We have almost learnt to respect our world.Do you agree?
In my opinion people don’t know how to respect our world and I don’t think that they have almost learnt to either.
I think that most people haven’t learnt to respect the world people are like they are. I mean that, if you are, for example selfish you‘re selfish all your life and for the time that you live nothing will change. For example if I recycle and I make things for the environment what can gain? Nothing, only my principles . I can be the cleanest in the world and the person that most respects the environment, but if I do it perfect, but I won’t gain anything, everybody needs to do it! Actually the level of the contamination effect the air pollution and for this reason global warming is worse. In general contamination is caused by cars, electrical appliances on standby and littering and it’s our fault. Consequently the ozone layer is reducing.
In conclusion I believe the majority of people will never learn to respect the environment. We have to face the consequences.
A few days ago we started watching Corpse Bride, but we didn’t finish the film because we didn’t have time. This is a fantasy film where everything starts when Victor a young man is going to marry Victoria. Victor is a poor man that always has bad days. One day, they meet for rehearsal but Victor always forgets the text. Victor decided to go to the forest and practise with a tree. Victor accidentally puts the ring on the hand of a corpse, Victor practises saying "do you want to marry me?" And then the girl, Emily comes out of the ground and said yes. Victor screams, and runs away but Emily runs after Victor. Then Victor wakes up in strange town where everything is full of dead people. At the same time Victoria is waiting for Victor and when Victor appears, she doesn’t believe anything. Emily discovers that Victor doesn’t love her and she was surprised and angry. Victor finds a way to get back to the real world. We can’t know if Victor decides to stay with Victoria or with Emily.
The book is a novel- edition 1895, published 1874. Gabriel Oak is a shepherd and he’s 28 years old. He saves money to rent a small farm for some sheep. One day Batsheba Everdence appears in the life of Gabriel and Gabriel falls in love with her. Batsheba is a very proud girl and also says no to answer. She arrives to live with her aunt, the days pass and Gabriel asks her to marry him but she says NO, she values her independence and the other not much. Gabriel accepts the answer and he can’t do it anything.
A few months later, she moves to Weatherbury, a village some miles off. When Gabriel and Batsheba meet again, things are very different. A new men causes Gabriel to be ruined. He wanted a new job and they find a job in the town of Casterbridge. When he arrives, he know that the town is next to Weatherbury, the town of Batsheba. In the town was a big fire and Gabriel helps and controls the situation and everybody was thanks him for it. At the moment Gabriel asked if they need a shepherd. And Batsheba, now a rich woman, accepts Gabriel to work for her.
Batsheba now has another admirer, William Boldwood. She sends a Valentine letter to William in the letter it said : Marry me. Willam didn’t know that it’s a joke, and he was obsessed with her and proposed to marry her. As normal, she said No.
The sheep start to swell up and then she discovers that the only person that can heal. She comes to him to ask for help.
Frank Troy returns to the town and marrys Batsheba but a little later she discovesr that her new husband is a player without interest in farming. Frank was in love with Fanny before. The day of the wedding Fanny goes to the wrong church. Frank was angry with Fanny. Batsheba discovers that William had a child with Fanny. Batsheba and Frank split up. Then Batsheba falls in love with Gabriel and they marry.
Is there a mystery sentence or a turning point in the story?
Yes, one mystery of the novel was when Fanny who was Frank’s lover appeared and they have a child and after the mum and the child die. This is a moment that I didn’t except.
When and where does the story take place?
The story happens in England. In the nineteenth century. I can know because when Fanny dies in the tomb it says the year. And the society was in this way, I said for example the character.
Who are the main characters in the story? What’s their role?
Gabriel is the main character and is a farmer, honest and he marrys Batsheba
Batsheba is a rich woman, she’s proud. She has a farmer and Gabriel works for her.
Fanny is the wife of Frank. During the story they disappear but they have importance. Frank is Batsheba and Fanny’s husband. He’s a bad men. After Batsheba splits up with hm.
William is another lover of Batsheba.
Choose one character ( main or secondary) and describe him/her
Gabriel Oak is a farmer, and he is very honest. He always tries to help. He’s 28 years old. He’s not rich, he’s poor. He falls in love very quickly. He’s a good friend, and for him it’s not important that Batsheba said no for the marriage because he is always there.
Can you identify with any character? Why?
I can’t identify with any character, because they are special and very different to me. For example I can identify with Gabriel because is honest and sincere but nothing else. I can’t identify with Batsheba because she’s very proud and always says No and I always said yes, it’s very difficult that I say No
Choose your favourite moment in the story My favorite moment in the story is when Gabriel and Batsheba fall in love and when they meet for first time. I don’t know but I consider that is a romantic situation and at the same time complicatde.
Which new key words have you learnt to understand the story
Field,lamb,hut,shepherd,gasped.
Provide an alternative ending Gabriel meets another woman and fall in love with her, and Batsheba is alone for some years but afterwards she meets a intelligent, beautiful and a rich man and she falsl in love, and they marry.
Would you recommend this book? Why? Well, I think that it’s a special book, At first I thought that it’s a good book and it’s beautiful to read but later when I had read half of the book, I changed my opinion. It was a little boring and difficult to understand but if you like reading and book of love and old ways to think, then it’s a beautiful book.
