Congratulations for the exam results

Congratulations for the exam results to Fran Barba, Ana Carcaño, Sergi Costa, Aina Mir, Carmen Montañés, Carol Pérez (well done Carol!!), Andrés Pozo, Lina Quiroga and Diego Rosso.

Sorry :( for

Susana and Javier (keep on working!)

Josemi (you should have asked for a special exam!!)and Willy (too much History?... I',m joking... Congratulations for your 10! )

Summer holidays!

Good luck in the Selectivity exams and enjoy your summer holidays!
Keep in touch!

Graduation ceremony 2010

Our English teacher

She has a very special personality. She´s blessed with endless patience. She's a very spiritual person. She's not afraid to show her true self. She always smiles no matter what. :)
I really do think she´s happy with her life. She's really easy-going and she transmits comfort.
She doesn't struggle when making choices. She has the ability to stay quiet when no one else can.
She's got curly hair and original looks. She usually wears colourful clothing, specially purple.
In conclusion, she's a nice teacher!

The Beach at Night (Fran Barba)

My favourite place is the beach at night. During the day there are too many people and there's too much noise but at night it's the perfect place to walk quietly and it helps me to think.

At night it's a very quiet place with the only sound of the waves breaking on the shore.

Majorca has many beaches but most of them are for tourism and they have been modified to be bigger or just more confortable for the tourists. But there are also beaches that are in secluded places, they are difficult to find, and I think this makes them very beutiful because they have not been modified by human beings and they are very quiet and have something special that makes them beautiful.

In front of my home I have a very big beach. In the past that beach was smaller but i was modified to be able to receive more tourists and now it's very big with a lot of sand and no rocks. At night I usually walk through it, but it is not a quiet place because the street is very close and there's always noise coming from the cars, from the pubs or just from drunk people :/

Description of a place (Andrés Pozo)

Have you guys ever considered visiting France?

Paris is known as the "City of Lights" and is a magnificent and romantic place to visit.
I visited Paris two years ago with my school. Paris is a big and busy city, where you can find all sorts of stuff to do! It also has a great climate and the most beautiful scenery in the world. There are also a lot of important landmarks that one should visit if there, such as the Eiffel tower.
When you reach the top you feel like the king of the world and the views are just fascinating, you can see the whole city. But the views are even more impacting at night just when the sun starts coming down and the lights turn on.
Another thing that a like about Paris is that it’s very cultural. It has all type of museums that you can visit. It its center you can find one of the world’s biggest and most important museums: the Louvre. It is huge! Not even a week is enough for you to visit all the different monuments and paintings in its interior. If you don’t like museums you can visit other places such as the cathedral of Notre dame.
Learn about its legend and walk thousand of stairs up the tower to where the great bell is.
Paris is very exciting. But it can also be calm and peaceful. You can always find a nice hotel resort to relax and enjoy Paris in a different way!

If you ever get the chance to visit this lovely city, don’t think twice!

Narrative (Javier Gonzalez Aylman)

The best moment in my life was when I went to Paris with my classmates in 4 E.S.O. We didn´t know very well where we would go: Berlin, Paris, London.., In conclusion, we had many possibilities to travel. Finally we chose Paris, because more people hadn´t been in Paris and it seemed a very nice city.
When we left the airport I felt the usual "butterflies in the stomach" and I was very happy because I had never been abroad. When we arrived to Paris, I took some photos because I was really excited.
Then we took a bus to the hotel. I do not remember the name of the hotel, but I know it was a 4 star hotel. I shared a room with Fran. Whenever I break something, Fran repaired it. Everyone was hungry so we went to eat a kebab in front of the hotel. This kebab was very delicious but it was a bit expensive. We spent five days in Paria and visited the most important landmarks: Eiffiel tower, the Louvre, the Seine river ...the conclusion is that I took a lot of pictures of those beautiful monuments.
I didn´t want to leave Paris because I liked the city, but like all good things, everything has an end. When we returned to Majorca, I uplodaded my photos on my computer . Later my parents asked me about Paris and I spent the afternoon talking with them about that city.
In the future I would like to return to Paris.

The start of an obsession....(by Cristofer Sánchez)

...To dicover the space beyond the earth and our solar system

It all started when I was a little boy ( 4-6 years old). I really liked looking at the sky at night and I used to ask my parents about the shiny points in the vast night sky in my little village, and they only said to me “those shiny points in sky are only stars”, and that answer was not sufficient for me.

Night after night I used to look at the stars and the moon, asking myself what the stars could be, and I started to ask my school mates and teachers “what are the stars?” One of my best teachers told me something that was quite interesting for me.

He said: “The stars are suns, comets, galaxies, solar systems and other kind of things I don’t know”...
That awoke inside of me a really ambitious feeling, “to know what those stars were in reality and what they were doing up there in the dark sky”.

Sometime after, my parents gave me a birthday present, a present which I still have, my first Astronomy book. With that book I learnt all about “stars” , and I could understand where I live, where our planet, the earth, was located , and lots of things about our solar system. I also learnt about galaxies, other solar systems, planets, suns, nebulae (or nebulas), comets, and so on.

And that ambitious curiosity was the reason why I am still interested in the space and the
galaxies and I can feel I am still a curious boy who wants to know everything about outer space...
Like observing the moon and all the mysterious things connected to it...

An obsession I would like to satisfy now and in the future...

Learning to ride a bike (by Pedro Capó)

My parents didn't help me to learn how to ride a bike. My grandfather did.
When I was a child I really liked my grandfather’s bike and I wanted to ride it, but there was a problem, I had never ridden a bike in my life.
Then, one day, my grandfather helped me and put me on the bike, the bike had only two wheels not four. I tried to ride the bike with my grandfather holding me. We expend all the day trying it. And at nigh I managed to ride the bike without help.
On Christmas my parents gave me a bike, but with four wheels. I told them that I had learned to ride a bike only with two wheels, but they didn’t believe me.

Two weeks after we went to visit my grandparents and my father told them that I had a new bike, then my grandfather asked:

-With four or two wheels?
And my father said:
-With four wheels of course.
My grandfather looked at me and asked me:
- Why didn't you tell them you know how to ride a bike?
And I answered angrily:
-I told them, but they didn’t believe me.
The day after I found my bike with only two wheels.

