If I were you, I'd...

Fifth quality comment, Comment 25

This school year is coming to an end and we, all the students in 2ºBachillerato, are living our last year in the secondary school. Next year, we will be studying in other places, some will go to Universities and others will be doing differents vocational training. For these reasons, it is a nice and sad year, it's nice because we pass an educational stage and we start another that is totally different from it. But it is also a sad year because it's the last year with all our classmates and teachers.

Well, we always commit lots of mistakes in all our school years, so now that we have already finish this last year, we can advise and make some helpful tips to the students that next year will be doing 2ºBachillerato. The main piece of advice that we can give is that you have to study harder than the present year and almost everyday, always without giving up, although you think that you won't achieve what you want.

Other pieces of advices that we can give is that you'd better make yourself your activities, summaries... without copying it from other classmates, because, if you don't do it you won't learn. Besides, if I were in your shoes, I would take this new year with a lot of calm and relax, because it is a hard year and if you don't take it with some relax it can cause you some anxiety or other health illnesses.

Finally, as a conclusion, I reckon that although it is a hard school year, it's also one of the most beautiful school years, and at less, for me it has been one of the my best school years. For this reason, my last advice is to take advantage of this last year and to have a good time during all this year, which isn't so bad at all!

"Do you enjoy watching TV series? Explain"

 Composition 7

 In our days, films amd TV series are more and more popular among young people, actually there are also older people who love watching both types of entertaiment. So, thanks to this, films and TV series' producers are making lots of different productions and they are earning lot of money from it. Watching films and TV series have some pros, but also some cons.

On the one hand, we have the pros that watching TV series has. You usually watch them when you are bored and don't have snything to do, so they entertain you as it is their objective. They also make yoo feel excited about what will happen in the next episode.

On the other hand, there are some cons that having TV series has, they are very related with the pros. For example, as they entertain you and change your mood, they can produce and addiction to it you spend all day lying on the sofa watching different series, and you are what is called a couchpotato, a very lazy person. This addiction, like any other, can bring several problems along, like overweight or other health problems or even several mental illnesses.

Finally, as a conclusion, I reckon that watching series is something really good, because it makes you feel relaxed and forget some worries. And now there are series of all genres and from different parts of the world, you can watch, for example, American series or Japanese animes, which are animation series. But, you always need to know when to stop watching and start doing what you must do.

Virtual reality

Fourth Quality Comment, Comment 24

In lastest decades, technology has improved a lot, and has created things like virtual reality. And, what is actually virtual reality?. Virtual reality, usually abreviate as VR, consists of the creation of stimulated enviroments, and they are a three dimensional experience, so you interact with a 3D world, not only with a screen as we usually do. One of the most important people in this field is Palmer Luckey, who is the creator of the Occulus, one type of virtual reality's glasses.

Virtual reality is usually used in videogames, creating videogames where you can interact with almost all  the things that are in that 3D world. But recently,it has been discovered that virtual reality can also be used to solve some illnesses, such as anxiety or other problems, like fears or phobias. For this reason, it can be used like a medical device, to treat, for example, fear of height. Because if you put your headset, the virtual reality glasses, and you move higher and higher of the floor, you may lose your fear of heigh.

And this tecnology can make you think like Palmer Luckey's thought. He set out videogames, in which if you die, you will also die in the real world. He defends his idea saying that there are also some sports and activities, like car racing where you can get killed doing it, so he wants to include videogames. That is not the first time that we can hear this, we have already seen some films or series that make reference to this topic, like Matrix or Sword Art Online.

As a conclusion, summing up virtual reality is something really good and useful, but you need to know what you are doing, because if you spend a lot of time in a virtual world you won't do all you must do in your real life. Besides, I think that the idea of dying playing a videogame is absurd, you usually play a videogame to entertaint yourself and spend a good time, not to die.

Mind + heart + .... determination = SUCCESS

Third Quality comment, Comment 23

In the sport field, Spain is winning a lot of importance in some sports, such as tennis, handball, or basketball. As we can remember,in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, Spain was one of the favourite teams in handball, although they only got the bronze medal. And, we know that in basketball Spain is always one of the best teams, as good as United States. It can be believed that it is thanks to Pau Gasol, the best Spanish basketball player in history, but, in the Olympic Games, we could see that it was a great team although he didn't play.

