My trip to Italy

My trip to Italy

Hi my name is Mariona and today I’m going to talk about my trip to Italy.

The first day we caught a bus and we went to the airport in Barcelona. There, we took our flight to Milano. Once we were in Italy, we got into a bus and we went to Sirmione. We ate our first 100% Italian pizza at one restaurant called Erica, and let me tell you... it was not that good. After that, we caught a bus with destination Verona. When we were there, we visited the famous Arena but we could not be able to visit the middle part of the monument where, a log time ago gladiators fought, because they were doing some constructions. The second day we went to Venecia and we visited the St Marco's Basilica and the Piazza San Marco. It was better than what I pictured, I'll never forget that beautiful monument. Although I visited Venecia years ago, everything surprised me as the first day! The third day in morining we took a train to Florence. When we were there, we went to our hotel called Maxims and we left our equipage. In the afternoon, we visited the beautiful city and we had free time to buy some souvenirs. The fourth day in the morning we visited the Uffizi Art Gallary. It was incredible to see those wonderful paintings! We also visited the Florence Cathedral and we had to go up 463 stairs! To be honest... it was exhausting but it was definitly worth it. The last day we went to Lucca and we visited the country. In the afternoon we went to Pisa and we visited the famous Leaning Tower, it was amazing! And of course, we took the famous photo 'holding' the Tower. In the night we took our flight to Barcelona and we finally arrived at home at 4:00 a.m! We were exhausted but this trip was fantastic because we had nice moments together and a lot of things that were fun too.

All Writings

Writing an informal email

Hi Kelly

How are you? What have you been doing since we last met? I've been getting involved in an animal shelter.

I used to think that the shelters were bad for animals, but I decided to go along to a meeting anyway. I'm glad I did because it made a real impression on me! We meet twice a week to plan things which will make a difference to the abandoned dogs' life. We've just finished organizing our plan to help the abandoned animals and it's been a big success, so I'm really pleased.

Has that ever happaned to you? I mean, have you had an opinion about something but then you get involved in it and change your mind? It happaned to me! And I feel much more outgoing and confidence now.

Anyway, I've got to go now, otherwise I'll be late for our next meeting. Keep in touch!

Mariona

Formal letter 

Agatha Road

Warwick

CV5 2XS

Computers and more

267 Dean Street

W1D 5RS

Wednesday 10^th November

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to complain about your new computer model which I purchased online, last week, from your website. The description online claims that the computer was new and in a good condition. Unfortunately, this description is totally inaccurate.

In the first place, the computer was completely broken when it arrived. I had bought the computer because it was the new model on the market. But when it arrived I realised that the computer was an old model, which makes me feel so angry.

Secondly, the computer set label says it should contain the computer and one computer charger, but there was only the computer. This means I am not going to be able to use the computer, which is really frustrating.

As a result, this product is really not the same one that you advertise, and I am enclosing the set with this letter and I would appreciate a full refund. I look forward to receiving it in the near future.

Yours faithfully

Mariona Ramírez. 

What makes a good friend?

A good friend is supportive when I feel down, is truthful enough to tell me the worst things, when everybody else keeps quiet!. A good friend tells you the truth even it hurts, and also is outgoint and enjoys hanging out with you.

My last summer

Hi, today I'm going to talk about my last sumer 2015. First of all I'm going to talk about my japanese course of summer, second I'm going to talk about my trip to Palma de Mallorca, and finally, I'm going to explain my 11^th of September, or 11S.

Well, when I finished the school in June, I started going to my Japanese summer classes. I went to my academy every week until the 15^th of July, when I finished it. I learnt a lot of new things and of course my teacher left me a lot of homework to do during the rest of the summer.

In the rest of July I didn't do anything special, although, I spent a few weeks in my grandparents' house and I helped them in their work, as always. Also I went to Port de la Selva with my friend Judit, for a couple of days.

In the second week of August our friends Carles, Mercè, Judit, my family and I, we made a trip to Palma de Mallorca. We rent a house for a week in a beautiful place called Can Pica Fort. We visited a lot of places like 'Les coves del drac', 'Cala del gat', Santa Margalida and others.