A Place to Relax (by Pedro Capó)

There is a place where the time doesn’t pass by. There is a place where nature and humans coexist in harmony. There is a place where mountains touch the sky.

This place is Lluc. Lluc is a monastery in the mountains, for that reason there aren’t skyscrapers or motorways, only the silence. There is a small park for children. There is a botanical garden and a Via Crucis.

There are many excursions to go near Lluc and all of them are very beautiful. Behind Lluc there is a big valley, it is beautiful and there is a farm with cows, goats, horses, hens, dogs and cats. It is a peaceful place to clear the mind. The trees are always green, for this reason the place seems always lively.

A description of a place (by Cristofer Sánchez)

The place I’m going to describe is my old little village in Salamanca, which is called Gallegos de Argañán .
I lived there the ten first years of my life.
Gallegos de Argañán is located at 120km of Salamanca.

It is a small town with nearly over 300 people which are living now in the town, but in the past where living over 1000 people or more (in a period of time aprox. 1800-1900 and since then, the number of people has been decreasing). I don’t know very well the real data.

In general is a small town surrounded by land, which is used to feed the animals, the farmers plow the land, they plant seeds and they grow vegetables which are later sold in the market.

You can see my village in the photos below.




It is located in a big valley, surrounded by hills and in the distance there are also high mountains. In the mornings and evenings, you can breathe some fresh air coming from the mountains. I really like that fresh air, it's the best time for walking or doing sport, because in summer the rest of the day is really dry-hot weather and its unhealthy to walk in those conditions and more if you have sensitive skin and eyes xD.

I like to travel to my little village in summer, because it is a peaceful place to relax and to disconnect from everuthing, and also to see my grandparents and uncles who live there. Another reason why I like going there is that I remember great things I lived when I was a child.

While I am writing this a memory has just come to my mind: when I was little boy, in the first days of May it started to snow, IN MAY!!, and it settled for a few hours.
It was a very strange day!

An important day (by Ana Carcaño)

Two years ago, before starting 4th of ESO, I went to Ireland to study English . I was going to be there four months. Two weeks before I left, my friends prepared a surprise party for me, it was a farewell party.
I thought we were going to have dinner somewhere in Paseo Marítimo, but that was just what I thought. My friends had called my mum and they had told her about the party so that evening my friends Claudia and Naika came home and we got dressed as any other normal day. Naika asked me if she could borrow a scarf because she said it might be cold that night (that was a bit strange because August is a hot month in Mallorca) and I lent her my scarf.

Then my mum offered herself to take us to the restaurant. I was surprised because I thought we had to go with the bus asusual, and when we arrived to the car Naika covered my eyes with the scarf. At this moment I started to suspect that something was happening, anyway I thought we were going to Paseo Marítimo to have dinner. I had my eyes covered when we arrived and I started to hear some familiar voices. They were my friend's voices. Then I took out the scarf and I realised that we weren't at Marítimo, we were at Diablito from Puerto Portals, my friends had booked a table there. I said hello to everybody , I was very happy because I didn't expect anything. Then we had a great dinner at the restaurant and at the end I was given another surprise. My friends gave me presents! The gave me a beautiful necklace from Tous and a T-Shirt signed by all of them. We took a lot of pictures and after dinner we went home. It was a wonderful day!

A CELEBRATION (Andrés Pozo)

A party that for sure I will never forget was my girlfriend’s last year birthday party.
She is Canadian so, like the Americans, they celebrate “their sweet sixteen”.
A sweet sixteen is a very important day and they make a big deal of it, so usually the parties are huge!
It was on the second of July, so it was a lovely sunny day. She wanted to do something original, so she charted a yacht for 15 people. We all got up at nine o’clock in the morning at went walking from Son Caliu to Puerto Portals. When we arrived she was already waiting for us on the boat. We all got on it and sailed away! First we visited the small lovely beach close to Cala Mayor, we suntanned for a while and took a bunch of photos .Then we decided to go for a dip in the clean sea water.
Afterwards, we visited many more beaches and finally arrived at Magaluf . We got off and went to eat some lunch. When we arrived back at the boat it was time to open the presents! She got all sorts of stuff, the girls gave her separated gifts but since the boys didn’t really know what to give her, they made her a huge group picture so she could hang it on the wall of her room.

Later on, we continued our journey. We passed by lots of different beaches but most of them were filled with jellyfish so we didn’t go swimming.
We reached the port at eight o’clock and she had another party planned at night for another group of friends, which I was also invited too. So I rushed to my house, took a quick shower and got ready as fast as I could.
The restaurant where we had dinner was really cool. It was on the beach and it was very modern, with really cool decorations and furniture. We had a lovely dinner, and ate a carrot birthday cake! When we were all full, the party started! We all got dropped off in Magaluf and spent the whole night dancing in the disco . I arrived home at six o’clock and went straight to sleep! What a day!

A celebration (William Wu He)

My favourite celebration is Christmas Holidays. These days are full of peace, tranquillity, and the Christmas spirit is inside everybody. Now that I’ve grown up, Christmas celebration is worse than before, but when I was a child these days were full of magic.

I remember when I was 7 years old, I wanted Santa Claus to bring me the PlayStation One. For that reason, the whole year I had been a good boy without playing any pranks. I was hoping for Santa Claus to give me the PlayStation, but when I opened the gift, there was no PlayStation at all, the gift was a book of Harry Potter, the fourth book, the longest by far. At that moment I got angry and disappointed and I realized that Santa Claus didn't exist.

But two weeks later, in the 3 Kings celebration, the gift was the PlayStation, but I had just discovered the truth. Santa Claus and the Magic Kings were inventions.

In that moment I left behind my ingenuous mind and I became aware of reality. That was the beginning of my growing up phase.

Celebration (Fran Barba)

One of my favourite celebrations is "El Salon del Manga". It's in Barcelona every year the 29, 30 , 31 of October and 1st of November.

There's always a competition where you can send your own poster and if your poster wins, it will be the one for that year. The winner of the last year is the one at the top.

