Port Aventura

Hi! Today I'm going to talk about Port Aventura.

Port Aventura is a park where situated between Vilaseca and Salou.

I speak about this park because I think that is a place where you must to go at least one time.

The park is big and it is divided with five parts: "Xina, Polynesia, Mexic, Mediterrània and far-west". In each part there are many attractions. Also, there are many restaurants and shops.

Also do some shows in the morning and in the afternoon, in differents hours.

My favourite attraction is Furius Baco, the new attraction, and Tutuki Splash that is a attraction of water, and if you want you can dress with a "xuvasquero". And my favourite show (althought that I haven't seen all the shows) is one about animals.

But, when you want to get into one attraction, usually you must waiting ten minutes, or half an hour, or maybe if there are much people, one hour.

There is a small park next to Port Aventura. Only there are attractions of water. (you can go there only when it's warm). I've never been there.

I think that Port Aventura is for all the ages, but when you are more than five years approximatly.

I've been there seven or eight times, because especially my brother and I, we like so much.

And one or two times, I think that we had bad weather, and it's a disaster when it rain there.

Here I put one photo of one attraction, Tutuki Splash.

"Sonrisas y lagrimas"

Today I’m going to do a critic of the film: "sonrisas y lágrimas".

Is a movie that was released since much years ago.

The main characters of the film are Maria, captain Von Trapp, and the seven childrens.

The film is about one family that they are seven childrens and their parent, but their mother was died. The father, captain Von Trapp, to contract Maria, who look after their childrens. Passed the days and Maria does funny things for the childrens like go to the river by boat, and she return the music in the house. Later Maria realizes that captain Von Trapp loves her, and she left the house for goes with the nuns, her place before goes to that house. But the childrens want to Maria, and they go to search. Finally Maria and the captain Von Trapp marry, However, the Nazis had seized power in Austria, so that the family should flee.

I like this film because the gender is musical, and I like so much when in the films singing and dancing.

I recomend this film, I think that is for all the ages.

I have seen "Sonrisas y lágrimas" three or four times, because is a perfect film, and I like so much.

Formal letter

Onze de Setembre, 62

17470 - Sant Pere Pescador

C/ Rentador, 6

17486 - Castelló d’empúries

Dear Lluïsa Pintó,

My name is Anna Vilà, and I am a student of 1st Bachillerat B. I’m writing to tell you what I think about the new school calendar.

On the one hand I agree that the next year we have to go back in the school one week ago, and we will have a week of holidays on February. For example my parents can not do holidays in summer and this week my family and I we can travel together.

But I do not agree with we have to go back in the school on 7 of Jenuary,because is the last day of the week and is the day before kings. This year, it was a disaster day, because the school transport did not pass for bring the children in the school, the heating did not work, and missing much students.

I would like you answer this letter with your opinion.

Yours sincerely,

Anna Vilà.

CARNIVAL'10

I will speak about the Carnival. Every year in February we celebrate the Carnival. This year, on 13 of February we went to Sant Pere Pescador, and the last Saturday in Castelló. Three weeks before the Carnival, my friends and I, did a coach. We dressed as "zorro" and I liked this costume. It was a black suit with a belt, a cape, a hat, amask and one sword. In my town was funny and good.

In Sant Pere, at five o'clock we did the "passada" inside the town with the coach, and we had got two cd's for hear music. But the loudspeakers were small and didn't hear very well. Later, for had dinner we went to Adelaida's house and we ate pizzes. And at eleven we did another time the "passada", and when finished we went to dance until half past five. The music was good, and the environment too.

In Castello was similar, but we didn't do the "passada". This time, we had diner in Bea's house, and later we went to see the coaches, and then we went to the new pavillon for dance. But first the music I didn't like me, but later changed the group and I liked. At half past four we left in Bea's house for sleeping.

Every year I celebrate the Carnival, because I think that is a fantastic day. But this year was cold, and the costume didn't to wrap up.

Self evaluation

When I was doing my oral presentation:

I spoke about New Zealand. We used a powerpoint. Approximately my part of the presentation during 5 minuts. I looked my companions and my teacher, but sometimes I looked my paper, because I brought the text that I said. Sometimes I moved my hands during the presentation. When we were preparing the text that we have to said, we tried to use differents discourse markers like first or then. We organized all the information in parts like culture, food, festivals, geography... I think that we told a new information for the companions, maybe something they have known. We found the information in the Internet, in different pages. My grammar it was good,and it's more easy because the text I didn't have alone, but not perfect, because we had some mistakes. The vocabulary was a little rich and varied. I used some sentence linkers like and, but, also.. but I used a little bit pause fillers. I found some words in a dictionary. I think that I used a monotone tone all the time. The text wasn't difficult, but I was nervous and I forgot some words. I think that the first oral presentation was better. I believe that I got a mark of six.

My oral presentation

1. Music:

I begin with the music...the style of music in this country is not so different from our style. They hear hip-hop and rock. By the twenty-first century, reggae, dub and electronica were all popular with local artists.

Māori music is music composed or performed by Maori , the native people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music styles, often integrated with poetry and dance, as well as modern rock and roll, soul, reggae and hip hop.

2. Traditions

Middle-winter swim: People swim in the middle of winter, often dressed in silly costumes.

3. Festivals

Auckland Festival: is a festival of theatre, dance, concerts, cabaret, exhibitions, family events and more, where the national and international artists and companies show their performances.

4. Food and drinks

Pavlova: It is a popular dessert in New Zealand. It consists of a sweet cake that is baked and topped with an assortment of fresh fruit and berries.

