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My dialogue with M.José

When we both knew that we were a partner to do a dialogue, we were very happy. M.José is a hard-working person and her english level it's quite good, so I knew she was the perfect partner to improve my english.

 We were preparing our dialogue some weeks before the day that we were suposed to do it. It was a good and hard work but at the same time it was funny and useful. Besides now we meet better each other.

The day of the dialogue we felt confortable and sure about our work, so it was easy and funny, although we have to improve some things.

Our dialogue was about holidays and about what kind of cookery activity we were going to choose . M.José wanted to go London to do a modern cookery course without spending a lot of money.
I wanted to go France to learn about tradicional cookery in a expensive and confortable place where we had all included.
Finally we decided M.José's option because we had children and we had to be sensible.

VISION BOARD!!!!

This is the future I hope it will be mine  ;)

THE LITTLE PRINCE

 

This book is about a young prince fallen to Earth from an asteroid, who met a pilot crased in the dessert. I decided to read this book because it is one of the most important book in France, in fact it was translated into 250 languages, baille included.

This is a philosophical book which makes readers think about differences between adult's world and children's one, and it includes little tales with social criticism.

The book is based on a Little Prince story and it has a lot of new vocabulary: pryck (espina), stand daughts (mantenerse en pié), fib (mentira), tricks (engaños), latch (enganchar), scarf (bufanda), yawn (bostezo), cloack (manto), cope (hacer frente), stammerd (tartamudear)...

The books deals with the narrator explaining that a child drew a Boa Constrictor with an elephant inside its stomach. Adult people wouldn't know what the draw really represents; so he realized when the Little Prince interprets it correctly that only children are able to understand it right.

The narrator is a pilot who has crashed into a dessert due to an accident with his plane. The Little Prince asked him to draw a sheep because he wants one to take it to his asteroid.

Over the course of eight days, while the pilot was trying to repair the plane the Little Prince was telling him the story of his life.

He had visited some asteroids before landing on Earth and he found on them different kind of people. Each of this people with a very different behaviour, this point tries to critize and make us think about life and human nature.

The main characters in the story are:

The little Prince: He is a precious eight years old child with curly blond hair. He is not from Earth. His young age makes him being inocent. When he ask a question, he don't give up until has an answer.

The pilot: He is supposed to be Antoine De Saint-Exupery, because he lived at the same time and he had the same experiences.

The fox: its messages are probably the most important quotations of the book, because they deal with human relationship.

Other characters are people who lived in the astroids:

The King:He wanted to regin over everything.

The Show-off: He wanted to be admired by everybody.

The Drunkard:He drunk because he was ashamed of drinking.

The Bussinessman:He waa always counting stars because he wanted to own as much as posible.

The Lamp-lighter:He was all day lit on and lit off his lamp. He couldn't rest.

The Geographer:His job was to count all the cities, rivers, mountains, etc... without leaving his desk.

Antoine De Sant-Exupery was a French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He is best remembered for his novel “The Little Prince” and for his lyrical aviation writings.

He was a succesful commercial pilot before World War II working airmail routes. He desappeared over the Mediterranean on his last mission and he is believed to have died at that time.

I would recomend this book for all people age from childhood to adult age, not only because it is easy to read and understant for everybody but also because from my point of view it lets you enjoy reading.

The story is made by some little tales that made a fast and entertaining lecture. Besides the book makes you think about people's daily behaviour .

 

DEAR FUTURE ME

 

Dear future me:

 

          I'm writing to you because I hope you have very good health and your life is good enough now. I know that life is so hard and maybe you have suffered some dificulties so far yours, so I want to encourage you not to give up never and ever.

 

          On the other hand you could lived a very good and succesful life till now, if this happened you would never must forget your family and Friends because they represent what you are.

 

          I trust you because of I know that I am a sensible and tireless person, do don't let me down, please!

 

         Finally, I want you to enjoy with everything you do and feel. Don`t take care about people's coments.

 

YOU MUST BE HAPPY BECAUSE THERE IS TODAY BUT MAYBE THERE ISN'T TOMORROW.

 



Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

In this special day for lovers we made Love cards And Chocolates among us. It was wonderful and funny.

Andrea give me this beautiful present. I was really happy with it.
On the other hand I gave J.Antonio the card I did and the chocolate I bought to him.






Finally I think that everybody enjoyed the class. From my point of view, make this kind of activities let us learn specific and useful vocabulary that we will need in our daily lifes.

Maria had his own chocolate too. She was really really happy!

She decorated the class and the extra activity was very different from normal clases.
We are glad with her for this kind of new way of teaching english.

The Pilgrimage.

In this course we have to read two books. I chose this one in the first place and this is the essay I did about it.

INTRODUCTION:
       This book is about Paulo's experiences while he was making his way across the Santiago de Compostela's way. It is half an adventure story and half a guide to self-discovery for Paulo Coelho. I decided to read this book because I made this pilgrimage some years ago and I found it amazing and also I felt fastinated by it.

    The book is about an experience based on faith so it has a lot of specific vocabulary like: shepherd(pastor), crook(báculo), rebirth(renacer), prayer(oración), awareness(conciencia), plodding(caminar lenta y pesadamente), sorcerer(hechicero), slight(desairado)... The story deals when Paulo undertakes his initiation into RAM(a religious order), due to his failures, he must start the pilgrimage along the Santiago's way. He needs to find his sword which could make him to be accepted into RAM. On the other hand during the trip he must learn the simplicity of life too. The whole pilgrimage was very hard but he had a guide called Petrus who tought him eleven meditation excercices which helped Paulo to finish the trip and also to get the wisdom he needed, he teached about love and his forms: agape, philias and eros too. So far the trip Paulo was forgetting all his everday problems and he became only a pilgrim.He learned the simplicity of life struggling against his fears, in fact this big effort would change Paulo's soul for ever. At the end of the trip Petrus left Paulo and this fact was the last help which Paulo needded to get his target so finally he became a member of RAM.

    In this novel are:
Paulo Coelho:is the main character.Brazilian. All the story is about himself and his pilgrimage. He is an unrealictic man who is looking for the secrets of his faith.

Petrus:is Italian.He is an engenier and he is in his latest fourties. He has grey hair and he is always sunburn. He is Paulo's guide and teacher into RAM practices.

Paulo's wife: She is who takes the sword into Spain and who hides it.She gives support to Paulo.

     Paulo Coelho was born on August 24th, in 1947. He is a Brazilian lyristic and novelist. He has won numerous international awards. “The Alchemist” is his most famous novel. “The Pilgrimage” was witten in 1986 after he made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In total he has published 30 books, three of them are autobiographical and “The Pilgrimage” was one of them.

CONCLUSION:

    To sum up I want to quote something that Paulo says in the book because I came into the same conclusion after I walked the Santiago's pilgrimage: “ This pilgrimage made me see that the research for happiness is a personal search and not a model we can pass on to others.”
I strong recomend this book to everybody to know about a good way in Spain.