My english competence in 2015

My best post this year maybe has been the one I did this third term about Polution, maybe it hasn't been the longest one, but I did a reflection about our situation and our reaction against it. I also said some things to improve oure situation and reduce polution which is one of the biggest problems  if it's not the biggest one nowadays. Maybe it hasn't been the longest composition I have done during the hole year, but I haven't done mucch free posts about things that aren't sports, and is a topic that I had never talked about appart from a news from last term. I gave my opinion and tried to give some example of what to do to improve our situation.


http://ferransola.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/pollution.html

My english progress

With this post my objective is to see my improvement from my first post or the posts during the whole course with the ones of this year. First thing I see is they where a little bit shorter or similar, however the biggest diference I find is the use of connectors, this year I have started using more connectors in my compositions, wi¡hich is really good, because last year I only used the mostcommon ones. I would also add that I have improved on my fluence, and also about the topics, this year I've talked about different topics, but last year most of them where about sports. Maybe one of the biggest improvments is the use of prepositions, I still doing some mistakes but I have solved some of them, which is really positive.


About the oral presentations, I don't have any of them recorded but I'll try to analize my improvement. A thing I still having to improve are my nerves, when I have to speak I get really nervous, but I think this is not important because it can be solved. Talking about improvement, I think I have improved on my fluence and also my pronunciation, which can still iproving, and I'll try to improve it as much as I can. An aspect in which I have aso improve a little bit is my body language, last year I was with my hands in my pockets, or without knowing what to do with them, and this year I have started moving them and knowing what to do with them. Las year was like I have no arms, but ith time I start improving, and I hope to keep doing it.

Rosberg Poleman

Yesterday Rosberg achieved his first pole position of the season, after four races, in this for races his team mate Hamilton has beated him in the qualification and in the races. Both of them want to fight for the title, now the difference between them is of 27 points, but Nico will fight to catch Lewis. After achieving it Rosberg said he needed it, and was the first step to reach the victory. Barcelona's track has a high average of winers who start from the pole, so Rosberg has lots of options to achieve it. Ferrari has also evolved the car, but they are third after Mercedes and a little bit far frm them.
Opinion

In my opinion Rosberg is a good driver, but Hamilton is better than him and is the one I think will win the title. I think Rorberg will win the race at Barcelona, but he won't win the championship, because Hamilton will do it. This season races are more interesting, because Ferrari have improved a lot and now are fighting for the victory in some races. I hope Vettel could win more races this season, because hes really good, and ferrari is my favourite car and team.

Words

adrift
tweaks

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/32675869

Barcelona closer to the title

FC Barcelona won yesterday 2-0 against Real Sociedad, thanks to Neymar and Pedro. At the end of the first time the match was 0-0, but at the begining of the second half  Neymar scored and then Pedro at the end. Real Sociedad keeper, Rulli did a fantastic match and with his saves evited Barcelona to score more goals. Barcelona changed a litle bit the line up compared with the Champions match, the changes were: Adriano, Xavi, Bartra and Rafinha.

Opinion

Barcelona is doing a perfect competition and they have nearly achieved their goal of wining the league, because they only need a win with two matches remaining, because yesterday Madrid drawed against Valencia 2-2. In my opinion Luis Enrique has done a fantastic job this season and now he is fighting to achieve Champions  la Liga and the Cup, I hope he is able to achieve it, because he and the hole team deserve it.

Words

sealed
 treble

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32589610

The ten sexiest male birds

Here they analize ten of the sexiest male birds, and talk about their appearence and what they do. I won't talk about all of them, I will only talk about some of them. The Club-winged manakin lives at the Andean cloud forests, and creates sounds by using his wing feathers to atract the females. The feathers act as a resonating chamber and amplify the volume of the sound. The Dark-eyed junco habits North America, and have sense of smell, which is really strange in birds. Their smell comes from the oil they use to protect their feathers.

Opinion

In my opinion birds are amazing, they are extremly beautiful and have lots of misterys. I would like to be a bird for a day and be able to fly free without caring about nothing. In my opinion most of the birds that appeared at this new are sexy but there are some like the Long-wattled umbrellabird which is a little bit ugly, but the majority that appear are very beautiful.

Words
aloft
preen
fledglings

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150504-the-ten-sexiest-male-birds

Lebron James leads Cleveland Cavaliers

This days at NBA are being playd the playoffs for the title, one of the matches is Chicago Bulls of Pau Gasol against the Cleveland Cavaliers of Lebron James. Chicago won the first match, but on the second Lebron did a fantastic match leading his team to the victory and put the 1-1 on the series. He scored 33 points, and catched 8 rebounds. The match finished 106-91in favour of Cleveland. Pau Gasol scored 21 points and catched 10 rebounds in first match, but on the second one just scored 11.


