SAN VALENTÍN, ¿AMOR O CONSUMISMO?

El día de San Valentín es una celebración que se ha ido implantando en muchos paises.

Se celebra el 14 de Febrero porque es el dia del Santo San-Valentín.

En esta fiesta principalmente los enamorados, novios, esposos, muestran su cariño mediante regalos, detalles..

Pienso que no hace falta un día de San Valentin para mostrar que uno quiere a alguien.

Al principio se comenzaron a vender las primeras tarjetas postales de San Valentín, con símbolos como corazones. A esta se sumaron otro tipos de regalos como rosas y chocolates.

Al día de hoy,Lo que empezó siendo un detalle hacia la pareja se ha convertido en un bombardeo publicitario.

Con este acontecimiento comerciantes y empresarios se benefician ya que este día se ha convertido en la excusa perfecta para darle fuerza a sus ventas,mediante rebajas, etc.

En resumen a todo esto pensamos que tienes que demostrarle a tu pareja el afecto cada día y no esperes a San Valentín para tener un detalle con ella.

ANIMAL CONSERVATION.

This paper discusses the importance of the extinction of endangered animals.

Extinction is a natural process. Even before humans evolved and many plants and animals were in danger, for example, due to weather.
But when humans evolved the process of extinction was faster due to lack of resources, hence, humans began to hunt, build in habitats where they lived, etc.. To lead a better life.

That is why the irreparable damage that humans have created have been several extinctions, for example, "The dodo was a bird that lived in the Indian Ocean, ty flying in islands such as Mauritius. But with the arrival of humans to the sea, "The dodo became a source of food for humans, the population declined rapidly dodos, doing so completely disappeared.

With regard to endangered animals know that many animals are endangered due to human activity as we discussed earlier.
The World Wildlife Fund works hard to raise humans from the situation where animals are and to find ways to protect them.

The most striking examples of endangered animals include the rhino, panda, whale and tiger.

 
The purpose of this foundation is to protect animals and their natural habitats are problems such as pollution and deforestation and the threat posed by poachers.

SECOND TERM - TEEN MUSIC

TEEN MUSIC

This session consisted in read a text about download music and know more about this activity and which are their consecuences.

After read the text and did some exercices, we know that It's legal to download music when you pay for downloading from shops on the internet, that pop stars and their companies get their money from sellin CDs and to invent in new band and if we don't buy  CDs the future of pop music is in danger.
The text also spoke about famous singers like Black Eyed Peas.

In my opinion isn't wrong to download songs from internet and I don't think it's true that the future of pop music depends on it because they earn much money on advertising, concerts, etc ...

 In my case, for example, I haven't enough money to buy a CD, it costs me at least 14 €, every time that I like a song, plus, a disc only have one or two good songs, the others don't worth it.

 I believe that if  put the discs cheaper, the problem wouldn't be so great.
 but I also say that if I were a singer, I wouldn't like people download my songs and wouldn't buy my records.

GENERACIÓN BÚNKER.

En este trabajo hablamos de la generación búnker.

La generación búnker se denomina a los menores de entre 12 y 18 años que han interiorizado tanto el uso de las nuevas tecnologías que ya no podrían prescindir de ellas.

Se compara a esta generación con un búnker, que es una construcción que se utiliza en la guerra para protegerse de los bombardeos. Se utiliza este término porque se compara el búnker con las habitaciones de los adolescentes que se conectan a Internet durante horas, aislados de toda vida social, familias, amigos, etc.

En la noticia también aparecen dos instituciones, el Defensor del Pueblo y Unicef

El término de Defensor del Pueblo se denomina así porque se encarga de defender los derechos y libertades de los ciudadanos.

El término Unicef significa Fondo Internacional de Emergencias de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia. Unicef se encarga de ayudar a niños y a proteger sus derechos.

También encontramos una encuesta con una muestra de 3219 alumnos.

En la encuesta se deswcriben unos datos estadísticos que son los siguientes:
1. 4 de cada 10 jóvenes tienen amigos virtuales a los que no han visto nunca.

2. El 64% de los adolescentes cuelgan imágenes privadas.

3. El 14% asegura haber recibido alguna vez proposiciones sexuales.

4. El 11% han sido insultados o amenazados a través de la Red.

5. 6 de cada 10 menores navegan en Internet sin ninguna supervisión de un adulto.