Finally when the trip to Palma de Mallorca ended, I stayed in Banyoles for a couple of weeks and I finished all my homework. In 11 of September my family, my grandparents and our friends, Carles, Judit and Mercè went to Barcelona. It was one of my favourite days in the holidays.

And that was my last summer, I hope you enjoyed it, bye.

What things have improved my english?

My english has been getting better since I started to watch videos on youtube. Most of them are in english so I practise a lot every day. I think that watching videos in english really improves your level. But watching brutisía those videos doesn't make your english better at all, I mean it helps but it's not all you need to make it perfect. You also have to speak it everyday, even if you don't have anyone to talk with. You can always put in front of a mirror and talk to yourself, it sounds strange and creepy but it really makes your english better!

Ramírez de Cartagena, Mariona

My trip to Italy

Hi my name is Mariona and today I’m going to talk about my trip to Italy.

The first day we caught a bus and we went to the airport in Barcelona. There, we took our flight to Milano. Once we were in Italy, we got into a bus and we went to Sirmione. We ate our first 100% Italian pizza at one restaurant called Erica, and let me tell you... it was not that good. After that, we caught a bus with destination Verona. When we were there, we visited the famous Arena but we could not be able to visit the middle part of the monument where, a log time ago gladiators fought, because they were doing some constructions. The second day we went to Venecia and we visited the St Marco's Basilica and the Piazza San Marco. It was better than what I pictured, I'll never forget that beautiful monument. Although I visited Venecia years ago, everything surprised me as the first day! The third day in morining we took a train to Florence. When we were there, we went to our hotel called Maxims and we left our equipage. In the afternoon, we visited the beautiful city and we had free time to buy some souvenirs. The fourth day in the morning we visited the Uffizi Art Gallary. It was incredible to see those wonderful paintings! We also visited the Florence Cathedral and we had to go up 463 stairs! To be honest... it was exhausting but it was definitly worth it. The last day we went to Lucca and we visited the country. In the afternoon we went to Pisa and we visited the famous Leaning Tower, it was amazing! And of course, we took the famous photo 'holding' the Tower. In the night we took our flight to Barcelona and we finally arrived at home at 4:00 a.m! We were exhausted but this trip was fantastic because we had nice moments together and a lot of things that were fun too.

Writing a formal Email

Dear Editor

I am writing in response to an article I came across in Monday's edition of your newspaper. I was disappointed to read comments stating that travelling by train is a thing of the past and that we should destroy train stations. As a traveller who is always taking the train in the morning, I would like to point out the benefits of travelling by train.

Firstly, there is the obvious advantage of travelling faster than you normally would do by car, but that is not the only thing. Travelling by train also makes you feel awake and also makes you feel in peace with the nature.

And finally, train causes less pollution leham heam   than car and buses does. I therefore suggest you think carefully before printing such comments.

Kind regrads,

Mariona Ramírez

Writing a formal letter

Dear Mr O'Toole,

Thank you for your information about hiring a Thames River Boat. I would like to make a reservation for 10 people and I enclose a cheque of 25€. I would like to have a musician. Could you please let me know the cost of this?

Two of the guests are vegetarians and they will need the vegetarian menu. My full name is: Mariona Ramírez de Cartagena I Fuentes and my adress is: Cr Ameller 26-30.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards.

An informal letter

Writing an informal email

Hi Kelly

How are you? What have you been doing since we last met? I've been getting involved in an animal shelter.

I used to think that the shelters were bad for animals, but I decided to go along to a meeting anyway. I'm glad I did because it made a real impression on me! We meet twice a week to plan things which will make a difference to the abandoned dogs' life. We've just finished organizing our plan to help the abandoned animals and it's been a big success, so I'm really pleased.

Has that ever happaned to you? I mean, have you had an opinion about something but then you get involved in it and change your mind? It happaned to me! And I feel much more outgoing and confidence now.

Anyway, I've got to go now, otherwise I'll be late for our next meeting. Keep in touch!

Mariona

A formal letter

21 Agatha Road

Warwick

CV5 2XS

Computers and more

267 Dean Street

W1D 5RS

Wednesday 10^th November

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to complain about your new computer model which I purchased online, last week, from your website. The description online claims that the computer was new and in a good condition. Unfortunately, this description is totally inaccurate.

In the first place, the computer was completely broken when it arrived. I had bought the computer because it was the new model on the market. But when it arrived I realised that the computer was an old model, which makes me feel so angry.