Opinion

In my opinion Lebron is one of the best players of the NBA, and he scores the difference during matches, like he did against Chicago. This serie will be really difficult, because Cleveland has a really good team with Kevin Love and Irving, but Chicago also have good players apart from Gasol, for example Noah or Rose. I don't have a favourite team, but if has to win one of them, I prefer that Gasol wins, because he is Catalan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3071560/LeBron-James-leads-Cleveland-Cavaliers-victory-Chicago-Bulls-Eastern-Conference-semi-final-series-tied-1-1.html

Giro d'Italia 2015: Richie Porte to lead Team Sky squad

The australian will lead team sky at Giro, which starts today, he will be the leader of a team of nine cyclists, without any british one. After winin Giro del Trentino, Paris-Nice and Volta Catalunya, he will try to win Giro d'Italia. Giro is his main goal of the year, but it will have lots of avsences, like Nairo Quintana or Nivali, who will compete in Tour de France, like his team mate Chris Froome.

Opinion

In my opinion he's really strong this season, but it will be difficult to win the Giro, because he will have to compete against Contador, who I think is the favourite, and I hope he will win the Giro. Porte's team is a really strong one, maybe the strongest one, what's strange is that there isn't any british one, and more knowing that the team is british.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cycling/32596951

When will we find aliens?

Chris Mckay, thought that he had found life in Mars, but it failed, but he didn't give up and still fighting to find life, but since then he hasn't found any evidence. Mckay and his team are investigating the planets of the solar system and think is possible to find life. Scientists say the most exciting kind of life would be the intelligent one. During next years scientists will continue improving the tools to be able to find live in the slar system and further from the solar system.

Opinion

I think there's life out of our planet, but with life, I don't think about ET like us, I think there are some microorganisms and also bigger ones like insects and things like that. They haven't been found because is really difficult to do it, and the technology has to evolve a lot, however life will be found in not much years, but finding aliens will be more difficult. In my opinion aliens will be found one day or another.

Words

critters
beneath
lurks

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150429-will-we-find-aliens

Pollution

Nowadays is not strange to hear people or media talking about pollution and environmental problems, the problem is we pollute a lot and act without caring about the planet. We think our actions don't affect the planet, but we are killing it. An example that shows that is the ozone layer hole, it hasn't apperared there as a result of a magic trick, it's our fault, the same happends with the CO2 emissions, they are always increasing. The problem about that is that some people don't care about it and say it's not their fault, but by killing the planet they are killing themselfs, so it's easy to try to fix, everybody has to care a litle bit more about their actions and think about doing them, and by doing it, all this problems will improve.
To conclude I want to make all you think that is on our hands to change the environmental issues, and all together will reach the goal.

Answering David

Hello David,

It was really nice to hear from you, I hope everything is going really good, and I am wondering to  finish school and be able to get relaxed, without the stress of exams.

It would be really nice to meet a day and just spend it getting relaxed, or playing some sports as you said. I think the best idea is to go to the beach and there we'll be able to play football or volley and we'll be close to the water and when we finish playing we'll be able to swim.

And about the meeting day, next weekend would be really nice, because I don't have anything to do and I thing is the most suitable day, because then we'll have lots of things to do.

Hope to see you soon

Ferran.

Summer

Summer is the most waited season of the year for many people, because it means hot, sun, beach, relax, hollidays... Our area is really nice to spend time on summer and thats why lots of tourists come here and everithing increase. There's more traffic and less peace at the streets, more people at the beach, that are really crowded of red tourists. It's not difficult to spot the tourists, because they get really red like prawns because of the sun. I love summer because oyu are free and have time to enjoy yourself, but what I don't like is how crowded is everywhere, but it's not bad, at the end you get used to it and it's like always. In my opinion summer is the best season of the year because after all what you have to study being able to relax is amazing and you feel really good. The same happends to people who work and have hollidays during summer, they disconect from everything and just lay on the beach and enjoy the weather and the landscape.

Dialogue

-Hello John, I haven't seen you since lot of time, how are you?

-Yeah, I have been traveling arround the world, all is fine and you?

-Things are not bad, what were you doing before I called you?

-Well..., I was with my mobile phone.

- I think you are using it to much, aren't you?

-I don't agree with you, I think I'm using it like the average.

-Mmm... But the average of the population are nomophobic, so you are also one of them.

-I'm not nomophobic! I can stop using it whenever I want.

