domingo, 30 de noviembre de 2008


The computer is a work machine wich was invented last century. It's evolution was fast as same as the technology of the fist world.


The computer have made the world a better place for differents reasons, the most importants are for the people who need get the work quickly, so computer do the work fast. It's importan emphatized that with the computer we can do lots of things that wasn't possible 20 years ago. For exemple we can send a letter in 1 second! Internet have a lot of advantages, with it you can search all the information that you need, you can send your work at the same time that you have it finish, and you can meet and speak with people arround the world. The computers favorized the globalization of our world. But there is bad points of view too. You should operate consequently with this machine, you can depend all of your time on it. We can say that computer can be addictive and in internet you can find lots of rubbish material...


In my opinion with the computer have made the world a better place but also have bad thing that can improve it.

Oral presentations.

Life in XIX century!

I did the oral with two good friends of the english class: Iñaki and Bernat.
We talks about the society, the food, the technology, the housing, and the clothing of the XIX century. But first we did an introduccion of our-selves.
We justified all of this parts in the society of XIX century with the film Pride and Prejudice that's show us an espectacular point of view of this period.

We wanted that the oral wasn't monothonus and for this reason we put a finally video of a fight between Peter Griffin and the chicken. We thought that maybe could disincrease our nerviosism.

Is humoru necessary to survive?




From my point of view, without humor we can't survive. Why? It's so easy, because the "humor" is the easiest form to solve our problems. If in your life the humor, the irony, and the laugh aren’t present in our life this will become grey, sad, and pessimist.

Humor is a method of create welfare, well-being. The humor makes you happy. Is a therapy too, if you laugh your body dispose of the stress and the bad-feelings of your mind. You can enjoy better your typical life
The people perhaps think that the humour isn't necessary but you can organize your life without humor, it's an unimaginable type of life.

Problems in thailand.

Tension is growing in the Thai capital Bangkok as thousands of anti-government protesters occupy the city's two main airports for a seventh day.

Police said they were negotiating with the group as experts warned of soaring economic losses from the blockade.
Some 100,000 passengers remain stranded in Bangkok while efforts are being made to find alternative airports.
Meanwhile, thousands of government supporters held their first rally in the capital since the blockade began.
The opposition want the government to resign, accusing it of being corrupt, hostile to the monarchy and in league with exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Terror Film


Frágiles:

Frágiles is a modern and interesting film recorded in Spain in 2005 directed by Jaume Balagueró.
It talks abaut the life of Amy, a nurse that work in an atypcal infantil hospital.
In this place called Mercy Falls there is an strange phenomenon.
Amy wants to investigate this strangeful thing and later he has to protect all of the sick kids in this old hospital.

jueves, 20 de noviembre de 2008

Actually news....

Champions League


The Champions league as you know is the european league that include the bests clubs of the world.

Yesterday plays the champions league the half part of the total of the clubs. Arsenal plays his match versus Porto of Portugal and the best team on the match was the Arsenal FC. The final result of the match is 4-0 for Arsenal and the goal-score was Van Persie, the 1-0 in the 30 minute, Adebayor the best striker of Arsenal FC in the 40 minute, other goal of Van Persie the 3-0 in the 47 minute and the finally penalty-goal of Emmanuel Adebayor in the 70 minute.

Others results on the Chamipon League were Bayern Munich 1-1 Lyon, Villarreal 1- 0 Celtic, Zenit 1-2 Real Madrid, Aalborg 0-3 Manchester United, BATE Borisov 2-2 Juventus, Fenerbache 0-0 Dynamo Kiev and for finish Fiorentina 0-0 Steaua Bucharest.

martes, 18 de noviembre de 2008

The Dialogue: SYNDROME OF GUITAR HERO!

B: Hi johnny, how are you?

C: bufff… not really well rocky, I have got lots of problems at work, my dog dead, and my wife wants to kill me because I used to go out every night…

B: OOhh johnny what’s up with you? When I first know you, you were a polite kind and gentleman!

C: I’m going to tell you my story; I changed since I went to the ACDC concert, in las Vegas. There I met Angus Young and he showed me how to play the guitar. Now I’m better than him and I used to play in one pub every night.

B: And what about your children? You have got two sons, haven’t you?
I can’t understand how a guitar can change your life from one day to the other.

