Learning Journal #12

"HOLIDAYS"

Finally I'm in Holidays...I know that holidays were made for relax and replenish energies, but in this holidays I have a lot to do...I have to work in my online portfolio, I have to clean the house, study(especially maths) and other things that are very important and which are very urgent...Of course that I also will be with my friends and have some fun but for me it's better to do a list of things that I've to do because sometimes I can be very lazy and this list helps me a lot in organisation of time and also in responsabilities...

The best thing in holidays, for me, it's the fact that we sleep more...It's amazing...I love sleep and holidays give me the chance to sleep a lot. Another thing that I love in holidays is the fact that I can stay more time watching tv at night without concerns about the other day, because we don't have classes at the other day...I also love the fact that in holidays in my swimming training I'm great because I stayed all day relaxing...

So, I love holidays but Of course that I also like classes but are different things and situations but I like both...Now I'm in holidays so I'm enjoying the moment but when I'll come back to the school I will enjoy the school, too...

In this holidays I've heard a lot of music. I love music but I believe that we (humans) have a lot of phases in music...sometimes we heard a thing one day, but at the other day we found another music, that is new for us, and sometimes you like and you can't stop listening...and sometimes you don't like and you swear that you will never more listen that music, of course with your original type of music that you can't betray...I believe in this...So, right now I "found" Jordin Sparks and I love her music, especially "Freeze" which is a music from her Cd. I also love "Hedonism (just because you feel good)" from skunk anansie which is a music that I listened in my mum's car that I adore. Rui Veloso it's also a new artist for me...I know that he has a long career but I only started listen him since I were in Porto...From him I can't stop listen "Porto Sentido" and "Jura"...Of course that Jazz and Coldplay are music that I always, always listen and like...

"Freeze"...Jordin Sparks...I love this song

"Porto Sentido"...Rui Veloso...This song reminds me Porto so much...

"Hedonism (just because you feel good)"...Skunk Anansie... What a wonderful song

Learning Journal #11

"DEBATE"

My debate was about the disappear of the written press and my group had to defend that the written press will never disappear, this means that we're against the disappear of the written press.

I think that our debate was very good but I also think that we in the classes could worked more. In the classes we tried to do what the teacher had told us to do, but sometimes was difficult to us, of course in my opinion, because I was against the disappear, but the others elements of the group were for, so was a little difficult. Despite of this, we had a very good debate where we defend that the written press will never disappear. To defend this, we used arguments against the disappear. The arguments that we used were: The internet will work together with the written press despite of replace it, the number percentage of sales of written press have been increased instead of decrease, so this proves that people buy magazines and newspapers. Other argument that we used was that will always exist people who prefer the written press and not the Internet ways...

The thing that I've to improve to my next debate is the organisation and the study of more vocabulary because sometimes I muddled me with words cos' sometimes I don't know the words to say...so this is certainly a thing to improve.

Finally, I liked to do this debate because I adore when people confront their opinion with others who have the opposite, because it's funny observe the arguments that the both opinions have to say. The only thing that I changed in this debate it's the people who are against defend their opinion(against) and the people who are for defend the arguments for, because it's easier and better defend our opinion instead of  defend our opposite ideas and opinions.

Learning Journal #10

"WILL THE WRITTEN PRESS DISAPPEAR?"

Will the written press disappear?, of course not...Written press was the topic that I had to work in the classes and my opinion it's against the disappear of the written press. Why? Because, in my opinion, the Internet won't replace the written press but work together with it, this means that Internet, which includes a lot of ways to help us see notices and a lot of things(videos,images, etc) with programmes like youtube, blogs and google will never make the written press disappear.

I also think that the written press will never disappear, because I think that will always exists people who like to buy newspapers and magazines who will always prefer the written press instead of Internet and technologies.

Learning Journal #9

"PORTO"

Porto is a city that I will certainly never forget...The beautiful bridges...the wonderful monuments...the gardens...the river mouth...AMAZING...

I loved...loved my journey to Porto, because Porto is a city that I didn't know, which surprised me for the positive way...I though that Porto was a dangerous and scaring city without any interest...and now I want to go there again...

Now, I think that Porto is a very beautiful city, because it mixes history with sea which is a very unusual characteristic to have in a city...I recommend to all people who like to travel, to visit Porto because I know that you will like it.

In Porto you can't miss: the sightseeing to "know" the city, the river tour to visit the fantastic bridges, the bookshop "Lello", the riverside, Santa Catarina Street, the stadium of "Futebol Clube do Porto", the various churches and speacially the river mouth because it was the part of city that I loved most because it's very,very beautiful...

This proves that we don't have to go outside of our country to find beautiful places and beautiful landscapes...You only have to look for this in our country and yes, you certainly will find this...

PORTO, a journey to record and to repeat...