Above all, Spain has improved significantly in tennis in the latest years. Some years ago, there weren't such great Spanish tennis players. The most important was Nadal, although he still has a lot of importance we also have some other great players, and that are younger, we have as an example, Carlos Alcaraz, who is only nineteen years old. So, at least, Spanish tennis level will survive when Nadal retires.  

Carlos Alcazar is only nineteen years old and has already won some important matches, like his match against Djokovic last Saturday, which he could finally win in spite of all the pressure. For this reason, it is believed that in the future he will be as good as the best tennis players, like Nadal or Djokovic, or even more. It is true that it is really difficult achieve all he do only with nineteen years. However, he managed to achieve it thanks to his determination and resilience.

Finally, in my opinion, you have to take a lot effort and sacrifice to reach until the top, and compete against the best players. And it gives you a lot of excitement and eagerness, because you see how you can reach where you want, to be one of the best players in the history.

We need Shackleton's Endurance to keep on fighting

Second quality comment, 22

The ability to last is called endurance, as a synonym of permanence, continuity or continuance. So, it is something really important that all of us need to have to continue in our way against all our adversities. We, the students in 2º Bachillerato, need it to finish this last year in the secondary school, and eventually, to achieve all our goals, until we get to where we want. 

Endurance is also the name of a ship that was built in 1912 and that had the objective to sail and explore a part of the Antartic. This expedition with this objective set off in 1914 and its commander was Sir Ernest Shackleton. But, when they were sailing the ship got stuck between two ice plates, and it couldn't navigate any more, eventually it got destroyed because of the pressure. 

For this reason, all the sailors had to abandon the ship, and travelled in sledge on the ice sea of Weddell. And, finally, they travelled by boat to the Elephant's island, and arrived in an island, after more than 500 days without walking on land. Recently, in March, some specialists were able to discover where the ship was, and they were able to find it, after more than 107 years later. 

So, to sum up, I reckon that it is amazing what this tripulation did, they were able to survive and return safe to their land, in such bad conditions. So, now we can think that if we have some endurance, we will be able to do all we propose ourselves. In reality, with some endurance nothing is impossible.

Do you like music? What type of music do you like best?

Composition 6 

 In our days, music is something really important and necessary in our lives. It is so important that there is a pshycological part with it, with the music, and it is called music therapy. It consists on using music to stimulate a better mood in a person who is in a bad mood or even has a mental illness. I reckon it is really beautiful that a song or some type of music can help you when you really feel down.

Nowadays there are lots of types of music, so luckily, we can listen to the music that we prefer, for example we can listen to pop music, rap, jazz or rock, among many other types of music. I usually listen to lots of types of music, but there are some genres that I like more than others. I like listening to J-pop, a genre that come from Japan, with bands like Alexandros or Man With  a Mission, or listening to rap with great artists like Eminem.

There is also a type of music that latest years is becoming really famous, because of series or videogames. It is soundtrack, something really important in a film or in a series, although we can think that it hasn't so much importance. In fact, there are lots of films that are really famous because of its  soundtrack, for example, Gladiator or Pulp Fiction. But, there are also lots of videogames that are famous for its soundtrack like Final Fantasy saga or Octopath Traveler. I also like this type of music, and one of my favourite soundtrack is from the videogame The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. What an amazing soundtrack!

Finally, to sum up, I think that all the people should listen to music at least once a day, because it is something really important, as I said, and can help us to calm down and feel better. So, everyone should listen to their favourite genre to music to feel better and don't have some illnesses like exhaustion or anxiety. 

Advantages and disadvantages of sharing one's life on social media

 Composition 5

 Nowadays, it is really usual to have an account in different social medias, like Twitter, Facebook or, the most popular among young people, Instagram. They are used to do lots of things, like sharing information or photos with the people that you know. There are also other people who share all their lives, so that have lots of advantages and disadvantages.