Kumara: Also known as sweet potatoes, kumaras may be boiled, roasted or fried. Inside the potatoes can be lamb or pork.

5. Geography

The geography of New Zealand involve two islands (the North and South Islands) and a number of smaller islands, located near the centre of the water hemisphere. New Zealand varies in climate, from cold and wet to dry and to subtropical in some areas. The dramatic and varied landscape of New Zealand has made it a popular location for the production of television programmes and films, including the Lord of the rings..

January and February are the warmest months, July the coldest. New Zealand does not have a large temperature range but the weather can change rapidly and unexpectedly.

11. Things to visit

North of the island

The Coromandel: the Coromandel is about 2 hours drive from Auckland and is a very popular holiday destination for Aucklanders.The peninsula has many beaches, picnic areas and camping places and gets very busy during the holiday season.

Piha Beach: Piha Beach is situated on the West Coast of the North Island, 28 kilometers west of Auckland. The beach is famous for great surfing and regularly holds national and international surfing championships.

The beach is a black volcanic sand beach. The visitors who travelled to New Zealand have to see this beach.

Wellington: It is the capital of New Zealand and it is very important to visit because there you can see a lot of beautiful things and it is a very nice city. It is situated in the south of the north island and there live aproximatley 400.000 people.

News

Earthquake of Haiti.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake would have had a magnitude of 7.0 degrees and would have generated at a depth of 10 km.
NOAA dismissed the danger of a tsunami in the area. This earthquake was the strongest recorded in the area since the events in 1770. The quake was felt in nearby countries such as Cuba, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, where it caused fear and precautionary evacuations.The effects caused on the poorest country in Latin America have been devastating. The bodies recovered on 25 January exceeded 150,000, calculated that the death toll could reach 200,000. It would also have produced more than 250,000 wounded and left a million homeless people. It is considered one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in history.

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*That notice is about the earthquake in Haití on 12 Jenuary of 2010. It was a big catastrophe because died much people, but above all childrens. Haiti is a country that it’s very poor, and they haven’t got device for detect earthquake. Now the houses, the road, the buidings.. are destroyed.
*Don’t affects me because the earthquake happened in the other country, but I feel bad for the people who live there. Now many families from others countries want to addopt childrens of Haití, and I agree with that.

Sant Pere Pescador

I am going to speak about Sant Pere Pescador where I have live since 1993.


Sant Pere Pescador is a small town that is next Castelló d’Empúries, Armentera, Vilamaculum and Torroella.

In the center of the town there are a square where there are two restaurants, one shop, and houses.
There are a town hall and one church.
Since last week, there is a new pavillon. Is big. Inside there are one track of basquet and one track of football, and there are chairs for when you go there for see one match. Also there are one toilet, and three rooms.

There are two football fields, one for the children and the other for the adolescents and adults.
There are one school until “primària”. After, for do the “ESO” and “bachiller” we must go to Castelló d’Empúries.

Also, in the town there are shops, bars, restaurants, and a supermarket since three years ago.
Also we have got a river, “el Fluvià”, a big beach, and some campings like “la ballena alegre”, “el camping el rio”, “l’ amfora”…



I like my town but not much.
I like because when I meet with my friends, they are near of my home, and when I go to buy something for eat I have the shops near my house. And in summer we can go to the beach by foot, or by bike. And if you want to make sport you can catch the bicycle and go to some place, because in Winter, Spring and Autumn there aren’t any transit. And in summer come here much tourists, and there are much people and it’s better.

But I don’t like because there aren’t any things for do. For example when I go to buy clothes I must go to Figueres because in my town there aren’t any shop for clothes for me, there are one shop for adults and one for children. The other inconvenient is that there is only one or two bus for day for go to Castelló d’Empúries or Figueres or other place.


I would like to live in a town bigger than Sant Pere Pescador.
But is beautiful and quiet town.

Nala

I’m going to speak about my dog, that she is a Golden Retriever.

Her name is Nala. She is one year and eight months.
We went to search in Begur when she was two months.
She was very small and beautiful. Everynight for three or four days, she cry because she was in a new place, and I went with she until she fall asleep.
Before, she was in my house, because in the last week of August and the two first weeks of Setember, my father had got holidays, and we stayed in home everyday, but after when we began the school the dog is in my grandmother’s house, where my mother works, and everyday we have lunch there, and we see Nala.

She has got a brown eyes, she has got a small noise and a big mouth.
She is playful and quiet, but when she see my brother or me, she jumps and put happy. Everyday, we bring Nala in a field for take a walk because she can run.

Is a fantastic dog, and I love her so much.

My Christmas holidays

In the last holidays, I did much things.

During four days I went to Barcelona for be with my family in the Christmas day. Every year, for these holidays I go to there.
The next day, 26 of December, my brother, my cousins, my aunt, my uncle and me, we went to the cinema for saw 2012. I liked very much this film.
Sunday I go back to home.


Thursday I went to Granada, Purullena, with my friends and their’s parents, for passed the New Year’s Eve in there. I’ve never been in Purullena. Is a beautiful town and I liked so much. It was my first time that I didn’t pass the New Year’s Eve in my town.

Purullena was different. We sleept in a caves where there were four beds, an small kitchen, one sofa and one television. One day it was rain, and the others days it was very cold.

The best day was the New Year’s Eve, because we went to a disco and after we ate hot chocolate with biscuits, and we went to sleep at half past six.
Also in these holidays, it was my first time that I travelled with a plane.


In conclusion the last holidays were fantastic.