A FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY LOWERING THE AGE PEOPLE CAN GET A DRIVING LICENSE

It’s a question that comes from a lot of years: When people can get their driving license? Many students want to get it when they are sixteen or seventeen and they can’t because of the actual law that has put the minimum age on 18.
On one hand taking the driving license earlier, at 16 will be better for a lot of students that now need to be driven by their parents to the places: school, gym,… They won’t need people to carry them and they will be preparated to go everywhere alone.
But on the other hand changing the law will cause a lot of other problems. The traffic on the cities will increase a lot, and related to this also the pollution will increase in cities. People younger than 18 aren’t preparated enough to can drive freely in highways or in the cities and the number of accidents will also be bigger.
In conclusion I think that the age of 18 to can start driving it’s the correct time when you can start driving because I think that if we reduced this minimum age the problems would be bigger than the good things.

DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE-BERGA

Berga is a little city situated in the central part of Catalonia, in the North-East of Spain. It has got a population of 16.000 people approximately. It’s situated between the “Depressió Central” and the “Pre-Pirineus”. It’s a beautiful city rounded by mountains in one site and plane in the other. In it you can’t find a lot of very tall buildings, but the big part of the population live in flats. There are two parts of Berga where almost all the buildings are unfamiliar houses, The Pedregals and La Valldan.
The most popular thing of Berga is its festivity La Patum. La Patum is a festival where fire, dance, religion, tradition and a lot of music are mixed. The most popular place of Berga is the St.Pere square where Patum takes place. The “Carrer Major” is the principal street of Berga where we can find a lot of shops and bars. In the “Passeig de la Indústria” you can go for a walk or do sport. The most beautiful church in Berga is Sta. Maria de Queralt, it isn’t situated inside the city, it’s in the top of a mountain in front of Berga. I think Berga is a very beautiful place to live and it’s not very big but you can find all the services and comforts that you need.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

BARÇA DEFEATS ARSENAL IN A FASCINATING MATCH(2-3)

F.C Barcelona defeated Arsenal FC yesterday, 16th of February of 2011 in the Emirates Stadium in London. This was the first match of two in the eight-final round in the Champions league. In the first half Arsenal played better than the Spanish team and their scorer Robbie Van Persie played almost perfect and scored the two goals of the British team but in the last minute of the first half Lionel Messi putted Barcelona in the match again. Then, in the second half Barça with Xavi, Iniesta and Messi took the control of the game and Barça won the match with two goals of David Villa. In the end of the match the coach of Arsenal, Arsene Wenger was very angry and disappointed with this result and also with the decision of the referee to eject out of the game the goalkeeper of the “Gunners”, a decision for him that changed completely the match and helped the victory of Barça. The match of the Camp Nou would be probbably one of the most interesting matches of this season in the European football and if Barça could arrive to the quarterfinals it would be one of the teams with more options to win the tittle.

ACROSTIC POEM

Sport, I love all the sports
Persistence is important
On the school or with friends
Resistance to a big effort
Training all the days
Succeed to the win

WRITING- A FILM REVIEW

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

If you really believe in luck and you want to match a wonderful store and the landscapes of India you should watch Slumdog Millionaire.

The film is about an Indian, Jamal Malik who takes part in a TV programme called “Who wants to be a millionaire”. Jamal isn’t an intelligent man. He had a difficult childhood and he and his brother had a lot of problems to survive in this giant country. Jamal has the luck that all the questions of the quiz are related to things that have happened to him in his life. Finally, he gets the large quantity of money and his girlfriend can escape from a mafia where Jamal’s brother worked, and he sacrifices his life to save him,

Slumdog Millionaire has got a great plot, and a wonderful story that shows the poor situation of millions of people in India. I like it a lot and I recommend everyone to watch this film.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION

THE SNOWSLIDE

It was in winter and the ski station was full of people skiing and snowboarding in the ski station. There were people who went with his family or people that was skiing for the first time. Suddenly, I saw something very spectacular and horrifying. It all started when four skiers were skiing out of the tracks of the station with a lot of new snow. Then they provoked a snowslide that pulled them into the snow. There was no trace of where they can be. I went quickly to ask for help to the rescue people with the snow motorbike. They went to the place of the accident quickly and they also call one helicopter to help them. With the help of some dogs they could rescue three of the four persons and carried them to the hospital but the other skier was died when they founded. I also liked to ski out of the marked tracks but I will never do it more!

