domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011

Oral presentation

As nobody recorded my oral presentation, here I am going to post my own evaluation and short explain about it.
I talked about Ireland because I went last year there and I found that year amazing. Also because I have explained that topic to a lot of people who asked me; so I have experience in what to tell about it. I have to say that first I felt very nervous, but once I started it was difficult to stop. Anyway, at the end I was satisfied with my presentation and I think that people liked it.

The jellyfish

Jellyfish is an aquatic animal, dangerous that looks like a plastic bag. this animal fascinates me. Jellyfish cannot see, it doesn't know where is it going, it just follows the sea current. It has some poisonous tentacles. Some jellyfish are very dangerous, (even mortal) while others are not at all. And it does not depend on their size, for exemple:

- the first photo is about a 200kg jellyfish, but it is not mortal, but she can cause several damages. 

- the second photo is a jellyfish wich is smaller than my little finger but her poison is mortally dangerous. There is one man, Ben Southall, who survived to her poison.

I wrote about jellyfish because I think that they are magnifically beautiful and wonderful, but I am horribly afraid of them.

My holidays skying in the Alps.

Two years ago for Christmas holidays I went to the Alps with my family. Those holidays were unbelievable. My favourite ones. We spent there a full week. I improved a lot my skiing skills and I am right now able to descend black slopes. The hotel and facilities there were great. During that week, the two days that were snowing were the best ones. The snow was really soft and there was hardly ever ice. There we also met some spanish people. They were unreal skiing. However, I made really good friends and I skied, so I could not ask for more.

Canada

Canada is a big country just upwards the USA. I have never been to canada but I would like to. Is more I have always think to go and live there. I don't really know why but I like Canada. Maybe because of the beauty of the nature but the real thing that call me is the cold. I rather prefer cold than warm countries and as I would like to go to Ameriaca, I would chose going to Canada. Also Canada has the famous ski center "aspen". I would like to live near ther, I love skiing, and in summer I would do long rides in bycicle by the mountain.
The capital of Canada is Montreal. There they speak as well french and english. this is an adventatge for me too, as I would improve both of those lenguages.

sábado, 19 de noviembre de 2011

My presentation mail

My name is Gianluca Muscolino Lluch. I'm 17 years old and I live in Empuriabrava. My birthday is the 23rd of June. My mum's name is Gemma and she is an English teacher in Roses. I live with her and my stepfather; he is French and he works as a boats seller. his name is Pascal. My dad, Sandro, is Italian and he is the boss of a construction entreprise. Last year I went to Ireland to do 5th year (1er batxillerat). I spent there 9 months and I made a lot of new friends. I was in a residence and we were not allowed to leave on weekends. However, once every three weekends, we were going to Dublin for a weekend. I love playing tennis. My favourite tennis player is Roger Federer. Every summer I work as a tennis teacher and I do some competitions in France. The think that I love is watching Moto GP on Sunday.

Film review: Brave Heart

Brave Heart is a famous film diriged, produced and satrried by Mel Gibson. This epic movie is based on Wlliam Wallace's life, a nacional Scotish hero. That film came out in 1995 and won the oscar to the best film.
The main plot is about a guy (William) who loses his family when they fought against the English army. He was taken by his uncle and spent 10 years abrought. When he came back he fell in love with a girl (Morron) but the English killed her so William wants revenge, and starts a revolution. I'm not going to tell how it ends, I would remove the intrigue of the film. However, it is a dramatic, war, patriotic and love film. I love this film because of the strenght and power in Wallace's efforts and I admire the faith of William in his country.

Here I leave the link to that film's trailer. You may see it if you have never seen this film as I think is a wonderful film.
Brave Heart's Trailer

Tennis: Roger Federer

Roger Federer (26 June 2009, Wimbledon).jpgRoger Federer is a Swiss tennis player. He is my favourite one. He was born th 8th of august in 1981. When he was a boy he didn't just play tennis, he also was in a basketball, futboll and badminton team, but he finally chose the tennis. He is an extrodinary player. Not only because he plays well, also because it looks very easy to play tennis when you see him playing. It looks like a ridiculous game, while it is one of the most complicated sports. He is the onliest player in history to reach the final at least five times in each Grand Slam. He has won five World Tours Finals and he is the only one to have been in the final of each Masters 1000. He got the gold medal in doubles in Beijing 2008 with his partner Stanislas Wawrinka. He spent 8 years as the number one in the ATP ranking. And during most of this years he has been competing with Nadal. His rivalry with Nadal is considered one of the longest in the sports world. Eventhough he is a fabulous tennis player, in 2011 he was choosen as the second most relyable and respected person in this world after Nelson Mandela. He has a family. He married Mirka Vavrinec in 2009. She was first a tennis player but she stopped because of an injury. The 23rd of july of 2009, he got his two twins daughters. In 2006 he did the obligatory military service for the Pope Benedict XVI.

