THE BLOG-by Gonzalo Cabeza

THE BLOG

This year, Miriam and Beatriz had an idea for us: to create a blog written by the students. The idea is that everyone of us needs to hand in a piece of write about the topic that everyone prefers two days prior to the month day that corresponds your class number.

In my opinion it is a fantastic idea that allows you to express a bit about whatever does catch your mind that month. And it is also interesting to read in the blog what others have written about.

But the best of all is that by writing the blog you can raise your mark! So for example if you had a four point seven, and you had handed in every single one of your blogs quite well, Beatriz would take it into account in your average.

So I think, that it will be a good idea to continue with this activity in the following years.

SUMMER-by Diego García Echaniz

Summer will be very good because I'm going to the swamp and Barcelona, but before I go I need to pass some recovery exams. What I want is more heat to be with my friends at the pool and do everything that last summer was very good but I hope that this year it's a lot better because many friends have asked me for example to go to Barcelona and I hope to have a great time and to surf and water ski. To do so, this week I have to work hard to pass and this will be a great summer with no burdens and my only duty will be to have fun.

REAL MADRID-by Fidel Obama

In this blog i want to talk about Real Madrid , my favorite football team.
Real Madrid is a professional football club based in Madrid ,Spain  , the club wears a traditional white kit . 
They are my favourite club , I have always been a Real Madrid fan since I was little kid , although my mother and my uncle support Barcelona , the biggest rival. Since the beginning I chose Madrid , because I have passion for them. They are the best team in the world and they have the best players in the world. They have won a lot of trophies in the last years , and the most special trophy , the Champions League, which they call "LA DECIMA" , .

The stadium is called Santiago Bernabeu , and has a capacity of 81,500 seats.The club is the most valuable sports team in the world , with a net worth of € 2.5 billion , and it's the world's richest club , with an annual revenue of € 540.5 million per year. Also, it's one of the most supported clubs in the world , with fans in America , Europe ,Asia , Oceania and Africa.

Throughout its history Real Madrid has had the best players , from Di Stefano , Puskas, Kopa , Rial , Gento , Santillana, Hugo Sanchez  to Ronaldo , Raul , Figo , Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo , they are all legends of the club.

Real Madrid also has a foundation thats helps the poor and least favoured children all over the world , teaching them team effort and spirit through football.

Real Madrid is the club with most trophies , with 32 home leagues , 19 kings cup , 10 champions league , european record , 9 supercups, 1 league cup , and 1 intercontinental cup .

They are the greatest club in the world and I am going to support them forever until the end.

thanks , signed , Fidel obama , EG.

TORONTO-by Paula Heras

TORONTO

Next September 12th, 6 students from our school will go to Toronto, one of the most famous cities in Canada, to take part in a linguistic and cultural exchange.

While I was reading all the documents about the legal information of the exchange, I realized that I didn’t know much about this part of Canada.

These are a few things I’ve been gathering about it:

BASIC INFORMATION

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, so as the capital of the province of Ontario.

In 2011 it was the fourth most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,615,060 people.

It’s located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of the Lake Ontario.

POPULATION

As I said before, Toronto is well known as the most populated city in Canada with an actual population of about 2,8 million people.

Toronto is and has been an important destination for immigrants to Canada, it’s one of the world's most diverse cities.

There are over 200 different ethnic origins among its population, such as India Chinese, Japanese, Indian etc.

Despite this, English is still the primary language spoken by most of the Torontonians, although there are over 140 different languages spoken in that part of North America.

MUSIC

Toronto is well known too for its important musical, theatrical and other cultural activities.

There are lots of famous singers that are from Toronto such as the famous rapper Drake, the group The weekend.

Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, both of them very popular in the pop music world are from Canada too.

MAIN ATTRACTIONS

1. Canadian National Tower that is the most famous landmark, a 553 metre tower and observation deck.
2. Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
3. The city hall, one of the most beautiful city hall in North America.
4. Casa Loma
5. The sports centre
6. The hockey hall of fame
7. Etc

I can’t wait to be assigned my host family and finally go to Canada in September!

MY OPINION ABOUT THE USE OF BLOGS IN ENGLISH CLASS-by Bosco Juliussen

My opinion about the use of blogs in our English class.

This year we have been taught how to use blogs in our English class. A blog is a way to inform and communicate with other people or a group or with many people on internet. Blogs are now commonly used as a way of communication and also as advertising.

