7.- Unit 8: Happy Ending

This last year, things weren't going to well for me. I'd arrived to Australia and the airport staff had also lost my packs. I was so upset and scared at the same time. Then I got to my new residence in the University and my room partner was really rude and the room looked grouse so I spent a lot of time trying to change from my room.

Everything changed for me the day I saw a beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes. From that moment my world had changed, she was perfect. Then I started meeting her on the University cafeteria until the day of my life arrived. She asked me to be her boyfriend.

These months, I feel much happier. Being with her by my side had made me see that sometimes you are happier if you are positive. If I hadn't moved to Australia, I'd never met the woman of my life.

Pharrell Williams

You probably know Pharrell Williams thanks to the film Despicable Me 2. He wrote the music for the film and some of the songs were big hits.l In fact, Pharrell has been famous in the music industry for many years, even if he has only had one solo album, In My Mind (2006). Since then, he has written music for Madonna, Britney Spears, Shakira, Beyoncé, Daft Punk and more. now his second album in coming out. With the hit single "Happy" it's sure to be success!

Cool Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was born to a poor family in London 125 Years ago, but he became a cinema icon. His character the Tramp is the most famous hero of the silent film era. The Tramp retired after the silent film Modern Times, in 1936. Watch it today - it's still very funny and very modern!

The Boat Race

Every year, members of England's top universities, Oxford and Cambridge, participate in this famous boat race on the River Thames. And 2014 is a special year: it's the 160th Boat Race. The tradition started in 1829: it's one of the oldest sporting events in the world.

6.- Writing unit 7

Writing unit 7: Write an opinion essay

The government plans to introduce a new law which will introduce school on Saturday mornings in order to improve the level of education. In my point of view, this would have some negative consequences.

In the first place, I believe that the weekends are for a reson: to relax. If the children and the teenagers have to go to school on Saturdays morning it’s possible that some of them don’t have time to do other things like, sports, or do our homeworks. So if this law is introduced, i’ve no doubt that a lot of them will have more difficulty to pass the exams and practise sports or haveing a relax moment ot the weekends. I also think that this would discriminate agianst the students that they’re getting good marks.

If the aim of the government is to lower the number of the students that don’t pass the exams, it seems to me that there is a better alternative: if they spend more money on more schools and teachers in the country would get better results.

2.- HONDA:

I have chosen the company Honda because I am interested in motorbikes and I have got a Honda motorbike.

Honda Motor Company is a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.

Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 and it produces more than 14 million engines each year.

Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda, was born on 1906 and died on 1991 and he was a mechanic. He tuned cars and entered them in races.

The first production automobile from Honda was the T360 and on 1991 they introduced the Honda NSX, a new supercar, the first all-aluminum vehicle that incorporated a mid-engine V6.

Honda is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan and has been since it started production in 1955.

During the 60s, when it was a small manufacturer, Honda broke out of the Japanese motorcycle market and began exporting to the U.S.

One of the best motorcycles of Honda is the Honda SH 125 but there are a lot of different models, for example the SH 150, or the SH 300.

Honda started competing with motorcycle races in 1982, when Honda Racing Corporation was formed. The first victory of this team was on 1961, when Mike Hailwood won his first Grand Prix in the 125 and 250 cc classes.

In 1979, Honda returned to Grand Prix motorcycle racing with the motorcycle NR500 and on 1983 Honda won their first 500cc Grand Prix World Championship with Freddie Spencer. After that Honda was the dominant marque in motorcycle Grand Prix racing winning all the prices with riders like Mick Doohman and Valentino Rossi.

The last Grand Prix of Honda was won last year for Marc Marquez, who wins the 125 and 250cc too, and his partner, Dani Pedrosa ended second.

In conclusion Honda is a very successful company which is famous world wide.

My opinion about my clasmates:

Jordi: ford

it's interesting and the duration it's fine.

Júlia: Converse

She can improve her pronuntation and, in my opinion, it's quite sort.

Laia R: Mini cooper

In my opinion it's quite short. the pronuntation it's very good.

Elena M. Jack Wills

The pronuntation it's very good, and easy to understand, but in some moments it's quite fast.

Enric: Adidas

It's quite short but the information it's correct.

Blanca: Chanel

The presentation was quite fast and dificult to understand all the information.

Mireia N: victoria's Secret

It's very interesting and easy to understand.

Marta O: Swarovski

It's quite long but the information it's good.

Pau: Barça (FCB)

Very interesting.

Núria: Ugg's

The story it's interesting but quite short.

Esther: Converse:

Quite short and she wasn't looking at the front.

Marta T: Converse

Quite fast but the infomration it's correct.

Mònica: Vans

Quite long but so interesting and the pronuntation it's very good.

Pol: converse

Very interesting but quite short.

Mireia: Abercrombie and Fitch

The pronuntation i'ts quite good but not perfect.

9.- My trip to Italy

Hi my name is Bernat and today I’m going to talk about Italy.

The first day we caught a bus and we went to the airport of Girona. There we took off at 6 a.m. We landed in the Galileo Galilei airport, in Pisa. There we visited the tower the cathedral and the baptistery. Some boys climbed up the tower, it was fantastic because it was so different than other towers and the viewers were fantastic too. The tower was the favourite for me. After that we had lunch in a small restaurant and we caught a bus. Finally we went to Florence.

