Antonia Ramírez
C/Nord n. 2
Vila-Sacra, Catalunya 17485
Mr. Cole
Inditex Company
Figueres, Catalunya, Spain
May 31, 2017
Dear Mr. Cole,
I am interested in the vacant for Zara employee this summer.I¡m a 17 years old girl and i qm currently studying baccalaurate, but as soon as i finish i would like to work in this shop. I can go to work at any time, i have a lot of free time keeping in mind that is summer.
I feel like i suit in this job because i am a great worker and i have a good sense of fashion. I also know how to treat the clients because i already have worked to face to the public. I have good manners and i know how to develop myself.
If you are interested on having me as your employee only for this summer, please write me back. I would be so helpful and rewarding working with you.
Yours, sincerely.
divendres, 9 de juny del 2017
Final Reflection 1 Bat
LOOKING BACK
1. Can you see an improvement on your level of English in the past year/s? Where, for example?
2. Which activity best shows your level of English?
3. Which activities were really USEFUL for you to improve your English? Why?
4. Which activities did you NOT find useful to learn English? Why not?
5. Which activities would like to do again next year to keep on improving your English?
1. Yes, because this year i've learned more stuff and i know more how to write in english and express myself via oral and writing. But the exams have been worse than before because is more difficult but i'm not disappointed with the results at all.
2. The Blog because there i can express myself better than on the exams.
3. Watching series in english class with spanish subtitles because we can hear the series in english and listen how they speak and understanding it because we read the spanish translation.
4. The Grammar Book because we did it on our own and sometimes we didn't know the meanings or didn't understand everything at all. It is useful but there are other activities that can be more useful.
5. Listening to songs in english and translate them or filling some gaps of the song in a sheet.
2. The Blog because there i can express myself better than on the exams.
3. Watching series in english class with spanish subtitles because we can hear the series in english and listen how they speak and understanding it because we read the spanish translation.
4. The Grammar Book because we did it on our own and sometimes we didn't know the meanings or didn't understand everything at all. It is useful but there are other activities that can be more useful.
5. Listening to songs in english and translate them or filling some gaps of the song in a sheet.
diumenge, 4 de juny del 2017
Gap Year
GAP YEAR
Once i finish baccalaurate I want to travel the world. My goal is to become a good journalist, and to reach that, first I need to get experience on the job. So first thing first, I will go get a job so i can earn money to travel later.
My plan is to work for about 4 months and then go to England to improve my english. After that I will talk to my uncle so he can help me with the journalism because he is a very imprtant journalist in Colombia and so is his daughter (my cousin).
So I will stay in England for about 3 months in a house with a family of there and then i'll take a flight right to Colombia to be with my uncle and cousin so i can learn more about journalism.
I don't want to see a Gap Year as a break, i want to see it as time to take profit even though I know that these 2 years will be tough and hard, but at least is worth it.
If I could I would do what I said and more, because a productive person makes the difference and being lazy takes you nowhere.
My say
AUSTRIA
Two months ago, me and a couple of students went to visit Austria as a school trip. We didn't go there just for fun, we did it with our history's teacher to know more about what happened during the WWII, and how the affected people lived back then.
The first day we went to Munich in Germany to see the first concentration camp. I remember how big it was, it didn't seem to be a concentration camp at all because it was so beatiful. There was plenty of nature all around it and amazing green fields. But once you go inside the buildings you realise where you are and what really happened there. The principal room i will never forget is the gas showers, where tones of innocent people died.
The following day we went to Linz, Austria, and we visited the streets. In every street there's a little of history. The guides explained us a lot of interesting things and facts that happened there. Linz is such a beautiful city to live in.
Next, we went to two more concentration camps, and what a saw there left me without words. Those places are so breathtaking, not only because how pretty they are, because how much victims were there and died. Once you visit these places you change completely your mind and the way to see everything.
The last day we visited Vienna, my favorite city so far, and went all around it with a guide who explained us a lot of things.
Making this trip is really worth it, i'm so glad i went there. I wish i can go there in the future on my own so i can see more places and learn more things about it.
News
Why you should chew gum after a C-section
Chewing gum can trick the body into thinking that the person is eating. Among the difficult things a woman has to do after having a C-section — from tending to her stitches to learning to breast-feed, now there's a recommendation that's a little easier: chew gum. A new meta-analysis suggests that chewing gum three times a day for 30 minutes each time can help bring back women's normal gut function after a C-section delivery. It gets saliva flowing in the mouth and can help send signals to the gut to start moving again.
