, I disconnect to the world. I am crazy about her, and above all with her big blue eyes. She loves coffee because she is always in the same bar drinking one. One day I talked with her and her voice is melodic. I think that she is from another country because when she talks, you can hear a French accent.

YOUR-SAY: ELDERLY PEOPLE IN OUR SOCIETY

Nowadays, we live in a society aged so much, due to many reasons such as the highest life expectancy that we have.

Each towns or cities have different activities addressed to old people. In relation to the activities which are done with elderly people, I think that these are fantastic. There are excursions, workshops… For example, in my town there is a building centre where old people go there every Friday in order to meet, speak and spend the afternoon together.

However, elderly people can have some attention problems. Not all old people have someone who takes care of them and there is a moment that they need really attention. In the same way that these old people had looked after their children, now adults, I think that these children have to look after their parents when they are old. However, it’s true that there are residences where they stay, though I don’t think it’s the best place.

Talking about adolescents, things have changed too much recently. Respect to elderly people is one of the things that we can’t forget.

As a conclusion, old people deserve the right attention and respect above all from their family because surely they have done the same for their children before.

                                                     

NEWS: TURKEY'S ERDOGAN TAKES TOUGH EU LINE AFTER PM QUITS

Turkey's president has told the EU it will not change its anti-terror laws in return for visa-free travel. The EU has asked Turkey to revise its laws as a condition for allowing Turkish citizens visa-free travel for short stays. They want that migrants, mainly Syrians, returns to Turkey from Greece in order to ease Europe's migration crisis. Mr, Erdrogan said that the proposed constitutional changes were a national need.

The EU wants Turkey to change their laws about terrorism in order to be more similar to EU standrards. Mr. Erdogan doesn't agree because he said that Turkey remained under a severe threat of terrorism. Turkey is near Syria and Iraq. He says: "We will go our way, you go yours". 

My opinion:

I think that terrorism has to finish. War is not the solution for problems in life. Then, also think that we would have to help building homes in refugees' countries in order to they can come back. Also, because if lots of people comes in a country this is not good for this because there will be too many people. 

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NEWS: CANADA WILDFIRE: IMAGES SHOW FORT MCMURRY DEVASTATION

There was a devastating wildfire in the Canadian city of Fort McMurray. The exact scale of the damage is difficult to say. 1.600 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. Whole neighbourhoods have been wiped out.

Some parts of the city are still standing as the hospital. The city's airports suffered only minor damange thanks the efforts from the firefighters. The residents who fled their homes said that this couldn't be real. 

The fire in the province of Alberta covers 850 sq km and the entire city of almost 90.000 people was evacuated three days ago. Bill Stewart, co-director of the University of California's Center for Fire Research and Outreach, says that only nature can stop fire entirely. It's a dangerous and terrifying time for the firefighters. 

My opinion:

Unfortunately, nature punishes us with these natural disasters. Luckily, in this case there aren't death people because they were evacuated some days ago. I think that firefighters are so important in our life. In my area, in the summer of 2012 there was a big fire. I wish that I never see another time a fire so nearly from me. 

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NEWS: KENYA BUILDING COLLAPSE: DEMOLITION OF UNFIT HOUSES STARTS

Authoriries in Kenya have begun demolishing homes in an specific area. Last week, the collapse of a building killed at least 26 people. This building had been declared unfit for human habitation. Like this, there are lots of buildings that have to be destroyed.

At this moment, there are eight buildings destroyed in the district of Huruma. The buildings' structures aren't resistant for all the people that live inside. People were warned a week ago to vacate, but they don't leave their home until the last moment. 

Another building collapsed on 29 April, for the height Kenya's rainy season. The rescue operations continue. There are soldiers, firefighters and volunteers. Trained dogs are helping too. On Kenyan TV, transmited the rescued by a 24-years-old woman who was pregnant. She was through slabs. 

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I choose this news because talks about one human right. People have the right to have a deserving home. There are lots of people that don't have a shelter or that live in an awful condition. Especially in developening countries. This is not fair, and less when we talk about children because adults can survive more easily. 

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YOUR-SAY: CANDEM TOWN MARKET

In February, when I went to London with my highschool classmates, we visited lots of interesting places. One of my favourite was Candem Town. 