C: I don’t know… you have to try it, why don’t you come with me next Saturday in Minnesota? ACDC is going to play there, came with me and you will know all the members of this fantastic hard rock band !!!

B: ok… I’m going to come but I’m not really sure if I have to do it…

C: Wait for me at 8 o’clock, and I’m going to come for you!!

On Sunday after the concert…

C: How are you rocky? What do you think about Acdc?

B: I don’t know Johnny but my dog died and my wife is really angry and I don’t know why…

C: Ohh… be quiet this is syndrome of guitar hero…everything will be solved!!


One day later…


B: what happens with me Johnny, I have got lots of problems at work and they want to fire me…

C: Yehaaaaa!! now I’m not the only man who has several problems because of the guitar!






miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2008

Self description

First, I will do a small description of my personality and next I'll explain
my hobbies, interests and something like that.
My name is Baldiri Gironella Gironell, I'm 16 and I live in Castelló
d'Empúries near the institute. I do the technologic batxillerat and I think
that this year will be very hard level and we have to work a lot.
My principal hobby is football I enjoy really much this sport. I play in a
team called Esplais. We train every Monday, Thursday and Friday and always
in the weekend we have the match.
I do extra classes off English in a particular school. And finally I
practice a sport called in catalan "rem", in english I think it’s rowing and it consists in move a boat much, faster than you can with oars, made off wood.



See you later... Now i'm ill, i have a cold!

domingo, 8 de junio de 2008

Comentari de les orals presentations:


-MARINA SARQUELLA , natural disasters
facts I have learn:different kinds of disasters: -floods, -tsunamis, -bizzars, -mudflows, -volcanic eruptions, -limnic eruptions...
Ideas for my presentation: good pronunciation and it's too long.
General impression: very good.

- BERNARDO SANTOS AND IÑAKI FDEZ:
"Crimes in United Stated of America" USA: a very dangerous country.
Facts I've learnt: I didn't know there were so many differences between blacks and white homicides.
Ideas for my oral pres.: Choose an original topic like their!
General Impression: Very good

- ADRIÀ ALFARO: "Skinheads"
Facts I've learnt: I didn't know that Skinheads appeared too many years ago, that the RASH are the most radical Skinhead's groups and that is the girl who organise the fights.Ideas for my oral pres.: I saw a very good structure of oral presentation, it's an other positive point ;) And a very interesting presentation, for me!
General Impression: For me he did the presentation very good! He speaks in English very well.

LAIA SALO I ELISENDA LLADÓ
Helpless dogs
Facts I have learned:- Each year nearly to 200.000 animals are abandoned.- The consequences of the abandonment are: traffic accidents, diseases...
General impression:Good.

Miriam and Anna Genís,Poverty & patronage
Facts I have learned:-patronage = apadrinar-Vicenç Ferrer ONG started 6 years ago- They are god fathers.
Ideas for my presentation:I like the idea of the letter, and the topic was amazing.
General impression:Very good

- CHAINEZ SELLOUM:
She talked about "The famine"
Facts I’ve learnt:She explained to us some sad things, like:One child dies every five second a day for famine.The causes for famine are: Expensive aliments, there are a lot of people in poor countries, and some epidemic diseases.To resolve this problem, there are some organizations like:“Food and agriculture organization of United States” or "World Food" (the biggest humanitarian organization of the world).
Ideas for my oral presentation: She is very expressive, and this is a positive point.
General Impression: I always say the same, her English is so good, but, this time, I don’t enjoy with the topic so much, I have to say that she explained a lot of interesting things but it was so long.

NEUS PAGÈS AND MARINA JULIÀ:They talked about "diseases" like Bulimia, AIDS...
Facts I've learnt: I knew a lot of things about this topic because I always find information about illness, and all of this things, but I learn some new things, like: Each day, die 2 persons about anorexia o bulimia, and every day this illness is improving.
Ideas for my oral presentation: A good power-point!
General Impression: They did a good presentation, the topic wasn’t really original but I love this kind of topics, so I enjoy the oral.

