My English COMPETENCE in 2010

My best oral evidence:

http://miquelisern-english.blogspot.com/2011/03/oral-presentation-second-term.html

My best written evidence:

http://miquelisern-english.blogspot.com/2011/03/sinde-law.html

I have choosen my last oral presentation as the best oral evidence because I think that it tells a lot of things about how I'm and how I want to be in the future. And I have choosen my post about the sinde law as my best written evidence because I remeber that when I wrote it I enjoyed a lot, and when I finished the post I felt very good for criticize my "enemy".

There are a lot of reasons that do these evidence the bests. Firstly, I can say that these posts talk about my interests, my true opinions, these posts show how I can defend my opinions in an oral or written discussion, so this reasons make them better than the others. Other reasons could be that in these evidence there are a better level of grammar than in the others posts. And in my opinion these are my most expressives works.

My English progress from 2008-2010

The first thing that I see when I read the compositions was that the ideas that I expose in the email to teacher were not clear and structured. If i compare the structure, the structure of the first composition was so bad but in the last post, I estructured the information in four paragraphs to separate the different ideas.

Another difference betwen the two texts was the vocabulary, reading them I can see that I learned a lot of words and expressions. Also I have to consider that in the email, I used a lot of help with the dictionary but in the last post I only have to use the diccionary to search one word: "queixar-se" that it is called in English : complain.

If I compare my first oral presentation and my last one, I can see some differences. Firstly, the fluency had improved a lot, maybe it is because the issue of the last presentation was the Research Project and I knowed with a lot of details what I have to explain. Others differences are the vocabulary, and my movements, both things are improved in the last presentation.

Can our country bear a disaster like Japan?

Currently in Japan there are a very big crisis because of the earthquake which cause the big tsunami which devasted a very big part of the country entering with a lot of strenght from the coast. But the problems of Japan don't finish there, with the devastation of the tsunami, a nuclear power station left without water in the refrigeration tanks, and this provokes a bigger disaster because the reactors of the nuclear power station was too old to soport the high temperatures.

But what do the population of Japan when it occurs? They don't start to run away, they listen to their governament and follow the orders, they don't complain.

And, what will do the population of Spain if a disaster like Japan affects their country?

Firstly, the biggest part of the buildings and infrastructures will be destroyed by the earthquake. Later all ruins will be dragged by the force of the tsunami destroying the remaining buildings.

And what we will do all the people? A lot of people will die because the effects of the earthquake, and then, before the tsunami, all the people will try to run away of the affected area. The massive traffic in the roads will provoke a lot of accidents so the people will not be able to save their lifes.

In conclusion I think that our country isn't prepared to bear a disaster with this dimensions. If that occurs Spain will sink as a country.

HOME

All we have to do is learn to cultivate the sun.

In my opinion this phrase have a lot of true, currently, with the solar panels, we only can produce a very little electricity. We only collect a very little percentage of energy in comparation with the energy that the sun send to our solar panels. Maybe the solution for the problem of no-renovable energies is to put a lot of solar panels in our houses and create a lot of fields filled of solar panels but i think that this will not operate. In the current times when the people see the price of one solar panel start to laugh, because they need a very big inversion which will be profitable a lot of years after. I think that the good solution is to improve the solar panels, we have to do solar panels which start to make the most of the sun energy we can achieve. And later, when we have did it, we can try to do more cheap solars panels. If we do that, the people will start to install solar panels in their houses and the pollution of earth will decrease a lot.

Fly me to the moon: The Bangkok optician who makes bamboo saxophones

Introduction of the new:

Not far from Bangkok's Khlong Lod canal lies an optician's run by a man named Waiboon Tungyuenyong. It is set in a long row of shophouses that lines one side of Atsadang Road.

The story of the shop and its owner is replicated many times over in this part of the city, with one exception. This particular store also doubles as a purveyor of bamboo saxophones.

“Sometimes people ask me to teach them, but they don’t have the patience, and they can’t pick the wood," says Waiboon.