When you visit it you can't believe that you are in London. It's very different from thw city centre, As London city is very modern, Candem Town has a hippie style. In the streets there are lots of shops and the buildings are very creative and well decorated. There are tattoes shops, souvenirs shops, clothes shops... I got in most of them and had a look at their souvenirs. Actually, I bouhgt a book called "In a dark dark wood" in Waterstone's Bookshop.

At the end of the street there is the Candem Market, a really cultural place. This market has two differents spaces. The first one, has many food stands with typical food from different cities of the world. And the second one you can buy clothes, jewels, arts and crafts ans so on.

I really enjoyed visiting Candem Market. If I ever go back to London, this will be a place I will visit again. 

NEWS: EMBRYO STUDY SHOWA "LIFE'S FIRST STEPS"

Scientists say a breakthrough in growing embryos will improve fertility treatments and revolutionise knowledge of the earliest steps to human life. In the UK and US, the research was halted just before the embryons arrived at 14-days old. Before, scientists only researched untill a week, the moment to implant it into the womb. This is possible because they have found a way to chemically mimic the womb. 

The investigation give to the scientists how the embryo starts the process of organising itself into a human being. This time is very important because is when many embryos purchase development defects or fail to implant. Scientists are so proud because this discovery is enormous implicated with reproductive technologies. 

There is international agreement that experiments should not allow embryos to develop past 14 days. From this moment, embryo becomes an "individual". It is an area that could spark huge ethical debate in the coming years. 

My opinion:    

In my opinion, this investigation is so useful. I am agree to do these kind of researches if with they can learn about embryos and do pregnancy more easy. Also, I agree with this international agreement that not passed the 14-days old because after this moment there will be a life and with a person we can't experiment. 

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NEWS: SKIN BACTERIA STAY "STABLE OVER TIME"

Everyone has their own personal range of bacteria living on their skin, a US study suggests. In the human skin there are lots of bacteria, fungi and viruses. These are as much in the dry sites like in the oily sides. 

Most are harmless or even beneficial, but some have been linked with skin disorders such as acne. Eczema tends to affect moist sides and psoriasis commonly occurs on dry exposed areas. 

There are some investigations. The stability of skin bugs varied according to the person. In the future, the scientists plan to study patients with eczema and other conditions to look at how microbes might vary with disease. 

My opinion:

I choose this news because I find it interesting. People have to investigate in order to make a better world with less illness. In the last years, technology have improved a lot. 

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NEWS: GERMAN COUPLE TORTURED TWO WOMEN TO DEATH, POLICE SAY

Police in Germany are investigating the deaths of two women. They are the victims os a couple who held them hostage and tortured them. The murderers were a man called Wilfried and Angelika, his ex-wife. Detectives believe there may be more victims. The murderers' home is in Hoexter, north-western Germany. 

There are two cases. The first one, the victim was a 41-year-old woman, known as Susanne F. The women died later in hospital because she didn't be died, she was only injured. The second case was in the summer of 2014. The victim was 33 years old, called Annika W. Both suffered from physical torture. 

Police believe the motive for the murders was more likely to be power-relared than sexual. Angelika B. say that she only obeyed the man after also being tortured by him. The head of this investigation is Ralf Oesterman. 

My opinion:   

I can't understand how people can be so evil. A person who does this hasn't got consciousness. I choose this news because I want to know more about this case and because it's relation with human rights. A person never can take away the life of another person.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are the rights you have simply because you are human. They were created in 1945 by the United Nations (New York) and there are 30 human rights. 

I choose the 26th human right to talk about it. This is the right to education and it says the following things: 

• Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. 
• Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

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This human right is respected in some countries and violated in the others. For example: in the developing countries, there isn't this right. Children don't go to school because the odds are that there aren't schools. However, if there are probably they can't go because they have to work in order to survive him and their family. A developing country's school is very different than a school in a developed country. This is the other hand, where the right of education is respected. In the developed countries all the children go to school in a private or public, but they can go to some school. I think that this right would have to be respected in all the world because education is very important. With the education, children can have their own opinion of the world, is more difficult trick him... It will be nice that some volunteer will go to these countries in order to teach the children even if be the most basic things.                               

