IMPORTANT THINGS

I agree that nowadays the media pay too much attention to the personal life of famous people. Every time you watch TV, or you read a newspaper o a magazine, or you listen to the radio, you can see everything that this public figures and celebrities have done in their holiday, in their wedding, in short, in their personal lives.

There are some people that like reading these things and they enjoy knowing everything that happens around their lives. In my opinion the media should give less attention to the famous people and give more attention to the big problems in our world, like the environment or the people that haven’t got a job or people that haven’t got anything to eat. These are the important things, and the things that the media should give attention.

In my view, people should worry about their problems and personal lives and forget to pay attention to famous people.

Famous people aren't so important

 

     Nowadays the media pay too much attention to famous' and celebrities' lives, as every day magazines and televisions talk about celebrities and all the've been doing. 

      Firstly I think it is wrong, just because they are famous they should be able to have a normal life without anyone observing all their movements . However, we can also find celebrities that like to be observed, but I can't understand it as it must be really frustrating to have someone behind you all day. In my view I think they give too much importance and as a consequence then people want to become famous in order to be in magazines or television.

     In conclusion, people should realize that celebrities or famous people are just normal people and magazines or televisions shouldn't give so much attention to them.

Alex Vidal Hiscock 2Batx.B

IDEAS FOR THE EDUCATION (Marcial Moya)

IDEAS FOR THE EDUCATION (Marcial Moya)

Should students evaluate their teachers? Should the teachers be paid depending on the mark they get? Well, in my opinión, evaluating teachers is a positive thing but paying them with this method is not fear.

Firstly, evaluating teachers is a good way to improve the relationship between students and teachers. They could know better each other an this may improve the performance of the pupil. As the students keep getting on well with teachers , the lessons won’t be so boring and they’ll pay more attention. Teachers will feel more energetic and useful.

Secondly, paying them in this way is an awful idea, because students are never going to like teachers results and they will give bad qualifications. Teachers would be really angry!!

To sum up, teachers’ evaluation is good idea but the payment sistem is a bad one. Other thing that could help is paying the students for their marks. I’m sure that giving money will motivate students to learn more and more and they’ll be really happy and their parents will be really proud of them.

Should we be greener?

Nowadays lots of people are concerned about the planet, but there are also the ones who think that our planet has no problems with us and we don't have to be greener.

In my opinion, we all should be greener. The arguments of the ones who think our planet has no problems are that it doesn't matter if animals become extinct, jungles disapear or if the little islands disapear, but in my opinion, if animals become extinct, the ones which eat them become extinct too and eventually us.
We are our planet, if it runs out on fossil fuels and natural resources, what will we do? If we don't have land for agriculture, what will we eat? If the water is poisoned, what will we drink? We have to be greener, but for a selfish feeling.

In conclusion, we need our planet and if don't become greener, we won't have it in the future.

Nowadays, there's a lot of controversy about what governments have to spend money on. In my opinion, governments should spend more money on technology.

Firstly, I think that technology is our best chance to improve our lives or even "evolve", not from a biological point of view but from a social one. Secondly, since the Industrial Revolution, technology has been our friend and without it we wouldn't be what we are now. Lastly, if countries develop new technologies, other countries will buy them, and you can get more income than what you have spent.

Some people will say that this money will be better spent on basic needs, such as food, but technology is not only Tvs and PCs, it can be also useful in our dayly life, for example technology improved our agriculture centuries ago, making our life easier and providing us with more food.

In conclusion, I think that technology is the solution to many of our problems and that money is well spent on it.

Is the Earth damaged by human activity?

Nowadays, there are a lot of human activity in the Earth. Some people think that it is bad for the Earth, but other people think that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live in.
On the one hand, human activity is a good thing because it makes possible to live in the Earth having a good conditions. I think that without all the buildings, roads, bridges, etc. we won't be able to have the same live conditions.
On the other hand, the excess of human activity damages the Earth because that activity produces pollution, residues and a lot of things that are bad for the planet.
To sum up, human activity can have good effects on our daily life but it can also have negatives effects with time.

Should we all try to be greener?

The Earth is being damaged by human activity. As a result, the weather is changing, some species are in danger of extinction, and habitats are being destroyed. So, why don't we try to be greener?

First of all, if we recycle, for example, we throw away less things, and these things are used to make other things, like recycled paper. Consequently, we use less resources, which can be renovated.

Secondly, if we use renewable energy, like wind power, we don't emit poisonous gases, which are the reason for the hole in the ozone layer and global warming.

Finally, if we reduce our waste, we don't produce as much pollution as we produce without this waste reduction.

The Earth is the place where we live, and it is our responsability to protect it for the future generations. In my opinion, if all humans try to be greener, we can do it.

Is the media paying too much atention to famous people?(FINAL VERSION)

Nowadays, people are more interested in the personal lives of famous celebrities than in real problems like the economy or the Greenhouse effect. In my opinion, this lifestyle will bring us terrible problems.

Firtly, I think that our society is being controled by these famous people, who are getting rich while we are getting poor. However, we love sitting in front of the TV and watching them telling us about their lives.
As a result, people aren't concerned about the real problems, the problems that make them suffer every day because they are addicted to other lives problems.

In my view, people should pay less attention to the personal lives of famous celebrities and worry about their personal lives. But I don't think that this situation will change because it produces a lot of money.

Narrative

It’s 2012 and I haven’t seen my friend Pablo since 2005, he went to England because his parents had work there and he was just 12 years old so he had to go with them . When he left Spain I was so sad but I  hope’d that he would return the next year with gifts for all our friends and especially for me, I was Young and innocent.