Learning Journal #8

"THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE WOLF"

"The little girl and the wolf" was the fable that my group had to perform.I liked this play because I like to act, because I'm a very expressive person, I've a strong personality, so I love to act!!!

My group had worked very well in the classes so our performance was very good...

Our fable was a criticism by James Thurber about the way that parents brought their children up in the past...because they sometimes based their children's life in panic, fear and intimidation and James Thurber did this fable to criticise/alert people that this isn't a good way to bring up children, especially girls.

The story is about a little girl who meets a strange wolf in a dark forest which asks her where her grandmother lives. She gave him the answer and he runs to her grandmother's home to make her grandmother disappear...When the little girl arrives to there, she understands what happens and kills the wolf.

The story has a moral that is: it's not easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be. I liked a lot this story because I know it and was very fun to do a theatre based on it!!

Learning Journal #7

"MY ASSESSMENT"

I think that this term was good to me because I worked in my portfolio, which is my favourite thing, because I love to write about the things that I like and about the things that I do in the classses...I also tried to understand other presentations about the themes of the term and I also tried to make a good job working in group/pairs, so for me I did a good job...

The difficult part to me was in the work about choosing a music in a group and make a poster that connects the music with the themes that we had worked in the class, because it was very difficult to choose the music in group and the work that we did in the classes was very disorganised, so we had to improve this in the presentation...

In this term what I like to do most was working in the portfolio and learn about the various generations...

So I think that I deserve a 15 like a final mark for this term...For me this mark isn't bad, but in second term I hope to have a better mark because I want to improve my English...

Learning Journal #6

"UGLY"

"Ugly" was the music that my group chose to connect with the themes "Be Beautiful" and "My Music". This music talks a lot of personalities and also how we see ourselves without caring about the things that others say to us..."Ugly" is a famous music of Sugababes, a known girl band.

The phrases that we think that are more important to know and understand the music are: "People are all the same" and "Personality reflects name".

I think that we had a good presentation and I also think that other groups have understood the music, its "story" and more importantly, the connection with the themes that we had worked in the classes - "My Music" and "Be Beautiful".

The hardest part of this work was the work in the classes because I think that my group could work more, but the final task(presentation) was good...So the thing that we have to improve is work more in the class because that's the way to have sucess and organization...

Learning Journal #5

"HUMAN RIGHTS"

We saw a film in class that talks about Human Rights and I think it is vey important that everybody knows the human rights that every person has...I think that we have rights as humans but sometimes we think that we are the most important persons in the world and we forgot the others and this is very, very bad...cos' we have to respect others to receive their respect...

This film is very real and true...I think that he's fantastic, I love the film...Why? Because it's true and makes me think that exists others realities and other world but mine...and makes me think too, that my problems are nothing in compare with those persons that aren't free and those persons that aren't respected by others. This persons are humans like me but the only difference it's that I am respected and I've human rights and those persons no...It's horrible think that happens these things in our planet, in our world...

So, we have to respect others and make sure that everybody has HUMAN RIGHTS because everybody is FREE...Freedom to choose, freedom to live is a right that every human has to have

Learning Journal #4

"THE GOOD THINGS IN MY LIFE"

I start a new section on my portfolio - "the good things in my life". In this section I'm going talk about my favourite things in life and why I like them.

My first themes were music and Coldplay. I choose these themes because music is very important to me and coldplay...I love them!!! Now I start a sub-topic, music...at the next time, I'm going to talk about jazz, which is very important to me, too.

Learning Journal #3

"THIS UNIT WAS ABOUT"

I liked this unit because in this unit we learned about the different types of generations and I liked a lot...

It's very interesting to know things about other generations and compare them with our generation. My favourite generation is MTV generation because I love music and see the videos of my favourite musics.I also like the generation of Nirvana because I adore their music, specially "come as you are" and "all apologies".

All in all I think this unit was important for us, because now we know a lot of things about others realities, about other moments that happened in our planet and also because now we can talk about other generations...I suggest that we can do a text about our favourite generation and justify why we chose that generation.

Learning Journal #2

"MY DIAGNOSIS"

I think I was good in my diagnosis test because I don't have a lot a doubts, abou the exercises which are in the test.

In the test, the point that I've more doubts and have more difficulty in solving is the question to build answers because I change the verb tenses!

For me, the questions that I prefer and that I complete more easily are about reading the text and interpretating, I like it a lot, as for grammar I like it and I do it easily, too, especially the exercises about circling the correct option.

Learning Journal #1

"I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT TEACHER TOLD US SO FAR"

I think I understand what the teacher told us so far, because in the class-room, I pay attention and I try to understand everything that teacher says to us! I've always liked English, so, I think that for me it isn't difficult to learn and understand what teacher told us.

I think I understand what the teacher told us so far, too, because the teacher can make the classroom very dinamic and interesting with different exercises and with creative/original presentations and I like it a lot.