7. ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE

This time last  years things weren’t going any well for me. I’d cry all day because people hit and insult me. Friends don’t invite me out because I’m so fat. I spent a lot of time playing computer games in my bedroom and I only left home to go to the school.

Everything changed for me the day that my mum decides to take me to a psychologist. He teaches me to be sociable. Since this day, I’m a very sociable person and I met a lot of people. In two weeks I make twenty new friends and now I have 55 more or less.

Now, I feel much happier. I invite my friends at home and they invite me! We play some sports and I’m better at school too. If my mum hadn’t take me to a psychologist, I’d never have had all that friends.

1. MY LAST SUMMER

Hello my name's Marta and today I'm talking about my last summer. First I’m talking about my stay in Serdenya, second about Barcelona and finally about my return to Banyoles.

Well, we start.

First I went to Serdenya with my family. I stayed for ten days. In there, I went to the beach, visited the monuments, Alguer, the city Phoenician and Roman... I went to the beach in the mornings. This island, hides a lot of history. It was a very interesting and unforgettable experience.

Second, I went to Barcelona. I went to visit my grandfather. I stayed in my grandfather's house for three weeks with my cousins. In there, I did my holidays homework, I went shopping, and to the swimming to the pool...

Finally, I returned to Banyoles. In there, I met friends, I celebrated my birthday, I finished the homework and prepared for the school. It was a sense of routine. Thus, we can say that a few days were very strange.

This has been my summer holiday.

I hope you liked it.

4.THE HISTORY OF THE PRODUCT

Converse comes from the name Marquis Converse Starts Converse Company. Converse was founded in 1808. The first shoes were made ​​rubber and canvas. But shoes aren’t for sport.

Converse became popular in 1920s, when made ​​special shoes for basketball. Then, the brand was called Converse All Star, promoted by players.

Later went on to make the official NBA shoes. Since that time, was popular among artists and musicians.

Currently, they are very popular. The company was sold to Nike in 2003. Why they are so popular. 2008 sold about 950 pairs.

10. GLADIATOR

This story takes place in the year 180, D.C. It is bout Maximus Decimus Meridius a great Hispanic general who led the armies of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius to numerous victories. Marcus Aurelius, after the battle in Germania, communicates privately to Maximus that we wants to leave him before as the news Emperor his death.
When Commodus knows, it beforethe official announcement. Although the official cause of death is the old age of Marcus  Aurelius, Maximus realizes that his son has killed him. Maxc manages to escape and gets  hurtaaaa, there is seens the bodies of his wike and his son burned.

11. SLEEPY HOLLOW SUMMARY

In 1799 a young detective named Ichabod Crane is sent from New York to the cutskirts of twon called sleepy hollow to investigate serial murders. when Ichabod Crane to twon, the mayor's assisnat invited Balturs vas Tassel, who reported the kilingss of three people, which but could not find any. And he tells an old story about a German mercenary send to America in the war of independence, the mercenary, played by Crhistofer Walken, a soldier was much feared in the world, who was known to name culters that when with his horse (Bold) walking across the battlefield leaving on his way death and darkness, the was executed in 1779 amd burried in the woods of Sleepy Hollow.

6. WRITE AN OPINION ESSAY

Changing laws:

The governament plans to introduce a new law wich will mean to introduce school on Saturday mornings in orther to improve the level of education. In my view, that's a very bad thing for the students.

In the first place, I believe that school is very tiring so if the governament introduces another morning, students willl be angry and more tired. there are more reasons why I do not agree with this new law: because since 1890 (more or less) people didn't work on Saturdays and Sundys. So we can't change this law.

the governament wants to improve the level of education it has to spend more money at the schools and less on sports or another unnecessary things.

9. MY TRIP TO ITALY

My class and I went to Italy on the Monday three of March. In the first day, we visited Pisa and Florence. In Pisa, we visited the tower, the cathedral and the baptistery. We had lunch in the same place. Later, we went to Florence by bus. In there, I went to the hotel. In Florence we went to visited a bit the city.

In the next day, we went to the Uffizi Museum. Then we had a free time and then we went to Florence Cathedral, St. Mary of the flowers. In there, I did the presentation and then we went inside. I was very surprised because I figured that was not the case. After this visit, we went to lunch. Then we went to visit the academy. Later, we went to buy the latest presents and finally we went to dinner at the same place as the Monday. In end of the day, we went for a walk to the old bridge.