That festival, as the name says, is dedicated to manga and to japaneese culture.

There you can buy anything related to these topics, you can test the incoming games and participate in any competition.

There are a lot of different kinds of competitions, The most important is the Cosplay competition, where you have to do a representation (alone or in group) wearing a costume of your favourite character of any manga or anime. The winner of this competition is able to go to the world cosplay competition, which is in Japan.

The second most important competition is always about a game. Two years ago the competition was about Guitar Hero III but i didn't participate due to the high level of the other players and because i was just starting to play that game and i was so bad at that moment D:

First day... (Tom Lombardi)

I will always remember the first day I got into IES Bendinat. I had arrived a month before to Mallorca, but I didn't know anyone and couldn't speak Catalan.

It was 10 AM when my parents left me in front of IES Bendinat door. I was nervous, but I had already lived this before. I looked around me and saw hundreds of students laughing and talking to each other. All that crowd was going to the same place, where the ESO classroom list was hanged. I took the same direction, searched my name in the list... but I couldn't find my name!

I kept searching, asking myself if I was blind and, in the end I was the last one outside, still looking at the list, but my name wasn't there.

So I decided to get into the school and ask if they could tell me where my class was. But the secretary told me she didn't know anything about this and that it wasn't her problem. I thought “Wow, nice atmosphere over here”, and decided to sit on a table and wait.

Finally a man got down the stairs and asked me what I was doing there, I answered that I didn't understand what he was saying because I couldn't speak Catalan. Then he told it to me in Spanish, and he said that his name was Manel and that I had to follow him to see if I was registered at this school.

After checking on his computer, he told me that I had to got to 4E's classroom. I looked at him like telling him “Where the hell is this?!”. He directly understand it, and told me “Ok, i'll go with you”.

While we were walking through the long hallway, I was thinking about the similiar situations in my past , always being the “new student”, the one that everyone would look at when he would get through that door. I hated that feeling.

And this was just another time, it happened just as in the past. Manel walked threw the door and told them I was a new student coming from Dominican Republic and that I didn't speak Catalan. All the students were looking at me, I hated that situation, being the center of attention just as when you see an animal at a circus gesticulating in the middle of the ring.

The teacher pointed out a place where I could sit, and gave me a sheet to fill in, to know more or less who I was. As everything was in Catalan, Andres ( who was the first one to talk to me! ) helped me to translate it.

After being an hour in class, I could finally get back home. That was it... the hardest part was accomplished and now on I had just to leave time to make its job. Little by little, people got to know me and I got to know them.

I've now been here for 3 years and school is nearly over... will the story be repeated?

Hope not.

Narrative (Carol Pérez)

Once I heard: "dreams are meant for sleeping", but... Can we be sure of it?

One day I got up at 6.45 am, like always. I got dressed, I brushed my teeth, I combed my hair, I had breakfast... like every day.

I left my chouse and I went to the bus stop, because I had to take it to go to school. When I arrived, there wasn't anybody there. I thought everybody must have been asleep, but anyway, I took the bus. When I arrived to school, there wasn't anybody again. This wasn't normal. Well, I decided to go on, and I started my classes, alone in my class, with the same teacher all the time. But, the best of all, is that I didn't know that teacher! I thought I probably was going crazy... Well, the classes finished, and I left the school.

It was a sunny day, so I went to my house and I prepared my things to go to the beach. All normal, you may think. But, again, strange things happened. When I arrived to the beach, it was a huge desert, there was no water anywhere! I felt really stressed because all these things were getting me annoyed. How could it be? No people, no water, nothing!

Fortunately, I realised that it was a dream when Edward Norton appeared in the desert and told me if I would like to film a movie. Too many freak things in one day...

When I woke up, I was sweating in my bed. It was 6.45 am and it was time to get up. I did it, I got dressed, I brushed my teeth, combed my hair... Just like every day. I laughed when I thought about my strange dream, it was really funny. I left my house, and I went to the bus stop, and... Guess! There wasn't anybody there! I stayed there, but the bus didn't turned up, so I decided to go back to my house and go to sleep, because all this was a bit scaring...

I opened the front door of my house, and I looked at the calendar... Oh no, it was Saturday! So I got up early for nothing! What a disaster...

This place... (Tom Lombardi)

This place is called Encuentro, it is a beach situated in the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Encuentro's beach is known for its “surfing spot”, it is actually the best surfing spot of the Dominican Republic. Many surfing competitions are organized throughout the year, which help young Dominicans to get acquainted with the pleasure of surfing. Recently, kitesurfing and windsurfing competitions were also organized at international levels.

All along the beach there are several “surfing schools”, where, with some pesos, you can learn how to take a wave in few hours.

It is also where my feet touched for the first time a surfing board, I was 8 years old. I was so addicted to this sport that some friends and I used to wake up around 4 am when the sun had not raised yet, take our boards and go surfing before school. Then we would just take a quick shower on the beach, put on our uniform and go to school at 8. It was good life.

As you can see, it is a panoramic picture, so you can see a 180 degrees angle of the view. There is not much to say about this picture... but it has been taken from a small “tower” where the judges use to sit when they have to put a mark on the surfing competitors. You can also the that the color of the sea is beautiful, as well as the sky. On the left and right of the pictures we can see students and surfers getting mentally and physically prepared to face up the Encuentro's waves.

Take a piece of freedom, start surfing.

A narrative (by Max Pagès Preuss)

It all happened a Christmas Day’s Eve 10 years ago. It was like all the other years, my grandparents, my parents, my brothers and I were celebrating this magic night and while my brothers and I where opening the presents which were under the Christmas tree I realized that there was only one little present for me. As I am the oldest of my brothers, it was a really embarrassing situation and my parents started laughing. As I still believed in Father Christmas I started crying because I thought that my behavior was not good enough, and for this reason I only got one little present.
The situation was getting worse because I saw how my parents, my grandparents and my brothers were opening nice and big presents, and I only got a little book. It was a terrible situation for me and I was really angry. While we were eating our typical Christmas dinner, my father went to the kitchen and he hid my presents under the tree without making any noise and I didn’t realize it. As soon as we finished our dinner I saw my presents under the tree and I shouted “They are for me!”.