“I was born here, upstairs," Waiboon explains, gesturing to the ceiling. "My parents came from mainland China, and they ran a shop, like a 7-Eleven. Next door was a general store, selling hammers, nails, mosquito nets. This area was the centre of Bangkok around 80 years ago. The suburbs were just fields."

The new: http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/life/bangkok-optician-who-moonlights-bamboo-saxophone-maker-209032?hpt=C2

The video: http://bcove.me/tlf5xknt (If you want to see the video, copy the link at the top bar.)

My opinion:

I think that this sir named Waiboon Tungyuenyong would have to be an example to follow for a lot of people. Waiboon are demostrating to the world that the phrase: if you want something you can achieve it, is fully true. When Waiboon wanted play saxophone, he started learning all the tunes of the classic music listening the radio. When he had memorized all the tunes, he started to fabricate a bamboo saxophone. Waiboon had tried to make a good bamboo saxophone for four years, but one day a client in the shop asked to Waiboon if he could play one of the bamboo saxophones. Waiboon thought that the bamboo saxophone would not work, but when the client tried to play it, it sounded fine. How much people in the world that we know can try for four years fabricate something like a bomboo saxophone? I have the answer: anyone. I'm very surprise because the insistence of Waiboon to fabricate a saxophone and to achieve one of his dreams. I think that all the people will have to insist like Waiboon to achieve their dreams, if we try it we can accomplish our objectives!

Inglorious Bastards

Summary:

During the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus saw the execution of his family to hands of the colonel nazi Hans Landa. Shosanna escape to Paris, where she obtained a new identity as owner and director of a cinema.

In another place of Europe, the lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to attack to concrete aims. Known by the enemy as "The Basterds", Raine's troops join the German actress Bridget Von Hammersmark, a secret agent who works for the allies, in order to do a mission that will make fall the leaders of the Third Reich. The destiny wants that they meet under the marquee of a cinema where Shosanna waits to take revenge.

In the cinema opened a nazi film and Hitler goes to see this film. While the leaders of the Third Reich are into the cinema Shosanna burns it. The troops of Aldo Rayne go in the cinema and kill Hitler. Only survive Aldo Raine who returns to his homeland with the leader of SS as a prisoner.

Danny the dog

Danny the dog is a film which tells the story of Danny, and her life in Glasgow. Danny is a young specialist in marital arts and she grown up like a dog by his owner, the gangster Bart. When Bart unleashes his collar, Danny starts to behave like a wild animal and he starts to hurt and kill all the people which Bart has ordered. At the beginning of the film we can see that Bart use the habilities of Danny to earn money in the ilegal fights.

After a car accident, Danny goes to Sam's house. Sam is a blind man who work in a big store repairing pianos. Danny stay with Sam and his daughter Victoria. They take care of Danny like a member of their family and this is the reason that in some time Danny starts to feeling attracted by music and by some other things like good food or girls. But his past haunts him. Months later, Bart has recovered from injury of the car accident and he hunt Danny.

"Danny the Dog" is a dramatic story. The protagonist passed from be a brutal animal to a human.

This film liked me a lot, at the first I thinking that would be only martial arts fights in a stupid plot.

The character of Danny will certainly shake the emotions of the viewer and make him think about how many people, including children, are badly treated around the world.

Writing: Dialogue

-Peter: Hello John, good morning.
-John: Good morning Peter. How are you?
-Peter: I’m fine, I’m working in a office at the city. And you John?
-John: Well, it has to be a light job. I’m working in the farmer of my family. My father died three years ago and he let me his farmer as my inheritance.
-Peter: Don’t think that, I work eight hours everyday. I only have the weekend to take a rest.
-John: Wow you’re the luckiest man! I work everyday taking care of my farmer animals and my big field. I work twelve hours everyday, when the sun comes up I’m in the field. When I return at home I’m very tired to go out, so I can’t meet people and girls.
-Peter: Oh! John that is a shit. Can you pay a man or somebodyto help you with the farmer? If you achieve it I can bring you to the city bars to meet nice girls.
-John: I will try to contract someone, but I can’t promise anything, I dont’ have a lot of money.