Alejandro and Adrià Carmona, The waste.
facts I have learn:- In the world there are a lot of waste and we don’t know where goes this waste.- People threw condoms in the sea.- The solution with this problem is recycling.
-Ideas for my oral presentation:- Show different things to develop my oral presentation.- General impression: GOOD

Ariadna, Animals mistreatness.
- facts I have learn:- There are a lot of poachers that kill the animals.- Thousand of animals are used and sacrificed for experimental intensions.- The ownes train the dogs and afterwards they prepare the fights.
-Ideas for my oral presentation:- Give some solutions about anorexia and bulimia.
-General impression:GOOD

Carles and Claudia: they talked about drugs. They started with a dialogue. It started in 60s. Drugs are really expansive. // Have you ever bought drugs? // Really interesting.
Witch activity best shows your level of English?
I think that the orals presentations shows our truely level of English. Because the speakins for me is the most important thing that you can learn. The dialogue is good too for show the level of writing. And the normal exam shows the level that we have on writing.


Witch activities were really useful for you to improve your English?
One thing very useful to improve the level of english I think that's travel abroad to a Anglosaxon country. There you can practice a lot your speaking of the english lenguage.
And in the class speak with anika is very good for improve the speaking.


Witch activities did you not find useful to learn English? Why not?
All the activities that we do in the english class are useful. But I think that the blog and the portofolio are very labourious and we spent on there lots of ours. If we reduce the numbers of entries in the blog, for exemple, maybe we can see all of the mistakes.

Whitch activities did you enjoy doing and would you like to do again next year?
I enjoy do the orals expositions, and the speaking with anika.

Observing your portfolio, can you see an improvement on your level of English since September?
Yes, of course. My vocabulary is better and my writting too because I use lots of connectors. I think that this year we have done a good work.
Here my oral presentation of the 3rd term about the social topic: "the hooliganism"






baldiri
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Million dollar baby


This film: "Million dollar baby" is one of the best films that I ever seen. In his time the film wons some oscars becouse his plot is excepcional.


With a lot of famous actors like Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swang. The film show us one girl that she wants practice boxing but he doesn't find a good trainer. At the final the girl dies with a spectacular punch for the back.
I recomend you this film that is on the best films ranking!



Opinion text

An opinion essay

I think that nowadays the society is improving abot this social issue.
A lot of ONG's like Greenpeace, teach us about this social topic. For exemple, the ONG explain the global warming effect, the melting ice... etc. The ONG alert the world of the big problems that we have.
Another type of global problem is the green house effect that consists in the stocking of CO2 gases.

But we have to improve a little bit more because if we keep on like this, maybe in a century the Earth will disapear.
An opinion to stop polluting the world is to decrease the fuel and gasoil of every car, motorbike or vehicle.

Baldiri Gironella 1 Batx

martes, 3 de junio de 2008






News!






Barcelona hasn't water enough, because Sau's reservoir is under limits. Now, we can see the huddle the ancient stone buildings as a symbol of the severity of this water crisis. Now is arriving water by ship, that it's really shocking, because normally is in South areas where water demand is parched by ships. In Barcelona, they are living with restrictions on the use of hosepipes and the filling of swimming pools.
HOSEPIPES: mangueres
TO RELAY: rellevar
EERIE: misteriós








Another new that I listened is called “Where are the Air Marshals?” and it’s about the absence of this type of police. His job consists on Project people who travel by plane and prevent terrorist attacks. They complain because there aren’t enough to guarantee people’s security. The interviewer insists to the policemen how are being interviewed which is the percentage of flies which are really covered by them. The policemen answer that it’s impossible to say, but only a few of them. Three expressions:Every single fly: cada vol concretIt’s such a small percentage: es només un petit percentageI don’t think you’d be far from the mark: no crec que estaries lluny de la xifra.



Tattos!
Tattoos became fashionable at the end of the 18th century when a British Taylor named captain cook voyaged the Pacific Ocean and returned with a heavily tattooed Polynesian.People became fascinated and tattoos became popular with the upper class people of that century.Derby is a city in England and it holds the state of art tattoo convention on the 21st and the 22nd of July. The worlds top tattoo artists come to take part in the competitions, there are a lot of awards for small and big tattoos. Some people have tattoos all over their body.






lunes, 2 de junio de 2008

ConversatioN

A: Iñaski
B: Odam Grasillo

A: What's up Odam?!

B: Hei! Such a sideburns! What did you do last weekend?

