Lyrics

Can anybody help me im outta plans guess I left my world in somebody’s hands I don’t like to hurt but but everyone gets weak someone to rely on that’s what I really need

Now here we stay its all that were worth I’ve been thru the pain and been dragged thru the dirt whatever they tell you were bigger than words I’ve been where your standing I know how it hurts let this be a song now and this be a day and we stand together well be okay
Because were survivors were making it work expecting the best when they hope for the worst

One love - this is the way we found
One love - even though they'll let you down
One love -nobody’s perfect now
One love -don’t let that hold u down
One love - lets stick together now
One love -we got to stand our ground
One love - its easy to believe in
One love - believe in u and me
Onee loveeeeeeeee

Now I cud try and fix this all by myself but I know it’d turn out better if u help no one likes to hurt but but everyone gets weak someone to rely on that’s what everybody needs

FILM: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Activities

1- Film SYNOPSIS. Complete:

Dwayne.
the Richard's son, wants to be a pilot.

Olive, the Richard's daughter, want to look beautiful.

the grandad, the Richard's dad, is a dtrug addict

Frank, the Sheryl's brother, wants to suicide because he's gay.

Sheryl, the Richard's wife, believe they are a family.

2- Complete the table:

TIME FOR SELF-EVALUATION:

My Learning:
1. DID YOU WORK HARD?
Yes, I think I've worked, but for the exams I didn't study a lot.
2. DID YOU ORGANIZE YOUR WORK WEEK BY WEEK?
No, I didn't. At first, I wanted to do it, but later I didn't have time so I had to do a lot of work at the end.
3. WHAT WAS MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU?
The Phrasal verbs. I think it's difficult to study them because you can't remember all of them, but they are useful to improve your vocabulary and understand a film in English.
4. WHAT DID YOU LEARN?( new grammar, vocab..)
I've learned new vocabulary and I also have learned new grammar, like reported speach, which we hadn't work it yet.
5. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE?
I need to improve my pronunciation and do better oral presentations, because I don't prepare them a lot.
The activities:
Write about the different activities.Use I like/don't like.. I prefer/ My favourite..

I really like the speakings and orals presentations, because it's a different activity and it's fun. Here's the link of my 3rd terms speakings and orals:
http://polportfolio.blogspot.com/search/label/Oral

In conclusion,
My best activity is the cooking project. It was great and we had to do different activities. Here's the link:
http://polportfolio.blogspot.com/2009/12/healthy-life.html

I really like working in the language room, because we use computers and new technologies to learn English. And we also do a lot of different activities.

ORAL PRESENTATION: TOURÉ YAYA

(I DON'T HAVE THE VIDEO)

TRANSCRIPTION:

Hi, In this 3rd term I'm going to do an oral presentation about Touré Yaya, F.C.B player. I'll talk about his trayectori as a football player.

Introduction:

Gnégneri Yaya Touré is an ivorian footballer who currently plays for Barcelona. He's a defensive midfielder known for his physical power and his great technique. He's the first player from Cote d'Ivory to play for Barcelona. He's international with Cote d'Ivory.

Trayectori:

Touré made début in 2000 playing in Spoilt ASEC, an ivory football club. He only needed a season to being registered by a belgian team. He continued in Belgium until 2003, when he decided to go away to Metalurg Donetsk.

In 2005 he registered Olympiacos F.C. His good season made him attract the interest of big European clubs.

Neverless, he finally is registered by ACE Monaco of the French championship.

His good season impressed F.C. Barcelona, who registered him for 9 million euros in 2007. In this season Touré was one of the most out-standing players. When Guardiola arrived, he didn't make him play very much, but finally he consolidated as one of the most important players of his team. With F.C.B he has won:

- 2 Spanish Leagues

- 1 Spanish Cup

- 1 Spanish Supercup

- 1 UEFA Champions League

- 1 UEFA Super Cup

- 1 FIFA World Cup


POWER POINT:

TOOUREEE

OBSERVATION OF MY CLASSMATES:

Name: Marc F, Marc M, Franc
Title: Microsoft, Apple and Google
This oral presentation is about the history, present and future of three important techonolgy companies, which are Microsoft, Apple and Google. They give information about the next projects which are developing each company. I think it's an interesting presentation.

Name: Marc N, Sergi and Marc G
Title: Roleplay
It's interesting because they practise the pronunciation and sometimes they have to improve, so I think it's a good way to improve your English. I also think that it's a funny representation.

