Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

DIALOGUE




- POLLY: I had thought if you wanted to come with me for a ride.

-TANIA: What? So it's true, Jaime, you had a girlfriend in secret, because on Saturday didn’t want to with me to the ballroom.

-JAIME: True, but she isn’t my girlfriend hidden from you, is my cousin and I am helping her move, so on Saturdays I go to the house across the street to help when you're not hear.

-TANIA: What a relief, I thought I was cheating. Polly come on.

(All within the room. Suddenly Tania goes to the kitchen and leave them alone)

-JAIME: almost reveals my love.

-POLLY: Jaime you lie very good.

-TANIA: I was listening, Jaime, I leave you forever.

(Tania leaves)

-JAIME: that good polly, together at last.

How to use the conditional?

ZERO CONDITIONAL

1) If / when + present simple --- present simple / imperative
If you don’t eat food, you die

2) present simple / imperative --- If / when + present simple
Run when I say go

USO:

- Se utilita parar referirse a una situación que es verdadera.
If I spend too long watching TV, I get a headache.

- Se utiliza para dar órdenes, en este caso el verbo es imperativo.
If you see rubbish, pick t up!

FIRST CONDITIONAL

1) If / unless + present simple --- will + infinitive
If we recycle more, we will have a cleaner environment.

2) Will + infinitive --- if / unless + present simple
We will have a cleaner environment if we recycle more.

USO:

- Se utiliza para hablar sobre posibles futuros inminentes
She will see David if she goes to the party.

- Se utiliza para hacer promesas
If you pass all your exams, I will take you on holiday.

SECOND CONDITIONAL

1) If + past simple --- would + infinitive
If I were rich and famous, I would give money to charity organizations.

2) Would + infinitive --- if + past simple
I would give money to charity organizations if I were rich and famous.

USO:

- Lo utilizamos para hablar sobre situaciones improbables del presente y futuro.
If I had a car, I did travel around the world.

Friday, May 28, 2010

FINAL REFLACTION

I’m going to explain my opinion on my Blog of English this year.

At first when I started to write and do things on the blog I thought that it was difficult and heavier.

But now, I think that it’s a good way to improve my English. I can express more things, and I can find other ways to express myself. My vocabulary is wider.
I can see that my English improves a lot.

I think that the activity that I have improved the most is the oral presentation because this helps us to store and maintain a good conversation in English. Also podcast is a good activity, because you can pronounce without shame.

The activity that I enjoy the most is watching a film, it’s the most entertaining thing that I have done and the subtitles help a lot. If you choose a good and easy film you can learn a lot of things.

For me this year has been difficult and I had to work hard in all subjects. The truth is that English hasn’t been easy, but you learn a lot of.

I would like to thank in particular my teacher Juan Carlos and Jordi, two great teachers who work to help us.

THANKS!!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

GUARDIOLA

“Pep Guardiola i Sala”, born 18 January 1971 in Santpedor, Barcelona. Is a Spanish football manager and former player.

Guardiola played as a defensive midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career with Barcelona, whom he currently manages.

He was part of Johan Cruyff's dream team that won Barcelona's first European Cup.

After, Guardiola became coach of Barcelona B. Before, Barcelona president Laporta announced that Guardiola would succeed Frank Rijkaard as the first team manager.

He signed his contract on 5 June 2008. In his first season as manager, Barcelona won the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League. In doing so, Guardiola became the youngest UEFA Champions League winning manager ever.

The following season, Guardiola and Barcelona won the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup, bringing the manager's tally to a perfect six trophies in six competitions.

My team is Real Madrid, but I recognize that Pep Guardiola as a best and great coach, who gives everything for his team.

I commend this man for his effort, sincerity and humility. It is an example.

Monday, May 24, 2010

IS BECOMING A DANGER OBESITY?

Obesity is spreading into developing countries. Nutrition experts warn of a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Although a diet of fatty fast foods may account for obesity in some countries, a major cause is that many manufacturers now add more sugar to foods "to make them taste better." Additionally, Asian and African diets include more edible oils, with the consequent extra calories.

People use technology at work and save a lot of physical work. People want to work less and have more free time.


Since obesity is rising rapidly among schoolchildren too, especially in areas where recreation and physical activity have been reduced, there is an urgent need for teachers to be aware of the relationship between nutrition and academic performance

We should'nt go to that extreme, we must maintain a good physique.

TAKE THAT

Take That is an English pop band famous of the united states. The group is made up of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange. Barlow is the main songwriter of the group. Each member performs mainly as a vocalist, though each has some instrumental and composition ability.

In the first half of 1990, the band achieved great success as an act of five boy band with Robbie Williams.