Secondly, the computer set label says it should contain the computer and one computer charger, but there was only the computer. This means I am not going to be able to use the computer, which is really frustrating.

As a result, this product is really not the same one that you advertise, and I am enclosing the set with this letter and I would appreciate a full refund. I look forward to receiving it in the near future.

Yours faithfully

Mariona Ramírez. 

When I made a new friend

When I made a new friend

I met my friend Elisabet four years ago when I started the highschool. When she met me she was really kind and she helped me a lot. She's probably one of the most truthful persons I've ever met, you can tell her whatever you want and you can be sure that she won't tell anyone. She loves music and she's a really good singer, I think that she's very talented. I'm very pleased to have met her.

What makes a good friend

What makes a good friend?

A good friend is supportive when I feel down, is truthful enough to tell me the worst things, when everybody else keeps quiet!. A good friend tells you the truth even it hurts, and also is outgoint and enjoys hanging out with you.

SLEEPY HOLLOW

Summary:

In the early United States of America, young policeman oh-so-bangable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to from New York to the fledgling settlement of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of ghoulish murders. On his arrival, the town council informs him that the three victims were killed in open ground, and the heads had disappeared - taken by a headless ghost that is supposedly responsible. Ichabod is unconvinced of this, but learns more about the ghostly horseman - it is the ghost of a Hessian sent by the British during the revolutionary war, and he was caught by redcoats and decapitated with his own sword. When Ichabod sees the ghost kill one of the town council members, his skepticism evaporates - and he soon discovers that the horseman's ghost has an unholy connection to Balthus Van Tassel, a wealthy farmer - and whose daughter, Katrina (Cristina Ricci) Ichabod is falling in love with...

New vocabulary:

skepticism: escepticisme 

Characters:

 Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) 

•  Katrina Van Tassel

•  Young Masbath

•  Brom Van Brunt

•  Baltus Van Tassel

•  Lady Van Tassel 

• Reverend Steenwyck

•  Magistrate Samuel Philipse

•  Dr. Thomas Lancaster

•  Notary James Hardenbrook

• Killian, Beth's husband

• Beth Killian, the Midwife

• Peter Van Garrett

31 October National Caramel Apple Day/ It's not you it's me

31 October National Caramel Apple Day

October 31 isn't just Halloween- it's also National Caramel Apple day in USA! A caramel apple is an apple on a stick rolled in a hot caramel, then left to cool and harden. They're the perfect treat for autumn celebrations 

It's not you, it's me by Kerry Cohen

After 6 months and 218 kisses, Zoe is heartbroken when Hery, her boyfriend, suddenly dupms her. Henry says he doesn't want a girlfriend because he wants to focus on his band. Zoe's best friends invent a plan to help her to get him back. They plan to make Henry jealous, but things don't go exactly as they imagined... 

My last summer

My last summer

Hi, today I'm going to talk about my last sumer 2015. First of all I'm going to talk about my japanese course of summer, second I'm going to talk about my trip to Palma de Mallorca, and finally, I'm going to explain my 11^th of September, or 11S.

Well, when I finished the school in June, I started going to my Japanese summer classes. I went to my academy every week until the 15^th of July, when I finished it. I learnt a lot of new things and of course my teacher left me a lot of homework to do during the rest of the summer.

In the rest of July I didn't do anything special, although, I spent a few weeks in my grandparents' house and I helped them in their work, as always. Also I went to Port de la Selva with my friend Judit, for a couple of days.

In the second week of August our friends Carles, Mercè, Judit, my family and I, we made a trip to Palma de Mallorca. We rent a house for a week in a beautiful place called Can Pica Fort. We visited a lot of places like 'Les coves del drac', 'Cala del gat', Santa Margalida and others.

Finally when the trip to Palma de Mallorca ended, I stayed in Banyoles for a couple of weeks and I finished all my homework. In 11 of September my family, my grandparents and our friends, Carles, Judit and Mercè went to Barcelona. It was one of my favourite days in the holidays.

And that was my last summer, I hope you enjoyed it, bye.



Classmates:

Cèlia: She went to the U.K and Monaco

Clàudia Guilana: She spent 4 days in Lleida and also she past a few weeks in Platja d'Aro.