Name: Albert, Mariona P and Rafel
Title: Facebook
This oral presentation is about the history of facebook and its aplications. I think it's a good oral presentation and I really like it because actually everyone has got a facebook account.


A VIDEO:

This is a video I've done with movie maker about Touré Yaya:

VIDEO: UNIT 5

Dublin

The video is about Dublin, the capital of Ireland. We can see streets, monuments, buildings... We can also see an Oscar Wilde statue (the writer of Oliver Twist).

We also learn about a disease that destroyed the potatoe, so a lot of people died of hunger.

VIDEO: UNIT 4

The ablolition of slavery:

The video is about a famous politician who lived in Hull: William Wilberforce. He was famous because he fought against slavery, and he wanted that people could be free all over the world. Neverless, slavery was abolished when Wilberforce died.

WHAT PRICE FAME?

WRITING: A biography

David Guetta was born on 7th November, 1967 in Paris. She grew up in France, in a Jewish family. When David was 17 years old, he began Djing at the broad club in Paris, where he played popular songs. But later he discovered house music and, the next year, began hosting his own club nights.

In 1994 he released his first single, titled "Up & Away", but it wasn't successful. He continued organizing parties in diferent clubs and, in 2002 , he released his first album "Just a little more", which it sold more than 300.000 copies.
Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004 and his third album was "Love is gone".
Even this way, his most successfuyl album is called "One love". it contains famous singles as "When love takes over", "Sexy Bitch", "One love", "Memories"...
He also produced the Black Eyed Peas single "I gotta feeling", which reached number one in the USA and many other countries. The album has sold 1,4 million copies.

In 2008, he won the "Best House DJ" awart. In 2009, he was placed third in the "Top 100 Dj's". He a lso was nominated for five Grammy awards.
David Guetta is married Cathy Guetta and they have two children, Tin Elvis and Angie.


THE UNIT:

This unit begans with a reading about the threats which Madonna received. The grammar is about present perfect simple.
The vocabulary is about be used/get used to and used to/would.
The writing is a biography.

CYBER TEENS:

WRITING AN EMAIL:

Hi Filomena,

I enjoyed chatting to you last night. I wanted to chat with you more but I had to go home. You asked me to tell you about what I enjoy doing in summer. So, here it goes!
In summer, I always meet friends. We usually go swimming or we go to "La Draga". We can do a lot of different activities, like playing tennis, football or basketball. We also play PS3 or go on motorbike.
During one or two weeks I usually to a campus or something similar and I always have funny. This summer I think I'll go to a summer camp because I think it can be great.
Finally, in August, I spend one month in Alp, a village near La Molina. I really like it because tehre's a lot of people and we go out every night. I really enjoy it.
That's all for now. If you want to know anything else, let me know!
Please, send me an e-mail and tell me about what do you do in summer.

Yours,
Pol


THE UNIT:

The unit begans with a reading about cyberangels. It talks about people who protect innocent people in cyberspace. I think that is an interesting reading.
There's a vocabulary part about adverbs of intensity and adjective suffixes. About grammar, it's about the past simple, past continuous and past perfect.
The writing is an email.

VIDEO: UNIT 3

Music

This unit is about how have new technologies changed the way we listen to music. Before the computers were invented, people had to listen to music by discs of vinyl. Actually, people use MP3, Ipods...
There's also an interview to a band called "Half Rabbits". They talk about the influence of the Internet on music.

VIDEO: UNIT 2

Guide dogs for the blind

In this unit Joe wants to raise money to form better guide dogs. We go to the Guide Dogs Training Centre, where we can see how guide dogs train and how useful ther are for blind people, because they can safe their live.

VIDEO: UNIT 1

The angel of the north

The angel of the north is a steel sculpture in Gtaeshead (England). It was created by British artist Antony Gormley. Creating this sculpture was a big and expensive project, so he couldn't built it on his own. He worked with a lot of engineers and architects to built it.
Nowadays, more than 90.000 people visit the angel of the north every day and it's considered one of the most important contemporary buildings of all time.

BATTLE OF SEXES

Are exams necessary to evaluate the students?

In my opinion I think that they are necessary, because the exams results show the capacity of each one. These are the reason for which I think they are necessary.

I believe that, without exams, students wouldn't study, because teacher would evaluate other things like attitude or the homework quality. On the other hand, if we do exams, they make students to study hard, because they are an important part of the final mark.

Another argument in favour of exams is the discussion between parents and teachers. If we don't do exams, a lot of the parents of the students who have failed would demand to the teacher the reasons for which his son has failed.