Currently, Williams go out of the group, who in 2005 was gone.
Take That sold more than 25 million records between 1991-1996.

Take That has generated two of the best-selling albums of the decade, and biggest hits of 1996.

The band has released a second album after the meeting of study called The Circus and Circus have completed their tour Live 2009.

For me it’s a great band and their songs are very emotional and expressive.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

DRUG ABUSE



There Is a Solution!

Everyone takes drugs. But depending on how we define drugs,those words contain an element of truth.

The term drug is defined as: Any chemical substance, whether of natural or synthetic origin, which can be used to alter perception, mood or other psychological states. That is a useful, broad description of what are called psychoactive drugs, although it does not cover many medicinal drugs used for physical ailments.

According to that definition, alcohol is a drug. The danger lies in its immoderate use, which is evidently increasing.

Like alcohol, tobacco is legally available, although it contains a powerful poison, nicotine. According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills about four million people a year. Yet, tobacco barons are wealthy, honored members of society. Cigarette smoking is also highly addictive, perhaps more so than the use of many of the illegal drugs.

In recent years numerous countries have curbed tobacco advertising and imposed other restrictions. Nevertheless, many people still see smoking as an acceptable social activity. Smoking continues to be glamorized by the film industry.


No smoke, and drinking of a moderate form to your way of life no worse.

DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION

Cristina for me is a very good friend. She is short; she has got brown eyes and long dark hair.

She is 16 and she is finishing ESO.

Cristina seems very extroverted with all of her friends, but with me she is very shy, kind and friendly. We’ve know each other for a long time.

She likes to party and being with all her friends at all time and places.
She is very sympathetic, you can rely on her. She is very impulsive and very generous with everyone.

Many times our opinions are different, but she knows how to respect the opinion of others.

In general i appreciate Cristina because she gives me good advice.
For me she is a great example.

FORMAL LETTER

Guillem Cordon Fernandez
18, Marinada
Sant Miquel de Fluvià
January 14, 2010
Hi David,
Thanks for you letter, I’m going to describe a place that I have imaginated.

It’s a tropical island. So I’m describing the perfect place for my life, a place where I feel well and I can relax.

The beach, sun and friends, are a combination of good feelings, have fun and relaxation, and my island, should have these three qualities.

In my imagination, I can see I'm in a beachfront house, where I can watch the waves and feel the pleasant breeze. Stepping on the sand and feel my feet burn with the heat.

Then I go walking in a small jungle full of giant trees, all covered with beautiful yellow flowers, and you can smell the flowers.

Inside the forest, there are a lot of houses shops and buildings are made of wood. All the people live on the food provided by the trees.

At dusk, a few fireflies appear throughout the island and illuminating everything. And nearby, in the park of tulips, music sounds better and is full of people, who have dressed in white clothes, drinking, dancing and talking.

It would be a lovely place if it was true.

Sincerely
Guillem Cordon.

DISCUSION ESSEY

We have learned to respect the Earth or World?

We haven’t learned to respect the Earth, human begins cannot respect the poor or starving, for the same reason they don’t respect the land. New technologies offer us alternative routes to renewable energies that don’t pollute the atmosphere, but we still rely on fuel.

We drive cars and other vehicles powered by gasoline or diesel engines, we use electricity from central plants that burn coal, natural gas or oil, and we burn wood, charcoal, natural gas and coal for cooking and heating. All these activities increase the atmospheric concentration of CO2, a gas that traps heat from the Sun and that also destroys the ozone layer in the atmosphere.

We are destroying the planet slowly thanks to the deforestation, air pollution, urban sprawl, global warming, landfills, pesticides and overpopulation.

The solutions are many, but we should all agree. But this is impossible, because many people don’t care about what happens to the planet. Few people are as concerned and try to find solutions.

The solutions are very expensive. These solutions are: reforestation, clean air, clean water, community plantings, organic farming, solar energy, and more.

Personally, I believe that if we all started small steps to help the earth, we would get it to recover and in this way we would be respected

We need our friends


We All Need Friends

For a people, friends is:

- A friend is someone you can talk to freely about anything, someone you can call any time of the day.

- A friend understands when you’re hurt and feels the same things inside that you do.

Friendship is still as vital to the human spirit as food and water are to the human body. Yet, for many, satisfying this basic need for friendship is difficult. Loneliness is common. They cite such factors as widespread mobility, people changing residence frequently, impersonal, crime-ridden cities, and the substitution of television and home videotape-viewing for face-to-face community life.

Modern life also spreads our time and energy thin. With potentially hundreds of acquaintances crowding our lives, it can be difficult to focus on individuals long enough to develop and sustain deep friendships.

