FINAL REFLECTION

Unlike last year I am much more comfortable with the subject although this course was more difficult. one of the improvements that I've noticed is in the Newsroom because them and dedicated more time and desire to improve my performance in obtaining a note. I believe that oral presentations and oral examination I have served to try to speak the language more fluent and non-stop me so much to think about what I'm going to say.

Presentations presenting trying to work issues that already knew to be able to focus on pronunciation. I guess that it has been the tool more useful for improving in every way.

For me all activities have been useful although at the beginning it was too lazy to do them. If we make them something, I'm sure.

To not get the performance I think that they should continue oral works for expanding our oral performance and so get used to the language and that the conversation between teacher and student is more fluid. The other thing that I think is important to maintain is the choice of a book to read at home, because one thing that is not forced, like most.

My gap year, sport gap year.

Volunteer Sports Coaching Abroad (Sports Gap Year)

My first gap year I wnt to go to coaching children who love the football and run like me. It's a oportunity to learn a new language of poor people and his culture. 

The travel  it cost me 1326€ and in the ticket of the agence of travel includ me the food, insurance, accomodation, specialist equipament and airport pickup. In developing countries many children are not given the same basic opportunities as the rest of the world. One great way of addressing this issue is by introducing sport within these communities.

Sport provides both mental and physical benefits. It also teaches important life-skills, such as discipline, team-work and communication. We aim to create a fun and enjoyable learning environment, allowing participants to form good social relationships and to facilitate a positive path for development. Regular sports lessons and matches can have a really positive impact upon those from impoverished areas. There is also the opportunity to teach sport in schools. Many of the schools in which we work are understaffed so the children do not have access to such activities. You will be very well received and the children will be eager to learn from you. You do not need to have previous experience to get involved in this project - the key is enthusiasm! We accept volunteers of all levels of experience and you will be supervised by a local sports coach.

Whichever sports placement you choose, Projects Abroad will assist you along the way to ensure both volunteers and students get the most out of each experience.  Sports placements we currently offer are the Football, Basketball, Rugby, Surfing,  Volleyball, Multi-sports and School Sports.

Paris Agreement and Trump

The Paris Agreement is an agreement on emitting less greenhouse gases. Trump wants to pull back from the agreement.

This makes a lot of people angry. Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Trudeau and Hillary Clinton tweet about this. Emmanuel Macron, Australia Greens Party Leader, and the Japanese Environment Minister talk about this. The Japanese Minister says that he is very angry.

However, some Americans are happy. They are mostly miners. They want to keep their jobs.

Difficult words: agreement (something that you promise to do), emit (put into the air), greenhouse gas (a gas which makes the planet warmer), miner (a person who mines –gets something like coal out of the ground).

Camel Racing in Jordan

Camels and their trainers come to a desert in Jordan. They come to race. Camel racing is a tradition in Jordan. Crowds come to watch. The racers want to win money. The winner receives 400 Dinars (564 dollars).

Children cannot race in Jordan. Trainers use small radio-controlled jockeys on the camels.

After Ramadan, the camels race again.

Difficult words: radio-controlled jockey (a small thing that rides on an animal instead of a person and the trainer uses a controller to move it), Ramadan (the ninth and holy month of the Muslim year).

Boxing in a Hijab

This news is about a girl. She is Muslim. She lives in the USA. She fights in a boxing match. She wears a hijab during the match. She is the first person in the USA to do this.

She loses the match, but it is OK. It is about more than winning. She fights for what she believes in. She believes that all girls must have a chance.

Difficult words: match (a game, a sports event), hijab (clothes which cover the head; clothes worn by some Muslim women in public), during (in the time of).

Galaxies Meet

An incredible image, which was taken in 2009 by the Hubble Space Telescope, has been released.

A galaxy moves through a cluster of galaxies, and it is being ripped apart. It happens near the Great Attractor. This is a region in space around 200 million light years away from Earth.

Scientists study the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope for years because the images are very complex. The telescope has been taking pictures of space since 1990.

Difficult words: incredible (amazing and hard to believe), cluster (group), rip apart (pull something to pieces), complex (being made of many parts and not easy to understand). 

Tulip

The tulip is a Eurasian and North African genus of herbaceous, perennial, bulbous plants in the lily family, with showy flowers. About 75 wild species are currently accepted.

The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, north to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a common element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation.

Turtles

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. "Turtle" may refer to the order as a whole (American English) or to fresh-water and sea-dwelling testudines (British English).

The order Testudines includes both extant (living) and extinct species. The earliest known members of this group date from 157 million years ago, making turtles one of the oldest reptile groups and a more ancient group than snakes or crocodilians. Of the 327 known species alive today, some are highly endangered.

Turtles are ectotherms—animals commonly called cold-blooded—meaning that their internal temperature varies according to the ambient environment. However, because of their high metabolic rate, leatherback sea turtles have a body temperature that is noticeably higher than that of the surrounding water.

Turtles are classified as amniotes, along with other reptiles, birds, and mammals. Like other amniotes, turtles breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water.

Love

Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.

Ancient Greek philosophers identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge), friendship (philia), romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: limerence, amour de soi, and courtly love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning—notably in Abrahamic religions. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Resentment

Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a mixture of disappointment, anger, and fear. It comprises the three basic emotions of disgust, sadness and surprise—the perception of injustice. Robert C. Solomon, a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, places resentment on the same continuum as anger and contempt, and he argues that the differences between the three are that resentment is anger directed toward a higher-status individual; anger is directed toward an equal-status individual; and contempt is anger directed toward a lower-status individual.

As the surprise of injustice becomes less frequent, so too fades anger and fear, leaving disappointment as the predominant emotion. So, to the extent perceived disgust and sadness remain, the level of disappointment also remains. Resentment can be triggered by an emotionally disturbing experience felt again or relived in the mind. When the person feeling resentment is directing the emotion at himself or herself, it appears as remorse.

Resentment is the foundation of hatred. It is not one of Paul Ekman's big six (basic emotions of surprise, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear).

The word originates from French "ressentir", re-, intensive prefix, and sentir "to feel"; from the Latin "sentire". The English word has become synonymous with anger and spite.