Final reflection II: My English COMPETENCE in 2012

Best written evidence: Can Internet help to make the world a better place? 

This composition is a little bit short: we wrote it in class and  the teacher reviews it, but this is particullary one of my reasons why I have chosen it. Writting the composition in class I hadn't access to dictionaries, translators or correctors. After seeing my mistakes, I rewrote it and this remaked version is the one which is in the blog.

I also like it because it has a good structure especially the introduction and the conclusion, which are very  important for a good composition. What's more, there are a lot of connectors and also one example of the situation that I was describing. Maybe the vocabulary isn't very high, but this isn't a reason why it has to be a bad composition. It's the way I write without any help.

Best oral evidence: Tdr, my research project

I have chosen the last oral presentation we did in class. I also like a lot the oral presentation of Jamaica, but I made it with Núria, so I think it's better to chose one where I'm talking alone.

I must recognize that I haven't prepared very well this oral presentation and I was improvising a little bit. That's one reason because I like it: it's natural and spontaneously. 

The content shows maturity (it's about the TDR!) and in my point of view I look quite self confidence.

Of course, I made some mistakes, but they aren't so many as I used to do before.

P.S. goodbye blog! :)

Final reflection: My English progress from 2010 until 2012

I will compare my currently knowledge with which I had at the beginning of first of BTX.

Written document:

The first "my say" from my blog is called: My Summer. The first and most obviously difference is that in 2010 I wrote more, now my writings are shorter. I think it's because in second of Batxillerat I have less time. Moreover, now the quality of them are better.

In hardly ever used to use connectors, my writings haven't a really structure and the sentences were too short. There are also a lot of grammatical mistakes like the following ones:

• I wrote comas between many sentences even before and: "spent four days in Germany, with my mother, and we..."
• Repeating words in the same sentence: "every day I meet my friends and we go to the beach or Pablo's swimmingpool, nearly every day. "
• Words like: nothing, anything, everybody, something, but,
• Concordance between subject and the verb: The temperature are...
• Verbal tenses:  the problem was that I only can work one month (it should be past, could), comes (came)
• Words: the next day (the following day),
• The correct order of the sentence:  "on Sikim, at twelve more or less meeting us there". " I made my kitesurf"

Oral document:

 My first oral presentation was about kitesurf

• Presentation: The presentation is still the same: I make colourfully PowerPoint's with a photo as a background, a lot of pictures and some sentences. I also remember one presentation with music, the topic was Jamaica. This was a good idea because this detail made the presentation special and different from the others. So, I have learnt to be more creative. 
• Body language: I couldn't change anything. My hand moves are so annoying! Many times I have tried to change it, thinking seriously about it during the oral presentation, but even so I made this mistake.
• Structure: It hasn't changed.
• Content: It hasn't changed.
• Language: During this two years I have improved a lot my language, the use of phrasal verbs or expressions and my vocabulary.
• Pronuciation: I don't think I have changed much, maybe in some specific words but in my point of view I have the same pronunciation now as two years before.

I must say that now I feel safer when I'm speaking and I have more fluency; If I don't know the word that I'm searching I simply try to find another word, which is easier, or to describe the word/ action. 

Prenup arangments

It's well-known that conflicts appear when a couple get divorced. A good option to avoid them could be prenup arrangements.

On the one hand, these arrangements could seem very pessimistic at the beginning of a marriage. The family of both normally think that this is a sign for a bad marriage and destroys the wedding atmosphere. Actually, this type of arangement are made by rich people who have a lot of money, cars and houses. By doing this, the couple seems selfish and give a bad image to their friends and family.

On the other hand, especially for these people a prenup arrangement can be very useful. In case of divorce it's clear how the children, material objects and money are distributed. What's more, this is the best if the couple has got children because there aren't months or years, as it's known by famous actors, when the parents fight for their kids.

All in all and taking everything into consideration, a prenup arrangement is good and important in case the couple has got children or a lot of money.

Letter to United Nations Human Right Committee

c/Pompeu Fabra

17487 Empuriabrava,

SPAIN

UN Human Rights Committee

Washington

Sunday, 18th March of 2012

Dear Madame's and Sir's

I am writing to the Committee to claim the importance of nature and environment. I know that living in a nature conscious country isn't a human right, but in my opinion it should be a human right.

The environment and the conservation of the species around the world has an enormous influence of our life. Furthermore, it will be more important in the next generation so we need to change something.

Actually, this idea came to my mind while I was studying biology: why don't exist a law to respect the nature? I know this will be extremely difficult to realize, what's more, the most complicated part is to convince all humans that the nature must be respect, but in my opinion it's worth, moreover, it's necessary.

To sum up, I'm expecting more effort about the environment problems even I know that it seems more important to safe a children life in Africa. The nature has the same importance.

Your sincerely

Lydia P.

Human rights

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being.

2. Why were they created?

They created them to give the same and most basics opportunities and chances to every human on the world. It's an intent to make the world better and fair.

3. How many human rights are there?

There are 30 human rights, classificated into civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with? Mention an example where this human right is respected and where it is not respected.

The freedom of speech isn't respected in many countries. In my opinion, this is a very important aspect and right for everyone, without saying new opinions a country can't advance.

An human right, which is respected in the whole world, is difficult to find, but I think that maybe the right to life is one of it. I'm sure that the terms and the called "life" are different depending on the country.

One right which I wasn't familiar with were these two rights, in the same article:

- Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

These both are respected in the countries of United States or the Europeen Union, but I think that in countries like, for example, Cuba it isn't respected (at least the part to leave the country).

P.S. I didn't like the quiz.. It was too difficult, too long and with too many names of politicans.