1. PRESENTATION

Hi!
My name is Gemma and this is my portfolio. I live in Castelló d'Empúries with my parents and my grandmother. We have a cat called Miu and a dog called Indi. I am doing first of Batxillerat, the social one. I think that in the future I want to study social education but until the next year I will be not completely decided. The aim of this portfolio is to organise all the work that I am doing during this year and see the progress.

2. MY EUROPEAN PASSPORT

3. FIRST MAIL

Hi Lourdes! My name is Gemma Gasull, I study in the IES castelló d'Empúries because I live in this town and my friends too. I'm 16 years old, in January I will be 17. I like like the theater, to sail by Internet, to speak, to laugh, the photography makes me crazy, it it fascinates to me and listen the letter of the songs...etc, but I don't like too many things, for example: the fish, Chinese food, Mexican food, the lies...
This summer I haven't worked because I didn't look for anything, but to medium summer I regreted not haver looked for some work by the mornings. I think that much information already you will remember of the last year, so I finish this presentation.

see you tomorrow! :)
good bye!

4. THE HORROR STORY

My horror story is based about the first trip that a friend has done some years ago. She travelled with her parents to Corsega. She was so happy with this trip but a bit frightened to take the plane. Everything in the plane was OK but the strange thing happened in the hotel bedroom. When she was sleeping during the last night, he started to hear some noises from the bathroom. The first thing that she did was check if her parents were sleeping. Yes, they were sleeping so deeply. Then he tried to sleep another time but she wasn't able to because she heart the noises from the bathroom cistern. Then she felt more and more nervous and she though that the only solution was shout very loud to woke up her parents. She achieved his purpose and her dad went into the bathroom and nobody was in the bathroom and everything was OK. Luckily, it was the only bad thing during the travel and the rest was perfect.

7. THE FORMAL LETTER

28th January 2008
Castelló d’Empúries, 17486
c/d e l’oli, 4



The head teacher
IES Castelló d’Empúries
c/ Rentador
Castelló d’Empúries 17486


Dear head teacher,

I look the installations of the IES and I would give some suggestions to improve the education and the comfort.

On the one hand, I think that the projector (that they are locate in some classrooms), could be find in all the classrooms because sometimes it is necessary to change the students to de classrooms for watch a film, a video or any things. I think, too, that the color of the IES it’s very soften and the windows with the barriers make a classroom very dismal.

In my opinion, I think that we can be better all this things and the quality of the students and the students can be more motivated with the work.

I’d be interested to read about your opinion and yours disagreed or agrees with me.

Yours faithfully,



Gemma Gasull

8. A PODCAST

Some wednesdays ago, in the language room Dani, Andreu, Arturo and me were with Anika. She gave to us some papers with our horoscope, we had to explain our personality and other activities. The horoscopes were plenty of true things, specially the Andreu's one. This three boys are three characters so while they were talking, were doing silly things and Annika looked me very surprised with them but finally we all were laughing.

In conclusion, the dialogue wasn't very long and fluid but I learnt a lot of new vocabulary.

9. MILKING IT (a summari of new)

One of the perks of living on the Costa Brava is the abundance of wonderful produce grown in the region or landed at its ports. La Fageda has managed to become the third largest yoghurt producer in Catalunya (30 million yoghurts annually). 70 percent of La Fageda’s employees have physical or mental disabilities. The idea was to base the business activities in a rural setting, largely because it was working with nature helped disabled people regain a measure of dignity. It’s a good place to work for these persons.

9. GROWING TENSION (summary of news 2)

Simon Newman says that a controversial solution is planned to meet the problem of Catalunya’s growing energy requirements. High-tension pylons are depicted in energy company advertisements as benign, animated giants striding across the countryside and bestowing the gift of clean power. However, detractors such as the citizens group No a la MAT (MAT stands Muy Alta Tension), them as an unnecessary scourge, environmentally damaging and the cause of a litany of health hazards.
MAT also allege that high-tension networks are inherently inefficient, losing as much as 30 percent of their power when transferred over long distances.
The energy company REE (Red Electrica de España) disagrees. And they are the only feasible option since underground cables are only suitable for short distances, 40 km being the current record, in Japan.

10. SUMMARY OF THE FILM

Thirteen Summary:

At the age of 13, Tracy is an excellent student and gets along well with her mother, Melanie.. She cuts to rid herself of the emotional pain (but later uses drugs, alcohol, sex, and even more self mutilation) of coming from a broken home and the hatred of her mom Mel's on and off boyfriend Brady. She soon befriends Evie, the most popular and coolest girl at school. Evie leads Tracy down the road of sex, drugs, and petty crime (including stealing money from purses and stores). But as Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes upside down and inside out as her relationship with her mother turns to constant arguments and the loss of her friends and teachers.

12. DESCRIPTION

My description is going to be about my friend Juliette. We are friends since we were five years old. Juliette is quite tall and slim. She has green eyes and dark hair. Her hair is straight and so long although she prefers longer. On his face, she has some little freckles.

If I have to talk about her personality I think that she’s so quietly but when she has some important fact in his head then she is so much nervous. I’m always telling that this is so bad for herself. However, I really admire her optimism and her self-confidence. I also admire her because she is very outgoing and she always knows new people. We are similar with this. Juliette is also very hard-working but on the other hand she’s very untidy. Moreover, she’s so funny because she’s often laughing and makes the other people laugh so I always spend great time next to her.

To sum up, I think that Juliette is a very interesting girl. A lot of boys admire my friend and I am sure that a lot of girls want to be like her because is so beautiful, starting with her eyes and her physic and finishing with her nice character.