My english competence in 2014

The task that my teacher is giving to me is very difficult to accomplish because like a mother can choose her best children it's very different to me to choose my best written evidence.

At the end, I decided to choose one opinion essay that I did during this year. The best argument that I can use to defense my decision is that I believe that I do a lovely written even at the expense of that the day that I do it I was in a very bad mood. I think that is my best work because it shows that I can do a good work even if I feel bad or depressed an because I think that I use very good arguments to defense a very difficult thesis.

Talking using linguistic words, I could say that this work show that with simple vocabulary every can do a good written, then I remember that when I was doing the document I spend a lot of time thinking the best introduction to do and, finally, I can say that I did a good job.

My English progress

My favorite animal is the dolphin. It's an aquatic animal, they are very good swimmers, they don't sleep too much may be three or four hours a day. This animal is very similar to me because I like a lot the water and I think that I'm a good swimmer not better than a dolphin. I don't like sleeping I prefer to do sport or read a book and finally this animal is very intelligent and I know that I'm a little bit intelligent.

This text of here is my first english writing of fourth of ESO, if I compare with one of my last composition (If Iknew back them...) The first BIG difference is the length of the text and the vocabulary, I think that now I use more words and more specific. I believe that the I continue doing a lot of ortografics faults and gramatical problems but anyone is perfect. One thing that shock me is that in this text I don't use any connectors and now I always use a lot of connectors.
If I have to be sincere, I should tell you that the bigest difference is not the length, the vocabulary or the connectors is the effort that I have put to learn more english.

Learn a language?

What are the difficulties of learning a language? What are the aspects that are important to learn a new language? I think that when you should learn a language you have to accept that is impossible to understand everything at the the begin and that the most important skills are the listening and the speaking.

First, a new language is like a new world and cause of that you always will need a lot of help to understand the language. I believe that at the beginning you should learn grammar and reading, because you need to have a base if you want to learn a language, but then you should begin to learn a lot of new vocabulary and learn how to speak well. One of my recommendation is to travel to a country were that language is the local language because you will learn a lot, you will know if you really understand the language and if you have the enough vocabulary to speak well.

Second, as I said I believe that the most important part of the language is the speaking and the listening because if some day you want to live to a new country you will have to know how to speak and you will need to understand you neighbours if you want to survive. I think that the grammar and the reading are not very important but useful.

To sum up, the most difficult thing that you will have to deal when you learn a language is to enter in the new world that the language is.  

Interview

Today I'm in the University of Barcelona because I want to interview rector of the University of Medecine. Francesc Cardellach is a professor of Medecine and, nowadays, is the rector of the faculty of Medecine. He publish more than two hundred of works in a lot of scientific magazine and he is part of the Real Academia de Medicina de Catalunya. The objective of this interview is to know what is the opinion that the rector have of the people that want to study medicine.

Hello Dr. Francesc, first of all we want to know what you think about all the retails that the government is doing in the public sanity?

Hello, I believe that this retails are destroying the public sanity and are causing that a lot of good doctors are dropping out the public sanity or emigrating. I think that one of the groups that are suffering more is the M.I.R. because this group is losing the opportunity of learning in good conditions.

Talking about the M.I.R., do you agree with the proposition of the government and the decree of troncalidad?

I think that this decree has some parts that are good and other parts that aren't so good, but as an rector of university I only can say that I only want the best for the M.I.R.

Changing of topic, What do you think about the reductions of places in the Universities of Medecine?

I agree about this thing because I think that is a stupid thing to teach a lot of people to be a doctor but then only less than a half of the people that the university student can pass the mir exam. In my opinion, I think that the universities will increase the number of student when the number of residents will increase.

