This blog is a personal space for the English class.

I´ll show all my tasks of High School, and my own opinion about diferent themes like education, football, games...







dijous, 18 de novembre del 2010

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a Project of Wikimedia Foundation (an organization who doesn’t want money) to build a new online encyclopedia. There are more than 16 million of articles and the most part of them have been written by volunteers of the entire world, these articles could be edited for any person. It has been created on January of 2001 for Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
Is in this moment the biggest and the most popular encyclopedia of the world.

Wikipedia is into the ten webs more crowded of the world. There is but a discussion theme, the magazine Nature said in one of his magazines that Wikipedia is equal reliable than the Britannic Encyclopedia, but in 2009 on the newspaper El Pais , from Spain, recognize the Wikipedia is less reliable than the Britannic one.
The creators of Wikipedia don’t want to create exaltation and they don’t say anything about this theme.
The word Wikipedia comes from wiki wiki from Hawaii Islands, it means fast or speed; and from English->encyclopedia.


How we can see in the High School of Castello most people do schools works with a “cut and put” and after the teacher get off the mark because it.
Do you think that’s correct? Just an opinion

An angel with the ball.


OUR ANGEL

Lionel Andrés Messi was born 24 June 1987 is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Barça team and the Argentine national team as a forward. Considered one of the best football players of his generation and frequently cited as the world's best player, Messi received several times the Gold Ball and the FIFA World Player of the Year nominations on the age of 21. His playing style and his ability have comparisons to Maradona, who declared Messi his "successor”
Messi began playing football at a young age and his abilities were detected by Barcelona. He had broken the record of Barça for the youngest player to score a goal at league at age. Messi have a disease, he have problems with his grown hormones. Barça’s paid his treatment. With Barça, Messi won six championships and become the first club who do it.

In my opinion the history didn’t see any player like Messi, he could do anything with the ball, I think that’s better than Ronaldinho and any players ever. Is so young and he has a great career he could be the world referent of football

Great authors: Dan Brown and Isabel Allende

Great Authors

Dan Brown was born in June 22 of 1964. Is an American author of thriller fiction, known for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. His books have been translated at 40 languages, and from of 2009, he has sold over 80 million copies. Most of his books are based on themes like: cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories.
His most famous books are:
The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
The Lost Symbols

Isabel Allende was born in 2 August of 1942. She is a famous Latin American writer. Her books are based in the aspects of Realism Magic. It’s the mixture between real elements and fantasy elements. In 2004 she introduced into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He adopted the American citizenship.
His most famous books are:
City of the Beasts
The house of the spirits

The lost Symbol

A Book

The Lost Symbol is a 2009 novel by American writer Dan Brown.
Published on September 15, 2009, it is the third Brown novel there is too the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000 Angels & Demons and 2003 The Da Vinci Code. It had the first printing of 6.5 million (5 million in North America, 1.5 million in the UK).
The plot started when Robert Landon was doing a conference of symbols on the university. His friend Solomon invited him at United State Capitol to do another conference. Robert knows that his friend is 33rd degree Mason, and at the final Solomon is the 1st degree Mason. When arrived at the Capitol he discovered that the invitation wasn’t from his friend, but a mysterious cut human hand appeared on the middle the room. This hand was from his friend.
After that he and the police try to find a secret Masonic pyramid, which the kidnapper of Solomon talks about.
I’m not gonna talk about the final because if you want to know the final read the book. And I like it very much

Barça vs Madrid

Barça vs Madrid

This Sunnday 28, Barça and Madrid will play a football match. It’s the most important match of the year in the Spanish league. Barcelona’s team with Messi, the best player ever between his mortal opponent Madrid, starred by Cristiano Ronaldo the second best player on the world behind Messi
It’ll be the most interesting and amazing match of this year. Madrid paid more than 150 millions of euros for his players, and Barça didn’t pay more than 40 million of euros

In my opinion Barcelona’s team will pass over Madrid, because of their talent, and because they aren’t arrogant like Madrid football players.
The result will be 5-0, a hand of goals like two years ago when Barcelona’s team beat Madrid with an imposing 5-2.
Madrid fans have to be fear about Messi, the best player ever will score two goals, and his angel and God, won’t do nothing. I hope that

Wanted

The film Wanted (2008)
Wanted is an action film based on the comic book by Mark Millar, the same creator of Spiderman. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starred by James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.
The plot started when Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) an office worker, discover that his father was a professional assassin. Then a secret organization “The Fraternity”, where his father worked, is searching for him, because his father was murdered by another assassin, and Wesley is the only who can vengeance him.
The organization trains him, Wesley like his father has a spectacular ability, he can control the adrenaline. Then the organization sends him to kill the assassin of his father.
When finally he killed him, he discovered that he had killed his father, because he wasn’t dead.
The organization planned all to kill his father and then another agent kill him. But Wesley escaped and destroys the entire guild.
This film is very amazing because of the shoots of guns have effects, and then James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie starred very well their paper.

