Unit 1: Privacy

Read and answer  the following questions

1. What would you do if a boy / girl you liked ignored you?
2. Is privacy important to you? Would you build a website showing yourself and what you usually do? Why / Why not? (explain)
3. Who is the most sensitive person you know? Why?
4. Where do teenagers gather in your town at weekends?
5. What do you do when someone keeps interrupting you?

41 thoughts on “Unit 1: Privacy

  1. Misael

    1. Well, I wouldn’t mind. There are so many fishes in the sea, as the saying is!
    2. Privacy… Well, in some ways it is. I would like to do my private life without being questioned for everything I do, and in this way I’m happy with my life and society. But I wouldn’t mind doing a website showing me. I won’t do it, I have no time for such as unimportant things, but I have nothing to hide, so… if they would give me money for it, I could build it.
    3. I don’t really know. I thing it could be something who hides himself or herself under a happy or distant face, always refusing to talking about what really matters. I think that kind of people are scared of giving others an inside-sight of them, and that’s why they defend on some attitudes. I think Alex Mancha could be the most sensitive person I know, despite he will denay it, of course.
    4. They gather on discoteques, like Privat -or Activa, the radical ones-, or in the comercial centres.
    5. I look at him/her with profound eyes, shut up and, when he has stopped, i say “Have you finished? OK, now’s my turn”. It doesn’t fail: he/she doesn’t interrupt anymore.

  2. Christian

    1. If there is someone I like and ignore me, honestly bother me a bit but since I’m not decided or communication would be just ignores me because if I would not have the courage to approach that person.
    2. Depends on privacy, if it is a personal thing that is important to me because there are things you have to keep it for himself. I would not create a Web show myself just because I show how I am in person let alone a website.
    3. Those most susceptible are so because they feel that something is missing inside then when someone says something they feel bad, is a way to download everything stored inside.
    4. I fully agree with Misael in the response to this question.
    5. I just keep silent until the person who interrupted me

  3. jbuera Post author

    Hi Christian,
    I wouldn’t build a web either. Privacy is also very important for me.
    Thank you for your comments

  4. marta oreja

    1. I used to suffer a lot when I had a crush on a guy who didn’t requite me. However, there have been so many boys that have led me down the garden path that I’ve realised that I’d rather not fall head over hills in love with someone that ignores me; now, if I like someone is because there’s something between us.

    2.Privacy is important for me. Of course I don’t want strangers to know what my preferences are, or what I look like in pictures… but as a matter of fact, it’s not that awful to be on the Internet: I’m on Facebook, on Tuenti, on Fotolog and so on, and I’ve met people from all over the world and contacted with lots of friends from childhood, so, as you can see, building websites is also praiseworthy.

    3.The most sensitive person I know is L.C (I won’t say her name, sorry). I love her because she always expresses her feelings and she’s not ashamed of crying in front of other people. In addition, she gives a high value to simple things and is really grateful! She is the cat’s whiskers!

    4.I agree with Misael, they gather together on discoteques or on entertainment centres. (Well, only those who can enjoy their free time, because when I’m not working, I’m at home doing my homework or in Premià babysitting my cousins!).

    5.I don’t like people to interrupt me, so when they do it I usually get annoyed. I let them talk, though, because I think that if somebody doesn’t pay attention to what I’am saying is because my speech is not worth, so I button up my lips and listen to them.

  5. Miriam

    1. What does your mobile mean for you?

    I only use my mobile when I need to speak something important with someone.

    2. Can you imagine your life without your mobile?

    I think that yes, because I don’t need my mobil all the time.

    3. How often do you change it? Why?

    when my contract finished. Because It’s cheaper for me.

    4. Do you use all the applications they have? (Explain if your answer is negative)

    No, I don’t. I only use the calls, sms, camera, to listen music, alarm and calculator.

    5. Are you a mobile phone addict? Why?

    No, because I don’t need my mobil during at all the time.

    6. Can you describe the typical use of mobile phones in our country? Is it similar to, or different from the descriptions in your book?

    In general, spanish people use their mobil phones in everywhere and all the time. It’s so different for me.