It was the best present I had ever had, it was a new bicycle with lots of extra tools. I was so happy that I walked out to the street and started riding it. I will never forget this bad situation for me and also the happiness I felt when I finally got my big present.

Temples in India (Maximilian Pagès Preuss)

I would like to describe this wonderful picture. It was taken by me while I was walking through a temple village in the town of Madurai (India). For me this picture shows and describes a lot of things such as peace and calm. India is one of the most peaceful countries of the world; the people there are so handsome and nice that sometimes you feel like a god for them.

In this place people go to pray, to meditate, to have a family lunch or just go to have a walk and calm down after a hard working day. When you visit such an enormous place all full with little and big temples you feel like as if you where in a fantasy story. The best of all is that all these buildings are hundreds of years old and most of them are on a perfect condition. These temples are very important for the local and foreign people; this is why they keep in this good condition.
The most amazing thing is that you can spend hours and hours visiting these places and you never get bored or tired. In my opinion they have some magic and this is why they are so impressive.

When I first saw this kind of temples, the first thing I wanted to know was: What is in there and why do people really go there every day? The answer to this question is very simple, in these places there is normally one of the many gods that the Hinduism has. This is why there are so many temples, each one has one god. The local people are very religious and this is why they spend so much time in them.

Once every week, there is a ceremony which is carried out by a Sadu. It is an important religious man who walks all around India without anything, they only pray and eat the food that people prepare for them when they arrive in a town or village. They have no money and some even have no clothes, they are also famous because they have all the face painted with red and white colours.
I really recommend this country to everyone because I think that if you go there when you go back home, you will never forget it.

My last celebration (by José Miguel Maimó)

My last celebration was in Christmas, on the twenty fifth of December 2009. Three days before Christmas I travelled to Barcelona by airplane.I was very happy, I was looking forward to see my family who live in Barcelona. I travelled with my parents, my uncles and my cousins. We were going to celebrate Christmas in the house of my cousins' grandmother.

We went to a town called Vilanova i la Geltru. It is situated thirty minutes from Barcelona, my family had rented a car because it was necessary. And then we went to the grandmother's house which was situated on a mountain near Barcelona, the area was called Collserola. We arrived at nine o´clock, it was early, there was nobody in the house, only my cousins' grandmother. Some people were arriving to the house, my cousins grandmother has seven children, three girls and four boys. We were a lot in their house. My cousins and me were bored, then, we played cards, as soon as we finished the game we had dinner, after dinner all the people sang Christmas carols, and some people played instruments. When we stopped singing Christmas carols the cousins' grandmother gave us gifts. I was very happy because I had a lot of gifts.

At two o´clock in the morning we returned to Vilanova.

It was a fantastic celebration!

A Narrative (Diego Rosso)

Travelling around

In December 2000 when I was 9 yars old my parents decided to move to the mainland, more exactly in Malaga. Of course I wasn't happy and I didn't agree with that idea, (which boy or girl would do it?) I didn't want to lose contact with my friends and start a new life in Malaga, I was very happy in Majorca. All my reasons to stay in Majorca weren't enough to change my parents plans.

So that winter we took a ship to Valencia and then we went all the way to Malaga by car. We stayed in an old house (it was a creepy house at the beggining but I get used to), I went to a new school, I made new friends but I was still missing my "real" friends. I didn't like Malaga, I was only thinking about going back to Mallorca one day but my parents didn't seem to be thinking of going back to the island. So I stayed in Malaga for 3 months and then suddenly my parents told me that they were tired of Malaga and they told me that we were going to move to Valencia, I just thought that my parents were crazy going here and there for no reason.

Anyway, we headed all the way back to Valencia by car, it was a really long trip by car so we stayed one night in a little apartment (the same happened when we moved to Malaga). It's funny because we stayed in Valencia for 3 months as well, I started to go to a new school one more time, new friends, new places to vist but still I was bored of being there.

I didn't want to leave Majorca and I was forced to leave it, and I was tired of going here and there for no reason and then suddenly my parents told me they were bored of Valencia and I tought *ironic voice* "cool, I'm going to go to a new place for 3 months, make friends ,get to know the new place and ... leave. Cool isn't it?".

But happy news arrived to my ears, "we are going back to Majorca", at first I didn't pay attention to what was going on but then I noticed that it was true and I was very very happy. We went back to Majorca and that must have been one of the happiest day of my life: when I went back to school the day after we arrived to Majorca, all my friends gave a wonderful welcome and I'm still here in Majorca, thinking how my life would have been if I wouldn't come back to Majorca that day.

Match Point (Fran Barba)

Match Point is a thriller that keeps you in tension along all the movie.It’s also a drama because of the tragic ending. It was filmed in London.

Chris Wilton is the principal character in the movie, Chloe Hewett is his wife, and Nola Rice is her lover.

Chris is a person who would do anything for money and power, that´s why he murdered Nola, because she was the only one who could ruin his plans to marry Chloe and get her money.

Chloe is an innocent girl and she can not imagine what Chris can do for money.

In this movie whe find a loving triangle between Chris, Chloe and Nola.
Chris marries Chloe only for her money and Nola is his lover.
When he sees that his economical and social position is at risk, he decides to kill Nola, planning it as to look like a burglary.

At the end the police believe that it was a burglery and Chris is not found guilty and doesn't go to prision.

In my opinion it's a very good film because you don't know what is going to happen until the end ^^

Match Point (Andrés Pozo)

It´s a thriller and the director tries to keeps you "in tension" along all the movie and it’s also a drama because it has a tragic ending. It was filmed in London and in the first scene you can see a tennis match, where the ball hits the net and you don´t know which side it will fall.

Chris Wilton is the principal character in the movie, Nola Rice is her lover, and Chloe Hewett is Chris wife, a very rich woman who´s really in love with him.

Chris is a really manipulating person that would do anything for money and power, that´s why he ends up murdering Nola, because she is the only one who can ruin his plans, because he only wants to marry Chloe for her money.
Nola is a girl who wants to do really good on her career and believes everything that Chris says.
Chloe is an innocent daddy’s girl. She lives really well with her parent’s money and she could never imagine what his husband could do for money.