 6. Pasan ante el televisor más de dos horas al día de media en jornadas lectivas y más de tres los fines de semana.

7.La mitad de los menores considera que la programación "no colabora en su educación" y critica muchos "gestos y lenguajes" que son ofensivos e "insultantes".

En nuestra opinión pensamos que no todos los jóvenes se pueden clasificar como “generación búnker”.

Estamos de acuerdo que utilizamos bastante las nuevas tecnologías; ordenadores, Internet, móviles, etc… Pero no estamos todo el día utilizándolas.

Hoy en día cada vez más personas se unen a estas tecnologías como por ejemplo los adultos.

Pensamos que si los jóvenes tuviésemos locales o lugares adaptados a nosotros, no estaríamos todo el día conectados a Internet.

Creemos que la mayoría de los padres si que deberían estar más pendientes de sus hijos y advertirles de lo malo que es para la visión y para todo, pasar tanto tiempo delante de estos aparatos. Pero no sólo los padres tienen que estar más al cuidado de sus hijos, también pensamos que deberían hacer más campañas contra esto ya que es algo muy importante y creemos que no estamos lo suficientemente informados.

VOLUNTEERS WORKS - FIRST TERM

VOLUNTEERS WORKS


The work that summarized below are the volunteers works (supposedly) on the first term.

- "Constitution Day. This work spoke about the Spanish constitution. We had to answer a series of questions working on the wikiedia.

- Internet-Downloads. In this paper we talked about the illegality and legality of internet downloads and our opinion on the subject.

 - Analysis of Media: Catalan elections. this activity was to analyze various newspapers that they had in common a new, the Catalan elections.

 - "Views on the general strike. in this work we could get more information about what is a strike, what are its  purposes... etc

At the end we understood that these works were not truly voluntary and that if did not make them you haven't the opportunity to obtain outstanding at the final mark.

FIRST TERM - TENN RIGHTS

TENN RIGHTS

The first that we did was read a text related with Child's rights. Somes of this rigts are:

- The right to a family.
- The right to an identity
- The right to a healthy life .     
- The right to education.
- The right to equality.
- The right to opinions and information.
- The right to protection from dangerous work.

After that, we did a listening in wich We listened  the opinions of some teenagers. those opinions were related to things that in their opinion young people must or don't must doing.

Finally, we read a text that explained what is article 12, children rights' organisation in the UK.

In my opinions is very important to know more about our rights.
But sometimes these rights are worthless, for example a child who has no family and is starving, like so many children there are, you can have all the rights of the world but that child will continue to die and the rights aren't going to serve for nothing.
althoug in some cases is good to know about them.

FIRST TERM - HUMAN RIGHTS FOR GREEN APES

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR GREEN APES

We read a text in which it told an anecdote that accurred about young an a chimpanzee when some friends went to the zoo.
 The text also says that chimpanzees and other apes are always the favorite attraction in all zoos.
 Finally  the author tells of a group of people called the Great Ape Project (GAP) to campaign for animals to be afford these "human rights ".

 The declaration calls for three point to Be Granted rights to great apes:
- The Right to Life

-The Protection of Individual Liberty  

- The Prohibition of Torture

We read this text was the first part of the class, well, really we did this activity in a class (try to understand the text and ask Megan for the words that we don't understand). The next class we anwered some questions related to the text.

In my opinion we aren't one to take the life of another living being, much less to torture him or make him suffer just to have some fun, I don't find it anything funny
 I agree with part of the text that said that sometimes the animals seem more human (doing the things well) that humans, that the vast majority of the time they behave like animals.
 I find it very fitting that animals have rights, but if people do not respect the human rights, you believe that they may respect the rights of animals?

PRIMER TRIMESTRE - ELECCIONES AL CONSEJO ESCOLAR

ELECCIONES AL CONSEJO ESCOLAR

Este trabajo consistía en buscar información sobre las elecciones al Consejo Escolar de nuestro instituto,para saber un poco más acerca de dichas elecciones.

Para ello, miramos en la página web de nuestro centro.

En ella aparecía el número de representantes de alumnos que hay en el Consejo Escolar que son cinco alumn@, también aparecía el plazo para presentar las candidaturas en estas elecciones, del 16 al 27 de Octubre y el dia de celebración de las elecciones del alumnado(ya pasadas) que es el dia 17 de Noviembre.