On the second day we visited Florence. In the morning we visited the Art Gallery of the Ofizzi and the Academia In the afternoon we visited the Duomo We also bought some pasta and typical things on the shops. Again some people climbed up the Duomo, but this time I was tired and I didn’t climb the 465 steps of the Duomo.

On the third day we took a train to Rome. The train was excellent because it was so confortable and we could recharge our Mobil phones too. When we arrive in Rome we took a bus and we went to see the famous building called Santa Maria of Aracoeli. We visited the Pantheon of Rome too, but the most impressingwas when we climbed up one of the little mountains and we could see all Rome.

On the fourth day we took a bus again and we travelled for it more than 30 min, it was so hot and horrible because there were a lot of people. After that we arrived on the Vatican’s city, there we visited the museum of the Vatican the Saint Peter Square and the Sistine Chapel. That was enormous and very colourful. After that we had lunch in a small and old restaurant and after that we went to relax on the Saint Peter Square. At night we visited the Fountain of Trevi.

On the last day we visited the Coliseum and in the afternoon we caught the plane and we landed in Barcelona then we caught a bus. We arrive at 1 a.m at school. We were exhausted but this trip was fantastic because we had nice moments together and a lot of things that were fun too.

5.- Unit 6

UNIT 6: Spending my time…

My name is Bernat Díaz Sala and I’m student in Casa Nostra School in Banyoles. I’m interested in music and tennis. Some of my friends are into tennis too. The people who I spend most time with are my class mates, for example Pau, Gerard, Jordi, etc, but I spend time with other friends that they are in another school. The thing which I like best is going to a party all together.

I don’t think that the world is a bad place, although I think we could improve it if we shared things more with each other. There aren’t many things that make me angry, for example the people who throw the rubbish outside of the bin, but one thing that annoys me is when people are rude and ignorant.

As far as the future is concerned, it sometimes worries me that we won’t have peace, everybody is killing for food or for the things that the “rich people” wants to buy. I find it a bit frightening that there’s always a war somewhere in the world for stupid things, sometimes. I’m fairly optimistic about my own future though. In a few years time, I see myself travelling around the world with my music band, me the guitarist, or, working on a big multinational making some virtual games.

4.- WRITING UNIT 5

THE STORY OF CONVERSE

On 1908 The converse company opend. converse got their name because it is the surname of the person who started converse company, Marquis Converse. That kind of shoes weren't good for sports, but few years later they started with the Converse All Star, a new shoes for basketball. those shoes became famous for the basketball players. Later, they became the official NBA shoe. alse popular with artists, musicians and a lot of kind of people more.
recently they weren't popular. the company sold to Nike on 2003 and now they are popular again. 950 million pari were sold by 2008, that's a lot! That kind of shoes are always good with jeans and you can wear it always, for that reason nwa they are popular again.

3.- Writing unit 4:

Hi, Pepa

I’m just writing to check that everything’s OK for your visit.

I think you’ll like Barcelona. On Saturday morning we’re doing a bus tour with my parents because they really want to show you the city, we’ll be free in the afternoon, and so we’ll probably go shopping or visit the city. It’s up to you. I expect we’ll end up in one of the cafés in the shopping center, one of the best in the city.

On Sunday, we could get a bus or my car somewhere. There are some typical Catalan villages around here, like Girona, or L’Escala. There isn’t much to do in them, but they’re very pretty places, I’ll get some photos and you can have a look.

We’re going to meet you at the airport tomorrow, so can you remind me what time your plane lands?

Looking forward to seeing you.

Bernat

WRITINT UNIT 2

Hi Joan,

We’ve been on holiday here in the Bahamas for a week now and I’ve just met this girl, Laura. She’s absolutely gorgeous, but I’m not sure how I feel about her. I need your advice.

I met her on the beach and I invited her to go sailing with me. Both of us were having a real laugh and then Laura invited me to a café with his friends. When we were there, she basically ignored me and started flirting with an English boy. But when I said goodbye, she walked to the hotel where that I was staying and neither of us could stop talking. When we arrived next to my hotel, I almost kissed her.

I’ve been thinking about things a lot since then. I’ll probably see her later, but I’m not sure what to do if he asks me out. She seems very different when she’s with friends. What do you reckon?

Bernat

NEWS USA

Ex-players get compensation

The National Football League (NFL) will pay a $765 million settlement to more than 4,500 ex-players. The ex-palyers, said that, when they were players they got many suffering from dementia and health problems and now they're claim money for that. They accused the NFL of hiding the dangers of brain damage while profiting from the sport's violence. It's a modest sum of money for NFL, which mad more than $9 billion last year.

In my opinion, i'm agree with the ex-players because it's a violence sport and the injures can be very serious and that money can serve for pay some docotrs, or treatment that they couldn't pay because it's so expencive. For the other part, for the NFL isn't a lot of money, and it's good to help the ex-players.

Vocabolary:
injures: hurt
sue: to institute legal proceeding against
settlement: compensation

Cat café

Happy news for cat lovers. London is to get its first cat café. Inspired by Tokyo's popular cat cafés, The eEmporium will offer Londoners the chance to play with its residents felines over tea or latté. The café is already has a waiting list of 6,000... and that's before it has any cats!

In my opinion, I think that's a stupit idea because the cafés are for the humans, and I think that the people that they're going to go are quite craze, but, I'm absolutly agree that a lot of people will go and that place it will became quite famos for the "craze" people, or the cats fanatic people.

Planning permission: a building permit
latté: italian style while coffee