FINAL REFLECTION ON MY ENGLISH SPACE

FINAL REFLECTION ON MY SPACE

My English progress from 2008 to 2010.

First of all, I’ve visited my last year English space and I’ve seen that visually, it’s easy to see that the most of the posts are shorter than the ones I’ve did this course.

In reference with the last year’s first post, which is called “Introduction of myself” I can say that it’s simpler than the others, and totally different to the ones I’ve posted in my blog this year. It is a simple writing because just seeing its topic we can see that it talks just about me and my life.

In the one hand, there’s no introduction, which is a part that right now I would never forget. Also there aren’t any paragraphs, and now, I know that they are important because of distribute the information. There aren’t connectors and linking words, and that’s why I constantly repeat “I was…, I live, I am…” so, that’s a thing that I’ve improved, and that’s important.

In the other hand, the vocabulary I used is quite different from the one I use this course, so currently, it’s richer and more elaborated. Also, I’ve seen I had some little problems with the verb tenses, and now it’s an aspect that I notice.

In relation to my last post I’ve did this course, which is a piece of news form the disaster on Japan, we can see easily, that just the topic is elaborated, so it’s a piece of news from the currently and it’s more interesting and original than the simple email “Introduction of myself”.

We can see that the vocabulary is richer, and that I’ve tried to use correctly different complex verb tenses, and that’s a fact I think that improves a lot the coherence of a text.

In conclusion, just seeing the title of both writings we can see a difference between them, and also, that this year I’ve improved a lot in relation with the verb tenses, the using of the vocabulary, the inclusion of connectors and the coherence of my writings.

In reference with my two oral presentations I’ve had to compare I haven’t seen many differences there, maybe because I’ve improved just the writings, or maybe is also a difference but I cannot notice it.

Apart from that, in my first oral presentation called “My summer in Portbou” we can see that also, the topic is simpler than the ones I’ve worked on in this course. Maybe it was shorter than the last presentation I’ve did, but I think that the oral level is the same, probably because we have not worked on this aspect this course.

I may have improved in the fact that, right now, when I have to do an oral presentation I don’t get nervous and I feel more tranquil than last year, maybe because know all of my classmates and my teacher, you can have a look also at my last oral presentation, which I did as an extra point because of the improving of my mark, so its topic is “The beatles”.

My English competence in 2010

In this part I have to choose my best writing evidence and also my oral best evidence, so I will start by telling you which is, in my opinion, my best writing and the reasons why.

In order to show my level, I will may choose a free writing post called “Unfaithful, a tv series”. This post talks about a tv series which is maybe the one I like the most right now. It’s a description of this series and especially, of the main characters which appear there; I did it consciously and trying to descript them with good adjectives and elaborated vocabulary for tell their characteristics, so that’s why I think it’s the one I’ve did better.

Also, I divided it in parts, and introduction talking about the series and its history, and then, a description of every single character; so, as I said before, now I give a lot of importance in the division in parts of a writing, because it’s a fact that improves a lot the quality of a text and that makes it easy to understand.

In relation to my best oral presentation, I’ve chose the one which talks about my research project, which is called “The animals in Aesop’s fables”. Maybe I think that that’s better than the others because I think that the research project is a topic which we have worked on a lot of time.

Also, before of doing our oral presentation about the research project in the English subject, we did it as a part of the mark of the original research project, and that’s a fact that has improved our trust in this topic.

I prepared a lot this oral presentation and I tried to make it understandable for everybody who was there, so that’s why I make my power point more visual, which lots of images and pictures of animals.

After seeing my video, I’ve also noticed that I wasn’t nervous and that I spoke correctly and fluent, so that’s important because it showed that I had trust in me and that I was calmed.

Finally, I can conclude that, in general, this year I’ve improved in relation with last course and I think that the English space has helped me to do it, because it’s a way to show all our knowledge in the English subject. I’ve improved my writings and I’ve learnt to use correctly verb tenses, also, currently, I know how to write formal documents, such as a letter.

I’m proud of the work I’ve did in this time, and I recognize that those, are the two years in which I’ve learnt more English. Now, I hope I can use it in my life and show to everybody that learn English isn’t difficult if they are enthusiastic.

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NEWS ON JAPAN

Here you can read different news on Japan.

Japan starts shutting down Hamaoka nuclear reactor

Those news tell that the operator of Japa'ns ageing has started the closure of two reactors of the nuclear plant of Hamaoka. Also it has started the installation of different control rods in the number four reactor. So also, last week, Naoto Kan asked for the complet closure of that plant.

Myabe, Japan is now proud of those actions that the government of Japan is doing, but I won't stop to think that those problems have to be solved before the consequences that Japan has had. I'm not happy to see that, because it wants to express that the government is acting rwo months later the disaster.

You may now the similar disaster of Chernovyl, don't you? So after a disaster like that, all the goverments around the world should had improved the control on the different nuclear facilities, so maybe, Japan thought that it could never happen to them, but people only know that these things can happens until they are involved in a bid disaster. Maybe if the japanese government had acted before, they had avoid so much deads.

