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Hi, my name is Ricardo García, I´m 15 years old and I live in Toluca. I like to spend time with my family and I really love playing drums . I have a Dog, her name is "Duquesa". Latin music is my favorite, also Jazz music, that are unusual and enjoyable. My favorite color is blue and my favorite song is "Bésame mucho".

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What have I learnt?

I learnt new vocabulary and despite I studied the most of the topics of this course, I think that I reinforced my learning, but especially I could practice skills like listening, writing and reading

What are my strengths and weaknesses?

My strengths

I am responsible

I understand the topics so far

I recognize that English is important for live

My weakness

I am distracted, my concentration time is very short

I postpone the task that I have to do

My vocabulary in English is little and I don’t like study it

I do the homework one day before the due date

What have I improved? What I must improve?

I have improved my pronunciation, my fluency, my vocabulary, my listening but I must to practice it every day to become better

I must improve in my confidence because I can’t speak in English in public

I must improve my listening

I must improve in the organization of my time

I must improve in my pronunciation.

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Hello my name is Ricardo García, I’m 15 years old

I live in Toluca; I like to spend time with my family and I really love play drums. I have a dog, her name is "Duquesa" and she is old, but so beautiful, and I like so much go to walk with her. Latin music is my favorite, also Jazz music,  are unusual and enjoyable. My favorite color is blue and my favorite song is "Bésame mucho".

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What have I leart?

First, I learnt about rock music and I liked it, honestly, I like jazz or latin music better but with Teacher Sunyol now I like Rock and Metal. Talking about school I learned new grammatic tenses and vocabulary, I improved my English too much, and I feel that I can speak with more fluency, also improved listening, reading and speaking. I would like to practice tenses a little bit more.

What are my strengths and weaknesses?

My strengths are reading and listening, maybe speaking, but these are the topics that I got better grades on exams, I think because I have studied these harder than before. I set up my goals and one of them is talk Englis perfectly.

My weaknesses are writing and grammar; writing because I have to study hard spelling; and grammar because my mind doesn’t order ideas to do sentences with sense

What have I improved? What I must improve?

I have improved my vocabulary; I am more confidence with myself talking in English and maybe my pronunciation

I must improve in my fluency; my spelling and I think that I have to see English in a better way because I don’t like it.

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Hello my name is Ricardo García, I’m 15 years old

I live in Toluca; I like to spend time with my family and I really love play drums. I have a dog, her name is "Duquesa" and she is old, but so beautiful, and I like so much go to walk with her. Latin music is my favorite, also Jazz music,  are unusual and enjoyable. My favorite color is blue and my favorite song is "Bésame mucho".

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I believe that I improved my English skills during holidays, because I took classes with a friend, I supposed that I began classes at Tec kind of distracted, because my first partial wasn’t as good as I wished, I talked to myself to get mentalized that I have to get focused on improve my grades, and actions that really helped me, because for the second partial I got better.

I am really nervous about the final period, are a lot of work talking about all the subjects, so I have to organized myself to fulfil everything and finish the semester with good results.

During the semester I learned to focused in the school, in all the things that I have to upload and deliver, what I mean, be responsible, I am getting older and I have to mature, and take responsibility for my actions.

Comparing with the other semesters, I feel more comfortable with the lenguaje, I got a lot of new vocabulary and I practice more time, other thing that I believe that is helping me, are the subjects that are taken in English, in summary, in this semester I was surrounded of English.

In conclusion, I improved, but I need to get even better to achieve my objective, study abroad.

Congrats to me jaja

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Hi, I’m Ricardo and I’m studying my fourth semester in High school, this is my first time assisting daily to the campus, and many emotions are here, in one hand, I feel entusiasthic because new people will be coexisting with me allowing me to acquire knowledge about different perspectives, in other hand, I am fearful because covid is hanging around the ambience and the danger to get infected still there, despite of it, I am flexible to learn enought about everything and try to achieve all my objectives during the semester.

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Have you ever asked yourself how cruel society is?

“The hole”, a Spanish film launched in 2019, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, tries to show us brilliantly, through potent images that represent everyone's place in the human hierarchy.

The main character is called Goreng, for me is the essence of the movie's message, similar to “Trimagasi”, his participation causes the movie to become intense, his role is from someone experienced who just follows his instinct, trying to stay alive. Also is when the movie turns violent after that many bloody events occurred.

I identify an analogy, the experiment consists of people being assigned to a level that determines how much food they are allowed to eat; the closer to zero they are, the more benefit they become. It is similar in real life and is related to your social status, the resources which you have on hand depend on the highness of the power given by the money in your pocket. I believe that the movie wants to show how unfair is society with people without resources and that is expressed almost perfectly, is not completely realistic, but I liked how the message is there and honestly the final was confused and bland.

In conclusion, the film tries to open people’s minds but is not enough absorbing to deeply influence people’s lifestyle.

