MY ENGLISH COMPETENCE IN 2014

In this post I'm going to talk about the best oral and written evidence I've done during this year. 


Dear Lidia,

I know you’re excited to start a new type of life and you expect that everything will come to you will be unforgettable, but remember that not everything is like you will expect.

In life you will meet with a lot of people; the ones who you will remember for a long time and the ones who you will want to forget immediately. For this reason I only want to tell you to spend your time with these people you really want to stay. Don’t be manipulated by anybody and remember to be just the way you are. 

I’m sure you will live some difficult moments when you’ll think nothing in life makes sense, but you have to be mature enough to overpass them and stand up like a hero. 

Remember: “Life is tough, but so are you”.

Yours sincerely, 

LÍDIA TARRATS COSTA

I’ve chosen this composition as the best because I really enjoyed doing it. I love the topic of the writing and I put all my effort to write a good one.  

I’ve used some expressions, I want to “the ones…. And the ones” or verbs like “overpass”, and I think they help a lot to improve the writing.  

I use passive phrases (be manipulated by) and I think it’s something that makes the difference between compositions I did two years ago. 

Also I have learned a lot of vocabulary, idioms, expressions, phrasal verbs and some others words. 

And to final, I want to talk about the personal development. I think in this writing  I've expressed my feelings and I can say I also feel more mature. Writing on the blog help you a lot to talk about everything in life you want; anything you can be frustrated with and something you love and you want to share with the others. 

And about my best oral evidence I think it’s my last oral presentation, it was about my TDR and as I said before I’ve learned a lot. Even though my oral post I’ve done this term I also think it’s one of the best. I’ve improved my pronunciation and my fluency compared with my fist oral presentation or posts. 
it's the oral post I did about "money can change the world". 

https://audioboo.fm/boos/2150788-money-isn-t-important

MY ENGLISH PROGRESS FROM 2012-2014

In this post I’m going to talk about my improvement along these two years I’ve been doing batxillerat. First of all, I will compare my first composition I did at the beginning of first batxillerat and it was an email to Sonia:

“Dear Sonia,

I’m Lídia and as we agreed, I email you to introduce myself and to give you some special information about me. 

As you know, I’m 16 years old and I live in Castelló d’Empúries. A small town, but at the same time, very special for me. About me, I can only say that I think I’m friendly and some of my friends told me that I’m someone who always wants to help somebody.

Also, I love the sports, and in my opinion, it’s so important to keep feet and to do some exercise, not so many people are aware of that thought.  I want to say I practice rowing, it's so hard but I love it. Now, you know some more about me! Thank you for the time you've spent to read my email.

Write soon!

Lídia Tarrats Costa

And this is my last post I’ve done in this blog some days ago: 

I can’t believe it, I’m writing the last post on this blog which was created two years ago. Time flies! 

I have to accept when I knew I had to create a blog to write about anything for the English subject, I think “wow, I don’t want to do it”. But then I’ve to admit you get used to do it and you realize you can learn a lot of things doing it. To be in front of a white paper and to begin to think which topic you want to write about it’s really interesting. 

Sometimes you can feel you’re wasting your time working on the blog, but now I don’t think so. 

From my point of view, writing in the blog has helped me a lot to improve my writing skills and moreover, I feel more insecure with my compositions. 

Thank you for the ones who have spent some minutes reading some the posts I’ve written here. I suppose next year I will miss to write on this blog!

Best wishes and good luck!

If I have to compare both, I can say that I have improved a lot my writing. First of all, because now I know more about grammatical categories and mainly I know what connectors are. Even though I’m really surprised, because reading my first email I see I used some connectors like “but at the same time”, some phrasal verbs (keep feet), and adjectives like “aware” (they are all marked on the composition). 

Now, after some hours of studying connectors I have to say I use them a lot, in this last composition we can read some examples: “but, from my point view, moreover, …” and they help to improve writings. 

One of the mistakes I have noticed in the first one is some words repeated, they are also marked (for example I use too many times “some”). 

And finally, I want to say I’ve improved vocabulary; reading books in English helps a lot to know more words and expressions. 

And about my oral presentations I have to say I’m really proud of me because I think I’ve improved a lot. 

I remember when I did my first presentation that I was really scared and nervous. I think I’ve improved a lot my body language, my fluency and now I can say I look more often at the audience.

To have an example, I post one of my fist presentations I did to see judge my oral skills:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyYZvSuWLzc

 I can’t post my last oral presentation about my TDR, but from my point of view it’s the best I’ve done. I know more my classmates and I felt more comfortable and I think my pronunciation improved a lot.   

