FINAL REFLECTION

Second of batxillerat has come to an end, and this means the end of many things, including this blog. It was created two years ago, when I was in 4th of ESO and since then, I have been posting different tasks, news and, what I enjoyed the most, my opinions and thoughs in the so called "my worlds" and "your says". 

Posting writings during two years should mean that my level of english has increased, so I'm going to compare my last writing with my very first one, to see if it is really like this. 

Going back to my first post I've realized it was a bucket list, which is not very good to compare with a writing, so I'm going to use my second post, which was a writing talking about my hero. (http://imnotpineapple.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/my-hero.html). And my last post was a news about human rights (http://imnotpineapple.blogspot.com.es/2017/05/jehovahs-witnesses-banned-in-russia.html).

At first sight, what I can see is that the first post was shorter, but it was probably because it was a task in which I didn't have a lot to say, and seeing my first "my worlds", I can see that the long posts are not something new. About the structure, the "My hero" task wasn't practically structured. With this I mean that I started talking about my hero, just giving information about it, and then I explained why I admired him. Instead, in the last post there is a very marked structure: the summary of the news, my personal opinion and the vocabulary. (although maybe it's not a good exemple to compare, considering that the news structure is given by the news pattern). Talking about the content, I think I've improved my writings because of the topics I'm talking about. When I started the blog, a lot of the topics were given as tasks, so sometimes I didn't have a lot to say, or other were chosen by me but were not very interesting. And even though I have been running out of things to talk, I think the content of my posts has become more interesting throughout time. Another thing that in my opinion has improved is the fluency. In the My hero post I notice in some parts a lack of connectors, which make it be less fluent, and instead, in the last posts of my blog I tried to use new connectors and to be more fluent. And finally, about personal development, I can say that I've noticed it, not only looking at these two posts, but in all the blog in general. It is related a little bit to what I said about the evolution of the topics and also the way I talk about them, which has become more mature. 

Talking about oral presentations or podcasts, I think my best one was the presentation about a gap year I did last year with Paula Caball and Paula Valenzuela (http://imnotpineapple.blogspot.com.es/2016/05/self-evaluation-oral-presentation.html). I've chosen this one not because of the language or the accuracy doing the presentation, because I think that more or less in all my presentations I've had a similar level, but for the way it was done. We tried to make it original and make up a story to fit the presentation in. So all of us played a different role (a girl who wants to do a gap year, a travel agent who helps her and an african women she meets during her gap year). With this little "theatre" we were able to explain the benefits of taking a gap year, the details about accomodation and different aspects of the country of which we were talking  about: South Africa. So I think it was one of my best oral presentations because of its originality.

And about the written post, one of my favourites is also one from first of batxillerat, in which I talk about dog's abandonment. (http://imnotpineapple.blogspot.com.es/2015/11/dogs-abandonment.html). It is a your-say in which I share my opinion about the topic and I give some solutions that, from my point of view, could help in the decreasing of dog's abandonment. It's one of my favourites because it's a topic I care about and I wrote it very fluently. But also, I have to mention the love essay I did this year with Paula Caball (http://imnotpineapple.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/love-essay.html), because I'm also very happy with the result. This was a task that required more work, because we had to look for information about the topic on the internet and then use it in our essay at the same time we were giving our opinion. That's why I'm happy with the result and proud of our work, because I think we did a good essay, using good references, good vocabulary and good grammar and structures. 

FINAL REFLECTION

This year in the English subject we had to do a new activity, which was create a blog and work on it. I had never create a blog before, so it was a whole new thing for me. When the teacher told us about it, I really liked the idea because I thought it was a good way to express yourself in English, to talk about the things you like and in a very visual way, which I like. 

I liked the process of creating the blog and in general I liked all the blog activity, although I think some of the tasks were a little boring to do. Another problem that I had were the My world's. I never knew what to talk about and when I was feeling like doing a My world I didn't have any ideas, that's why I always wrote them at the end of the term, because I spent the whole term trying to find ideas without success.

But as I said before, even though these two little things, I liked the blog activity and I think it was good to work with it.

My favourite posts in the blog are the My world's, I guess because I talk about what I like in them. Some of my favourites are the review of the book Paper Towns, because as I read the book in English it was good to be able to talk about it also in English; the Eurovision post and the review of the movie If I stay.

This year we worked on four different projects. The first one was the dreams project, in which we talked about our dreams and ways to fulfil them. My favourite thing about this project was the Bucket List that we did.

The second project was the horror project, probably my favourite. Although sometimes they scare me, I really like horror and creepy stories, so I really enjoyed the project. My favourite thing was the horror movie that we did. 

The third project was the love story. I liked this project, I liked knowing a bit more about Romeo and Juliet, and I also liked to make the Love story video.

The final project was the photography one. I liked this one, but in some parts it was a little bit boring.

To sum up, I liked working on the blog because it was a whole new thing for me, and my favourite project was the horror one. My favourite tasks are the videos, because even though they require a lot of work, I really enjoy recording them and seethe final result.