It´s a movie where we will find a loving triangle between Chris, Chloe and Nola.The
main character marries a very rich woman, Chloe, and he also has a lover, Nola.
When he sees that his economical and social position is in risk, decides to kill his lover, drawing a plan so he doesn´t look like the murderer.

Chris gets married for ambition, not for love, and later he is able to murder his lover even though he feels passion for her, but his ambition is bigger than his passion.

I think he is the winner in this situation because everything goes ok for him, but I don't think he won’t be happy .
In the future I can see him with another lover and in the moment that she bothers him, sweep her away because he is a person with no feelings for anyone, only for the money.

I imagine a different ending for the film where he goes to jail or is but his wife´s father helps him because he has money.

I think it has been a very interesting movie because it had an original ending. I didn’t think it was going to end like that. Usually it ends well and the bad guy is caught, but not in this movie!

Roger Schank

"Tell me and I’ll forget
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I’ll understand "

(Chinese proverb?)


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A narrative (by Aina Mir)

Summer in la Colonia de San Jordi

When I was little I used to go to la Colonia de San Jordi for the summer vacation with my parents. It was the best holiday ever. The last time that we went was when I was fourteen. I had lots of friends there because we used to go there every year. We used to go to the beach and sit by a big fire, eating, talking and listening to music. We had the time of our lives.
But the last night that we stayed there, I had a really good time. It was my fourteen birthday and we were celbrating a huge party at the beach. All my friends were there and my family too, but Pau, my boyfriend wasn’t there, so I was a bit sad and couldn’t celebrate and just be happy. So the night was ok, we laughed, sang and ate good food.
At 12 o’clock everybody started singing and my parentes brought a huge cake, it was about a meter high, and full of chocolate. But suddenly the cake exploded and Pau jumped out of the cake! I was speechless but freaking out. I was so happy that I started crying. Then he gave me a big kiss and hugged me. It was the best moment ever.

Brittle bone disease ( Narrative by Sergi Costa)

To have brittle bones is an unusual illness that makes your bones very fragile and they can easily break .
When I think about this deasease, it comes to my mind the image of my friend.

My friend is a person who likes to have all the people's attention. For this reason he always tries to stand out.

For example when something happens to him he always exaggerates...
Every time he falls down ha says that he has broken a bone.

At first people were worried about my friend: " Are you okay?.. " Did you get hurt?... " Are you injured?"...

But he did it so many times that people have started to know him and finally they don't have to worry about him: " he is a liar"... " I'm sure that he has nothing"

Last week we were skating on the street when he fell down.
He said that his shoulder was broken.

The first thing I thought was " it's a lie".

I didn't believe him...
What about you? Would you believe him? Do you think that my friend is a liar or that he has the brittle bone illness???

This question was never resolved and my friend keeps on saying every time he falls that he has broken some bone.

It's your decision to think about him as a liar or as a sick person ...

Description of a place (Lina Quiroga)

Here we have a very nice picture. It was taken in Guatavita (Colombia) and I think it's very beautiful because it shows a natural and peaceful place.

I have chosen this picture because it reminds me when I was little and my family and me used to go on holidays to the village of my sister's godfather. I used to play with my cousins and sister running back and forth across the field.

I also played with the animals they had there.

I remember that cows scared me because I saw them too big so I thought that they could hurt me, but that feeling disappeared gradually as I was growing, although now I have a feeling of respect for them.

I think the field is one of the most beautiful and perfect places to be, because you have a direct contact with nature and you can feel comfortable and relaxed as long as you are there. It's like having a break away from city and all the responsabilities that it represents.

The picture shows us a green area with montains and trees. You also can see a precious blue sky and a house in the middle of the field.

I also can say that right now it would be the perfect place to be for the students because with all this pressure of the end of the year I think it is necesary to keep an open mind and forget about stress.

Descrition of a place (Aina Mir)

SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco it is an important city for me because it reminds me lots of special moments. I went there two years ago with my parents and friends. In that trip we were eight people and we had lot of fun. First we went to LA and then we went to San Francisco, and I think all of us, if we have to choose one or the other we would choose San Francisco. It is a very nice place and I love it.

I think it is similar to Mallorca, maybe not that much similar but it has sea and a lot of coast. It is also important for people who have lived always on an island.

San Francisco has a lot of beautiful things. The city looks exactly as on the TV. The golden gate, the street cars, the slopes...
Golden Gate it the most known building and it is incredible. When you are walking on it you have the sea under you, about 220 meters. And you can see people doing exercise there. The only bad thing is there are "toll barriers” on each sides to keep away from people who want to hurl themselves of the bridge.

The street cars are like in the films. People seat inside or people who are tighted outside.The street cars' drivers most of times have to help the tourist people because you have to go on a special way. I think that street cars are a very good idea for the problem of the very steep slopes.

I also like San Francisco because there is a lot of variety and different neighborhoods and I think this type of contrasts are fun.


The picture that we can see is a San Francisco street and it’s the street with the most amount of curves in the USA. It is Lombard Street and it is a piece of the street. In a short stretch there are eight curves, and they are very pronunciated, and because of it, before you try to go down with the car, there is a sign which warm the drivers that they can't go down with vans or bigs cars because the vehicle couldn't turn.
It is a beautiful street because they have it very well cared for and clean. And it is a very colorful street.

I chose San Francisco because for me is the most beautiful place.

Description of a picture (Javier González))

If you want to see something beautiful in the world go to Argentina.
In the picture you can see the "Obelisk" which is a National Historial Monument in Buenos Aires, the capital. This monument is located in "Plaza de la República".
It´s 67,5 m high, it has a single entrance door (on the west side), there are four windows and there is a steep staircase of 206 steps with 7 landings every 6m or 8 m.




In the photo you can see the city of Buenos Aires at night and the beauty of the city. We can see also see many buildings that look quite futuristic. You can see also many trees that look alike and are quite large, and lots of lights: this is due to traffic in that area in Buenos Aires.