-Let's prove it and try to stop using it during a day, you have all the symptoms of a nomophobic, you are always looking at your mobile phone, thinking if someone is texting you... so you should try what I said to you.

-I'd better stop using it tomorrow... or even next week.

-Are you sure you aren't nomophobic?

-Yeah, completlly sure, well, mm.. maybe a little bit.

-I think it can be solved and the unical thing you have to do is to use it only if someone needs you, or you need something, not always looking at it.

-You're right, I'll try it.

-It won't be easy, but I'll do it.

-Thanks for helping me see I have a problem.

-I did what you would have done for me.

-I'll call you in a month and explain to you how I am doing.

-Bye John! 

Formal letter

Carrer del rentador sn

La Moncloa.

13th April 2015, Castelló d'Empúries

Dear Mr. Rajoy,

I am writing this letter to you because I do not agree with the way you are acting and the laws you have done.

I think you are atempting against the Catalans because thay have the right to a nationality and you are taking it to them, they feel and want to be catalan. Acording to Human Rights, they should be able to have the catalan nationality.

I also want to add that you with your actions are violating another right, the right of shelter. When people do not pay banks, instead of forgiving them or searching a solution or even try to solve it, you choose the easy aption, and also the one which requires less effort. However the easy way is not always the best way. It is your fault that people who do not pay are sent away from their houses and have to live wherever they can at the streets. However, all this could and should change, and it is on your hands, and if you care about the effort do not worry, it is easy and I am sure you can do it.

Looking forward to your prompt reply.

 Teodoro

Shocking Human Rights

Right to family and marriage

Words:

spouse
to be entittled to

An example where this right is respected could be in Spain, because we respect gay marriage, for example, and an example of where is not respected could be the Muslim, because they banish this kind of actions.

Right to a nationality

An example where it is respected is in Spain, because we permit foreigners become spanish, and a country where is not respected is in Ecuador, for example babys which are born on tribes are not recognised as ecuatorians.

Human rights

1. What are human rights? 
They are the rights we have because we are humans.


2. When and why were they created?
They were created after the second world war in 1948, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights


3. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 rights.


4. Which human right were you not familiar with?
I wasn't familiared with the right to marriage and family,the right to a nacionality, the right to play and the right of responsibility.

Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic ready to hold the fort in absence of Sergio Busquets

SUMMARY

Ivan Rakitic was signed this summer by FC Barcelona, coming from Sevilla, during this season, he has played as midfield, but in an ofensive way, however he says he is also able and ready to have a more defensive role inside the team. This decision is due to Busquets injury, during a match against Villareal and Mascherano is near to recieve a suspension, that's why he will have to play there, and also because in nest 10 days they have to play against Manchester City and Madrid. This defensive role is not new for the croatian, because he has played there with his national team, Croatia.

OPINION

I think Rakitic is capable to play on Busquets position, and do it very well, in my opinion he's the one who has to play because they can't take the risk of playing with Mascherano, because if he recieves a booking, he will miss Madrid's match, one of the most importants and they have to have on of the most important players. I hope Busquets will get recovered for Madrid's match, because he is essential on this position, because he works a lot deffensively and helps the deffenders to contain the atackers, and against Madrid he will have to contain the BBC(Bale, Benzema and Cristiano).


fort
verge
booking(amonestación)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2992105/Barcelona-midfielder-Ivan-Rakitic-ready-hold-fort-absence-Sergio-Busquets.html

Lewis Hamilton on pole in Australia ahead of Nico Rosberg

SUMMARY

This weeken begins fe F1 world chanpionship and starts like it finished last year, with Mercedes on top of the qualification, the poleposition was for Lewis Hamilton, who beat his teamate Nico Rosberg with more than half a second of adventage, 0,594 seconds exacly, the third one was Felipe Massa from Williams. The surprise was Mclaren qualification, the new partnership with Honda didn't work and tomorrow will start from the last two positions. The team which has improved a lot since last year is Ferrari they have Vettel and Raikonen starting from 4th and 5th position. Red Bull are really angry with Renault, their engine provider, they want to make improve the engine, but Renault don't give them any solutions. We'll see how things go tomorrow during th race and who's the winner.

OPINION

In my opinion this year will be really similar to last year, Mercedes will be at the top and others will have to fight and work a lot to catch them. Maybe when we arrive to half of the championship, some teams will be able to beat Mercedes, but during first races, if they have no problems they will win the races. In my opinion Hamilton will win tomorrow, because he is faster than Rosberg and also better driver. I want Vettel and Ferrari to win a race, because it's my favourite team and my favourite driver, and he deserves it, and I also want Ferrari to win the Championship with Vettel as driver, now this are just dreams, but who knows, maybe they will come true.

stunning
utterly

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/31885105

Future

The word future souns a little bit abstract and it is, because future is two seconds after reading this or after a long period of time, the only thing is that future is unpredictable, you don't know what will happend, if will be good or bad news is a mistery.