Clàudia Vallmajó: She went to France with her family. Every day she went to the beach.

Xènia Tubert: She trained so hard for her competition in Belgium.

Quim: He went to Lourdes with Jordi, Núria and others... He also went to Sant Antoni de Calonge for a couple of weeks

Xènia Salellas: She went to Lourdes for a couple of weeks. In the rest of the summer she went to Caldea.

Maria Port: She went to Lourdes too. 

Observation of your oral presentation

Presentation:

Did you use any resources? Yes

Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes

Body language and eye contact:

Did you look at your audience most of time? Yes

Did you read from your notes? Sometimes

Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? All the time

Structure:

Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes

Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes

Which ones? I used the 'First, then, finally, what I liked the most'

Content:

Did you introduce interessting information to your audience? I intoduced funny infomation

Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books? No

Was your information more superificial or more detailed and original? Yes, I think.

Language:

Did you check your grammar? Yes

Did you use rich/new vocabulary looking up the dictionary? No

Did you use sentence linker? Yes

Did you use fillers? Yes, but ont all the time

Pronunciation & Intonation:

Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Most of them

Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? No

Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone all the time? I changed my tone of voice

Did you speed in a fluid continum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks

Self-evaluation: You are your teacher, what mark did you get? 7,89

Everest/ Pan

EVEREST

This film is based on the terrible Mount Everest Disaster of 1996 when eight people trying to reach the summit died in a blizzard. The two expedition groups were guided by experienced climbers and they all showed great courage and determination to survive. But nothing could have prepared them for de Everest...


Comment: In my opinion, I think that it's gonna be a great movie. The plot is so interesting and, a couple weeks ago, I watched the trailer and I loved it. I cannot wait to watch it!


PAN

This fantasy-adventure film is the story of origins Peter-Pan. Peter is a 12 years-old orphan who lives in London. Then, one night, he is taken from the orphanage and transported to a magical world of pirates warriors and fairies. Peter has a great adventures, but he wants to know one thing: why did his mother leave him at the orphanage...


Comment: This is gonna be a bad film I mean, I watched the original Peter Pan film, and I liked so much... but this? Is like they wanted to create a new Peter Pan... (in my opinion) anyway it seems to be interesting. Definitely I won't go to watch it, but if you are a Peter Pan fan, go and watch it.

A formal letter

8 Dene Gardens 

Halford 

HA3 8HB

Casa Nostra School 

Banyoles 

 Dear Sir or Madam, I represent a group called 'Teenagers Against Motorways'. I am writing to you because we are concerned about plans to close a park and build a motorway near our town. In our opinion, motorways are dangerous because cars can chive over them very fast and this can cause some accidents in the future.

If you finally decide to build a motorway, teenagers and children won't have a space to meet themselves or just do some activities together. I think a motorway will not be as useful as the park. On the other hand, the engine of the cars will be very noisy, and this could be annoying for the people in our town. We have therefore decided to take action, adn we are going to organize a protest. For this reason, we are sending you poster and we hope that you will support us and help to publicize this event.

 Yours faithfully,

 Ramírez de Cartagena, Mariona

Wild boar wanders into Hong Kong shopping mall

The female boar strayed from its normal habitat to the Chai Wan mall in the east of Hong Kong, where it stayed for four hours.

Reports said it climbed up a ladder before falling through the shop's roof.

The 25kg (55lb) boar was eventually tranquilised before being taken to an animal rehabilitation centre.

News reports in Hong Kong said the boar fell through the roof on to the top of display case.

It then jumped to the floor and ran around the shop, knocking over mannequins and signs.

A review of a book or a film

I'd like to recommend a book wich I read recently, called The Metamorphosis. The author of the book is Franz Kafka.

The book is philosophal and the setting is his house. The main characters is one man called Gregorio. Gregorio is a man who lives with his father, mother and his little sister.

The thing I liked most about the book were the meaning of the book, I mean, I liked what the book wanted to say, the philosophal message.


All in all, I really liked the book, and though it hasn't got a fair ending. It's one of my favorites books. I recomended it.

THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES

When the story begins we see both families fighting in the street...

1.1. Who wanted peace and who wanted to fight?

Prince of Verona and Tybalt wanted peace but the Lords Montague and Capulet wanted to fight.
1.2. What was considered to be a great insult at that time?

