Great Expectations

• If Pip had not received his "great expectations" and never left Joe's forge, how do you think his life would have been different? Are the lessons he learns during his physical and emotional journey necessary for him to arrive at the wisdom he displays as the middle-aged narrator of this tale? In what ways?

I think that his life would have been different because he could have found happiness without money. The lessons that he learnt during his physical and emotional journey were necessary because in this way he can realize that life and feelings are more than money and like this he can love the people that surround him without think in their economic situation.

• When Dickens first wrote Great Expectations, the book had a sad ending. He changed the ending because his friends wanted a happy ending. What do you think the first, sad ending was like?

Then, one evening in December, I returned to the old forge. There I found a girl crying disconsolately and I realized that this girl was Estella. I started to console her and I asked why she was crying. She explained that Miss Havisham had been a mother for her and now she feels alone without her company. The next day I went to Estella’s house because I was worry about her situation, but unfortunately a women opened the door and told me that Estella has killed herself.

Reality TV

Television has been an incredible invention that has changed our lives for better or for worse. But TV can not only entertain us, but also invade our daily life privacy.

On the one hand, reality TV is an entertainment that distracts us from the reality that we are living currently. People have different likes and we can find a lot of movies, series, programmes or documentaries adapted to our preferences. It is also a way of learning a new language.

On the other hand, reality TV is a toxic programme because the participants always exaggerate every scene because they need a big number of audience and in this way they can earn a lot of money. The problem of this programme is that the vast majority of viewers are teenagers and they feel cool doing everything they watch in reality TV.

In my opinion, parents should take care about TV programmes because TV can be a fantastic entertainment but it can also be the worst one for their children.

My newspaper: TODAY!

An informal email

Hi Angus,

I apologise for not writing to you before now but I've been really busy with my TDR. I finished it last week, and guess what? I got the best mark in my class! For this reason the UdL rewarded me with six hundred euros.

Anyway, my brother suggested travelling to Ireland but I told him that you will come in July, so I'm saving the money that I won with the TDR and since Saturday I have started to work in a restaurant in order to save more money to travel around Spain with you.

I claim you that Spain is a hot country in Summer, so I suggest you to bring comfortable clothes, flip-flops, sunglasses, a cap and don't forget your bathing suit because we're going to stay a lot of time on the beach and the pool.

What places would you like to know? Do you want to visit Madrid or Barcelona? Both are incredible cities but remember that in Barcelona we'll be able to go to the beach!

I suggest you to visit Galicia the last week of your holidays because we'll be able to stay in stress-free places.

See you soon!

Daniela

Chindogu: Easy Nails

This strange chindogu has been created to help pregnant women that can't paint their nails because their bellies don't let them to bend down.

This invention works with a stick that has a brush at our end and you can move it for a better convenience. It's made up of little moveable sticks that help you to paint your nails perfectly and without any mistake.

If you are not pregnant, don't worry because this invention has been created for lazy people too.

My heroine: Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a good student in her secondary school, but she couldn’t attend the University of Warsaw because it was only for men. After years working and suffering, she could finish her studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Then, she started to investigate and his husband Pierre Curie helped her. She made history in 1903 when she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in physics and in 1911 when she won her second Nobel Prize in chemistry and became the first scientist to win two Nobel Prizes.

I admire Marie Curie because she demonstrated that any woman can achieve whatever she wants. She defended her women rights and she inspired all those women that didn’t believe in themselves. She broke the myths about women and their jobs and, I think that she gave the society another perspective about the equality between men and women.

Team work experience

My classmates and I had to do a Power Point presentation about “El text literari”. 

It was a Catalan homework, and we decided to do it in Drive because like this we could do it at home. My classmate divided the work and each one had to do a part of the lesson.

My classmate texted me at Gmail and she explained me in detail that I had to summarize “La llengua literària” in the Drive presentation and I had to put some pictures and videos for the presentation, but I forgot it because I was very busy studying for my English exam. All my classmates did their part of the work and I was the only person that hadn’t done it yet. My classmate called me at night. She was very angry and she asked me why I hadn’t done my part of the work if the presentation was the next day. I woke up immediately and I started to do it sleepy.

The next day when I arrived at school I apologized to my classmates and I told them that I had done my part of the presentation. When we were looking over the text I realized that I hadn’t done my part of the work, I had done the part of my classmate Patrick. Obviously we couldn’t do the Power Point presentation and the teacher failed us because of me.