My future is as abstract as the definition I gave befor, all is unknown, I have too much decisions to take, I have to choose my degree, where I want to study, where I want to study, and this decisions are not like when you have to choose the flavour of your icecream, this decisions are really important, they are your future. However some people have a clear future and know all they want to do, but some other people like me don't know what they will do until last moths, that's my case, I found, what I would like to do just some weeks ago. I think I have decided it late, because it's an extremly important decision, it's all my future and if you get wrong your future will be wrong, so the idea is to try to find the best to have the best future.

To sum up I would like to say to people who don't know what to do with their future, that they don't have to worry about that, because the right decision will arrive sooner or later, and when it arrives will be the best for the future.

El convidat

In this programme, Albert Om goes each programme to someone’s house, all of them are famous and catalan, he spends the whole weekend with them, and does all what they do. He asks them some interesting questions about their life, what are they going to do in the future...

What I really like about the problem is that we can meet famous people at their houses and they are really natural, not like at an interview at a newspaper or at the news. Viewers can also learn lot of things about famous ones, for example how were they during their childhood...

One of my favourite programme, was when he visited Marc Gasol at Memphis, because I learned how he lives there, how was his adaptation, what does he like, the things he likes doing on his free time..., I liked that one in particular, but in all of the episodes you learn a lot.

Tennis

Tennis normally is an individual sport but sometimes it's a team sport when they play with couples, the sport consists on passing the ball over the net and that this enters inside the court, the ball can bounce once before the player hits it to pass the ball to the other court.

My favourite player is Roger Federer because he is a humil player even if he has lots of money, he has been lots of time at the top of ATP and this means he has been number one for lots of days, i think that in the future he will become a legend like Pete Sampras..., now the number one is Djockovic, I think he will stay there for time, because is the one who is in best shape right now, the only who can catch him right now is Roger Federer, who nearly did it last year.

Tennis sometimes it's a little bit boring, so I hardly ever watch the whole match, the main reason because I don't watch the whole watch is because it's very slow and with lots of stops, and when they stop the start with advertising, and I hate it. I preffer watching paddel which is better, it's faster and with more show, I also like playing it, but I don't have time to do it.

Explore MARS from your armchair

SUMMARY:

The american company Mapbox have created interactive maps on the surface of Mars, they are really nice, because users can zoom on them and have a look at all the details of the red planet. This maps are done thanks to NASA and Esa data from the surface of Mars. They have created this amps because they love the space and the idea of explorig it from where ever you want by only usin a computer or something similar. Apart from the surface, they have also done a map of Mars satellites.

One of the most amazing images is the one of the Olympus Mons, a volcano, which is 25 Km tall.

OPINION:

I am not really interested on this things, but I find it really interesting, because everyone who likes it has the oportunity to learn about it and also to explore the planet without moving from the sofa. It's amazing what technology can do, and if we continue this progress we will be able to controle the world without moving from home, which is really amazing, but it's also dangerous, so we have to take care with it.

dormant

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2993225/Explore-MARS-armchair-Incredibly-detailed-maps-let-navigate-surface-red-planet-visit-famous-features.html

Jose Mourinho: Chelsea will win Premier League title

SUMMARY

Chelsea was knocked out from Champions league competition by Paris Saint Germain, and Mourinho answers the crytics by saying tant the team which was eliminated is the same that won the Capital One cup this season and the same is on the top of the league since the first day. The coach also added, they will be the winners of the league, they are on top with five points of advantage. And for this reporters who asked him about Champions league he answered, they had to ask it to Pellegrini or Arsene Wenger, whose teams still alive at the competition. He also concluded that if they finally win the league and adding the capital One cup, this will be a fantastic season.

OPINION

In my opinion Chelsea will be the winner of the league because five points of advantage are a lot, and they are really strong at this competition, but I also think that their elimination from Champions was a deception for Mourinho, beacuse his obsession is to win the Champions again. I also would add that if they win the league it will be a nice season, but if they had won the Champions would have been a perfect season. Chelsea soesn't deserve to pass the elimination so football was fair and past PSG, the team that played better football, less defensive, and fighted more to reach the victory.

scathing


http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31872195

Is it bad to crack your knuckles?