A: I went to Passarel•la because I have the VIP.

B: Wow! With the VIP! And how did you get it?

A: I have it because I am a very importan person, not like you. I have it because I am the best.

B: Hei, hold on, not that much! And how the match was?

A: I was the midfield player and in twenty minutes I scored four goals. We won eight - one against Vilamalla and their goalkeeper was crying a lot.

B: Poor goalkeeper! Hahahaha! I haven't scored for five months, but I am a killer.

A: What's your ranking league?

B: We are the worst team in the league, but that's because we have a lot of bad players like Ckemoa, and that's why I don't scored too. And your team? what's your ranking?

A: At the begining of the season we were ok but then as the time past by we fell down.

B: You are worst than as! Oh... stop talking of football. I am working with my oncle in a carpet and you? How is the school?

A: The scool it's ok. I don't do so much work but I have a good marks except quimic because of the teacher.

B: Oh my good, I can't understand it, when I was in the school I didn't work and my marks were really bad.

A: I am sorry Odam, I must go home! See you later!

B: Ok, doesn't mind. See you!




* We don’t post the podcast because we thought in class that we will know how we can do it, but today, when we finished to record it, we try to post it with esnips but we couldn’t.
Sorry!

lunes, 21 de abril de 2008

Acrostic

Here my acrostic



D eath machine
R are mythical monster
A gainst the human empire
G oes abroad our civilization
O nly you can scared the world
N asty monster relationated with the fire of the hell

domingo, 23 de marzo de 2008

Description of a landscape

Sailing in the internet I find a landscape:

This picture is very pretty and spectacular. Maybe it could be one of the deserts in the world, for exemple in Arizona or in Australia.
It's a steep, rough and abrupt scenery with three erosion mountains. In the top of the picture we can see a red sky with reddish clouds and the land is reddish with brown colours too.
It's a no-man's-land, a desert area, without vegetation and without a trace of the humans.
In front of the picture there is a very big rock that it hold one thirds of the picture.
I put this image because I really like it. This zone seems peaceful and calm.







European Passport

Hello!
Here I put my European passport









Commentaries of the Orals presentations.

The first oral presentation:

Adrià Carmona: he talked about toys. He explained us his favourite ones and shown some pictures of cars, dollies etc.. The topic was good and very original.

Chainez: Chainez talked about kind of dances. She showed us a video with a girl doing impresionants things with the arms and the legs. She talked too about new dances in France

Carles: First he talked about his group of friend call Can Creixell. Then she put a picture of his motorcycle. And finally he showed us a video of the best freestyle man of the world Travis Pastrana. It was incredible.

Miriam: she explained us that she is the “coach” of little girls in volley. She shown some pictures and explained what they do in each session of volley. I think that it was a nice presentation.

Alejandro: He tried an original topic. He explained us the different types of turtles that exist in the world and he shown some strange pictures about turtles with two heads. I must say that he was really nervous but he done it very well. I learned a lot of things about turtles and their lives.

Claudia: Claudia talked about her best friends; Anna, Gemma and Marina Geli. She showed us some funny pictures and explained their funny summers. I think that she talked really good. She explained her “night live”.
I made one question: Do you met anyone special in one bar? She ansewed: NO

Anna: she talked about one of her best friends, Marina Geli. She explained us how they met when they where two little child and all the things that they have done together: ballet, volley …it was a nice oral presentation.

Bernardo: For me it was one of the most interesting presentations because he talked about his year in Canada. He explained us some things of his school there, where he lived, and with , places that he visited…he talked really good and it was so interesting.

Marc Barneda: he talked about his travels with his family to USA, France, Cuba… and a lot of nice places. It was a really good presentation with a nice power point. I learnt lots of things about planes.

Adrià Alfaro: he talked about profesional wrestiling television programs like Smack Down…he talked and shown photos of the best fighters and talked about the titles that they have. I didn’t know people like: the undertaker, batista…
I think that it was a good an interesting presentation, and Adrià done it funny.

Iñaki: He talks about the films: Saw I, II, III, VI. It was scared. I want see this films too. Finally he puts a video of the thriller.
I made one question: Do you see all the movies? He answered: Yes

Laia Saló: her presentation was really nice; she talked about her travel to Disneyland Paris. She went there with his familyyears ago. She showed some pictures of her and her sister Eva. I really enjoyed her presentation.