  6. Marc Romeu

    1)
    If a girl that I like ignored me, probably I’ll do the same as her, but if she’s an important person for me and for my life I’ll probably be interested in “why” she ignore me and what can I do to change it.
    2)
    Well, this question is probably in relation with facebook, fotolog..etc or that type of web sites that teenager usually use.
    Answering the question, privacity it’s important in some aspects like personals things like family or others but if I must to say who I love o some things about me..it’s no problem.
    I don’t use this type of webs usually, I haven’t time.
    3)
    I don’t know about a lot of sensitive people but.. the most that I know.. is, sure, my girlfriend.
    I supose that all of women, they’re quite strange when they’re in the period, but, I don’t know how but they mute in herself and change a be like a machine only used to destroy her boyfriend.
    4)
    Here, in Argentona, teenagers meet in discotecs, parks or one home of somebody
    I don’t really know it Jaume.
    5)
    Easy, I tell him/her that PLEASE! if he/she can be quiet, if he/she couldn’t..I hit him/her!!!
    No It’s I joke, I probably go to another site where I can speak.

    Pd: Have you got this problem in your lessons? jaja.

    Better that last year no? Sure.

    See you.

  7. Miriam

    1.If a boy that I like and ignored me I try to approach him and talk about something with him, but if he continues ignoring me I forget him.
    2.I think that everyone need a bit of privacy and for me it’s important, because I don’t explain all my things to everyone, only with my family and good friends. Yes, I have my personal website where I explain not all that happens in my life but my things of every day yes.
    3.The most sensitive person that I know is my mother, because she has a good character and she always worries about my sister and I.
    4.The most of teenagers of Argentona go to the discos to mataró like Privat or to vilassar de mar depend of each one.
    5.I say to the person who is interrupting me: Do you leave to finished? and then you can continue.

  8. jbuera Post author

    Miriam,
    I think you are a sensible person and you do the right thing when you say “I don’t explain all my things to everyone” because there are people who are all ears and they don’t keep their mouth shut!
    Thank you for your comments

  9. jbuera Post author

    Marc,
    You are a busy man! You’re right when you say the most sensitive person you know is your girlfriend. However, you’re wrong when you write that I had a problem with interrumptions last year!. I was simply ashamed to see some behaviours!

  10. Cesc (H)!!

    1. If a girl don’t know that I exist and she really like me, I try to do everything wich I can do to her know’s that I’m right hear.

    2. Well the privacy is important for everybody, the thing is that every person expres this with diferent forms … But I think that de question wich you want ask us is if we have Facebook, well yes, I have it, and I have hundreds of pictures about myself and more about my friends. The fbk no is a bad think, you can show a lot of things wich you want show, and if you don’t want do it you don’t need do it. But the most personal things, I never put on web pages becouse this is about me and no body need know it.

    3. Danna, defenly Danna is the most sensitive friend who I know, She is always near my when I need her, and me too with She. I knows her since 2007 and is one of the best friend’s who somebody can have it.

    4. Well I meet with my friends everywhere, Mataró, Argentona, Cabrera, Becah, Mountain, Can Rectoret where the people who been in there think that is the best place in the world to do parties … Hehehe lol

    5. I ask if he is finished, and affter I contiue explain the thing wich I was speaking.

  11. jbuera Post author

    Cecs,
    Thank you for expressing your opinion on Facebook. I also thing that Facebook is an interesting tool to build to get in touch with friends. However, I think that there is always a hidden in these social networks because they’ve got plenty of personal information.
    Congralutations for having Danna!

  12. clara j

    1. I’m very sensitive and if the boy that I like ignores me It hurts me very much because I can’t do anything to avoid it.
    2. The privacy is very important for me. I believe that every person needs to have his own privacy. I don’t like that people that I don’t meet never know things of my life because he or she is not interested in them.
    3. Of course my boyfriend is the most sensitive person I know because he always express her feelings to me and I value it so much. And I love that he does it anyhow, with an embrace, crying, etc.
    4. At weekends, the teenagers of my city gather in discotheques, pubs or also in the street, perhaps some of them go to have dinner, etc. It depends on if you are very busy that weekend or not.
    5. I get angry and keep silent about myself to trying if the person who has interrupted me realizes and lets me to speak.

    See you Jaume!

  13. xavi

    If a girl I liked ignored me I would try to get her attention, and if still I didn’t get it, I’d ignore her.
    Privacy is quite important, I pretty like it. I wouldn’t build a web site showing my self because people don’t need to know what I’m on about.
    The most sensitive I know is Berta, because she always knows what I’m thinking.
    Teenagers go to parties on weekends, although there’s people who don’t go out much.
    When someone interrupts me all the time I just tell him he’s getting on my nerves.