In class we were asked to write about a subject of our own choice and sometimes about a given subject like in the case of Nigeria. By writing blogs we learned to think about a subject and formulate in writing our ideas and the content that we wanted to communicate. We learned new words and phrases that we had to look up in order to build our sentences. It was a good way of making an outline of what you wanted to say and then trying to write it down and making an interesting article. Recently we were taught how to use a mind map and this was very helpful in making the outline of the content that I  wanted to include in the article. Every student sent their blog to the teacher and she evaluated the content of the blog and our mistakes before making it available to the group.

The blog is a quite effective way to communicate with others.  As it contains   personal opinions people are more interested in reading  it, as well as it motivates other people to write their own opinion and comment on the subject.  In this way experiences are being shared and one can learn from another  about using the English language  as well as the things that other people have been going through or places that they have visited. It can inspire other people to travel and tell them what to do or not to do. Even though it was a lot of work to  make it,  personally I have learned a lot from writing the blogs as it forced me to think, remember things from the past and to make an outline of what I wanted to write about and finally I was learning new words in order  to express myself properly.  And not least important, it was fun.

SCRUBS-by Lola García Romeu

Scrubs is an American television series that began airing on October 2, 2001 by the NBC network. The creator and executive producer of the series is Bill Lawrence.
The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of the various characters working at Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It offers talkative characters , pranksters with fast dialogues, and with images that are presented as reveries of the main characters. This last feature originally focused completely on the main character, doctor John Dorian (aka J.D.).

Characters 

Dr. Jonathan Michael "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff): Doctor of the hospital of the Sacred Heart. "J.D." is the narrator of the episodes of the series. He and his best friend is Turk, whom he has known from High School, have a pretty immature relationship, but very sincere due to their individual games. He has the habit of daydreaming, imagining situations that are very exaggerated and unrealistic. Despite some flaws and being very insecure, he is a very competent doctor who loves his work.

Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke): She is a physician specialized in Endocrinology, hospital intern and intimate friend of J.D. She was born in Connecticut, where her father was an important Chief of medicine. She is a person with many defects: she has cold hands because of her poor circulation, she doesn’t like to be touched, she has panic attacks, is claustrophobic, and she also has phobia of germs and phobia of phobias, but those things do not prevent her from being an excellent doctor.Dr. Christopher "Turk" Duncan.

Dr. Turk (Donald Faison): He is one of the surgeons at the hospital. His best friend is "J.D” whom he has known since High School.He is very competitive and he always wants to win at everything. He is an excellent dancer and very athletic, he is usually seen playing basketball outside of the hospital in his spare time.

Carla Espinoza (Judy Reyes): She is a nurse at the hospital. She is also Turk’s wife,whom he had a long courtship with until they ended up marrying. She is friend a of J.D. and she protects and defends him when Dr. Cox bothers him without any reason,. She tends to tell people their faults and she gives them advice. She doesn’t accept jokes about herself, so when someone dares to do so, Carla reacts very exaggerated and ends up humiliating that person.

Dr. Percival Ulysses "Perry" Cox (John C. McGinley): He is the Chief of internal medicine at the hospital, having to teach new inmates. That’s why "J.D." saw in him a mentor and went to him every time he had a problem, while Cox made it clear with enough irony and sarcasm his displeasure towards him. He is a proud doctor and very direct with people, though very intelligent. Despite hos hard nature he always wants the best for his patients, even when it is against what his superiors say

DOES BIRTH ORDER DETERMINE YOUR PERSONALITY?-by Lucía Fernández Cuesta

Ever wondered if your personality was decided at birth? Some days ago I read an article which maintains that the order in which you were born can not only have an effect on your personality, but also your chances of academic success.

From my point of view, birth order does not really dictate your personality. Although it might have a strong effect on parent's expectations, it has nothing to do with children's personality.

According to this article, first borns tend to be higher academic achievers and they also tend to have a stronger sense of responsibility while youngest children tend to be academically-able, creative and resourceful. However, there's a long list of examples which can prove this isn't true at all. For example, Taylor Swift is the oldest sister and she's really creative.

Personally, I believe that I'm pretty responsible and I'm always competing with my sister in order to be the one who gets the highest marks. Actually, I do get higher marks than she did when she was my age!

To sum up, birth order does not dictate your personality at all. If you can relate to anything said on this article It's just a coincidence.

Lucía Fernández-Cuesta Donat