In conclusion, exams are necessary to evaluate the students. I think it's necessary something more than the opinion of the teacher to respect the work of the student and to evaluate him or her.


THE UNIT:

The unit begins with a reading about the battle of sexes. It talks about the differences about the marks of the boys and the marks of the girls. It also talks about which are the subjects that the girls and the boys get better marks.
About grammar, there's a part of the word order, for example, where has to be the subject, verb, object or place in a normal sentence.
Finally, there's a writing about school exams.

A DIARY

May

Week 1:

At the weekend I met some friends. We went to the cinema or we went out at night. On Monday it was public holiday. The rest of the week we didn't have any exam, so we could relax a bit. On Tuesday we danced "Thriller" and a person came to record us. Later I watched the match between Barcelona and Tenerife. This are the highlights of the match:

Week 2:

This week we haven't done any exam. On wednesday, we went to Gemma Liena's conference at the library. It was interesting. On saturday I went to "Fires de Porqueres and it was great". Next week we're begging exams :(

Week 3:

This week have been hard because we've done four exams. I had to study a lot. At the weekend I watched the champions league final between Bayern and Inter and, unfortunetely, Inter won. The rest of the weekend I studied.

Week 4:

This week we had an exam every day. It has been so hard. Next week we're finishing exams and, after this, the end of the curse will be near! This is a really good song:

A DIARY

April

Week 1:

The Easter holidays have been very short. I spent one week in Alp, and I went to skiing. In the afternoon, I met my friends and we went out every night. It was great and I passed a very good time there.

Week 2:

The first day of school after the Easter holidays. I was very tired. We did two exams: one of Maths and another of English. This is the last term and it will be difficult. But only two months and it will be summer!!!

Week 3:

This week we didn't do any exams, so that's very strange. Every week we have minimum an exam. Next week we're going with the school to Barcelona. We'll spent two days and we will sleep in a shelter placed in the downtown.

Week 4:

The visit to Barcelona was a bit boring, but in the night was fantastic. We only slept two hours. The next day we were exhausted. In addition we had three exams. Techno, Fisical and Quemicals and Catalan.

A DIARY:

March

Week 1:

This week we have done two exams. One of Maths and the other of FiQ. I think that they were a bit difficult. We have also a lot of homework, like always. Italy is nearer every day. I'm looking forward to Italy! Next week is my birthday and there's also a Socials exam.

Week 2:

I can't believe what have happened! On monday we were doing class, and it began to snow hardly. We wanted to go home but the teacher didn't let us. Later, Josep Martí told us that we could go home. It was fantastic. I've never seen snowing like that. On Tuesday, we stay at home because of the snow and it was my birthday. On wednesday we did a Socials exam. It has been a great week.

Week 3:

This week has been normal. We only did a Biology exam, but it was very difficult. We didn't have much homework. On Saturday we are going to Italy! It will be great. We are going to spend one week there. And when we come back, it's Easter. Two weeks without school is the best! (:

Week 4:

The trip to Italy was so great. It has been very funny and the country is very beautiful. I really like Italian people because they are kind people. In groups, we will do a presentation of every town we visited. Next week it's Easter.

SPEAKING:

Giving news

Marc: Pol, Pol! Look at this! I don't believe it!
Pol: Well, tell me! What don't you believe?
Marc: I passed all of my exams.
Pol: Hey! Well done! That's great. What grades did you get?
Marc: One As, four Bs and tow Cs.
Pol: No! Really? That's incredible! How on earth did you do that?
Marc: I dunno. I must be a genius.
Pol: So are you going to celebrate?
Marc: Yes. I can't wait to tell Mum and Dad. I'm going to call them right now.

SPEAKING

Asking about rules

Marc: Excuse me.
Pol: Yes?
Marc: I'm afraid you can't park your car there.
Pol: Oh right, sorry. Where am I allowed to park?
Marc: Parking is prohibited in all of this area.
Pol: I just want to go into this shop for a moment.
Marc: Sorry, but you'll have to park somewhere else.
Pol: Is there anywhere near here?
Marc: Yes, you could try Baker Street, right there.
Pol: OK then. Thanks for your help.

WRITING:

A diary entry

I'm in a difficult situation at the moment. One of my classmates, Alex, stole a CD from a shop. The police interviewed him and he lied. He said that he had been with me in my house. To protect him, I lied to my parents too. But unfortunately, a security video from the shop shows Alex stealing the CD.