In most of the studies, the women were given gum within 2 hours of their delivery, and asked to chew it three times a day for 15 to 30 minutes at a time. The researchers found that, on average, women who chewed gum farted about 6.5 hours sooner than those who were not given gum: Gum chewers experienced their first fart about 23 hours after the operation, compared with non-chewers, who didn't fart until about 29.5 hours after the operation.
MY OPINION: I think that chewing gum is been always a good thing, and after reading this I still keep my thought.
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My say
French Toast recipe
Ingredients
DIRECTIONS:
In a small bowl, combine, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar and set aside briefly.
In a 10-inch or 12-inch skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk together cinnamon mixture, eggs, milk, and vanilla and pour into a shallow container such as a pie plate. Dip bread in egg mixture. Fry slices until golden brown, then flip to cook the other side. Serve with syrup.
This is one of my favorite breakfast so far.
News
London attack: Seven killed in vehicle and stabbing incidents
Seven people have been killed and at least 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were shot dead by police.
A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday, then three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. Police said the three men were wearing fake bomb vests.
One of those hurt is a police officer who was stabbed after going to help. His injuries are not life-threatening.
Borough Market is an area known for its bars and restaurants which were busy on a warm summer evening. It is the third terror attack in the UK in three months following the car and knife attack in Westminster in March, which left five people dead, and the Manchester bombing less than two weeks ago, in which 22 people were killed.
MY OPINION: I think that this really needs to end because people is being killed for no reason by other people that is being paid for doing that. Taking peoples lives is unfair and has no pardon.
3 NEW WORDS:
-Life-threatening: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=life-threatening
NEWS LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40146916
My Say
13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why is a new series of Netflix.
This series go around Clay Jensen, as he returns home from school to find a mysterious package on his bed. Wen he opens it, he finds seven cassette tapes. This tapes are recorded by Hannah Baker, a girl that went to the same school as Clay, who recently committed suicide. Every tape contains 13 reasons why she killed her self. Each of these tapes are focused on one of the persons that made her do that. These people are old friends of Hannah.
All of them had listened to the tapes but they didn't say anything about it, they just kept it as a secret. Clay is the only one who wants to show these tapes to the world to let everyone know the truth.
The end of the season 1, Hanna's parents discover the existence of these tapes by Tony (the first person who Hannah gave the tapes before she killed her self).
I really liked and enjoyed this TV show, it is so emotive and made me realize and think about the people that get bullied in the school. It is so hard to see it, and makes you feel so sad about it.
News
The man who built his plane using YouTube videos
Mr Long grew up in Cambodia he was one of six children of rice farmers, he had never been in an aircraft of any kind.
After seeing a helicopter when he was about six years old, he says, the urge to fly preoccupied his mind - for decades. "I always dreamt about aircraft every night. I always wanted to have my own plane," he says.
At first, it remained nothing more than a dream. Mr Long dropped out of school early and trained as a mechanic, one of the few non-farming professions available to young men without a high school education in his home.
By last year his fascination with flight had taken over and Mr Long, now aged 30 and decided he had saved enough money to realise his childhood fantasy.
"I started building a plane, making it in secret," he says. "I was afraid that people would make fun of me, so sometimes I worked at night."
The moment of truth came on 8 March. Just before 15:00, Mr Long started the plane's engine. Three people helped to push it to his "runway": he reached a height of 50 metres and crashing unceremoniously to the ground. Now, he is building a seaplane - also largely from scrap materials - which he believes he can make light enough to take to the skies.
MY OPINION: I think he is doing such a good job with his childhood dream. Also i think he is so smart because not everyone can make a plane only watching Youtube videos, even though it didn't work at all. Where he lives is not easy to make your dreams come true because there isn't enough money and is not well-seen.
MY OPINION: I think he is doing such a good job with his childhood dream. Also i think he is so smart because not everyone can make a plane only watching Youtube videos, even though it didn't work at all. Where he lives is not easy to make your dreams come true because there isn't enough money and is not well-seen.
3 NEW WORDS:
unceremoniously: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=unceremoniously
NEWS LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39945650
My say
Kendick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton (USA) he is 29 years old and he is one of the best rappers so far. His songs talk about society issues; hunger, Donald Trump, the black people being killed by police in USA for no reason, how easy is to get weapons in his country, how people have lost humbleness nowadays, etc.
Most of the young rappers of today write songs about unimportant stuff like getting drunk, doing drugs, etc. Kendrick is different because of the way he sings and the style of his lyrics.
