portfolio*

Analyse your work (5points)
Written documents

The English language is one that I like. When I was little, I was going to summer classes and I studied in three weeks everything that is customary to study in three months. So I could go to high school quiet. But when I came to Batxillerat, everything changed. Probably since the 2nd or 3rd ESO we had no discipline with the language. But now, with these two years, despite having so much work, the fact of so many texts that has served me greatly to improve fluency.

The first composition that was the e-mail It’s less complete than the last composition that I’ve made about Toxic Friends and pshychologists. I can see that in the e-mail I don’t use a lot of connectors and varied vocabulary. Conversely, in the writing about the psychologists the vocabulary is more varied and I use more connectors such as "spite of that," Nowadays” ... In the e-mail I use only “well” that is the most comon one. I can also see that before the sentences were long and looked like a twister because I did not have time to put dots or commas, and I had a text with too many subordinate phrases and many verbs, not because I dind’t know how to link to all the sentences.

But now I see that I find easier to write. I write with more fluency, more vocabulary and less excess subordinate phrases. I make good cohesive sentences giving coherence to the text (with Concerning the structure, siemple fact is that now I use better connectors, that allows me to perform better structured texts. The e-mail remains a discourse (all that comes to mind is worded), but in the Toxic Friends, we can see a structure. An introduction, an explanation, an argument and a conclusion.

last coposition (Toxic Friends): http://lastportfolioelisenda.blogspot.com/2009/04/pau-writting.html

First and last oral presentation

My best written evidence:

http://senda2nblog3trim.blogspot.com/2009/03/last-term.html

Apprehend a ex policeman for murder
Accuse him of killing his ex-wife

Words I have learnt:
- crimson: carmesí
- gaze: mirada fixa, mirar fixament
- guilty: culpable
- trends: modes

Today in this tribunal of Justice we have a serious case. The accused is Neus Pagès Gelabert. She is charged of murder by the prosecutor Elisenda Lladó Grimau.

E: Do you swear to say the truth and only the truth?
N: Yes
E: Where were you at 7 o'clock in the evening last saturday?
N: Well, I was having a shower in my bathroom, listening radio flaixbac, and you?
E: Just answer the question, please. Well, I continue. Are any person who can corroborate it?
N: Well, I don't know what do you do... but normally, I have a shower alone (looool)
E: Excuse me but, do you know where we are? It's a serious accusation, you could go many years in presion. Do you know the dead Marina Julià fornells?
N: Not at all, but she was in love with me, then I did everything I could to avoid her.
E: Ahà! Do you know if Marina had a relationship with anyone?
N: Yes, she had it to disguise her homosexuality.
E: Do you have any problem with homosexuality?
N: No, no... but I didn't want to be close with her.
E: I know, poor... It has to be hard cannot be with your lover.
N: Yes.. it's so sad.
E: Have you been in this situation?
(Neus started to be nervous)
N: Yes.. Ah! nonono, I'm sad for Marina.
E: I know who has killed Marina.
N: Right? I don't.
E: Neus Pagès Gelabert, you have killed Marina because she didn't love you and you, very angry and desesperated, took a knife and you hurted her until dead, isn't it?
N: oooooooooooh.. I'm so sorry, it's true. If she couldn't be for me, she couldn't for anybody. :(

MAMMA MIA MUSICAL CELEBRATES HIS 10TH BIRTHDAY (bbc news)

Since ten years ago this musical have travelled around the world (190 cities) and it has been representated in 9 different languages.
The first time that It was put on scene was in the West End in London.
This musical it's based in famous hits of Abba. About an average of 32 million of persons have seen it on theatres, cinemas, etc. The film, with Meryl Streep, has increased the fame and popularity of this musical getting a collection about US$590 millions.

words I've learnt:
- collection: recaudació d'ingressos
- popularity: popularitat
- population: població

Hello, today in our program we have an interview with the last farmer of Alt Empordà, McDonald, an old farmer, and we are going to know about this profession that is dying.

J: Hello Mr. Mc Donald, can you listen to me right?

Mc: Yes, I can hello Jane.

J: Well, we were telling our audience that the profession of being farmer is dying around the world. What do you think about the future of it?

Mc: Well, it’s not difficult to see that it is true that is dying out and it’s becoming a “hobby” of people that have a little orchard to get some vegetables for themselves. But sadly I believe that the reality is what you say, this profession is dying each day more and more, maybe slowly but it is happening.

J: Yes, so sad. Can you tell us a little bit about this change on the farms and prayers because of technology?

Mc: Hum… So, at nowadays technology is stealing work-places of people but not only in farms also in industries and other kind of works. But in my work, it’s true that with two or three people controlling the machines that feed the animals, or driving agrimotor, it’s not necessary more people to cultivate the land.

J: Do you think that your profession was nicer before or now?

Mc: Maybe, it depends. In my case I prefer to feed my rabbits and my cows, select their food, grass or what they eat, take care about babies and little creatures. And for that reason, I prefer the traditional manners, like before. But maybe, a person who works to investigate technology, to improve the work or the product and the efficiency prefers machines and big industries. What do you prefer Jane?

J: Ha, ha so tricky, Well, I think that you are right, and I would prefer technology but also is nicer the work as it was before. More contact with the animals and maybe more natural. Nowadays lands and food are plenty of chemical products to preserve them.

Mc: exactly Jane, then, maybe in the future, people will come down again and they will start again the human development from working the land until reaching again to machines.

This is all for today, see you in the next program.