First of all, I think that Alex was wrong to steal the CD from the shop. I don't know why he did it, because his parents are rich.
Secondly, I would have said the truth to my parents, because now they are angry and we have argued. If I didn't help Alex, now I wouldn't be in this situation.

I don't think that this will happen again. Alex's parents have grounded him for one week, so he's probably learned his lesson.

WRITING:

A letter explaining a problem

I've had a problem recently. Two of my friends are going out, and the boy is really in love with her. But on the other hand, the girl isn't really interested in the relationship. On fact, I've seen her sometimes flirting with others.
I'm worried because if the boy knows that she's flirting with others, he will be very angry and he's capable of everything. I think that they've to talk calmly and solve their problems. The inconvenient is that he's really in love with her and he doesn't realize.
But maybe I shouldn't worry or interfere. I'd really like some advice because if they don't do something, they will have a big argument.

MAGAZINE:

Manchester United FC

One of the most successful club in English football, Man Utd is also one of its richest (worth €1.3 billion). Three-times winners of the European Cup (1968,1999 and 2008) and 17 times League Champions, the "Red Devils" have been in the top league of English football every year but one since 1938. Eric Cantona and David Beckham once played here; today's stars include Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs.

MAGAZINE:

Cinema 3-D

To say that 3-D movies have taken a long time to become accepted is an understatement: the first one (now lost) was produced in 1922, and for generations they have been considered as little more than a gimmick. All that changed in 2009, however, with a series of films including Up and Avatar. Whereas previous 3-D technology made objects leap forward from the screen, the new technology creates a depth-of-field similar to the way we see the real world. And as James Cameron proved with the 3-D realization of his alien planet in Avatar, the technology can now make action scenes more visceral and the visual experience more beautiful.
For the film industry, which has lost billions because of internet downloading, 3-D offers the public a good reason to see films in the cinema. One day, no doubt, this advantage will disappear as home screens become 3-D, too. But for the next few years the magic will be back where it is supposed to be - in the cinema.

3TH TERM

PERSONAL REFLECTION (2nd TERM)

- What's the best activity for you to learn English?

I think that the best activity to learn English is doing dialogues, because they improve your pronunciation and vocabulary. I also think that it's interesting to do projects like cooking. With this project, you learn to say the steps about cooking a dish.

- What did you find more difficult? Why?

I found difficult the cooking project, because it was very long and there were a lot of questions. In my opinion I think it would be shorter.

- What's your favorite?

My favorite activity is doing posts about two sections of the magazine, because there are interesting news about celebrities, cinema, songs...

- What's best blog in class in your opinion?

I think that one of the best blogs is from Marc Nogué. It has got all the writings, dialogues, posts about the magazine and projects. I also think that the blog has got a good presentation.
Here's the address of his blog: www.noguesportfolio.blogspot.com

Write down your objectives for 3rd term.

On the 3rd term, I'll try to improve my pronunciation. I'll also organize better, and I'll do the writings and dialogue before. Finally, I'll do a better presentation of the blog

Choose 1 activity in your portfolio that really helped you to improve.

I think that the cooking project help me to improve my vocabulary, because I had to search a lot of words on the dictionary.


Write 5 comments in your classmates blogs. Be positive!!

EXTRA POINTS: VIDEO NEWS

I found this video on CNN webpage: http://edition.cnn.com/video/

In my opinion I think that it has been one of the most dangerous disaster in the last years. There are about 200.000 dead people for the earthquake and a lot of people hasn't got a house now.

I think that the rich countries should help Haiti and donate money or food. If all rich countries help this people, they might will recover. Here's an image of Haiti, after the earthquake.

INVICTUS:

WHERE DOES THE ACTION TAKE PLACE?
The action takes place in South Africa.

WHO'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY?
The president of the country is Nelson Mandela

WHAT'S HE FIGHTING FOR?
He fights to eradicate racism and to unite different nations.

WHAT DOES WOUND AND HEAL MEAN?
Wound: an injury.
Heal: restore to health.

CAN YOU FIND SENTENCES IN THE TEXT USING THESE WORDS?
Nevertheless, the wounds of so many years of apartheid are far from healed.
WHAT'S APARTHEID?
It's the racial segregation system imposed by the white minority for many years.
WHAT DOES THE COLOUR GREEN IN THE T-SHIRTS MEAN?
The colour green on the country's rugby jersey was a symbol of apartheid.
WHAT WAS MANDELA'S INTENTION WITH THE RUGBY MATCH?
His intention was to unite black and white people to end with the racial segregation.