Even in places where not long ago the pace of life was less hectic, social conditions are changing rapidly. In the haste of the times, friendships can get relegated to a lower priority.

But our need for friends remains acute. Young people in particular feel this need. Young or old, we all need happy and meaningful friendships. And despite the challenges, there is much we can do to make and keep real friends.

TOP SECRET

TOP SECRET

Until recent times, secret codes usually involved governments, ambassadors, spies, and the military. But not anymore. With the advent of computers and the Internet, valuable data are often kept secret by a number of elements, including passwords, which are authenticated every time users access their records. Indeed, never before has secrecy played such a big role in everyday life.

But, is logical that we ask: How safe is my confidential data? Can I do more to heighten security?

Secret Scripts

The objective of steganography is to hide the very existence of the message.
Modern forms of steganography include using the microdot and watermarking paper and images for copyright protection. Today, people who peddle illegal pornography employ a similar concept. Aided by computer software, they hide pictures in otherwise innocuous digital images, text, or sound files.

Because the existence of the message itself is kept secret, steganography does not draw attention to either the carrier or the recipient. On the other hand, if the message is discovered, it can be read—unless it has also been encrypted.

Hiding the Meaning

Cryptology, or hidden word, is the science of keeping communications confidential by concealing, not the fact of the message, but its meaning. The process involves scrambling and unscrambling data according to a predetermined system of rules, thus only those parties who have the key are enabled to decrypt the message.
The European Renaissance provided the means for more sophisticated advances in cryptography.
By the 15th century, cryptography was becoming a routine tool of European diplomats. But it did not always guarantee security.


Technology Enters the Fray

In today’s digital world, banking, money transfers, and payments as well as medical, corporate, and government records are secured by means of complex encryptions. The cipher text, in turn, is read by those who have the necessary decryption key to restore the data to its original form.

A digital key is a string of zeros and ones in various combinations. Longer keys have more combinations and are thus harder to crack. The present standard for encrypted Web browsing is 128-bit keys, which have 4.7 sextillion times more permutations than 56-bit keys!

Still, security breaches do occur. In 2008, for instance, federal prosecutors in the United States charged 11 men with what is thought to be the largest-ever case of identity theft. The group allegedly used laptop computers, wireless technology, and special software to capture numbers from credit cards and debit cards used for payment at cash registers.

Is Your Confidential Data Safe?

To be sure, the encryptions protecting your bank accounts and online transactions are extremely hard to crack. Yet, much also depends on you. So be shrewd and “conceal” yourself, as it were, from fraud and theft by doing at least the following:

- Use antivirus software on your computer.

- Employ a spyware-detection program.

- Install a firewall.

- Keep all of the above continually updated, and install security updates for your applications and operating system.

- Beware of links or attachments in e-mail or instant messages, especially if the mail is unsolicited and asks for personal information or for verification of a password.

- When transmitting sensitive data, such as credit card details, use encrypted connections, and log off the Web site when you have finished.%

- Choose passwords that are hard to guess, and protect them.

- Do not copy or run software from unknown sources.

- Regularly back up your files, and safely store the copies.

- If you follow those basic precautions and apply any others that may be advisable now and in the future, you at least improve your chances of winning your own battle for confidentiality and security.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

BACON

Instructions.Things You'll Need:

•a quarter sheet pan.. this is a cookie sheet with sides.
•a rack that fits into the pan.... if you don't have a rack, take a sheet of foil and crumple it up and then partially straighten it out, but don't smooth it out. Leave lots of little hills and valleys
•foil to line the pan
•bacon of your choice. I like a smoked thick cut bacon

Step1

Line the sheet pan with foil to make clean up easier.

Step2

Place the rack in the pan, or use the crumpled foil

Step3

Place the separated strips of bacon on the rack with a little space between the rashers. Each strip of bacon is called a rasher.

Step4

Place the pan on the middle shelf in a cold oven.

Step5

Set the oven temperature to bake at 350 degrees.

Step6

Turn on the oven.

Step7

Bake for 8-14 minutes, depending on the thickness of the bacon. Check it frequently. Once the fat renders out and the bacon gets crisp, it will burn very quickly.


OWL CITY

Owl City is a musical project of electronic music created by Adam Young.

Young fusing music in the basement of his parents' home in Owatonna, Minnesota as a result of his insomnia.

Young are influences of disco and European electronic music. After releasing two albums independently, Owl City won popularity by releasing the album Ocean Eyes in 2009, with the song "Fireflies".

"Fireflies" topped the charts for the United States and Canada and became the most downloaded song.

He entered the Top Ten U.S. charts and the electronic music charts.
Ocean Eyes entered the top 10 list of most downloaded albums from Amazon MP3.

