MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION - 2019

1. Be punctual always: to keep this resolution I have to organize the time and leave home soon. I haven't to get distracted with everything.
2. Get my secundary school studies: It's not very difficult but I have to study and make an efford until the school year finish.
3. Be fit: I do volleyball three times a week but I have to have a routine of exercices to do every day. I can start slowly and go up day by day. There are some apps that I can download in my smartphone.
4. Save money: I use to spend a lot of money with things I don't really need, and I had always wanted to save money but I don't know how to do it. I have to hide some of my money and if I want that money I have to wait.
5. Take advantage of the summer: In summer I use to sleep all the morning and I use to watch series or films all night when I don't go partying with my friends. I won't have 16 years old yet, so I won't have a job yet.  I want to enjoy this summer a lot going to the beach, going partying, doing trips with my friends...

HISTORY OF HORROR

THE GOTHIC NOVEL

• Who invented the gothic novel? What was the title of the first gothic novel?

 Horace Walpole invented the gothic              novel. The title of the first gothic novel           is "The Castle of Otranto".

• When was it first published?

It was published in 1764.

• Which basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson? Write a minimum of ten.

Night, dark, ghosts, howl, thunderstruck, raving, despair, hopeless, footsteps aproaching, omens, threat...

• Choose one of the topics on DISCOVERING LITERATURE and write a post.

 I like Dracula from Bram Stoker. 

This topic explains the history and the characteristics of the vampires, more specifically Dracula. This book reflects the fears of immigration, sexual promiscuity and moral degeneration. They say that the vampire is a complicated creature and a very contradictory figure.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

• Who is Edgar Allan Poe? When and where was he born?

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He was born on 19th January 1809, in Boston (Massachusetts).

• What was he famous for?

He is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven.

• Did he get married?

Yes, with his cousin Virginia.

• How did he die?

He died on 1849 and he died of a great distress.

• Name some of his most famous works:

His famous works were ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Raven’ and ‘Annabel Lee’.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

• What’s his nickname?

The nickname of Hitchcock is ‘The Master of Suspense’.

• What was his most famous horror film?

His most famous horror film was Psycho.

• What was his main contribution to horror?

His main contribution to horror was his frequent use of the subjective camera to reveal a character’s vision.

NEWS IN LEVELS

NEWS IN LEVELS

Airplane Crashes in 2018

In 2018, there were 15 airliner accidents around the world, and 556 people died. The experts say that it wasn't a bad year and they are improving. But, in 2017, there were only 44 dead people in 10 accidents, it was the safest year ever.

In my opinion, the victims in the airliner accidents should be zero. They say that they get better year by year, but in 2018 there were more dead people than in 2017.

Safe, Report, Aviation

Dog Adopts Piglets

Linda is a dog of Playa Larga, in Cuba. She has six pups and now a litter of piglets too. The mother of the piglets died and she adopt them. At first she was unsure, because the babies maybe couldn't stay together, but then she saw that they could live together and she fed them with milk like her own pups.

I think that the dog is the clever animal in the world and it's really cute and nice what Linda do.

Hesitant, Litter (the 3rd traduction), Scenario

Hundreds of popular cars ‘at risk of keyless theft’

Some of new cars have new technologies like keyless, but keyless cars use to be more theft than the others. Thives use technology to bypass entry systems on this cars, and the fanufacturers continue making this cars. In the UK there's only one secure car of the top-selling cars, the Vauxhall Corsa. The experts say that this new cars are very secure, but it's not true. They investigated and they see that there are only 3 cars of the 237 keyless cars, the Discovery and Range Rover, and the 2018 Jaguar i-Pace (all made by Jaguar Land Rover).

Keyless, Deem, Ongoing, Relay

MY WORLD 3

MY WORLD 3: The volleyball

One of my passions is the volleyball. I started playing volleyball when I was six or seven in Sant Pere Pescador, my village. I started with this sport because my older sister was always teaching me. 

It's a collective sport that is played with a ball. There are two teams separated by a net. It consists that both teams have to do the ball touching the floor of the opposite court. The volleyball has different positions, middle blocker, middle sitter, rightside hitter, outside hitter, setter, and also sometimes opposite and libero. I'm middle. The winner is the first team that wins three sets, each set has 25 points.

I love volleyball because it makes me disconnect and forget everything happening in my life. Also I have a lot of good friends of my team and friends that played in my team but now they don't play volleyball.

MY WORLD 2

MY WORLD 2: LA RAÍZ

La Raíz is a group of music of Gandia, in Valencia. They do rock, ska, rap... but always in spanish. This group is formed by ten boys, they go around Spain and sometimes in other countries too. La Raíz was created in 2003 and they left it one time in all these years. But now, they just give up the group and I’m very sad for it, I hope they come back. They are famous for their concerts, they give a lot of energy and they make jump everyone. Although, the lyrics of their songs use to be revolutionary, they never talk about normal things like love. The most famous and my favourite albums are "Entre poetas y presos", "Así en el cielo como en la selva and "Nos volveremos a ver". The last one has songs of this two other albums and some new songs.

I like La Raíz becouse my sister Abril started to listen them a couple of years ago and she puts the songs in the car. At the beggining, I didn’t like it, but then, I started to like it. I’ve gone to two concerts of La Raíz, in the CanetRock and in the Acustica of Figueres, and these concerts were incredible.

MY HERO

MY HERO

My hero is my older sister, Abril. She was born two years before me and she's studying in the same school than me. 

Since we were little we have always done the same activities and we have the same hobbies. When she was little she started to play volleyball and a year later I started to play volleyball too, because she was always teaching me. Then, five years ago we started together doing human towers. This two activities are our passions now. 

She has some important values that I love. She has a lot of honesty because she tells me everything. She is very optimist and it helps me when I feel sad, she tries to cheer me up. But I think that the most important values she has are the respect and the fairness. 
In this photo she's the girl in the right, and the girl who's in the middle is our cousin. This photo was in the wedding of our aunt.

MY FAVOURITE HORROR MOVIE

SATANIC

I love horror movies since last year and I've seen a lot of them. But my favourite one is Satanic because it scared me a lot and I like the argument of the film.

A group of four university students go to Los Angeles to a road trip. They are in a strange neighbourhood. They go into a satanic shop and they follow the worker of the shop when it closes. The boy goes to a satanic ritual with more people that wear a tunic. Those people swear at a young girl. This girl go to the appartment of the protagonists, and she kills herself. During the film they always see a kind of satanic symbol, like a star. Finally, they leave the city in the night by car, but on the way they see Chloe, the girl who is driving the car, in the top of an abandoned building. They go into the building, and the devil kill the four friends.

The best moment of the film is when Chloe is in the top of the building and they see she and their friends in the car, looking at her. This scene impressed me a lot and it put me goosebumps.

Túnica - tunic  http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=tunica

Maleïr - swear at http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=maldecir

Abandonat - abandoned http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=abandonado