TOPIC: SOUTH AFRICA
Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, a powerpoint.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? I think yes.
Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? No, everytime I was looking the powerpoint or the paper.
4. Did you read from your notes? Yes.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? A little.
Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? Yes.
Content:
8. Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? I think yes.
9. Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the Internet/books? Yes.
10. Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? More superficial.
Language:
11. Did you use check your grammar? Yes.
12. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? A little.
13. Did you use sentence linkers? A little.
14. Did you use fillers? Yes.
Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words? Yes. Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Yes, all of them.
16. Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? The same tone all the time
17. Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks and interruptions.
Self-Evaluation:
18. What mark did you get? If I was the teacher, I would put a 7 for the group.
The literal transcription:
Introduction: Hello everybody, we are Roger, Carrera and Pau and we will talk about South Africa whose capital is Cape Town.We will speak about her geography, economy, musica, foods and drinks, etc.Well, Roger is going to begin the second oral presentation with South Africa’s history.
Roger: History
Laura: Economy
Roger: Politics
Festivals: About the festivals we can see that they aren’t very differents versus festival’s Europeans (festivals of the Europe).For example we can see that 1st January is the New Year’s Day that is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the 21 March is the Human Rights Day, the 27 April is Freedom Day is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994, and for example 24 September that is Heritage Day that is a Public Holiday on which South Africans across the spectrum are encouraged to celebrate their cultural heritage and 26 on December is the Day of Goodwill, that it is based on the tradition of giving gifts (a "Christmas box") to the less fortunate members of society.
Laura: Language
Roger: Geography
Food and drink: About the food we can see that South Africans love their braais, that it is the barbeques. We can see the biltong, that is strips of dried meat which come in various flavour and types. [ That it is this image]. And Potjiekos that is a delicious slowly cooked meat and vegetable stew.About the drink we can see the Amarula, that is the bes liquor in the world, from a Africa’s tree called Marula.And the Luddite Shiraz 2004 that is a vintage was characterized by long periods of warm weather during ripening, resulting in full fruit driven wines with ripe tannins, and the most famous is Coca-Cola that is in around the world and also, there is the beer.
Laura: Music
Sports: About the sports we can see that white people, that is afrikaners, they love the rugby, the other white people, that speak English, love the cricket, and the black people, the football.In South Africa the most important sport is the rugby because they won twice the World Cup.On the other hand, we can see that South Africa is the first African country to organize a World Cup of football in 2010.On the other hand, the national team of South Africa is Bafana Bafana, whose the coach is Joel Santana and the captain is Aaron Mokoena, who is the most caps too; and they play in “First National Bank Stadium” with the T-shirt and socks yellow and the trainers green, and when they are the visitants, they wear a white dress.
The powerpoint:
South Africa