INFORMATIVE ESSAY

THE KOALA: AN ENDANGERED ANIMAL

The koala is one of the principal endangered animals in all the world. Nowadays there are only less than 5.000 of koalas left in the wild. The population of the koala has dropped by 80% in a decade. However the people are trying to save this wonderful animal.

Why is the koala endangered? The koala only lives in the eastern area of Australia. Their habitat is being destroyed. Besides having no living place, it has lost its source of food. The koala only eats eucalyptus leaves, and not from all the types of eucalyptus, and it has a limited supply of food choice. An other reason is that the koalas have got a very soft fur that is very valued.

What can we do to save the koalas? Australian foundations called “Save the koala” an other Organisations are working with the Australian government to save this animal. They are trying to protect the eucalyptus forests of this region and they have banned their hunting.

To sum up, the Australian government and this foundations will have to work a lot if they want to save the koala that is one of the most wonderful animals in the whole world.

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FINAL REFLECTION

• I am Xavi Simon and in this final reflection, I’m going to explain to you the English activities that I’ve done in this course of 3rd of ESO.

• In this year we’ve had to do a lot of work and activities related to the Comenius. Some of these activities were great and I spent a good time doing them. The activity that I liked most was the recipes activity because I really spent a good time cooking our dish that was: “sausages with beans”. It was quite difficult because I’ve never cooked in the past. An activity that I dislike was the personal presentation because I’ve never liked to introduce myself. The other activities weren’t very funny but not very boring.

• I don’t remember a lot of class activities but I remember that we watched a film, that wasn’t very good. It was called “Because I said to” or something similar. I would like to watch another film.

• My oral presentation I think that was really good. I use a lot of resources, I looked at the audience, using markers, organizing my ideas and my pronunciation was quite good. I don’t have to read almost anything. If I were the teacher I would marked myself with an excellent (9) but the real note (8) it’s ok.

• This year, because of the Comenius I’ve had to create a personal blog to put all the activities of the Comenius. I’ve put there all the activities quickly and well-done with a rich vocabulary and a correct grammar.

• In this year, in the English class I’ve learned a lot of new words, new grammar (passives) and my pronunciation have improved a little. I had to better my listening and a little more of vocabulary.

• To sum up, I think that my English has improved a lot in this year because of my classes here and my classes in the private academy. I think that I would have had to work more but I’m happy with the work that I’ve done.

MAGAZINE

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?

I don't remember a lot of things of my childhood therefore, i'm going to relate the most important events that i've lived in the first years of my life.

The most important things that I remember are not a lot but I think that one of the most important things was the change of my old house to a new,bigger house. My brother's first Communion and mine,when I finished my days in the primary school and I had to start my secondary school and the worst event that I had to pass was my mother's accident, where she could have lost an arm.

When I whas a child, I loved to do a lot of things, I remember that I did a lot of things with my parents and my brother, and I played with them a lot of time and I loved doing activities with them. Would you belive it! I like going to school when I was a little child, I really enjoy going to school and doing things with my friend there.

To sum up I think that my childhood years have been really good and I won't never forget many of these stories, but I expect that my adolescense will be as good as it.

MY FAVOURITE SONG

I have chosen a song of Bob Marley called “Three Little Birds”. I have tried this song as my favourite but I also love other songs of Bob Marley and songs of other groups as Eminem or Drake. Bob Marley is considered the best reggae singer of all the times but he sometimes sang other types of music. His authentic name was Robert Nesta Marley and he was born in February 6, on 1945, in Jamaica and he died on 1981, in Miami. Nowadays Bob, although he is dead he has got a lot of million of fans of all the world and is one of the most famous singers in the world. His best songs are No woman no cry, Three little birds, One love, Jamming, I shot the sheriff, Stir it up, Redemption song, Iron Lion Zion, Lively up yourself and Waiting in vain, Buffalo Soldier and Red, red wine.