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Education is the key

The text called education is the key shows to me how the education that we are receiving is very different that the education that we need. There are three thing that he says andthese things shock me a lot:

• “All I’m saying is that if there was a family tree, hard work and education would be related, but school would probably be a distant cousin. If education is the key, then school is the lock. Because it really ever develops your mind to the point where it can perceive red as green and continue to go when someone else said stop, because as long as you follow the rules and pass the exams, you’re cool. But are you aware that examiners have a checklist? And if your answer is something outside of the box, the automatic response is a cross, and then they claim that school expands your horizons and your visions. Well, tell that to Malcolm X, who dropped out of school and is world renowned for what he learned in a prison.” I really like this paragraph because he shows the reality in the school, we should accept that in the school we don't learn a lot of thing because, for example, the students only prepare his exams the day before and when they finish the exam they don't remember anything about what they have studied. In my point of view, I agree with that the school is like a colander than only allows to pass the people who can follow the rules that the school put.
• “Education is about inspiring ones mind not just filling their head”. That quote was inspiring to me because I began to think that every year in the school if I want to pass an exam I only have to fill my brain with some information and then I only have to regurgitate all the information in the exam. I think that this quote show how the batchillerat is not a good preparation for the university because during the two years of batxillerat the most part of the teachers only teach to us the content that enter in selectivitat.
• “Redefine, how you view education. Understand its true meaning. Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book on someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam. Look at it, Picasso was educated in creating art; Shakespeare was educated in the art of [word] that was written. Colonel Harland Sanders was educated in the art of creating Kentucky Fried Chicken.” I think that it have to be a very important aim for our society to change the education system, Probably if we change the way how we educate the population will can pass the crisis. I think that the first thing that we should change in our education system is the non written rule that the student only have to study the day before the exams because I think that if the students learn to sacrifice and try to understand every day a part of the lesson they will be better students.
  
  

Experience and age

Our society is divided in different groups depending the age. It is true that, currently, people change when they become older. One of these aspects that change is the experience that you have.

During your first age of the life, You have not experience and consequently you act with out think and normally you are always wrong and you need help of someone adult that give they opinion and they help you to act correctly. I believe that the fact of don't have experience is good because when you take the wrong way you always learn something.

The when you are old, You begin to think more and sometimes this is a problem because you think a lot about a deed and then you lose the opportunity to do it. I think that the older people need to be more spontaneous and try to break the routine.

To sum up, I'm convinced that a person should be very spontaneous, but they should have a little routine because the chaos isn't a good way to live even thought perfect order also is not a good way to live.

Opinion essay about how we should treat animals

The humanity have to treat the animals as equals or the animals are our slaves? I agree with the statement that tell that we have to treat the animals as equals.

At first, I think that a lot of animals are our best friends and we love those animals as persons. For this reason I believe that we should protect the animals as we protect the humanity because if we don't protect a friend that helps us, we will be monsters and we will kill all the animals.

At second, It is scientifically proved that some animals have the capacity of think like humans and they fell feeling and the pass of the time. Consequently, if we harm these animals, we will breaking the statements of our society because we will harming a equal.

To sum up, I believe that we have to treat the animals as equals because they are very similar as us and because we shouldn't harm a animal that have the capacity to feel.

Come to experience the real Africa in the Kunene region

Have you ever want to live in a place where it never rain? You hate the contact of people and you want to visited a place with out important monument but with a lot of cultures?

If you have answered with an affirmation all this question we have your best place to visit this summer. This place is in the land of the Himba where there are a little population and it never rain. This little population has a river near there and they live according to an ancestral culture. It's important to remember that this place is in Africa and you will only have your own hands to survive. Have you ever fell afraid? Don't worry because if you don't like the adventure you can reside in our hotel near the town. Remember if you like to visit a new place that nobody have never visit call to our number or visit our web.

What happen in London?

Hello Arya,

The reason I am writing is to explain what I have done during my school trip to London. As you know, we left Castelló d'Empúries at three o'clock of the morning and we arrive at London at midday. At the afternoon we visited the Big Ben and another important monuments of London. The next day we visited the Globe theatre, the tower bridge, the National Museum, the Science Museum and we could enter to Harrods. On Saturday we went shopping to Camden Town and we saw a musical call Once. The last day we could do whatever we want that was legal during the morning and then we return to Barcelona.