Fools.
1.3. When the Prince arrived , what did he decide ?

When he arrived he decided to make peace, stop the fight and speak with the Lords.
2. What was happening to Romeo at the beginning of the play ? 

He was going to the city when suddenly he found his cousin, Benvolio, and told to him that he's sad out of love

How did he feel? Why?

He felt love and hate.

3.They discovered that the Capulets were going to celebrate a party.

3.1. How did Romeo find out about it ?

He 

3.2. Why did he want to go there?

3.3. Why did they decide to wear masks?

Because they didn't want that the Capulets recognise them as Montagues

4.At the Capulets' house, Lady Capulet was talking to her daughter. What did she tell her?

She tell to her daughter that she should marry with Paris

THE GARDEN OF THE CAPULETS  
1. What happened when Romeo saw Juliet for the first time ?
He fell in love. 

2. Did anyone recognise Romeo at the party?
Yes, Tybalt recognised Romeo and his friends 

3. Did he fight against him? Why? 
No, because Lord Capulet didn't want to fight with them in his own house

4. What did Romeo and Juliet find out about each other ?


5. After the party, where did Romeo go ?


6. What was Juliet doing there?


7. What did they decide to do ?

An invitation to birthday party

To: jessica@gmail.com
Subject: Invitation

Hi Jessica!

I'm having a birthday party next Monday, at my house. Would you like to come? I think that we're going to spend a good time! Our friends Katy, Cloe and Julia are going to come too. Can you bring some films and popcorn please? You know were I live but if you don't remember... my house is near the restaurant, my house's got a big brown front door.

Hope you can come and see you soon

Mariona

Traveling abroad

To: amandaswerbana23@gmail.com

C.C:

Subject: Friday

Hi Amanda!

I'm looking forward to your visit to Girona. I'll come to the airport with my father to collect you on Friday. What time does you flight arrive?

I think that you'll like Girona. I live about 19 km from the city but there are buses to go so we don't have to care about it. There are a lot of shops and it has diferents places to go. When you're here there are a lot of things that we can do. We can go to the Cathedral, if you want and we can also go shopping. And of course, you'll meet all my friends and we can go to dance.

You should bring a nice dress because we'll go to a party on Saturday!

See you on Friday!

A biography

Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II was born in Kentucky in 1963. He's been involved in to the movie world since he was fourteen years old.

Johnny Depp began his career as a musician in the band `The rock 's Kids' , with which he moved to Los Angeles. When the band broke up , Depp spent to the interpretation, getting his first major film role in A Nightmare on Elm Street. He then worked in several films,  including the Oscar-winning film by Oliver Stone Platoon, before playing the character that launched his career : Tom Hanson , the agent 

Since then, Depp has had a very successful solo career. He has recorded a lot of films and he won an oscar in 2007. 

Postcard

Hi Julia!

We're having a great holidays here en Mykonos. We're staying in a hotel the outskirts of Mykonos. The hotel's got a very big jacuzzi, and we go every day! There are a lot of things to do. The people are very kind and friendly, and they taught me some new words on their language.

Before yesterday we went to the ruins of Delos. Mykonos is a wonderful place and it's very hot so you can swim when you want! How freaking cool is that?!

Are you having a great holidays too?

See you soon

Mariona Ramírez. 

Happy Christmas from Japan/ Smart shoes

The Japanese celebrate the commercial side of Christmas, but it is not a national holiday or tradition. However, they have adopted Father Christmas from the West.

Even window cleaners dress up, like this man at a shopping centre in Tokyo.



Smart shoes

You won't forget where you have put your phone with these shoes! They were created with a 3D printer. Perfect Christmas fashion!

TV highlights

The highlight of this week's TV was the 'Gran Dictat'. There were two finalists, they were fighting for the big prize, 15.000 euros, at the end nobody won it. When they lost, they felt disappointed, but they never lost the smile.

Tv3's drama series La Riera: La Riera was also worth watching. In yesterday's episode, the mother told to her sons that she killed their father... but she always said that their father was die because he fell into the pool and he couldn't swim. It was a shocking confession.

Finally, something wich also caught my eye was a story on yesterday's news. When one man killed one woman with a very dangerous knife. It was a horrific history.