The third day, we took our suitcases and we went to Rome with the fast train. When arrived we went to the hotel. Then we went to lunch. Later we went to see a basilica. Later, we went to have a look at the old forum. Then we went to the Pantheon in Rome. We visited it and then we had more free time. Then we went to the Trevi Fountain. We had free time to get photos. Later, we went to dinner. And finally, we went to a square and we had more free time.

On Thursday we went the Vatican with the bus. There we went to the museum where we found many works of art and the Sistine Chapel. Then we went to lunch. Then we visited the Basilica of St Peter and the majority of people, we went to the dome. There was an incredible sight. Then we went to visit the sculpture of the Pieta. Later, we went to the most commercial area of Rome, since he had free time and we ate an ice cream. And finally, we went to dinner at the same place of the previous day. And finally, we went back to the Pantheon, where we had more free time.

On the last day, we went to the Coliseum. But first, we made a stop to see the Moses so that Laura will make their presentation. When we arrived at our destination, we had some free time. And then we went inside. We also had free time to get photos, but I did not because I had a little headache. Then we went to lunch and we finished, we went to take the bags at the hotel. We took the bus to go to the airport. There we have a little free time, after boarding. We took the plane 20 minutes late, but we arrived in Barcelona props. Then we took the bus to school. We arrived at 1 approx.

And now I can say that I loved Italy.

5. ABOUT ME AND MY VIEW OF THE WORLD

My name is Marta Teixidor Martínez and I’m student in Casa Nostra School in Banyoles. I’m interesting in economy.  Some of my friends are interesting in economy too. The people who I spend most of time with are my best friend.

I don’t think that the world is a bad place although I think we could improve it if we shared things more with each other. There aren’t many things that make me angry, but one thing that annoys me is when people criticize other people and then they do well in front, that is, people have two faces.

As far as the future is concerned, it sometimes worries me that we won’t have peace. I find it my own future a bit frightening that there’s always a war somewhere in the world. I’m fairly optimistic about my own future though. In a few years’ time, I see myself helping people who need it most.

3. PLANS FOR A VISIT

Hi,

I'm just writing to check that everything is ok for your visit

I think you'll like Banyoles. On Saturday morning, we're doing a tour with my parents and my friends. We'll be free in the afternoon, so we'll probably   walk around the town, go to a museum, go to the cinema or go to shopping. It's up to you.

On Sunday, we could get a bike. There are some typical  Catalan places around here, like the lake or monuments. Also, we're could go visit Girona and the cathedral. They're very pretty places. I'll get some photos and you can have a look.

We're going to meet you at the railway station tomorrow, so can you remind me what time your train gets in?

See you soon.

4. HISTORY OF A PRODUCT

Hello everyone, my name is Marta and I will tell you today a little story of Converse shoes.

First, I will tell you why I have chosen that this topic. Later, I will make a summary of the story where there will be the origin of the brand, the evolution and more. And finally, I will make a small conclusion.

So start!

I chose this topic because in the book there was a small piece of history. I thought it would be interesting to extend it and find new things.

Converse is an athletic shoe company of the U.S.A. This company was created by Marquis Mills Converse. This gave rise to its name. They had many buyers because shoes were simple.

These shoes were spread all over the world thanks to Chuck Taylor, celebrity of the time. For this reason, has created the star of the shoes. As it was this famous model. At this time, people called the All Star brand. Thanks to the players of the NBA, the shoes left behind classic colors for coloring.

Converse became popular among the 70s and 80s. But shortly afterwards, had competence brands, for example Nike. And in 2003, Converse was sold to this company.

In conclusion, just say that Converse was well received, but was absorbed for their competence.

I hope you liked it and thank you!

The story of converse from mteixidor98

      OBSERVATION OF YOUR ORAL PRESENTATION

Did you use any resources? Yes. I use a Power Point

Were the resources relevant and attractive? I believe that the resources entrendre practical information.

Did you show/talk about the photos to the audience? Yes. I showed three pictures related to my topic.

Did you look at your audience most of the time? I think I looked a bit in public. But above all looked to the camera.

