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

WRITING UNIT 2

Hi Carly

We’ve been on holiday here in Canada for two weeks now and I’ve just met this girl, Robbin. She’s very nice and beautiful, but I’m not sure how I feel about her. I need your advice.

She invited me to meet her friends in a bar yesterday. I didn’t have a very good time because it seems like if her friends didn’t like me. They asked me a lot of questions and I think they didn’t like the answers. But when I said goodbye, she walked to the hotel with me and neither of us could stop talking.

I’ve been thinking about things a lot since then. I’ll ask her to go out. What do you think about it?

Marçal

WRITING ABOUT 2000-2010

THE 2000-2010

People remember 2000-2010 decade as the time for electronic innovation such as iPhone, iPad or electric cars; but unfortunately this decade is also remembered for other events. Some bad ones too like financial crisis, the 11-s, the increase in oil prices, political corruption, Europe Union has grown up and for example the war in Iran and Afghanistan.

In the world of music, there were many changes: The typical rock groups were not the most popular like in 90’s and people preferred DJ or single singers. In cinemas American films were in first place and there were a lot of bad films just like now, but there were some good like Harry Potter that in my opinion was fantastic, the Lord of the Rings. I think that this decade was very good with TV series like Dr House, The Simpsons, Lost, etc.

I also think that in that decade sports have been very important for people, because of the economic problems people needed to relax and have a good time and sport is a good option andfor that in Europe football was very important, like basketball or baseball in the USA.

MARÇAL ALSINA