Final Self - Assesment

1.- What can I do now?

After my years of English classes at Tomás Bretón I have  a higher level of speaking and writing skills, and also a more extensive knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon culture.

2.- My blog-portfolio.

I personally think that having to update and take care of a portfolio or a blog like this one might be maybe heavy at first, but it helps you to keep yourself organized and constant. Also, you learn how to use this platform, and that could be useful in the future.

3.- My skills and achievements.

I think that the thing that I've improved more is my pronunciation and my speaking ability. Learning new expressions and having the opportunity to work with native teachers like Michael or Clarissa are the main factors that had helped me with this.
I hope that during the next years I keep on improving, or at least that I dont lose the level I have now.

My years at Tomás Bretón

The first thing that I remember about this school is the visit that we made when we were still at primary school. I remember looking at the classrooms, the corridors and the poster on the walls imagining all the things I will live inside this place.

I’ve been at  Tomás Bretón high school for almost four years, and each one of them now has a meaning for me: because of the experiences that I had during each one of them, I am the person that I am now. I’ve learn the base for my future knowledge, find out what are the things that I want to dedicate my life to, and met some of the most important people of my life.

Even though I had to go through some difficult situations and that not everything was positive, I actually really enjoyed my years here. The year that I liked most was this last one, for different reasons: we all know each other now, we are all a little bit more mature; and I have the opportunity to start choosing what I want to study. On other side, the one that I liked less was the third one. The subjects were a Little bit difficult and sometimes it was hard for me to study and keep my things organized.

If I had to choose a couple of thing that have made the difference during this time, I will start with the last thing that I lived: our school cultural trip to Málaga. We were lucky to be a group without problems between us and to have a lot of different activities to do. I definitely had an amazing time with my partners and Friends knowing new places and having a lot of things to do. Even though I was not able to go to the trip to Ireland, I feel lucky for this one.

I’d like to stand out all the projects that my partners and I had made. I personally think that the things that you learn searching for a Project will be for a longer time in your memory than the one that you study for an exam.  Thanks of this projects I’ve learn about literature, history and general culture from a lot of countries. Of course there were some of them that I liked more than others, but in general, I enjoyed doing them.

Now its time to start a new period on Bachillerato, and I really hope that the next two years are not as difficult as they seem to be, and that i don’t forget where I come from and all the thing that I lived and learned here. However, whatever happens, these four years will forever be part of one of the most important phases of my life.

DIET - P.E.

PART ONE 

Following the instructions and applying the given formula (GETD = TMB (+ ETA) + EAF), the calories that I would personally need taking into account my physical characteristics would be a total of 1,540.64.

PART TWO

To do the second part of the exercise, I take note of what I have consumed during a normal Saturday, and consulting the table of calories and macronutrients, I can know how many I do consume.

Breakfast:

- A glass of coffee with milk of approx. 200 ml - 90 cal, 18.6g of macronutrients.

 Lunch:     

     - One plate of rice (50 g raw) - 171 cal, 42.4 g of macronutrients - with chicken -          52 cal, 10.4 g of macronutrients - and vegetables: eggplant - 25 cal, 7 g of macronutrients - and onion - 19 cal, 5 g of macronutrients -.

       - Approximately half tomato (100g) - 22 cal, 6.9 g of macronutrients.

       - A yogurt of 125g. - 54 cal, 10.89 g of macronutrients.

Dinner:

-          One serving of omelette with 4 eggs and 2 potatoes, which is about 144 cal and 19.3 g of macronutrients from the potato and 482 cal and 51.4 g of macronutrients from the egg.

-          Grapes (100g) - 68 cal and 18g of macronutrients.

-          A glass of chocolate milk of approx. 200ml - 124 cal and 48g of macronutrients.

At the end of the day, I consumed a total of      1251 calories and 195.49 grams of macronutrients.

PART THREE

-          The number of calories consumed during the day turns out to be insufficient compared to what was previously established by the calculation of the GETD.

                        1540 – 1251 = 289. 