Elisenda: she talked about music. She plays the violin in a band and they record some of the songs. He showed us some interesting fhotos of the places where they recorded the songs and where they play. She love to play the violin, but when she was younger she used to play the piano. It was an interesting presentation.

Neus: her topic was so nice, she talked about her famly. She shown some pictures with them: her sister, Montserrat, her mum and his dad. She done it so good and it was a funny and really nice presentation.

Marina Julià: she talked about different types of dances like funky, aerobic…She loves dance and when she was younger she used to go to classes and done competitions of funky. It’s a nice topic and I really didn’t know anything about types of dances before that. She won one competition

Oriol: he talked about football, his team, his favourite players… it was really funny because he showed us photos of the esplais when. We were six years old. I play in the same team in the same age.

Ariadna: her topic was interesting, she talked about basketball. Basketball is her favourite sport and she practices it three times a week since she was ten.
She put one photo that a boy was having circle 13 balls at the same time. Very hilarious.


The second oral presentation:

Chainese and Ariandna:
-They talked about Australia, its geography, culture, games, and music. The best constructions in the pretty cities: Sydney, Camberra.
Chainese and Ariadna talked about the Australian indigenous people too.
It was interesting with lots of images.

Marina Sarquella:
-She talked about one country: Ireland. She described different zones of Ireland like Galway, O’Hara Homestrad. She said that one year ago she went to Ireland on a holiday trip.
She has lots of images and pictures of traditional irish landscapes.

Adria Carmona:
-On one hand he talked about typical English food, he described the breakfast the packlunch and the teatime.
For another hand he talked about the fast food in the United States of America.
He said that the obesity was a very bad problem in the USA society.
It was a good oral presentation.

Bernat:
-He talked about South-Africa: its geography and the most important cities. He teached us the differences about the black and white people. And he said that South-Africa was a racist country.
He was a magnific oral presentation, he speak English very well and he showed us the reality problems of South-Africa.

Iñaki and Oriol.
-They talked about one famous football player, Wayne Rooney and his team Manchester United. They showed us the more interesting goals that Rooney have made. And he talked about his career and trophies with Man U and the English selection.
It was a funny oral presentations and I enjoy a lot the video on Youtube that they put.

Miriam
-She talked about Alaska: its geography, demography and typical things. She put some pretty photos with sledges.
My question was: Do you know the capital of Alaska?
She answered me that yes, Juneau.

Anna Genis
- She described Scotland, in the oral presentation it was a map of the Scotland zones. She said that Scottish people speak a dialect of the English language. And he explained us typical thins of Scotland like skirts and his particular music.
I made a question: It’s true that Scottish people drink lots of bottles of whisky?
It was a good oral presentation and she was so calm.

Neus and Marina
- This two girls talked about California, typical things that the people do there like surf and they explained the most popular zone in California: Hollywood. She showed us a couple of films done there.
It was an interesting oral presentation but a little bit long.

Claudia and Carles
- Claudia and Carles talked about their cultural holiday with an English family.
They explained the city of Londres and this two guys mentioned the emblematics buildings of the city ( Big Ben, London Eye, Harrod’s… etc.)
I went to this cultural holiday too and for this reason they put a photo with me.
The presentation was excellent and very interesting.

Adria Alfaro
-He talked about Raw and the WWE the wrestling league. He explained the rules of the competition and the most populars actors or players: John senna, Randy Orton and Batista.
This oral presentation was a little bit boring but the pictures were good.

Elisenda and Laia
-These two girls talked about English food, typical dishes and the sweety deserts.
She showed us the typical meals in pictures like beacon with eggs, fish and chips etc.
The presentation was good. Laia and Elisenda were calmed and they done a good job.

News!!

1- Cheney meets palestinian leaders. Publicated on Sunday 23 March 2008.

The US vice-president Dick Cheney met Mr Abbas and palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad discusting about the "war" between Israel and Palestina.
The most interesting thing that the vice-president said was: "The United States will never pressure Israel to take steps to threaten its security".
Mr Cheney is on the latest leg of a tour that has included Iraq, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
And the next state that he will visit it's Turkey.



