My ENGLISH PROGRESS from 2013-2015

1.1 Compare your first written document (email to teacher) and your last composition.

Comparing to my first written post ever (email to teacher) I can see huge different between my last post which is about reddit and the first one.
I remember myself when I rote the email to teacher I didn't know exactly what to write, I just said a lot of nonsense words actually. But by practising my English blogs I have improved a lot.
The structure of reddit's post is way better than the first one and this is because all the improvement that I have done during my blogs.

1.2 Compare your first oral presentation and your final oral presentation.

My first oral presentation was about the initiation ritual of Mafia. It was my first time ever I did a presentation with prezi and in English so I did many mistakes. I remember myself being so nervous about to speak in front the class that I had to memorize the entire text because I was really bad improvising and I didn't want my mind to go blank.
The last oral presentation was about my TDR, so I didn't had to memorize anything actually, I knew everything about my project so I improvised during the presentation (a thing that I have learned during Batxillerat) and I think that I did it pretty well. Of course I did mistakes but none of them were were that bad.

Reddit: the front page of the internet

Reddit is a web-site /entertainment / social network / news website  about what's new and popular on the web. If google is where you go to search for things. Reddit is where you go to see the things that people have found.

Reddit is not just a list about the cool/funny/interesting/educative things people find on the internet. Reddit is divided by sections called Subreddits. A subreddit is where people post only one kind of thing, for example : If you just like sports, politics, TV series, movies, jokes there is a subreddit about it , and if in the case you can't find a subbredit of your interest, Just create it.

For example "aww" is a subreddit where users post images for adorable photos about babys, animals etc. And more subreddits you're subscribed in more personalized is your front page about your interests.

Four dead after crash of a military plane A400M

Four people have died today in the crash of a military plane A400M, Airbus company, a mile north of the San Pablo Airport in Sevilla.

The only two survivors, Jose Luis Augusto and Joaquin Anaya, have been transferred to medical facilities in critical condition.

The Airbus's plane was doing its first fly ever when the plane suffered a problem in flight and tried to make an emergency landing, but it crashed into a pylon while the pilots were trying to land the plane.

We still don't know the cause of that emergency landing but I hope to know that information soon.

Many politics will come today at Sevilla to offer condolences to family victims.

Learned words:

Pylon = Torre d'alta tensió

Games of Thrones

This third trimester I saw a new series called "Games of Thrones". I started to saw it because my friends recommend it to me. I knew about this series, it is very famous, so I tried to gave it an opportunity and saw it.  At the beginning I was very aseptic, I thought it should be a typical medieval series with the classical fights etc. And one hour for each episode, a fact that it didn't give much hope with the series. But I saw it equally, and now I don't regret. Well the first episodes was quite boring but then the storyline it began to be more interesting.
The thing that I enjoy more is there isn't any main character. And that means every character can die by a fight or a conspiracy.
 When a character fights you are really afraid about it and this feeling I think it only happens in Games of Thrones.

Favourite Actors

There is a lot of Actors, Hot actors, Funny actors, Strong Actors, but every actor has his own life and act are they job.
I like a lot of actors  : Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr, Ellen Page, Jennifer Lawrence, Naomi Watts, Ian McKellen, Tom Hiddleston, Neil Patrick Harris, Morgan Freeman and a lote more.
But today I am going to talk about  Jim Carry and Robert Downey Jr and why I like them.

Jim Carrey : Jim Carrey is a famous comedian actor from Canada, known for his very crazy, funny and dramatic character on movies like : (Dumb and Dumber) (Liar liar ) (Truman Show) (Bruce Almighty) etc..
Jim is that kind of persona that makes you always your day. And that is why I like him.

Robert Downey Jr : Is a actor famous for his performances in Iron Man (2008), Avengers (2012) Sherlock Holmes (2009) He usually performance a man who is very clever, and with a very high self esteem.
Robert Downey Jr is a actor that everyone, who like Iron Man, loves and his eccentric personality.

Is Internet making the world a better place ?

Nowadays everybody in the first world has Internet and it's part of us, we made internet a part of our lives. We can't deny that Internet has lots of positive features as the tons of information we can obtain but the information overload makes difficult the search of the certain information.

The cloud storage is another positive and unique feature of the internet allowing us access and store our personal data and important files. However, hacker's attack can easily have access to it. Specially for the governments where an attack can make the system more vulnerable.

Entertainment is also a positive characteristic, youtube, chats, games, articles and e-commerce like amazon, ebay, netflix etc. allows us to buy anything without leaving home.

Although Internet piracy allows us to download movies, music, everything for free, stealing from the authors and the big companies. And the worst feature is the deepweb or the unseen web, this part of the worldwideweb, everything is anonymous so criminals use it for they business like drugs, pedophilia, terrorism etc.

In conclusion, Internet is making the world a better place and we have to be responsible to keep the positives facts and remove the bad ones.

Formal Letter: Human Rights

Carmanço 40

Empuriabrava

17487

14th April 2015

Washington DC

White House

Disctrict of Columbia

Dear Mr.President,

I am a high school student and my name is Manel Ramirez.

