Steve Jobs

Today we all woke up with the new about the death of this awesome man who has changed the technology.

I just want to remember him from here.

Here you have a little resume of his life. (find more on wikipedia, if you like)

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.


In the late 1970s, Jobs — along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others — designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.



In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.

On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56 of pancreatic cancer.


Here we have a video tribute that the CNN have done, where you can see everything he had done:




And finally one of the thousand of videos tribute that people has made.
He is the one who talk in the video.



Here you have what he says:

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Esto es para los locos. Los inadaptados. Los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. La ronda de las clavijas en los agujeros cuadrados. Los que ven las cosas de manera diferente. Ellos no son aficionados a las reglas. Y no tienen ningún respeto por el status quo. Se pueden citar, de acuerdo con ellos, glorificar o vilipendiar a ellos. Sobre la única cosa que no puedes hacer es ignorarlos. Debido a que las cosas cambian. Empujan a la raza humana. Y mientras que algunos pueden verlos como los locos, vemos el genio. Debido a que las personas que están lo suficientemente locos como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo, son los que lo hacen.



REST IN PEACE

Congratulations on your PAU results

I must congratulate you on your new success! I’m very proud of you! You passed the exam and I hope the grade will be good enough for you to enter the university you want to.

So that’s the beginning of a new stage in your life and all you can do now is celebrating it!

I would like to share a poem which I like a lot and you might find it inspiring too. 

“If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.”

It is not clear who the author is, some people attribute the poem to Kudyard Kipling, others to Walter D. Wintle or Napoleon Hill.  

Keep in touch!

Feel free to continue writing in the blog whenever you want! I hope to hear from you all!  

Have a great and wonderful summer!

Related posts: Poem “IF” by Rudyard Kipling

Selectivitat / PAU Exam Practice

Here you have the links you need to visit to prepare for the Selectivitat exam:

Exam structure and general evaluation criteria

(It is important to read very carefully the evaluation criteria for the writing part)

Exams of last 3 years: 

2010, 2009, 2008 June and September

with mp3s for the listenings 

and answer key

(in June, you will see there are two series, they always prepare two exams in case a student has a legitimate and valid excuse for not having attended the exam)  

Happy revision! 

Goodbye!

Well guys, our time in high school is ending and I just want to say goodbye to everyone. We've grown up together in many aspects and ways, and now it is time to say goodbye and just grow up by ourselves and for ourselves or with different people. Some of us have shared fifteen years of our lives together, some of us have shared six, others two and others just one. But despite this fact, I have to say that I've really enjoyed your company and I hope you've enjoy mine as well. I just hope that we'll remain friends and that we'll celebrate our victories together and that we'll support each other when one of us needs it. As you all know, I've done something as my farewell present for you, so here it is.




The songs are:
“The best years of our lives” – Evan Taubenfeld “Time of our lives” – Tyrone Wells

You can check the lyrics here:

http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-best-years-of-our-lives-lyrics-evan-taubenfeld.html
And here: http://www.lyricsty.com/tyrone-wells-time-of-our-lives-lyrics.html

Which is the most important thing in you life

Which is the most important thing in our life: a lot of money, good health, close family or an important job

Nowadays people are worried about their life and almost always, they can't choose their priorities. One part of the people is concerned in business and money, others about a good health like M. Jackson for example, someone needs to support and has a close family and there are people who donate their life to their career.

What about money, moneys rule the world, probably it's true. Everywhere we go we use money, credit cards to pay. In the modern world people are considered to raise their bank account. This kind of people think that money will solve all their problems. But in reality, there're things that you can't buy, like health, love, friendship, talent. You can pay a big amount of money to your doctor, but you won't be healthy, you can pay to speak with someone, but you won't buy their respect, and finally you can buy sex, but that woman will hate you even more...A real pleasure doesn't consist of material things.

A close family is something closer to our happiness. A really close family won't let you go alone in your life road; they will always accompany you, even if the society has left you alone. Only your close family will understand you and will give you a real support in your life.

If you like your job, you'll succeed there. But during your career people forget about others and about so many interesting things that make your life colorful, like children, family, parents, your wife/girlfriend...

A real careerist after a 20-year-work will understand that his life has passed and they have nothing to remember. Probably they are rich but they don´t have people on their side. Our ignorance might be painful for people who surround us.

In my opinion, a good health is a very important thing in our life. I wish I had always an excellent health. If you got a good health, you wouldn't have obstacles in your life. The only thing that can stop us is illness, or death. Other things can be overcome by our desires...If I really want something, maybe not now but i will get it!

So, life as a conclusion I would like to say that the most important things are a close family and a good health! I´m happy because I’ve got the first one, let´s see if the second one will be with me during my life.

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

Hi guys!
Today I searched talks to practice listening to the test for tomorrow, I've found this talk very interesting.
This talk is about the developmental factors that influce a baby to learn a new language.
It's very interesting to know when we are able to learn many languages ​​and how we develop our brain.
Personally, I'm trilingual since I was little, and I think it's important to learn many languages​​ since we're children, so we have the brain more developed and better able to recognize and learn foreign languages.
It is also interesting the experiments which the researchers did with the children, learning how people affect our learning, we learn more with people than watching tv.
I hope you'll like the video !
See you tomorrow in listening test!