Remember went we meet, personally, that I have to explain all the problems that we have in the airport. Now I only tell you that more than one friend had to open his bag and we had to leave a lot of presents in London.

Best wishes

Anton 

Working abroad

During the last years the crisis have produced that a lot of people have left their countries and have gone to another places to find a job. However, what are the advantages and disadvantages of working abroad?

On the one hand, working abroad allows the people to visit new places, knew another cultures and, currently, they have the possibility of work of what they want. Then, I believe that if you work in other countries their curriculum will be better and they will obtain more experience.

On the other hand, working abroad produces some problems like they will not be able to see your friends, your family every day. In addition, they will have to accept other cultures and probably they should deal with racism or with religion problems.

The finish with this, I think that a person who is working abroad should choose his new country very well attending his necessities, hobbies and religion.

Letter to the Minister of Enviroment

4 Waterloo Road

London

Great Britain

3^rd of September 2013

The Minister of Environment

Madrid

Spain

Dear Madame,

I am writing this letter to apologize for how water is being wasted in your country. The statistics show me that Spain is one of the countries in the European Union that waste more water during the year.

This fact cost more than one million Euros to your country and is beginning to affect the environment. I want to show some ideas that if you decide you can use for improve the problems that Spain have with the water.

First, I think that the most important measure that you government should follow is to reduce the ours that fountain and other aquatics monuments are working during the day. Then I believe that if you increase the cost of the water when one family use more than fifty litres of water every months they will began to reduce the amount of water that they use. Finally, I was talking with an engineer that explain to me that more of the fifty per cent of the machines that use water that are of the State are very old and your government should change because they waste a lot of water and if you changed it for new ones the amount of water that they use will be reduced.

I wish you will try to change some of the things that I show in this card.

Yours faithfully,

Nathan Drake

Fifa allows Barcelona to sign new players

Barcelona will be able to buy players this summer because the FIFA have suspended the sanction that they put to the Barça cause of the problems with the transfer of some football players.

However, the President of the FIFA have explained that the suspension of the sanction is temporally because the decision if the club is guilty or not won't be make public after some months.

The Barcelona used different arguments to defence his position. One of them was that the delay of the decision will cause bad consequence t the club.

Thanks to this suspension the Barcelona will reform his football team this summer, one of the players that will arrive to the club is Ter Stegen or Alen Halilovic.

In my opinion, the Barcelona has a lot of problems to solve. Some of this problems are related with the corruption but others are related of his way to play. I wish that all the problems will finish for this club.

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Interview

Today I'm in the Sahara because I want to do an interview to one of the leaders of a Tuareg clan. The objective of this interview is learn more about the life of the Tuaregs in the desert.

Me: Hello, good morning Abid (name of the leader).

Abid: Hello, good morning Anton.

Me: At first, Shall I ask if how many times have you see raining in this desert?

Abid: I have never see a cloud in this desert but my father told me when I was young that fifty years ago He saw a storm near the oasis of Manela.

Me: How many people are in your clan? How do you do to feed all the members?

Abid: We are ten man, twenty woman, fifteen children and more than fifty camels. We don't have any problems to feed all my family (referring to his clan) because we have a lot of animals with us like sheeps and we can drink water in the twenty different oasis that are in the west sahara.

Me: Have you ever been lost in the desert?

Abid: I have never been lost in this desert, You should think that this desert is like your neighbourhood I know every dune of the desert, every oasis and every city.

Thank you Abid for ask my questions I was surprised about your answers. One day I will go with you in a journey but first I need to prepare myself for a wild journey. Thanks to all our reader, the next week I will be in the city of Egypt and I will visit the pyramids.

Anton 

Are we to dependent on mobile phone?

The Mobile phone allows people talk with everybody, play games, know all the news very quickly… Is the mobile phone becoming a necessity in our life?

At first, the mobile phone is an object that helps people when they have an emergency or when they need to communicate something important. I think that the problem began when we are all day using the phone, when we have to explain everything that happens to a friend. However, we explain a lot of things to our friends, not because they were particularly interesting, but simply because they happen.

