FILM REVIEW: "QUERIDO JOHN'"

The name of the film in English is “Dear John”.

It’s a movie based on a boy who meets a girl and they fall in love immediately. He goes to the “war” and they both always talk by letters. It’s a great movie because it’s so romantic and special and it’s perfect to see it with your boyfriend.

John Tyree and Savannah Lynn met on the beach. They started talking and meeting. He went to the war and sends letters nearly every day telling what they have done, and that stuff.

I loved the love story because it’s a different story that typical ones, the main characters are pretty good doing their job and the sensibility they use is in a perfect point. There was nothing I didn’t like because it’s one of my favourite films.

It is a film that’s worth seeing, a brilliant one, and I will recommend it to everybody who likes love stories. 

DRUGS IN THE ADULT WORLD

Talking about drugs isn’t an easy thing to do, because drugs are something that hurt inside and a little bit outside.

When I say that drugs hurt inside I mean that when you take them, your body starts feeling exited, happy, tided (it depends on the drug), but the truth is that your organs aren’t used to these kind of things and they could get ill.

Some people only take drugs like weed or tobacco, and if you don’t abuse them, it isn’t so bad because your body doesn’t feel it so much, but if you take too many (in case of weed) you can get into big trouble not only with your health, but also with your economy, family…

Moreover drug addicts sometimes go crazy to get money for drugs, and if they have no work, they could steel people’s money or value things from their own family to buy them.

In my opinion taking drugs is a bad idea (logically) because it’s true that you have fun for a moment, but the consequences are so bad. People who start with drugs think that, for once it isn’t a problem, but for strong drugs like cocaine, heroin, make you “addict” the first time, because your body “likes it” the first time and it wants more “fun”. That’s a big problem because if the first time your body refuses it, you wouldn’t take it. In the case of tobacco and weed it’s different because to get addicted you have to take them so many times.

However, when someone is drug addicted, sometimes the family take them to a detoxification centre and that’s good because they can stop taking drugs, it’s true that they need help, but it’s a good thing to do, even if it is hard.

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HOMOSEXUALITY

Homosexuality is a very interesting topic to talk about, because in general, in the majority of the societies, it’s thought to be a bad thing. In some religions people think that the people who are homosexual have an illness because they are different from others, they like different things.

Nowadays, I believe people shouldn’t have this idea, because we are in an advanced society and we are more used to seeing that kind of things because we don’t judge people as before.

Being a homosexual is not a bad thing I think, because each person has their own likes and if a person respects love between a man and a woman, it can respect it between two men or two women.

In recent years people are more open about this subject, because a lot of famous people, for example, have made known their homosexuality. My opinion is that, to say it it’s a very courageous thing, because your family and friends aren’t used to having that imagine of you and now they have to accept it and, sometimes, they don’t. The first time when people knew, it’s difficult to put up with that big change, but if they care about the person who has said that, finally they accept it.

If I was the mother of a homosexual boy or girl, I would totally accept it because that’s something that you can’t change about a person. Sometimes people try to hide it because of the image other people would have about them, but it’s something that can’t be hidden. I would say that there are more homosexual boys than girls, I don’t know why but that’s what I imagine.

Guys need to say it sometimes because if they want to have children they have to say it to somebody, but women can get pregnant if they wantwith much less help. 

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NEWS ITEM 1

Repeat: I’m a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine

This article talks basically about sharks, but in relation to the behaviour of animals in general. Some scientists have discovered that animals could have personality, not as humans but in their own way. People think that sharks are aggressive and all that stuff, but of the 400 or so shark species that exist, only three or four of them attack humans.

Several scientists have done some experiments to know if animals really have personality or emotions and some of them have worked, and now we know that they’re not machines, they could be sensible too.

My opinion about this is that animals are all so different, each one has lived some experiences that make them react to things in different ways, I think, and that’s what people don’t care about. If I ever see a shark, of course I would run away from it, because what the article says is true. We had the image that sharks attack people because in most of the films related to that topic, sharks appear as if they are aggressive or something and that’s basically our image of them. I believe they could be good but, even if they’re good and I knew it, I couldn’t get nearer to them.

Vocabulary

The words I found more difficult in the article were behaviour (I had written that one in the text), spotted, seekers and cliffhanger. 

Here's the link of the new.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/11136776/Repeat-Im-a-nice-shark-not-amindless-eating-machine.html 

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A little bit about me

My name is Rosó and I'm going to be 16 on October 15th. I love listening to music most of the time, except when I'm studying because it entertains me so much. Apart from studying English in my high school, I have been going to classes with a woman told Irene since I started the ESO because I thought that it could be easier for me to understand it all. I have done two official exams, the KET and the PET, and with Irene I have started preparing the First Certificate Exam this summer. 

I'm not sure about what do I want to study, but I'm preparing myself to go to the university and there, do a degree associated with business, so that's the reason why I'm doing the social batxillerat.