WRITING

Who are you?

My name is Marçal Alsina and I’m a student in Banyoles in Girona. I’m into sports and music: I play water polo and I play the bass, I also like football, I’m a Barcelona fan. The people who I spend time with are very nice and they have quite the same hobbies as me.

 I don’t think that the world is a bad place, although we could improve it if we were more generous. There aren’t many things that make me angry, but what really annoys me is rude and pimp people.

As far as the future is concerned, it worries me the economic situation of the world, and I hope that we’ll be able to find a solution. I’m a bit frightening because  I don’t know what I want to I want to do in the future, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing in a few years’ time.

Marçal

WRITING UNIT 3

Are you for or agains using animals for medical research?

At the moment, it is legal to use animals for medical research, although ther're arguments both for and against this practice.

One of the arguments for using animals for medical research is that if we wouldn't try the new treatments with animals, some people would have the rsik of trying int without being save.

On the onther hand, there is a moral problem because a lot of animals like mouse die for medical research and there's some poeple who think that animals wouldn't have to live this life.

All in all, I am in favour of using animals for medical research, because other ways some people would die instead of these animals but I also think that this medical research would have to be more controlled because there're a lot of animals dying every day.

Marçal Alsina

WRITING

ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF HOME SCHOLING OR AGAINST IT?

In our area ti's not common; I don't know anyone who has home schooling.

In my opinion it's better to learn in an ordinary school. First of all because you're with another people and you can learn the other people and you should how to work with other people because in real life you will need to do that. Sencondly because you will have more friends if you fo to school, and finally because I think that it's better to have more than one teacher.

So all in all I think that we all shoulk go to an ordinary shcool.

Marçal Alsina

Science fiction... or reality?

Are scinece-fiction films becoming reality? From killer robots to telepathy, immortality to artificial intelligence, we see just how far science has really come.


INTERESTELLAR

    Can we travel faster than light?

To travel the universe as in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, we need to travel faster than light. According to Einstein, it is simply impossible for us to do so- matter cannot travel faster than light. ah... but there is a way around this, suggested by the physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. Imagine you could generate a gravitation force that contracted space-time in front of a ship and expanded space-time behind it. You woulk, in effect, travel across the universe without movement, much like a surfer is still as he rides a wave. 

Called the Alcubierre Drive, is is serious enough tat in 2012 Nasa and oter organizations created the "100-year Spanceship Project". Their objective? To achieve interestellar travel by 2112

*ALMOST REAL!

Here is Nasa's desing for a Star-Trek style spaceship that could travel faster than the speed of light. Tis name? The IXS Enterprise!h

WRITING UNIT 4

Subject: Your visit

Hi, Liam

I'm writing to you to check that everything's OK for your visit.

I tiink you'll like Banyoles. On Satorday morning we're doing a visit arround the town center and the lake. In the afternoon we can go to Girona with some of my friends, ther're many shops and people. Then we'll provably go to a café to watch the Barcelona's foodball match.

On Suday we'll do what ever you want, so can stay in Banyoles or visit Girona, it's up to you.

We're gonig to meet you at the bus stop tmorrow, it's very near.

Looking Fromward to seeing you

Marçal