A good example of the dependency of our society on the phone is when you have to say something to a friend that lives near you but you use the phone to talk with them. You never think the possibility of going to their home and talk with them.

To sum up, I believe that our society needs the phone because we are becoming a society of people that needs to be connected to survive.

Elena Poniatowska, chronicler of inequality, accepts Cervantes prize

This Wednesday, Elena Poniatowska became the fourth women that wins the Cervantes Prize. In her speech, the winner has praise Gabriel Garcia Marquez for help South America to became an important place for readers. Then she talks about the problems that her country has explaining how women, children, seniors has suffering.

Elena was born in Polonia, at the age of 10 she went to live to Mexico, at the age of 18 she began working in the newspaper Excelsior. After that she has wrote more than fifty essays, books... the most important are La noche de Tlatelolco and Las soldaderas, Women of the Mexican Revolution.

In my opinion I agree with Elena about the problems that have the children, women and seniors in South America and I'm proud to know that are people that is trying to help this poor people.

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Catalan government looks abroad for independence support

The Catalan government has open a website to try to have more international help for the independence of Catalonia. The website explain that the independence of Catalonia is not a politic staff is a civil decision. Then they explain the Catalan history and they have some interview with politicians explaining why they want the independence.

The objective of this website is have the possibility of vote the 9 of November after the negative of Madrid.

The surveys show that more than a half of the population want to vote on the 9 of November. The website have the support of a lot of associations and some political parties.

I believe that Spain should give the possibility to Catalonia, not because I want the independence because we have the right of being a nation.

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Former Barça coach Tito Vilanova succumbs to cancer

Tito Vilanova has died at the age of 45 years cause of a cancer in the parotid gland. The former coach of the Barcelona was fighting with the disease during three years. He died after an operation on Thursday. He always said that his disease wasn't important and they accept his entrance and exit of the Hospital as current staff. Before Pasqua he enter to Hospital Quiron because his immunologic system was not working well. Tito Vilanova was a football until 2002 when he become coacher of the Figueres team. In 2007 he become assistant of Pep Guardiola and this couple has create the best team of the history winning 14 of 19 titles.

In my opinion, Tito Vilanova is a winner even that he died because he never accept to lose against the disease and he was fighting until the end.

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Do you agree that teenagers are too immature and unprepared for grown-up life?

Being a teenagers is one of the most spectacular part human live. The teenagers are little adults that need to mature but also they have to enjoy the best years of their life. The problem appear when the teenagers want to become part of the adult life and the adults think that they are not prepared.

On the one hand, I believe that teenagers are unprepared for becoming part of the adult life because they are to impulsive and they only think to go to the party and have a good time. They don't know that life is difficult and they have problems to accept his faults and those things produce a lot of problems to our society.

On the other hand, every teenager is different and we can't say that all the teenagers are unprepared. We have to think that there are teenagers that are son of rich people and they think that life is easy and they probably will fall a lot of time before they understand that adult life isn't like childhood. However, there are teenagers that during his short life has passed more problems and difficulties than the most part of the population that are thirty years old. Probably this little group of teenagers are from marginalized areas or from the riches part of the city but they know that life is not a bed of roses

To sum up, I propose that before say to a teenager that she is unprepared please we have to think that every case is different and sometimes is better allow her to try that not allow to do it.

Is it possible to live without compters nowadays?

In this text I will comment if it's possible to live without computers. Are the computers machines that do our life easier or are we becoming the slaves of the computers.

In my opinion we are slaves of the computers because the most part of the population are addicted to this new machines. The problems is that if we try to don't use computers we lose a lot of opportunities like find a job, meet new people... However if the computers disappeared I think that the population will accepted and we will return to the life that we live in the past.

To sum up, I believe that humans can't live without the computers because the society is transforming the computers in a way of live and if someone try to go against of this she or he will be marginalized. 