On the one hand, we have the advantages that we can share one's life on social media have. For example, if you have an account, you can be informed of all the things that happens or what all the people you know do. Furthermore, when you share something, like a photo of an exciting achievement and you see that other people comment or like your post, you feel well. So, sometimes you share a photo and expect or need that it has lots of likes.

On the other hand, there are all the disadvantages that it has. As I said before, sharing something on the social media and expect lots of likes can turn into an illness, and also a disadvantage, because you need these likes to feel well with yourself. So, you depend on the other people and on the social medias. The other disadvantage can be that if you share all your life, you don't have a real private life, because you need to share on social media all you do in your day a day. Eventually, you won't do nothing to fun yourself, because you will be worried about feign having a perfect life on social media.

Finally, I reckon that sharing what you do on social media is not bad at all. The problem comes when you depend on it to feel well, and eventually you don't haev a private life. So, we need to use them, but with some care, because all of us know that we like to share something really interesting or exciting with other people, and it is better to do it through social media. For this reason, we cannot reject their use at all. 

Is it better to stay single or get married? Discuss

Composition 4

 Nowadays, we live in a society that, as opposed to before, is really usual to stay single until thirty years or even more. Formerly, in our grandparents' time or even in our parents' time, it was more usual to get married younger than now, so if you reached till thirty years and you hadn't got married yet, you were a strange person. Fortunately, this has changed with the passage of time.

On the one hand, we have all the advantages and disadvantages that staying single has. Staying single is good because you can do what you want without worrying or thinking about your partner, that is because you don't have any agreement with anybody. It also has other bad things, like if you stay single, you can feel really solitary or even you can start thinking that anybody loves you and you will be single forever. In addiction, you must do all the housework alone, without anybody to help you.

On the other hand, there are also lots of advantages of getting married. When you get married, you make an agreement with the other person, who you are supposed to to love so you have more responsibilities and you can't be doing all you want everyday, so I think that it is one disadvantage. There are also advnatages, for example, when you get married you have with you a person who loves you, and you will be never alone. You can go with that personto lots of places and be really happy with him or her.

Finally, as a conclusion, I think that when you are young is better to stay single, so you will be doing what you want. And when you get older, I think that it is better to get married, so you won't feel alone, and also if you want you can start to create your family, having children. For this reason, I can't understand why some people get married and have children when they are still young, you have lot of time to do it when you are older.

Sportmanship

First quality comment. Comment 21

Nowadays, we can see that all doctors usually recommend everybody to practise some sport, to do some kind of exercise, or even only to go out for a walk everyday. That can sound really normal, you must do some exercise to keep you body fit, and don't have several illnesses, but there are still people who don't do any exercise, so they usually have healh problems. But fortunately, almost all people pay attetion to the doctors and  practise some kind of sport, so that's good.

So, there are some things that you need to know if you practise a sport, specially if you practice a team sport, like basketball or football. Because if you practice a sport in which you are not in a team, like fencing, badminton, archery, or single tennis, you can get angry with your teammates, because you are alone, so if you fail, or you lose a match, it can hurt you more, because you know that your rival is better than you, or he has had just a better day than you. But if you practise a team sport, and you lose a match, there are some people who usually blame their teammates for the defeat.

For this reason, if you are a really sporty person, even more if you play seriously, that is you play in important tournaments and you go almost everyday to train for some hours, you need have sportsmanship, need to be fair and generous with your teammates and give them a good treatment, because even if they are your rivals, you know that like you they are making an effort to win. So, you can't give them a bad treatment.

Finally, as a conclusion, I reckon that if you usually practice sport in at a high level you need to have sportsmanship. Usually, we can see some examples of sportsmanship among the best athletes, we can see that they help mutually when they need help, for the example, in a marathon, they help each other when they are exhausted. So there are lot of people who need to learn this from the athletes.

Thank God I'm a country boy!

Comment 20

Nowadays, we can live in a big city, or in the countryside. Each one has its pros, but they also have some cons, so each person can like living in both, or only in one, and everyone have their reasons for one thing or another. But you can only know where you like living when you spend some time living in a place, because if you live a short period of time in a place is different from living a long period, because it can be more boring and annoying.