I like very much this song because it’s very calm and when I hear it I feel very relaxed and it’s good to listen it when you are very worried or nervous, and when you listen it you feel better. I like the general message of the song because I think the same as the author, we don’t have to worry about the things, if bad things are going to pass you don’t have to worry and live the life. For say something, I will say that the negative aspect of this song is that in the end is a little repetitive but the song is really good.

This song hasn’t got a good videoclip because it is very old and when Bob wrote the song, the videoclips weren’t popular. It has got a videoclip but it isn’t very good, it’s very simple and it’s not very popular. There are other videoclips but they aren’t singed by Bob. In the videoclip appears a woman and then with a TV, she watches different happy things and in the videoclip also appear draws of the elements that the song talk about.

To sum up, I recommend you to listen this song and the other songs of Bob Marley. They won’t disappoint you.

What will be my life like in 20 years?

- In 20 years I’ll be 1’90 meters height and 70 kilograms weight. I’ll have large, straight and brown hair and a little beard. I’ll be very friendly and very gentle with the people in general but more with my friends.

- I’ll live in a big house in Berga however I’ll have two more, one in New York and another in Barcelona. I’ll be married with a Catalan woman and I will have two children, a son and a daughter. Our relation will be very good but I won’t see them a lot because my job.

- I’ll have my own company of business and I’ll do business around the world. I’ll win a lot of money and life very good. I won’t have to worry about my future.

- I’ll like very much to ski and practise other sports like motorbike, football, surf and I’ll also like to go out with friends or go to concerts,…. I won’t usually smoke but sometimes I will smoke, in special days.

RECIPE VIDEO

RECIPE

SAUSAGES WITH BEANS
BOTIFARRA AMB MONGETES
MORCILLA CON JUDÍAS

COOK TIME: 30 minutes

LEVEL:Easy

INGREDIENTS:

-2 sausages
-250g of beans
-Olive oil
-A garlic
-A little of parsley

METHOD:

1- First put olive oil in a frying pan and put a garlic on it.
2- When the oil is hot take off the garlic and put the beans in the frying pan.
3- Then, while the beans are frying put olive oil in anoter frying pan to hot it.
4- After that, when it is hot put the sausages on it.
5- When the sausages and the beans are fried you can take off them.
6- Now, you can serve it and you can decorate adding parsley on the beans.

Christmas

SHORT STORY

It was a dark and stormy night when my friends and I were camping on the mountain. There were a lot of lightings and we were very frightened. We stayed in the tents and we explained horror stories and when the storm stopped we went to play to the forest. One of us was hidden and we had to find him. I was looking for him and I fell in a ravine and I was very far of my friends. When I started to walk I noticed that I had broken my leg. I started to cry and when I thought that my friends wouldn’t find me I listened some voices and finally my friends found me and my parents came to take me to the hospital. I passed a very bad time.

About my life

Composition

- I am Xavi Simon and I live in a house in the city of Berga, Catalonia with my parents and my big brother. I am 14 years old and I’m medium height and I have brown straight hair. I study 3rd of ESO in the secondary school “Guillem de Berguedà”.

- During the week I have a lot of other activities apart from the classes in the secondary school. On Mondays afternoons when I finished the classes I have electric guitar classes in the music school of Berga. On Tuesdays evenings I go to the “group of clarinets” and on Wednesdays afternoons I train with the basketball team of the city. On Thursdays and on Fridays I don’t have classes in the afternoons and I can do more activities, as clarinet classes and general music classes on Thursdays and English classes and Basketball training on Fridays. On Saturday mornings I play the clarinet in the band of the school and after that I play the basketball matches.

- A part from the activities that I talked above, I like doing a lot of other things as going out with my friends, riding my bicycle, going to the cinema, skiing in winter, playing computer games and a lot of other things but the think that I like more with difference is the “Patum” the big festivity of Berga and for me one of the bests of the world and I also have some dislikes but not any special one.