Our education system

What is the difference between the Spanish education system and the Shanghai and Honk Kong education systems? Are the Shanghai or Honk Kong students clever than the Spanish students? What we have to change if we want the results than Shanghai has?

I believe that the differences between the Spanish education system and the other two are that our system hasn't receive the same money that Shanghai or Honk Kong. However, in the past the Spanish system hadn't the results that have Shanghai because I think that the problem is the teachers, there are teachers that hate teach and they don't want to show the good points of their lessons they only explain the content and then they don't try to make the students love the content, and the families, lots of students drop out the school because they haven't the support of they parents or because they parents think that if his son or her daughter is not intelligent they should begin learn a job and leave the school.

To sump up, If the government try to improve the teachers staff and change our education system( I'm not talking of Werth system) probably in the next years our students will have the same results than Shanghai or Honk Kong students.

Formal letter to the president of Mauritania

4 Waterloo Road

London

Great Britain

3^rd of August 2012

The President

Nuakchot

Mauritania

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you to defense one of the basic human right the equality. I have received some information about your country, in this information I could see that there in your country more than fifty % of the population are slaves. In this letter I pray to you because I think that slavery can not be allowed in a society of this century.

We are not in the seventeenth century were everything was allowed, We are living in a century of peace were every human has the same rights, were anyone should not be slave.

I am writing to pray to you, as I say, because you should begin to act and try to eradicate all the slavery of your country.

Yours faithfully,

The President of the Association Eradicate the Slavery of the World

Are the psychologist important for our society?

In my point of view, the psychologist in our society are very bad considered because they popular to deal with stupid staff like marriage problems and because current people think that the psychologist are like bats that steal money.

However, the psychologist aren't that kind of people that people think. I think that they are one of the bases of our society because they help people with a lot of problems, sometimes is stupid staff like marriage problems but ,moreover, they help people that have different kind of phobias, children with TDA...

I think that society don't know the help that the psychologist re doing in our society because I have heart a lot of time that psychologist are psychiatrist that weren't enough for work as a psychiatrist and they begin to work as psychologist.

To sum up, I believe that the psycho can help our society to improve helping people to cure his problems.

Advantages and disadvantages of living in a rural area

It is a truth universally acknowledged that people prefer to live in rural areas than in the city. It will be good if we analyse this quote and we try to search the advantages and disadvantages of living in a rural area.

To begin, normally in the rural areas the aren't a lot of people and you can live in peace with everyone. Consequently, in rural areas there are a lot of nature, not a lot of cars and it is a perfect place if you have children.

In contrast, in rural areas there aren't a lot of service like hospitals or schools. Moreover, as there aren't a lot of people you know everyone and everyone know everything ( this could be a problem if you don't like the gossip).

In conclusion, rural areas are places where people can live in peace but with less service than in a urban area where you have all the things that you want very near but you should put up with a very stressed life.

Informal letter

Easthampton

New York

6^th January 20014

Dear Alex,

Thanks for the Christmas presents, Miriam and Tom have loved their Ipads. I'm glad to know that your job situation is improving and you will return this February with your family.

I'm writing this letter to invite you to pass some days in our house because, as you know, the 31^st of January your favourite DJ, Skrillex, is coming to our neighbourhood. Then we will go with him to have dinner and if everything is good he has promise that, probably, he will show his music studio in New York the next day.

One more thing, remember that the weather in the Hamptons is very different than the weather in your new place. It will probably snow the days that you will be hear.

Best wishes,

Nate

For and against essay about a prenuptial agreement

A prenuptial agreement is a written contract between two people who are about to marry, setting out the terms of possession of assets, treatment of future earnings, control of the property of each, and potential division if the marriage is later dissolved. These agreements are fairly common if either or both parties have substantial assets, children from a prior marriage, potential inheritances, high incomes, or have been "taken" by a prior spouse. This definition was found in the free dictionary and then I think that it is important to analyze the prenuptial agreement:

On the one hand, this kind of contract is a way to show that you don't think that your marriage will be forever because in this contracts you are putting rules in a place were rules don't exist( love). Furthermore, it's always true that,probably, you can hate your mother in law but if you really love your wife you will accept her mother as she accept yours.

