Self-evaluation

A few weeks ago, a friend and I did an oral presentation about dreams. We thought it was a curious topic to develop considering that everybody dreams and not everyone knows why  we dream or what's the meaning of the dreams. We explained what they were, how they happen, the 5 stages of sleep, the meaning of some dreams and sleep disorders.

To support our explanation we used a power point which was pretty complete, but not excessively. We used images and some key words to help us remember and manage all the information. Although we could have expanded on the topic, we only explained the essential so the presentation lasted more or less what it had to last, nine minutes.

My body language was not bad because I looked at the audience, but I think that I could make more gestures with my hands and arms. I read sometimes from my notes but just when I couldn't remember a word or I went blank.

I consider that the content was pretty good because as I said before, this is not a topic that everyone knows a lot about so we introduced new information to the audience. The information was clear and concise, just enough to get to know the topic superficially.

Regarding the grammar, I think the only complex words were the technical ones because I still don't know why,but I didn't say the things I wrote in my paper, on the contrary it came naturally. For this reason I think that although everything was easy to understand (when I didn't get tongue-tied), my vocabulary was not very rich and varied. As I said, although I got tangled up, I think my pronunciation was pretty good and everybody understood what I wanted to say.

Does humour play an important role in life?

We all know humour is what makes people laugh, and that's the healthiest thing in life. It takes away stress and pain, furthermore, it binds people together.
Imagine just for a second a world without humour or laughter, how would it be? All day working or doing anything in absence of smiles, like robots, it could be so much worse than it is now.
From my standpoint, a life without humour is not life, I mean, you have to enjoy every minute of your life and it my view it can't happen with no humour.
A life cut off humour would be sad and depressing, that's why humour is so important, to keep bad thing away from our life.

Selectivitat's writing

Buy nothing day is the opposite day to Black Friday, it is a day created to try to consume less and produce less waste.
I think this is a good idea because there are lots of products that people just use once or twice and then they become trash. Sometimes people are not conscious of what they have or what they need, and that's the principal reason of consumerism.
If we take a day to think and realize of everything we have bought and not used, we would see that the only thing we are doing is waste our money and produce lots of garbage.
I agree with this idea because as I said it makes you realize of what you really need or use and don't buy anything unless you need it.

Informal letter

Hello Lourdes!
As you know, my name is Paula and I'm 17 years old. I always have lived in Empuriabrava, in the same house and obviously with the same people, my family. I have two siblings, my brother David who is 12, and my sister, Carlota who is 15. Although they sometimes drive me crazy I love them so much. My father, Ramón, works as a fireman and my mother, Marian works in a school looking after problematic kids.

After an amazing summer here we are again in high school, luckily it is going to be the last year. I’m currently studying 2^nd of scientific batxillerat, and the truth is that, seeing the results of the last year I think I can do it a little bit better to get better marks.

I don’t really have a lot of expectations about how my life is going to be or what I am going to study or where I am going to live, because at the end it doesn’t matter how much you plan your life, nothing is going to be as you planned it. But yes, I know more or less what could be my life in a year; maybe I will be studying something related to biology (that’s what I like the most from high school), like biomedical science, or pharmacy, in Barcelona or Madrid or maybe I will be doing a gap year to clear my head and decide what to do with my life. For either of these two options I need to work hard. For the first option I have to make an effort studying and getting good marks because usually science degrees demand it, and for the second one I will have to exert myself too, working in summer to earn money and take the gap year. The truth is that I am the only one who can do it, I mean, although people support me, if I don’t study or I don’t go to school or I don’t get a job I won’t be able to achieve my goals. Life is full of surprises so I’m not worried about deciding what to do.

While I was watching Obama’s speech again, I realized that it’s full of beautiful sentences so I couldn’t choose just, one but three. The first one is “Every single one of you has something that you are good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have the responsibility to discover what it is.” I think these words are so comforting because not everyone is good with studies and sometimes we, the students, forget that there is another world outside high school, and not everything turns around getting good marks and being the best of the class; that if we are not good with science or letters, maybe we will be good at sports or arts and that’s okay. Another sentence that I liked is “Where you are now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end”, as I said before life is full of surprises, and even if you are in the most miserable situation if you try and you don’t give up on yourself, you can get over it and live the life you always wanted. It’s only matter of working hard and trusting in you. And the last one is “You won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That’s okay”. I like this sentence because it is completely true, moreover, you will probably fail if you are trying to do something new for you, and this will only teach you what to do to do it well. The most important thing about the speech is that you never have to give up on yourself, even if things are not going as you want, you are the only one that trying over and over again can do whatever you want.

Lots of love,

Paula

PIT AND PENDULUM

The story of pit and pendulum talks about a man who was sentenced to death by three judges. When he woke up he doesn't know where he is, he only sees dark. He wanted to know how big is the room, so he starts to walk when he discovered a pit in thefloor. When he woke up again, he saw a rope with a sharp pendulum that was approaching more and more, next to him, he saw a lot of spicy meat and a hundred of hungry rates. But after, he can move and the captors put the pendulum up. When he was asking for help, the walls starts to get closer and try to pull the man into the pit. He was asking for help when an arm pulls him and the walls stop moving.

SUSPENSE STORIES

1. Who is the director of the move Phsyco?
The director of this movie is Alfred Hitchcock.

2. What type of characters did he often use in horror films?
His characters are girls, murderers, criminals, psycopaths and another type of assasins.

3.What techique did he use with the camera?
The camera doesn't shows the face of the killer, but he shows the face of the girl and the blood to create a suspense athmosphere.