  14. Homs

    1.- At the moment I feel annoyed. If she ignores me always, I’ll ignore her too.
    2.- Yes, privacy is important for me because I don’t want that strangers know about my private life.
    I wouldn’t build a website showing me and what I usually do. However, I’ve facebook, fotolog, etc, and If you have that, you haven’t got much privacy, because everybody in the world who have internet can see it.
    3.- I don’t know, I totally agree what Misael said on that question.
    4.- Teenagers normally gather in Privat, She, etc. in my town at weekends, there are a lot of discos there but I think that If you’re going to the disco every weekend it’s boring.
    5.- If someone interrupts me and is a close friend, I insult him/her but I joke, and If he/she is always interrupting me, I get angry with him/her.

  15. Eloi

    1) If a girl ignored me, I’ll try to do my best for know why is she ignoring me, and then I’ll change it and then I’ll try to get her attencion.
    2) I tink that privacy is very imprtant, but not so much for the non important things. And I wouldn’t make a web site where I explain all what I’m doing no or after… I’m thinkig about that I’ve to delet my fotolog acount… If you want to see what people’re doing, you only must to read the msn nick, or the last photos or comments on Facebook.
    3) Probably my uncle, which yu cannot found anything abou he in internet, is very sensitive in that point. And I think that is not necesary to be a “alone person” for son’t foun anything about he on internet.
    4)People who I know usually meet in Argentona or Mataró or other towns, but there they usually meet in streets orplaces where nobody can see them.
    5) If someone interrups me I try to fire these someone to hother place! or I say to he/she if can be quiet for a moment.

  16. Nil Jodar

    1. What would you do if a boy / girl you liked ignored you?
    When a girl I liked ignored me the first that I try to search a way for call her attention. If I’m refused and she is very importan for me, I try to do everything, but isn’t always can gets all if you want…

    2. Is privacy important to you? Would you build a website showing yourself and what you usually do? Why / Why not? (explain)
    For me it isn’t the most important, but, a beat, is necessary for people, I think.
    It’s necessary because everybody has his/her things and secrets. Moreover, the privacy is the line to separe your real fiends to false friends.
    I don’t build this websuite because I just said. My privacy is only mine and I can to share (compartir?) whith my friends and parents. Altheug the people I imagine, they don’t interest the room of a unknown, in my opinion.

    3. Who is the most sensitive person you know? Why?
    The most sensitive person I know I’m myself. Because In my head, always I know everything that happens and, when I stay alone, I think it. Then, my sensitives are the most I know.

    4. Where do teenagers gather in your town at weekends?
    The teenagers in my town, at weeckends, go to the disco, pub,…
    also can go to the cinema or camping, It depensof people who you moves.

    5. What do you do when someone keeps interrupting you?
    I wait for him/her, a beat angry, and when he/she has finished I continue explain.
    See you tomorrow Jaume!

    PD: Al final ho he sabut fer eeh!

  17. jbuera Post author

    Clara,
    You are right Clara. You are a very sensitive person. Privacy is a treasure we have to keep safe.
    Take care

  18. jbuera Post author

    Nil,
    You are a clever boy perhaps a little bit lazy, but clever enough to visit and do the exercises on the blog. I see that privacy is not so important for you.

  19. Juan Abel

    1.You may have been for something you miss and what we would do is apologize
    2.For my privacy is very important i very much appreciated is the space, I never would make a space where to put what I do every day like a newspaper because I do not like and because nobody cares what I do
    3.The person most sencible I know is a person that is very important and I will not say the name sorry jaume , cries for any little thing you do cry
    4.they gather together on discoteques or on entertainment centres.I’m at home doing my homework and play basquetball in C.B.A
    5.The truth is that supplements for me shut my eyes as I say as I finish? If not post silent

  20. Sara Laviós

    1. If the boy I like ignores me, normaly I don’t do any thing but it hards me. Also I think that if he ignores me, provably he isn’t the best boy for my.

    2. For my, is very important the privacy becose I don’t like that my life is known by everybody. For this reason, I don’t like the idea of a website where my life is shown.

    3. Is my granmother becose she feels more many times when she remember her past.

    4. In my town, usualy gather in the disocs like prvat or clapat weekends. Also go to small restaurants for dinner.

    5. When some person interump me, I hungry bescose if I’m doing some thing and I’m consentrate is very anoyeing.

  21. jbuera Post author

    Sara,
    I believe that you are very practically minded. Congratulations! How is Santa?

  22. jbuera Post author

    Juan,
    Thank you very much for your message!. You are jealous of your intimiacy and I think that it is very important. You are right when you say that intimacy belongs to us. Because of that, I understand the fact you wouldn’t give me the person’s name. Keep the secret!

  23. jbuera Post author

    Eloi,
    I’m surprised to see you hesitating to cancel your fotolog account. Have you got a facebook account instead?