On the other hand, It's always true that exist a kind of “marriage” where a beautiful girl, who only want money, is the couple of a old and rich man. In this think that it could be good do a prenuptial agreement because there are no love in this couple it's only interest. In fact, the prenuptial agreements began when the richest families began to married with the poorest one only to protect his patrimony.

To sum up, as I see it the prenuptial agreement should be allowed only in some cases and never as a current way to begin a marriage.

“The law is the same for everyone,” says Madrid mayor about Aguirre incident

The ex-premier minister, Esperanza Aguirre, has been arrested during twenty minutes after she stop in a Bus lane. Esperanza accuses the police of sexist and of only fine her because she was an important person.

After this detention, some of the members of the PP has explain their opinion about the incident.

Soraya Saéz de Santamaría has explained that thee law is the same for everyone and the statements made by the officers should be presumed to be true. Other as Anna Botella has criticized the behavior of the ex-premier minister and some friend of Esperanza, Lucía Figar, has criticized the behaviour of the police agents because they were only traffic agents and they only have to monitor and control traffic.

I agree with Soraya Saéz de Santamaría and it will be very strange if that thing that she has told will became true.

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86 percent of Congress votes down Catalonia referendum request

After seven hours of debate the Spanish Congres has voted against the purpose of the President Mas to do a referendum. The most part of the Congres (299 that include the PP, PSOE , UcyD, UPN and Foro Asturias) voted that they don't want that Catalonia have the possibility of did a referendum the only 47 members of the parliament (CIU,ERC , ICV and PNV) voted that they want the possibility of do a referendum.

The most important declarations were from Rajoy who say that if the catalan population want to be independent they need to ask for change the Constitution and Rubalcaba who say that offered a new federal state model.

In my point of view, the Spanish Congres have not the final decision because, historically, Catalonia has never been part of Spain for his own desire and Spain has abuse of our region. 

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Girl kidnapped in Madrid park found drugged and bewildered five hours later

A nine years old girl have been found it at 2a.m in the entrance of a subway after some hours missing. The girl was playing with some friends when a man convinced him to follow him to the car. When the girl appeared she was drugged and disoriented.

Cristina Cifuentes, the government delegate in Madid, and José Fernández Díez, the Madrid chief police, had said that this is an isolated accident and until today this case will have maximum priority. Then they explain that a unit of the rime investigation is interrogation every person that was in the park at that hour.

Nowadays, the girl is recovering in the Ramon y Cajal hospital.

I strongly believe that the authorities have to stop this kind of crimes because is a violation of the human right when someone steal the liberty of a person.

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Can money buy everything. The marketisation of society?

Can we buy every little thing  or can everyone have everything? 

All the human should think this question almost one time during his life. In my opinion we have to mix this two different ways to see the economic world. My arguments are:

On the one hand, if you have the possibility to buy every little thing you will be educated in a world with out rules where if you want something you only have to pay for that thing.

On the other hand, if everyone can have everything we will live in  world with out difficulties where the slacker will be acclaimed and the effort will not exist.

To sum up, if our society want to improve we have to mix this two differents point of view and obtain a world were the poor can have the basic supplies and the people that work a lot and sacrifice for the other can live better.

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Letter to Obama

6 Rentador Street

Castelló d'Empúries

Girona

17486

2nd April 2014

The President

The White House

Washington D.C.

Dear Mr. Obama,

I am writing to you to complain about the decision that the United States of America has taken about the problem in Ukraine.

In my point of view, the United States of America should protect all the countries that Russia wants to conquer and not allow the problems that Russia has given to Europe. Such as, the referendum that Russia did last Sunday because it was illegal.

It was illegal because the ordinary people could not show their opinion with all the Russian army in their country.

It seems to me that Russia was violating a Human right and I pray, in this letter, to you because only a country as America can fight against Russia and if you do not act as soon as possible it will might begin another World War.

Your sincerely,

J.J.Adams