1st Term Reflections

I like very much this first term because we had done lots of new activities in our blog and we had learnt a lot with a different methode that maybe had taught us more easily the tasks that we had to do. It was very conforting to learn this way. We had practiced to do writtings and to use our imagination. I think we could have done more songs to learn more vocabulary and pronunciation skills, although we had learnt with the blog tasks. And the projects seem very interesting.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The narrator was in Paris and met Monsieur Dupin in a library while they were searching for the same book. Both lived together in a flat. One day they were reading the newspaper and saw that there were two terrible murders. The corpses were Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter.The room of the murders was  locked with the key inside and the windows were closed. Mr. Dupin asked the witnesses and they all said that the deep voice was of a Frenchman and the other, the shrill one, everyone said  had a different language. Nobody  agreed. As Mr. dupin was investigating, he came to the conclusion that the murderer had to be very agile and fast, and it wasn't human. The narrator was astonished with his partner. Finally Mr. Dupin solved the mistery and the murder was an orang-outang from the island of Borneo that was owned by a French sailor.

I liked this book very much because I love mistery books although I don't read frequently. In my opinion I think that Sherlock Holmes and Watson are inspired in these characters because Holmes is like Dupin: had a diferent vision of things regarding other people, and Watson is like the narrator because they admire their partners and learn from them.

The Rue Morgue Speaking

My favourite horror film

FREDDY VS. JASON

My favorite horror film is Freddy vs. Jason. Normally when I watch horror films, I try that the movies are not bloody, but with this and the whole saga of Freddy's movies I made an exception for being classics of cinema.

Freddy narrates that he is trapped in Hell, because the citizens  have forgotten him over time, because the adults have kept the current generation of teenagers ignorant of Krueger's existence, leaving him powerless to return to their nightmares. He manipulates Jason under the guise of his mother, to begin killing the children, hoping that the fear of the murders will bring his powers back. But when Freddy returns to nightmares,  realizes that Jason will not stop killing and stealing his potential victims. Freddy then discovers Jason's fear of water and uses it to pull him into a nightmare of his drowning as a child. Finally, Jason won holding Freddy's severed head. Freddy's head winks at the audience and laughs.

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My world: My favourite song

Back in black

My favourite song is Back in Black from AC/DC. It's a fantastic song because it has a good rhythm and it makes you feel with a lot of energy and there are great guitar solos. I know this song because a friend likes this group too and showed it me. The song is a tribute to Bon Scott (the lead singer of the group), who had recently died, expressing in the lyrics of the song that the group returns but is in mourning. When I understood the true message of the song made ​​me like even more, because Bon Scott was a great group leader.

Back in black LYRICS AC/DC

CAN YOU SCARE US?

THE GOTHIC NOVEL

The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole. Walpole's novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form, but it has influenced the novel, the short story, poetry, and even film making up to the present day. The first Gothic Novel was The Castle of Otranto, that contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. It was first published on 1764.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR STORY

The Tell-Tale Heart is about an unnamed narrator who lives with an old man with a diseased eye. Finally he decides to kill him.  The crime is carefully checked and the corpse is dismembered and hidden under the floorboards of the house. The police arrived to the house and the murderer rates himself, imagining the old man's heart has been put to throb under the floorboards.

Edgar Allan Poe was an orphan with a troubled childhood who became America’s first great lyric poet, the inventor of the modern detective story, a pioneer of science fiction, and the master of the macabre. Poe became the first internationally influential American writer. In 1841, before the word “detective” had entered the English language, Poe published the first modern detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”  In this tale, Poe established the prototype future mystery writers would follow. He wrote romantic poems, tales of terror and science fiction.

SUSPENSE

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of the suspense. His characters were blonde girls and masked murderers. He used the subjective camera to reveal a character’s vision.

COMIC RELIEF

Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. Comic relief usually means a releasing of emotional or other tension resulting from a comic episode interposed in the midst of serious or tragic elements in a drama. I remember an example of comic relief in The Exorcist when the girl throws up over the priest.

What makes me happy, sad or stressed?

Music is the thing that makes me happiest. Any kind of music, classical music, modern music, rock... When I am happy I want to play it with my instruments: the guitar and the fiscorn. Or I try to remember the lyrics and sing it.

I feel sad when I watch a sad film or sad series. I try not to cry watching these films or series. To stop being sad I change the channel and I take a comedy or whatever that makes me laugh.

Every time that I have lots of exams or projecsts during the week I feel very stressed. Listening to music is the solution for fighting stress.

Gabriel (Chicho)

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

I did the test of multiple intelligences and the result was this graphic. I agree with most of the results, except with the picture smart, the word smart and the number smart. So I wanted to do the test again to make the results that I wanted but I didn't because it was supposed to be honest with the test of this graphic and I think that I was. Then at home I took the test again and the result was very different. It was more like the result that I want.

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My hero

My hero is Marc Timón i Barceló, who lives in Castelló d'Empúries. He studied in la Escola Municipal de Música Antoni Agramont. Marc is my hero because he is a writer, a journalist, a pianist, an interpreter of the tible in la Cobla Sant Jordi(one of the best cobles in the world), and a composer of soundtracks and sardanes at only 33 years old.He is very simpathetic, friendly and forthcoming. He won more than ten awards among all the things that he does. I admire him because I wold like to be as succesful as he is, get as many prizes like him and devote my life to music.

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ANIMAL IN YOU

PERSONAL OPINION

I did the animal test and the results were at first the penguin, later the beaver and finally the owl. I am disagree with the first result because the careers that there were I think that they weren't related with my personality. Then I didn't know which option choose because both were quite similar and they could be true. But finally I chose the owl because I thought that it was the correct option for me and my future careers. 

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MY DREAM

I would like to explain my dreams for the future.Possibly I will achieve these dreams or maybe not.

I have studied music since I was 7 years old. At first I started playing the guitar. It was my favourite instrument!!

But one day my teacher told me to try to play the trombone. I was very excited. Then I studied until I got the flugelhorn, the instrument that I play at the moment. I'm in a cobla and I try to improve to go to a professional one. I love the flugelhorn but  my dream is to play the real trombone and being in an great orchestra / cobla, and become a professional musician. I'm still young but I dream to achieve that wish. Maybe in a few years I'll have a good job that  will be not related with music, but I will always keep playing my instrument. Who knows?