The years passed and he never came back so I started to forget him more year after year, until this year when I forgot him completely at the start of the year. But, last month I met my old friend John who went with Pablo and me to the school and he told me that he had been living in England the last 2 years and he met Pablo at a disco the last year and he gave him a thing for me, it was my old football ball which I gave to him the last day we spent together before he went to England. At that moment, I felt so bad because he remembered me and I forget him completely.  After this I went to my house and I tried to find him on facebook and I added him and we talked about 5 hours , at this moment we promised to never forget eachother and to meet someday at our old school to remember the old times we spent together.

After this I realised that I haven’t seen him for ages but I know he will be always my friend.

The earth is being damaged by human activity. The humans beings have over the years contunually destroyed our habitat.


In my view we could reduce the massive construccion, because some species are endangered and we have destroyed his natural habitat. Moreover we must cut down the deforestation, as that produces streams and the soil erosion. As a result of the deforestation, temperature of the earth will increase. Besides of the melting ice caps,  also the animals and plants who lives  there may die. Wheras the level of oceans will rise and soon will have more water than earth.
To save our planet we have to recycling to avoid thousands of mountains of garbages. We have to put all container on his correct place.

To sum up we have to aware to assess all our effects on our planet, if we don't want to dissapear our planet.


                                                                                                                     Carolina Melia           2n C

LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS DON'T WORK

I still think in Marta, my best friend. She was happy, funny and she was able to cheer up someone that was sad. But everything changed when she fell in love with a friend, whose name is Eric. So they began a relationship. 

Months later, Eric moved to Barcelona. Even thought she lives in Granada, they continued their relationship. However, Marta fell into a deep depression: She never left her house, only to go to high school. Also she paid attention to her phone and her old computer to talk to Eric. Even so, Marta wouldn’t admit that she wasn’t the same. At that moment I realized that long-distance relationships don’t work, because it not only affects the couple, but friends in common and individual friends.

Finally, I talked with Marta without good results, because she denied recognizing that only left the memories and photos. So, I went to her house and I closed the computer and with my heart in hand, I told her she wasn’t the same, and she had replaced her smiles with small tears. At that moment, she saw it clearly and she stopped the distance relationship. But she needed some time. 

House swapping (Corrected)

First of all, I believe that house swapping has more advantatges than disadvantatges. One of these is that you can travel to a lot of cities or countries and you have a holiday house. In addition you don't pay for this house, because during your stay in the holiday house, your house is lived in by other people.

Also it is interesting to live in another house, flat or other building, in a new city, with other customs and to visit a lot of places, thinking that afterwards you can return to your swapped house. I think that in the swapped house, you must feel more comfortable than in  a hotel.

On the other hand, If in your house there are people that you don't know, you can be worried about whether these people can "ruin" your house. Another disadvantage that I think of is that the fisrt days that you stay in a swapped house you must feel strange, like an intrusive.

I never swap my house, but I would like to exchange my house with another family for some/ during the summer or holidays. I think that it could be a good experience.

Paula Cardona, 2n batx A 

What are the main advantages and disadvantages of house swapping?

In my opinion, house swapping is a good way of travelling without spending too much money on hotels, but it can also have consequences in your holidays and even in your daily life.

First of all, you have to be very careful with the people you are doing the swap with. You won’t always find rich people with big mansions who want to do a house exchange during a few days. Normally, people who look for this kind of travelling are those who cannot afford paying a hotel or people who don’t appreciate much their house, so you don’t know how they will treat yours.

I’m not saying that you have to distrust everyone, but you should think that you are inviting unknown people to your house while you are not there, so they will be able to do everything they want there.

Furthermore, images on the internet can deceive you because you might think that you are going to a normal house and then you find something completely different which dislikes you.

In conclusion, this house swapping can be a good way to travel cheaply, but you have to be careful because you never know where you are going or who is going to your house.

What are your views on tattoos?

In my opinion, people have to be very sure of what they are doing when they get a tattoo, especially when they do it in a place which is usually seen by others, such as the arms and even the legs.

Firstly, we have to be very sure of what you are tattooing because something that really likes you now, may not like you in twenty years. That’s why you should be mature enough to decide to get a tattoo because this thing will be with you the rest of your life, so it will become a part of yourself.

In addition, people usually judge others by their physical appearance, including tattoos. Depending on the thing that you want to tattoo, you can show an ideology which people wouldn’t know of you without seeing the tattoo. That's why it is recommendable not to tattoo some sort of images which can be related to a political opinion or something like that.

To sum up, you must be very careful with what you are tattooing, especially if you do it in a visible part your body because other people could make a wrong opinion of you, which can have consequences both in your personal and professional life.

Unexpected Reencounter

Last summer, I travelled to Mallorca to see my family where I have many friends, because I have been to Mallorca every year since I was born. Normally, I go there at Christmas, but last year my parents decided to go in summer.

When I arrived, I met my friend. We decided to do something, but we didn't know what to do. That night we went to a park and while we were talking  a group of boys suddenly came towards us. I recognised one of them, his name was Pablo, he was my chilhood sweetheart. I met him in Madrid, before he lived in my village and we were neighbours. I fell love with him and we started going out. The problem was when, that year, he moved to Mallorca, and we broke up. At that moment I realized that long-distance don't work. I had fallen out of touch with him.I didn't know anything about him, I thought that we had never met before. Despite the distance, I was love with him. I went to greet him and he gave me two kisses. We remembered all those moments. Since that day, we met every day.

Finally we went out again. That situation was different, before we were kids. Now we had clear ideas, we had grown and matured. Two years later he returned to Madrid and our relationship continued.