SUMMARY

A kind of myth nowadays is that if you crack your knuckles in the future you'll get artritis, lots of sudies have been done on it and all of them conclude the same, there's no relation between the issues and knuckles cracking. An american doctor demonstrated it, he cracked the knuckles of one of his hands during 60 years twice a day, and left the other hand as control and concluded, that there was no difference between the hand that was cracked and the one was cracked, so there's no reason to stop doing it.

OPINION

I have heard lots of times that cracking my figers would be dangerous, and could cause problems to my bones, but now I've heard about it and seen that experts say there's no danger I will still doing it. I dpn't know why people say it can cause bone issues if they don't know nothing about that, I think the only reliable information is the one which has a research done or done by an expert, we don't have to care about myths if they can't be defended with real and reliable information or statistics.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150227-is-it-bad-to-crack-your-knuckles

Global CO2 emissions 'stalled' in 2014

SUMMARY

CO2 emissions reamained stable last year for first time in years, this are really good news but we can't stop here say te IEA(International Energy Agency), we have to continue like this year. Experts atribute this good news to changing patterns in energy consumption in contries like China. One of the cahnges this countries have done is starting to use renewable energy. This stall has only happend threee other years, which are really good news. The goal is to keep this C02 levels, and avoig dangerous climate changes.

OPINION

In my opinion this are really good news, because keeping the levels is really important, because if not we can have several problems in afuture, and also thinking with further generations, will have lots of issues related with environment. In my opinion this problem is really difficult to solve, but we can do things to keep things like today conditions, wich are not bad at all, this steps are the same as always, using renewable energies, use less the car...The problem is that to reach our goal all of us have to do our part, because if not, the effort of a person has no repercussion, so all of us have to give our best to reach our goal.

stalled

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31872460

A soulmate at this point

It's said that a soulmate is the perfect half for you, but it's really difficult to fine that partner, so we try to find the person who is closer to that idea, in my idea finding a soulmate is an utopia.

I know it's a really difficult job, but I will try to describe as better as possible my perfect half. First of all I will describe how has to be the personality of my soulmate. This girl has to be kind with me and others, funny, that makes me laugh, not selfish, because it's a thing that bothers me a lot, with this I mean that kind of persons who only thinks with their self. I will also add this person has to be extroverted, and not really shy when is with me, which means she has to be a little bit extoverted, and also attentive with me, and we must have things in common, and enjoy with similar things, or activities.

Secondly, I want to talk about the physic of my soulmate. It's the most difficult part to describe, because there's not an only physic which attracts a man, however i will try to describe one of them. My perfect one can't be taller than me, the problem is that I'm not too tall, but the adventage is girls normally are not taller than me, talking about hair colour, I don't mind blonde or brunnete, but maybe brunettes are better, and the same happends with the colour of their eyes, I prefer blue eyes, but if they aren't blue is not a problem. Last but not least she has to be slim, and I won't say much more, because is really difficult to describe the whole body.

In conclusion the basics my soulmate must accomplish are: be attentive, funny, extroverted, not taller that me, slim, and I don't care about she's hair and eyes colour, the most important, we have  to have things in common.

Is internet making the world a better place?

It is said that Internet is just for social networks but it's not just that, it also offers more facilities. However, we will focus on social networks and its pros and cons.

On the one hand, we want to say that internet is the perfect place to connect with anybody arround the whole world. This conection gives more opportunities  due to Internet introverted people can be more extroverted than they are when are meeting someone face to face.

On the other hand, with the use of Internet people lose their privacy and as a consequence it causes more trouble. Using Internet too much can produce isolation from family and friends which is bad because they create their own world without living the real one. Internet can create fake expectations that are too far from the reality.

To sum up we consider that Internet has more benefits than issues. Now and in the future, the use of Internet should not be a problem.

Research paper abstract

What do you know about death?

With this project I want to achieve some objectives like: know how the idea of death has evoluted, know the idea of death and the practices of other cultures, and try to compare the practices of other cultures with the catholic one.

When we think about death the first idea that comes out is sadness, but it hasn't always been like that, because some centuries ago it wasn't a bad thing, it was just a thing that had to happen, and it also happens now, because some tribes think dying is a happy thing. During my project, I have also tried to understand the method use to know when someone is dead, and how to say it to the family. Another thing that I have done is talking about euthanasia, which is a really interesting topic, because is a current topic of discussion is most counties, because they think it should stay like now and be illegal, and I also give my opinion about it and if it should be legal or illegal. The most important part of my project is the one in which I talk about the practices of other cultures, there are some of them that are really strange and also disgusting, what's surprising is that some of them feelings compared with our ones  socked me a lot and also happens with the practices.