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.