It's true that now the government is acting because of stop with these kind of problems, but now it's too late to save those people who has lost their families, or who has died there.

HOME, The film.

DUBAI, WHERE THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE

As you know, Dubai is a emirate situated in the united arabian emirates.

Before, Dubai was a poor country, it was an insignificant place without any resources to notice.

We can't talk about Dubai existing until 1833, when the tribu "Bu Flasa" led by the Maktourn family, which settled down next to Dubai Creek, the natural river which is 10 kilometres long.

Right now, Dubai is a developed country where if the tribu "Bu Flasa" came now, they would not recognise it. So it's full of buildings, high flats and the most high skyscrapers of the world. That's why the tittle of this writing is "Dubai, where the impossible becomes possible"; so before it was hardly a tribu and now is one of the most rich countries of the world.

Dubai started to become rich when people found the oil that has made this country one of the most visited of the planet.

Dubai have got the biggest hotel, the biggest fountain, the biggest harbor, the biggest shopping mall, and the only seven-stars hotel of the world. It is called Brj Al Arab and most of the people know Dubai by its hotel. You may konw it also by the highest skyscraper of the world, called Burj Khalifa.

So, in conclusion, Dubai is an emirate which looks like a country of another world, so people can't compare it with anything, because that's impossible, and more if we consider tha

t two thousand years ago, it was just a place created by a nomad tribu. So in Dubai, the impossible has become possible, but I think that it can't happen in anymore places.

DIALOGUE

Ros Halley is a farmer from South Carolina who is proud of his job. He has worked as a farmer all his life because Halley's farm exists since his father created it in 1963.

We are interested in this guy because we have to notice that he's just twenty, so it's difficult to find young people working at this kind of jobs that we can say that are dying out. We have interviewed him:

V- Hi, Mr Halley. How are you?

H- Hi, I'm fine, thank you.

V- Do you consider that yours is a job which is dying out? So, we have made a statistical study and we have seen that there are 56, 2 % farmers less than fifty years before.

H- I think that there's approximately the same number of farmers, but it's true that maybe, we work in different ways and less than before, because, now, there are new technologies and machines that work for us, and help us.

V- So, do you think that there are as many farmers as few years ago, but their job is different?

H- Yes, what I want to say is that, maybe, our job is less considered than before, so, in conlcusion, my job isn't dying out, but, for example, the work of an officer is more important right now than mine.

V- So, you want to say that the farmers work isn't valued, don't you?

H- Not as few years ago, but I can't say that the farming is dying out.

V- Thank you very much Mr Halley!

H- Your welcome!

NEWS

Andy Warhol self-portrait fetches $38.4

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Andy Warhol's first self-portrait, a four-panel acrylic silk-screen in blue hues, has fetched $38.4m (£23.5m) at an auction at Christie's in New York.

Only eight Wharhols has been sold, so now, the first self-portrait that Warhol did is for sale on the New York contemporany art sales. Its sale will finish on thursday, at the auction house Philips de Pury.

My comment:

I hope that people didin't think that its price it's too high, so I think that this kind of important work should be so expensive. We are talking about Andy Warhol, one of the most known contemporany artists.

I know some important works of him, such as the Marilyn Monroe portrait or the diferent po

rtrait which are in four diferent colours. They are so known and succesful, so that's why they are really good, and expensive. I think that everybody has seen some Warhol work, because we can see it in lots of places, such as modern bars or friends homes. For exemple, I've got a copy of one of them in my bedroom.

IN conclusion, I think that its price is normally allowing that Andy Warhol is one of the most famous pop art artist.

PIECE OF NEWS

BOB DYLAN'S "LIKE A ROLLING STONE" NAMED BEST SONG

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A little summary:

Bob Dylan's 1965 anthem Like a Rolling Stone has been named the singer-songwriter's greatest hit by a panel of musicians, writers and academics.

A group of kown artists has done a poll, because of celebrate the 70th Bob Dylan's birthday on 24 of may, this year. So they conclude that, in general, "Like a rolling stone" is the best song, not only of Bob Dylan, also of the international pop.

I have to notice, that Dylan did this song for the real music band called The Rolling Stones, probably, one of the most known music bands in the world.

Comment on the news:

First of all, I've chosed this piece of news because as you should now, I really like music, and I consider Bob Dylan as one of the best singers of this world. I've heard lots of times his song called "like a rolling stone" and I've got it also on my mobile phone!

I'm interested in all things related on the music, and secially in those news or articles which talk about known artists who deserve to be the main chacarcters of some articles of newspaper's articles.

In reference to the song that the other artists chose as the best, In my opinion, it isn't, becuase maybe I prefer another one, such as "Knoking on heavens door", which is also one of the most known songs, or "Blowing in the wind".

Finally, I will say that Bob Dylan is one of the best singers we have got, so I hope his music will never disappear even thouth his career stopped.