NEWS: WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU: 3 REASONS I'M PROUD OF THE PAIN I'VE EXPERIENCED

This piece of news was written by a 21 year old girl. She tell us her experience in her relationship and what she learned from it. 

Falling in love is a scary and beautiful thing. When you begin in a relationship you know that one day it might finish and one of the couple might be hurt. She gave all she had in that relationship, but one day, he just ended with her. She was completely heartbroken and she cried a lot until she finally realized that he had lost more than her. She learned a few things about herself. The most important one was that she would honestly rather get hurt never again. 

1. Getting your heart broken helps you grow: All people should experience a heart break in their liver because it teaches humility to you. Once you have your heart broken you understand the pain, and you most likely won't do that to someone else. Also you will be more compassionate in future relationships. 
2. It makes me feel alive: Feeling hurt means you're able to feel. A life without feeling joy, pay or any other feelings is not the way one should live. It's like you are just existing, but you're not really living. Feeling pain makes you feel alive because it means you can feel things deeply, and you can grow from it. 
3. Feeling pain means you're vulnerable: Being vulnerable is the hardest thing to do in the world. You're opening yourself up and handing someone you heart you're trusting that person as well. 

The writer will never stop believing in love and she thinks that one day she will find the man of her dreams. 

My opinion:

I agree with what the writer says. I also think that you should experience a heart broken in your life because it makes you learn a lot about life and love. A life without love is not a good life. Moreover, sometimes is better be alone before be in a toxic relationship because the real love don't hurt.

                                                                   source

IS HUMOUR NECESSARY?

After doing some research, I definitely agree that humour is absolutely necessary in our life for many reasons.

All people say that humour is good for our health. But why? There are many reasons to prove this thought. Laughter relaxes the whole body, boosts the immune system, increases the production of salivary immunoglubin A, which defends against infectious organisms... Also protects the heart by improving the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help you against a heart attack or other cardiovascular problems. 

Futhermore, laughter has social benefits as well. The action of laughing strengthens relationships, promotes group bonding and helps you to defuse conflict. Moreover, laughter and mental health are connected because laughter dissolves distressing emotions and helps you relax and recharge. 

In conclusion, we can prove that humour is clearly necessary in our life. You must include humour in our life and also in our relationships because it allows us to be more spontaneous, ge rid of defensiveness and more. 

ORAL PRESENTATION

Here there is the oral presentation about Mr. Bean that we did with my friend Míriam for our English classroom. 

THE KEY TO SUCCESS? GRIT

When she was 27 years old, she left her job in consulting to become a teacher of Math to seventh graders students in a New York public school. After five years teaching, she realised that the students' IQ is not the most important when talking about academic results. What was much more important was an understanding of the students themselves and their learning process from a phsycological and motivational prespective. So, she decided to go back to university to study phsycology. 

She and her research team studied how students and even adults behave in life. After their ressearch, they came to the point that there are important things to take into account to success in life but these things are not having a  good look or having a great social intelligence... She believes that the word GRIT is the key. 

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals, grit is stiking with your future, day in and day out, not just for a week, not just for a month but for years and working really hard to make that future a reality. She started studying the term grit and passed grit questionnaires among her students. In the video she states  that the most shocking thing about grit is being concious how we built it. 

My opinion:

I definitely agree with what she says in her talk. I agree that passing the IQ test with a high mark is not the most important aim. I think that you may have a high level of knowledgements but you may not be practical enough to face life. I think that growing students' grid is very important to help them to cope with their future. However, I know that it's a hard work for teachers to reach it. 

                                                              VIDEO

EMAIL TO MY TEACHER

Hello Sònia, 

As you asked us, I'm sending you an email to introduce myself and tell you about my future dreams. 

My name is Sandra and I'm 17 years old. I live in a small village called Torroella de Fluvià. As you know I'm in second level of batxillerat. In my free time I like going shopping, meeting with my friends, listening to music and reading books. 

I know that this school year will be really hard and I'm aware of the big struggle that I will have to fight, hoping to have a great success. One of my dreams is to become a good broker or economist because I really like the financial world. Since I was a child, my father has been teaching me this world because he is an economist. Another dream is to discover the world around us as I haven't travelled much. The first country I would really like to visit is USA. I think this country is amazing and has many cities and places to visit. 

See you next day in class, Sandra. 

PODCAST: JOKE

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.