2-Man. United 3-0 Liverpool (sport news) Publicated on Sunday 23 March 2008 by Chris Bevan.
Wes Brown put United ahead from Wayne Rooney's cross before Liverpool's hopes were hit when Javier Mascherano was sent off for dissent before the break.
Some great saves by Pepe Reina kept the visitors in the game but he was at fault when Cristiano Ronaldo headed home United's second from a corner.
Nani's finish into the top corner completed an incredible win for United.
With this important victory Man.Utd team move six points clear at the top of the premier league table.


4- Dozens of persons die in attecks across Iraq Publicated on Sunday 23 March 2008

In the bloodiest single incident, 13 Iraqi soldiers died when a suicide attacker drove a fuel tanker into an army base in Mosul in northern Iraq.
At least 40 people were injured in Sunday's early-morning suicide strike in Mosul.
The Iraq government said that it will be represalies.

5- Pope calls for easter day peace Publicated on Sunday 23 March 2008

The pope called for an end of all of the militar conflicts in the world, like Tibet, Iraq or Afganistan in Sant Peter square in Rome.
In this moment Christian around the world are making the Easter for celebrate the resurrection of Jesus christ. And the pope spect that all of Christian peaple actuate with pacifism and racionality.



All of this summaries of this five news are from the BBC news United Kingdom.

The formal letter

12 Country Road
Castelló d’empúries
Girona
17486
16th January



LLuïsa Pintó
C/ Rentador 12
Castelló d’Empúries
17486
Girona




Dear Lluïsa

We write to you because we want to make a proposal to change some important things of the high school.
On the one hand we think that if you paint the grey walls of the high school, in our opinion we will work more comfortable.
On the other hand we want to ask you if it’s possible that when a teacher can not come to the class, although the lesson is not the first or the last hour the students of Batxillerat could be allowed to go out.

Finally we want to say that we are really satisfied with the technological llevel of the high school


Yours sincerely

Carles Torracabota and Baldiri Gironella
My description (the first e-mail)



Hello Elisabet, I present you my description!

First, I will do a small description of my personality and next I'll explain my hobbies, interests and something like that.My name is Baldiri Gironella Gironell, I'm 16 and I live in Castellód'Empúries near the institute. I do the technologic batxillerat and I thinkthat this year will be very hard level and we have to work a lot. My principal hobby is football I enjoy really much this sport. I play in ateam called Esplais. We train every Monday, Thursday and Friday and alwaysin the weekend we have the match. I do extra classes off English in a particular school. And finally I practice a sport called in catalan "rem" (rowing) and it consists in move a boat muchfaster than you can with sticks (oars), made off wood or aluminium.

viernes, 21 de marzo de 2008

Description of a friend

Hello peaple!

I will describe one of my friends. His name is Isaac Serra and he is doing first of Batxillerat A, like me.
He has a small size, is a little bit short (aproximately 1,60m) and he is light-weight.
Isaac plays football with my team, and he's a very good person. He always try to help the others mates. Psycologically he is a very calm person with a clear conscience. Issac never gets angry with you, he always forgive your bad behaviour.
He is a red-faced and very embarrased boy. Be his friend is very recomfortable.

I think that I have describe his personality well.
Bye!

miércoles, 19 de marzo de 2008

Films!

Thirteen:

One of the films that I watch in the english class was thirteen.
This film talks about the live of a young girl and his friends, with his problems and questions about the typical adolescent things like drugs and sex.
When this girl arrive in the High school (the secondary school) his pace of the life changed dramatically.


Happy feet:

Another film that i saw in the "aula d'idiomes" with my friend Carles Torracabota was Happy feet. This funny film was about one group of dancing penguins.
The main character of this film is one penguin with a strage feet and with these he can dance very well.

martes, 11 de marzo de 2008

My portfolio

Dear people to start the portfolio, first I will do an introduction explaining my objectives and proposals.
With this portfolio I will show you my real and internacional level of English. I put in all of my orals presentations and the work that I do in the second term of first of Batxillerat.

The Portfolio must have:

  1. Orals presentations
  2. Horror film
  3. the first e mail
  4. Formal letters
  5. Descriptions
  6. Summaries of news

I think that this kind of projects are good for get better our level of english. And the students of Castelló d Empúries of first and second of batxillerat will be more preparate and qualificate than others students.