On the one hand, you can like living in a big city because it has some pros, for example, when you live in a city there are more shopping malls near your house, and when you have nothing to do you can go to a cinema or to other places to entertain yourself. But it also has lots of cons, like all the pollution that is in the air because of all the cars, for the same reason there is a lot of noise that can bother you, and when you go out there will be more people in the streets than in a village.

On the other hand, we can like living in a village, and it logically has pros, but also cons. The cons that it can have is that in a village there are fewer shops than in a city, so you don't have so many things to buy in a village, sometimes you also need to go to a city to buy some things like electrical appliances. There are also fewer places to go when you are bored. But it also has some pros, like it is a place more peaceful, with less noise than a city. And there is also less air pollution, so the air that you breathe when you live in a village is much better than the one you breathe when you are in a city.

Finally, as a conclusion, I prefer living in a village, because it is healthier, there is less pollution, and you are more relaxed than in a city, where everyone is hurrying up constantly. That I prefer living in a village can be because I have lived in a village since I was born and I have never tried to live in a city, although I think that it won't be something that I like, because of all the pollution and noise.

My job is to make you believe!!!

Comment 19

This year we are already in 2º Bachillerato, and we need to pass through tough times because we need to pass all the exams periods, so during these times, we can't or shouldn't relax and rest anyday, we need to study everyday to pass all exams. Last weeks we already have lots of exams and we have more in the next weeks. Through these times, we can start to think that we can't do all we need. If we think that we won't be able to do all the exams that we have. 

For this reason, we may take a rest during these days at the end Febraury, but we can't be resting during the five days, we also need to continue studying all the subjects. We must have a positive mentality, and we need to feel well with ourselves for doing everything that we can, and start to think that everything will be okay and we will pass well all the exams we have. To do this we have the help of all our teachers, who are always are there trying to help us in whatever they can.

Our teachers are there to help us and that's true, so they are usually worried about us, especially in this last year at the secondary school, that we must do a selectivity exam at the end to enter the university. For this reason, they want us to do very well in this exam so that we can choose the degree that we want to work on in the future. This year is really hard, and some of our teachers tell us that we are very relaxed to what comes in a few months, and that is true, we are not under pressure.

To sum up, from my point of view, if we are already there able to continue with our studies is thanks to all our teachers, if they weren't be there, lots of us wouldn't continue with this for different reasons. We would give up because of anxiety or we also would see that a difficult situation beat us. So, although all we can say about our teachers they are always there trying to help us and worrying about us.

Nothing is impossible

Comment 17

We can say that impossible is the opposite of possible, adding it the prefix im-. So, morphologically, something that we consider impossible can never be possible, although this, we often listen that there is nothing impossible. That we can do everything we want if we make a real effort to do it, so we must think that we would do all we want. But, is really true that there is nothing impossible?.

Well, nowadays, we live in a society that is really pessimistic, that is our society is really negative and it affects our behaviour and our day-to-day mood. However, there are lot of people that are saying everyday that there is nothing impossible, and we only need to make a effort to achieve something we want. These people can give us some expectation, and can make us change our negative mood to a happy or positive mood, being a little more optimistic.

If we stop to think, we can see clearly that there are lot of famous or important people that come from a family like ours, and they arrive where they are thanks to all their efforts, because they didn't give up when they saw that it was very difficult and practically impossible. So, if they can arrive there with their efforts and spending lot of time in the way, we can also do it. We can achieve something we want if we really want to do it, but firstly we need to do our bit.

To draw the conclusion, one can say that I think that there are some things that are impossible to us, whatever all the effort that we make. But, it should be made clear that if we do something thinking that we can't achieve, so it make that we do it unenthusiastically, we will certainly not achieve it. So, we always need to think that we will achieve what we want.

Under pressure

Comment 16

There are some situations that we need to act or to do something with some pressure, and that's not all bad. All people can think that doing something under pressure is always bad, but it is not true, because when we do something under pressure, it can help us to concentrate in what we are doing and we even can do that better than we would do it without that pressure. So we need a certain level of pessure to do some things better.

We can see clearly what I have said in some examples like sports, work or studies. When we are studying, we need some pressure, in this case it can be an exam or bad marks to pass an exam, in this situation, you can concentrate more than if you don't have that pressure. The same phenomenon happens in sports, when a team is losing an important match or when they are playing the final, they are playing with some pressure, they don't want to lose so they need to play better to win the match.

