Chemical secret

The name of the las book I have read is Chemical Secret. This book is better than the last book I have read, the moonspiners, because I like stories about experiments and biology, like Frankenstein. For this, I say this book is the best that I have ever read in English. It's very easy to read and understand because its level is 3 out of 5. For this, I think that, nowadays, my level of reading is 4 out of 5: the next book that I will choose will be this level. Now I will explain the argument of the book, I recomend it! 

 

The story is bout one men who lives in a small flat near the sea with his two children: Cristine and Andrew. The family was rather poor because Jhon, the main character, haven't job and the mother of the family is died. One day, the businessman of the village, David Wilson, called John for an job interview. David Wilson offer a job a as biologist to John in his chemical company: He accepts inmediatly. After that, Jhon buys a new house and one boat to sail it: they become a rich family. But one day when family was sailing by boat, the main character found out that the waste products that the chemical company was pulling in the river were toxics. They were killing the seals of the river. For this, an environmental group of young people came to the village and protested to save the seals. Finally, the chemical company was closed and John became poor again.

New words I have learnt:

 

environmental - natura

waste products - deixalles

bank - bora del riu

lawyer - ajudant

 

PODCAST

This is an story about three cientists who discuse the existent of strange things like zombies, UFO's...

- Eduard Punset: Hello Severo, do you agree with my new theory?
- Severo Ochoa: What theory do you mean?
- Punset: Don't you know my theory about the existent of UFO's?!
- Severo: I repeat it for you, NO!
- Punset: My theory is that in the last five years there have been two UFO's in our planet!
- Severo: Bullshit, what are you talking about?
- Punset: I have studied the moviments of UFO's in our planet and now, I believe in them because with my new ultramodern telescop, I can see them!!!
- Severo: I don't believe you, this is impossible! I remenber when my friend Stephen Hopkins and me explored the Earth skies by plane we didn't see anything rare.
- Punset: Jajajajaja, your friend is a idiot because I'm the best cientist in the world. I have the power!
- Severo: If you don't believe me, I will phone my friend Stephen Hopkins.
- Punset: OK, ask him! I want to show you that I'm right.
(Telephone)
- Severo: Hello my friend, how are you?
- Stephen Hopkins: I'm fine, what do you want?
- Severo: I'm with Eduard Punset and He says that UFO's exists in our atmosfera, He is idiot!
- Punset: Jajajaja, but you know that I say the true.
- Severo: No, I'm sure that I say the true because the last year me and my friend Stephen went to Mart and we didn't see any intelligent life!!!!
- Punset: What!?!? You don't believe me!!!! I will show you that UFO's exists, because.... I'm a bad alien and I will eat you!!!! Jajajajajaja!!!

I have showed the podcast to you, for this I don't put it in this post.

When does your mental health become a problem?

Summary:

One in four people are expected to experience a mental health problem, yet stigma and discrimination are still very common. Myths such as assuming mental illness is somehow down to a 'personal weakness' still exist. A person who is considered 'mentally healthy' is someone who can cope with the normal stresses of life and carry out the usual activities they need to in order to look after themselves; can realise their potential; and make a contribution to their community. However, your mental health or sense of 'wellbeing' doesn't always stay the same and can change in response to circumstances and stages of life.

 

 

 

 

Opinion:

I think that the mental illnes are relative for each person because the mind of the people is different. I say that because every person has different mental healt and, consequently, the mental illnes changes from a person to another. Also, the mental illnes changes are determinated from other religions, cultures and societies. For this, the person considered "mentally healthy" in Irak, maybe, in Europe that person is considered a criminal. For example, Bin Laden is a terrorist in all the world expect in Irak, there He is a hereo. Well, maybe this is not the best example, but is an example of the relativism of the mental health for each culture or religión. I've read this news on BBC news.

 

Words I have learnt:

 

- Mentally healthy: salut mental.

 

- Wellbeing: benestar.

 

- Stigma: estigma.

Oral presentation: self evaluation

SPANISH EDUCATION

1. Introduction

Hello, my name is Adrià Grabulosa and now I will explain you a little bite more about the education in Spain. In this presentation I will explain general and specific stuff about the spanish education. The general stuff that I will explain you, are: the general education in Spain and its differents stages. But, the specific stuff that I will coment you are more interesting: the education cuts in Spain. Now, I start my presentation showing you a little structure of the project:

2. Global education

The general definition of education is: Education, in its general sense, is a form of learning in which skills and knowlegde of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training...

2.1. Preschools

Preschools education is important because It can give a child the edge in a competitive world giving the fundamentals knowledge, for example: alphabet, counting, shapes and colors. The education cuts in preschools affects the children who don't have the opportunity of learn because theirs families haves economic problems, because they can't go to nursery with bus or they can't pay it. The children who have affected by the education cuts in preschool, probably, in their adolescence will have problems with numbers and writting.

2.2. Primary schools

In this stage, the children receives more than the fundamental knowledges, they receives the principals knowledges to applied theirs in the secundary schools. For this, the education cuts that children have in this stage is one of the most important in their lives because this it's essencial. The stuff that the education cuts have changed in this stage are: more students in classroom, less teachers for each student and less money for the primary school.

2.3. Secondary schools

The purpose of secundary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for higher education or to train directly in a profession. The stuff that the education cuts have changed are the same of the primary school, but the effects on this stage are more decisive than others because on the secondary education the students learn knowledges to use them in our society, for this, I think that the education cuts in the secondary schools will mark the future of the world.

