The last publication!

Well, it is the last publication in this blog to the first batxillerat, and if I see my writtings, I think that I had had an improvement on my level of English since September, and for example, I can see it in my language, because I was using a basic vocabulary and I could be look up one word in a dictionary for 1 hour (it is ironic ¬¬), but now I know more words and I write one redaction in less time, and I think that it is very good!

For me, one of the best activities that best shows my level of English is the traductions of the lyrics' songs, because you learn very vocabulary, but one activity that was very useful for improve my English it has been the oral presentation, because it help you to develop a topic and you must to know speak this lenguage for don't do ridicul.

On the other hand, I think that one activity that I don't find very useful to learn English is the podcast, because it is only for improve your intonation of this language, but it's funny to do.

The next year I would like to do more traductions and games, because it is a good way learn a language, and it's a good way to amuse learning!

Wimbledon, the film!

Peter Colt is a tenist who is on the 119th position in the rank of the world, but when he was young, he arrived to 11th position.
He is going to play his last tournament called Wimbledon and later he will stop her career. Peter isn’t a very good player, but he has decided that in these matches he will effort very much, so he will past to the final and win the tournament.

One day, the main character met a young famous tenis player and he fell in love with him, because for Peter these woman was very pretty and very nice, and she called Lizzie Bradbury, who was other american player.The first match arrive and Peter Colt is playing very good and he is winning, everybody are impressionate becuse they don’t know that this person plays of this form; but the cause of it was that Lizzie went to see him in the match, so he was very motivate for she.

3th Oral Presentation

TOPIC: WATER

Presentation:
1. Did you use any resources? Yes, powerpoint.
2. Were the resources relevant and attractive? Yes.

Body language and eye contact:
3. Did you look at your audience most of the time? Not most of the time, sometimes I was seeing to the paper.
4. Did you read from your notes? A little.
5. Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of you audience? No

Structure:
6. Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes.
7. Did you use discourse makers to make your ideas more clear? A little.

Content:
8. Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? I think that 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? A little of everything.

Language:
11. Did you use check your grammar? Yes.
12. Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? Yes.
13. Did you use sentence linkers? A little.
14. Did you use fillers? A little.

Pronunciation & Intonation:
15. Did you know how to pronunce all you words? Not most of them, but yes.
16. Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? No
17.Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? The same tone all the time.
18.Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? With breaks and interruptions.

Self-Evaluation: If I was the teacher, I would put a maximum of 7.

The literal transciption:

Hello everybody,we are the famous Carrera and Pau, and today we want to talk about the water, her problems in the world and his causes.

Firstly we will talk about the problems that happen around the world when there is a lot of water or when involve don’t have enough water to survive.
Well, we can see in this image that the men are made up with a 60% of water, a baby is made up with a 83% and the woman with a 45%.

Here we can see a map with availability of the water around the world, and in Catalonia we can see that it is approaching physical water scarcity

[Laura Carrera]

When we haven't got any water, I think that it's one of the biggest problems of the world because the people can produice a dehydration in the body. An other causes are desertification for example, because the plants, the animals and humans cannot survive because the water is essencial for our body, animals and plants.

The fault of water is other problem for some diseases that can produce in our lives and because when we drink water contaminated it can produce diseases or other things.

Well, at the last we can see the dehydration that it's other problem that can produce this fault of water. The countries that we ca see this problem is Africa and Asia.


Check your Language and Structure.

Can you correct your mistakes?
Yes, I can; I think that for my next oral presentation, I must be relaxed and look my audience. I must pronounce ALL my words too.

My impression about this presentation compared to the other presentations you have done in first batxillerat:

I think that I've learnt very much with the presentations orals, because it produced that you must develope a topic and it causes that you learn this language.

This presentation, compared to the first that I did, is better because I don't read very much from the paper and I've utiliced new vocabulary. In my opinion, I've improved.

Nazi suspect Demjanjuk arrives in Germany

The last Tuesday, the Germany’s Jewish community had arrested one Nazi from the U.S.A called John Demjanjuk, who is an Ukranian that he says he had been a prisioner of war, and he didn’t be a murderer.

He was taken while he was going into an ambulance nearly to Munich airport.
Demjanjuk's lawyers had asked the high court to consider their claims that he was too ill and frail to be sent to the prision, but everybody are agree about this person death approximatly 29,000 Jewish in 1943.

Definitely, this fact close other chapter about the worst Holocaust in the history.

Vocabulary:

issue = assumpte

court = tribunal

Jewish = jueu

Rossi secures Spanish GP triumph

Valentino Rossi, or well known “Il dottore”, is in the first place to the championship ranking of the Moto GP because he had been first in the race of the Spanish.
The host, Dani Pedrosa, make the second position, and Stoner completed the podium making the third position.
The other host, Jorge Lorenzo crashed out and so, he didn’t mark in these career.

Nowadays, the Championsip clasification is the next, with Valentino Rossi, who is the leader, then, in the second position there is Lorenzo, and finally, in the third position we have got Stoner.

Vocabulary:

Well known = conegut

Host = amfitrió

crashed out = estrellar-se

Iniesta upbeat over fitness race

Andrés Iniesta expects to be in the Champions League final, because in the last match versus Villareal he hurt a muscle of the leg.
The problem is that F.C Barcelona won’t has got any defenders because Daniel Alves and Eric Abdal are expeled, and Rafael Marquez is hurt to.

For this cause, Pep Guardiola won’t let play the next final coup versus Athletic de Bilbao, and so “our” Andrés could be playing in Roma, and if it possible, that he will score other goal like the goal that he scored versus Chelsea.



Vocabulary:

hurt = lesionar-se

let = deixar

expel = expulsar

Podcast

While Paulino and Roger are walking in a dark street…

- You, Roger, you know we are walking in a poor street?
- Yes. It’s dangerous at night.
- However it’s lovely in day.
- Yes if is it sunny.
- And cloudy
- And raining
- NO! You’re a disaster, you make me forgive where we are.
- Oh, I’m sorry, you must have attention uuhhhhhh
- Don’t laugh Roger, don’t laugh idiot
- I think that i’ve hear a noise.
- Don’t lie me please, I’m very frightened
- Me too Paulino.
- Where you hear the noise
- THERE!
- miaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaau
- NURI MAKE ATTENTION


(for who don’t know Nuri, she has panic at cats.)