Suspense

1. Who is the director of this movie Psyco?

The director is Alfred Hitchcock.

2. What type of charactars did he often use in horror films?

In his films he usually used a murderer and a girl, like in the Psyco film. His killer were not mad or psychopaths, he introduced the murderers with a good story behind.

3. What technique did he use with the camera?

He liked filming in white and black. He also used subjective camera to reveal a character's vision.

What's my opinion about Christmas?

I think that Christmas is the most important event of the year. I think that because it have a magical ambient that covers the air. Is the time when the families meet all toghether during the holidays and celebrate that is Christmas!

On the origins, Christmas was a religious celebration, but I think that now is a celebration that unite the families, and it has nothing to do with the religion. Usually the people have big dinners in this event, and open presents of Sant Nick, of the Three Magic Kings, or of  the "el tió" (typical in Catalonia). The kids feel that magic is real, and sing Christmas Carols.

It's true that somentimes when somebody have lost someone in the family it's hard to confront this event, because everybody meet with the family, and the loss, feels stronger.

But definitely, I like Christmas and as I said in the begining, I think that Christmas holidays are the most beautiful ones of the year. 

Underwater Hockey

History

The Underwater Hockey is an acuatic sport. It was invented on 1954 by Alan Blake in the United Kingdom. He dove with a couple of other divers, so that's why he create this sport, to practise his apnea and be better as a diver. On 1996 the Underwater Hockey arrived in Barcelona for Laurent Alquier, and from there it was moved to the rest of Spain.

Rules

The Underwater Hockey consists in two opponent teams that have to score, carrying a puck with a stick for the bottom of the pool, in the others goal. The team with more goals at the end, win the match. The teams are of 10 players (6 playing and 4 reserves). The matches have two parts of 15 minuts each other, with a small brake of 3 minuts between them.

Basic material

The basic material that you need is:

        1. A snorkel
        2. A cap
        3. A mask
        4. A pair of fins
        5. A stick
        6. A puck
        7. A glove

Why I love this sport?

I love Underwater Hockey because it's a minority sport, and the people who plays is usually open-minded. I like it too because I enjoy a lot being in the water, I can move my body very well. Another reason of why I love this sport is because if you are a bit good at this, you can be part of something big, like the Catalan Selection or something like that. And above all these reasons, I love Underwater Hockey beacause when I play, I feel happy and full, and I forget all the problems that I have.

The Psychological Horror Story

What is the story of tell-tale heart about?

The story is about a murder that kills a man. Then he broke his body into pieces and he hid it. Later some investigators come into the house and the murder is calmed, but next he get nervous.  At last he confess his crime.

Who wrote the tell heart and invented the first macabre stories?

Edgar Allan Poe.

What was the first P.H.S?

It was "Matzengerstein"

When was it first published?

On 1832.

What other story types did the author also invent?

Edgar Allan Poe also invent the romantic poems, the modern detective stories, the sience-fiction stories and the gothic fiction stories.

The Gothic Novel

1. Who invented the G.N.?

Horace Walpole was the inventor of the gothic novel.

2. What was the first G.N.?

The Castle of Otranto was the first gothic novel.

3. When was it first published?  

It first published in 1764.

4. Wich basic elements of horror didn't you include in your list?

Settings in a castle, omens, visions, an ancient prophecy, women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, 
darkness, necromancer, dismal, melancholy, goblins, prophecy, spectre, zombies, the wind blowing...


Vocabulary

- foreboding
- watered
- foreshadowing
- bluring
- breathlessness
- metonymy

A Horror Movie

Hi! I'm going to talk you about a horror movie that I saw 2 years ago. I like watching horror movies with friends, but I get scared very fast.
The horror movie opens when a couple that lives in a house far away the civilisation, discover a blood message on the mirror it says "you're next", after they get murdered. Then the members of a family go to a house near there, where they have a family reunion. When they arrive everithing is normal, but a few time later, when they are having the dinner, suddenly an arrow brakes a window and kill a boy. Then they realise that someone is out the house observing them, like a lion observe his prey. The family closes all the doors and the windows of the house, and then they call the police. There are 2 or 3 people with animal masks. Although what the family do, the people with maks can go into the house, and one for one the family starts being murdered. The film is more a thriller movie than a horror movie, but I think that both of this styles go often togheter. The movie ends when the murders kill everybody, and next they go out the house. After this the policemans come, and one of them die with a trap that the family put to defend theirselves.

Multiple Intelligences

In general I agree with the result, but I think that logical-mathematical might be higher, because I like very much the logical problems and mathematics. I want to study a biological career, and I think that the mathematics will be essential. I like very much music, but I don't think that is my most developed intelligence.