He is skin colored and he is proud of it, he does care about the differences between white people and black people. This is the main topic of his songs.
Also he has released one of the best albums of this year 2017 called "DAMN". It was named like this because everything that he says in his songs makes you think about that word, especially at the end of the whole album, once you've listened to it the only thing you can say is Damn. Because it is so "damn" good.
dimarts, 14 de març del 2017
My say
Sleep well
People nowadays don't sleep the hours they need, and it's because the everyday tasks and the social media. Going to school or to work makes us really tired and we need some rest, but when we arrive home the first thing we do is check our mobile phones and social media, so we can't rest at all.
A person needs to sleep at least 8h per day and the most of the people only sleep 6 hours more or less. Sleeping well is very important, speacially if we are growing up. Our body needs to rest and get ready for an other day of activities. That's why doctors recommend us to leave our mobile devices and turn them off, so we can sleep better.
People nowadays don't sleep the hours they need, and it's because the everyday tasks and the social media. Going to school or to work makes us really tired and we need some rest, but when we arrive home the first thing we do is check our mobile phones and social media, so we can't rest at all.
A person needs to sleep at least 8h per day and the most of the people only sleep 6 hours more or less. Sleeping well is very important, speacially if we are growing up. Our body needs to rest and get ready for an other day of activities. That's why doctors recommend us to leave our mobile devices and turn them off, so we can sleep better.
News.
Why Putin is world's most powerful man
The power of a head of state is determined both by the country's strength and the capacity he or she has to exercise that power, unilaterally, unconstrained by other institutions, parties and political forces. And combining those two metrics, it's easy to see why Vladimir Putin rises to the top of list.
The entire structure of Russian political power rests on one man.
To understand Putin, you have to understand Russia. The last hundred years for that country have seen the fall of the monarchy, the collapse of democracy, the great depression, World War II with its tens of millions of Russians dead, Stalin's totalitarian brutalities, the collapse of communism, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin's years of chaos and corruption.
Then comes Vladimir Putin, who ushers in stability and, in popular perception, rising standards of living and increasing prominence and respect in the world. That respect is important.
MY OPINION: I agree with this post because Vladimir Putin has showed to the wolrd that he is a very powerful man, and he makes the most difficult desicions of his country.
NEWS LINK: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/13/opinions/putin-most-powerful-man-world-zakaria/index.html
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My say
Eat healthy
Being healthy is so important, specially now that fast food industries have become more popular between people. Sometimes eating fast food is good, why not? But eating it regularly is not. We need to reduce our comsumption because fast food bring us nothing but bad news. It makes you weaker and ill every time you eat it, you gain weigth and you are more vulnerable to any type of healthy illness.
We are free to eat anything we want but always being concious of what we are eating.
Start being "green" and add vegetables to your diet, i will make you feel good with yourself and it'll help you to live longer. I'm not the most healthier person in the world, but i've started eating more vegetables and fruit and i feel completly different and more confident with myself.
So i really think that eating healthy is very important in our lifes!
News.
Teen suicide on the rise amongst Canadian girls
In early 2016, five teenagers from Woodstock, Ontario killed themselves in just as many months, leaving not only their family but the community as a whole bewildered with grief.
Across the country, suicide amongst teen girls and young women is on the rise, while male suicide in the same age group declines, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Thursday.
Health experts have long been concerned with the prevalence of suicide amongst young men. It has been called a "silent epidemic" and for good reason. In 2013, men were three times as likely to kill themselves as women, the latest data shows. Studies indicate that there is a strong link between a history of sexual abuse and suicide attempts.
MY OPINION: I think that people should be more concerned about these news, because these suicides are not normal. Sexual abuse is a problem that has been chasing us for years and we need to stop it before it gets even worse.
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My Say
Feminism
I want to talk about feminism because it is a relevant topic this year. Women has become a crucial paper in every aspect. Being a woman nowadays is very dangerous and in some countries is still seen as a sin and as a curse.
I'm glad of being a girl but it's very hard to go aigainst the justice without any support.
I want to say out loud that women have the same matter as men and we can do exactly the same stuff they do. Being a woman is never a sin or a curse, we are a blessing and together we're stronger. Being a feminist means to fight and believe in and for the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
Quiz: What's your personal fashion?
I agree with the results, because i usually dress with an urban style and i really like it. But my personal fashion is all mixed, i don't wear the same type of clothes all the time.
dimecres, 8 de febrer del 2017
Personality Test
I agree with the results and with the content of the post about this personally test.
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