Adrian vs Thirteen



The secret diary of Adrian Mole vs Thirteen

Well at the first I wanted to show you the main difference between them, the sex, Adrian Mole diary is starred by a boy, and Thirteen by a girl, how a we know the girls are more advanced(mentally) in the teenage than boys, that’s why there is so many differences.
Adrian Mole Diary is a book that it’s for children I think, there is no much violence and it’s not very hard to understand. It’s a difficult situation but many children see more violence than this.
After we have thirteen, this film is for teenagers. How we can see, at the first the girl is so politically educated, but when she sees what the popularity represents she started to go with bad influences. She meets Evie, the most popular girl in the High School, then she started to smoke, stole bags and take drugs.
His mother, not like Adrian mother, was worried about her. She tries to help her but she doesn’t want. At the last she cut herself and her mum had to take action.


Oral presentation

Transcription

Hello, in this oral presentation I’m going to talk about tennis.
Tennis could be an indoor sport or an outdoor sport. In this oral presentation I’m going to talk about outdoor tennis, because I play outdoor tennis.

There are two types of tennis. Single and Doubles, the most common is the single tennis. The main difference is that single tennis is between two players and doubles is between two teams of two players each. Well, because the most common is single and it’s funnier than doubles I’ll talk about it.
There are three types of courts:
-The clay court is made of crushed shale, stone, brick or sand. The clay court is more common in Europe or Latin America than in North America, Canada or Brittan.
When the ball touches the court its speed slows but his bounce, jump is higher.
-The grass court it’s the fastest for the balls, and it’s the most typical and common court in the entire world. It could be natural or artificial grass, in the artificial the ball goes faster.
-The hard court it’s made of prefabricated sand and the speed of the ball depends of it. It’s no common here but in America or Australia it’s also used.

The equipment to play tennis is so easy to get. To play tennis you only need a racket, balls and a court, a place with a net and lines. Tennis is much extended in the world, that’s why you can found a tennis court, here, in Canada or in China.
To start a tennis match one player serve and the other receive. When the player serves he has to pass over the net and touch the opposite square. The receiver has to return the ball to it and then the match starts. When a player touches the ball and it doesn’t touch the opponent square or when the ball touches two times in the same court the other player have fifteen points.
These are the easy rules, there are more and more difficult.

Like football or any sport tennis have competitions. The players are qualified in a list, the ATP list. The ATP list doesn’t give points to players when they win a match like most sports; they give points when they win a tournament.
There are four important tournaments and behind them there are others tournaments. These four are called Grand Slam. When a player beat all his opponents and wins the Slam, he gets more than three million dollars and 2000 ATP points.
Behind them there are Masters 1000, if you win you gets 1000 ATP points. In one year there are like 8-9.
At the last the 250-500 series are the most regular tournaments. Normally there are 50-60 at year.

Last ten years had exploded a new start of tennis, Rafael Nadal, he started to play tennis when he was five whit his uncle. Rafael was born in Mallorca, Spain. With his 24 years he had won Roger Federer and he had broken lots of records.
Roger Federer, he’s second on ATP behind Rafael Nadal. He is from Switzerland and he’s the player who won more Slams in the history of tennis. He’s 28 and he has 16 Slams. The specialists on tennis think that he’s the greatest tennis player of all the time

That's all. Thanks and if you have any questions...

1-when did you start to play tennis? (Nuria)

Well, I'm not gonna speak about my personal life sorry.

2-What kinds of rackets are there?(Simon)

There are four types of rackets, the young one, the middle one, the biggest and after another that is not for tennis. The professional tennists play with the biggest.

3- Witch is considerate the most important Grand Slam?

There is not an important Slam, there is one in France, in America, in Australia and one in Brittan

The new film of Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the deadly hallows

The new film of Harry Potter will come to Spain cinemas on a few days. It’ll be a part of his last book, the seventh of this collection.
J.K.Rowling had become one of the most important writers in the fantasy world whit her seven books of Harry Potter.
The seventh book has been separated on to films because of his extension. This new film it has been wanted for all her fans for a long time.
J.K.Rowling expresses her happiness when she did a press conference.
After she congratulated the work of the David Yates, the director of the film, for his afford in this The Deadly Hallows and in the second part of it.
She finaly told at the interviewers, that’s she’ll wait with impatience for the film.
She think that this last part of the film will appear at finals of 2011

Pablo Fermin from BCN

My friend Pablo Fermin

Pablo’s a Catalan guy. He came to Castelló d’Empuries two years ago. He was born in 1994, at first he stayed in Barcelona City for three months. After he went to Pamplona, but he had a grave “meningitis” and he had to return to Barcelona, but not in the city.
Then he started the primary school at “Escolapies la Immaculada” he studied the secondary school there too.
When he was 14 he came here: “to live the real life with the farmers” he said one day when they asked him.
Now he’s studying Batxillerat with me and all our friends.
He wants to be:” a lawyer in the day and a hero in the night” he said when I asked him, but nobody believes that, he’s so young.
He has a particular mode of life I think. He’s Fermin and no more else.

Interview to Simon Zbinden

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