LA RAÍZ

La Raíz is my favourite music group. They play folk, ska, rock and rap music, and the lyrics of the song are rescindable. They are ten members, and they're from Valencia. Their last record is called "Entre poetas y Presos", which I think is their best. My favourite song is "El Mercurio", otherwise at first I didn't like it because it isn't the kind of songs they usually play.

I like them because they aren't affraid of writing songs about their opinion of society. They criticise it using the music, and I think this is the best way to express and encourage young people not to be influenced by what's in fashion. I also love the rhythm of the songs.

SOME OF MY LIFE EXPERIENCES

I have already visited Dublin. I went there last year with my father and some of his friends so one of them could celebrate his birthday with his daughter. It was a weekend, and what I liked the most was the type of houses and pubs, because they were very different from here. It was also the first time I travelled by plane, but by now I've flown a few more times.

I have already flown in Windoor Empuriabrava. I had this experience in January, and it was a Christmas present. I did it with my sisters, and we all had a lot of fun. I enjoyed it because it's very exciting and it seems like you are floating in the air.

I have already been to Florence. Last summer I went to Tuscany with my father and my sisters. We visited many cities, but my favourite one was Florence. Its Renaissence's buildings are incredible, and the bridges are very beautiful. I think it's the best city in the world.

I haven't been to Morocco yet. One of my dreams is to travel to Morocco, because it must be very beautiful. What I like about travelling is that I see different cultures, people, food... That's why I think Morocco is a very good country to visit.

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Los Glaciares National Park is a beautiful area in the Southwest of Santa Cruz province in Argentine. It was inscripted by the UNESCO on 1981. It has lots of glacial lakes and glaciers. The most striking and famous sight is the Perito Moreno Glacier in the Lake Argentino, because the water level causes on it regular ruptures on the water of the lake. Otherwise, last year the bridge formed by the ice fell down.

I love this place because it proves that nature is very pretty and impressive without any human help. I agree that it has to be protected because global warming is breaking the ice, like Perito Moreno and other glaciers. 

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/145

LET HER GO

"Let her go" is a romantic love song. It talks about somebody that used to have a girl who loved, but he didn't know and he didn't appreciate her. He let her go, so now he misses her and realizes that he really loved her. To explain that, the singer compares this with other situations when you don't value what you have until you don't have it.

VINCENT TREMEAU

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Catalan writer who writes in Spanish. He was born in Barcelona on 1964, but now he lives in Los Angeles. A part from writing, Ruiz Zafón is also a composer and a pianist. He's author of many best-sellers, and he's the second most read spanish writer after Cervantes.

He's my favourite writer since I read a novel of his for the first time in 1st ESO called "El príncipe de la niebla". Last summer I also read "La sombra del viento", which I really liked, and now I want to continue with the second book of the saga.

I love his books because the principal stories are always very interesting: they have horror, mistery and usually love. But in my opinion, what make his novels so good are the descriptions of the characters and the places, that make you feel like if you were there, feeling the same as the narrator. I also love the way he explains the action and scary parts of the books. Otherwise, I think the plots of all his books are very intelligent, with a lot of complications that can surprise the reader at any time.

TOURIST INTERVIEW

1. Where are you from?
I am from Argentina.

2. Is it the first time that you are in Spain?
No, no. I am here for the last fifteen years.

3. How did you come here? By plane, ship or train?
By plane, of course.

4. Why are you in Girona?   
I am living here

5. How long are you going to stay here?
One more day, I'm moving to Sant Feliu de Guixols.

6. Are you travelling with family or friends?
 No, alone.

7. What have you visited up to now?
Nothing special, I am walking around.

8. What do you like the most?
Walking around.

9. Have you bought any presents?               
No.                        

10. Do you know any words in Catalan or Spanish?
Yes, of course.

11. Have you tried any typical Spanish or Catalan food?
 Calçots, of course.

12. Do you think Girona/Catalonia is expensive?
 Yes. Much more than south of Spain, or even much more than Barcelona.

13. Do you see any differences from your country?
Many, almost everything is different.

14. Do you know anyone who lives in Girona?
I have a few friends, yes.

15. Is there anything you didn't like?
Well... No, nothing special.

16. Have you watched Game of Thrones?
No.

17. Do you plan to visit Sebastiao Salgado’s photography exhibition?
No.

18. Would you recommend Girona to your family or friends?
Yes, of course.

19. Will you come back again?
Who knows?

SEBASTIAO SALGADO'S PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

The other day we went to Girona to see an exhibition from the photographer Sebastiao Salgado. I particulary liked this photo more than the others because of the contact you have with the animal when you look at it. I think the greatest point of the picture is the look and the position of the leopard: it's looking directly at the camera, with a lot of connection between the photographer and the animal. In my opinion, this is what makes the picture strong and scary.

TEEN WOLF

Teen Wolf is a series about a boy called Scott who's bitten by a werewolf a night while he's trying to find a dead body in the forest. Since that moment, his life completely changes. If he was a shy guy with good marks but very bad at lacrosse and all the other sports, he became the best player of the school team, and also the strongest.

From that point on, unusual things start to happen to him. He and his best friend Stiles discover that he has became a werewolf. Then, he has to face some problems and fight against other paranormal characters. One of the problems that appears in the first season is that he falls in love with a girl whose parents are werewolf hunters, so they want to kill him. Another thing is that the police is investigating the murders whose assassin is another werewolf.

I like this series because it has action and fiction, but it also shows friendship and love stories between the characters. However, I have to say that in the first time I didn't like it, but I continued watching it and then I got so hooked that I saw the whole 5 seasons in a summer.

SHOT TYPES AND CAMERA ANGLES

High angle: This angle looks down on someone or something to make it look small and insignificant. But in this case, in the picture we can see the "pinya" of a human tower to show its power.



Aerial shot: It's taken form a plane, crane or helicopter and it shows a landscape, like a beach in this example, from a birds eye view.



Long shot: This type of shots are used to show distance or a whole setting. In the image there's a railway with a perspective that helps showing its lenght.



Slanted angle: The slanted angle shows the objects from an unnatural point of view. It's usually used to express movement, like in this photo of Spiderman.



Two shot: This shot is used to show the relatioship between two people. In the picture we can see two brothers smiling and hugging, so we can see they love each other.

SUSPENSE

1. Who's the director of this movie Psycho? The director is Alfred Hitchcock

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

He usually used characters like a killer and a girl. He introduces a good story for the murderers, they aren't mad or psychopaths.

3. What technique did he use with the camera?
He often uses the subjective camera to show the character's vision.

MY FAVOURITE LOVE MOVIE

My favourite romantic film is The fault in our stars. It's based on the John Green's novel that has the same name as the movie. I have to say that I enjoyed more the book, which I read first, than the movie. I like it because it's also dramatic and talks about a reality which we aren't used to.

It's about a girl called Hazel Grace Landcaster, who has a cancer and knows that she's going to die. The love story that happens there is limited because of Hazel. She's in love with a boy who's called Augustus Waters and wants to be with her, but she doesn't want to because she doesn't want to hurt him when she dies. So although they love each other, they become friends until a travel to Amsterdam, when they kiss. Then the romantic story starts, that finishes with the death of one of the couple at the end of the movie.