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/spa/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html

School plays a more important role than the family in shaping one's personality

It is true that school plays an important part in the psychological development of the child because children spend a lot of hours at school, with their classmates and teachers who influence them.

On the one hand, most children stay at school an average of 8 hours. They do all the activities that a child has to do in his/her daily life, 4 hours studing, 2 hours in the eating room, 2 hours doing other activities with their classmates or individually (for example sleeping).

On the other hand, the child spends a short time with the family, inside or outside the home, with a total daily time of 4 hours. In addition, at least, one of the parents usually works all the day and consequently, he comes back home tired and he doesn't pay enough attencion to his son/daughter.

All in all, school might seem more important in shaping a child's personality. However, a part of a person's personality is geneticaly determined when hi is born and he develops it during his experiences in school and at home equally.

We won the second prize! YES!!!

We are extremely happy and honoured to announce that we have received a very prestigious award. We won the second prize, a “Silver spinning top”, in the V Premio Espiral Edublogs 2011 in the category blogs of students of Bachillerato!!!

You all did a good job! I'm very proud of you!!! Congratulations to all the authors: Mireia, Carlos, Malika, Nariman, Albert, Judith, Angela, Vladimir, Delia, Lexian, Desi, Alba, David, Lucas, Aitor, Carmen!! This is also a good time to say thank you to all the commentators and all the readers who think they can learn some English by visiting our blog.


Thank you so much to the team of Premio Espiral Edublogs for this recognition. We will be delighted to continue working on it! 

On the 4th of June we are given the prize in Madrid, so hopefully we can all have a photograph taken with our "silver spinning top" on the week after!

Happy blogging!!

  

Facebook: Premio Espiral Edublogs

Twitter: #espiraledublogs

 

What do you think about vegetarians?

Nowadays there are many people that are vegetarians. Vegetarianism can be adopted for different reasons:including health, religious, political, environmental, cultural, in addition to ethical reasons. It's a diet without the inclusions of dairy products or eggs, and with the exlusion of meat.

On the one hand, they have a healthy life because they eat many vegetables and fruits add vitamins to the body. Their ethical reasons are to protect the rights of animals as they can't do it alone. They consider reprehensible and cruel the death of animals especially its abuse and explotaition with the sole purpose of producing food for animals.

On the other hand, people need to eat a little of everything for the body and have a complete diet. The thropy chains are one cycle and the human being is part of them.

To sump up, I think it's good that there is people who worri about animal rights and I respect them. For example, when I work in the bakery, we have products for vegan people they exclude all animals flesh and animal productes. We have special cakes without milk and eggs, I have tasted it, it is somehow different but delicious.

Grammar revision

Can you tell the difference between the following pair of sentences?
Think about it and if you are not clear about any of them, ask me in the next revision class.

• He must be a good musician. 
• He must have been a good musician.

• He might not have existed.
• He can't have existed.

• You must have seen the film about King Arthur.
• You should have seen the film about King Arthur.

• You don't have to do it.
• You musn't do it.  

• I have lived in Barcelona for 10 years. 
• I lived in Barcelona for 10 years. 

• When Desi got home, her parents went to bed.
• When Desi got home, her parents had gone to bed.

• I'm going to paint my room.
• I'm going to have my room painted. 

• I wish I knew that.
• I wish I had known that. 

Buying online is the best way to shop

'Buying online is the best way to shop'

Discuss

Today, we can do almost everything with the computer. Now, a lot of people are buying things online. You only need to open a bank acount, then you can buy things that you need. Now I will discuss the advantages and the disadvantagesod buying online.

On the one hand, buying online is very fast. You don't have to go out, only type on your keyboard. In addition, you can compare the price easily. Always the price of product online is cheaper than in a shop. If you buy too many things, you don't have to worry that you can't carry them, because they will take them home.

On the other hand, shopping online it is not safe, sense a virus can come in your computer anf it will store your bank acount password. Moreover, you only see photos of the product, so it's difficult to find out if it suits you. For exemple, if you want to buy a piece of cloth, you can't try it on.

In conclusion, buying online it is fast and easy. although it is not quite safe, but you should think that when you go shopping in a shop you can be robbed too. In my opinion, buying online is the best way to shop.

The evolution of internet.

At present the evolution of internet has recently inmmensely and new there are a lot of people that use it.

On the one hand, the internet has adventages;
It lets you in a simple way connect with a lot of people or distant family. Also, it makes it easy to meet people of other countries.
Searching information without moving from your house.
You can find many different perspectives about some news. Moreover, it allows you to download software, books, movies.. You can buy things or run a few errand. To finish with, you can share a lot of personal things that other people can benefit from it.

On the other hand, all things are good and bad thongs as well.
In the same way that it is easy to find good information also you can find wrong information.
Internet takes free time from and keeps you from doing you homework.
Internet makes students strive less doing their homework and students might copy English compositions.
Internet dustracts employees in their work.
The internet connection spends electrical energy and light.

To sum up, in my opinion we need to know how to balance the use of the Internet to be beneficial in our lives.