2.4. Higher education

Higher education is taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education. Univertisities are the main institutions where you will study the career that you want. The principal problem that the eduaction cuts have done in the higher schools is the money increment of the universities registers. This education cuts is the worse because the students can't study in universities and they are unemployed.

Conclusion

The conclusion of my project is that the spanish government is destroying the education is our country with the education cuts and It's decreasing the culture of the young spanish people.

 

 

 

Self-evaluation:

Body language and eye contact (10%)

The body language that I utilised during my presentation was good because I have moved my hands and my body to explain all the stuff of power point. I think that my body language doing presentations was good, but the thing that I want to improve is the eye contact with people. But my problema is when I'm looking people during my presentation I get nervous. This is a thing that I get to improve for future presentations. I think my mark is 6 out of 10.

 

Presentation and structure (20%)

The presentation that I used in my project was the best program for me: Power Point. I think that because It's a good program to do high school presentations and put in a lot of pictures. But, in my opinion, this kind of progam is used to do informal projects, because to do formal projects, for example  job interviews, the best program is prezi. For this, I used the power point to do my high school project.

On the other hand, I think that the structure of my presentation was good because I have organized the information in descencing order of importance. I said that because I have organized the different stages of the spanish education in order of time and importance. I think the mark is 15 out of 20.

 

Content (40%)

I think the content of project is the most important thing. For this, I have thought in an interesting and modern social topic: spanish education and its cuts. You can see up on the text the thinks that I have spoken about my topic. Also, you can watch the video but It's not necessary. I hope the mark is 35 out of 40.

 

Vocabulary and grammar (20%)

The vocabulary that I used in the presentation was good because I think It's the level that you call for in bachillerat. For this, I have used normal words, but also, I have introduced new words, for example: education cuts, knowledge, undergraduate... I think a project with this caracteristics is the way to improve our oral comunication, but also, is the form to learn news words in english. I thing the mark is 15 out of 20.

 

Pronunciation and entonation (10%)

I think my pronunciation and entonation is the worse in the class. I don't know the reason of that, but I have to improve this aspect urgently. For this, I think the mark of the pronunciation is bad, 4 out of 10.

 

Final mark

I think my final mark, doing add of points, would be a 7'5. I think the next presentation that I will do, I want to improve my pronunciation and entonation to have the mark of 8. It's my objective for the next presentation.

The moonspinners

The last book I've read was better than others because It explains a story about Greek mythology and an unusual murder that happened one hundred years ago. I don't like the Greek mythology because I'm not religious but I like stories with murders, secrets and riddles. For example, my favourite book is Sherlock Holmes. This book was written by Mary Stewart  and It has a cinematographic version made by Walt Disney. Now, I explain a little bit more about the story:

 

The story begins when Nicola Ferris, the real main character of the book, arrives in the Cretan village of Agios Georgios. She goes to Crete because she loves the old village where her mother  was born. During the first day in the village all was good, but the second day was different. I say that because she was involved in a strange murder. Then, Nicola knew the knife wielding of the hotel where She has resided. But He isn't the true worker in the hotel, He's the protector of Mark Langley, an innocent British tourist who knows the real murderer. Nicola and Mark fell in love and He said to the main character who's the true murderer: He's Collin, the mayor of Agios Georgios.

 

Gap year

A gap year is a period of one year that you travel to some places after you have finished the secondary school. It's a year to realx after you studied for a lot of years. A lot of students are taking this type of year, but this helps them or not.

 

On the one hand, this King of travel would give you new knowledge of other countries that maybe you never get to know. You also have a year to visit a lot of villages of the country and forget the urban city of your country. In addition, you can learn other languages, other religions and new cultures. Finally, maybe you can meet a girlfriend in the country that you visit. They have a year to relax themselves.

 

On the other hand, you can lose 365 days far from the family, but you can call them with new technologies. In addition, depending on the country, people can be stolen or hurt themselves, for example Mexico.

 

In conclusion, all these posibilities depend on the kind of travel you can do. In my opinion, with this type of year you have a lot of posibilities to learn things but you also lose a lot of knowledge that you learn in the school.

Description of a place

The place where I will to describe is Rio de Janeiro. I have chosen it because I went to the city four years ago and I remember it with very emotion and longing. In 2007, I went to the city with my parents and we stay there for one week. We visited more cities than Rio de Janeiro, for example Salvador de Bahia and Brasilia. But Rio de Janeiro was better than other cities. For this, I have chosen to describe Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro isn't the capital of Brasil, but it's the longest city. The roads of city are extremely congested and rather loud because there are a lot of cars. On one hand, in the mornings, the streets are less bustling because people are working in the big skyscrapers, they are really friendly people. On the other hand, all the black night, all the people in the city are completely smiling because in Brasil, the night is a synonym of the good party. In Rio de Janeiro there are two kinds of cities: one is extremely poor and the other is fairly rich. In the poor city (Favelas), the old pavement is pretty cracked and all buildings are really shabby and they are crumbling. But, in the rich city, the transports are slightly expensive, pavement is rather clean and there are a lot of modern skyscrapers.

Finally, I think that Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities in the world because it have a lot of beaches, people are really friendly and there are a lot of things to do. For example, when we stay in city, we visited the Corcobado Christ, a lot of important museums and the big skyscrapers. But, for me, the best thing about the city is happiness and education of people.