My Hero

Who's my hero?

My hero was a big person, and I'm not saying that for his size. My hero was a happy and strong-willed person. He is my grandfather, I called him Avi Pacs. He was a very positive person, and he didn't like losing. He was very playful. He liked a lot driving his car, and he enjoys too reading the newspaper. He was very sociable and he had lots of friends.

He is my hero because 4 years ago the doctors detected him cancer in the lungs. He fought against this disease for 4 years and he was brave. When the doctors told him that maybe in a not too far future he won't walk more like he did, he decided to walk for 2 hours. He had a perseverant spirit, I think that we all must learn of his attitude. I won't lie you, in the last year he sometimes lost his smile and his hope, but we, the family, were there to give support to him. He was a fighter. He fought with lot of power against his disease and unfortunatly he lost, and the disease won a few months ago, but he put it to it very difficult.

What animal is inside me?

In the English class we did a test about what animal are you, acording with your personality, your appearance and your ambitions. The result of the test was:

You are a Horse!

On the results there were a couple of horse's adjectives and facts that were supposed to correspond with me. I agree with most of them: average to large size, because I am taller than most of the others, steady, plucky and stubborn, because when I have an idea in my head it's difficult to change it. I can say that I'm observant too, and a bit know-it-all, because I know many things, but I'm conscious that there are thousands of others that I have to learn, and other thousands that I'll can't never learn.

The horses have free-spirited personalities and they hate to be ignored. I recognize that I'm like this, but they are sensitive to criticism too, and I usually ignore it. It's true that maybe someone criticism affects me, but harldy ever.

The horses are friendly, sensible and ticklish, and they insist at taking charge of their lives. All correspond to me totally. Just when they make a special friendship are willing to give up the reins. Then the horses become supportive and broad-shouldered mates

The horses enjoy doing exercise, and me too. The are ready to do every type of sport and exercise. I am too; I like all the sports, and moving my body it's one of my favourite hobbies.

For all of that I consider that the test got right. It described very well my personality and my ambitions although I disagree with something.

Enjoying my job

I think that enjoying your job is a very important thing because you pass 1/3 of your life working on a job, and if you don't like it you are losing time. The most people thinks that geting a job and working on it is something boring and tiring and they do it only to win some money and can pay all the maintenance that they have. But I believe that it's something that the people must do it with pasion and interest, because if you do a boring job, you won't be happy for the reason that I said at the begining.

I know that maybe this sounds impossible, but with a little effort you can do what you propose. Then you'll say, "I'm bad as basketball and I want to be a profesional basketball player", if you are not good at this, make an extra effort, and maybe you won't be the greatest basketball player of the world, and maybe you'll not be good bouncing the ball, but you might be the greatest defense of your team. Another example; you want to be a writter, but you make lots of ortographics and lexic mistakes, what can you do? Reading, reading, amd more reading. The solutions of the problems usually are in the simplest thing.

In conclusion, enjoy your job is one of the most important things in the world, in my opinion. And to make that possible, what you only have to do is work hard, and run risks. If you fall once, get up twice.

My Bucket List

- Discover important things as a biologist

- Write a book

- Have children

- Be a great basketball player

- Play with a band 

- Study a year in USA.

- Enjoy my job.

- Keep the friends that I have and make lots more.

- Become a great father of my children.

- Learn lots of more things.

- Speak lots of languages.

- Know more cultures.

- Travel around the world.

- Have a relationship with a girl that I love.
- Be happy.

My little music world

As you probably know I am Joel Martínez Miralles and I love music. In my free time I listen relax music, like I'm yours, or Let her go, but I like too Rock 'n' roll! I've been playing the electric guitar since I was 9. I can play many songs now, and the ones that I like more are ACDC songs, or other Rock ones of old singers and bands like Dire Straits, Deep Purple, Guns n Roses... 

I play in a musical, "Un Estiu a la Platja" with a little orchestra. It's about a girl that fall in love with the popular boy in the highschool, they go in the same class. The girl create a false facebook profile and chat with him. Finally they start a real relationship. The musical was created by David Pellicer, the director of the orchestra. We started doing this musical two summers ago, and we're still doing it.

I play in a band too. It's called Pa'm Tomata, that means bread with tomato, a typical catalan food. In the band we are 6 musicians, Lluc, on the drums, Pau on the trumpet, Mel on the Piano, Roger on the saxophone, Mariona on the Piano Bass, me on the elecrtic guitar, and the director David Pellicer. We play many types of songs. We meet all mondays to practice. 

And that's all. This is my music world.