In the field of sport, we can see it normally, for example, we have recently seen the case in tennis of the match of Rafa Nadal against Medvedev. In this match, Rafa Nadal started losing the match in the first two sets, but finally he won the next 3 sets and won the final of Open Australia. In this case we can see how Rafa Nadal won the final thanks to the pressure of thought of defeating Medvedev and finally he could come back and win the match.

Finally, as a conclusion, we can say that pressure is something that we need to do all the things better, because if we don't have any pressure we won't be as concentrated as we are under pressure. We see that playing under pressure made Nadal won his 21st important tournament, so we need to be proud of that such a good tennis player comes from our country, Spain.

What do you think could be done to reduce environmental pollution?

Composition 03

Nowadays, we live in a society that is usually polluting in all aspects. We usually go by car everywhere, all the things that we use are made of plastic from a bag to other object that we can use. And that's not all, now there is plastic even in the food that we eat.

The food we eat has plastic, and you can ask yourself, how can food, like  fish or meat, have plastic? That's easy, it is because all the world is contaminated by plastic, and some studies have discovered that there are lots of microplastics in the sea and even in the se salt that we usually add to all our dishes. So, that's a big problem and we have to do something to change this situation.

Well, world situation with the contamination is really hard and difficult. But if we have intentions of change it, it isn't impossible to improve. So, we can search for some things to do to reduce enviromental pollution. The first, the use of car must be reduced, we need to get used to walk to some places and not always use the car. Secondly, the things should be made of other materials to reduce the use of plastic. And finally, we must be rid of rubbish in appropiate places, we ought not to throw it anywhere.

Finally, as a conclusion, I think that it is a very serious problem and that there are lot of people that don't realise about the importance of the environmental contamination. It is true thatwe should have acted before to solve this problem, but if we really do our bit and try to reduce our contamination doing different things, in the future we will see some consequences.  

Metaverse

Comment 14

Our world is always improving and improving in lots of aspects, for example, we can see all the improvements in the medical sector in our situation with the coronavirus, how vacinnes are made by scientist of all over the world. And we can also see all the improvements in the technological sector, which has improved a lot in the lastest years with the creation of Internet and all the things that come along with it. 

For example, now people are talking about things really different from what we are used to. Nowadays, people are talking about Virtual Reality, Metaverse or NFTs, and they aren't ordinary people, they are important scientists and professionals in this field and there are also lots of famous people who are talking and acting in this field. But what are in reality all these things, which so many important people are acting in?

I'm going to explain what metaverse is. Metaverse is something really likely to VR (virtual reality), but some people think that metaverse could be the future of Internet, and that's not something really strange because we can already see that big companies like Facebook are investing lot of money in this project. In this virtual world, you will have a 3D avatar and you will be able to go somewhere you want, for example you can go to work, or to a concert. To sum up you will be able to do all the things that you want to do in a virtual world.

Finally, as a conclusion, I think that all these things will have lot of importance in the future and that all future generations will use it. But, I don't really know if it will be as important as some people say, because there are famous people that are saying that it will be the future of videogaming and I don't think so. In the future there will be people who like playing videogames as we do nowadays.

Long live the King!!

Comment 15

Nowadays, we call king to people from all fields. We call them King in their fields because they are the best in what they do, for example you can be the king in football, basketball, tennis..., but not only in sports because we can also say that someone is a king in music or other different things or activities. 

Well, that is now, because in the past the only king that existed was the king who ruled the country. Before, there were kings in almost all countries at least in our continent, Europe. There was a king, for example, in England, in France, in Greece or in Spain. And there are some countries that still have a king like Greece or here in Spain, that we still have a king, Felipe VI, whose father is Juan Carlos I, his father was also a king, but he didn't get the crown.

In this field, we have today some problems, because there are people who want that figure, who rule the country, to dissapear because they think that he doesn't do anything. That is true in some part because now the king has a lot less power and duties, that is because the politicians have adquired some of them, so he doesn't have to do a lot of things. For this reason we are nowadays in a democracy and not in a monarchy.