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Dear Ricardo, Thank you for your submission. These are your observations. 1. After "the analogy"... the sentence is quite unclear. 2. I don't see any of the new vocabulary. Where can you make it fit? Love, Del.
Delia Escamilla Ceballos, Mar 18 at 2:37pm

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Today I woke up in the morning thinking about this essay, having in mind that about 30 people that are in my English class will be doing the same homework, some of them with more English dominance, better literary ideas, and much more time to invest in it, so, why should this essay impact in my English teacher? But mainly, why should it impact me and my self-perspective?

Every second that passed away is important because everything happening in that short period influences deeply who you are, I mean every person who we interact with can influence us. So what will happen if we fuse the knowledge and abilities that we acquire from others plus ours?

My greatest passion is music. I was called by a musical director who I admire to play with him along with another three instrumentalists, so he assigned us our score; when I saw it, I got panicked, fortunately, I managed to play the songs after loads of hours of practice.

The day of the rehearsal arrived and nothing could shield how afraid everyone felt, the musical director noticed and asked for silence, however, no one in the room expected that the words that would came out of his mouth, would change completely our perspective of music, life, and ourselves. He said: “My faith in you and your work brought you here. Is crucial to understand that each one has a different power, if we want to create “The Avengers” we have to hook up ourselves to form one soul”. Was at that moment when I realized the importance that people around us have in our daily life.

That's why I am motivated to study at the university, to make great things by being one soul with other students and teachers, but above all, to shape my identity to grow up every time in this wonderful and short period of existence called life.

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This semester did not make me feel enthusiastic, I felt it a bit challeging, mainly because after two years of taking classes from our houses was difficult to modify the routine inside our residences to rebound to the activities presencially.

At first there were lots of distractions which did not allowed me to focus on the lessons, so some topics turned to be difficult to me, but with time, my brain got used to coexist with people without carelessness my work.

I improved a lot my reading beacuse I included in my routine to tackle many articles and stories in English. In my writing too, honestly, in some parts of my scripts I needed help from web to sound better using synonims and complex sentences, my objective is to do the same without internet. My speaking and listening did not improve enought, I would have liked to increase in a bigger proportion my skills, I feel that it will be aqcuired only with practice, so I need to.

In conclusion, this semester was hard but not impossible, all the experiences let me a learning which I deeply value. I have to improve some things but from where I am stand, I am proud.

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Hi, I’m Ricardo and I’m studying my fifth semester in High school, I am fearful because covid is hanging around the ambience and the danger to get infected still there, despite of it, I am flexible to learn enought about everything and try to achieve all my objectives during the semester.

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Internet or remembering information?

Imagine that there is something which has most of the information on the word about everything, science, literature, history, etc; now a days , with the development of technology, lots of information is on our hands but, Do we know how to use it?

Wisdom is power, on internet everyone can get it, and suppose to be helpful as a complement of which we already know, from my point of view, the ability of remembering data allow people to constantly use their minds  and be active mentally.

Over time, the immensity of material uploaded in the web, has been increasing, however, high quantities of resources which contains false information appeared at the same time, so, obtaining the information coming out of internet not always ensure  the veracity of the data. On the other hand, remembering information forces you to certify the authenticity of whatever you are trying to learn and compare different sources like books, internet, newspapers, etc.

“What is not in your mind, does not exist”, told me a teacher time before, when I heard it I understood the importance of the freedom, which is given by knowledge, that is the information learned by the process of remembering.

I agree with the fact that information will be so easy to find on the internet that people will not need to remember anything, but if we depend from a device connected to internet, we are taking away a few from our humanity.

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I believe that English, like any language, is learned continuously: by practicing; the English course allowed me to strengthen grammar and integrate new vocabulary, elements that are applied in subjects taught in English. Personally, I think that these are precisely the elements that I had to reinforce and I must continue reinforcing in order to improve my level of English.

The strategies that I will continue using consist of identifying unknown vocabulary and determining its meaning by context, this allows a better understanding of the message emitted, as well as expanding my vocabulary. Another strategy that seems appropriate to me is to seek the greatest contact with the language through reading, movies, songs, etc. with the purpose of continuing to practice.

The activity that I liked the most was the elaboration of the story because several strategies were applied, first texts in English were reviewed, analyzed and reconsidered, generating significant knowledge; The activity that cost me the most work was to continue the story according to what was written by my teammates. I believe that this activity can be used in real life, it is a process that applies to any activity and language.

The subject of English is not one of my favorites, however, I recognize the importance it currently has to successfully incorporate into any field, so little by little I have been strengthening my skills in this regard.

As I mentioned, English is essential to have access to new opportunities, considering that this is one of the main languages ​​on the planet and that the development of the population is read in English. As a person, I am aware that improving my level of English will allow me to access broader sources of information, and information is power. The use of a portfolio of evidence accounts for the work done, but above all the progress.