Commenting News

Hello everyone!
To this task, I chose ‘Ferguson marks Michael Brown anniversary with silence and protest’, because I consider this news a very important Topic.

The racism can’t be conceived like something in our society. Being discriminated is one of the worst thing to happen to a human. To discriminate a person is horrible, in all its forms. So people being separated because their skin color, results incompressible to me.

The people in Ferguson, making manifestations for civil rights appears to me like a very sad reality, a reality where we can’t be ourselves, where there is injustice, where is no piece of love.
I really hope this people can be heard, to make their society better and guarantee people their rights.

BBC Learning English

I never dedicate time to find sites that teach English free, so with visiting the BBC site was totally new for me. And I totally loved it. The web page is very simple, it offers you the activities corresponding to your English level. 

One of the activities that I found, was the suffixes. It was very useful. I learnt the meaning of some words. I found the concept of ‘root’ very useful to learn suffixes.

The part that I liked the most was the 6 minutes Vocabulary, where two people talk about the lesson. Is very useful to practice how we understand English.

I also check the Past perfect continuous, session 2.

In my opinion, it’s a very useful site! 

A day in London

Hello everyone!!! 

I loved the activity we did last class. It was very interesting. Travelling has been always one of my dreams, so planning a week in London, even if it is only a hypothetical situation, was very funny. I put on the planning sheet places I really want to visit someday, like Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, and Westminster Abbey. The part that causes me a little bit problem was identify the Travel Zones where stations on the Tube lines, there are so many stations!

If I go to London one day, the big problem will be the money, because some attractions are expensive. By the other hand, some places are completely free!
 
I really hope someday I can visit London.

Mother Mother

Hi everyone!! Today I would like to talk about a band that I really love, it is called Mother Mother.

They are a group of three boys and two girls from Canada. They play a style of music that I consider like indie pop or rock, but I don’t really know which type of music is it. By the way, I love them because I found them very unique, it is such an experience to sit and listen to them. In their instrumental they include the most commons, like guitars and drums, but in some songs they use violins to complement the harmony. I love that mix of sounds, and their lyrics too, even when some people say that don’t make any sense. In general, I think I like them because their songs sound really like they were written from heart.

My favorite song is Let’s Fall in Love, mainly for the instrumental, but also because lyrics are very silly when you hear them for the first time, but when you pay more attention they make so much sense talking about how is love or how it feels. At least that is what I think.

Here is the Music video of Let's Fall in Love:

Trying to learn french D:

Hi! Today I am going to talk about a recent thing I am doing. I am learning French. Or trying to learn it jajaj
So this started because I love listen music, and I have a few songs in French. I wanted to know what the singers are saying, so I searched translations of the songs to Spanish and English. But I found the language so beautiful, and the pronunciation so, I don’t know, fluent and natural, that I wanted to speak French too.  I though it would be easy, trying first with the lyrics and reading them while I listen the corresponding song, but I couldn´t even pronunciate a ‘Oui’( which means yes) correctly.

Then I started searching for French lessons online. It works so much better, I learned words and their meanings. I discovered an app called Duolingo, especialized on learning languages. It helped me very much with it, because  it works making you memorizing words in different ways, for example, how to use verbs depending of the grammatical person you’re using. And the best part is that it helps with the pronunciation, making you talk to the microphone on your device. But for some reason I stopped to follow the lessons, so in consequence, I stopped learning the language.

A few days ago I downloaded the app again to my tablet, and retook the French lessons. I forgot only a few things, and now I am very excited learning again in my free time. I hope start with other languages soon, when I reach a level that allows me to understand French musicians are singing.

Pets

Hey guys! Today I am going to talk about pets I have.
Actually, I don´t have any pets, which is sad, because I love animals, but I have really bad luck when it comes to take care of a pet.
I remember my first pet, a fish called Arturo. I used to love him, but sadly, when my mother was changing the water of his fishbowl, he fell to the dishwasher, and went down the drain. I was very little, and until today, I wish Arturo had freedom in the sea, if he finished there.
Then, for a long time, I didn´t have any pet, until a little cat was given to my mom by a teacher who worked with her. We called the cat Sushi. He was a precious  golden cat, with orange lines on his fur.  And was very sweet and affective. For nothing, he approached me and purred. He was very funny too, rolling on the floor for absolutely nothing. Then, two months later, a baby dog was given to my dad. We called Diva, but at first that was funny, because she was very shy. Over time, she was one of the family, very playful and loving. Now, I don’t have any pet  because Diva run away when she found the door open, and Sushi get sick at the beginning of this year.
 I really want to have a pet now, so i am trying to get my parents approve to have one again :)

Music

Hi everyone! Today I will talk about something that I like very much, actually, I love it: Listen to music.

Seriously, i love it since I have use of reason, almost every style of it.

 I have very clear why I like so much to listen music, because I firmly believe that it  can be one of the best ways to express our emotions, in any way that we want. Composers, singers, bands... I am going to talk about two of my favourites now.

  I like very much Béla Bartók, an Hungarian composer, who based his pieces in traditional Hungarian music. They may haven’t got a message or an emotion when they was composed, but when someone listen to it, can experiment a full variety of emotions. When I listen Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2, I can easily imagine someone running afraid of something, or a suspense scene in a movie.

 And, in the other hand, I really love a band called The Spill Canvas, because their songs always are very deep and emotional, expressing feelings trough their lyrics, but in a way that  feel so much especial than other songs. That is because (I think) they use words to express in a less simple way that other bands, not using big words or anything, but giving them a sense of deep feelings and emotions, and, at least for me, that is what makes their songs amazing, filled with expressivity on each line.