The scariest movie for me

ANNABELLE

Annabelle it's the second film from the saga "The conjuring". The plot of the film is a woman who are waiting a baby, her husband give a doll because she loves dolls. One night they discover that their neighbours were killed, when they go to see what happened, the missing daughter of her neighbours attacked him holding de doll, and after she kills herself with the doll in her hands. After that born Lea, the baby of Mia and John. John throw away the doll, and John and his family moves to Pasadena. When they were unpacking the boxes, they discovered that the doll was still here. Mia contacts to the detective and he explained that Annabelle (The name of the doll) was possessed. Mia went to a bookshop to talk with Evelyn. Evelyn said that Annabelle wants the soul of Lia. Annabelle told to Mia that if she doesn't want his daughter die, she has to give his soul, but, Evelyn sacrifices for Mia and she jumped out the window.

THE PSYCOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

1. What's the story of the tell-tale heart about?
The Tell-tale story talk about a man (the narrator) who lives with an ancient man. The ancient man has a big and white eye who is hated by the narrator. One day the narrator decide to kill the ancient because he was fed up of the eye. When the man kill the ancient, cut him into pieces and put his destroyed body under a table in the floor. Some time later, the neighbour with three police knock the door, because the neighbour heard a shout. The narrator was very nervous, and his heart beats louder and louder. The narrator didn't withstand the pressure so he confesed the crime.
2. Who wrote the tell-heart and invented the first macabre stories?
Edgar Allan Poe, wrote the tell-heart story and invented the first macabre stories.

3. What was the first P.H.S?
The Metzengerstein.

4. When was it first published?
It was published in 1832.

5. What other story types did the author also invent?
He wrote science fiction stories, detective stories, satirical and poetic stories.

The gothic novel

1. Who invented the G.N?
The gothic novel was invented by Horace Walpole. He was an english art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and whig politician. His literary reputatios rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, which are of significant and policial  social and policial interest.

2. What was the first G.N?
The first Gothic Novel was The Castle of Otranto.

3. When was it first published?
It novel was published in 1764.

4. Which basic elements of horror didn't include on your list?
The elements of horror that I didn't include on my list are:

• A castle
• The women threaned by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male. The main character was threaned by a terrorific doll.
• Supernatural elements, only there are a terrorific doll.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE TEST

This test says that I am very good at kinaesthetic, linguistic, intrapersonal and interpersonal, and in the other intelligences like Logical (numbers smart), Musical and visual I'm not really good.

I disagree with the test because I'm not a linguistic person, in other words, the subjects like spanish and catalan aren't what I like. It's true that I am a person who likes sport so I agree with that. Also it's true that I'm not good at numbers but not so much like the test says. I agree with the test when says that I have intrapersonal intelligence because I know very well myself, also I agree with the test when says that I have interpersonal intelligence because I think that I'm a sociable person.

ANIMAL IN ME

I have already take the test and that says I am an otter. According to the test I am small, that's true, I am fun-loving and I agree because I love have fun, I am communicative, that's true but some things I reserve it to me. Also, the test says that I am unassuming and I agree with that because I don't like be a conceited person, I am appealing, I think that I can't say it, that has to say it another person, and finally the test says that I'm finicky, I think that I'm a little bit exigent but only with me.
The careers and hobbies that I like according ot my text are:

• Engineering
• Pro sport
• Medical
• Design
• Computers

I disagree with all the carees that the test said that I like least two, the medical career and pro sport. I'm not totally agree with the medical career but it's which come closet to what I want to study. I want to study something relacionated with the biology so de medicinal career is similar. And with the pro sport career I'm not really agree, because I like the sport but not enough to devote myself in it. Also the test said that my hobbies are:

• Mathematics
• Surfing the web
• Swimming
• Cuddling 
• Reading

So in this case I agree to all the answers least one, the mathematics, I hate this subject.

MY HERO

My hero is my grandmother, on my mother's side, Maria. She was born in Carcelen, a little village  in the 1940 so she is 75 years old. I think she is very well for his age because she is very sporty, she swims twice a week and goes for a walk with his friends every day. She is very happy in spite of everything had to pass.
She is my hero because she is very strong and hard-worker. I admire her because she is a fighter, she had to provide for her family. Her husband died when he was 50 and had 5 children, so my grandmother had to work very hard to take care of them. On top the father of her dead husband, widower, had a girlfriend who wanted to separate the family and when my grandfather died, the grandfather of my mother and his girlfriend separated of the family. I think that the act of provide 5 children forward alone is an act of a person very brave and strong.
I love my grandmother and when I grow up I would like to be like her.

My biggest dream

One of my dreams is to go to the moon. I want to visit it because I want to feel how is float in the air. 
I think that's very difficult to do it, because if you haven't got studies, you need a lot of money, about 100 millon euros. So if I don't win the lottery I can't go to the moon. The only solution that I have to do to go to the moon is become an spacewoman, but the way to become that is very difficult, there are a lot of very difficult subjects in the university, like auronautincal engineering, advanced chemistry or other. Also the college career is very long, to get it you have to studie 5 years, and be be prepared physically.
But althought I think that I can do it because I'm very perseverant, patient, and I get what I propose.

BUCKET LIST

• Visit New York at Christmas day

• Swing from a rope into a lake/pool/sea

• Go to a big musical festival

• Have a spa day

• Go to a haunted house and stay one night in there.

• Graduate from the university

• Have 2 children

• Go to Honduras or Australia

• Explore the underground cenotes in Mexico

• See an active volcano

• Visit the 7 continents

• Visit places where famous movies have been recorded

• Ride a camel or an elephan

• Visit the dead sea

• Go to a floating lantern festival

• Go to the moon