  24. Gala

    1. If a boy that I like ignored me,I forget him. But If he’s very
    special or important for me I talk with him and express my emotions.

    2. I think that the privacy is very important for everyone, but for
    example I use the Facebook webside for talking with my friends but
    everyone need a bit of privacy in their live.

    3. The most sensitive person that I know is my mother. She always worries
    about me and my family and when you have any problem, she always stay
    whit you.

    4. The most of teenagers of Argentona go to the discos on Saturday’s
    night, go to the cinema, etc. But there are some special people who stays
    in her houses on saturday night doing homework.

    5. I don’t like people who interrupt me! If someone interrupts me I get
    agry with him/her, but If he/she is a good friend I don’t get agry!:)

  25. Eva

    Privacy is importat thing for me.
    I have a website showing myself I put pictures with my fiends, but I only put things that I think people can see about me.
    In the one hand, If that boy ignore me I tried to talk with him and find cameon likes but in the other hand, when someone interupts me I say that he or she should be quiet cause it turns me mad.
    For example, The most sensitive person I know is my mother because she always ask me about my feelings.
    Finally, the teenagers in my town, usually go to disco, cinema, and stuff like that.

  26. aina

    1- if the boy I love ignored me, I don’t insist on him, I ignored him too. There are a lot of boys all over the world.

    2- For me, my privacy is very important, I’m not the type of person that shows to everybody her problems and this kinds of thinks. Although I’ve got facebook (and i’m addicted to it!)I don’t use it like a way to express my feelings or show my privacy.

    3- The most sensitive person I know is Marta, but I think that everybody is a little sensitive.

    4- At weekend normally the teenagers of my town don’t stay in Argentona, I sometimes meet my friends to have a walk and I never find somebody of our age! Teenagers usually goes to Mataró on Saturday’s night because here there aren’t anything to enjoy a good time for the young people of the town.

    5- I don’t like when somebody interrumps me, I normally get a little bit angry and I normally shout.

  27. jbuera Post author

    Aina,
    You are right when you say there are other boys in the world. However, I think there are more women than men, aren’t there? What do you do with your facebook? Do you only use it to show your pictures?
    I’d like to see you one day angry, but please don’t shout at me!!!

  28. jbuera Post author

    Eva,
    Why don’t you show me your website? Take care of your mother because I think she knows you very well. Thank you for your answer!

  29. jbuera Post author

    Gala,
    Do you think that facebook is a dangerous tool? I see you are a good friend and you accept them as they are!. Congratulations!

  30. Raquel Vidal

    Taking into account that there are many boys in this planet and we only are teenagers, I don’t think it’s very important if a boy or a girl I like ignores me. In our society, there are many opinions and personalities, many likes and dislikes, many different people! It’s not possible that the first time you see someone and you like him or her, this someone feels the same like you! It would be fantastic, isn’t it? But, unfortunately, it doesn’t happen. In my case, I usually haven’t got such a good luck. So, if I like a boy and he ignores me, I try to turn away his eyes on me. If it doesn’t work, if he still keeps thinking I don’t exist, it’s all right. I may have some bad days, but in a little time I realize there are lots of boys waiting for me in the most unsuspicious corner of the world. But, as everybody knows, this world is very big and most of the places are very well-communicated between them, so it can be possible that people that you don’t know knows you at all! Where’s privacy then? For me, privacy it’s such an important issue. In the last years, I’ve learned that it’s not a good idea trusting everybody all your fears or ideals, you have to keep something with you, because you have to be someone. Personally, I’ve got a fotolog page. I used to use it like a diary, explaining what I’d done during the day or whatever, but now I reduced its use into typing short but intense phrases or texts which have got the aim to make the people who read them to think a little about life. I do it, and it makes me feel better, or maybe bad, but it’s useful to understand my surroundings. In that point, you can think I’m a sensitive person, but the most sensitive I know is, without any doubt, my mother. She is the heart of my family and she has to work out with many difficult situations, but she’s always trying to show herself like she’s feeling strongly, but in fact I know she’s not feeling good at all. She’s incredibly special for all what she does, and I really wonder at her. Even at weekends, when some nights she waits for until 3 am in the morning because she isn’t able to sleep if I’m not at home. At weekends, where most teenagers go is to the discotheques in Mataró, Vilassar, or wherever, the important thing is to go in one of these. I haven’t got the habit of going there, in my opinion it’s preferable to go to other places, such as the cinema, walking up to Burriac, or going shopping. Of course, there are also the traditional teenagers’ meetings which usually last a whole afternoon. During this period of time, we talk and talk since we get bored, but there’s sometimes the problem of someone who keeps interrupting the one who’s speaking. In my case, I just respect what he or she wants to say and when he or she finishes I restart what I was saying with the sentence “Cool. Have you finished yet?” Normally, that person gets a little bit embarrassed and then the conversation goes on without any problem. Many people tried to teach as that respect is useful. Why don’t we try to use it and see they were not wrong?