I have chosen this photo because it´s a place that I would like to visit in the future. I hope to go this summer because I have some relatives in Argentina that I don´t know yet. The weather in Argentina is very similar to the weather in Majorca. But while we are in spring here, they are in the opposite season there: Now it's autumn in Argentina (south hemisphere)

This picture is one of the most beautiful pictures I found of the place I want to go soon.

Description of a picture (Carol Pérez)

Do you like this picture? Personally, I love it, it makes me feel really little looking at this huge roller coaster, like an ant in our world.

This photo was taken in "El Ram", a fair that is being held every year here, in Palma. In the picture we can see the most important part of the wheel with some cabins. We can also see the cloudy sky. This is my favourite part of the photo, because I really like the texture of these clouds. It was not a sunny day, but we can see in a yellow cabin the reflection of the sunlight. Although it wasn't a sunny day, the sun was shining at times, and I had the opportunity to take the photo.

We can't see it brightly in the picture, but every cabin has a different colour. They're arranged according to different shades of color, which are yellow, orange, purple, blue and green. A thing that we can see in the photo is the way how is wheel is painted , with green and white stripes. I found it really original.

Every year I go to the fair with my cousin and her children, because they enjoy riding all the fairground attractions.

Well, as you say... BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!

Describing a picture (by William Wu He)

Here we can see a beautiful view of what I think is the closest image of paradise. There are some stone stairs that drive us to a beautiful beach. The beach has got a pure deep blue sea and the sand is white like the snow.

There aren't any people, it’s not a crowded beach like Magalluf, here you can smell the freedom, feel the calm, it’s a virgin beach, a place where you can relax and forget all your problems for a short period of time.

Around the stone stairs it’s full of green nature. There’s a dense green foliage with purple flowers, and then, if we look up, we can see some amazing palm trees that grow above the plants and give this picture a shade of paradise.

It looks like a prolongation of the terrain of a big mansion, because a private beach like this one must be linked to a huge mansion.

FORMENTERA (by Ana Carcaño)

I've been told to describe a picture and I have chosen a beach that is located in Formentera.
On this picture we can see mainly three colours: blue in the sky and the sea, beige on the sand and the rocks and green on the tree and the bushes.

The water of this beach is very clear and clean and we can see a lot of white boats that are tied up. There are small dark blue spots in the middle of the sea and that's because of the algae.
The sky is light blue and it has some small white clouds. It's a sunny summer day and it doesn't seem like it is going to rain.
By the sea there's a green big tree that makes a small shadow and on the left hand side of the picture we can see some small bushes and rocks.
The sand is very clean and clear, without any litter on it (all the beaches should be like this one).
We can see some people swimming in the sea but there's nobody lying on the sand and sunbathing so we could think that this part of the beach is virgin.

Also we could say that this beach is not polluted and this is something very good and very important for our environment because nowadays there are loads of places that have been polluted because of the tourism and the invasion of humans. I don't like places like that because they make me feel nervous and angry because I dont like the idea that our environment it's being destroyed.
The landscape of Formentera is beautiful and it transmits serenity and peace.

A description of a place (José Miguel Maimó)

Last Christmas I visited the stadium of the Football Club Barcelona (Camp Nou) with my family. It is located in the center of Barcelona, in a neighborhood called Zona Universitària. I went by motorbike because my family from Barcelona lives a bit far.

Camp Nou is one of the biggest stadiums around the world, it has a capacity of 100.000 people aproximately. The truth is that I was surprised when I saw it. In the ticket office there were a lot of people, the tickets was very expensive (16€).

First of all I visited the changing rooms, they were very big, there were some Jacuzzis, a blackboard and some computers. Secondly I visited the football pitch (the area when footballers play football), it was spectacular because the dimensions were very large, there were some lamps to warm the grass. Thirdly I visited the museum, it was very big, there were a lot of trophies, emblems, esculptures and photos. I saw the six trophies that the team won last year. Finally I visited the stands.

Camp Nou is a fantastic tourist destination, I recommend you to visit it. On the one hand I liked it a lot because it is a very nice stadium but I am not a Barça supporter, for this reason I'd like to visit the stadium of the Real Mallorca, the ONO Estadi (the best team in the world, next year Mallorca will be in Champions League)

DESCRIPTION OF A PLACE (By Naika Mendívil.)

My teacher asked me to write a composition describing a place. Then I thought about describing a country, a city, or a town. But I couldn't find a place I really liked. Then I came about describing a place where I spend a lot of time every day. It is a place where I do lots of things. I am talking about my bedroom.

My bedroom isn’t very big but I love it. It is situated upstairs and in the side room no one sleeps. Three years ago I painted one of the walls of my room, now it is purple I think it is a beautiful colour and it relaxes me. My room has a beautiful balcony where in the afternoon the sun shines. It has got two chairs and a little table and I love to go there when I need to think about something. The balcony is in front of a beautiful big park and I like to observe what people do there.

In my bedroom I have got a lot of important things: my wardrobe is always full and my mum is always saying to me that I must tidy it. I have a shoemaker in my room and a mirror too. I need a mirror at all times. I have a bookshelf where I use to put all types of things, from books and photos to my jewels and even a radio.
Another important thing in my bedroom is my computer, I couldn’t live without it. I use it to chat with my friends, to search on the internet, to watch films and it has a TV incorporated so it is to useful to me. I can’t finish this composition without mentioning my bed. It is the most important thing in a bedroom, but for me it is even more important. I use it to eat, to watch TV or a film, to spend hours phoning my friends, things that I love to do, and of course, to sleep.

Las Vegas (Diego Rosso)

"Ladies and gentleman, Welcome to Las Vegas, city of dreams where you can get rich and have fun! Come to Las Vegas and have a wonderful time in our casinos and in our city!"

I would love to go to Las Vegas some day. Las Vegas is a populous city situated in Nevada (USA) and it is also an international renown major resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dinning. Las Vegas is also a famous place for setting films and tv programs. It also got the title of "Sin City", a nickname setted for Las Vegas because its tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment (another way of saying sex industry... oops, children cover your ears!).

Las Vegas is quite a busy and noisy place because it's a huge and crowded city full of high buildings. At night all the city is light up and it looks amazing.