 Let me begin by thanking you for reading this letter and all the effort that you did to make this country better I know that you are a busy person and I appreciate it.

Nevertheless, I am writing this letter to make you reflect about the current situation in the prison of Azkaban. As you know the prison was opened in 2002 and since that moment there have been an enormous amount of immoral actions such as torture and murder committed by employers of that prison.

The prisoners that go to Azkaban did not have a fair judgement so most of them are just suspects so they do not deserve that punishment.

Looking forward to your promote reply.

Manel Ramirez

Banksy

The first I saw a Banksy's graffiti was long time ago. I remember I was really surprised. The graffiti was in a wall of Israel and it shows  a little girl frisking a solider of Israel. Banksy became very popular because nobody knows absolutely nothing about him. The form he has to do the graffities is like as anyone graffitier, he draws in the night.

Banksy does graffitis in a lot of cities around the world. He express his opinion of the world with his art. One of the things that I really like of him is the form which he has of do a fantastic graffiti combined with humour and irony. 

TED Talk: Google's driverless car

How many people do you know that had any traffic accident ?
I am sure that the answere is more than one.
The video that I am going to explain was made by a Google's businessman who afflicted  that someone near him died because of a traffic accident.

When it happened he decided to begin a new project about a car driven by computers. One of the reasons of this project was because nearly 98% of  traffic accidents were caused by human errors that could be avoided with the correct technology.
Actually his project hasn't saved anybody yet, but it seems that they are going to reach that goal because they have already come up with a prototype of car that is driven by itself.

Human Rights

Human Right #1: We Are All Born Free and Equal.

 I've chosen this topic because it is the most widely known Human Right. Even if you don't know what  a Human Right is.
This is the Human Right that I'm more in favor of. I think the all the humans should have the same opportunities, and you should be defined by your skill and talent reather than by your place or origin.
Unfortunately, as all the other rights it is not fullfilled with in every country. There are many countries from the South of Africa that they don't respect that right and a lot of citzen are suffering that.
Learned words: Equal = igual

Human Rights

1. What are human rights?
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world.
2. When and why were they created?
They were created as a result of the experience of the Second World War at 1948 to aboid another world conflict.
3. How many human rights are there?
There are 30 human right recognized for UN.
4. Which human right were you not familiar with?
Article 17: Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

Mundial World Cup

The Mundial World Cup starts today in Brazil. Lot of people are very hyped with the Mundial and every body want that their selection win the Mundial. The last winner was the selection of Spain which they did a fantastic competition and now they have to defend it in Brazil. Another fact is that maybe Brazil is no prepared to do a Mundial. Brazil has a very important problems with favelas and there are many manifestation against to do the Mundial and the security maybe isn't enough. Today is going to play Brazil which is the favourite selection against Croatia, and after, Spain against Nederlands.

Forrest gump

I am not very proud of it, but I didn't saw Forrest Gump since the last week. The reason of why I decided to saw this movies is because a lot of people had been recommended  it to me.

I get really impacted with this movie. I think is very beautiful and I like the humour of the film and how the drama connects with a lot of historical moment for United States. One example of this which I really like is that when Forrest saw the FBI agents while they are spying other politics and Forrest call the police. Thanks this the ex-president Nixon had to resign. The film is about a boy which he had problem with his bone structure. this boy is called Forrest.  Forrest is a really good boy with a good heart the history of Forrest begins when he have to go to the war to Vietnam.  

E3 2014 is here

The E3 (also known as "Electronic Entertainment Expo") is one of the most important exhibitions in the video games industry. In the E3 there are a lot of very big companies which shows us all the games and technology that will be available soon. The most important are for example Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft and Nintendo. 
The E3 takes place in California in Los Angeles during this week. The E3 has become very popular this last years. One example of this is that the last year came 250.000 of people during the week. The reason of why came such people is that the last year Microsoft and Sony announced their new consoles.

Link of the news 

Final Reflection

1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in these last two years? 
Where, for example?
I did a good improvement since the first post. The first was about Marc Marquez and I talk about how impresionant was for me when he won the GP championship.

2. Which activity best shows your level of English? 
The best blog which shows my level is one that I did recently. THIS blog talks about how important is internet in our society.

3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why? 
The activity which I think was really useful was the description of an image. This activity in concret I found it useful and interesnting, because I don't usually describe nothing using the English.

4. Which activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not? 
The activity which I didn't find any useful is that we have to translate a music song sentence by sentence. I think that activity was really tired and useless.

5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English? 
To keep on improving my English I would like to do the image descripcion again. How I said in the question 3. And the podcast too. I think we should do more speaking and practice it.

Juan Carlos I to abdicate

Yesterday the Spain's king decided to abdicate after his realm which it was nearly 40 years. We actually don't know the reason of his decision but we can guess that  decision was because of his old age and he prefer give the Spain kingdom to his son who is the prince Felipe which in the opinion of Juan Carlos his son have a lot of experience and think that Felipe will do it well.

This abdication arrives in a bad moment. The European voting shows the rise of the leftist political parties and now these political parties which don't want a monarchy and want a new Republic of Spain.

Unless something respectable happens Felipe son of Juan Carlos will be proclaimed king in 19th of June.