    I’m sorry Jaume for writing too much. I hope you don’t get bored while reading the text!

  31. Said

    1.If there is someone I like and ignore me,I don’t insist ,doesn´t matter I will continous my life and i will look others girls
    2.For my the privacy es important because there are very thing that are personals that you can not tell anyone.
    3.The most sensitive person that i know my mother because she always things in the past i her mother, her father who are dead, her brothers..
    4.The teenagers in my town usually go to the disco, go ti cinema in general they go to pass a good time.
    5.If somoene interrupt me I do not get angry, have time him i hope that (he,she) finishes

  32. Eloi

    Hi Jaume,
    Yes, i’ve a Facebook acount where you can put a lot of photos in. But if you know that Facebook’s making busines with our information, and the “internet” save all the erased item for about 20 years, and we’ll need 20 years for desapear from the internet, all ours comments, photos, videos, accions…
    All of these information can be used by the police and some hackers. I don’t want to be searched and found.. ¬¬… But I’ve to add the last think, I look after all the information that I put inside “internet” and I’ve to say that you can found a little bit of information, not like oter people wich you can know where she/he had been of what is she/he going to do.
    See you on Wednesday!

    A future man.

  33. jbuera Post author

    Eloi,
    I think we will never know the hidden part of these big networks such us Facebook, Fotolog and so on. They have a lot of personal information and I don’t know what they do with it. Moreover, I believe that it’s very difficult to cancel an account with them.
    Thank you for your comments!

  34. jbuera Post author

    Said,
    You are quite practical and patient. Congratulations. However, you are very talkative, so do you interrupt people or you are interrupted?
    It is nice to hear your mother keeps her family “alive”. I think we all do when we lose our relatives.
    See you on Tuesday

  35. jbuera Post author

    Raquel,
    I’m never bored to read my students’ thoughts. I always try to respect and understand your opinions. You also mention , as other students do, that your mother is the most sensitive person you know. Perhaps we will wonder why women are more sensitive than men. Why do we prefer to explain our problems to our mother than to our father?
    As we are different , there are different places to go and enjoy our free time.
    Once again thank you for your comments.
    See you on Wednesday.

  36. Jennifer Rodriguez

    1. If a boy ignored me, probably I will ask why he is ignoring me and I will have the intention to change this. If he continued ignored my I ghange the strategy and I ignore him and probably he began to interest in me, because a boys when see a impossible girl he fight for hers.

    2.Yes, the privacy for me is essencial and I think that everyone need this thing in her live.
    But, I have a page where I write my emocions and I have photos and I have a information, as for example in facebook or fotolog that I use them everyday because is a form of comunicate with everybody and you can see when is the birthday of everybody or what are doing everybody now, etc.
    But, I don’t put my emotions or my feels in this pages because THIS for my is privacy.

    3. Te most sensitve person that I know is my boyfriend. I think that old boys want likes a strenght boys and not-sensitve boys, but in my opinion I think that theirs are more sensitve than the girls. In concluion, my boyfirends is a clear example of this tipe of boy.

    4.In my town the younger people gther in other town, because Argenotna don’t have ANYTHING for do tonight in a weekend, is absolutely boring Argentona.

    5.I don’t can whit this. I think that is a lack of education and when anyone do it me, I say him/her and if him/her continued, probably I shout more. Whit tins thing I put more nervious, is superiority of me.

  37. jbuera Post author

    Jenni,
    Take care of your diary! Don’t miss it because it’s a good way to express your feelings.

  38. Roger

    1. if the girl that i like ignored me, i would forget her and start to look for other girls that values me because the life continuos…
    2. privacy about yourself always is importan but the absolut privacy i think it’s bad because you don’t let other people to meet youself. i have, as many peolple, a website (facebook) where you can put photos, write a comments, chatting, play games…
    3. the most sensitive person who i know at the moment maybe is my sister because she’s fall in love
    4. the teenagers of my town go out to mataro,vilassar or in argentona seeing basket or football matches, or dinner…
    5. i said him/her to keep quiet that i’m speaking.

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