Finally, as a conclusion, I think that is something good we have a king, a best person, doing something because it can motivate a lot of people to compete to try to get this title. In the case of the king in politics, I think that he still have some important things to do and that it still needs to exist the figure of a king to deal with the other countries.

Ready for the New Year?

Comment 13

A new year has already started and as usually people are doing lots of New Year's resolutions, but what is that? A New Year's resolution is like a promise that you do yourself, to do all the things that you expect to do during the year. There are people who achieve all, but there are people who make themselves lots of resolutions and don't achieve any of them. So resolutions can be good if you are determined to do them, but can be also bad for the people who don't achieve them.

2021 has finished and a new year has started, 2022, a year in which lot of people have so much expectation and confidence. They expect that all the bad things that are taking place now, like the Covid situation, which is getting worse because of all the new infections that are appearing in all places, and we can see now, better than ever, in our surrounding area, or lots of other bad things like climate change issue, will finish in this new year, but they are the same expectations as last year and they didn't achieve.

Last year was a difficult year because of different reasons, but at less for me it was better year than 2020. In 2021 I started 2º Bachillerato, which is the last school secondary year, and only in the first term I realise that it is really more difficult than last school year. Now, in 2022 I will finish this school year, but I need to improve more in all subjects to get good marks in all.

Finally, in my opinion, starting a new year can be really good, because all people recover their expectations and that they continue making efforts for what they want. For this new year I only hope that two issues will improve, on the one hand, the pandemic situation, and on the other hand, I hope that goverments do something to improve the situation with climate change, which is a really big problem.

Super Mario Bros

Comment 12

Super Mario Bros is one of the most popular games of Nintendo Company, we can say that because Super Mario saga is one of the most selling videogames sagas of all the world and the most selling videogame saga of Nintendo. The first Mario's videogame was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, who has created other famous videogames, like The Legend of Zelda or Star Fox. Miyamoto is really loved by all Nintendo fans and players, because he always directed really well all his videogames.

Nintendo started like a company producing some things really different from what they produce now. Nowadays Nintendo produces especially videogames of all genres, but at the beginning they started producing cards, in particular, Hanafuda cards. Hanafuda is a card game, originated in Japan, where the company has its main headquarters. Hanafuda cards are really beautiful because it have different draws on it.

Well, when I was a child I used to spend lots of hours playing and playing different videogames, among them I played Super Mario. The first Super Mario game I played was Super Mario Bros for Nintendo DS, what a good time I spent! I remember that I completed this videogame more than once, because it was one of my favouritie videogames. I also played more Super Mario games some time before and I still liked them.

Finally, I reckon that Super Mario saga is actually really famous. Not long time ago an interactive Super Mario theme park in Japan, and it has lots of tourist that visit it. There are also Lego's toys based on Super Mario, and they are really cool if I had these toys when I was a child, I would have been really happy. So, Super Mario is something that has marked the lives of all young people.

A cop to sort out climate change matters?

Comment 11

People think that Climate Change is a new problem, they think that it has existed for two or three years, but that's not true, because Climate Change has existed for many years, exactly for more than one hundred years. It started as a normal global heating, I say normal because the heating of our planet is something natural, but we have made that something natural becomes something really dangerous for all of us.

The problem is that before the people didn't give much importance to this problem and, even, they thought that it was false, that climate change didn't exist. Now we can see how those people were wrong, because it is already producing some changes in our enviroment and weather. For example, in the south of Spain we can see that now there are fewer rainy days than before, it rains less and climate change is to blame.

Luckily, now there are a lot of people that are worried about the climate change and its consequences. These people are looking for a solution to this problem, and in addition they aree celebrating a lot of conferences. Between them, the last conference the COP26. The COP26 was celebrated in Glasgow in Scotland, and presidents and ministers, like Joe Biden or Pedro Sánchez, from all over the world met there.

Finally, from my point of view, if we had acted before, it would have been easy to solve. But as we didn't do anything, we can't be worried about the past,but we must think about the present and the future. Because if we act now, the future will be better than how it will be if we don't act. I only wish we would do something to solve this problem and it is not too late.