The best point thet Roger Federer ever played (considered the best point of the history of tennis) eventhough he loses it. Against Hewitt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtAYZBDRQ0

Valentino Rossi #46


Valentino Rossi or more known as the doctor, is one of the best motorcycle riders in history. He was born in Urbino, the 16th February of 1979. He is still competing. His father is called Graziano Rossi and his mother Stefanía Palma. He has a brother (Luca Marini) and a stepsister (Chiara Rossi). Rossi's nicknames appart from "the Doctor" also got some as "Rossifumi" or "Valentinik". He started being a "karts" pilot but then he changed to motoracing. In 1996 started to compete in 125cc, in 1997 he won his first championship. In 1998 and 1999 Rossi stayed in 250cc. The second year in 250cc (1999) he won the Championship. Since the year 2000 to now a day he has benn running in GP category. Between 2000 and 2003 he stayed with Honda. Then in 2004 he changed to Yamaha until 2009. He started winning but in 2006 and 2007 he fall in a crisis. In 2008 he came back and won again the Championship doing a recor of the maximum points won in a season. In 2009 he did one of his best performances. He won the Championship, however he got dificultties to win Jorge Lorenzo. In 2010 he started very well, but in the middle of the season he got injured and he couldn't do a good perfromance. Anyway, that last year 2011 he changed to Ducatti, the Italian motorbike. He didn't have a good year either. He got trouble with the chassis of Ducatti, but he didn't have just technical problems; at the end of the season, his good friend Marco Simoncelli died. However, V.R.46 is a legend in moto GP.

One of the greatest performance I have never seen from Rossi, against Lorenzo, in Catalunya 2009.
"Sorry about the lenguage, I did not find any video in English"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0hWA3kH9Y

jueves, 17 de noviembre de 2011

News: China and its space project.

Today the news were saying that Shenzou-8 (the Chinese spaceship) was coming back to earth with crucial information about its project. The landing is going to be very dangerous and difficult so Chinese scientists have to be very careful with their calculations. Right now engineers are redirecting the ship's direction to have a succesful landing. The Chinese project is to get their first space station in orbit.
Shenzou is a Chinese word that means: Divine Ship.

News: Steam Train in Figueres.

The 15th of November, in Figueres, an old steam train started to work. They have restaured an old one and they will use it as a tourist atraction. They think it will be ready for this summer, and they will do just four travels a day until Portbou. However this 15th of November they did the first trip with 200 people on the train. That trip takes less than one hour and at the end everyone was pleased with that new atractition.
The Govern spent 200.000 euros on that project. A lot of people was enxited about that new event in a little and lost place as is Figueres but also that will create an increase on the tourism around here.

miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2011

News: Marco Simoncelli's short life.

Marco Simoncelli was an Italian motorcycle racer. He is not my favourite one, but I wanted to mention him as he died almost a month ago. I really liked him, eventhough I admit that sometimes he was a bit dirty. He was born in Cattolica the 20th of January in 1987. He started to run internacionally in 2002 in 125cc competition. In 2006 he went up a category until 250cc. In 2008 he became the world championship of 250cc. In 2010 started to run in GP category. In 2011 he was having a great year until The GP of Malasya, Sepang. The 23rd of October, with 24 years, died when unfortunatelly Collin Edwards and Valentino Rossi runned over him. This is the profesional life o Marco Simoncelli. 

Coldplay

Coldplay is a british band created in London (1996).
The band is formed by the four members of the photo. Chris Martin (voice, piano and guitar), John Buckland (main guitar) Guy Berryman (electric bass) and Will Champion (batery, chorus and other instruments). They reach the international success with the simple single of "yellow" in 2000. That same year they put out for sale their first album: "Parachutes". Their third album (X&Y) didn't sell too much, but their fourth one (Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends) in 2008 got about 50 million copies sold in foreign countries. However, they also take part in a lot of campaignes, such as: Hope for Haiti or Teenage Cancer Trust. Their last and amazing single is Paradise. Eventhough I haven't got any preference for one of their songs; if I had to choose one, as my favourite one, I would take See You Soon, Talk or Violet Hill.

Links to my three favourite songs:
-Violet Hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakDItZ7f7Q&ob=av2e
-See You Soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsz-EeNZBkI
-Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uqLM1uj_k