TIME FLIES

I can’t believe it, I’m writing the last post on this blog which was created two years ago. Time flies! 
I have to accept when I knew I had to create a blog to write about anything for the English subject, I think “wow, I don’t want to do it”. But then I’ve to admit you get used to do it and you realize you can learn a lot of things doing it. To be in front of a white paper and to begin to think which topic you want to write about it’s really interesting. 
Sometimes you can feel you’re wasting your time working on the blog, but now I don’t think so. 
From my point of view, writing in the blog has helped me a lot to improve my writing skills and moreover, I feel more insecure with my compositions. 
Thank you for the ones who have spent some minutes reading some the posts I’ve written here. I suppose next year I will miss to write on this blog!
Best wishes and good luck!

LÍDIA TARRATS COSTA

THE BEST ONES ARE ALWAYS TAKEN

"FC Barcelona is in immense mourning. Tito Vilanova has died at the age of 45. May he rest in peace,"

Last 25 of April Tito Vilanova died at the age of 45. Since 2011 he had a cancer, removed in November 2011, and he had to fight really hard against this difficult illness. 

Tito was in Barcelona team since a child and he dedicated all his life to his family and football. Tito Vilanova was known as an incredible person, he was really kind and hard working, and also during a year he was the coach team of the first team in Barcelona. 

"The Vilanova family has asked for respect for their desire for the strictest intimacy in the moments after his death."

- Opinion

"Tito and I were young, we wanted to conquer the world and we did. The sadness I feel will accompany me for the rest of my life".

Pep Guardiola.

This is the saddest news of all I have done during these three years of blog. To hear a person who has known around the world and was only 45 year has died is terrifying. 

Every day I know more people with cancer and I’m getting really worried, because you never know when it could happen to you. 

Tito Vilanova stant out in his professional career as a coach, but he also has been recognized to be someone really attentive and a person who won’t be forgotten. 

Rest in Pace, Tito. 

http://www.totalbarca.com/tag/tito-vilanova/

gloomy: gris

tributes: tributos

grief: pena

CAN LOVE LAST FOR EVER?

Yesterday I read an article which talked about love, and I found this sentence that it made me think a lot: “Romantic love, which they defined as love with intensity, engagement, and sexual interest, can exist in long-term relationships”. 

Do you think love can last forever? 

Well, I know this topic is not easy to talk about but I found it really interesting. I’m only 18 years old and I haven’t so much experience about love, even though I think love can make you feel incredible things in life.

“Blue Valentine” is one of my favorite films and it talks about story of a couple; they have been for a long time loved each other but at the end, they realized their love is finished and we can see the dissolution of their marriage. When I watched this film my idea about love changed a little bit, I know it will be difficult to find a person that I can fall in love for the rest of my life and I’m not those who think love can last forever. 

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm6PfBsXHjs&feature=kp

News (Human Rights)

“Tens of thousands of children every day are in immigration detention around the world”. 

In this news we can know more about terrible things which are happening right now and we are not aware of it. It talks about a story of a family from Bangkok and who have lived some horrible situations about children immigration and sexual abuses. 

Every day there are a lot of children who are arrested from their houses without any contact with anybody, either with their parents and family.  We’re talking about children who are under 15 and availed to be abused and forced to work illegally.  

- Opinion

I can’t understand how cruel people could be with children around the world. Every day on the news we can heard or read some attack or violation to children and this is insane. 

Children are innocent and they can't imagine what they could receive from cruel people.

What I have read on this news is really terrifying, is the experience of one mother whose child was arrested for two years. She dreamt with him every day and she couldn’t talk to him, this is a nightmare for a mother. 

“No torture and no violation”, these are two important human rights everybody had and sadly not everybody respect them. We hope on time we could see some changes in our society without any war and violence. 

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/09/we-need-show-compassion-toward-immigrant-children

tiny: petit
detained: retrassar
unaccompanied: sol

Money can change the world

listen to ‘money isn't important’ on Audioboo

It is said money can change the world, we’re living in a materialistic society and everything can be got with it. There’s no doubt money has become one of the most important things is our society and I think it could be really disruptive for all of us. 

I firmly believe that there are other things more important than money in life. Happiness or love, for example, could they be bought? Personally, I think we usually give too much importance to expensive things, in other words, the more expensive they are the better we think they could be. And from my point of view, we don’t appreciate things we can get with effort and without any money.

Having said that I also want to say that most of the times to be a rich person may help you to get things easily. It’s true that life is not a bed of roses and I have to accept that with money there are more opportunities to get what we really want or need. 

All in all, I think everyone has to have their own limits and know what they need to be a happy person.