EDUCATION IS THE KEY, SCHOOL IS THE LOCK

"Now let me tell you something your parents will tell you: Make me proud, icreases your chances of getting a job, provides you an opportunity to be successful, your life will be a lot less stressful, education is the key". 

I choose this paragraph because I agree with that our parents tell us this, but I don't agree with what the paragraph says. Society says the same too. Parents think that if you have a degree you will be more successful in life and this isn't true. If you don't like study you can go to work in order to win money and maybe you will be able become a very important person like Steve Jobs. This famous man is an uneducated man. You can make your parents proud without having a degree. Another thing to comment is that having a degree is not synonym that getting a job related to your studies. However, if you are an educated person you have more opportunities for getting a whatever job. Finally, is not true that if you are an educated person your life will be less stressful. People who works having a degree or not can be stressful in the same way. However, studying is not easy and is so stressful. 

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. 

                                                                                                          

YOUR-SAY: ADOLESCENTS NOWADAYS VS ADOLESCENTS 50 YEARS AGO.

I will talk about adolescents nowadays and adolescents fifty years ago. 

Fifty years ago teenagers used to do different things that teenagers do now. In the past they used to work instead of studying. Families were quite poor and parents couldn't afford their childrens studies. So, most of the teenagers didn't use to go to the University. Instead they looked for a job and helped the family. Nowadays, teenagers have better oportunities to study. Most families think that Education is very important and they help their children in order to have a better life they had. 

I would also like to talk how teenagers spend their free time now and how they used to spend it fifty years ago. Nowadays adolescents spend their time with new technologies like computer, playstations, tablets and so on. Fifty years ago, they used to play in the street with their friends. They share their time, their ideas, their feelings... Teenagers nowadays are not as sociable as they used to be in the past and that is because these young guys don't make any effort to meet together. Instead they want to stay at home and using technologies to communicate. 

I think that things have changed a lot during the last fifty years. However, I am not quite sure who had a better adolescence.

YOUR-SAY: ADOPTIONS BY GAY COUPLES

"How do you feel when you see two men walking with their baby child?"

Nowadays, there are a lot of adoptions made by gay couples because they can't give birth as both of them are men or women. This is one of the possible ways for them to be parents. The could also pay for a surrogate mother. 

Most people think that a child must have a father and a mother in order to have a good education. However, gay couples don't agree with this thought, as they strongly believe they can be as good parents as heterosexual couples. In some countries the law doesn't allow that a gay couple adopt a child. In the same way, there are countries which also don't allow gay couples to get married. 

If you asked me the previous question I made at the begining my answer would be I feel good for them. When I see an homosexual couple with a child I don't find it strange. I think that gay couples can be very good parents as well and they deserve to reach their dreams. 

NEWS: WHERE IS MY SOLAR CAR?

I choose this news because when I read the tittle I thought that it will be an interesting news. 

Summary:

The students of the Institute of Technology in Manipal, southwest India have designed solar car prototype. This is called the SERVe (Solar Electric Road Vehicle). It's a join project of Manipal Institute of Technology and Tata Power Solar, the most important solar company in India. 

The solar panels that cover the roof keep the car reasonably aerodynamic. The battery and power system are handled by a student-programmed Raspberry Pi. The car's body is a fiberglass-reinforced plastic over steel tubing. Its weight is 1300 pounds and the car can drive more than 90 miles. The top is about  speed 37mph. 

These students weren't trying to build the fastest  or the farthest solar vehicle. They were trying to build a solar car that not only worked, but one that could be commercially viable. 

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My opinion: 
I think that we live in a technological world and it's possible that in a future all the cars that we will used be solar cars because this are more economics and don't pollute the world. 

YOUR-SAY: LONG DISTANCES MAKE OR BREAK RELATIONSHIPS

I will talk about a topic of a discussion that is: "Long distances make or break relationships" which some people agree or disagree with.          

I think that large distances relations are hard to be hold because people really wish to spend as much time as possible with their boyfriend or girlfriend. However, life sometimes makes you take this decisions because of work, family or other life circumstances. 

I think that if you have only 10 days to be with someone, it just makes the experience much more intense because you don't want to miss a second of it. 

I believe that distances are difficult to manage but it also give you the chage to realise if you really love that person or not even you are far away from him or her.