-          Almost 300 calories are still needed, and although these could be contributed by a bit of bread with lunch and dinner and a piece of fruit at mid-morning or mid-afternoon, I will try to adjust my diet by changing some foods so that these are healthier, reaching five meals a day and also making sure to consume 5 pieces of fruit. 

Breakfast:

- We keep the coffee with milk (90 cal) but we also add a juice of two oranges (84 cal) and half a banana (42 cal).

Mid-morning snack:

- One apple (58 cal).

Lunch:

- We keep the rice with chicken, eggplant and onion (259 cal), but to this we also add 50g of carrot (21 cal).

- Half tomato (22 cal).

- We keep the yogurt, but we change it for one of fibers and fruits (80 cal).

Snack:

- One pear (56 cal).

- 50g of mortadella (154g).

Dinner:

- We keep the potato omelette (526 cal) and the grapes (68 cal).

- We changed the 200 ml of chocolate milk for the same amount, but of skimmed milk (80 cal). 

So then we would have the 1540 calories that I need, even though such a strict diet is 

not necessary at all.

To finish my project, I will try to make another diet that follows the last instructions: having 50% of carbohydrates, 30% of proteins, and 20% of fats.

-          I do need 1540 calories, which means I need 770 calories from carbohydrates = 192.5 grames, 462 calories from proteins = 115.5 grames and 308 calories from fats = 34.2 grames.

-          In the new diet that I’ve planned, I have a total amount of 132,95 grames of carbohydrates, 45.45 grames of proteins and 32.95 grames of fats.

The amount of fats and carbohydrates is more or less correct, but the problem here is the amount of proteins: it is not enough.

To be able to have thhe amount that I need, I’ve shearch for an aliment that has the rest of the proteins that I need without changing my levels of carbohydrates and my levels of fats (more that it’s necessary). A beef leg fillet will be what I need.

This has 81.4 grames of proteins and 8.2 grames of fats, but it does not have any carbohydrates. Adding this to my meal, (and eating the yogurt on the mid-morning snack so I dont eat that much at lunch) I will have 126. 82 grames of proteins and 41.10 grames of fats in my ideal diet.

But also, I will introduce two pears of aprox. 250 grames, witch will help me fixing my carbohydrates levels. I will eat them at the mid morning snack and in the luch as part of my dessert.

Our english reading book.

After a couple of months reading the book, we've arived tho the end of the story.
In my opinion, the thematic of the book was very interesting and it helped us to learn a lot about one of the worst episodes of our Middle Ages history. Also, it was a very easy way to learn some new vocabulary and a lot of expressions that will improve our writing and talking skills.
Talking about the book itself, I have personally liked it so much, even though the ending could have been a little bit more exciting.
I hope we have the opportunity to enjoy more projects like this one during our next years of learning english!

New vocabulary

fancy: to form a conception of something.
discuss: to consider or examine by an argument.
avoid: to keep away from something or someone.
risk: to exposure to the chance of injury or loss.
denied: to refuse to agree or accede to something.
recall: to birng back from memory.
manage: to bring bour or succed in accomplishing.
demand: to ask for with proper autority.
seem: to appear to be.
appear: to have the appearance of being.
arranged: to come to an agreement.

quit: to give up or resing.
flatmate: a person whit whom shares a flat.
to run the risk: to take a risk at the moment of making a decision or an specific action.

ENGLISH PROJECT

Isabel, Adrián and I made a project about thw witch-hunt and all the process that the trials had. I personally think is very interesting!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A60H7sSEsUug9IyNYltwrbdgDov2R33YU1Zjo6-ecRk/edit#slide=id.p

SELF-ASSESSMENT THIRD TERM

- What can I do now that I couldn't do before?

After the English lessons that we had during all this term, I've learnt a lot of things, specially about grammar and european culture.

Now, I can make conditional and passive sentences, which improves my level of speaking and writing. 

Also, we've learnt a very big amount of general cultre during our classes! 

- What did I like most?