One of the most famous places in Las Vegas are Casinos. If you thought that the city is crowded, then it is because you haven't yet entered a Casino! Because they are huge and full of people. Casinos are like another world, there you can see all kind of people, rich and not so rich playing together.

Since I was little I had been dreaming of going to Las Vegas one day (and I'm going to go one day I promise!) because it always looked like "funland" and it looks even better everyday. That city is just awesome, you can find everything in there.

If someone go to USA I really recommend that person to go to Las Vegas, even if you don't like Casinos there are a lot of other things you can do there (go shopping, enjoy the view of the city at night, have dinner in really nice restaurants).

All I can do for now is to save some money and be a proffessional playing poker and blackjack, when all that is done ... here I come Las Vegas !

P.S: Enjoy a beatiful image of the city at night :)

A description of a place ( by Sergi Costa)

"Covachos beach", situated in the Cantabrian coast, in the north of Spain, near the city of Santander, world famous for the Magdalena palace,long time ago residence of the king of Spain, is a small beach far from cities and not crowded.

As you can see in the picture to reach the sand it is necesary to go down a fifteen meters high rocky cliff.

During the winter, on rainy days, a waterfall appears flowing like a river accross the virgin white sand to the sea.

If you need a peaceful or relaxing place not far from Covachos beach you can go to "Dunas de liencres" wihch is bigger, longer, and a quieter resort, facing the sea.

In conclusion if you go to Santander, I recommend you to go to Covachos beach.

The internet in our lives (Fran Barba)

Have you ever thought about how the internet has changed our lives?

A few years ago, before the interent, you had to go out of home everytime to get what you needed, to search information you had to use encyclopedias, etc

Now with internet you can do all this at home. You can buy things through intenet and receive them at home, to search information you only have to go to google or a similar web and write what are you searching.

With internet you can also communicate with your friends and family (msn, blogs, facebook, etc) and make new friends, without taking care of the distances! You can meet somebody from USA while your are at home in Spain just sitting in front of a computer with an internet connection !

Some bad things about internet are that if you don't know how to do a research you won't find what you want because there's too much information and that if you publish something in internet protected by a password of anything, it isn't always secure because there's always someone that knows how to hack it.

Match Point (Max Pages)

Match Point is a drama film which is set in the British city of London. In the first scene we can see a tennis match or training and the image is only set on the net, so we can see how the tennis ball goes from one side of the tennis court to the other side. After a few strokes the ball hits the net and this is one of the most important scenes in all the film, because we don’t know if the ball is going back to one side of the court or if it’s going to pass to the other. During the film we are going to be able to find out the meaning of this image.

Then main characters are Chris Wilton, Nola Rice and Chloe Hewett
• Chris Wilton is a professional tennis player but now the just keeps playing tennis as a trainer. After meeting Chloes he started working for his father in law in a big company.
• Nola Rice is an American actress who came to London and was Tom's fiancée. Tom is Chloe's brother.
• Chloe Hewett is the wife of Chris Wilton, she comes from a very rich family.

• Chris Wilton is a very ambitious person, he prefers money than to love. He is scared of having a normal lifestyle without luxurious apartments, a private driver…
• Nola Rice is like the opposite of Chris, she isn’t as ambitious as Chris is, because she can live alone in a small room, and she prefers love much more than money.
• Chloe Hewett is the typical daughter of a really rich person, she doesn’t care about money because she knows she already has it. She really cares about having children and form a nice family.

This is a summary of the film;
When former tennis pro Chris Wilton begins a relationship with shy heiress Chloe Hewett after befriending her brother Tom, he finds his social and financial status vastly improved. However, once he has an affair with Tom's ex-lover, American actress Nola Rice, he realizes that his new, luxurious lifestyle may be threatened. So Chris formulates a devious plan to rid himself of his inconvenient mistress.

In the film ambition is stronger than love and passion because we can clearly see how Chris Wilton prefers staying with Chloe instead of being with Nola. He loves Nola more than Chloe but he can’t live with her and leave Chloe because his father in law gave him a great job and because otherwise he had to start a new life with no money, no job… and for Chris this is a situation he can’t stand, for this reason he prefers to stay with Chloe and keep on with his lifestyle.


I think that Chris is "the winner of the match" because he has reached what he wanted. His life in the future is going to be a simple and boring routine, every day the same, and all this for many and many years. And he will be unable to forget or ignore what he did to Nola and her neighbor. He’s going to have a perfect lifestyle but he won’t be happy, and happiness is the most important thing in life, if you aren’t happy, your life will be horrible.


I think that another ending could be that the ring fell in the river Thames and for this reason the police wouldn’t have found it in the drug addict's pocket. Then the inspector’s theory would have been true and Chris probably would have gone to jail.


I really liked this film because at the beginning it’s a drama but then it changes completely and it becomes a thriller. I think that Woody Allen did a very good job, and also the main character played an excellent role. The story of the film seems to be a very sweet story between two young people who love each other, but then it turns over completely.

"Match point" (Diego Rosso)

The type of film of "Match point" is hard to describe, most of the time the movie looks like a drama but it also looks like a thriller in some parts. The film it's set in London. In the first scene you can see a tennis ball hitting the net and it describes your future can depend on luck, you can win if the ball pass the net or you can lose if the ball falls back.

Chris Wilton, Nola Rice, Chloe Hewett and Tom Hewett are the main characters of the film. Chris is a young boy and a proffessional tennis player who wants to be or do something important in his life. He is an ambitiuos man, so ambicious that he can even kill in order no to lose the good life he had after he married the rich Chloe Hewett.

Chloe is a nice and innocent girl who fell in love with Chris at first sight. She is very friendly and a good woman.

Nola is an American girl who met and fell in love with Tom Hewett, but Tom's familiy don't accept Nola because she is just a normal girl. Nola is also very romantic.

Chris Wilton is a young Irish boy who just arrive to London. He starts working as a tennis teacher but he soon meets a man called Tom Hewett. Chris and Tom become good friends after spending time together and Chris also gets to know Tom's family, specially Chloe, Tom's sister. After some time Chris and Chloe get married but soon Chris meets Nola Rice, Tom's girlfriend .