Did you use any resources? Yes, like the other oral presentations we’ve used a Power Point presentation with pictures and videos. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes. We think that the presentation was entertaining, and the video whe showed at the end of the presentation was interesting as well.
Body language and eye contact
Did you look at your audience most of the time? We looked at the audience more than other times, but we were still looking at the paper, and also at the screen. Did you read from your notes? Not all the time. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? I think we did some involuntary gestures.
Structure
Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes, we tried first to introduce the topic and then develop it. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? Not much really.
Content
Did you introduce interesting, new information to your audience? Yes, we think the information was not boring, it was an interesting topic explained in a very simple way. Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books...? Yes we did. We looked up information in the Internet about the topic. Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? There was a bit of everything: we developed the subject very superficially, because it's a very extensive topic, but we also introduced some interesting data.
Language
Did you check your grammar? Yes, we did. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? We looked up at the dictionary very technical words that we didn’t know how to say them in English .
Did you use sentence linkers? Yes, we use a lot of times “and”, “but”, “so”, “In fact”,... Did you use fillers? We used less fillers than other times.
Pronunciation & Intonation
Did you know how to pronounce all your words? Not all the words. Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? No Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? We changed the tone of voice a lot of times, but involuntary. Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? It has been more fluent than the last time we did it.
Self evaluation
What mark did you get according to you? This oral presentation was better than the previous ones, it has been more fluent and more organized, and the pronunciation has also improved. But we still need to relate and link things. I'd put a mark of 7.
Translation
Well, in this term we've decided to talk about bullying, because we think is a social issue that exists in schools and high schools, and many times we don't realize that it exists.
Bullying is any form of psychological abuse, verbal or physical conduct among schoolchildren. The dominant type of violence is the emotional and it happens often in the classroom and school break time. Bullying is common in children between 12-13 years, and is more common in girls than in boys. Because of the bullying, the victim generates psychological disorders. Victims live terrified with the idea of going to school. They're nervous, sad and lonely in their daily lives. In some cases, the hardness of the situation can get to suicide. Over 350 million children suffer some form of violence at school.
We can see that there are eight types of bullying:
1-Lock social 2- Harassment 3- Manipulation 4- Constraints 5- Social Exclusion 6- Intimidation 7- Assault 8-Threats
1. Lock social: The aggressor wants to marginalize and isolate socially the victim, so the victim feels weak, helpless and stupid. 2. Harassment: Harassment: The aggressor acts with contempt, disrespect, and without consideration of the dignity of the victims. The signals of this type of bullying are contempt, hate, the nicknames, cruelty... 3. Manipulation: It distorts the social image of the victim. All the things that the victim makes are negative. 4. Constraints: The aggressor obliges the victim to realize actions against himself. With this way the aggressor can control the victim and he can get what he wants. 5. Social exclusion: They don't want the victim to participate. Aggressors treat the victim as if he was invisible, they don’t want him to participate in their games. 6. Intimidation: The aggressor creates fear to the victim. The person feel threatened. The aggressors attack the victim in the hallways and when school finishes. 7. Assault: The aggressor hits the victim. 8. Threats: The aggressor threatened and extorted to the person and his family.
Risk factors
Profile of the aggressor: - The aggressors not always have a mental illness or a severe personality disorder. The main problem is lack of empathy. Without empathy the aggressor can’t understand what the person suffers, is totally insensitive. - A 70% of the aggressors blame the victim saying that he had begun the discussion, so they haven’t got remorse of what they do. - It can also be a bad family environment: abuse, humiliation…
Profile of the victim: - There are people that can't react - They’re not sociable and they’re sensitive. - They don't know how to defend themselves because they have shame, and aggressions are very harmful to them. The school environment: In the school where the environment is bad and the teachers don't know how to control conflicts, bullying is more frequent. The television: There are TV programs that show violence as a good thing, and children tend to imitate. However, experts are still debating the effects of TV.
Consequences of bullying
On the victims: - They can suffer physical injury, fear and anxiety. - In school performance gets worse, because they are not going to school or they have difficulties to concentrate. - Stress causes suffering stomach pains, headaches, not eating ...
On the aggressor: - They may have social problems; it is difficult to live with others. - In adulthood they can have a criminal life.
Conclusion
- The female suicides could be reduced by 10% if the bullying disappears. - 22% of Spanish children are exposed to suffer bullying. - Being overweight and having a bad economic situation increases the possibility of suffer bullying. - Bullying is a common problem in this society, destroys self-esteem and self-confidence.
For young children watching TV is dangerous. Apart from the dangers of the programmes it’s also the time. All the programmes are rubbish. I think that the main problem is that children imitate the same things that they do on TV and use the violence . I believe that the problem is not to turn off the TV and stop watching TV, for example I can watch the most violent programme and I never use violence. Every day the programs have more violence and the children are more aggressive
Hi!
My name is Laura Peña, I'm sixteen and I live in Castelló d'Empúries with my parents and my brother. I like listening to music and going out with my friends!I'm going to use this portfolio/blog as a notebook where I'll post work that I done in aula d'idomas. I hope to improve my English.