The thing that I liked most about this term was definitely working and investigating with my partners for our project. We made it bout the witch-hunt and the witches trials, and it was a very interesting thing to learn about. I really liked it and I personally think that making projects like this is the best way of learnig about any topic.

- What did I do well?

During this term I really worked on grammar, because there was so many things that were new for me. I thinks that's what I did better. 

- What did I do in English outside the class?

As allways, I've listened to music and interviews, seen some films and read a lot of news, and even some short and amazing stories. In my opinion, things like these are very important if you really want to improve your skills in a language. 

- What do I need to improve?

I would like to control a little bit more of vocabulary about the topics that we've talked about. 

- What did I learn about culture?

I did learn about wicth-hunt, the Salem Trials, torture on the medieval ages or even about the witch symbols, thanks to my own project and the other ones that my partners made and presented for the class.

Also, we had the opportunity to learn about some Irish culture. Some of my partners are going to go to Ireland next week and during our lessons, we've seen some of the most important monument of the country, and we've sung the Molly Malone's song!

                                             

             

GRAMMAR: CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

A conditional sentence is form by two different parts: If-clause and main clause.
The order of the parts does not matter, but we should remember that if we're going to put the if-clause first, it must be followed by a comma.

I will buy new clothes if a have money tomorrow.
If i have money tomorrow, I will buy new clothes. 

There's four different types of conditional sentences, and each one of them uses a different tense. 

ZERO CONDITIONAL: If/when + present + present.
For example; The movie stops if you press that button. 

FIRST CONDITIONAL: If/unless + present + future.
For example; If I clean the house, my dad will be happy. 

SECOND CONDITIONAL: If + past + would + inf. 
For example; If I studied, I would pass. 

THIRD CONDITIONAL: If + past perfect + would have + present perfect.
For example; If I had lost my mobile phone, I would have been punished. 

VOCABULARY

fun-fair: an amusement park.

regrets: to feel sorrow or remorse for an act.

complaints: an expression of discontent or regret.

pity: a cause or reason for sorrow or regret.

lift: move or bring something upward from the ground.

reach: to get or to get as far as in moving or travelling.

AEROBIC VS ANAEROBIC

When we use our body for practising exercise or even for making the things that we do everyday, we need and energy to be able to have the capacity of actually doing it. For that, our body uses two types of different metabolism to provide the fuel needed to our muscles: AEROBIC and ANAEROBIC. There's some differences between them that we must understand if we want to know how our body works.
 
ANAEROBIC METABOLISM: 

- Is the one we use when a lot of effort is necesary but not for a very long time (short burst of energy); for example, when we go for an sprint.
- What occurs is that our lungs cannot put the amount of oxigen needed into the bloodstream to our body to keep working properly, so our body creates energy through the combustion of carbohydrates in the absence of oxygen.

AEROBIC METABOLISM:

- Other way, anaerobic metabolism is the one we use when we do a longer exercise, which also needs a big amount of enery, but that will be provided little by little during a longer time; for example, when we go running, cycling or walking.
- In this case, our body creates the energy we need by burning carbohydrates, amino acids and fats in the presence of oxygen.



When we practise a sport or we make excercise activities, our body changes from one metabolim to another depending on what it needs in that moment.
Anaerobic metabolism is not as efficent as aerobis metabolism is; but, on other way, the anaerobic one can only use glucose and glycogen, while aerobic can also use fats and protein.

But, after all, our body is able to choose between them and use the one that adapts better to what it needs at that moment, which is completly amazing! This is definitely a very extense and interesting topic with a lot of parts to know about, and in the end, knowing about this also means that we know about our own body.

Reading Vocabulary

During some of our English lessons, we are reading a very interesting book about the witchcraft and witch-hunt in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, during the XVI century.



We've already read six chapters, and we had the opportunity to learn a pretty good amount of new vocabulary.

- Fit: a sudden attack, or manifestation of a disease.
- Cheat: to lie or defraud.
- Come over: to move forward a a particular person or place.
- Trial: the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts puts in issue in a case.
- Hang: to attach or suspend so as to allow free movement.