A continuación leimos una ley que regula lo que se refiere al Consejo Escolar, y teníamos que buscar en ella las respuestas a algunas preguntas,como por ejemplo, ¿Quién puede convocar una reunión del Consejo Escolar? o

¿Qué artículo regula el proceso de elecciones de loos representantes del alumnado?...

Esta misma ley, es la que regula tambien los Derechos y Deberes del alumnado, cada uno teniamos que hacer una tabla en la que expusiéramos que deberes creemos que cumplimos en nuestro centro, a raíz de ese ejercicio toda la clase estuvimos comentando.

Si quiere obtener más información acera de esta ley puede pinchar aquí

FIRST TERM - TEEN TIME

TEEN TIME

In this class we also read a text. This text spoke about what doing  teenagers in their free time.

The most part of their time, they are watching TV or playing computer's games. For example the overage of the time that teenagers spend watching TV is 2.5 hour and in 2003, they spend  £ 1,5 million on computer games.
The text also said that less than 50% of teenagers play team sports, and they hardly ever go to gyms because they're too expensive.
After read the text, we answered some questions related to the text.

 Lastly we listened four teenagers speaking about the things that they do on their free time.
The first, Sharon has lots of different hobbie and interests and she doesn't whatch TV but watches films.
Martin, doesn't get ery much physical exercise and he spends a lot of time surfing the internet.
Another boy, Duncan has a hobby that might become a profession and sometime goes dancing in clubs.
Karen is very keen on physical exerciseand and he does aerobic.

I think It's truth that we (teenagers) spend so much time on the computer and television, but what we do if when we finished homework and study are at least 9 at night?
 at that time our parents don't let us go out if we have school the next morning, so all we can do to have some fun time is watching TV or playing on the computer.
 Adults criticize us for doing basically nothing but they neither do much sport or go to the gym, they spend their free time doing more or less the same as us.

 On the other hand, many parents don't let their children go out alone to run or do sport because it's dangerous but don't want that their children spend their money on a gym then ... What can we do?

FIRST TERM - TEEN VOICES

TEEN VOICES

In this class our classmates read a text about the cultures in Britain.
In these activities we learn about British culture, and the immigrants who go there to work and run businesses.
We talk that Celts, Ramons, Saxons, Vikings and Normons invaded Britain between 500 BC and 1000 AD.
Now we know that Irish people came to Britan to scape famine and Jewish people came to scape anti-Semitions.
In the 19505 and 19605 immigrants came from British colonies and formes colonies in the Caribbean and Asia.
We also know about the most popular dish in Britain, Curry that came from India.
As you can see Britain always has been a multi-cultural place.

Finally we listened and answered some questions about this topic.

Miriam and I wasn't in the class because we were with the teacher of religion at the convent of Carmelite's nuns, so then we asked to our classmates about this session
They said to us that our new native's teather Meghan has already arrived.

TEEN EUROPE - FIRST TERM

TEEN EUROPE

In this class our natives teacher was Jonny.

At first of this class Jonny read a report that spoke about Europe and lots of information about this country and then he made questions abut the text. 

We knew better The European Union through a text and activities. We learned that the European union was formed in 1952, Spain joined the European Union in 1986, that the euro was introduced in 2002 and all the countries that forming the European Union: Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.

Finally we listened four teenagers talking about Europe and we answered somes quiestions related with this listen.

PRIMER TRIMESTRE.

El trabajo que mostramos a continuación es el primer trabajo que realizamos al empezar el curso y está relacionado con la expulsión de los gitanos rumanos de Fracia.

Expulsión de gitanos rumanos de Francia.

En esta actividad leimos dos noticias en las que nos explicaban lo siguiente:

Se explican las razones del conflicto entre Francia y la comisión Europea, por la expulsión de los gitanos rumanos del país.

 Francia explica que su decisión se basa en los criterios de expulsión de inmigrantes, y afirma que no incumple ninguna regla. En cambio la comisaría de Justicia y la Comisión Europea están en desacuerdo y pretenden que no se proceda a la expulsión de los gitanos rumanos. Rumanía dice que hay que integrar a los gitanos rumanos pero sin que dejen de serlo y el parlameto Europeo alude que cualquier europero puede estar en territorio europeo durante tres meses. Francia, en desacuerdo, explica que solo quiere lo mejor para el país, y pone ejemplos de revueltas iniciadas por los rumanos. También explica, que da ayudas para que puedan salir del país e iniciar una nueva vida, en definitiva, pretenda que no se vea como una expulsión masiva.