GET READY TO LONDON

1. Our hostel in Google Maps:

The regulations of Safestay Holland Park are:
-Free internet access
-Full Scottish breakfast
-Own lockers under every bed
-Food avaiable to purchase
-Laundry

Smoking is not permitted

Near of the hotel, you can visit the Holland Park, the Notting Hill village, the Portobello Road and the Royal Albert hall. Safestay Holland Park is on 1h and 4 minutes on foot from the Picadilly Circus and we can get to the center with the bus on the Bus Stop Holland Park(Stops HA or HL).

2. Look for 3 must-see landmarks in London you definitely would like to visit:

THE BIG BEN: one of the most important buildings of London. It's the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminister. The official name is Elizabeth Tower and it has been completed at 1858 following the design of the architect Augustus Ougin. To arrive to the Big Ben we must take a bus and leave at the Westminister Station and walk to the clock.



THE TOWER BRIDGE: the Tower Bridge crosses the river Thames, It consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by horizontal walkways. It has been built from 1886 to 1894, but at 1977 it was painted red, white and blue for Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. You can get there by a very easy way: very near of the bridge is the London Underground Tower Hill.

THE LONDON EYE: the London Eye(now Coca-Cola London Eye) is a giant Ferris wheel to the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It's 443 feet(135m). It's Europa's tallest Ferris wheel and offers the highest public viewing point in London. It has been completed on march 2000 by the design of Frank Anatole, Nic Bailey, Julia Barfield, Steve Chilton, Malcolm Cook, David Marks and Mark Sparrowhawk. To get to the London Eye by tube you should get the Waterloo tube, which is about 5 minutes walking distance,

3. The musical. Choose two shows you would like to see and state why.

-The Lion King: it's one of my favorite Disney stories. I love the story and I cry every time I see the movie!!! The musicl must be very nice to see.

-Wicked: I see this musical when I was in Stuttgart, Germany. It was very funny and original, and the story is not the typically one. I think it would be liked by my classmates.

Oral TDR presentation

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2clTkLI5y83ck5wcG5JaGF4Zmc

After seeing my video, I must say I'm proud of my work: when I must do a oral presentation in class I always feeling nervous, but slowly I'm feeling more self-confident. However, there are many aspects I must polish.

I should talk slowlier: it seems like I have pression to finish or something like this hahaha but it's because I wil make it fast and finish.

I must improve my pronunciation: I can make it with the website our teacher tell us, or asking my classmates how is the pronunciation of each word

Make it a little bit more longer: complete more my explanation and give examples

However, I thank my classmates because they give me in general very good notes(more than I expect). I give myself an 7.5-8.

Why we should eat chocolate

I must admit it... I am chocolate's fan number 1!!! And which woman hasn't conforted with lots of kg of chocolate? You know what I mean, girls!! So, here are a few benefits of chocolate. It's not all about the weight.

1. Healthier heart: many studies evidence that (black) chocolate has cardiovascular benefits

2. It helps you in your diet: dark chocolate is far more filling than you think, so it offers you a satiety feeling.

3. Happier kids: a study with pregnant women who ate chocolate daily their pregnancy reported that they were more able with stress than mother that don't consumed chocolate.

4. Diabetes prevention: chocolate contents flavonoids, which helps to control the insulin sensibility

5. Reduced stress: when very anxious people ate chocolate their stress hormone levels were significantly reduced.

6. Sun protection: thank the flavanols of the chocolate, skin took twice as long to develop that reddening efect that indicates the beginning of a burn.

7. Higher intelligence: it boosts blood flow to key parts of the brain for 2 o 3 hours, improving perfomance and alertness.

8. Cough relief: chocolate quieted coughs almost as well as codeine and supress activity in a part of the brain called the vagus nerve without negative side effects.

9. Diarrhea relief: cocoa flavonoids bind to a protein that regulates fluid secretion in the small intestine.

Can technology make a better world? (with Marta)

Think about your daily life. How many technological items do you use?

Hi tech has earned a lot of power during the last few years. It has been used in many areas like economics, society, politics, etc. However, it's not as good as we think.

On of the main problems is the massive use of technology of the children. Using electronic machines they forget about the real life outside videogames. Not like our generation: we had to leave our houses and play with our friends to have fun.

Never the less, tech has a lot of benefits: for instance you can comunicate with people worldwide, from your neighboor to your friend from Dubai via WhatsApp, Skype,...

It is also easier to spread your ideas with social networks and feel closier to your idols.

You can find the love of your life through meeting, e-darling, etc or maybe have a one night stand with Tinder.

In conlcusion: if you use Internet properly, you will enjoy all the benefits it can offer.

(8,6)

Bye bye TDR!!

Yessssss!!!! We've finished our TDR, we have our marks and we also have made the english oral presentation about it. After so many months maybe I will miss all the afternoons and night working on it hahaha. I'm very proud of my finally outcome: I've learned a lot, and apart from the losted time we spend on it, seeing it now.. it's like we've becomed our first son:') My mark is a 8. I'm agreed with this, because I think it's a very fear mark: according to the work I've done. Of course I would have a 10 but I also could have worked a little bit more. But it's OK.

The good thing of this is that now we can focus on the rest of the grade and have more time for other exams, works or why not, time for ourselfes: this is what I miss this year, specially this first months of 2nd batxillerat. Last year where more afternoons with friends, with family or sleeping, more parties, more freetime. But NO PAIN NO GAIN so all what we do now will help us to study what we really want: I will entry to University of Gerona and study Primary Education.

Now, my friends and me are waiting to carnival: only 10 days left!! And then, London. This trimester will be very moved!!

Research Paper Abstract

The transition from primary school to highschool

Keywords: transition,educaction, change, primary school, highschool

What is behind the process of information transfer of children from school to highschool? To answer this question I have made a research that goes from learning the protocol used by the teachers from the primary school to which are the tasks of the highschool professors, going throw the emotions and thoughts of the involved kids. My teory is about the academic constructionism model and the steps that teachers and professors have to follow, and the practical part consists in interviewing teachers, professors, the pedagogical coordinator and students of the first grade.

Dialogue in class with Marta

+Hmm... I think I want to have a boob job!

-Are you sure? There are a lot of risks.

+It's a very common OP. I don't think it's dangerous at all!

-Yes, but sometimes the silicon is too cheap and it can be broken... you know.

+Don't be a killjoy! It will make me feel more confident.

-Are you sure it's only this? I think this is not for you.

+Well... maybe I will have a nose job too.

-This is too much for you. You are beautiful as you are and there is nothing that make up can't fix.

+Well... I will think about it.

-In case you do it, just make sure the hospital is serious, will you?

+I already have an appointment.

-I hope you change your mind. You must accept who you are and live with it. Let's watch some make-up tutorials, shall we?

+Erm... I willl do it anyways.