By December 2009, was certified gold in the United States.

It is a band very good and promising.


my marks

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

Who and That
Se usan para referirse a personas. Ex: The girl who / that works at the library is friendly.

Which and That
Se usan para referirse a diferentes cosas. Ex: I'm only keeping the clothes which / that fit time.

Where
Se utiliza para referirse a lugares o sitios. Ex: This is the area where I building my house.

When
Se utiliza para referirse al tiempo. Ex: I am free when I walk.

Whose
Se utiliza para expresar posesión de alguna cosa. Ex: Whose bag is this? / The boy whose mobile.

Who
Se utiliza para expresar posesión de alguna cosa. Es la contracción de who is o who has.
Ex: Who’s that boy? / That’s the boy who’s just bought my moped.



Who: quién
Which: que
Where: donde
When: cuándo
That: que

Defining relative clauses

Frase que nos da toda la información necesaria sobre una cosa.

Ex: That’s the boy who Bea dosen’t like.

Non-defining relative clauses

Frase que nos da demasiada información, que no es esencial, sobre una cosa.
Siempre va entre comas. Relative pronouns: who and which

Ex: Xavi, who’s a vegetarian, couldn’t eat anything.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

DESCRIPTION

My best friend is called David. He is tall, he has got blue eyes and short blond hair.

He is 14 and he is studying 3rd eso.

David seems very shy with people but with me he is very kind and friendly.

We've known each other.

He is the kind person you feel comfortable with.

David is very competitive with me in all things.

He seems very quiet and introverted.

David is sympathetic, you can rely on him. He is a little impulsive and very generous with evereyone. He always gives everything of himself and is very intelligent in everything. He is a balanced person and very respectful to everybdy.
His family is correct and friendly.

There are few friends like him !!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

THE I PAD

The iPad is a Tablet PC planned, designed and developed by Apple.

First announced on 27 January 2010,is better than a laptop, and much better than a phone.

The iPad is similar in functionality to the iPod touch, running the same operating system and supporting most of the same applications that run on it.

It has a largest Multi-Touch with a 1024x768 resolution, 16 to 64 GB of flash memory, and a 1 GHz A4 Apple.

Two models have been announced: one has 802.11n Wi-Fi while the other includes Wi-Fi and 3G as well as an assisted GPS system.

In addition to its features of Internet and media, the iPad is also the first Apple device compatible with your reading service.

While specific dates have not been announced, Apple has stated that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will be available worldwide in March 2010, while the Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in the United States and other countries in April. Prices range from 499euros.

The best technology hearing until today.

EXERCISE OF THE CLASS

I quite like photo B, it is better than ugly photo A

PHOTO B

In photo B, I can see there are three people, their style is normal. Their clothes are casual and comfortable.
They're comying a skateboard, they dress informal and dark clothes to their age. Two boys are wearing a hat to be protected of the cold. They are in a city, the sky is very clear and blue.

PHOTO A

I don't like the second photo. There is a model that is on the catwalk. She's wearing a bad dress and of many colors.

She's wearing a pink hat in the shape of horns. Behind there, are two models, they dress equal of badly. The clothes that they're wearing don't seem comfortable neither natural but if they think they look fashonable...

For my the fashion model:




Sunday, January 24, 2010

LETTER FOR HEAD MISTRESS

Guillem Cordon Fernandez
18, Marinada
Sant Miquel de Fluvià
Tel: 634409285
Email: guille-cordon@hotmail.com
January 14, 2010
Sra. Lluïsa Pinto
Head Mistress
IES Castelló d'Empúries
s/n Sant Pau
Castelló d'Empúries


Head Mistress,
I'm writing this letter to you to explain some problems that I have in this academic course.

My name is Guillem Cordon, I am a student of first year scientific batxillerat in your school and I live in Sant Miquel de Fluvià.

This year is the first one that the students of secundary and the students of batxillerat have the same time to get into school, this thing benefits me because I can take the bus in the mornings, but I cannot take it on having finished the classes because we do not have the same schedule.

Another thing that worries me is related to the week of vacations programmed for February.
The majority of students would like this week to be at the end of June.

Finally I would like to propose that the students of batxillerat that do not live in Castelló can be the first to use the dining room, since we have little time to eat.

I'm grateful to you in advance for your interest and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely
Guillem Cordon.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Friendship



For me frienship is te cooperative and supportive relationship between two more people, friendship isn't a person of the highschool or a companion.


Relationship which insolves mutual knowledge, esteem afection and respect.


How be to recognized to my friend?

- the tendency to desire what is the best of other.

- sympathy and empathy

- honesty

- mutual understanding