-Peter: Okay John try to do it! Good luck!

-John: Thanks Peter, see you.

-PEter: Bye John.

World Of Warcraft

World of Warcraft (WOW) is my favorite computer game. This game exists few years ago but now we can play it on-line with a lot of players. This game consists to create an avatar (character), this character will represent you when you are playing.

To create our avatar we can choose different species: tauren, elf, human, dwarf and some more. All of this species are grouped in two clans: Alliance and Horde. And during the game we will fight with the enemy clan to obtain honor.

When you have chosen your specie, you need to choose the kind of warrior you want to be: Priest, Magician, Hunter, Warrior, this election will define your functions in the battle camp. Later, when you have created your avatar you can change his skin, his face, his hair, it's basically to have some differences with the others avatars of our specie. At this moment our avatar is created and we can entry in the magic world!

At the beginning your avatar are in level 1 and you appear in a small village or in a hill. THe first objective of the game is to rise your level, and you achieve it killing a lot of monsters and doing some missions. Each level you gain will give you some points which you will use to learn new skills and powers.

When your character reaches level 10 he be able to learn two professions like miner, flayer, enchanter, furrier, blacksmith... These works will serve you to create objects or improve them.

Every level is more difficult than the previous one. Because you need to win more experience. The maximum level is 85, so we have much work to get to 85. In the virtual world of World Of Warcraft there are a lot of players with avatars level 85 for this reason the best characters are which have better skills for his specie and better objects.

Have a happy life!

There are a lot of people in the world which is depressed, unhappy and worried for her future.

I think that this people are very pessimist. They need to put a dossis of fun in her lifes. All the people need be happy. In my opinion we need to be a lot optimistic, take the life as a funny game. A game where the bad things are resolved with the time. In this game occurs a lot of good things, and we have the opportunity of live this moments and situations. You can find a person who want to share her life with you. We can have children and take care of they, see how they grow and how they learn.

Yes, we need work to have a good life and it's true that we see how our relatives die. But the life have a lot of good things for we. It's worth live!!!

Madagascan bird declared extinct

A small bird which live in the Madagascar island has been officially classified extinct, according to a leading bird conservation organization.

The species, found on Lake Alaotra, the largest lake in Madagascar, dissapeared rapidly due to carnivorous fish and the use of nylon nets by local fishermen.

No hope now remains for this specie. It is another example of how human actions can have bad consequences for the wildlife and the vegetation.

But the news isn't all bad. Conservation projects are having a positive impact on the survival of bird species.

Some species has been passed from "critically endangered" to "endangered" thanks to conservation work to restore its natural vegetation.

Cockpit voice recorder recovered from Air France mystery crash

Web notice: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/03/france.jet.crash/index.html

Video:

Opinion:

In my opinion this is a very good notice, but is a bad new at the same time.

The good part is that the biggest part of the body of the plane was found, so a lot of people and families will have news about their relatives who died in the accident. Another nice new is that the world are closer to know what really happened in this plane when it fell, why it fell? what caused the accident? The accident was caused for a terrorist or pilot error?. As last nice thing about this finding is that exists the posibility that with the information that the pilot recorded with the Black Box Navigation of the plane, engineers are able to solve possible problems of this aircraft for the new aircraft.

The bad part of this new is the part that I criticize. How is posible that in the 21 century we lost two years searching an aircraft underwater, we have very potent satelits that can produce earthquakes in the earth but we can't see the disturbances that cause the impact of a plane falling in the ocean. How is it possible that this plane completely full of transmitters, and communication tools can't send a signal with her position? How is it possible that we have to search these wreckage sending a lot of submarines to the profundities of the oceans? Why we can't detect some metal of the wreckage or some digital or electronic signal from the surface, but we can see a little bomb in a hand of a terrorist watching with a satelite?

Because the majority of the tecnology of this world is designed and created with only one objective: the violence, the war, the defense of our territory...