Nola and Chris started to flirt since the first time they met in Tom's parent's house. Than Nola and Chris had an affair. But one day Nola tells Chris that she is pregnant and Chris thinks about his future: being with Nola would cause being with a girl he like to be with but with no money and on the other hand he could stay with Chloe and continue with his good life.

Later on Chris chooses the second option and kills Nola with a shotgun, stolen from Tom's parents house. Police started to investigate the murder but they can't find any evidence of Chris being a suspect. At the end Chloe gets pregnant and Chris is free of being a murderer.

Chris has two choose bettween two ways of life: poor but with a woman he loves or rich with a woman he likes but not as much as he would have to. Eventually Chris thinks the second option is better for his future.

I think in the film Chris is a winner even tough the ring he threw fell back and not to the Thames river. Police Department can't find any evidence of Chris beign a murderer so he wins the match.I can imagine Chris being really happy with Chloe and having two children: a girl and a boy. The boy would have been called Chris Junior and the girl Nola!!!

I don't know what was in Woody Allen's head when he made this film but I really like how it turned out the final result.

I can imagine another ending, that would be:

Chris got scared of being caught by the police and he ran off and escape to Ireland. Five years later, one day he decided to go back to London. Walking on the street he meets Chloe walking with a little boy: Chris's soon and then he got robbed by a man and after fighting he gets killed by him. Chloe who is near runs after hearing the shot. Later on Chloe sees in the newspaper a photo of Chris dead and being accussed of murdering a girl five years ago called Nora. Then Chloe sits on the sofa and we can see her crying about what had happened.

If the ring had fallen into the river I think Chris wouldn't have been accused of being a murderer but the police would have talked with Chloe's family and they would have discoverd the truth about the relationship of Chris and Nola that would have caused the end of the relationship between Chris and the Britisth "upper class".

Personal opinion:

At the beginning of the film I thought: oh my God! A Woody Allen's movie, because I'm not really fan of Allen's movies. But then I started to watch the film and I was interested in what was going to happen in the film. I totally love the ending, because if Chris would have been catched that would have been a typical ending but he's not and that's one of the coolest things of the movie!

Characters are also really well done and their personalities are also really good as well. It's interesting to see how Chris changes, how he decides to kill Nola, although sometimes is a bit strange movie I think it describes very well how ambition can be such a strong feeling in some people!

Match point (by Sergi Costa)

1. What type of film is Match point and where is it set? describe the first escene.

This film is a thriller and it is set in London. In the first scene we can see a tennis ball hitting the net and while the narrator explains that sometimes in life the ball falls forward and you win and sometimes it falls backwards and you lose.

2. Who are Chris Wilton, Nola Rice and Chloe Hewett?

Chris Wilton – He is the protagonist and he is a retired tennis player. He meets a young rich man called Tom
Nola Rice – She is Tom's girlfriend.
Chloe – She's Tom's sister she ends up meeting Chris, consequently they get married.

3. How would you describe their personalities?

Chris is an ambitious man , he is not happy with what he has, that being the reason for his marriage to Chloe who has a rich family, but since she doesn’t attract him sexually he goes in search of a more attractive woman who ends up being Nola. After a time he has to take a decission and choose one of the two women, he ends up killing Nola, his lover, and staying with his rich wife ,Chloe.

Nola – She seems to me to be a person with interests due to the fact that she was in a relationship with Chloe’s brother and cheats on him with Chris because she wants to and when her boyfriend leaves her she still maintains a sexual relationship with Chris. Once she was pregnant she wanted Chris to leave Chloe

Chloe – Chloe is a sweet person who loves Chris and her obsession is to become pregnant, she is also a simple, innocent woman because she doesn’t realize that Chris is cheating on her.

Can you summarize the film in few lines?

The film is about Chris, a retired tennis player who works as a personal trainer in London. There he meets Tom, a rich young man, and the she meets his sister Chloe and they start a relationship . From this moment on he will go out with Chloe but will be sexually attracted to Nola, who is Tom's fiancee. Nola and Chris have an affair although Nola says that it can't continue. Later on Chris and Chloe get married and they live together but Chris gets informed that Nola and Tom have split up and decides to look for her. When he finally finds her he reawakens the intimate attraction between them and there new relationship will last for a long time. But when Nola finds out she is pregnant she tells Chris that she wants the baby and that if he loves her he will have to divorce Chloe.

At this time Chris has to make the decision of the love he feels for Nola or the ambition of living with a rich family, and having a great job…

Finally he decides to kill Nola. Firstly what he does is to kill the neighbor and to simulate a robbery and then kill Nola. During the robbery he steals jewelry and a ring. After the incident Chris throws the robbed items into the river but the ring bounces on the railing and falls on the pavement. When the police are going to discover the Chris is a murdere , there is a report of a drug addict wha was found by the revier wearing the woman’s ring. At the end of the film and Chris is free and unpunished.

5 IN the film ambition is stronger than the love and passion. can you explain why?

Ambition is stronger than passion because Chris only maintains a relationship with Chloe because she is rich and has a good job. In fact he didn’t really love her, he really loved Nola but if he had left Chloe he wouldn’t have had a good job and he wouldn't have been rich.

6. Is chris Wilton a winner or a loser of this match? Can you imagine his life in the future?

Chris is the loser of this match because, although he got away with murder, he wil have to live with pangs of conscience for the rest of his life. I believe that in the future Chris will be a cold person with a lot of guilt on his conscience.

7. Why do you think Woody Allen lets chris free and unpunished?

I think that Woody Allen has let Chris be free and as criticism to the society we live in and the justice system, Innocent people get blamed for what the real suspect did, and therefore the system is flawed.

8. Can you imagine any other ending?

Of course, Chris after killing those innocent victims and getting away with it, he would end up killing himself for having a guilty conscience.

9.What would have happened if the ring had fallen into the river Thames?

The police officer would have investigated further and they would have arrested him.

10. Give your opinion about the film and give reasons why you liked it or didn't like it.

I really liked the film because it has a good storyline and Woody Allen knows how to create a rising tension in the film. Also you don’t know what will happen at the end and that’s why you never want to miss a bit of the film and think: O My God what will happen next? I also like the musical pieces (opera) in the movie that rise the tension even more.