Did you read from your notes? No, I have not read

Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience?  I only point out the most important things of PowerPoint, so that they paid attention

Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes

Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly, on the one hand, on the other hand, finally..) Yes

Which ones? First, later, finally, in clocusion

Did you introduce interessting iformation to your audience?  I explained the information both interesting as I could

Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/ books..? (Specify)    I extract the information from books and internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse_(shoe_company))

Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original?  I think it was quite superficial 

Did you check your grammar?(verbs, word order...) Yes

Did you use rich/new vocabulary looking up the dictionary? (synonyms/new words/

expressions..) No

Did you use sentence linkers?(and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although, how-ever...) And, because, but, just, for this reason, at this time

Did you use fillers? (well, you know, for example, one second, repeating a word...) Yes (for example)

Did you know how to pronounce all your words? Yes

Did you check the pronounciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? In a dictionary and I asked some friends 

Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone all the time? I use the same tone of voice 

Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions?  I think I went too fast. This made me put more nervous and therefore hindered my pronunciation and the ability to hear with clarity 

You are your teacher! What mark did you get? I think it's one of the best presentations I've done this for years. But still, I get 4. Because I was too nervous and also I block. 

I'LL IMPROVE FOR THE NEXT ORAL:

1. Have more confidence in myself 

2. Preperar it more time and patience (in front of the mirror)

3. Greatly improve pronunciation

2.AN ACCOUNT OF A DECADE

The decade between 2000 and 2010, is the latest of all. It was a decade that had positive events and some other negative. These, referring to the attacks of September 11, 2001, which did bring down the Twin Towers in New York. That same terrorist group, Al Qaeda, made another attack on March 11, 2004, which took place in several trains in Madrid. In the first attack there were 3000 dead people and in the second 191 once. Another fact was that the tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast (Spain), causing an ecological catastrophe of great magnitude.

There are also many policy related events. In 2002 the euro began in 12 EU countries: Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg. In 2004, there were 10 countries that became part of the European Union. These countries are Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta and Cyprus. And in 2008, Barack Obama is the U.S. president.

There are many developments with technology. It launches the Microsoft operating system, Windows Millennium, but would become one of the biggest failures of Microsoft. Sony first launched a worldwide successfully in this decade. First Apple iPod digital music player that becomes very popular among young people. The Windows XP operating system from Microsoft, which became the best-selling original software history. Microsoft takes on sale its first console, Xbox, Europe and Japan. Also I think the social network Facebook, which today is the second most visited website on the Internet. In the same year YouTube was born, a popular online video website.

And also some science news. Dolly the sheep has arthritis, which raises questions about the risks of cloning. And swine flu is discovered.

Teixidor Martínez, Marta

1. SUMMER HOLIDAYS

 

Hello my name's Marta and today I'm talking about my last summer. First I’m talking about my stay in Serdenya, second about Barcelona and finally about my return to Banyoles.

Well, we start.

First I went to Serdenya with my family. I stayed for ten days. In there, I went to the beach, visited the monuments, Alguer, the city Phoenician and Roman... I went to the beach in the mornings. This island, hides a lot of history. It was a very interesting and unforgettable experience.

Second, I went to Barcelona. I went to visit my grandfather. I stayed in my grandfather's house for three weeks with my cousins. In there, I did my holidays homework, I went shopping, and to the swimming to the pool...

Finally, I returned to Banyoles. In there, I met friends, I celebrated my birthday, I finished the homework and prepared for the school. It was a sense of routine. Thus, we can say that a few days were very strange.

This has been my summer holiday.

I hope you liked it.

MY CLASSMETES PRESENTATION:

JORDI:

London

Fishing

Burdeaux

Prepered for the school

BERNAT:

Banyoles: Belgium friends

Banyoles: La pesquera

Platja d'Aro

MIREIA FELIU:

Banyoles

Estartit

Banyoles

PAU:

Glougster

Platja d'Aro

Pre season of football

BLANCA:

Camp Nashoba North

Pals

Prepered for the school

POL:

Platja d'Aro

Normandy

Prepered for the school

ELENA:

France

Oviedo

Banyoles

MÒNICA:

L'Escala

Tossa

Camp

Pals

MIREIA NOGUER:

Irland

Haleibury

Banyoles

MARTA:

Alicant

Copenhaguen

Banyoles: Port Aventura i Sant Antoni de Calonge

ENRIC:

Banyoles

Switzerland

Banyoles

LAIA:

Estartit

Palamós

Mikonos

NÚRIA:

Campaments

Platja d'Aro

Banyooles

ESTHER:

Acampada

Campas

Granada 

Ibiza

JÚLIA:

Banyoles

L'Escala

Cruise